Dave Epstein

Boston area may see 6 to 12 inches of snow

The Boston area may get up to a foot of snow in some places, and areas to the south in Massachusetts may get more.

Snow is expected to fall until about midnight

A blizzard warning was issued for areas south of Boston and on Cape Cod and the Islands.

Fort Lauderdale shooting

Passengers wait in line at Terminal 4 after the airport opened at 5:00 a.m. at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, the day after a shooting in the baggage area. Authorities say Army veteran Esteban Santiago of Anchorage, Alaska, drew a gun from his checked luggage on arrival and opened fire on fellow travelers. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Associated Press

Fla. airport gunman received psychological treatment

The alleged shooter had been receiving psychological treatment recently, his brother said.

The transition to Trump

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Russia ordered a broad campaign aimed at helping Trump win the US election, according to a declassified report released Friday. Here?s what that means.

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In a conclusion that could raise further questions about Trump?s business conflicts of interest, the report also said that Putin saw Trump?s business background as beneficial.

Former Mexican president throws Twitter shade at Trump

?TRUMP, when will you understand that I am not paying for that (expletive) wall,? tweeted Vicente Fox.

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A multi-hour odyssey led to the arrest of a Brazilian by federal agents.

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The lawsuit alleges inadequate staffing, training, and supervision at Woodbriar Health Center caused the death of 83-year-old Mary Meuse.

Salem Street in Boston's North End is a great place to walk.

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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

What is it like to live in Boston?s North End?

Nancy Caruso said she never leaves her home without bumping into someone she knows.

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DirecTV subscribers in New England can now watch WCVB (Channel 5) and WMUR (Channel 9), the company confirmed early Saturday.

Local politics

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Can field sobriety tests be administered to demonstrate that a person is too high to operate a motor vehicle?

NICK CAFARDO I SUNDAY BASEBALL NOTES

Why sluggers aren?t hitting it big in free agency

The priority for most teams is pitching, so clubs tend to take care of what they deem most important first.

Names

Fred Taylor?s firing latest blow to jazz scene in Boston

Taylor had been booking shows there almost since it opened 27 years ago.

Sunlight streams into the kitchen and dining room in the home of Arathi and Ashish Cowlagi in Shrewsbury. The home features an open floor plan with few cut corners and walls.

Matthew Healey for The Boston Globe

address

What is vastu shastra? And how can it improve your home?

Vastu is based on ancient Vedic texts that describe principles of design for everything from entire communities to temples to individual homes.

Columnists

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 23: U.S. President Barack Obama, who is in New York City for the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative on September 23, 2014 in New York City. World leaders, activists and protesters have converged on New York City for the annual UN event that brings together the global leaders for a week of meetings and conferences. This year 's General Assembly has highlighted the problem of global warming and how countries need to strive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

JEFF JACOBY

At home and abroad, Obama?s trail of disasters

As the 44th president departs, he leaves behind a world more dangerous, a country more divided, and a national mood more toxic.

Police lead suspected shooter Dylann Roof into the courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina, June 18, 2015. Roof, a 21-year-old with a criminal record, is accused of killing nine people at a Bible-study meeting in a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, in an attack U.S. officials are investigating as a hate crime. REUTERS/Jason Miczek

Michael A. Cohen

The death penalty and Dylann Roof

Roof looks like a poster child for the death penalty. In reality, his case offers a good reason to do away with it.

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Renée Graham

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Faced with racism, we first choose sides rather than lament its attendant violence that was normalized long ago.

Special reports

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A tale of young love drove a son on an eye-opening journey. And in the process, a musical legacy that was all but lost has been found, and a life revealed.

Life sciences

STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.

Investigations

The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

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One Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can?t Mass. do the same?

The story behind ?Spotlight?

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.