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Kelvin Kiptum, who set the marathon world record in October, killed in car crash
Kiptum was the first man to run the marathon in under 2 hours, 1 minute, running a 2:00.35 at the Chicago Marathon in October. His coach was also killed in the crash, according to a fellow runner.

The T is on track to be broke soon. There’s no long-term fix.
The state’s largest public transit system estimates a yawning budget gap of $628 million come July, and top leaders have failed to advance any long-term solutions.

Woman firing rifle killed by 2 off-duty officers at Joel Osteen’s church, 2 others hurt, police say

Police in Houston say they are responding to a possible shooting at the megachurch run by pastor Joel Osteen.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

At least 6 to 10 inches of mostly heavy, wet snow to blanket Southern New England Tuesday
A winter storm warning has been issued for much of the region with heavy snowfall expected to drastically reduce visibility in the morning and afternoon.

Expected snowfall totals for Southern New England on Tuesday.

Latest snowfall maps: How much will New England get?

THE GREAT DIVIDE

A look behind the curtain: How the Newton School Committee and teachers union finally struck a deal
Behind the scenes, the parties worked furiously around the clock to settle. But acrimony had been ratcheting up for months, and both sides were determined to hold their ground.

The Newton teachers strike is over, but more fights are on the horizon

For many years, Eve Nussbaum Soumerai was a teacher in Connecticut, where she staged multimedia tributes, involving dozens of students, that honored historical figures. Courtesy of the Soumerai family

Eve Nussbaum Soumerai, teacher, writer who drew from her Holocaust experiences, dies at 97

Defense Secretary Austin hospitalized with bladder issue, but ‘retaining the functions’ of office

The elderly mare was successfully lifted back onto her feet using a harness and front-end loader, officials said.

Crews in Whitman lift 1,000-pound elderly horse with front-end loader after fall

Super Bowl LVIII | 6:30 p.m. | CBS

Led by Patrick Mahomes (left) and Travis Kelce, the Chiefs enter Super Bowl LVIII as underdogs.

Super Bowl LVIII is here, with too many story lines to count. Follow along live.

The Super Bowl has come to Las Vegas for the first time, and the intrigue is endless.

Live Updates

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Gronk misses again
6:15 p.m.
This biggest controversy at the Super Bowl? It’s about grass.
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Chiefs have plenty of support from stars
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Inactives: Chiefs sit Kadarius Toney

ben volin | on football

Bring on the Tom Brady comparisons, no matter which quarterback wins the Super Bowl
Whoever wins — Patrick Mahomes or Brock Purdy — will have a résumé and Wikipedia page that looks an awful lot like Brady’s did at the same stage of his career.

This photo provided by Anheuser-Busch shows the Budweiser 2024 Super Bowl NFL football spot. Ahead of Super Bowl 58, some advertisers are releasing ads early in the hope of capitalizing on the buzz leading up to the game.

Super Bowl commercials 2024: See Tom Brady, Budweiser, and more big game ads

Usher performed at Power 105.1's Powerhouse 2016 at Barclays Center on Oct. 27, 2016, in New York. The singer will perform at Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show.

Everything you need to know about Usher’s 2024 Super Bowl halftime show

Here are some of the competitors in "Puppy Bowl XX."

The ‘Puppy Bowl’ is today, and it’s celebrating a big anniversary this year

They're going to play a football game today. But first there will be the famous and popular "Puppy Bowl."

Waltham puppy to take part in Puppy Bowl XX

Boom in youth gambling in Mass. fueled by online sports betting apps
A growing number of young people are showing up at mental health clinics and Gamblers Anonymous meetings.

Opinion: The hidden toll of sports gambling

Clara Bell is a lifelong member of Twelfth Baptist Church.

Black History Now

Clara Bell is a fixture of Twelfth Baptist Church. She was also a behind-the-scenes figure in the civil rights movement.

Bell, 81, is among 69 names honored on the 1965 Freedom Plaza.

Harvard’s Black Film Project will spotlight Black history and culture More Black History Month coverage

Officers in tactical gear on the scene of a shooting where police removed a suspect who shot a woman and barricaded himself at a trailer park on Route 1 South in Danvers.

What the Danvers shooting says about future of Mass. police de-escalation

A shooting suspect's arrest, following a two-hour standoff with police, shows what’s possible for successfully de-escalating dangerous situations, experts say, and the importance of slowing things down.

Kristaps Porzingis drives on the Heat's Jaime Jaquez Jr.during the first half.

Celtics 110, Heat 106

Celtics find a way to hold off feisty, undermanned Heat squad

Jayson Tatum, Kristaps Porzingis, and Jaylen Brown each scored more than 20 points in the win.

Caitlin Clark and Iowa are ranked No. 2 in the women's college basketball polls.

