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Powerful winds and heavy rain are forecast Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Above, people braved the elements during a windswept rainstorm on Dec. 18.

Torrential rains and strong winds will pose serious flood risks and may trigger power outages

Meteorologists are warning that a “high impact” drenching storm is poised to bear down on Southern New England, triggering flash flooding and treacherous driving conditions during the early-morning commute Wednesday.

Dave Epstein: Strong storm will bring heavy rain and damaging winds into Wednesday morning

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Rapidly moving storm will bring heavy rain and damaging winds into Wednesday morning

A strong storm system will impact the region Tuesday night into Wednesday.

These maps show what to expect from a storm arriving Tuesday in Mass.

Aria Kamal, fatally shot by her father in Dover, remembered as a ‘brilliant and unique person’ who radiated ‘love and light’
Friends said Kamal reminded them often how much they meant to her. Now, through their grief, they are remembering how much she meant to them.

ben volin | on football

Mike Vrabel’s firing by the Titans could be bad news for Bill Belichick
If Robert Kraft is looking to go with a new coach, the former Patriot checks a lot of boxes.

Aaron Rodgers reveals what he and Bill Belichick spoke about before Patriots-Jets game AppleTV+ releases trailer for 10-part Patriots documentary 'The Dynasty'

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The Baseball Hall of Fame finally has some first-rate candidates. See how the Globe voted.

Adrián Beltré and Joe Mauer are in their first year on the ballot, and all six of our voters included them.

Share your thoughts: Do you agree with our Baseball Hall of Fame voters?

FILE - A marker stands outside the Statehouse in Concord, N.H., Nov. 15, 2023, describing the history of the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary. New Hampshire's attorney general Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, ordered national Democratic party leaders to stop calling the state’s unsanctioned presidential primary “meaningless,” saying do so violates state law. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer, File)

Trump leads Haley by big margin in N.H. primary, but would lose general election there to Biden, according to Globe poll

Two weeks before the vote, the former president holds a nearly 20 percentage point lead.

Explore results of the Suffolk/Globe/USA TODAY poll of N.H. voters Analysis: Nikki Haley surge in N.H. may have peaked, Globe poll finds How to watch debate between DeSantis and Haley in Iowa

The short, strange end to Claudine Gay’s once-promising Harvard presidency
A plan that never saw the light of day. A call in a hotel room in Rome. A courtside seat with the governor.

Governor Healey slams Elise Stefanik for ‘hypocrisy’ over attacks on higher education

Healey criticized Stefanik, a New York Republican whose questioning of Claudine Gay and two other university presidents at a hearing on antisemitism on college campuses sparked calls for their resignations, for the “hypocrisy” of her actions.

Who is Bill Ackman, and what does he want? Plagiarism accusations are everywhere. Here's how detection software works.

Picking Claudine Gay’s replacement should be the least of Harvard’s worries

With Trump present in court, judges express skepticism of claims that he’s immune from prosecution

The panel of three judges also questioned whether they had jurisdiction to consider the appeal at this point in the case, raising the prospect that Trump’s effort could be dismissed.

Maine House votes down GOP effort to impeach election official who removed Trump from ballot

Littleton, N.H., town manager resigns over select board’s anti-LGBTQ+ comments
Controversy has been swirling in town for months, and Jim Gleason, whose late son was gay, said it took a personal and professional toll.

‘The whole town will be very sad.’ Neighbors stunned by deaths of three people in Nahant home.
Authorities say 77-year-old John Benson, 74-year-old Youngae Benson, and 45-year-old Andrew Carruth were the victims in a deadly carbon monoxide poisoning in a Nahant home.

Carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas, can be a killer. Here’s how to stay safe.

Dozens of accused brothel customers face Cambridge court hearings next week

Here are the highest earners on the Massachusetts state payroll for 2023

These are the Top 10 state earners outside the UMass system URI basketball coaches and president top list of R.I.’s highest paid state employees

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Defense Secretary Austin was treated for prostate cancer, doctors say, amid review into lack of disclosure on hospital stay

President Biden and other top officials weren’t informed for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized and had turned over power to his deputy.

A bench at a bus stop was installed backward, facing away from the street on Mt. Auburn Street near Sparks Street in Cambridge.

Cambridge installed a bus bench backward, facing a hedge. Residents complained almost immediately.

The bench faces a hedge on the other side of the sidewalk rather than toward the street and the approaching buses on their way to Belmont or Watertown.

Governor Maura Healey sat for an interview in her office.

Maura Healey defends pushing $1 billion tax package, despite tax revenue shortfall

”The tax cut, was absolutely . . . imperative,” the governor said during GBH’s “Ask the Governor” segment Tuesday.

