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FDA authorizes Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

The Food and Drug Administration authorized use of the vaccine, developed with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the day after a panel of independent scientific advisers agreed in a 22-0 vote that the shot was safe and that its benefits outweighed risks for people 18 and older. Third vaccine will add millions of doses to pandemic armory over the next month.
Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker: Latest vaccine frontrunners COVID-19 vaccine news, resources, and guidance

Mass reports 1,516 confirmed cases, 41 deaths, and 48,640 vaccinations Saturday

The total shots administered included 1,166,889 first shots and 504,304 second shots. Those who have gotten their second shot of the currently approved two-dose vaccines are considered fully vaccinated.
The latest COVID-19 numbers from Massachusetts

Two tales of one city: The Port sits in the shadow of Moderna and Pfizer
The Port neighborhood, home to Washington Elms and Newtowne Court, two of the oldest public housing developments in the country, has long existed in the shadow of its thriving high-tech neighbors. The gulf between the two communities has perhaps never been wider than at the start of 2021 when the quest to defeat COVID-19 with vaccines went into high gear.

House passes $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill on near party-line vote

The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill early Saturday in a win for President Biden, even as top Democrats tried assuring agitated progressives that they’d revive their derailed drive to boost the minimum wage.
Highlights of the COVID-19 relief bill advancing in Congress Biden asks Senate to take quick action on $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill

Undisclosed violations could have halted construction company’s work in Boston; two killed in downtown accident

The owner of Atlantic Coast Utilities, the company involved in a fatal construction accident in downtown Boston this week, failed to disclose to the city that his company had numerous workplace safety violations, which could have disqualified it from construction work, records show.
Company, owner in Boston construction accident have history of violations
Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

The latest buzz on the NFL quarterback market

About half the league is in the mix for a quarterback in one shape or form.
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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Running toward self love is a beautiful resistance
Elizabeth Rock doesn’t run for herself, she runs for women and her pace is always set to sisterhood. ( Concept & curation by Jeneé Osterheldt/Globe Staff, Video by Caitlin Healy/Globe Staff, Additional video by Shelby Lum/Globe Staff, Photo by OJ Slaughter/Special to the Globe )

The Questions featuring Carlton Mackey

The Black history I carry with me: Onjalé Scott Price

Given a second chance, Alex Cora seeks to move on — and learn from his past

The time away from the game in the middle of a pandemic created space for reflection, on the scandal and to confront past managerial challenges.
As spring training games start, projecting the Red Sox Opening Day roster

Tara Sullivan
Road back for Tiger Woods is also mental, not just physical
Recovery from an accident that nearly takes your life is filled with potential potholes, ones that must be navigated with care and compassion.

Chad Finn: How ESPN covered Tiger Woods’s car accident

The Black history I carry with me

A Beautiful Resistance — a special project from the Globe's culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt — is celebrating Black History Month by amplifying local stories of change-makers and the people inspired by them.

Opinion

EDITORIAL

Massachusetts can succeed in a teleworking world

In the post-pandemic remote-work economy, there’s no reason the state can’t attract as many workers as it loses.
IDEAS | KAREEM KING

Fighting the pandemic with information by us, for us
IDEAS | Christina Szalinski

Two masks could be one too many
Renée Loth

Debra Haaland as interior secretary — a champion for the land

MARCELA GARCÍA

Forces converge in State House special election in Winthrop and Revere

Project takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

Restaurants we supported this week Learn more about Project Takeout

As Bruins add Jarred Tinordi to blue line, Bruce Cassidy looks for more help from within
The Bruins have carried a lead into the third period in only two of the last 11 games.

Robert Williams continues to emerge for the Celtics
He has been called upon in critical junctures, and that is not lost on him.

Patriots
All eight Patriots opt-outs in 2020 plan to play this season
In addition to the previously confirmed returns of veterans Dont’a Hightower, Patrick Chung, and Marcus Cannon, the team will welcome back Brandon Bolden, Danny Vitale, Matt LaCosse, Marqise Lee, and Najee Toran.

‘People are falling through the cracks’: Many with informal housing are blocked from Mass. rental aid programs
For scores of residents who live in informal housing across Massachusetts, the nearly $500 million in federal funds set aside for rental assistance remains out of reach. One of the major barriers is that these tenants often rely on informal middlemen to navigate the region's housing markets.

Sullivan’s reopens for 70th season on Castle Island
The concession stand began its 70th season on Saturday.

Three suspects arrested in connection with 2020 death of toddler in New Hampshire

The three were charged in connection with a 21-month-old toddler’s death after ingesting a controlled drug in late 2020, Londonderry police said in a statement Friday.

