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Days before New Hampshire primary, Nikki Haley breaks out of the bubble wrap
Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is finally taking the proverbial bubble wrap off what’s been a relatively cautious campaign to date, drawing sharper contrasts between herself and former president Donald Trump.

Haley tells N.H. voters she won’t serve as Trump’s vice president Trump mocks Nikki Haley’s first name. It’s his latest example of attacking rivals based on race. To distinguish herself from Trump, Haley needs to renounce racism instead of denying its existence

Voter Eric Raadmae (right) spoke to an Americans For Prosperity Action canvasser on Sunday. Raadmae, who lives in Manchester, N.H., said immigration is a key concern of his, and he plans to vote for Donald Trump in the primary.

Concern about security at the southern US border is driving how many N.H. Republicans will vote

kara miller | the big idea

The country’s most influential banker says Democrats should respect Trump voters. Is he right?

Steamship Authority postpones opening of summer vehicle reservations for Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard ferries

Tech issues have forced The Steamship Authority to postpone the opening of its summer vehicle reservations to the general public on Jan. 23 and Jan. 30, the agency said Friday.

The seas are coming for coastal homes. How will communities, and the state, respond?
Massachusetts, for example, is exploring the feasibility of a program that would purchase particularly vulnerable or extremely damaged properties from their owners.

Woman killed after being struck by SUV in Revere, police say

Swansea man arraigned on OUI charge from hospital bed

75-year-old man dies in Lakeville four-vehicle crash, police say

Hiker, 37, dies in White Mountains of N.H. amid high winds, frigid temperatures

Christopher Roma “was an experienced and well-known hiker who hiked extensively throughout New Hampshire’s White Mountains and beyond,” officials said in a statement.

3 middle schoolers in Yarmouth taken to hospital after eating candy bar

Multiple fire crews from across New Hampshire responded to the five-alarm fire at 27 Prospect Hill Road Thursday night.

Five-alarm fire burns for 20 hours at Sunapee, N.H. apartment building

NUGGETS 102, CELTICS 100

Celtics forward Jayson Tatum showed his frustration after a play in the fourth quarter Friday, while teammate Derrick White battled with the Nuggets' Aaron Gordon.

‘Even though we lost, it’s a great game for us.’ Celtics have an opportunity to springboard to new heights

Despite subpar performances from its two stars and several others, Boston still came within one possession of matching the defending NBA champions.

Celtics falter late, lose first home game of season to defending champion Nuggets Nuggets coach Mike Malone champions Celtics’ offseason additions

Amid Harvard’s attempts to restore calm, new details emerge on university’s review of plagiarism allegations against Claudine Gay
Interim Harvard president Alan Garber announced steps aimed at bringing peace to a campus that has been roiled for months by protests and disputes over bigotry and the Israel-Hamas war.

Complaint asks state watchdog to probe Boston police captain, internal affairs process after new video surfaces
A complaint filed with the POST Commission says surveillance video discredits Captain John Danilecki's assertion that he ripped apart a sign from "a looter," not a protester.

patriots

Bill Belichick built a dynasty here, and did it his way
His 24-year reign with the Patriots will be remembered for an uncompromising approach, occasional controversy, and six Super Bowl triumphs.

Bill Belichick completes second interview for Falcons head coaching job Getting Bill Parcells’s take on Bill Belichick’s next move, and other thoughts Jerod Mayo adds three names to candidates lists for Patriots’ open coordinator positions

Low temperatures Sunday morning will be about 8-12 degrees below average, but actually above average for most of Maine.

FORECAST | DAVE EPSTEIN

Storm to miss most of New England, but we won’t escape a bitterly cold weekend

Greater Boston may see under an inch of snow with some flurries on Friday.

Keeping your cell phone functioning in the cold Advocates for the homeless prepare for dangerously cold weather

Winter weather tips: When extreme cold strikes, be prepared

EV batteries hate the cold. Here’s what to do if you own an electric car.

How to prevent pipes from freezing in your home during the extreme cold

The construction site looking at PIER 4 ocean homes from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Buildings account for 70 percent of Boston’s total carbon emissions.

Under pressure from both developers and climate advocates, Boston charts a new path to a fossil fuel-free future

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu wasn't successful in efforts to join a state pilot program to ban fossil fuels in new buildings. Now, her administration is regrouping and rethinking its approach.

Senator Edward Markey, left, listened as Boston City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune, right, addressed the media at Walgreens in Roxbury.

Markey, Warren, Pressley call for Walgreens to stay open, citing ‘insurmountable, even deadly’ impacts on Roxbury

Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren and Representative Ayanna Pressley made their demands in a letter to the drugstore giant’s CEO, Tim Wentworth.

