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Ed Markey helped make Elon Musk. Now, Markey is working to slow him down.

Musk has benefited from Markey’s environmental foresight. And Musk, in turn, has helped Markey realize some of his dreams as an elected official.

‘It’s flooding an already completely congested market.’ Nursing home closures in Western Mass. leave families and hospitals scrambling.

The abrupt announcement of four nursing homes closing in Western Massachusetts underscores the precarious condition of the state’s overwhelmed health care system.

BRUINS 3, CANUCKS 1
Linus Ullmark finishes the Bruins’ win over the Canucks with a goalie goal!
Ullmark scored career goal No. 1 into an empty with 48 seconds to play in his league-high 30th victory.

State judge orders Harvard to turn over patient records in doctor investigation

The state Board of Registration in Medicine had sought the university’s records, including the medical reports of at least four alleged victims, as part of its own investigation into the doctor after the university notified the board of his termination.
CELTICS 110, 76ERS 107

Jayson Tatum plays the hero as Celtics survive hostile Philadelphia crowd and multiple 76ers surges

CDC issues warning about rise in highly drug-resistant stomach bug

Navy SEAL, who grew up in Cohasset, dies following training exercise in Arizona

Black veterans close out Black History Month with appreciation brunch in Boston

Mayor Michelle Wu and the city's Office of Veterans' Services presented awards to honor three Black veterans for their years of continued service to the Boston community.
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.
Chad Finn: The NBA All-Star Game was difficult to watch, unless you’re a Celtics fan
Beth Teitell

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.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

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.
LETTERS

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
EDITORIAL

Jimmy Carter’s exemplary life
Judith Enck

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

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

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

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

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

More recent News

5-year-old boy seriously injured after being struck by vehicle in Foxborough

The boy was taken to Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, R.I., with injuries that are believed to be life-threatening, police said Saturday evening.

New Hampshire woman’s death in Virgin Islands under investigation

Jamie Cail, 42, was pronounced dead at a health center on the island of St. John early Tuesday morning after her boyfriend found her unresponsive on the floor of their home, the US Virgin Islands Police Department said in a statement.

Overnight warming center open in Somerville

The center on the second floor of the Armory building at 191 Highland Ave. will remain open until 9 a.m. on Sunday, officials said.
Rhode Island, get ready for late-February snow

Snow falls in Los Angeles area, 1,000s still without power
A powerful winter storm that swept down the West Coast with flooding and frigid temperatures shifted its focus to southern California on Saturday, swelling rivers to dangerous levels and dropping snow in even low-lying areas around Los Angeles.

A sign of spring on a frigid day as Sullivan’s Castle Island opens for the season
The popular eatery and Boston institution kicked off its 72nd year as customers braved the bitter cold to come out and get their favorite hot dogs, fries, ice cream, and other food and frozen treats.

Here’s how the Red Sox-Braves game ended in a tie, on a pitch-clock violation
The game ended on an automatic strike as Atlanta's Cal Conley was called out for not being set in the box with eight seconds left on the timer.

Red Sox lefthander Chris Sale faces hitters for the first time this spring
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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

T unveils new slow zone dashboard providing never-before-seen look at subway condition
When riders feel their train slow down, they’ll be able to check the T’s website to make sure the agency knows about the speed restriction and see why it’s there.

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.

Martha’s Vineyard home teetering on bluff’s edge will soon be demolished, official says
The owners had for years seen erosion encroach upon their Chappaquiddick home, which is located at the western edge of the Wasque Reservation. Over time, the shoreline crept ever closer, imperiling the shingled structure.

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Culture & Lifestyle

‘Disney Animation: Immersive Experience’ opens in Boston

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

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

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

Special Projects

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Chessy Prout

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

Beethoven’s Ninth as its composer intended
SCOT LEHIGH

Kevin McCarthy lets a rabid Foxer into the hen House
H.D.S. Greenway

Big powers underestimate the willpower of the colonized to resist
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

Ironworkers Local 7 donates school supplies to Boston Public Schools teachers and families

The union teamed up Saturday with Boston city councilors and community organizations to donate more than $10,000 worth of school supplies to teachers, students and their families.