‘Blame Trump’ defense in Capitol riot looks like a long shot
Facing damning evidence in the deadly Capitol siege last month — including social media posts flaunting their actions — rioters are arguing in court they were following then-President Donald Trump's instructions on Jan. 6.

Investigators pinpoint suspect in officer’s riot death

Warrant charges Qinxuan Pan in killing of Yale graduate student

Police set a $5 million bond on the MIT graduate student's arrest and are offering a $10,000 reward for any information about his whereabouts, said Matthew Duffy, a spokesman for the US Marshals in Connecticut.

MBTA closes Pleasant Street stop on Green Line

The stop is permanently closing as part of the city’s Green Line Transformation project

Recommended reads

Leaders of company linked to N.H. truck crash that killed 7 indicted on federal charges in Mass.

The owners of a company linked to a fiery truck crash in New Hampshire that killed seven people in 2019 were indicted Thursday on federal charges in Massachusetts for allegedly falsifying driving logs and lying to investigators probing the deadly wreck, according to US Attorney Andrew Lelling and court records.

When did you realize COVID-19 was going to change everything?
There’s a moment for many of us, most often happening in March 2020, when we realized that COVID-19 had completely changed our lives.

Billy Baker
Surviving brain freeze at the Mid-Winter Surfing Championships
Five decades of New England spite, chilled.

metro

YVONNE ABRAHAM
One year since normal’s last gasp
It seems like yesterday. It also seems like decades ago.

Warrant charges Qinxuan Pan in killing of Yale graduate student

Sullivan’s reopens for 70th season on Castle Island

Sports

Sports Log
After a season of turmoil, Boston College men’s basketball finally finds success in home finale vs. Notre Dame
DeMarr Langford (17 points, 6 rebounds) made made a pair of free throws with 12 seconds left to ice a 94-90 victory for the Eagles.

As Bruins add Jarred Tinordi to blue line, Bruce Cassidy looks for more help from within

BOSTON COLLEGE 94, NOTRE DAME 90

After more than six winless weeks, Boston College men end slide in home finale

business

With latest reopening news, Mass. restaurants see a way out of crisis
On Monday, restaurants in Massachusetts will be free from strict limits to their capacity for the first time in months.

Boston delays reopening of concert halls, theaters, other indoor businesses

Ta-Nehisi Coates to write new ‘Superman’ film

politics

FDA authorizes Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
US clears Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID-19 shot, adding a third vaccine option to the race against the virus.

‘Blame Trump’ defense in Capitol riot looks like a long shot

AP sources say investigators pinpoint suspect in officer’s riot death

lifestyle

ARTS
ICA’s 2021 Foster Prize goes to three artists who ‘help illuminate the way forward’
“The works of Marlon Forrester, Eben Haines, and Dell Marie Hamilton help illuminate the way forward from the isolation and trauma of these troubled times,” said ICA director Jill Medvedow in a statement.

A Great Barrington therapist explores grief, vulnerability, and hope through Instagram

Right now, FaceTime isn’t enough

arts

TELEVISION
April brings continuing ‘Tale,’ new ‘Law & Order’
The 10-episode fourth season of 'The Handmaid's Tale' will premiere with three episodes on Hulu on April 28; on April 1, “Law & Order: Organized Crime” will show up.

What’s happening in the arts world
HOMEFRONT

HomeFront: Billie Holiday, Beethoven, and Bad Bunny, plus art to comfort and calm

rhode island

RI BUSINESS
Evicted from Boston, a new West African restaurant is being welcomed in Providence
Bintimani owner Sahr Josiah-Faeduwor aims to innovate with food and inspire other entrepreneurs.

Cicilline blasts Taylor Greene for opposing Equality Act
RHODE MAP

Look for the General Assembly to flex its muscles on the Lifespan-Care New England merger

Newton

Special Projects

A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Black History Month

A Beautiful Resistance, in a special collaboration with Reebok, celebrate Black History Month. Black Joy. Black Wellness. Black Futures.
See more from 'A Beautiful Resistance' Follow on Instagram

On the Street

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

Revere was going through a revival before COVID-19. Can it stay on track?

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

More

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Last Words: Is death the great equalizer?
Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

I knew getting prostate cancer at 48 would change me. I had no idea how much
For the past year, Mark Shanahan has been working on Mr. 80 Percent, a six-episode podcast miniseries about his experience with prostate cancer. It’s a deeply personal, sometimes harrowing, often funny story about a disease that affects millions of men. The heroes are his doctors and family, who put up with some appalling behavior. You’ll hear from both.

