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A Patriots culture shift at the NFL Scouting Combine

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A Patriots culture shift at the NFL Scouting Combine

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Supreme Court sets April arguments over whether Trump can be prosecuted for election interference

The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether former president Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he interfered with the 2020 election and set a course for a quick resolution.

Appellate judge refuses to halt Trump’s $454 million fraud penalty while he appeals

Congressional leaders reach tentative deal to prevent a government shutdown, days before deadline

The House and Senate will now need to vote and approve the agreement ahead of Friday's deadline when some funding runs out.

CDC panel recommends additional COVID-19 booster for people over age 65

The recommendation must be approved by CDC Director Mandy Cohen and the additional dose should be at least four months after the previous shot.

Comedian Richard Lewis in 2012.

Richard Lewis, comedian known for his neurotic, stream-of-consciousness act and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ role, has died

Stacy Wakefield, wife of late Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, has died
The Wakefields were battling different forms of cancer. Their diagnoses were made public last year, days before Tim died.

ANALYSIS

Who might be the Senate Republican leader after McConnell steps down?
Hint: Most are named "John."

Mitch McConnell says he will step down as Senate Republican leader in November

Severe weather tracker: See locations of winter storm warnings

Springfield fire commissioner defends running over a rabid raccoon, says it posed public safety threat

Airman who set self on fire in D.C. grew up on Mass. religious compound

People sat and waited to be seen by caseworkers at Chelsea's La Colaborativa, which opened its doors this month for migrant families who have been staying in an overflow shelter in Cambridge.

‘We are on our own’: Mass. Democrats weighing tightening shelter program amid migrant influx, lack of federal help

Massachusetts House Speaker Ron Mariano said state policymakers need to reconsider how they handle a shelter program where costs are expected to reach nearly $1 billion this fiscal year and another $1 billion in the next.

Asylum-seeking migrants lined up in a makeshift, mountainous campsite waiting to be processed after crossing the border with Mexico on Feb. 2.

President Biden goes on offense on immigration: ‘The border is in chaos’

His tougher tone comes as voters appear increasingly concerned about illegal border crossings.

BC Law student. Boston Marathon hopeful. Now ‘Survivor’ contestant. Meet Massachusetts native Charlie Davis.
"It’s this crazy goal that I had and it’s wild that it’s become reality,” Davis said of participating in the long-running reality show.

These 10 homes were among the most expensive sold in Massachusetts in 2023
In the past year, a number of properties across the state came with eight-digit price tags. The most expensive home, a sprawling estate on Nantucket, went for more than $38 million.

The Patriots have been considering new football facilities and weight rooms as part of Gillette Stadium renovations.

Several NFL teams responded to 2023 survey with improved facilities and services, but not the Patriots

The Patriots, who ranked 24th in the 2023 survey, dropped to 29th in 2024.

Former Patriots executive Nick Caserio reflects on the changing of the guard in New England Peter King says botched Deflategate story was ‘probably the biggest mistake’ of his career

Bus traffic on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square on Wednesday. It's rarely an easy ride.

‘Transformational’ bus system is coming to traffic-choked Blue Hill Avenue, city says

Construction on center-running bus lanes from Mattapan Square to Grove Hall will begin in 2026.

Filmmaker Federico Muchnik said his documentary about Danehy Park is a love letter to the power of urban open space.

A documentarian spent the summer asking strangers in a Cambridge park for their stories. Here’s what he found.

A kickboxing coach. A child devastated by a lost soccer tournament. A father and son bonding over RC cars. These are the people you meet in Danehy Park.

Governor's Council member Paul M. DePalo, left, and Terrence W. Kennedy confer during Wednesday's meeting. The council voted, 6-1, to approve the nomination of Judge Gabrielle Wolohojian to the Supreme Judicial Court.

State panel approves Gabrielle Wolohojian, Healey’s former romantic partner, for Supreme Judicial Court bench

Nathan Guo, left, and his wife, Ada Lio, encourage their 19-month-old son, Lucas Guo, to take steps in his gate trainer at their home in Somerville. Lucas has one of the world's rarest diseases, ZTTK syndrome. He has weak muscle tone and multiple developmental delays. He can't crawl or stand on his own.

A Somerville boy has one of the world’s rarest diseases

The parents of 19-month-old Lucas Guo hope to raise $10 million to find a cure or treatment for ZTTK syndrome, a complex neurological disorder caused by a genetic mutation.