Steward’s Massachusetts hospitals include Carney Hospital in Dorchester (above) and St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton.

Steward Health Care’s financial issues could spell catastrophe for the state

The fast-moving crisis has left regulators racing to prevent the massive layoffs and erosion of care that could come if hospital services were to suddenly cease.

Here’s what to do if you’re worried your health care practice might close

Opinion

Nikki Haley in Hollis, N.H., on Thursday.

To distinguish herself from Trump, Haley needs to renounce racism instead of denying its existence

Too bad her political ambitions get in the way of speaking the truth.

Mass. students wage a daily struggle to learn to read

IDEAS | PAUL LEWIS

Hamlet, Prince of Pickleball

MARCELA GARCÍA

Blame the victim: Immigrant faces charges in death of Florida policeman

Nathaniel Manderson

Democrats, let me (re)introduce you to the working class

2024 election illo

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.

More recent News

Boston Public Schools teacher injured after student allegedly punched, struck her with chair, police say
Officers arrived at the Melvin H. King South End Academy around 8:15 a.m. Friday for a report of an assault and battery, Boston police said.

Striking teachers shutter Newton schools; judge orders them back to work
Newton union negotiations have centered around pay for teachers and paraprofessionals, as well as several other issues, including coverage of classrooms when a teacher is absent.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

At Winter Weekend, Red Sox say they will stay the course, so don’t expect major upgrades
Team president Sam Kennedy acknowledged that the team’s payroll would probably drop again this season.

Alex Cora is singing a sweet tune about the 2024 Red Sox, but is that in harmony with the front office?

STAT Investigation

Dana-Farber cancer researchers moving to retract one paper, correct others in broad investigation of manipulated data
The investigation, which can be read in full on statnews.com, includes scores of papers authored by four top Dana Farber scientists, including CEO Laurie Glimcher.

THE FINE PRINT

If your car is towed, it’s about to cost you a lot more to get it back
Drivers whose passenger vehicles have been towed will now pay a maximum of $132 for a tow, versus $108 previously, thanks to a rate increase approved, at least temporarily, by the state Department of Public Utilities.

I was blindsided by the marriage proposal
He could have asked a long time ago.

Recommended reads

Boston Police Officers Rachel McGuire, Kevin McGill, and Javier Pagan take stock of the scene after the first bomb exploded on Boylston Street on April 15, 2013. Bill Iffrig, knocked to the ground by the blast, soon rose and finished the race.

BOSTON MARATHON

Bill Iffrig, immortalized as the fallen runner of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, dies at 89

Mr. Iffrig, a national champion runner, was nearly finished with the 2013 Boston Marathon when the first of two bomb blasts knocked him to the ground on Boylston Street.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Boston’s most expensive hotel is now open. Is it worth the steep nightly rate?
Luxury chain Raffles offers a room with a view and a butler. We checked in and checked it out. Here's what it's like.

A flaming tower of Christmas trees, for all to see
Christmas Tree beach bonfires, a longstanding North Shore tradition, gather communities to marvel at a unique inferno.

President Biden looks like he’s running a shadow campaign in New Hampshire
They came on official business, so the Hatch Act prohibited them from talking about the political campaign. But their mission was clear: to speak in glowing terms about what the administration has delivered to New Hampshire voters.

Culture & Lifestyle

Carpenter and writer Matthew J. C. Clark writes about floors, love, and coming into your own.

An experimental biography focuses on Charles Darwin’s grandfather

Provencal Vegetable Soup with Pistou.

Welcome to Winter Soup Club

Dearly Studio in Bow Market is under 400 square feet.

New ‘micro wedding’ spot in Somerville’s Bow Market offers an alternative to City Hall

Jennifer Lopez's "This Is Me . . . Now" releases Feb. 16.

Jennifer Lopez releases cast list, new trailer for ‘This Is Me... Now’ album movie

Special Projects

Ashfield, MA 06/13//2023, At Sanderson Academy, books in a fourth-grade classroom.

Suzanne Kreiter\Globe staff

Lost in a World of Words

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

stuart landing page illustration

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Nikki Haley took a selfie with supporters during a campaign event in Rochester, N.H., on Jan. 17.

Haley calls out Trump’s ‘temper tantrums’ but will NH voters put him in time out?

Healey puts her housing bill front and center

The Tufts University Prison Initiative began in 2016.

Rachelle G. Cohen

Tufts prison initiative gives grads the gift of hope

Walgreens is closing its location at 416 Warren St. in Roxbury. A protest was held in the store's parking lot to oppose the upcoming closure on Jan. 31.

