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Democrat Tom Suozzi wins New York race to succeed George Santos in Congress

The victory narrows the slim Republican majority in the House and gives Democrats a much-needed win in New York City’s Long Island suburbs, where the GOP showed surprising strength in recent elections.

GOP-led House impeaches Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas — by one vote — over border management

The US House voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, after Republicans came up short in their effort last week.

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit filed against Chelsea Soldiers’ Home

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a class-action lawsuit brought against the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home on behalf of three veterans who died of COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic, finding their civil rights were not violated.

Meteorologists walk a fine line to get a forecast right. Who’s responsible when they don’t?

Forecasters say there’s always room for uncertainty in their weather predictions, even with the most sophisticated technology.

Here's a look at how the storm unfolded Photos: Nor’easter shifts south, hits coastal Massachusetts

Storm pummels southern New England but mostly spares Boston

‘We are not the MBTA we were in 2015′: T says it was ready for big snowstorm that never came Snow day or not? Canceling school is not an easy call.

Latest nor’easter revives concerns of sea’s unceasing march on Nantucket
Tuesday's storm brought wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour and 9 inches of snow to Nantucket. And every time a storm hits, it chips away at the island’s edges.

Antisemitism, safety fears rise among American Jews, new report finds

Amazon is delivering packages around the Boston area using a fleet of Rivian-made, electric delivery vans based in a warehouse in Bellingham. (Aaron Pressman)

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Where do all those Amazon EV delivery vans recharge?

Hint: It's not in Boston.

SPOTLIGHT TEAM FOLLOW-UP

Child protection experts urge more compassionate treatment of infant sleep death cases
Maria Mossaides, the state’s child advocate, said her office is considering possible changes.

Sandy LoGrande and her father, Salvatore “Sam” LoGrande, at his home on her wedding day in 1996. After his death, LoGrande had to fight to keep the family home as MassHealth sought to recoup the money Medicaid spent for her father’s care.

Mass. burdens poor by overly aggressive policy to recoup Medicaid costs after death, report says

There’s no upper limit on how much Massachusetts can try to recoup, and for some the bill can total hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Celtics center Luke Kornet closed down Nets center Nic Claxton's shot attempt during the first half.

Celtics 118, Nets 110

Jayson Tatum scored 31 first-half points, but his unselfishness in the second half helped the Celtics finish off the Nets

Jayson Tatum scored 31 first-half points, and finished with 41.

Brad Marchand, playing his 1,000th game with the Bruins, just missed winning it in overtime.

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Brad Marchand plays his 1,000th game for Bruins, but Lightning spoil things by winning in shootout

The Bruins captain had a chance to make it a storybook ending in overtime, but Tampa Bay's Andrei Vasilevskiy made the best of his 36 saves on the night.

Watch: Bruins commemorate Brad Marchand’s 1,000th game with video tribute

Alex Cora said last season — with the Red Sox going 78-84 — took a toll on him mentally and physically.

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The air is heavy with uncertainty as Alex Cora enters the final year of his Red Sox contract

Asked if he wants to be in Boston beyond this year, the sixth-year Red Sox manager said, “I don’t want to talk about that right now."

As spring training begins, will the Red Sox make more changes?

William Reed of Somerville, Mass., and Justin Lagassey of Plymouth, N.H., at the event's conclusion on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024.

Last Skier Standing endurance competition ends with a new record

Justin Lagassey of Plymouth, N.H., completed 76 laps up and down Black Mountain in Maine – the equivelent of 223 miles of skiing with 91,000 feet of elevation gain

Last month, the Epiphany School and some neighbors filed lawsuits in an attempt to derail a project that would bring a 72-unit apartment building to the neighborhood. Now, the school has had a change of heart.

This Valentine’s Day, can neighbors end their fight over affordable housing in Dorchester?

Last month, the Epiphany School and some neighbors filed lawsuits in an attempt to derail a project that would bring a 72-unit apartment building to the neighborhood. Now, the school has had a change of heart.

