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

ANALYSIS
In South Carolina, Haley’s biggest immediate problem comes from Biden — not Trump
Can she convince Trump-loathing Democrats to skip their presidential primary and wait to vote in the Republican one a few weeks later?

RNC will meet privately after Trump allies pull resolution to call him the ‘presumptive nominee’ Trump stays on Mass. primary ballot after SJC ruling

‘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.
Newton schools remain closed for 8th day on Tuesday amid teacher strike 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.
A new landlord is taking over Faneuil Hall Marketplace, raising hopes at City Hall that long-awaited improvements could be finally coming to a high-profile tourism destination that draws millions of visitors every year.

Man gets 40 years to life for shooting bishop and assaulting bride and groom at N.H. wedding

Israeli undercover forces dressed as women and medics storm West Bank hospital, killing 3 militants

 City councils in Cambridge and Somerville formally declare support for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war

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.
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.
AS I SEE IT

‘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.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Newton teachers should end illegal strike

There’s a mediation procedure in Massachusetts law for public sector unions and municipal employers to resolve their differences. The teachers in Newton should use it, instead of leaving students in the lurch.
Gerald Chan and Steve Zrike

Learning to love school: A blueprint for student engagement
IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

We can get more imaginative about what we imagine
Andrea Joy Campbell and Michelle Wu

Massachusetts should ban third-party electric suppliers
LETTERS

What ails us: private equity in health care

More recent News

State to investigate Winthrop toddler’s death after delayed ambulance response
Winthrop town officials defended the local ambulance company and called the problem a “regional issue.”

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.

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.

Timeline: Proposed sale of Rhode Island hospitals preceded by years of regulatory fights, funding problems

Prospect Medical Holdings, the for-profit owner of Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, could soon sell its local assets to an Atlanta nonprofit.

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

John Reardon was charged with making the threats in a voicemail he left with the Congregation Agudas Achim, a synagogue in Attleboro, prosecutors said.

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

The move is part of her larger effort that she says will redesign and promote efficiency, predictability, and transparency in the city’s development approval processes.

Recommended reads

‘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.

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.

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.

Culture & Lifestyle

US museums have reached their moment of reckoning with Indigenous culture

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

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

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

Special Projects

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.

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 doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

MARCELA GARCÍA

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

EDITORIAL

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
Jim Stergios

Teachers strikes hurt the students
RENÉE GRAHAM

A shady conservative group wants to make Biden’s Black support go up in smoke
Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

RI POLITICS

R.I.’s hottest race could be a rare GOP primary

In 2024, Rhode Islanders will vote for president and Congress, but attention is focused on the Republican primary between Cranston Mayor Kenneth Hopkins and Representative Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung.

More than 20 skiers had to be rescued from the Killington, Vt., backcountry. But how did they all get lost?

Christopher Campanella wound up being one of 20 guests, along with a longtime ski instructor, who’d wandered off the sprawling 1,500-acre resort, requiring a five-hour, multi-agency rescue effort to bring them all to safety.
RI HEALTH CARE

Timeline: Proposed sale of Rhode Island hospitals preceded by years of regulatory fights, funding problems

Prospect Medical Holdings, the for-profit owner of Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, could soon sell its local assets to an Atlanta nonprofit.

Newton schools remain closed for 8th day on Tuesday amid teacher strike

The strike is the longest teacher work stoppage in the state since the 1990s and follows nearly a half dozen others across Massachusetts in the last 20 months.

Sports

More than 20 skiers had to be rescued from the Killington, Vt., backcountry. But how did they all get lost?

Christopher Campanella wound up being one of 20 guests, along with a longtime ski instructor, who’d wandered off the sprawling 1,500-acre resort, requiring a five-hour, multi-agency rescue effort to bring them all to safety.
patriots mailbag

Patriots mailbag: Fans have offseason queries about Jerod Mayo’s staff and free agents

Also, what was the worst part of covering the Patriots this season? And what will Bill Belichick do if he's not coaching?
tara sullivan

Andy Reid is making up some ground in the greatest-coach debate

Could it be Reid, and not Bill Belichick, who eventually passes Don Shula? It's not that far-fetched an idea.

Russian figure skaters to get Olympic team bronze medals ahead of Canada despite Valieva DQ

What happens to Olympic medals now that Russian skater Valieva has been sanctioned for doping?
GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

Derrick White rediscovers his shooting touch just in time

Business

RI HEALTH CARE

Timeline: Proposed sale of Rhode Island hospitals preceded by years of regulatory fights, funding problems

Prospect Medical Holdings, the for-profit owner of Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, could soon sell its local assets to an Atlanta nonprofit.

Toyota group plant raided in test cheating probe as automaker says it sold 11.2 million vehicles in 2023

Japanese transport officials have raided the plant of a Toyota group company to investigate cheating on engine testing, as the company reported it kept its status as the world’s top automaker in 2023, selling 11.2 million vehicles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

metro

Cambridge City Council formally declares support for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war

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

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

sports

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

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

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

business

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

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

politics

In South Carolina, Haley’s biggest immediate problem comes from Biden — not Trump

House GOP is moving quickly to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas as border security becomes top election issue

Biden to soak up sunshine and campaign cash in Florida trip

Nation

Space Shuttle Endeavour hoisted for installation in vertical display at Los Angeles science museum

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

World

Northern Ireland political party agrees to end 2-year boycott that caused the government to collapse

Pakistani court sentences former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 10 years for revealing state secrets

UN agency confirms 119.8-degree reading in Sicily two years ago as Europe’s record high temperature

opinion

Court fight pitches a different vision for Shawmut housing proposal

Harvard bid for morgue case dismissal is one more indignity to donors

Taiwan is showing the world how democracy can prevail

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

Boston restaurant economics are punishing. $600,000 liquor licenses make it worse.

‘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.

travel

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

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

‘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

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

Is Taylor Swift going to the Super Bowl? Or is the Super Bowl going to Taylor Swift?

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’

music

Is Taylor Swift going to the Super Bowl? Or is the Super Bowl going to Taylor Swift?

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

Theater/Dance

‘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

Timeline: Proposed sale of Rhode Island hospitals preceded by years of regulatory fights, funding problems

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

Obituaries

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