These are the 3 big challenges facing GE?s chief

General Electric Chairman and CEO John Flannery is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. Flannery said the company is weighing the future of its transportation, industrial, and lighting businesses so that it can focus more intently on its most profitable divisions. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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As the new chief executive, John Flannery is expected to do something about the company?s lagging stock price. And soon.

Nestor Ramos

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This week?s hole/house dispute has to be the highest expression of a terrible art form.

Snowfall totals

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Moving in while the region slept, the storm began blanketing Massachusetts early Wednesday morning.

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Deputies responded to the ski resort at about 2 a.m. after two teens went off the trail and crashed into a tree.

Tereza Lee.

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One of the first Dreamers fights for DACA

Tereza Lee. now a US citizen, grew up with a nightmare every day: the knowledge that she and her family could be discovered at any moment and sent away from the place that had become home.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/17/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/2362d142-b507-4aba-bed5-fe6f857ba7db.jpg The vulgar term Trump reportedly used? One of its first recorded uses was in Mass.

A report that traces back the history of the word notes that perhaps the earliest recorded use of it in America happened ? where else? ? right here in Massachusetts.

DANTE RAMOS

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There?s a logjam in Allston that only Harvard can fix.

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Steve Bannon?s attorney relayed questions, in real time, to the White House during a House Intelligence Committee interview of the former Trump chief strategist.

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While recovering from multiple surgeries, one young boy finds strength in a new family.

Korey is now known as the ?mayor? at the hospital where he spent much of his life, but he started as a patient with an infectious smile.

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BOSTON â?? 1/29/2015: Amy Poehler accepted the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year award at Harvard University on Thursday. (Sean Proctor/Globe Staff)

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It?s way past time to change Hasty Pudding

Now more than ever, the show at Harvad, where men play men and men in drag play women, seems like a relic.

The Season Ticket podcast

Host Chris Gasper welcomes sportswriter Peter King ahead of conference weekend in the NFL.

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Foxborough MA 12/24/17 New England Patrots Tom Brady looking down at his throwing hand before the New England Patriots play the Buffalo Bills at Gillette Stadium. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) topic reporter:

Tom Brady limited in practice because of right hand injury

Brady canceled his Wednesday media session to meet with the medical staff.

Globe Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/17/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/holmes0121crop.jpg How Lexington?s Pete Holmes got Judd Apatow?s attention and became a comedy star

An affair ended the evangelical Christian?s marriage and made him question everything he lived by. But out of that wreckage came his hit HBO show, ?Crashing,? and a new spirituality of sorts.

Boston, MA 12-27-17: Rene Rancourt is pictured as he does his famous post anthem singing routine. The Boston Bruins hosted the Ottawa Senators in a regular season NHL hockey game at the TD Garden. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff)

BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Bruins anthem singer Rene Rancourt to retire

The Maine native, a Garden staple since 1975, will call it a career at the end of the season.

President Obama with US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power in ?The Final Year.?

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Movie Review

The sprint to negotiate Obama?s legacy in ?The Final Year?

Greg Barker?s documentary was made for HBO but is getting a theatrical release ahead of an eventual broadcast.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/16/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/Meredith_Goldstein_NewLogo-3248.jpg We have a toddler and live with my partner?s parents. I?ve had enough.

I pay the bills, he saves his money for a house. But we?re not getting anywhere.

Names

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The burly linebacker is a gun enthusiast.

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When their wedding programs arrived, Stephen Heasley and Andrew Borg were horrified to instead find religious pamphlets.

State law requires developers to provide public access to tidelands. In Boston, the Harborwalk is one example of that access.

Talking Points

Boston has a new model for preserving waterfront access

It?s easy to feel like the harbor is being walled off from the public. But city officials are taking an important step to make sure that doesn?t happen.

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Apple says it will build another corporate campus and hire 20,000 workers in $350 billion, 5-year commitment to the US economy.

Opinion & Ideas

Opinion | Ward Sutton

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Which administration staffer will be next to go?

Newsletters

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Special reports

Abdulkader Hayani put his daughter Ameenah to bed.

The Last Refugee: A three-part series

A series of occasional articles on the Syrian refugee families resettling here, and the local people assisting them.

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Tell us about wrongdoing that needs to be exposed. Call the Spotlight team: 617-929-7483 or [email protected].

STAT

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States across the country are expanding their programs to cover acupuncture, massage, and yoga.

Real Estate

Decades later, Modern Cape escape gets touches designer intended

?For all intents and purposes, this was not buildable land,? says architect Joy Cuming, standing in a house perched atop a bluff on a tiny lot overlooking Wellfleet Harbor and Cape Cod Bay beyond. Design New England tours.