Legal clinic in Somerville offers free aid to help people clear their records of marijuana crimes

The program, called Changing Legacies, offered free legal assistance to people who hope the easing of marijuana laws have made them eligible to expunge state marijuana offenses from their criminal records or seal them from public view.

A sign of spring on a frigid day as Sullivan’s Castle Island opens for the season

The popular eatery and Boston institution kicked off its 72nd year as customers braved the bitter cold to come out and get their favorite hot dogs, fries, ice cream, and other food and frozen treats.

Black veterans close out Black History Month with appreciation brunch in Boston

Mayor Michelle Wu and the city's Office of Veterans' Services presented awards to honor three Black veterans for their years of continued service to the Boston community.

Sports

BRUINS 3, CANUCKS 1

Linus Ullmark finishes the Bruins’ win over the Canucks with a goalie goal!

Ullmark scored career goal No. 1 into an empty with 48 seconds to play in his league-high 30th victory.
MIAA ALL-STATE WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Gloucester’s Jayden Toppan flips the script — and his opponent — to win 220-pound title at MIAA all-state wrestling championship

The junior hit his head hard at the end of the third period, then refused to be pinned down in overtime to take a 4-2 victory over Taunton's Logan Frank in the 220-pound title match.
CELTICS 110, 76ERS 107

Jayson Tatum plays the hero as Celtics survive hostile Philadelphia crowd and multiple 76ers surges

Tatum's winning triple helped the Celtics remain in first place in the East and surely damaged the confidence of this 76ers squad.
revolution 1, charlotte fc 0

Henry Kessler’s goal in the 89th minute gives Revolution a lift in season-opening win at Charlotte
HS BOYS' HOCKEY: ESSEX TECH 3, DIMAN 1

Chris Maher powers Essex Tech to state vocational championship over Diman
MIAA NORTH | SOUTH GIRLS' GYMNASTICS

Central Catholic gymnastics gets ‘clean-and-neat’ effort to claim MIAA North sectional

Business

TOM FARRAGHER

A remarkable journalistic endeavor: In Portland, Maine, a rich story unfolds in the pages of a free newspaper serving the African diaspora

Editor Kit Harrison and publisher Georges Budagu Makoko run Amjambo Africa! a free publication about the African diaspora and immigration. It’s intended for the eyes of newcomers to Maine with this lofty goal: to build a community by spreading information about its readership throughout Maine.

‘A housing market for almost no one’: Rising prices and interest rates have made home buying feel impossible

Two-plus years of seismic shifts in Boston’s housing market knocked the prospect of buying out of reach for tens of thousands more families here.

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

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

magazine
Health & Biotech

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

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

Dinner with Cupid

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

My friend asks for advice then ignores it

metro

Rhode Island, get ready for late-February snow

Navy SEAL, who grew up in Cohasset, dies following training exercise in Arizona

A high-stakes divorce battle over control of iconic Boston real estate — and a really expensive collection of duck decoys

sports

After a further review, Ashland’s Nora Quitt capitalizes on her reprieve to win girls’ 136-pound all-state wrestling title

Rain pushes NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Fontana to Sunday

76ers still trying to escape the pretender tag and prove they are a team capable of winning three playoff rounds

business

EU slaps sanctions on top Russia officials, banks, trade

Thomas Lee’s death ruled a suicide by gunshot

The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge sped back up

politics

Ed Markey helped make Elon Musk. Now, Markey is working to slow him down.

Justice Thomas wrote of ‘crushing weight’ of student loans

Feds seek to limit telehealth prescriptions for some drugs

Nation

Snow falls in Los Angeles area, 1,000s still without power

Blizzards forecast in California mountains in multiday storm

CDC issues warning about rise in highly drug-resistant stomach bug

World

Tempered in a crucible of violence, Zelensky rises to the moment

Nigerian voters still lined up after election delays

Jill Biden talks safe sex, condoms with Kenya’s young adults

opinion

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

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

Does the restaurant kitchen of the future run on electricity?

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

travel

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

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

I’d heard Pittsfield was experiencing a rebirth. So I went and saw for myself.

Arts

Have camera, will fish

Galleries: A map based on touch and care

At the ICA, childhood lost in transition

Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shinta Ratri, fighter for transgender rights in Indonesia, dies at 60

James Abourezk, first Arab American US senator, dies at 92

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