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As shelter system struggles, Healey to launch pilot program to house, employ migrants
The pilot program would help up to 400 migrant families secure long-term housing and employment in Massachusetts.

Healey tells officials state plans to convert Roxbury recreational center into shelter for migrant families

Fatal Maine accident highlights the dangers of thin ice amid warmer winters. Here’s how to stay safe.
When it comes to determining whether ice is safe, “there are no guarantees,” according to MassWildlife officials.

Carmel remembers town manager who saved son, 4, when they fell through ice: ‘He’s irreplaceable’

Inside Biden’s anti-Trump battle plan (and where Taylor Swift fits in)

President Biden is betting that he can turn the 2024 election into a referendum not on himself but on Donald Trump.

Trump remains on Mass. ballot after SJC ruling

At the University of Pennsylvania, tensions may only be growing after Magill’s resignation

One professor called a document from a prominent donor to the college a proposed “hostile takeover of the core academic functions of the university.”

Providence man sentenced to two life sentences, plus 50 years, for 2021 murder

Isaiah Pinkerton, 26, will serve two life sentences plus 50 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions for his role in the killing of Miya Brophy-Baermann, prosecutors said.

Millis man charged with threatening to kill Jewish people in message left with Attleboro synagogue

Man stabbed, infant injured following altercation in Lawrence, police say

State to investigate Winthrop toddler’s death after delayed ambulance response

Mayor Wu files ordinance to move BPDA under City Hall, create city planning department

Hundreds of striking educators and their supporters rallied at Newton City Hall on Monday, the seventh day schools remained closed.

‘There’s just a lot of vilification going on’: The teachers strike is divisive — and tearing Newton apart.

Discord is rife on social media, in group chats, and across email chains. Newton schools will be closed for an eighth day on Tuesday.

These are the areas keeping Newton teachers and School Committee from an agreement to end the strike

A new start for Faneuil Hall? New operator takes over historic marketplace
City and merchants both have clashed with longtime landlord for years.

Critic's Notebook

US museums have reached their moment of reckoning with Indigenous culture
With new federal regulations in place, museums from New York to Cambridge to Chicago are abruptly closing or removing displays. It’s about time.

Celtics guard Derrick White (9) fends off the advances of Pelicans defender CJ McCollum (3) during the first half, but the struggling shooter found his rhythm in the final minutes to lift Boston to victory.

Gary Washburn | CELTICS 118, PELICANS 112

Derrick White rediscovers his shooting touch just in time

Through the first three quarters Monday, White was anything but confident and comfortable. But he found his game when it counted, scoring 13 points in the fourth quarter to rally Boston past New Orleans.

White offsets his misses with plenty of makes in fourth-quarter comeback over Pelicans

A license photo of Kaitlin Armstrong taken before her disappearance (left) and her booking photo (right) at Travis County Jail after being deported from Costa Rica to Texas following 43 days on the run.

Investigators had all but given up on tracking down Kaitlin Armstrong. Then they put out an ad for a yoga instructor.

Armstrong was convicted of killing professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson. In a new episode of “48 Hours,” investigators shared new details about how they caught her.

Patrick Mahomes led the Chiefs past the 49ers with a 21-point fourth quarter in the Super Bowl four years ago.

ben volin | on football

Chiefs-49ers Super Bowl matchup has familiar, bankable stars on both sides

The teams have excellent rushing attacks and top defenses, and feature household names such as Mahomes, Kelce, Purdy, and McCaffrey.

Endicott College hockey player Jack Smiley, 24, performs a medicine ball exercise in a weight room at Endicott College. Smiley had a stroke at age 22.

‘He never has a bad day’: Adversity tests college hockey player

Smiley was 22 when he was paralyzed on his right side after collapsing at hockey practice on Feb. 21, 2022.

Investigators released this composite with the hopes of identifying the woman whose remains were found hidden inside a chimney in the basement of a Dorchester apartment building on Oct. 14, 2005.

A woman’s body was found hidden inside a chimney in Dorchester in 2005. Who was she?

Authorities determined that she met a violent end. To this day, neither she — nor her killer — have been identified.

Opinion

Workers repair electrical lines affected by a fallen tree in Dorchester on Sept. 15, 2023. Forty percent of residents in Dorchester and Mattapan are enrolled with third-party electric suppliers

Andrea Joy Campbell and Michelle Wu

Massachusetts should ban third-party electric suppliers

The industry has produced years of financial losses for consumers alongside pervasive misleading marketing practices and false claims of clean, green energy.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A small bit of good news for the children of missing East Boston woman

Fernald School: Waltham is letting a historic property fall apart

Max Page and Deb McCarthy

Teachers unions have no rights if they have no leverage to exercise those rights

Teachers strikes hurt the students

More recent News

Enemy drone that killed US troops in Jordan was mistaken for a US drone, preliminary report suggests

An enemy drone that killed three American troops and wounded dozens of others in Jordan may have been confused with an American drone returning to the US installation, two US officials told the Associated Press Monday.