Elaine O. Nsoesie

Pharmacy deserts in Black and Latino communities are harming residents

John Montgomery Ward on an 1887 baseball card and Helen Dauvray in an 1896 photo.

IDEAS | SCOTT D. PETERSON

The Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce of 1887

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

To distinguish herself from Trump, Haley needs to renounce racism instead of denying its existence

Too bad her political ambitions get in the way of speaking the truth.

Five-alarm fire burns for 20 hours at Sunapee, N.H. apartment building

Multiple fire crews, some from as far south as Nashua, braved the extreme cold as they fought the heavy fire that broke out at 27 Prospect Hill Road Thursday night, according to the Sunapee Fire Department’s Facebook page.

Steamship Authority postpones opening of summer vehicle reservations for Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard ferries

Tech issues have forced The Steamship Authority to postpone the opening of its summer vehicle reservations to the general public on Jan. 23 and Jan. 30, the agency said Friday.

Days before New Hampshire primary, Nikki Haley breaks out of the bubble wrap

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is finally taking the proverbial bubble wrap off what’s been a relatively cautious campaign to date, drawing sharper contrasts between herself and former president Donald Trump.

Sports

Belichick illustration

Bill Belichick built a dynasty here, and did it his way

His 24-year reign with the Patriots will be remembered for an uncompromising approach, occasional controversy, and six Super Bowl triumphs.

Josh Hader passed through the Houston system before he reached the majors, traded there by Baltimore in 2013 and on to Milwaukee in 2015 as part of a six-player deal.

Astros go big, give reliever Josh Hader five years, record $95 million

Hader’s deal falls short of the total dollars in Edwin Díaz’s $102 million contract with the New York Mets, but Díaz's deal includes $26.5 million in deferred payments he won’t completely receive until 2042.

Celtics forward Jayson Tatum showed his frustration after a play in the fourth quarter Friday, while teammate Derrick White battled with the Nuggets' Aaron Gordon.

Gary Washburn | ON BASKETBALL

‘Even though we lost, it’s a great game for us.’ Celtics have an opportunity to springboard to new heights

Despite subpar performances from its two stars and several others, Boston still came within one possession of matching the defending NBA champions.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN

Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska, ranked No. 93, reaches fourth round at Australian Open

HS track | MSTCA Division 5 state relays

Michael Sanchez paces Amesbury boys, Giuliana Ligor leads North Reading girls at MSTCA Division 5 state relays

Bill Belichick completes second interview for Falcons head coaching job

Business

STAT Investigation

Dana-Farber cancer researchers moving to retract one paper, correct others in broad investigation of manipulated data

The investigation, which can be read in full on statnews.com, includes scores of papers authored by four top Dana Farber scientists, including CEO Laurie Glimcher.

JetBlue and Spirit Airlines say they will appeal a judge’s ruling that blocked their merger

JetBlue and Spirit Airlines said they will appeal a federal judge’s ruling this week that blocked their plan to combine into a single carrier.

If your car is towed, it’s about to cost you a lot more to get it back

‘The community seems hungry for soccer’: Rhode Island FC steps onto the pitch

magazine

The body positivity movement told us to love ourselves. Then came Ozempic.

‘Don’t let grief dominate’: 9 Alzheimer’s experts on supporting a loved one

This week's daters: David and Thomas.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I think at our ages we’ve both “been there, done that”’

I’m a climate reporter trying to cut plastics out. But my kid wanted a Barbie Dreamhouse.

metro

Still from a video showing police officer John Danilecki rolling his bike alongside a Black male protester, who is carrying a sign — and possibly arguing — before Danilecki grabs the sign out of the protester’s arm, tears it apart, and drops it to the ground.

Complaint asks state watchdog to probe Boston police captain, internal affairs process after new video surfaces

Amid Harvard’s attempts to restore calm, new details emerge on university’s review of plagiarism allegations against Claudine Gay

Healey moves to allow cities and towns to raise taxes on hotels, meals, cars

sports

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and the Nuggets took Jaylen Brown and the Celtics' best shot and left TD Garden with the first win by a visiting team this season.

Celtics falter late, lose first home game of season to defending champion Nuggets

At Winter Weekend, Red Sox say they will stay the course, so don’t expect major upgrades

Alex Cora is singing a sweet tune about the 2024 Red Sox, but is that in harmony with the front office?

business

Banquet and convention workers at the Seaport Hotel filed for an election to join Unite Here Local 26 in July, but the vote was delayed after the hotel appealed to the National Labor Relations Board to allow workers in other departments to participate.

