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Beach erosion threatens sewage-treatment plant on Nantucket
Island officials are facing a difficult decision: keep shoring up the plant or spend millions to build a new one farther inland.

Girl dies, three injured in Middleborough house fire

At approximately 2 a.m. crews responded to 27 Pearl St. after a report of people trapped inside a burning home, the Middleborough fire and police departments said in a joint statement.

Steward does not provide all financial documents sought by Governor Healey

An aide to Governor Healey said that financial documents are necessary as state officials evaluate how Steward got into such a precarious financial condition.

As a hospital system crashes, Steward’s CEO rises above it all Trendlines: How can Healey stop the Steward crisis from spreading? Remember the lesson of Lehman Bros.

And now they’ve come for IVF

An Alabama ruling declaring embryos "extrauterine children" is part of a plan to control every uterus in the country.

innovation economy

The housing market is a nightmare. An Andover startup wants to use robots to help fix it.
Reframe Systems wants to leverage robots working alongside humans in an assembly line to build small houses in a factory and then truck the houses to a site.

Dave Epstein

A spectacular total solar eclipse will be on full display this April in Northern New England
The path of totality during this interesting event on April 8 will move from Texas to parts of northern Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. In Southern New England, 90 percent of the sun will be covered.

Forecast: Plenty of sunshine for the weekend with blustery late winter chill

US and British strikes on Houthi sites in Yemen answer militants’ surge in Red Sea attacks on ships

The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, aide says

Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak

Pedestrians were reflected in a window near the Harvard campus.

Jewish alums are auditing Harvard to root out antisemitism

The group has undertaken an extraordinary university-wide audit that seeks to identify sources of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish animus on campus, according to internal group communications and planning documents reviewed by the Globe.

What we know about the viral online feud involving a North End restaurant owner and the New Yorker who canceled his reservation
A post by a user on X over a cancellation fee dispute with the owner of Table Restaurant has been viewed millions of times.

South Carolina GOP primary

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley spoke to reporters after voting in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday in Kiawah Island, South Carolina.

Trump enters South Carolina’s Republican primary looking to embarrass Haley in her home state

Donald Trump is looking to win his fourth straight primary state over Nikki Haley in South Carolina, aiming to hand a home-state embarrassment to his last remaining major rival.

Claude O’Donovan displayed a signed photo of former president Trump as his wife, Sunny, looked on, at their home in Aiken, S.C., on Feb. 5.

How did Nikki Haley’s South Carolina become Trump country? Ask the Tea Party.

Donald Trump's expected win in the South Carolina primary will highlight how he has absorbed the Tea Party movement into his own political effort.

Pro-Trump internet trolls escalate ugly attacks on Nikki Haley What to watch in South Carolina GOP primary Nikki Haley hasn’t yet won a GOP contest. But she’s vowing to keep fighting Donald Trump.

A mobile medical unit operated by the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center was parked behind a church on North Main Street to offer help to drug users.

‘Tranq’ and other drugs are causing harder-to-revive overdoses across Mass.

Polysubstance use is jeopardizing life-saving efforts for drug overdose victims.

In an East Boston gym, soccer gives African refugees a taste of home
A soccer club for teens and young adults is a source of stability amid uncertainty for Guinean immigrants.

Richard Evans Schultes in the Cerro Campana mountains in Colombia, in June 1943.

The quest for psychedelics in the Amazon would push a Harvard botanist to his limits

Richard Evans Schultes braved malaria and worse to study Indigenous medicine. Now a new generation of scientists wants to finish his work.

Christian Vázquez signed a three-year, $30 million deal with the Twins before last season and hit .223 with six homers and a .598 OPS.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Teammates didn’t like it when Christian Vázquez was dealt to the Astros in 2022, but time has shown the Red Sox won the trade

On baseball: Reliever Chris Martin describes his career as a ‘journey,’ and he’s not ready to give it up any time soon

Holders of the No. 1 overall draft pick, the Bears are the linchpin of the offseason, since everyone wants that pick and the ability to draft Southern Cal quarterback Caleb Williams.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Previewing the top story lines of the NFL offseason

The Chiefs’ Super Bowl win is just two weeks old, but the NFL is already on to 2024.

Bill Belichick is pursuing TV opportunities, according to his son Steve Belichick

Joe Castiglione (left) and Will Flemming (right) will again be the primary voices of the Red Sox broadcast team on WEEI.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

After some concern, entire WEEI Red Sox broadcast team will return for this season

Will Flemming, whose status was cause for such suspense, will call approximately 140 games in his sixth season as part of the radio broadcast team.

