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Short on dispatchers, operators and trains, MBTA says subway service cuts continue

Eight months after federal inspectors slammed the MBTA for not having enough dispatchers to safely operate its schedule, the agency says not only is it short on dispatchers, but operators and trains, too, extending the service cuts put forth last summer.

T unveils new slow zone dashboard providing never-before-seen look at subway condition

Do you think this will help improve the MBTA's performance?

Forecast | Dave Epstein

New England is set for a wintery weekend, with a bigger storm possibly on the horizon
Saturday and Sunday both could include a bit of snow for pockets of New England and temperatures should stay especially chilly on Saturday.

Zelensky seeks more sanctions as Ukraine war enters second year and fighting grinds on
Ukrainian authorities on Saturday reported dozens of new Russian strikes and attacks in the east and south, and President Zelensky called for continued international pressure on Russia.

The Chappaquiddick home of Jerry and Sue Wacks. Coastal erosion has devoured the bluff beneath their home.

Martha’s Vineyard home teetering on bluff’s edge will soon be demolished, official says

Navy SEAL, who grew up in Cohasset, dies from injuries sustained during parachute training exercise in Arizona

Massachusetts man, Maine teen were killed: police

A school of baitfish swam off the coast of Biddeford, Maine, in this Sept. 3, 2018, photo. Research shows that growth rates of phytoplankton, the primary food source of small fish and crustaceans, is slowing down in the Gulf of Maine, posing challenges for the rest of the ecosystem.

Gulf of Maine sees second-hottest year on record, report shows, ‘getting to the edge of habitability’

The acceleration in warming could bring mass mortality events for marine species, threaten New England’s food supply, and contribute to rising sea levels, experts warned.

Tara Sullivan

The Bruins and Celtics have the best records in their leagues, but do coaches Jim Montgomery and Joe Mazzulla have anything else in common?
If you ask the coaches, none of it is about them.

When a loved one contracts Pickleball Derangement Syndrome
It’s one thing to read that nearly 5 million people played pickleball last year. It’s another to watch a loved one flying to pickleball camp, eyeing a $145 pickleball dress, playing through the pain of pickleball elbow.

Representative John Olver gestured to the audience as other members of the state's congressional delegation applauded during a tribute to Olver at the Democratic State Convention in 2012.

John Olver, longtime US representative in Western Massachusetts, dies at 86

"Compassion still has a place in government," Olver said the night he was elected a US representative.

The Foundry is home to an old-fashioned jukebox designed by Elisa Hamilton that does’t play music, but stories shared by people with ties to Cambridge.

Inside a repurposed jukebox at The Foundry in Cambridge, stories told by locals are waiting to be played

“Collectively, these all paint a portrait of Cambridge,” said Elisa Hamilton, the artist behind the installation at The Foundry.

Two days after the Lakers lost an overtime game to the Celtics in Boston in January, LeBron James and Anthony Davis were held out of the next game against the Nets.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

What is the NBA going to do about load management and star players missing games?

The designation “DNP-rest” was popularized by Spurs coach Gregg Popovich more than a decade ago and has become widespread.

Having grown tired of losing, Red Sox owner John Henry (right) hired Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations in 2015 and gave him a mandate to win.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Competitive balance concerns some baseball owners, but they are partially to blame

Teams such as the Rockies, Athletics, Orioles, Marlins, Pirates, Reds, and Royals are the real problem because they’re comfortable not winning.

At this year's NFL Combine, drills will be begin in the late afternoon and end at 8 p.m. on Thursday through Saturday, and at 7 p.m. on Sunday.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

NFL caves to player demands, and other top story lines for the upcoming Combine

The Combine is the one event that NFL Network hordes as exclusive property, and the league milks it dry.

Opinion

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been provided exclusive access to more than 40,000 hours of security footage from Jan. 6, 2021, by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Letting Tucker Carlson review the Jan. 6 security video is the opposite of transparency

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to give the Fox News host exclusive access to many hours of footage is sure to decrease our understanding of the Capitol riot of 2021.

2014 law should be a boon, but DDS leaves families struggling

MARCELA GARCÍA

Still no answers three months after Reina Carolina Morales Rojas went missing

Jimmy Carter’s exemplary life

The East Palestine disaster was a direct result of the country’s reliance on fossil fuels and plastic

The Emancipator

Saving Black homes lost to tax inequity

For decades, the sale of tax debt and unfair property assessments have disproportionately caused Black Americans to lose their homes across the United States. A Chicago program is helping some Black families keep their homes, but its leaders say structural change is needed.