Opinion

President Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 9, in Washington, following the release of a special prosecutor's report on Thursday, Feb. 8, that cleared Biden of criminal charges. The counsel made repeated negative references to the 81-year-old president's age and memory that echo broader concerns raised by voters in both parties.

If we want to talk about old age, let’s really talk about old age

A special counsel’s unnecessary asides about Biden’s memory amplify our own fears about the ravages of aging.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Migrants’ next stop: Why not Wellesley?

Let’s stop treating pot like heroin

IDEAS | MICHELINE MAYNARD

Unions are winning battles but still could lose the war

IDEAS | DANIEL G. STEGER

They filmed ‘American Fiction’ in my house. Can I get an Oscar?

More recent News

Hiker killed coyote with his bare hands in Rhode Island; coyote was likely rabid
A single rabid coyote was likely behind separate attacks of humans in two Rhode Island towns last week, officials said.

FEMA rejects Healey’s request for disaster relief in three counties after Sept. flooding
The mid-September deluge brought flash-flooding to parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island that damaged homes, businesses, and public infrastructure.

St. Mary’s Home for Children interim CEO calls report ‘beyond disturbing’ as he focuses on improving staffing, conditions
“Those things should have never happened,” Charles Montorio-Archer told the Globe in a recent interview. “There is no denying what’s in the report. There’s only, ‘How do we respond to it?’”

Two teens arrested for allegedly robbing person on Newbury Street, police say

Antonio Packard-Wade, 19, of Dorchester, and a 17-year-old girl were charged with receiving stolen property, police said in a statement Tuesday. The juvenile female was also charged with unarmed robbery, the statement said.

Paramedic swerves to avoid crash with car that rolled across I-95 in Peabody

Tim Crosbie had to make a quick decision to avoid his ambulance crashing into the careening car Tuesday afternoon on I-95 south.

In Milton, the vote will go on. Tomorrow. Here’s what to know about pivotal housing referendum.
Regardless of which side residents choose on Wednesday, the vote will reverberate throughout Eastern Massachusetts.

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Cliff Canavan's arm was broken last year attempting to break up a fight. He stood in front of where the fight occurred under the school's stadium bleachers.

With violence at Brockton High School a near-daily problem, teachers are at a breaking point

Teachers and parents said the fights and general chaos at the school, while an issue for some time, have escalated this year.

Black History Now

Sarah-Ann Shaw left ‘big shoes to fill’ for Boston journalists, advocates
At WBZ, Shaw told some of Boston's biggest stories for more than 30 years.

See more coverage of Black History Month

DEVRA FIRST

Where to eat for Valentine’s Day without a reservation
Here are 10 restaurants to visit when love is in the air but you haven’t booked a table.

In Eastie, an early glimpse at Boston’s existential and expensive struggle to hold back the sea
Boston began planning for sea level rise almost a decade ago. Now, as the city’s climate adaptation strategy takes shape, it’s raising thorny questions about cost and gentrification.

Culture & Lifestyle

The 11th annual Levitate Music and Arts Festival returns July 5-7 to the Marshfield Fairgrounds.

Mt. Joy, Lake Street Dive, and a reunited Sublime to headline Marshfield’s Levitate Festival

Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magime in Tran Anh Hung's "The Taste of Things."

‘The Taste of Things’: Juliette Binoche has never been better

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

“If Love Could Kill” recounts the clinically true stories of several women who’ve come through Anna Motz’s forensic psychology practice.

Anna Motz debunks myths about female abusers and violent offenders in ‘If Love Could Kill’

Special Projects

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

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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

Police tape blocked off a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, Tenn., after a gunman opened fire at the restaurant on April 22, 2018.

IDEAS | IEVA JUSIONYTE

A scholar of gun policy says his field has gotten it wrong

NYPD officers clashed with protesters demonstrating around Columbia University, Feb. 2 in New York City. Multiple arrests were made.

