It?s one thing for Rex Burkhead and the Patriots to run roughshod over the Bills. It?s another to do it to the Chargers.

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CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

Patriots? reliance on the run appears ominous

It?s usually an indication the passing game has degraded, a reflection of what?s not working, not what is.

Reports say Rob Gronkowski will strongly consider retirement at the end of the season.

Rob Gronkowski will reportedly strongly consider retirement at season?s end

Gronkowski also weighed the decision to end his career at the end of the 2017 season.

Live updates

Patriots get set for playoff game against Chargers

The wild-card Los Angeles Chargers defeated the Baltimore Ravens last week, earning a trip to Foxborough for a playoff game against the Patriots.

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A berth in the AFC Championship game is on the line as the teams square off in Foxborough.

The atmosphere hasn?t provided southern New England with much snow this winter.

Dave Epstein

It hasn?t snowed, hasn?t snowed, hasn?t snowed

We are looking at one of the slowest snow starts recorded since 1872, when record-keeping began in Boston.

 Chancellor Kumble  Subbaswamy at UMass Amherst?s new Mount Ida campus in Newton.

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Globe Magazine

?ZooMass? no more. Is turning UMass Amherst into an elite university what the state needs?

Inside Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy?s savvy plan to transform Massachusetts? flagship university into ?Cambridge West.?

Michelle Singletary | The Color of Money

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Even if you?re not affected, the government shutdown is a reminder of how important it is to have an emergency fund, which you can?t have if you don?t budget.

Christopher Muther

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A hotel in the buzzy Brickell neighborhood of downtown Miami may be attached to a mall, but it?s still a restful retreat.

Urgent care centers are all over, except where the poor live

CareWell Urgent Care operates 16 centers in the state, including this one in Framingham.

Barry Chin/Globe Staff

Companies have not rushed to open the facilities in Dorchester, Roxbury, or other lower-income neighborhoods in Boston.

Faneuil Hall Marketplace caters primarily to tourists these days, but that wasn?t the case when it opened in 1976.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

Faneuil Hall?s promised retail revolution? We?re still waiting

The company that manages the marketplace wants to make its shops and restaurants more reflective of Boston, but says the changes will take time.

From left: Sean Cunningham, Jennifer Carp, and Joe Tormo dined at Durgin-Park in its final days.

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

Obituary

Durgin-Park, a sassy classic, at 192. In lieu of flowers, leave a bigger tip

The Faneuil Hall landmark known for Yankee pot roast and salty servers died on Jan. 12.

President Donald Trump listens as he leads a roundtable discussion on border security with local leaders, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump dodges question on whether he has worked for Russia

President Trump said whether he was an agent for Russia was the ??most insulting?? question he had ever been asked.

Yvonne Abraham

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Could absence make the heart grow fonder (of the federal government) when it comes to this idiotic shutdown?

President Donald Trump, center, speaks to members of the media following a Senate Republicans policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Jan. 9. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Al Drago.

Al Drago/Bloomberg News

Americans blame Trump, GOP more than Democrats for shutdown, poll says

Most of the country rejects the president?s assertion that there is an immigration crisis on the southern border, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke to potential supporters Saturday in Concord, N.H., at the home of former state Senator Sylvia Larsen.

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Warren moves early to poach Sanders voters in N.H.

The Mass. Democrat made her first stops in the state Saturday. Nearby, others were urging Vermont?s Bernie Sanders to announce his candidacy.

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The grandfather of a Wisconsin girl who was abducted during a home invasion that left her parents dead said the family has no connection to the suspect.

Special reports

Boston, MA - 1/16/1919: Looking across North End Park on Jan. 16, 1919, the day after a giant tank at the Purity Distilling Co. on Commercial Street collapsed, sending a wave of an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses through the streets of Boston. The great molasses tank was located in the center of this picture. Sections of the metal may be seen at the extreme left and right in the picture. Twenty-one people perished, including two 10-year-olds, Pasquale Iantosca and Maria Distasio, who were collecting firewood near the molasses tank while home from school for lunch. (Boston Globe Archive/) --- BGPA Reference: 150115_MJ_001

Boston Globe Archive

Globe Magazine

The day Boston was swamped by a deadly wave of molasses

One hundred years ago this month an enormous steel tank ruptured, sending a torrent of brown syrup on a deadly path through the North End.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

The year 2018 in pictures: Part II

Here are the photos from July to December that summed up the year.

Podcasts

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The story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America?s most popular sport.

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Follow the Celtics? quest for a title and other NBA news both on and off the court. Sign up here.

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A whole slate of Democratic hopefuls are suddenly fixating on the same policy target: high prescription drug prices.

Love Letters: The Podcast

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In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.

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