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Black History Month

Black Love is a Beautiful Resistance

The beautiful resistance of Black love

Throughout Black History Month, A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Black love as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

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

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

Thomas Lee’s death ruled a suicide by gunshot
The grief spread rapidly among those on Wall Street who knew him best.

5 dead, including patient, in medical flight crash in Nevada
A medical plane went down in Nevada on Friday, killing all five people on board, including the patient who was being transported.

Police seek help to identify suspect in armed robberies at convenience stores in Hyde Park
Police released a surveillance photo of a male suspect wearing a hooded a hooded sweatshirt and a face covering.

California faces more blizzards, floods in multistate storm
A powerful winter storm lashing California threatened floods, blizzards and avalanches Saturday while adding frigid temperatures to the misery mix.

Beth Teitell

Forget CNN’s ‘formal training.’ Don Lemon needs to be schooled by a bunch of women in their 50s.
On Thursday, the CNN host said that a woman is only “considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.” By Wednesday — a couple of apologies later — he was back on the air.

LOVE LETTERS

My ex and I are living separately in the same house
“ ... rent these days is outlandish.”

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Send The Boston Globe a confidential news tip
Do you have a tip about something that needs to be investigated? Do you have documents or data we should dig into? We want to hear from you.

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A Boston Latin Academy student waited on a bus last year. The corrective actions the state is requiring of BPS for its special education issues could also accelerate improvements to the district’s overall transportation service.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

BPS bus failures violated rights of special education students, state finds

In a Friday letter to Superintendent Mary Skipper, state officials said the district's dysfunctional transportation system put an undue burden on families.

Report finds BPS data is inaccurate and incomplete, with wide-ranging consequences

Stan Grossfeld

A day with Chaim Bloom, from an early-morning run to running the Red Sox and everything in between
“He cares about this. You know, it means a lot to him and everybody here knows it,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora says of the team's chief baseball officer.

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Blind date: ‘Madison did giggle nervously at my stupid jokes. I take that as a courtesy, though.’
Will a fondness for the Pine Tree State bond these daters?

Three years and a pandemic later, these restaurants have reimagined themselves
From dumpling factories to co-working spaces, restaurants are reinventing what it means to be a restaurant.

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Culture & Lifestyle

“Disney Animation: Immersive Experience" runs through July 4 at Lighthouse ArtSpace Boston at the Saunders Castle at Park Plaza.

‘Disney Animation: Immersive Experience’ opens in Boston

Sara Holbrook, a photographer and painter, has coped with the caring of her husband, Foster, who has Alzheimer's, by creating photo collages that depict her in impossible situations.

In her art, the impossible world of an Alzheimer’s caregiver

SZA (pictured in September 2022) performs at TD Garden Feb. 28.

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Lukita Maxwell and Harrison Ford in the Apple TV+ comedy series "Shrinking."

In ‘Shrinking,’ Harrison Ford is acting his age, and it’s a revelation

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Welcome Back to Boston

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Michael A. Delaney at his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Feb. 15, 2023.

I know Michael Delaney. After what he did, he doesn’t deserve to be a judge.

Benjamin Zander conducted the Boston Philharmonic during a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Calderwood Studio at WGBH on Feb. 16.

IDEAS | MICHAEL LEVIN

Beethoven’s Ninth as its composer intended

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has defended giving Fox News host Tucker Carlson security footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

Kevin McCarthy lets a rabid Foxer into the hen House

Ukrainian soldiers who were undergoing training at Bovington Camp, a British Army military base, waved a Ukrainian flag during a visit by Defense Secretary Ben Wallace (unseen), in southwest England, on Feb. 22.

H.D.S. Greenway

Big powers underestimate the willpower of the colonized to resist

A student in the Calculus Project at Brookline High School wrote in his notebook in 2015.

IDEAS | Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

Opponents of my kids’ math program have their calculus all wrong

IDEAS | KAT ROSENFIELD

The illusion of a frictionless existence

Metro

R.I. joins lawsuit to make abortion drug mifepristone more accessible

The FDA’s restriction “only serves to make mifepristone harder for doctors to prescribe, harder for pharmacies to fill, harder for patients to access, and more burdensome for [states] and their health care providers to dispense,” the lawsuit said.