How universities can restore free speech and constructive conversations

The Al-Maqoussi towers area on Feb. 3, in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment on Gaza City.

What do Palestinians want?

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.

FanDuel, DraftKings, and other online gambling apps are displayed on a phone.

The hidden toll of sports gambling

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Pond hockey in New Hampshire brightens winter for hundreds. But climate change threatens the sport.

Each February, more than 2,000 players descend on Meredith, N.H, for the three-day Pond Hockey Classic.

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit filed against Chelsea Soldiers’ Home

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a class-action lawsuit brought against the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home on behalf of three veterans who died of COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic, finding their civil rights were not violated.

Storm pummels southern New England but mostly spares Boston

Boston saw a negligible amount of snow as of the mid-afternoon, but the storm canceled more than 220 flights from Logan International Airport.

High tides, flooding shut down roads in Mass. during Tuesday’s storm

Flooding from Tuesday’s storm forced the closure of multiple thoroughfares in Greater Boston, according to the state Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Sports

Hockey players go for the puck during the final of the women's open division at the Pond Hockey Classic in Meredith, N.H., on Feb. 4. Like many winter traditions on lakes across the US, pond hockey is under threat from climate change.

Pond hockey in New Hampshire brightens winter for hundreds. But climate change threatens the sport.

Each February, more than 2,000 players descend on Meredith, N.H, for the three-day Pond Hockey Classic.

Claudell Harris Jr. led BC with 20 points.

MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: BC 89, LOUISVILLE 77

Boston College soars in second half to defeat Louisville

Louisville led 47-39 at halftime before Boston College unloaded and outscored the Cardinals 29-10 in the first 10 minutes of the second half.

St. John's coach Rick Pitino had a point to make during his post-game press conference in Providence.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Rick Pitino had a message for Providence College: Billy Donovan deserves a spot in the rafters

Donovan, now the Bulls’ coach, was a 1987 All-Big East first team selection who led the sixth-seeded Friars to the Final Four.

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Brad Marchand plays his 1,000th game for Bruins, but Lightning spoil things by winning in shootout

Celtics 118, Nets 110

Jayson Tatum scored 31 first-half points, but his unselfishness in the second half helped the Celtics finish off the Nets

Watch: Bruins commemorate Brad Marchand’s 1,000th game with video tribute

Business

Thousands of US Uber and Lyft drivers plan Valentine’s Day strikes

Thousands of US ride-hailing workers plan to park their cars and picket at major US airports in what organizers say is their largest strike yet in a drive for better pay and benefits.

Staples teams up with local robotic packaging company

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Tripadvisor could be takeover bait

‘It’s sad that makes me a villain’: Longtime Newton councilor got voted out after leading zoning rewrite

magazine

‘God, I wish I hadn’t seen that’: On the trail of Bigfoot in the Berkshires

On Valentine's Day, LEGO Discovery Center Boston’s will host a night just for grown-ups.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Feb. 12-Feb. 18

The Parenting Issue

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

The Parenting Issue

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

metro

“There are people who have indicated that they are not happy with the experience of the way they were treated, and we take those complaints seriously,” said Maria Mossaides, director of the Massachusetts Office of the Child Advocate.

Child protection experts urge more compassionate treatment of infant sleep death cases

Ian Freeman agrees to $3.5M restitution order in bitcoin money laundering case

Nor’easter brings heavy snow, flooding to parts of Southern New England. Here’s how the storm unfolded.

sports

Celtics Kristaps Porzingis and Derrick White are having All-Star-caliber seasons, but neither was selected for Sunday's game in Indianapolis.

Celtics have two All-Stars, but coach Joe Mazzulla believes they should have two more

Bruins’ Trent Frederic and Morgan Geekie got as much out of street hockey clinic as the kids they were teaching

Andover girls’ hockey captain Rose Memmolo has never let diabetes get her off her game(s)

business

Doctor Ivan Mozhaiev attended to a patient during morning rounds at Pokrovsk hospital in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine. Doctors Without Borders USA and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital were the most popular charities again, as they were in 2022.