Opinion

Afghan children from the Niazy and Kabir families came home from school in Harvard on Feb. 16. The two families, made up of four adults and 16 children, have been living free in the Bromfield House, a property owned by the town of Harvard, for roughly the past two years.

MARCELA GARCÍA

How the town of Harvard embraced Afghan refugees

Two families have lived in a historic house owned by the town of Harvard for $1 a month. That’s been possible thanks to the generosity of the town and a group of volunteers.

After Milton’s MBTA housing defeat, the way forward is with persuasion, not mandates

Blame Elizabeth Warren and the FTC for iRobot layoffs

Lawrence K. Altman

I’ve reported on the health of every president since Reagan. Here’s what I think about Biden and Trump.

Protest outside Healey’s home shows need for governor’s residence

More recent News

Jury convicts Southern California socialite in 2020 hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers
A Southern California socialite has been found guilty of murder and other charges in the hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers in a crosswalk more than three years ago.

Flaco, escaped Central Park Zoo owl and defier of doubts, is dead
Flaco’s year as a free bird began on the evening of Feb. 2, 2023, when someone shredded the mesh on the modest enclosure where he had lived nearly his entire life.

In video, nonbinary student describes fight in Oklahoma school bathroom
The video of the 16-year-old student, Nex Benedict, talking to a officer provided the fullest account yet of what took place inside the girls’ bathroom Feb. 7. Benedict died the following day.

Sanitation crisis in Gaza spreads disease

In a sprawling tent encampment in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli bombs fall close enough to hear and feel. But daily life is also a struggle against hunger, cold and a growing sanitation crisis.

Israeli officials to meet on a proposed pause in Gaza while the Cabinet is set to OK a Rafah plan

Private US spacecraft is on its side on the moon with some antennas covered up, the company says
“So far, we have quite a bit of operational capability even though we’re tipped over," the CEO said.

Western leaders rally around Kyiv to mark 2 years since Russia’s full-scale invasion
Allies from the EU and the Group of Seven wealthy democracies rallied around Kyiv to express solidarity, with Zelensky joining a virtual G7 meeting Saturday and four world leaders traveling to Ukraine’s war-weary capital.

In Lewiston, chief enforcer of gun laws says Americans may become numb to violence with each mass shooting
ATF director Steven Dettelbach met for nearly two hours at Central Maine Community College with relatives of those killed and survivors of the Oct. 25 Lewiston shooting.

Henry Rono, record-breaking distance runner from Kenya, dies at 72
A Kenyan distance runner, Henry Rono was unable to walk until he was 6 after a gruesome injury to his right leg when he was a toddler but went on to break four world records in just 81 days in 1978.

Early voting kicks off in Massachusetts
Massachusetts residents are able to vote early through Friday.

Recommended reads

Tuesday nights are "Vanderpump Rules" nights at Publico Street Bistro in South Boston.

Fans who want to ‘watch reality TV and not ESPN’ are big business for Boston bars

People who prefer watching Bravo over SportsCenter at bars are getting their wishes granted all over the city.

A father did everything he could to protect his son. Until he couldn’t.
Kevin Berner told Braintree police that a nude photo of his 12-year-old son was circulating among other schoolchildren. Berner and his wife have been on a journey since, fighting for accountability.

BOOKS

Dorchester to get a bookstore in June, co-founded by Boston’s poet laureate
Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola and Bing Broderick envision a place for the people of Dorchester, Boston’s largest neighborhood, to gather and be inspired.

‘The Holdovers’ screenwriter David Hemingson drew on his New England prep school days for his Oscar-nominated script
David Hemingson is an Oscar nominee for his script.

Culture & Lifestyle

Boston Ballet in Mikko Nissinen's "Raymonda"

Boston Ballet dances up a storm in ‘Winter Experience’

A show at the Huntington that’s as interactive as it gets forced me to face my fears

Host Jonathon Gates gets a big laugh from an audience member at the Feb. 14 Black Comedy Explosion show, its first at the Carver Den in Dorchester.

At the Black Comedy Explosion, bursts of talent and bang for your buck

Benedict Cumberbatch in "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," directed by Wes Anderson.

Which live-action short will take home the Academy Award? Five brief reviews to help you win the Oscars pool

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

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

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

Republican presidential candidate and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley spoke during a campaign event at The George Hotel, Feb. 22, in Georgetown, S.C.

Why ‘favorite daughter’ Nikki Haley won’t win South Carolina

Recently retired professor Harvey Mansfield in his Cambridge home. He taught at Harvard from 1962 until last year. "We need a return to debate," he says. "Harvard doesn’t debate. It emotes.”

IDEAS | CAREY GOLDBERG

Will Harvard ever get another professor like Harvey Mansfield?