Opinion

Public opinion is shifting away from allowing transgender athletes to choose whether they want to play on male or female teams.

Can we talk about transgender athletes?

Is there a way to talk about this without being labeled right wing and transphobic? There should be, just as there should be a way to stand by the rights of transgender athletes without being accused of sacrificing safety and fair play on the altar of left-wing political correctness.

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Public criticism of political news coverage cries out for the return of the public editor

If Republicans won’t stand up to Putin, he won’t stand down in his threats to American interests

Don’t take gay marriage for granted

Can we talk about transgender athletes?

More recent News

Hunter Biden appears for deposition, tells Republicans he did not involve his father in his business

Hunter Biden appeared Wednesday on Capitol Hill for a defiant, closed-door deposition with lawmakers, a critical moment for Republicans as their impeachment inquiry into his father and the family’s business affairs teeters on the brink of collapse.

The Supreme Court appears torn about a Trump-era ban on a gun accessory known as bump stocks
A Texas gun shop owner argues the Trump administration didn’t follow federal law when it reversed course and banned bump stocks.

In Waltham, families of former patients, workers at Fernald demand role in deciding property’s future
A decade after the city bought the property from the state, the legacy of the Fernald school is at the center of a fraught debate.

Police issue community alert to Brighton residents about rash of break-ins

Police warned of “a number of recent break-ins and attempted break-ins” in Brighton, urging residents to be vigilant.

Boston Beer CEO Dave Burwick to retire after six years of leadership

Under Burwick, Boston Beer Co. more than doubled its revenue and expanded in non-beer categories such as hard seltzers, ciders, and malt beverages.

High-flying startup Thrasio files for bankruptcy after raising billions

The Walpole e-commerce firm attracted $3 billion to buy up brands on Amazon before going bust.

An outlet mall in Kittery, Maine, to be demolished for hotel, officials say
The property is one of the shopping plazas that has made the southern Maine town a shopping destination for decades.

Man hit by vehicle while riding motor scooter in Roslindale has died

Police said the driver remained at the scene and no charges have been filed.

Providence NAACP president found guilty of violating campaign finance laws

A judge said Gerard Catala “willfully and knowingly” broke the law despite repeated attempts by state officials to help him comply. Catala immediately appealed to the R.I. Superior Court.

Recommended reads

A computer simulation demonstrates the addition of third lanes on both directions of the temporary Washington Bridge bypass lanes.

Work begins on new Washington Bridge lanes. How much will they help?

RIDOT has released some more granular detail about what those new lanes would actually entail and where they’d go.

It’s Massachusetts v. Milton in a key test of state’s ambitious new housing law
Amid mounting resistance to the state’s push to compel cities and towns to build more housing, Attorney General Andrea Campbell on Tuesday sued the Town of Milton for failing to comply with a controversial new zoning law.

ADDRESS

Home of the Week: Where farm to table is just a matter of feet
Three-bedroom N.H. Cape needs finishing touches, but 2.7-acre property is ready for goats, chickens, pigs, seedlings, and its next owner.

A Florida man, two abandoned boats in Nantucket and Provincetown, and one big question: Why?
For two harbormasters, trying to get an answer has been a long and tedious headache.

Culture & Lifestyle

Bobbi LaNea Taylor (left) and Folayan Omi Kunerede of Flyana Boss (pictured in November at the Soul Train Awards in Beverly Hills) perform March 4 at The Sinclair.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Paula Cole

Paula Cole talks about her new album, ‘Lo’

From left: Taylor John Smith and Daisy Edgar-Jones in a scene from "Where the Crawdads Sing." Smith is set to star in the upcoming film "What’s Left of Us."

Taylor John Smith to star in film based on Lowell author’s memoir

The exterior facade of the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton on Oct. 29, 2022.

Liquor license stalls for Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton

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

Frozen embryos at the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tenn., in 2015.

Republicans need to put up or shut up over the IVF mess they created

Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis and lawyer Nathan Wade at a news conference at the Fulton County Government building on Aug. 14, 2023, in Atlanta.

Healey, Willis, and the dangers of hiring someone you slept with

The University of Alabama at Birmingham's Women & Infants Center halted in vitro fertilization procedures after a state Supreme Court's ruling that embryos in test tubes should be considered children, on Feb. 22.