Opinion

President Biden spoke during a campaign event at Montgomery County Community College, Jan. 5, in Blue Bell, Pa. In his first campaign event of the 2024 election season, Biden said that democracy and fundamental freedoms are under threat if former president Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Biden begins a critical clash with Trump about democracy

President Biden aimed a truth torpedo directly at Donald Trump. The Republican front-runner’s only real response was an attempt at misdirection and deflection.

Austin going AWOL does Biden no favors

Mitt Romney needs to re-stiffen his spine on Trump

Massachusetts’ good times not rollin’ like they used to

IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA

Who decides what counts as a crisis?

The Stump: Audio dispatches from James Pindell on the campaign trail

Listen to the latest updates from Globe political reporter James Pindell as he outlines what to watch as presidential contenders enter the final sprint to the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.

Globe Audio · Jan 9, 2024 Iowa snow and a New Hampshire cease and desist letter

More recent News

Scientists knew 2023′s heat would be historic — but not by this much
Last year shattered the previous global temperature record by almost two-tenths of a degree, the largest jump scientists have ever observed.

Don Lemon, former CNN host, to launch ‘The Don Lemon Show’ on X
Don Lemon, the former CNN host who was fired from the media company last year, announced on Tuesday his own new media company and accompanying program, “The Don Lemon Show,” in collaboration with X, formally known as Twitter.

Someone cut out artwork from a banner in Somerville. Artists hope the thief is at least enjoying it.
The joke among local artists is that it’s the city’s own version of the infamous Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist decades ago — just on a smaller scale.

Violent political threats surge as 2024 begins, haunting American democracy
Those on the receiving end of threats and swatting span the range of America's democratic system, including members of Congress, state officials, local leaders and judges. And the intensity of the threats has accelerated.

Caroline Fernald to head Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
Previously, Fernald was executive director at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Karen Read’s motion to disqualify DA’s office from prosecuting her is sealed

The ruling from Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly J. Cannone means the public won’t be able to see the motion before a Jan. 18 hearing in the case.

Recommended reads

Crime scene tape surrounded Schemengees Bar & Grille in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 29, 2023, days after the deadliest mass shooting in the state's history.

911 transcripts released in Lewiston, Maine, massacre: ‘He’s still — he’s still shooting’

Authorities in Maine on Monday released transcripts of dozens of 911 calls that came in to dispatchers when a gunman fatally shot 18 people at a bar and a bowling alley in Lewiston.

Read the transcripts of 911 calls made during the Lewiston shooting and aftermath

robert gavin | Trendlines

When it comes to the economy, we’re never going back to 2019
Were massive stimulus spending and near-zero interest rates the right policies after all as the nation emerged from the pandemic?

‘A belt tightening’: Healey announces $375 million in spending cuts due to tax shortfalls
Governor Maura Healey announced $375 million in spending cuts Monday, slashing 50 percent from an array of local earmarks and hundreds of millions from other programs.

Who is Dean Phillips? Five things to know about the Gelato-making Democrat challenging President Biden.
The Representative from Minnesota who’s campaigning for generational change is looking for a spark in New Hampshire while the incumbent president’s supporters bank on a write-in win

Culture & Lifestyle

This combination of photos shows Jimmy Kimmel (left) at the Walt Disney Television upfront in New York on May 14, 2019, and Aaron Rodgers standing on the sideline during an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns Dec. 28, 2023, in Cleveland.

Aaron Rodgers responds to Jimmy Kimmel’s jabs over Epstein comment

English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran performed at Gillette Stadium on June 30, 2023. He returns to the Massachusetts this year to headline Boston Calling 2024.

Boston Calling 2024: Ed Sheeran, Megan Thee Stallion, and Tyler Childers to perform

A still from Celine Song's "Past Lives."

Celine Song’s ‘Past Lives’ wins best picture from the National Society of Film Critics

The members of Scottish Fish met as children at Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School in 2011.

At BCMFest, a celebration of Celtic music with few boundaries

Special Projects

Stuart share podcast

Listen to ‘Murder in Boston’

Presented in association with HBO, “Murder in Boston: The untold story of the Charles and Carol Stuart shooting,” is available wherever you get your podcasts.

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Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

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

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Bills fans at the Patriots' game against Buffalo last month.

IDEAS | JAMELL GARCIA-WILLIAMS

What football fans don’t get about the game they love

The psychological abuse of workplace bullying

Perino Watson, Career and Technical Vocational Director at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, monitored students as they walked back into school after a fire alarm at Madison Park on May 25, 2023.