Milton residents arrived at the Cunningham Park Community Center on Feb. 14 to vote on a referendum to reject a zoning plan that would have brought the town in compliance with the MBTA Communities Act. The "no" voters succeeded, prompting the state to cut off some grants to the town amid the possibility of further legal action.

What’s the matter with Milton?

Roomba vacuums by iRobot were displayed at a Best Buy store on Jan. 19, in San Rafael, Calif.

Blame Elizabeth Warren and the FTC for iRobot layoffs

Wild horses endure a summer dust storm in golden light. Onaqui Mountains Herd Management Area, Rush Valley, Utah, 2021.

IDEAS | GRETCHEN CLARK

Wild horses dragged me away

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Early voting kicks off in Massachusetts

Massachusetts residents are able to vote early through Friday.

In Lewiston, chief enforcer of gun laws says Americans may become numb to violence with each mass shooting

ATF director Steven Dettelbach met for nearly two hours at Central Maine Community College with relatives of those killed and survivors of the Oct. 25 Lewiston shooting.

Jewish alums are auditing Harvard to root out antisemitism

The group has undertaken an extraordinary university-wide audit that seeks to identify sources of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish animus on campus, according to internal group communications and planning documents reviewed by the Globe.

Marc Pachter, who revived National Portrait Gallery, dies at 80

Marc Pachter transformed the National Portrait Gallery in Washington from a collection primarily of solemn paintings of old white men into a more up-to-date museum.

Sports

Red Sox outfielder Ceddanne Rafaela will get the opportunity to show he belongs in the big leagues.

red sox notebook

Red Sox plan to give outfielder Ceddanne Rafaela every opportunity to prove he belongs in the big leagues

The Red Sox' outfield configuration hinges on Rafaela. Is he ready for the big leagues? Or does he need more time at Triple A Worcester.

Wake Forest fans celebrate on the court at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum after upsetting Duke, 83-79, on Saturday.

WAKE FOREST 83, DUKE 79

Duke star Kyle Filipowski injured as Wake Forest fans storm court following upset victory

The 7-footer was hobbled when he appeared to bang his right leg into the leg of a fan running by him. He ended up wrapping his arms around a manager and a teammate for help getting to the locker-room tunnel.

North Reading's Guiliana Ligor closes out her win in the 600 at the Reggie Lewis Center, edging Framingham's Sasha Lamakina in the MIAA's Meet of Champions.

GIRLS' TRACK | MEET OF CHAMPIONS

What a kick! Nashoba’s Caroline Collins makes a healthy return to take 2-mile at MIAA’s Meet of Champions

Sidelined for her junior season recovering from a stress fracture, the BU-bound senior seized the lead in the final lap to set a personal-best time.

BOYS' TRACK | MEET OF CHAMPIONS

Cameron Walter, Brookline boys shine at MIAA Meet of Champions

Garrett Whitlock starts with new approach to making the Red Sox rotation

NC STATE 81, BOSTON COLLEGE 70

Boston College men trounced at North Carolina State to complete season sweep

Business

Houthi attack on ship led to ‘environmental disaster,’ US says

The missile attack by Houthi militants on a ship carrying a cargo of fertilizer has led to an “environmental disaster” in the Red Sea, US Central Command said Friday evening.

Steward does not provide all financial documents sought by Governor Healey

An aide to Governor Healey said that financial documents are necessary as state officials evaluate how Steward got into such a precarious financial condition.

UnitedHealth cyberattack cripples pharmacies’ and hospitals’ ability to process insurance claims

Could a New York private equity firm be hunting Tripadvisor?

magazine

Richard Evans Schultes in the Cerro Campana mountains in Colombia, in June 1943.

The quest for psychedelics in the Amazon would push a Harvard botanist to his limits

Gut health explained: 5 things to know for a better microbiome

This week's daters: Mike and Andrea

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘He likes music and singing karaoke with friends’

Life, death, and a houseplant: Mourning my mom through her purple shamrock

metro

Expected rainfall through Friday night.

Plenty of sunshine for the weekend with blustery late winter chill

A spectacular total solar eclipse will be on full display this April in Northern New England

‘Tranq’ and other drugs are causing harder-to-revive overdoses across Mass.

sports

The Red Sox were 41-14 last season when Chris Martin pitched, 37-70 when he didn’t.

Red Sox reliever Chris Martin describes his career as a ‘journey,’ and he’s not ready to give it up any time soon

Saturday’s spring training report: Red Sox open Grapefruit League play with loss to Orioles

Henry Rono, record-breaking distance runner from Kenya, dies at 72

business

Exposure to air pollution from fine particulate matter has been linked to a host of health problems.