Antonio Gargiulo

Six lessons the US can learn from Italy’s restrictions on IVF treatments

Human eggs on a computer screen during the fertilization process in a laboratory for in vitro fertilization.

Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos

Alabama lawsuit reveals what happens when IVF industry wants it both ways

Dominic Sessa, left, and Paul Giamatti in a scene from "The Holdovers."

Will ‘The Holdovers’ return us to a time when exalted public school buildings were valued?

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

BC Law student. Boston Marathon hopeful. Now ‘Survivor’ contestant. Meet Massachusetts native Charlie Davis.

"It’s this crazy goal that I had and it’s wild that it’s become reality,” Davis said of participating in the long-running reality show.

‘Transformational’ bus system is coming to traffic-choked Blue Hill Avenue, city says

Construction on center-running bus lanes from Mattapan Square to Grove Hall will begin in 2026.

Marshfield woman sought after alleged attack put two police officers in hospital, officials say

A Marshfield woman with a history of violent encounters with police is being sought under a default warrant after she allegedly assaulted two officers last week during a mental health check and then failed to show up for her arraignment.

Undocumented Guatemalan man arrested in Gloucester after conviction on sex assault on child, immigration officials say

The man will remain in federal custody awaiting a hearing before a judge from the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, ICE said.

Sports

Tom Brady was suspended in the wake of the Deflategate scandal.

Peter King says botched Deflategate story was ‘probably the biggest mistake’ of his career

King said the NFL's discipline of Tom Brady was like killing an ant with a sledgehammer.

Marie-Philip Poulin (left) and Natalie Spooner (right) clearly have plenty left in the tank.

Marie-Philip Poulin and Natalie Spooner, long two of Canada’s biggest stars, are already dominating the PWHL

The two have been starring for Canada for well over a decade, winning a couple Olympic gold medals and multiple world championships together.

Charlie Davis from the CBS Original Series SURVIVOR. (Robert Voets/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)

BC Law student. Boston Marathon hopeful. Now ‘Survivor’ contestant. Meet Massachusetts native Charlie Davis.

"It’s this crazy goal that I had and it’s wild that it’s become reality,” Davis said of participating in the long-running reality show.

bruins notebook

Bruins plan to fix third-period issues with an aggressive approach

nfl combine notebook

Former Patriots executive Nick Caserio reflects on the changing of the guard in New England

Red Sox prospect Brainer Bonaci suspended for season

Business

US economy grew solid 3.2% in fourth quarter

It was a slight downgrade from government’s initial estimate.

FAA gives Boeing 90 days to develop plan to address quality control issues

It is the regulator’s latest push for safety improvements after a panel came off a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet in flight in early January.

Niklaus Wirth, software developer who saw power in simplicity, dies at 89

Boston Beer CEO Dave Burwick to retire after six years of leadership

magazine

How to handle harassment at a restaurant from a fellow diner

Almond-Coconut Cake With Cherries and Pistachios

Bake away the winter blues with two Mediterranean-inspired cakes

I used to live in a Michigan child-care desert. Then I came to Cambridge.

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

metro

People sat and waited to be seen by caseworkers at Chelsea's La Colaborativa, which opened its doors this month for migrant families who have been staying in an overflow shelter in Cambridge.

‘We are on our own’: Mass. Democrats weighing tightening shelter program amid migrant influx, lack of federal help

Surprise! Michigan’s Whitmer checks in on Democrats at Massachusetts State House.

Providence NAACP president found guilty of violating campaign finance laws

sports

Brainer Bonaci split 2023 between High A Greenville and Double A Portland, emerging as a top-10 prospect in the Red Sox system.

Red Sox prospect Brainer Bonaci suspended for season

Former Red Sox reliever Matt Barnes hoping to stick with Nationals after hip surgery

Kenley Jansen is staying in the moment, but it’s hard to envision a place for him with these Red Sox

business

Boeing given 90 days by FAA to come up with a plan to improve safety and quality of manufacturing

Home of the Week: Where farm to table is just a matter of feet

Universal Music escalates TikTok fight, pulls Coldplay, Harry Styles songs

politics

House Speaker Mike Johnson, arrives to speak to members of the media outside the West Wing after meeting with President Biden at the White House in Washington.