Jailianize loves to dance and complete art projects

Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

Navy SEAL, who grew up in Cohasset, dies from injuries sustained during parachute training exercise in Arizona

Chief Special Warfare Operator Michael T. Ernst was participating in a parachute training exercise at an airfield in Marana, northwest of Tucson, according to the Unites States Naval Institute. He was 36, a father of two young children, and a graduate of Thayer Academy in Braintree.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

BPS bus failures violated rights of special education students, state finds

In a Friday letter to Superintendent Mary Skipper, state officials said the district's dysfunctional transportation system put an undue burden on families.

Sports

“The walls have finally come down around professional baseball,” Liam Carroll said. “It’s no longer the case that you have to have played at a high level to coach at a high level."

Liam Carroll believes he can grow baseball in Great Britain, and help the Red Sox along the way

Carroll will be Great Britain’s general manager in the World Baseball Classic next month, while settling in as field manager of Single A Salem for the Red Sox.

Jaylen Brown (7) went shot-for-shot with All-Star Game MVP Jayson Tatum during a stretch in the second half last Sunday.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

The NBA All-Star Game was difficult to watch, unless you’re a Celtics fan

The game broadcast tanked, averaging a 2.2 rating and 4.6 million viewers on TBS/TNT, the least-watched and lowest-rated NBA All-Star Game of all time.

The Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup 20 times from 1944 through 1993.

The most overused — and incorrectly used — word in sports? ‘Dynasty.’

In our little world of North American sport there have been only two true “dynasties.”

The Bruins and Celtics have the best records in their leagues, but do coaches Jim Montgomery and Joe Mazzulla have anything else in common?

Matt Porter | Sunday hockey notes

Possibility that the Bruins would stand pat? NESN’s Andy Brickley was having none of it

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

What is the NBA going to do about load management and star players missing games?

Business

R.I. joins lawsuit to make abortion drug mifepristone more accessible

The FDA’s restriction “only serves to make mifepristone harder for doctors to prescribe, harder for pharmacies to fill, harder for patients to access, and more burdensome for [states] and their health care providers to dispense,” the lawsuit said.

Zelensky seeks more sanctions as Ukraine war enters second year and fighting grinds on

Ukrainian authorities on Saturday reported dozens of new Russian strikes and attacks in the east and south, and President Zelensky called for continued international pressure on Russia.

EU slaps sanctions on top Russia officials, banks, trade

North Korea food shortage worsens amid COVID, but no famine yet

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Health & Biotech

From Alzheimer's to Lyme, 12 conditions Mass. biotechs are working on

Dr. Anthony Fauci retired as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of 2022.

Why Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently retired, will never retire

This week's daters: Madison and Lee

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘Madison did giggle nervously at my stupid jokes. I take that as a courtesy, though.’

My friend asks for advice then ignores it

metro

Police released this surveillance photo on Friday.

Police seek help to identify suspect in armed robberies at convenience stores in Hyde Park

Stoneham house fire reignites Friday morning after 2-alarm blaze tore through structure Thursday, officials say

New England is set for a wintery weekend, with a bigger storm possibly on the horizon

sports

At this year's NFL Combine, drills will be begin in the late afternoon and end at 8 p.m. on Thursday through Saturday, and at 7 p.m. on Sunday.

NFL caves to player demands, and other top story lines for the upcoming Combine

Competitive balance concerns some baseball owners, but they are partially to blame

Five things to know about new Bruins winger Garnet Hathaway

business

Thomas H. Lee at his apartment in New York, on Nov. 24, 2003.

Thomas Lee’s death ruled a suicide by gunshot

The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge sped back up

Stocks drop, send Wall Street to its worst week of the year

politics

Adderall XR 15 mg capsules are displayed on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023.

Feds seek to limit telehealth prescriptions for some drugs

US announces sweeping new Russia sanctions 1 year into war

In push to counter misinformation, R.I. to launch public conversations to foster media literacy

Nation

A person sits in a snow-covered bus stop on Feb. 24 in Olympic Valley, Calif.

California faces more blizzards, floods in multistate storm

States seek ways to curb deadly highway wrong-way crashes

Toxic air pollutants in East Palestine could pose long-term risks, researchers say

World

The Eiffel Tower was illuminated with the colors of Ukraine to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of the country, in Paris, Thursday.