Caitlin Clark now eight points away from setting women’s basketball scoring record

Caitlin Clark was a grade-school phenom. And now she is close to breaking the NCAA Division 1 scoring record.

Should I know it’s love by three months? Six?

According to TikTok, there’s a three-month rule.

Opinion

A statue of Ronald Reagan at his presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif.

I was a young Republican. Now I want nothing to do with either party.

How much disillusionment can our political system tolerate before it cracks up?

IDEAS | STEPHEN LANE

Checking in with the COVID class of 2024

‘Ten years of nothing’ from the convention center authority

It’s corporate America’s most disingenuous time of the year — Black History Month

IDEAS | JOHN GOVE

Making Super Bowl guacamole? Read this before you pay more for organic avocados.

More recent News

Boston police seek woman in connection with attack on delivery driver in Roxbury
Police are asking for the community’s help to identify a woman sought in connection with an attack in Roxbury on Friday in which assailants allegedly threw a phone and a stapler at a delivery man’s head, officials said.

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BU, Northeastern ready to renew rivalry in battle for men’s Beanpot championship
It will be the sixth consecutive tournament that the teams have met, with Northeastern winning four of the previous five meetings, as well as four of the last five titles.

Annual Winter Walk brings awareness to Boston’s efforts to combat homelessness
Thousands of registered community members, volunteers, students, and advocacy groups gathered on the Boston Common Sunday for the eighth annual walk to raise money for a coalition of organizations, including Boston Medical Center, Pine Street Inn, and the St. Francis House.

Teens arrested in Worcester after allegedly shooting people with paintball guns, police say
David Asemani, 19, of Worcester, and a 16-year-old boy, who wasn’t named, were arrested just after midnight Saturday during a traffic stop, according to a statement from Worcester police.

Boy, 15, arrested after alleged robbery of pizza delivery driver in Hyde Park, police say
While officers were investigating, a teenager matching the description of one of the alleged robbers walked in front of an unmarked police car, officials said.

Biden says Israel shouldn’t press into Rafah without ‘credible’ plan to protect civilians
The White House says President Joe Biden has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel shouldn’t go ahead with a military operation in the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah without a “credible” plan to protect civilians.

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On Tuesday, Milton will face the biggest test of the state’s ambitious-turned-contentious housing law.

In Milton, it’s downright ugly with neighbors against neighbors ahead of Tuesday’s vote on housing

After years of telling everyone to embrace more housing, this Globe columnist wrestles with welcoming development now that it’s in her backyard.

The conflagration that would consume Harvard? It began with a few words written in fear.
Harvard Law student Israa Alzamli is shocked and pained that the furor over the statement she helped write after the Oct. 7 attack has crowded out attention to the carnage in Gaza, including the deaths of many in her family.

It all comes down to this: MBTA zoning fight roils Milton ahead of a key vote on Tuesday
Milton is sharply split on a sweeping new zoning plan designed to loosen the grip of single-family housing on the proudly residential suburb. It is a vote that will reverberate far beyond the town borders.

‘We’ve lost both engines,’ pilot says before private jet crashed onto Florida interstate, killing 2
The jet, with five people aboard, was bound for the airport in Naples when it tried to make an emergency landing on Interstate 75 on Friday afternoon

Culture & Lifestyle

A scene from the 7 Fingers' "Duel Reality," now at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre through Feb. 18.

Wonders never cease with the 7 Fingers

A scene from "Tampopo."

From ‘Big Night’ to ‘Babette’s Feast,’ sink your teeth into these 7 great films about food

A view of Wu Tsang’s installation “Of Whales,” which opens this week at the ICA.

Contemporary Black poets celebrate Phillis Wheatley in new volume; ‘Moby-Dick’-inspired video installations at ICA

Willa Cather with Mount Monadnock in the background taken by her companion Edith Lewis.

Looking for a sensuous Valentine’s Day read? Let me suggest Willa Cather.

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.

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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 nearly empty San Francisco International Airport on the eve of Memorial Day weekend, May 22, 2020.

A call for Americans to share their COVID-19 memories and experiences

The author with her mother, Lynne Griffin, at the Harbor Towers in 1987.

IDEAS | KRISTIN GRIFFIN

A Harbor Towers kid

End-of-life-doula Holly Strelzik (right), at home in Summit, N.J., talking with a client who lost her parents and her partner last year. Death doulas ready both the dying and their loved ones for the process of letting go, and they work with survivors to make sense of grief.

IDEAS | SHERRIE DULWORTH

What is a good death?

Students returned to the classroom on Feb. 5 at Lincoln-Eliot Elementary School after the Newton teachers strike was settled.