Voc-tech schools offer a brass ring to a good job — but only for those who get a coveted slot

Signs for a Donald Trump campaign event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last month.

The forever presidential election

A doctor used a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus, Dec. 17, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. Massachusetts is set to become the first state in the country where no doctor will be asked about past struggles with mental health or substance use as part of the credentialing process.

Do we really need to ask doctors about past drug use for hospital credentials?

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

‘The whole town will be very sad.’ Neighbors stunned by deaths of three people in Nahant home.

Authorities say 77-year-old John Benson, 74-year-old Youngae Benson, and 45-year-old Andrew Carruth were the victims in a deadly carbon monoxide poisoning in a Nahant home.

The short, strange end to Claudine Gay’s once-promising Harvard presidency

A plan that never saw the light of day. A call in a hotel room in Rome. A courtside seat with the governor.

Littleton, N.H., town manager resigns over select board’s anti-LGBTQ+ comments

Controversy has been swirling in town for months, and Jim Gleason, whose late son was gay, said it took a personal and professional toll.

At Boston’s high-flying charter schools, academic performance slow to bounce back from the pandemic

Nearly all of Boston’s 15 independently-run charters are struggling to boost MCAS scores, which tumbled after buildings closed during the pandemic, and are grappling with sharp increases in student absences.

Sports

The Broncos owe Russell Wilson $39 million in salary in 2024 no matter where he plays and parting ways with him would result in an NFL record $85 million in dead cap charges over the next two years.

Russell Wilson may not be done in Denver after all

The Broncos (8-9) benched Wilson for their final two games and Jarrett Stidham went 1-1 with a pair of middling performances.

Notre Dame Academy senior netminder Ava Larkin has put up some mind-boggling numbers so far: a miniscule 0.38 goals-against average, with an astonishing .989 save percentage.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' HOCKEY NOTEBOOK

Defense continues to be the calling card for Notre Dame (Hingham) girls’ hockey

With a standout goalie tandem, and a veteran defense in front of them, the No. 3 Cougars are again proving to be one tough team to crack.

Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis was incorrectly called for a foul on Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin in the final seconds of Monday night's game.

NBA acknowledges incorrect call late in Celtics’ loss to Pacers Monday, but not the one most were expecting

It was ruled that Buddy Hield’s block on Jaylen Brown was clean, but that Kristaps Porzingis should not have been whistled for a foul that led to the winning free throws.

AppleTV+ releases trailer for 10-part Patriots documentary “The Dynasty”

Aaron Rodgers reveals what he and Bill Belichick spoke about before Patriots-Jets game

ben volin | on football

Mike Vrabel’s firing by the Titans could be bad news for Bill Belichick

Business

BlackRock, State Street singled out in investor voting study

The analysis zeroed in on the largest signatories of Climate Action 100+, an alliance of more than 700 investors overseeing a combined $68 trillion of assets.

GE business to fill order for turbines to power Western Hemisphere’s largest wind project

GE Vernova officials said it is the largest onshore wind turbine order received by the company, both in quantity and in the amount of electricity that the 674 turbines will eventually generate when the SunZia Wind Project comes online in 2026.

How DraftKings CEO explains gambling to his own kids

Millions of gig workers could qualify as employees under new Biden-era rule

magazine

Boston is too expensive, everyone agrees. So what’s keeping you here?

A neighbor is spreading false fears about new arrivals to a shelter in town

Banana-Hazelnut Bread

Combine bananas and nuts for two simple but delicious dessert recipes

Older people rarely want hearing aids. A dementia study could change that.

metro

Powerful winds and heavy rain are forecast Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Above, people braved the elements during a windswept rainstorm on Dec. 18.

Torrential rains and strong winds will pose serious flood risks and may trigger power outages

US Senators recommend Judge DuBose for US District Court in Providence

Rapidly moving storm will bring heavy rain and damaging winds into Wednesday morning

sports

Coach Frank Pagliuca has his St. Mary's of Lynn hockey team to a 6-0-1 start.

EMass girls’ hockey: At 6-0-1, St. Mary’s still atop Globe Top 20

EMass girls’ hockey: A high 5 for Latin Academy/Fontbonne’s Isabelle Medua, who headlines Players of the Week

Aaron Rodgers responds to Jimmy Kimmel’s jabs over Epstein comment

business

A stack of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms.

Carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas, can be fatal. Here’s how to stay safe.

Salem Hospital doctors are organizing a union

Fuel leak forces US company to abandon moon landing attempt

politics

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Defense Secretary Austin was treated for prostate cancer, doctors say, amid review into lack of disclosure on hospital stay

Appeals court seems skeptical of Trump’s immunity claim

White House orders review after Austin’s undisclosed hospitalization

Nation

Firefighters work near the Sandman Signature hotel after an explosion on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas.