As Ukraine marks year of war, leader vows to secure victory

Shattered homes and lurking disease: Quake hardships pile up

Protests in Russia denounce Ukraine invasion; antiwar rallies held worldwide

opinion

Amid a rise in the number of migrant and homeless families in Massachusetts, the Department of Housing and Community Development is using a Best Western motel in Concord as an emergency shelter.

In our right-to-shelter state, there are better options than motels

Can’t lose sight of the mission of primary care

The despot’s gambit

lifestyle

From 150 to 300 people come to every Sustainable Swaps event, according to founder Mireya Zellner.

Clothing swaps build community and bring sustainable fashion to Greater Boston

‘Disney Animation: Immersive Experience’ opens in Boston

My ex and I are living separately in the same house

food & dining

Torched salmon teriyaki and spicy tuna crispy nori sushi tacos at Mr. Roni Cups, a takeout stand inside the restaurant Bianca on The Street in Chestnut Hill.

Allston gets a new restaurant-gallery; Boston’s top female chefs unite for Women’s History Month

Three years and a pandemic later, these restaurants have reimagined themselves

Come to the Italian table. Gluten-free? No problem.

travel

A skier descends Grizzly, the course where the men's 2002 Olympic downhill competition was run, at the Snowbasin resort in Utah in 2020. Head north from Salt Lake City to visit Snowbasin and Powder Mountain, relatively undiscovered gems of the state's ski scene.

Skiing Snowbasin, the best ski area you’ve never heard of

Fat biking at Bretton Woods, winter art in Worcester, and TSA-friendly shoes

Lyft charged me $80 for damage to a car. But it wasn’t me!

Arts

Corey Wheeler Forrest poses with 900-lb trap anchors, stacked on a dock in Little Compton, R.I. A show of her photographs, "Fish & Forrest," is at the Mystic Seaport Museum.

Have camera, will fish

Galleries: A map based on touch and care

At the ICA, childhood lost in transition

Books

FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020, file photo actor Matthew McConaughey attends A+E Network's "HISTORYTalks: Leadership and Legacy" in New York. McConaughey is generating buzz as a potential candidate for governor of Texas. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Bellingham author and illustrator works with Matthew McConaughey on new children’s book

Publisher to release ‘classic’ Roald Dahl books after backlash

Climate change is upon us. Jake Bittle’s ‘The Great Displacement’ is an unsettling look at the personal and financial costs of ever-growing threats.

Movies

FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020, file photo actor Matthew McConaughey attends A+E Network's "HISTORYTalks: Leadership and Legacy" in New York. McConaughey is generating buzz as a potential candidate for governor of Texas. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Bellingham author and illustrator works with Matthew McConaughey on new children’s book

‘We Have a Ghost’: the unimportance of being Ernest

‘Cocaine Bear’: Some things, like gory mayhem, go better with coke

Television

Television anchor Don Lemon, 56.

Forget CNN’s ‘formal training.’ Don Lemon needs to be schooled by a bunch of women in their 50s.

Bellingham author and illustrator works with Matthew McConaughey on new children’s book

New season of ‘Succession’ will be its last, and that’s the right call

music

Dreamers' Circus will perform a concert at NEC's Jordan Hall Friday.

Meet Dreamers’ Circus, Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite Nordic folk trio

Freedom isn’t just another word to Margo Price; it defines how she’s making music now

As winter lingers, Keith Lockhart looks ahead to the Boston Pops’ spring season

Theater/Dance

Sarah Fornace (left) and Sara Sawicki in Manual Cinema's "Frankenstein."

Ingenuity meets virtuosity in Manual Cinema’s ‘Frankenstein’

In a London pub, ‘The Wife of Willesden’ isn’t holding back

ART to present musical adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’ in 2024

globe local

A German shepherd monument looks over the Hillside Acre Animal Cemetery in Methuen.

Where all dogs (and cats, rabbits, and birds) go to heaven

Viewpoint: If the state adopts tax relief, what form should it take?

Five candidates are vying to serve as Salem’s next mayor

Obituaries

Representative John Olver gestured to the audience as other members of the state's congressional delegation applauded during a tribute to Olver at the Democratic State Convention in 2012.

John Olver, longtime US representative in Western Massachusetts, dies at 86

Glória Maria, who broke barriers in Brazilian television, dies at 73

John Macrae III, eclectic publisher and rights champion, dies at 91