Grief and mourning for 3 US soldiers killed in Jordan drone strike who were based in Georgia

US to receive gold medals in wake of figure skater Valieva’s Olympic DQ
International Olympic officials have told counterparts in the United States that their figure skating team will receive gold medals now that Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified for doping.

Man gets 40 years to life for shooting bishop and assaulting bride and groom at N.H. wedding
Dale Holloway, 41, “turned a marriage into mayhem," prosecutor Seth Dobieski said at the sentencing hearing.

Florida resort must pay $110k and restore clear-cut mangroves, in one of state’s largest penalties
Rhode Island entrepreneur Michael Mota and his business partner were paid advisers at the resort. Mota blamed the mangroves destruction on a tornado the National Weather Service said did not exist.

Psychedelics supporters include some big names from Boston’s tech scene ballot question
If passed, Massachusetts would be the third state in the US to legalize psychedelics, after Oregon and Colorado.

FSG-backed consortium is closing in on multibillion-dollar investment in PGA Tour
Strategic Sports Group, led by Red Sox parent company Fenway Sports Group, would contribute a minority stake in the new for-profit PGA Tour Enterprises.

Recommended reads

A years-long battle over outdoor dining in the North End has yet to die down, affecting the dynamics between the powerful small business in the neighborhood, the residents, and the city.

‘No one seems to know who they are fighting’: How outdoor dining tore apart the North End

The drama in the neighborhood is not just about outdoor tables; it’s about the very identity of Boston’s Italian-American enclave.

Boston wants T buses to be free to ride. The T wants to charge. What happens next?
As the end of the existing fare-free bus program in Boston approaches, the T is moving forward with only the low-income fare for its entire system.

Brothel ring that catered to wealthy people in Greater Boston, Virginia highlights exploitative industry, advocates say
Activists said the women involved face the difficult challenge of “stepping out” from a violent, abusive industry that controlled their lives and from the people who exploited them.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Could Mass General Brigham be a savior amid the Steward Health Care financial mess?
Mass General Brigham may be the only Massachusetts health system big enough to absorb Steward Health Care’s hospitals.

Warren points to for-profit motives for Steward financial failings

Culture & Lifestyle

Visitors in New York on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Eastern Woodlands, abruptly closed Jan. 27 as the museum works to comply with new federal rules governing the holding and display of Native American cultural items. Museums around the country have been covering up displays as curators scramble to determine whether they can be shown under the new regulations. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)

US museums have reached their moment of reckoning with Indigenous culture

Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza appear in "My Old Ass" by Megan Park, an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

Sundance breakout performances: five under 25 — and two over 80

Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is removing Native American funerary objects from display.

Harvard’s Peabody museum removes Native American funerary objects from display

Will Ferrell and Harper Steele appear in "Will & Harper."

Sundance stories: Will Ferrell’s close friend of 30 years came out as trans. Then they went on a road trip.

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

A 2008 issue of Essence magazine featuring an advertisement for menthol cigarettes.

A shady conservative group wants to make Biden’s Black support go up in smoke

The embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin has been on display in his mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square since 1924.

IDEAS | ASYA PARTAN

100 years after Lenin’s death, his curse still grips Russia

Tim Anderson of Guns Inc. displayed a 9 mm gun made by Smith & Wesson at the shop in West Springfield, MA on June 10, 2022.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A win in Mexico’s landmark case against US gunmakers

A pedestrian walked past a row of mannequins in the window of a store inside the Shops at Prudential Center on March 3, 2021.

Instead of COVID mea culpa, public health leaders should take a bow

Claudine Gay, former president of Harvard University.

PODCAST | SAY MORE WITH SHIRLEY LEUNG

‘All the hallmarks of a political hit job’: Historian explains how Claudine Gay became a conservative target

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Healey to open overflow shelter for migrant families at Roxbury recreational center

Governor Maura Healey wrote in a letter Monday that the overflow shelter at the Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex would close by May 31.

Providence man sentenced to two life sentences, plus 50 years, for 2021 murder

Isaiah Pinkerton, 26, will serve two life sentences plus 50 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions for his role in the killing of Miya Brophy-Baermann, prosecutors said.