Firefighters investigate cause of suspected gas explosion at historic Texas hotel that injured 21

Violent political threats surge as 2024 begins, haunting American democracy

The FDA warned an asthma drug could induce despair. Many were never told.

World

Israeli soldiers stood near an armored vehicle during an escorted tour by the military for journalists in the central Gaza Strip on Monday.

Blinken urges Israel to engage with region on postwar plans that include path to Palestinian state

Blinken urges Israel to engage with region on postwar plans that include path to Palestinian state

France gets its youngest and first openly gay prime minister

opinion

New England Patriots' Matthew Slater ran onto the field to face the New York Jets in the first half at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough Sunday.

Matthew Slater — special indeed

Family is left to wonder after killing of Lawrence woman

Mitt Romney needs to re-stiffen his spine on Trump

lifestyle

Don Lemon announced "The Don Lemon Show" on the social media platform, X, formally Twitter, on Tuesday.

Don Lemon, former CNN host, to launch ‘The Don Lemon Show’ on X

5,000-word New York Times op-ed speculating on Taylor Swift’s sexuality slammed by supporters

Photos: See Margot Robbie, Taylor Swift, and more stars arrive on the red carpet at the 2024 Golden Globes

food & dining

Mini Raclette Pan from Swiss company Kuhn Rikon.

Melted cheese? Yes, please.

Recipe: Pan-braise escarole with raisins, capers, and Parmesan almost like Nonna would make

Recipe: For this healthy meal, cook chicken breasts with warm spices on a bed of brown rice

travel

The northern lights over Tromso, Norway.

Forget over-hyped tourist hotspots. Here are the best destinations to visit in 2024.

Antarctica is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Are tourists making it worse?

Florida festival throws spotlight on kumquats

Arts

Piet Mondrian, "Beach with Five Piers at Domburg," 1909. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The making of Mondrian

These are the people in her neighborhood: Cambridge photographer documents changing city in ‘Book of Saints’

Museumgoers dress to impress at MFA’s ‘Fashioned by Sargent’

Books

In ‘The Wisdom of Plagues,’ Donald G. McNeil Jr. has some ideas to share about preventing the next pandemic. You might not like them.

The disappointments of age take a dark turn in Katia Lief’s ‘Invisible Woman’

Eight books to help you seize the day in 2024

Movies

Sandra Hüller in "The Zone of Interest."

In ‘The Zone of Interest,’ a family lives next door to Auschwitz and goes about its daily routines

Massachusetts wins big at the Golden Globes

Celine Song’s ‘Past Lives’ wins best picture from the National Society of Film Critics

Television

Cush Jumbo attends the "Criminal Record" red carpet at The Ham Yard Hotel on Jan. 9 in London.

‘Criminal Record’ is a case of star turns and loose ends

Aaron Rodgers responds to Jimmy Kimmel’s jabs over Epstein comment

New Rhode Island PBS series examines maternal health crisis in the US

music

Madonna is shown performing at Barclays Center in Brooklyn last month. She brought her "Celebration Tour" to TD Garden Monday night and returns Tuesday.

At TD Garden, Madonna rewinds her career as a hitmaker and provocateur, from the very first time to now

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor died from natural causes, coroner says

Boston Calling 2024: Ed Sheeran, Megan Thee Stallion, and Tyler Childers to perform

Theater/Dance

Bharatanatyam dancer Ashwini Ramaswamy will present “Let the Crows Come,” Jan. 19-20 at Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre.

One small theater, two very different Boston dance premieres coming up on consecutive weekends

In ‘Northside Hollow,’ deep thoughts about mortality

12 New Year’s Eve comedy shows for a last laugh at 2023

Health

Nurse Michele Kaine tends to Rodolfo Almeida of Providence at The Miriam Hospital's new Stephen and Diana Lewinstein Center for Innovative Cancer Research, a clinical area where patients will receive investigational cancer treatments.

Ryan T. Conaty for the Boston Globe

Top 6 health care stories to watch in Rhode Island in 2024

CVS to launch new pharmacy reimbursement model aimed at simplifying drug pricing

Many Americans ration insulin to save money. One nonprofit is trying to make the life-saving drug more affordable.

Obituaries

Mr. Benally, singing an American Indian movement song during a news conference in Flagstaff, Ariz., in 2005.

Klee Benally, Navajo activist and punk rock musician, dies at 48

Joe O’Donnell, entrepreneur and transformative philanthropist for cystic fibrosis, dies at 79

Alice Parker, whose musical compositions were ‘food for the soul,’ dies at 98