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Super Bowl LVII

Coach Andy Reid (front) and quarterback Patrick Mahomes combined to rally the Chiefs in the fourth quarter for their second Super Bowl win together.

BEN VOLIN | INSTANT ANALYSIS

Sorry Patriots fans, but these Chiefs are now a dynasty, too

Unless Andy Reid decides to hang up his whistle, the Chiefs’ dynasty is nowhere close to wrapping up.

Chiefs 38, Eagles 35: Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City roar back to win second title in four seasons Questionable late flag takes drama out of Super Bowl ending

Rihanna performed onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show at State Farm Stadium on February 12, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona.

Rihanna performed Super Bowl halftime show while pregnant with second child, representative confirms

Noah Gray caught a pass in all three of the Chiefs' playoff games.

Meet Leominster’s Noah Gray, who won a Super Bowl ring with the Chiefs

Rob Gronkowski made a promotional appearance on Saturday, before the Super Bowl.

Rob Gronkowski misses field goal in live Super Bowl commercial

For the transgender community, work can be a difficult world to navigate
Employers, however, are reaching out to the transgender community like never before, in part due to corporate America intensifying its diversity and inclusion efforts, as well as to demands from the labor force and the ongoing worker shortage.

From Rwanda to Boston Common: the humanitarian mission of MASS Design
“Justice is Beauty,” at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., explores the African origins of the architecture firm behind ‘The Embrace’ — and offers a powerful lesson in context.

US shoots down a fourth unidentified object

The United States shot down another unidentified flying object Sunday, this one over Lake Huron in Michigan, US officials said.

Schumer says downed objects in Alaska and Canada are believed to be balloons US warplane shot down object over northern Canada, Trudeau says

They bought mansions, a Rolls Royce, and chartered a jet with COVID relief loans, prosecutors allege
The sheer scope, magnitude, and brazenness of fraud related to loans that were earmarked for people struggling to survive the pandemic is shocking even to longtime prosecutors who handle white-collar crime cases, according to several legal experts.

After being placed on leave, Wayland superintendent files discrimination complaint against School Committee

In the complaint, Easy said he was dismissed from his job without explanation on Wednesday, less than three weeks after he raised concerns about a "racially hostile environment.”

Cape Cod men face multiple charges in connection with attack on police vehicle

Late Saturday night, Jordan Berrio, 29, of Centerville, and Robert Carver, 50, of Hyannis, allegedly surrounded and boxed in an unmarked police vehicle on Main Street in Hyannis, officials said.

Teenage girl is charged after woman is fatally stabbed in Jamaica Plain Saturday

A 21-year-old woman who was stabbed multiple times in Jamaica Plain on Saturday night died of her injuries, and a second victim is expected to survive. A female juvenile was arrested, police said.

Death toll in Turkey-Syria earthquake is more than 33,000, Turkish officials say

The death toll from Monday’s quakes that hit southeastern Turkey and northern Syria stood at 33,179 on Sunday and was certain to rise. Authorities said more than 92,600 other people were injured in the disaster.

Several Boston leaders offer support for longtime city official charged with money laundering and conspiracy in prison drug scheme

Freda Brasfield's supporters include a state lawmaker, a church leader, a former aide to mayor Menino, and fellow volunteers from a Pop Warner football and cheerleading organization in Mattapan.

Vice President Mike Pence, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listened as President Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly in 2018. All appear to be gearing up to run for president in 2024.

Trump’s former team of rivals returns to challenge him

At least four prominent figures from the Trump administration appear to be weighing a 2024 run for president against each other and the boss himself, an unusual scenario that could reignite the old rivalries of an administration well known for its infighting.

The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority last summer released new conceptual designs for an expansion of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in the Seaport.

chesto means business

Convention center boss wants to expand, but he’ll need to win over the Legislature first

David Gibbons’s run-ins with lawmakers could mean a rough road for his $400 million plan to expand the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Nico Romeri, a sophomore a Milford High School in Milford, N.H., speaks during a school board meeting Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Romeri, who is transgender, urged the board to reject a proposal that would stop allowing students to use the restrooms that align with the gender identity.

Prohibition against urinals prompts student walkout as N.H. lawmakers weigh segregating bathrooms by sex

The school bathroom crackdown in Milford, N.H., comes as lawmakers in Concord push for statewide rules.