Fidelity Charitable distributes record-setting $11.8 billion to nonprofits in 2023

OpenAI CEO warns that ‘societal misalignments’ could make artificial intelligence dangerous

Where do all those Amazon EV delivery vans recharge?

politics

Former US representative Tom Suozzi.

Why AP declared Tom Suozzi the winner of the George Santos seat: Race call explained

GOP-led House impeaches Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas — by one vote — over border management

Supreme Court gives prosecutors a week to respond in Trump immunity case

Nation

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Harvey Weinstein is appealing 2020 rape conviction. New York’s top court to hear arguments

Judge to consider whether to remove District Attorney Fani Willis from Georgia election case

What’s at stake in Trump’s hush-money criminal case? Judge to rule on key issues as trial date nears.

World

Election workers carried ballot boxes to distribute to polling stations in the Indonesian village of Kanekes before Wednesday's election.

Millions of Indonesians vote for a new president in one of the world’s largest elections

La Scala concert features violins that inmates made from battered migrant boats

Ukraine claims Russia used new hypersonic missile for first time

opinion

Steve Jesi visited his daughter's grave on Jan. 25 in Peabody. In 2015, Jesi lost his 33-year-old daughter, Stephenie Jesi, to a heroin overdose.

Communities should use funds from the opioid settlement quickly but also wisely

What do Palestinians want?

A scholar of gun policy says his field has gotten it wrong

lifestyle

From left: Taylor Swift kissed Travis Kelce after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl on Sunday night.

Taylor Swift celebrates Travis Kelce Super Bowl win with star-studded entourage

Photos: See Robert Kraft, Reba McEntire, Jay-Z, and more stars at Super Bowl LVIII

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

food & dining

A feast at the newly reopened La Ventana in Burlington.

Some of Greater Boston’s best food is in . . . Burlington?

Shannon McNeil loves the South Street Diner and Southie, but maybe not Shawn Mendes

Where to eat for Valentine’s Day without a reservation

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

Lucy Sante, author of a new memoir of transition, "I Heard Her Call My Name."

A divided life finally made whole in ‘I Heard Her Call My Name,’ Lucy Sante’s memoir of transition

Paul Alexander captures the tragic beauty, survival instincts of Billie Holiday in ‘Bitter Crop’

Beyond ‘Bridgerton,’ there’s a whole universe of historical romance classics ripe for the screen. Here are six of our favorites.

Movies

From left: Celeste O’Connor, Dakota Johnson, Isabela Merced, and Sydney Sweeney in "Madame Web."

‘Madame Web’ spins a convoluted superhero story

‘The Taste of Things’: Juliette Binoche has never been better

Snuggle up this snow day and watch the 2024 Oscar nominees for best picture

Television

Jon Stewart, shown at the Stand Up For Heroes Benefit in New York in November, returned to the anchor desk of "The Daily Show" Monday night for the first time since his departure in 2016.

Jon Stewart is back at ‘The Daily Show,’ and he doesn’t spare Joe Biden

12 shows to binge on a snow day

Want to dress and eat like a ‘DunKing’? The tracksuits are sold out.

music

Members of the Orchestra of the Sea played cellos made from the wood of wrecked immigrants' boats in Milan Saturday.

La Scala concert features violins that inmates made from battered migrant boats

On ‘O Monolith’ and on tour, new inflections in Squid’s ever-shifting sound

Mt. Joy, Lake Street Dive, and a reunited Sublime to headline Marshfield’s Levitate Festival

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

Kelvin Kiptum after the 2023 London Marathon.

Kelvin Kiptum, marathon world record holder, dies at 24

Cecilia Gentili, transgender activist, performer, and author, dies at 52

Bob Edwards, radio host who built NPR’s ‘Morning Edition,’ dies at 76