Congressional leaders reach tentative deal to prevent a government shutdown, days before deadline

Biden ‘continues to be fit for duty,’ his doctor says, after president undergoes annual physical

Hunter Biden in defiant deposition blasts GOP, insists he did not involve his father in business

Nation

Former president Donald Trump attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York, Jan. 11, 2024.

Appellate judge refuses to halt Trump’s $454 million fraud penalty while he appeals

Airman who set self on fire in D.C. grew up on Mass. religious compound

Tornadoes in February? In the Great Lakes? Storms leave a trail of destruction.

World

Displaced Palestinians gather to receive food at a donation point in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip last Saturday after more than four months of ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas.

With Gaza facing ‘famine,’ cease-fire remains elusive

Back from war, reserve soldiers set their sights on Israel’s politics as usual

French Senate approves a bill to make abortion a constitutional right

opinion

Give Quincy Market an unsentimental reboot

Downtown advice from other cities

Why downtowns matter

lifestyle

My ex from high school is back in my life

Even after 22 years of competitive eating, Crazy Legs Conti still has the hunger

Amy Schumer says she has Cushing’s syndrome. What to know about the illness.

food & dining

Four Seas Ice Cream is a classic ice cream parlor in Centerville.

Four Seas, a beloved Cape Cod ice cream shop that opened in 1934, is up for sale

Michael Schlow returns to Boston fine dining with Seamark at the Encore

Turkish breakfast isn’t just a meal — it’s an event. And Allston’s got two great spots for it.

travel

Pallets containing personal protective equipment, right, are unloaded from a FedEx cargo plane, Sunday, April 12, 2020, at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, in Manchester, N.H. The cargo plane, carrying about 91,000 pounds of personal protective equipment, arrived at the airport in Manchester from Shanghai, China, after passing through United States Customs in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Airport director in Manchester, N.H., celebrates ‘three good wins’ as airlines add routes

Breeze Airways adding flights from Manchester, N.H., to South Carolina and Florida

Several airlines just raised their baggage fees. Here’s how much you’ll now pay to check a bag.

Arts

Aaron Lansky and Susan Bronson of the Yiddish Book Center.

Yiddish Book Center head to step down

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

Roxbury Community College celebrates five decades with Golden Jubilee Gala

Books

From left: Taylor John Smith and Daisy Edgar-Jones in a scene from "Where the Crawdads Sing." Smith is set to star in the upcoming film "What’s Left of Us."

Taylor John Smith to star in film based on Lowell author’s memoir

James Foley was murdered by ISIS in 2014. In ‘American Mother,’ Diane Foley writes about forgiving his killer

The Village Voice spoke for New York for decades. A new oral history of the legendary weekly recalls its raucous glory.

Movies

Comedian Richard Lewis in 2012.

Richard Lewis, comedian known for his neurotic, stream-of-consciousness act and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ role, has died

Taylor John Smith to star in film based on Lowell author’s memoir

‘Oppenheimer’ keeps devouring awards with top prize at Producers Guild, with Oscars up next

Television

Charlie Davis from the CBS Original Series SURVIVOR. (Robert Voets/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)

BC Law student. Boston Marathon hopeful. Now ‘Survivor’ contestant. Meet Massachusetts native Charlie Davis.

How a Boston Freedom Trail tour guide ended up on the ‘Jeopardy!’ Tournament of Champions

Richard Lewis, comedian known for his neurotic, stream-of-consciousness act and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ role, has died

music

Audra McDonald at Symphony Hall.

Even with a cold, Audra McDonald shines at Symphony Hall

Paula Cole talks about her new album, ‘Lo’

Universal Music escalates TikTok fight, pulls Coldplay, Harry Styles songs

Theater/Dance

Alfonso Losa and Paula Comitre will perform as part of Global Arts Live's Flamenco Festival.

International stars of flamenco music and dance kick off four-night festival on Saturday

In ‘Golda’s Balcony,’ the Israeli prime minister in crisis in 1973

Boston Ballet dances up a storm in ‘Winter Experience’

Health

An associate scientist works in a lab on a new drug.

‘An extremely aggressive timeline’: Rhode Island Life Sciences Hub to hire inaugural CEO by May

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

Obituaries

Comedian Richard Lewis in 2012.

Richard Lewis, comedian known for his neurotic, stream-of-consciousness act and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ role, has died

Niklaus Wirth, software developer who saw power in simplicity, dies at 89

Jacob Rothschild, financier from a family banking dynasty, dies at 87