Black History Month

Visitors to "The Embrace" on the last weekend of January.

The Twitterverse had its say about ‘The Embrace.’ Here’s what real visitors think.

We spent a weekend interviewing visitors to the monument to the Kings. This is what people from Boston and beyond had to say.

When Martin met Coretta in Boston, he found his match in more ways than one

Opinion

Seizing home equity over unpaid taxes is unfair to homeowners

Municipalities should not be allowed to reap huge profits from sales of foreclosed homes.

There’s only one way to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution

Pregnancy and childbirth: a wonder, a joy, and a minefield

MARCELA GARCÍA

Youth violence in Boston schools cries out for reforms

Where did all the workers go?

Mural on the side of Elks Lodge #1102 in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring Jimi Hendrix in a guitar duel from when the building housed Club Baron.

The Emancipator

Jefferson Street jams

The history of Nashville’s historic Club Baron is being saved by an unlikely multiracial collaboration. Located in what is now an Elks Lodge, the stage hosted iconic performers like Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, but had fallen into disrepair.

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Special reports

photo illustration of David Sabatini. photo by Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

Members of the 2001 Patriots team that won the franchise’s first title.

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

More recent News

Allan A. Ryan Jr., who tracked down WWII Nazi war criminals in the US, dies at 77
Mr. Ryan sought to deport "brutal killers" who were hiding in ordinary lives in the United States.

Winter Walk to end homelessness draws more than 3,000
Sunday saw the largest turnout yet for the Winter Walk, an annual march to shed light on Boston's homeless crisis, is now in its seventh year.

De La Soul co-founder Trugoy the Dove dead at 54
David Jude Jolicoeur, known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the Long Island hip hop trio De La Soul, has died. He was 54.

Fall River man killed, female passenger critically injured in rollover crash in Rhode Island

Jimmie Pemberton, 49, was driving a BMW sedan on Route 6 when the car attempted to exit the highway at high speed, officials said.

A 15-year-old stayed in a hospital for 40 days. The reason? The state child welfare agency had no place to put him.
Massachusetts has had a child welfare crisis for years. But amid a shortage of beds in group and foster homes, the state is also holding children in hospitals for up to weeks or months on end, even when they’ve been medically cleared to leave.

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The weather is colder, the snow is deeper, and Montrealers are out on the town instead of running for bread and milk.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

David Fichter, of Cambridge, holds a portrait of his late student, Arif Sayed Faisal, during a Jan. 9 rally Against Police Brutality held by the Bangladesh Association of New England.

‘How could they kill this kid?’ A month later, no answers in Cambridge.

His misremembering was so sincere and generous that the only possible response was truth; not literal truth but emotional truth. He really wanted to know.

The kindness of misremembering strangers

Medical workers fill a hallway in the acute care unit, where about half the patients are COVID-19 positive or in quarantine after exposure, of Harborview Medical Center, Jan. 14, 2022, in Seattle.

Paul Sax and David Boulware

The best treatment for COVID-19 could be the one you can’t get

Once the emergency declaration expires, a patchwork of different policies will take that safety net’s place: Americans’ access to vaccines, treatments, and tests will vary based on which state they live in.

The White House wants to end the public health emergency. Is the country prepared?

A blue whale near a cargo ship in the Santa Barbara Channel off the California coast, August 2008.

Michael J. Moore

What we know — and don’t know — about offshore wind and whale deaths

Where did all the workers go?

Metro

Eagles fans find a home at White Bull Tavern for their own Super Bowl LVII party

Nearly 250 people were in the bar by kickoff. Loud cheers broke out with every completed pass and successful first down by the Eagles, and waitresses circled the bar with shots after Hurts ran in for the Eagles’ first touchdown. The cheering could be heard from outside the bar and across the street.

Cape Cod men face multiple charges in connection with attack on police vehicle

Late Saturday night, Jordan Berrio, 29, of Centerville, and Robert Carver, 50, of Hyannis, allegedly surrounded and boxed in an unmarked police vehicle on Main Street in Hyannis, officials said.

Allan A. Ryan Jr., who tracked down WWII Nazi war criminals in the US, dies at 77

Mr. Ryan sought to deport "brutal killers" who were hiding in ordinary lives in the United States.

Winter Walk to end homelessness draws more than 3,000

Sunday saw the largest turnout yet for the Winter Walk, an annual march to shed light on Boston's homeless crisis, is now in its seventh year.