Like ‘Seinfeld,’ Newton teachers strike was about nothing

A woman entered the emergency department entrance at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Long emergency department wait times are perilous. Fix this — stat!

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Crews in Whitman lift 1,000-pound elderly horse with front-end loader after fall

Upon arrival, firefighters found the elderly female horse, which weighed about 1,000 pounds, unable to stand on its own, officials said.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

A look behind the curtain: How the Newton School Committee and teachers union finally struck a deal

Behind the scenes, the parties worked furiously around the clock to settle. But acrimony had been ratcheting up for months, and both sides were determined to hold their ground.

Latest snowfall maps: How much will New England get?

A fast-moving nor’easter packing gusty winds is expected to pummel the region with 6 inches to a foot of snow on Tuesday.

What the Danvers shooting says about future of Mass. police de-escalation

A shooting suspect's arrest, following a two-hour standoff with police, shows what’s possible for successfully de-escalating dangerous situations, experts say, and the importance of slowing things down.

Sports

Led by Patrick Mahomes (left) and Travis Kelce, the Chiefs enter Super Bowl LVIII as underdogs.

Super Bowl LVIII is here, with too many story lines to count. Follow along live.

The Super Bowl has come to Las Vegas for the first time, and the intrigue is endless.

Kelvin Kiptum celebrates winning the Chicago Marathon on Oct. 8, 2023.

Kelvin Kiptum, who set the marathon world record in October, killed in car crash

Kiptum was the first man to run the marathon in under 2 hours, 1 minute, running a 2:00.35 at the Chicago Marathon in October. His coach was also killed in the crash, according to a fellow runner.

Gunnarwolfe Fontaine put Northeastern in the men's Beanpot championship game with an overtime goal against Harvard last Monday.

71st men's beanpot

BU, Northeastern ready to renew rivalry in battle for men’s Beanpot championship

It will be the sixth consecutive tournament that the teams have met, with Northeastern winning four of the previous five meetings, as well as four of the last five titles.

Kevin Paul Dupont | On hockey

It’s up to Bruins management to make a strong move to improve roster before NHL trade deadline

Super Bowl commercials 2024: See Tom Brady, Budweiser, and more big game ads

POSITIONAL ANALYSIS: DEFENSIVE LINE

An area the Patriots are not in need of immediate help at? Defensive line. But there is the future.

Business

Super Bowl commercials 2024: See Tom Brady, Budweiser, and more big game ads

The Patriots may not be in the Super Bowl this year, but fans have plenty to look forward to during the big game broadcast on Sunday.

Trump says Ukraine war must end as US aid advances in senate

Donald Trump said that war between Ukraine and Russia must end, reiterating his disapproval for sending more aid overseas as the Senate seeks to move forward with a package to provide emergency funding for Ukraine and Israel.

Trump has 11-point lead over Biden on economy, FT poll shows

Israel, just downgraded, readies bond spree to pay for war against Hamas

magazine

The Parenting Issue

When my daughter was born, I became the most scared dad there ever was

This week's daters: Mandy and Claire

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘Mandy is from the South, like me’

Jason Margolis with his father in the early 1980s.

One more game with Dad: Why the 49ers getting to the Super Bowl meant so much to me

The Parenting Issue

More women than ever are freezing their eggs. But there’s a problem.

metro

Police are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the woman pictured in connection with an aggravated assault and battery that occurred on Friday near Dale Street in Roxbury.

Boston police seek woman in connection with attack on delivery driver in Roxbury

At least 6 to 10 inches of mostly heavy, wet snow to blanket Southern New England Tuesday

The T is on track to be broke soon. There’s no long-term fix.

sports

Virginia Tech's Georgia Amoore shoots while defended by Boston College's Dontavia Waggoner (left) in the second half in Blacksburg, Va..

Virginia Tech sends Boston College women’s basketball team to seventh straight loss

Sweep in 100-yard freestyle powers Weston boys to comfortable North sectional triumph

Celtics find a way to hold off feisty, undermanned Heat squad

business

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Get Out The Vote rally at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. on Feb. 10.

White House rebukes Trump for remark on urging Russia to attack allies

This small New York village made guns for 200 years. What happens when Remington leaves?

CEO of major Nigerian bank killed in California helicopter crash, director-general of WTO says

politics

Kenya's Defense Minister Aden Duale, center left, speaks during a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, center right, at the Pentagon in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Defense Secretary Austin hospitalized with bladder issue, but ‘retaining the functions’ of office

Ukraine-Israel aid bill clears critical hurdle in the Senate

An outburst by Trump on NATO may push Europe to go it alone

Nation

FILE - Catholics take part in a reenactment of the Stations of the Cross during the Lenten season at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, March 17, 2023. Amid tensions between the Vatican and the Daniel Ortega government, Catholics staged the devotional commemoration of Jesus Christ's last day on Earth in the gardens of the Cathedral due to the police ban on celebrating religious festivities on the streets. (AP Photo/Inti Ocon, File)

Nicaragua’s crackdown on Catholic Church spreads fear among the faithful, there and in exile

Trump suggests he’d disregard NATO treaty, urge Russian attacks on allies

Republicans are ‘owning’ the message of abandoning Ukraine

World

A Palestinian morns a relative killed in the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024.