‘There’s just a lot of vilification going on’: The teachers strike is divisive — and tearing Newton apart.

Discord is rife on social media, in group chats, and across email chains. Newton schools will be closed for an eighth day on Tuesday.

Prospect Medical Holdings wants to sell its 2 R.I.-based hospitals. Here’s what a proposed deal could look like, executives say.

After pouring through pages of documents in the systems’ application, Globe Rhode Island found answers to some of the most pressing questions from patients.

Sports

Celtics guard Derrick White (9) fends off the advances of Pelicans defender CJ McCollum (3) during the first half, but the struggling shooter found his rhythm in the final minutes to lift Boston to victory.

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

Derrick White rediscovers his shooting touch just in time

Through the first three quarters Monday, White was anything but confident and comfortable. But he found his game when it counted, scoring 13 points in the fourth quarter to rally Boston past New Orleans.

Madison Chock and Evan Bates compete in championship ice dance at the US figure skating championships, Jan. 27, in Columbus, Ohio.

US to receive gold medals in wake of figure skater Valieva’s Olympic DQ

International Olympic officials have told counterparts in the United States that their figure skating team will receive gold medals now that Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified for doping.

Bishop Feehan’s Madelyn Steel (5) races past Bishop Fenwick's Celia Neilson during the first half of their nonleague showdown in Attleboro Monday night.

GIRLS' BASKETBALL: BISHOP FEEHAN 58, BISHOP FENWICK 47

Bishop Feehan shows some Steel to again push past Bishop Fenwick in a girls’ basketball showdown

Junior guard Madelyn Steel paced the second-ranked Shamrocks with 20 points to lead the hosts to the nonleague victory over archrival Fenwick in Attleboro.

celtics 118, pelicans 112

Derrick White offsets his misses with plenty of makes in fourth-quarter comeback over Pelicans

Chiefs coach Andy Reid denies accusation made by inactive wide receiver Kadarius Toney

celtics notebook

JD Davison rewarded with G League honor after strong start with Maine Celtics

Business

A new start for Faneuil Hall? New operator takes over historic marketplace

City and merchants both have clashed with longtime landlord for years.

Prospect Medical Holdings wants to sell its 2 R.I.-based hospitals. Here’s what a proposed deal could look like, executives say.

After pouring through pages of documents in the systems’ application, Globe Rhode Island found answers to some of the most pressing questions from patients.

New ICER boss Sarah Emond keeps an eye on the bottom line

Amazon abandons plan to purchase Bedford-based iRobot; Roomba maker cuts 350 jobs

magazine

The writer and her mother, Olga Partan, in Moscow in 1983.

From supermarket checkout girl to tenured professor, my mother has reinvented herself like a monarch butterfly

China Trade Center’s annual pop-up Lunar New Year Flower Market opens on Feb. 2.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Jan. 29-Feb. 4

Cooper Flagg, a 6-foot-9 basketball player from Maine, turned 17 in December and will not play his first minute of college basketball for months. But he's already captured attention from the basketball world, including NBA stars Jayson Tatum and LeBron James.

The NBA’s hottest prospect is a 17-year-old from Maine. Meet Cooper Flagg.

‘Death doulas’ and the audacious act of dying well in America

metro

An Action EMS vehicle Winthrop.

State to investigate Winthrop toddler’s death after delayed ambulance response

As shelter system struggles, Healey to launch pilot program to house, employ migrants

Winthrop officials address death of 2-year-old driven to hospital by fire chief when no ambulance came

sports

BC christened its new gold alternate jerseys in style, beating BU, 4-1, at home before a 4-3 win Saturday night at Agganis Arena.

BC and BU delivered on the hype, and other takeaways from the weekend in men’s college hockey

FSG-backed consortium is closing in on multibillion-dollar investment in PGA Tour

Pelicans at Celtics: Boston puts its home-court advantage to the test against New Orleans

business

Jeffrey Reed, who experienced persistent sinus infections and two bouts of pneumonia while using a Philips CPAP machine, posed with the device at his home, Oct. 20, 2022, in Marysville, Ohio.

Maker of recalled sleep apnea machines agrees to halt sales in US

Mayor Wu files ordinance to move BPDA under City Hall, create city planning department

Toyota halts shipments of 10 models over mishandling of engine tests

politics

President Biden.

Biden to soak up sunshine and campaign cash in Florida trip

Enemy drone that killed US troops in Jordan was mistaken for a US drone, preliminary report suggests

Inside Biden’s anti-Trump battle plan (and where Taylor Swift fits in)

Nation

Law enforcement vehicles where several people were found shot to death in El Mirage, Calif., on Jan. 24.