Seaport Hotel workers vote to unionize

Wall Street hits record high following a 2-year round trip scarred by inflation

Sports Illustrated layoffs are the latest blow in brutal month for media outlets

politics

Nikki Haley in Hollis, N.H., on Thursday.

To distinguish herself from Trump, Haley needs to renounce racism instead of denying its existence

Election-year politics threaten Senate border deal as Trump and his allies rally opposition

Trump mocks Nikki Haley’s first name. It’s his latest example of attacking rivals based on race.

Nation

Dunster House on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on Dec. 12, 2023.

Harvard defends its plagiarism investigation of its former president

Brutally cold weather expected to hit storm-battered South and Northeast this weekend

Grand jury indictment against Alec Baldwin opens two paths for prosecutors

World

Eli Shtivi, whose 28-year-old son Idan has been held in Gaza since he was kidnapped from the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7, is embraced by a woman outside the private residence of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Caesarea, Israel on Jan. 20.

Hostage families protest outside Netanyahu’s home, ramping up pressure for a truce-for-hostages deal

Iran launches satellite that is part of a Western-criticized program as regional tensions spike

An Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital killed at least 4 Iranian advisers, state media say

opinion

The Tufts University Prison Initiative began in 2016.

Tufts prison initiative gives grads the gift of hope

Cost-benefit analysis: Whittier Tech project debated

The Iowa caucuses have spoken, and it hurts his ears

lifestyle

I was blindsided by the marriage proposal

‘Joy of missing out,’ or JOMO, is all the rage. But we wouldn’t be so giddy if we could just manage our time in the first place.

Gisele Bündchen gets ‘pushback’ from kids for parenting differently than Tom Brady

food & dining

Smuttynose brewery.

Smuttynose to buy Wachusett Brewing Co.

Hook + Line, an indie fish house in the Seaport, is just what the area needs

Is it fair for Dunkin’ to charge more for vegan milk? A class action lawsuit by the lactose intolerant says no.

travel

A standard, 400-square-foot guest room at Raffles Boston.

Boston’s most expensive hotel is now open. Is it worth the steep nightly rate?

How to spend a romantic weekend in Portland, Maine

Michael Bobbitt and the beauty of ‘do nothing’ days

Arts

Edvard Munch, "Toward the Forest I (Mot skogen I)," 1897.

10 compelling art shows to wander through this winter

A homecoming for Roxbury’s trailblazing artist Lorraine O’Grady

Up close and presidential: The Griffin looks at official White House photographers and their history-documenting practice

Books

Carpenter and writer Matthew J. C. Clark writes about floors, love, and coming into your own.

An experimental biography focuses on Charles Darwin’s grandfather

In Kaveh Akbar’s ‘Martyr!’ a poet seeks faith amid the senselessness of death, and life

Local bestsellers for the week ended Jan. 14

Movies

Ariana DeBose in "I.S.S."

Ariana DeBose stars in ‘I.S.S.,’ a space odyssey set aboard the International Space Station

‘Freaky Tales,’ Kristen Stewart and Christopher Nolan help kick off Sundance Film Festival

‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Poor Things’ lead the race for Britain’s BAFTA film awards

Television

Mark Ruffalo attends the 35th Annual Palm Springs International Film Awards on Jan. 4.

Mark Ruffalo to star in HBO crime drama ‘Task,’ set in the ‘same universe’ as ‘Mare of Easttown’

Tom Brady teams up with Vince Vaughn, Wayne Gretzky for new Super Bowl ad

In ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,’ a writer’s betrayal and the friendships it shattered

music

Drummer Max Roach shown at a Columbia University jazz festival in 2000.

Max Roach’s centennial brings the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to town to celebrate a legend

Biss not to miss: Inquisitive pianist turns focus to Schubert

10 classical events to count on this season

Theater/Dance

Patrice Jean-Baptiste in "Trouble in Mind" at Lyric Stage Company.

In ‘Trouble in Mind,’ a Black actress is done compromising

10 standout shows for theater audiences this winter

‘Moulin Rouge!’ is nothing to shout about

Health

Dana-Farber cancer researchers moving to retract one paper, correct others in broad investigation of manipulated data

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

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

Obituaries

Jack Burke, Jr., celebrated with his wife, Eilene, after winning the Masters in 1956.

Jack Burke Jr., Hall of Famer who was the oldest living Masters champion, dies at age 100

Peter Schickele, composer and gleeful sire of P.D.Q. Bach, dies at 88

Lev Rubinstein, Russian poet and political figure, dies at 76