Biden says Israel shouldn’t press into Rafah without ‘credible’ plan to protect civilians

Pope canonizes Argentina’s first female saint as the country’s libertarian president Milei looks on

‘They are shooting at us.’ A fleeing Gaza family is killed along with the medics sent to find them

opinion

Students returned to the classroom on Feb. 5 at Lincoln-Eliot Elementary School after the Newton teachers strike was settled.

Like ‘Seinfeld,’ Newton teachers strike was about nothing

A ruling that frees up local political discourse

The hidden toll of sports gambling

lifestyle

Should I know it’s love by three months? Six?

The ‘Puppy Bowl’ is today, and it’s celebrating a big anniversary this year

How a run-down Ford launched a music revolution that swept Brazil’s Carnival

food & dining

This photo provided by Anheuser-Busch shows the Budweiser 2024 Super Bowl NFL football spot. Ahead of Super Bowl 58, some advertisers are releasing ads early in the hope of capitalizing on the buzz leading up to the game.

Super Bowl commercials 2024: See Tom Brady, Budweiser, and more big game ads

Celebrate the new year at one of these new Chinese restaurants

L Street Tavern, made famous in ‘Good Will Hunting,’ being sold in March

travel

Lena Onalik, the first Inuit archeologist for the Nunatsiavut Government’s Department of Language, Culture, and Tourism, grew up with her grandparents in Makkovik. She works to preserve and record culturally important Inuit sites on the Labrador Coast, and to promote and protect Inuit culture and language.

We wanted northern lights and glacial fjords. We got so much more.

Not into roller coasters at sea with 5,000 other passengers? Consider an expedition voyage.

A fall foliage cruise from New England to Canada (minus the colorful leaves)

Arts

"Sumojazz (6)" (left) and Sumojazz (13)" are both 2011 works by James Luna.

With a small show of prints by Indigenous artists, the MFA looks to the future

A pair of ambitious photo exhibits look at sexuality and race in Boston during the ’70s

MFA agrees to return sacred relics to Korea

Books

A view of Wu Tsang’s installation “Of Whales,” which opens this week at the ICA.

Contemporary Black poets celebrate Phillis Wheatley in new volume; ‘Moby-Dick’-inspired video installations at ICA

Author readings around Boston through Feb. 17

Looking for a sensuous Valentine’s Day read? Let me suggest Willa Cather.

Movies

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., founding director of the Black Film Project, and Jacqueline Glover, executive director.

Harvard’s Black Film Project will spotlight Black history and culture through documentary, narrative stories

L Street Tavern, made famous in ‘Good Will Hunting,’ being sold in March

The world’s most famous dragon, Bruce Lee, was a natural entrepreneur

Television

This photo provided by Anheuser-Busch shows the Budweiser 2024 Super Bowl NFL football spot. Ahead of Super Bowl 58, some advertisers are releasing ads early in the hope of capitalizing on the buzz leading up to the game.

Super Bowl commercials 2024: See Tom Brady, Budweiser, and more big game ads

‘Matlock’ comeback marks the latest series reboot

Everything you need to know about Usher’s 2024 Super Bowl halftime show

music

Karina Canellakis conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance of Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle," featuring mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill and bass-baritone Nathan Berg.

A sunny concerto and a haunting ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ with the BSO

Everything you need to know about Usher’s 2024 Super Bowl halftime show

Seiji Ozawa, trailblazing BSO music director, dies at 88

Theater/Dance

A scene from the 7 Fingers' "Duel Reality," now at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre through Feb. 18.

Wonders never cease with the 7 Fingers

In ‘John Proctor Is the Villain,’ a high school is a #MeToo crucible

It’s the humans who are in need of repair in ‘Machine Learning’

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.

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

Incel culture and its rise in the modern dating world

Obituaries

For many years, Eve Nussbaum Soumerai was a teacher in Connecticut, where she staged multimedia tributes, involving dozens of students, that honored historical figures. Courtesy of the Soumerai family

Eve Nussbaum Soumerai, teacher, writer who drew from her Holocaust experiences, dies at 97

Si Spiegel, Jewish war hero who modernized Christmas trees, dies at 99

Seiji Ozawa, trailblazing BSO music director, dies at 88