Five suspects arrested in California desert killings in dispute over marijuana, sheriff’s officials say

Illinois election board to consider whether to boot Trump from ballot over insurrection amendment

‘Pandemic of snow’ in Anchorage sets a record for the earliest arrival of 100 inches of snow

World

Families of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants gathered with supporters for a demonstration demanding an immediate deal as they blocked a road near the Israeli Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv Monday.

UN’s lead agency in Gaza fears funding will soon collapse

French farmers encircle capital with an angry blockade

China is protesting interrogations and deportations of its students at US entry points

opinion

The barbed-wire remains of a Stalin-era gulag in Russia. It's along the 1,260-mile "road of bones" that tens of thousands of prisoners died building.

The swastika stands for evil and mass murder. So does the hammer and sickle.

Living with a gun

Mass. pitch to ease access to public higher education piques interest

lifestyle

We have a fundamental clash of values

In ‘Red,’ Boston-area author Annie Cardi reinterprets Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Scarlet Letter’ for Gen Z readers

Why do people get married?

food & dining

A years-long battle over outdoor dining in the North End has yet to die down, affecting the dynamics between the powerful small business in the neighborhood, the residents, and the city.

‘No one seems to know who they are fighting’: How outdoor dining tore apart the North End

She’s the pastry chef making Foglia’s delicious vegan desserts. She’s also self taught, and still in high school.

At Blue Ribbon Brasserie, a New York name makes a play for Kenmore Square

travel

When it comes to romance and luxury, you won’t find a better place to indulge on Cape Cod than at the Chatham Inn.

Hey, Cupid: Which is more romantic, Cape Ann or Cape Cod?

The 6 most romantic resorts for a winter getaway in New England

Sauna culture is gaining steam in New England — including a new spot right here on the Greenway

Arts

The University of New Hampshire has permanently closed the Museum of Art on its Durham campus.

University of New Hampshire shutters Museum of Art on Durham campus

An underappreciated American art form conjures Black history from the void

At MoMA, An-My Lê's photos show the presence, and continuing power, of the past

Books

As her father looks on, a teenage Alison Krauss shakes hands with Rounder Records' Ken Irwin after signing her first deal with the Somerville label. Krauss's mother snapped the photo.

‘Oh, Didn’t They Ramble’ traces Rounder Records’ influence back to the label’s Somerville roots

N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89

H.W. Brands reminds us that the nation was ever thus

Movies

Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza appear in "My Old Ass" by Megan Park, an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

Sundance breakout performances: five under 25 — and two over 80

Dr. Topper Carew brings ‘This Little Light of Mine’ to space

Sundance stories: Will Ferrell’s close friend of 30 years came out as trans. Then they went on a road trip.

Television

Larry David and J.B. Smoove in the 12th and final season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," premiering Sunday night on HBO.

This week’s TV: ‘Capote vs. the Swans,’ Donald Glover’s new series, and the end of ‘Curb’

Dakota Johnson says ‘Madame Web’ is like if AI made your boyfriend’s perfect movie, talks history of not taking interviews seriously on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Three ‘Masterpiece’ premieres in the offing

music

Lyn Lapid plays a sold-out show at Brighton Music Hall on Wednesday.

Singer-songwriter Lyn Lapid isn’t the ‘situationship’ type

‘Oh, Didn’t They Ramble’ traces Rounder Records’ influence back to the label’s Somerville roots

Nina Yoshida Nelsen appointed Boston Lyric Opera’s new artistic director

Theater/Dance

Jim Ortlieb is the maestro of "Stand Up If You're Here Tonight" at the Huntington's Maso Studio.

‘Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight’ defies definition, and that’s a very good thing

Playwright Samuel D. Hunter ponders ‘The Existence of God,’ and the existence of hope

At Central Square, a play that explores a tricky father-son-robot relationship

Health

Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence, R.I.

Prospect Medical Holdings wants to sell its 2 R.I.-based hospitals. Here’s what a proposed deal could look like, executives say.

Incel culture and its rise in the modern dating world

After years of deferring investments, R.I.’s largest hospital owner is planning $3.5b in new improvements

Obituaries

FILE - Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his groundbreaking novel "House Made of Dawn," appears at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., on Nov. 13, 2019. Momaday died Jan. 24 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, publisher HarperCollins announced. He had been in failing health. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89

Jimy Williams, who managed Red Sox from 1997-2001, dies at 80

Ann Maguire, groundbreaking LGBTQ leader and breast cancer research advocate, dies at 80