Air pollution tied to signs of Alzheimer’s in brain tissue, study finds

CVS executive criticizes ‘egregious’ pricing of obesity drugs

Mass. Clean Energy Center completes $30 million deal for Salem port land to help build wind farms

politics

2024 election illo

Full results from the South Carolina Republican primary

Pro-Trump internet trolls escalate ugly attacks on Nikki Haley

US and EU pile new sanctions on Russia for the Ukraine war’s 2nd anniversary and Navalny’s death

Nation

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley spoke to reporters after voting in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday in Kiawah Island, South Carolina.

Trump enters South Carolina’s Republican primary looking to embarrass Haley in her home state

In video, nonbinary student describes fight in Oklahoma school bathroom

Private US spacecraft is on its side on the moon with some antennas covered up, the company says

World

A Ukrainian woman held a candle during a demonstration marking the second anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday.

Western leaders rally around Kyiv to mark 2 years since Russia’s full-scale invasion

US and British strikes on Houthi sites in Yemen answer militants’ surge in Red Sea attacks on ships

The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, aide says

opinion

At summertime family get-togethers they would tour each other’s gardens, admiring peonies or lilies and bee balm or my father’s tomatoes, which he always planted in the flowerbeds because he said the tomatoes turned out sweeter that way.

My mother-in-law’s clivia and its descendants

Protest outside Healey’s home shows need for governor’s residence

Nikki Haley’s foreign policy is an antidote to the GOP’s isolationism

lifestyle

Andie Nelson, right, embraces Brian Jaskot, both of Virginia, after their race during the 25 meter hat competition during the winter swimming festival on frozen Lake Memphremagog on Feb. 23 in Newport, Vermont.

‘Totally cold’ is not too cold for winter swimmers competing in a frozen Vermont lake

Author Aime Alley Card on the challenges and triumphs of Olympic legends

Dating apps are tedious

food & dining

Outside Table Restaurant on Hanover Street in the North End.

What we know about the viral online feud involving a North End restaurant owner and the New Yorker who canceled his reservation

For Carla Hall, it’s been a bumpy climb to a ‘Top Chef’ life

A century-old company just bought Bayberry Beer Hall, a popular hang out in Providence

travel

The “Children of Whitney” statues are located throughout the Whitney Plantation Museum. They were created by artist Woodrow Nash.

Facing America’s traumatic history head-on through tourism

‘All major events happen around the table’: What it’s like to eat your way around Porto

An hour’s drive from Lisbon, along Portugal’s west coast, a whole lot of raw beauty

Arts

Mark Rothko, "The Bathers," 1934. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation Inc.

Rothko’s power takes shape on paper, at the National Gallery of Art

Roxbury Community College celebrates five decades with Golden Jubilee Gala

The Newport Historical Society goes deep on Black and Indigenous experiences

Books

Artwork by Ekua Holmes accompanies poems by Renée Watson.

Power of Black girlhood captured in poems, art; Amy Lowell’s 150th anniversary celebrated; and more

Local bestsellers for the week ended Feb. 18

Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid provide new narrative for Black freedom in Edda L. Fields-Black’s ‘Combee’

Movies

Seydou Sarr (left) and Moustapha Fall in "Io Capitano," directed by Matteo Garrone.

In ‘Io Capitano,’ two cousins on a treacherous quest

‘The Holdovers’ screenwriter David Hemingson drew on his New England prep school days for his Oscar-nominated script

Which live-action short will take home the Academy Award? Five brief reviews to help you win the Oscars pool

Television

From left: Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Rachel Shenton, Anna Madeley, and Callum Woodhouse, of "All Creatures Great and Small."

More renewal news: ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ gets two more seasons

The days of ad-free TV streaming are over, and viewers are paying the price

For ‘Frasier,’ first comes reboot then comes renewal

music

Joe Cocker performs for hundreds of thousands attendees at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., in August 1969.

If you were at Woodstock, here’s a chance to share your story

Beyoncé becomes first Black woman to claim top spot on Billboard’s country music chart

Beatles to get a Fab Four of biopics, with a movie each for Paul, John, George, and Ringo

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet in Mikko Nissinen's "Raymonda"

Boston Ballet dances up a storm in ‘Winter Experience’

A show at the Huntington that’s as interactive as it gets forced me to face my fears

Ukraine’s Grand Kyiv Ballet brings its ‘Giselle’ to Boston

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

Marc Pachter, then director of the National Portrait Gallery, at the museum in Washington on June 20, 2006.

Marc Pachter, who revived National Portrait Gallery, dies at 80

Henry Rono, record-breaking distance runner from Kenya, dies at 72

Famed Cuban diva Juana Bacallao, who ruled the island’s cabaret scene, dies at 98