Sports

Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs had another championship to celebrate on Sunday night in Glendale, Ariz.

SUPER BOWL LVII | CHIEFS 38, EAGLES 35

Chiefs win second Super Bowl in four years, roaring past Eagles late

The Chiefs came from 10 points down at halftime, scoring touchdowns on their first three drives of the second half and benefiting from a questionable holding call to kick a last-second field goal.

After the fateful penalty, James Bradberry and the Eagles tried to let Jerick McKinnon score in order to get the ball back, but the running back slid short of the end zone and Kansas City ran out the clock.

Questionable late flag takes drama out of Super Bowl ending

“It was a holding. I tugged his jersey," Eagles cornerback James Bradberry said. "I was hoping they would let it slide.”

Kansas City running back Isiah Pacheco was one of many to lose his footing on the new grass during Sunday's Super Bowl.

Super Bowl field, at cost of $800,000, pilloried by fans and players

“It was like playing on a water park,” Eagles offensive tackle Jordan Mailata said after a game where divots and players slipping were an all-too-common occurrence.

MIAA NORTH BOYS' SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP

A shocking North boys’ swimming sectional win by Newton South’s magnificent seven

How it happened: Chiefs mount furious comeback to beat Eagles to win Super Bowl LVII

Meet Leominster’s Noah Gray, who won a Super Bowl ring with the Chiefs

Business

Google to expand misinformation ‘prebunking’ in Europe

After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make people more resilient to the corrosive effects of online misinformation.

For the transgender community, work can be a difficult world to navigate

Employers, however, are reaching out to the transgender community like never before, in part due to corporate America intensifying its diversity and inclusion efforts, as well as to demands from the labor force and the ongoing worker shortage.

chesto means business

Convention center boss wants to expand, but he’ll need to win over the Legislature first

Meet the ‘unlikely founder’ of tech startup Paerpay

magazine

Martin Luther King III and wife Arndrea Waters King carrying on a legacy of Black love.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A legacy of love, faith, and family: Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King

An illustration of a bride and groom on a watch face. There is a light purple strip that runs underneath the watch face like a watch strap.

As a first-time bride at age 53, I knew my husband and I were starting our ‘forever’ late

Coretta Scott King kisses Martin Luther King Jr. as he leaves court in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956.

When Martin met Coretta in Boston, he found his match in more ways than one

This week's daters: Dylan and Sam

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘It was hard to hear him with the live music’

metro

US Representative Andy Biggs spoke to reporters outside of a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 1. The committee held the hearing to discuss COVID pandemic federal spending.

They bought mansions, a Rolls Royce, and chartered a jet with COVID relief loans, prosecutors allege

Navy pilot from Waltham is part of historic, all-women team for Super Bowl flyover

On top of New England, an arctic wind and a million-dollar view

sports

Coach Andy Reid (front) and quarterback Patrick Mahomes combined to rally the Chiefs in the fourth quarter for their second Super Bowl win together.

Sorry Patriots fans, but these Chiefs are now a dynasty, too

South Carolina dominates LSU in battle of last two unbeatens in Division 1 women’s basketball

Unranked Northwestern ends stretch of futility against No. 1 Purdue in men’s basketball

business

Schumer says banning TikTok in the US ‘should be looked at’

Fourth day of pension reform protests to hit France

IRS won’t tax most relief payments made by states last year

politics

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, heckled as President Biden delivered his State of the Union address in the House chamber of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday. That cat-callers could heckle with impunity, despite House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s prior promises that the House would avoid “childish games” during the State of the Union, is emblematic of the speaker’s struggles controlling his slim GOP majority.

A close look at the chaotic House Republican majority

Bernie Sanders has a new role. It could be his final act in Washington.

Schumer says downed objects in Alaska and Canada are believed to be balloons

Nation

Rihanna performed onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show at State Farm Stadium on February 12, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona.

Rihanna performed Super Bowl halftime show while pregnant with second child, representative confirms

De La Soul’s David Jolicoeur, who rapped as Trugoy the Dove, dies at 54

De La Soul co-founder Trugoy the Dove dead at 54

World

In Turkey, a fault-ridden land prone to earthquakes, officials are now investigating property owners with construction violations forgiven without bringing their buildings up to code. Many are now asking questions as the death toll from the Feb. 6 earthquake surpasses 33,000.

Turkey widens investigation into contractors as quake toll rises

Russia’s Wagner fighters claim advance near Bakhmut

A Yale professor suggested mass suicide for old people in Japan. What did he mean?

opinion

Students are silhouetted as they walk through the halls of Lawrence High School in October 2021.

Keep the state’s authority to take over schools and districts

The kindness of misremembering strangers

Celebrating Black History Month as Black history is being erased

lifestyle

Is he really traveling to see his friend?

Jennifer Coolidge says she looks ‘like a baby dolphin’ in new Super Bowl ad

He saved videos of her

food & dining

Mini Taco Cups.

What to make for Super Bowl snacks this Sunday

At Boston Kebab Waltham, everybody knows the chef

New York City icon Joe’s Pizza plans to take over Harvard Square’s Milk Bar space

travel

Patrice Rushen

Musician Patrice Rushen on Maui, trail mix, and trying new things outside of her norm

Weekend of romance on the blustery coast of Southern Maine

After a couple of pandemic-stalled winters, music is back in the mountains

Arts

GHESKIO Cholera Treatment Center, Port-au-Price, Haiti.

From Rwanda to Boston Common: the humanitarian mission of MASS Design

Mimi Bai plays ‘Hide and See’ at Boston Center for the Arts’s Mills Gallery

Wu Junyong’s exhibit at the MFA explores different cultural traditions

Books

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A young woman juggles the burdens of family and self in Jessica George’s engaging debut, ‘Maame’

Sick of clichés about love? Camonghne Felix’s powerful memoir ‘Dyscalculia’ captures searing miscalculations of the heart

How glitter and velvet made William Middleton, biographer of Karl Lagerfield, into a reader

Movies

Jennifer Coolidge speaks on stage as she is being honored by Hasty Pudding Theatricals as 2023 Woman Of The Year at Farkas Hall on Feb. 4, 2023 in Cambridge.

Jennifer Coolidge says she looks ‘like a baby dolphin’ in new Super Bowl ad

‘Something’s brewing’: Dunkin’ teases Ben Affleck Super Bowl commercial

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s ‘No Bears’ tells two stories of entrapment

Television

Jennifer Coolidge speaks on stage as she is being honored by Hasty Pudding Theatricals as 2023 Woman Of The Year at Farkas Hall on Feb. 4, 2023 in Cambridge.

Jennifer Coolidge says she looks ‘like a baby dolphin’ in new Super Bowl ad

‘Something’s brewing’: Dunkin’ teases Ben Affleck Super Bowl commercial

Can ‘Transatlantic’ revive slumping Netflix?

music

De La Soul's Vincent Mason, left, and David Jude Jolicoeur performed at Rachael Ray's Feedback Party at Stubb's during the South by Southwest Music Festival on Saturday March 18, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Jolicoeur, known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the Long Island hip hop trio De La Soul, was confirmed dead at 54 by his representative, Tony Ferguson, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023.

De La Soul’s David Jolicoeur, who rapped as Trugoy the Dove, dies at 54

Bach Collegium Japan’s emotional, energetic performance resonates beyond its confines

Two Avant-garde soundscapes, in search of light

Theater/Dance

Kelly MacFarland says her sense of humor didn't always help her sustain relationships when she was dating, but it appeals to her husband.

My funny Valentine: Five comedians on love and humor

Worcester ballet auditions begin for Youth America Grand Prix

Circa takes Stravinsky’s ‘Sacre’ in a new direction

globe local

Lauri and Brion O'Connor of Hamilton enjoy the outdoor life.

Going all out on Valentine’s Day

The Argument: Should Massachusetts significantly expand construction of public housing?

Newton superintendent finalist withdraws, leaving two candidates to lead city’s public schools

Obituaries

Allan A. Ryan Jr. in his office at the Justice Department in Washington on June 23, 1983. Mr. Ryan, a Justice Department lawyer who in the early 1980s identified and prosecuted dozens of Nazi collaborators living in the United States, earning him a reputation as America's foremost Nazi hunter, died on Jan. 26 at his home in Norwell, Mass. He was 77.

Allan A. Ryan Jr., who tracked down WWII Nazi war criminals in the US, dies at 77

Hazel McCallion, no-nonsense Canadian mayor for 36 years, dies at 101

Jean Anderson, exacting and encyclopedic cookbook author, dies at 93