Comfort Zone

ASK MATTHEW

10 reader-approved TV shows for parents and tweens

We asked for suggestions, and from "Sherlock" to "Green Acres," readers responded.
COMFORT ZONE

Flock to these winter birding hot spots around Boston

Pete Gilmore, field trip coordinator for the Brookline Bird Club, shared his favorite local stops.
A.Z. MADONNA

What would Beethoven think of climate change? Composer Iman Habibi has a few ideas

Habibi's “Jeder Baum spricht” (”Every tree speaks”) is part of a new BSO Now program.
ASK MATTHEW

If you enjoyed ‘Your Honor,’ who am I to judge?

As a critic, I don’t pretend my opinions are the correct ones, or even the best ones; they’re just mine.
COMFORT ZONE

Tatiana de Rosnay on ‘Sarah’s Key,’ Boston memories, and her scary new novel

The author casts a wary eye on on the near-future in her new book, "Flowers of Darkness."
COMFORT ZONE

Stars to come out (remotely) for a new Boston clinic for homeless women

Renee Fleming, Laura Benanti, Cheyenne Jackson, Heather Headley, and others are slated to perform in a benefit for Health Care Without Walls.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

Governor Baker is right — schools must reopen
Scot Lehigh

As Massachusetts shows, strong gun-safety laws work
Pamela Constable

The old house on Nantucket
Kate Murtagh

Harvard endowment is on the path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions
Joan Wickersham

The emperor of nothing
IDEAS | Rachel Rebouché and Mary Ziegler

Could Roe v. Wade really become ‘the law of the land’?

STAT

The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
Pandemic Parenting

We can care about education and be OK writing this year off
Parenting advice

'Being forgiving of ourselves is probably the biggest'
Dinner with Cupid

'The more she smiled the more tempted I was to want to get to know more'
Connections

My mom lives 2,000 miles away but keeps my daughter company on her iPad

sports

Matt Barnes wants to be the Red Sox’ closer

As spring training games start, projecting the Red Sox Opening Day roster

It’s a decisive fourth as Fenway’s reign at No. 1 continues

metro

Sheila Washington dies at 61; helped exonerate Scottsboro Boys

Claudette White, innovative tribal judge, dies at 49

‘Meyers Manx’ dune buggy creator dead at 94

Nation

Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker: Latest vaccine frontrunners

FDA authorizes Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

FDA authorizes Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

World

Rapper’s arrest awakens rage in Spanish youth chafing in pandemic

Archeologists find intact ceremonial chariot near Pompeii

Myanmar military fires UN envoy who spoke against its coup

politics

Biden agenda faces difficult test as stimulus measure heads to Senate

In three Republican districts, a view of Trump’s continued dominance in the party

Biden asks Senate to take quick action on $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill

business

FDA advisory panel recommends Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine be cleared for use. Authorization is likely this weekend

DataRobot makes move into COVID-19 monitoring

State health secretary explains why employer-hosted vaccine programs are being suspended

lifestyle

The parenting crisis without a vaccine: loneliness

At Mikkusu, a talented chef bides her time

New NE bike tours, a favorite bar reopens, and new virtual travel experiences

marijuana

Mass. marijuana has to be ultra-sterile. Just one problem: It’s a plant

Marijuana company sues Boston zoning board over rejection

New Jersey governor signs laws to set up marijuana market

opinion

Parenthood shouldn’t be a bar to public office

Massachusetts can succeed in a teleworking world

Fighting the pandemic with information by us, for us

food & dining

At Mikkusu, a talented chef bides her time

Tim and Bronwyn Wiechmann plan a Lincoln restaurant, and hot chicken comes to Allston

Celebrating the Irish poitín

travel

New NE bike tours, a favorite bar reopens, and new virtual travel experiences

Michael Chiklis loves Aspen, Capri, and of course, Boston

The new travel reality: Vaccine required

Books

Crime and damages in ‘The Lowering Days’

A fictional retrospective of a filmmaker’s life in ‘Foregone’

Glenn Adamson on the perfect reading chair and books organized by color

Movies

Armie Hammer is in ‘Crisis’ and they can’t hide it

Some sequels take longer (a lot longer) to arrive than others

Imagination rules the ruthless in ‘Night of the Kings’

Television

April brings continuing ‘Tale,’ new ‘Law & Order’

10 things TV should stop doing right now

‘Ray Donovan’ will get a feature-length finale

music

When Beethoven resonates in a crisis

Jazz artist Maria Schneider on making music, and making a living

Velvet mornings and boots made for walkin’: Nancy Sinatra retrospective revisits a singer with swagger

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet celebrates Jorma Elo in a rich program of new work and past highlights

On your screen but outside the box: Theater companies rise to a creative challenge

Stars to come out (remotely) for a new Boston clinic for homeless women

globe local

‘It is not just about memorizing facts.’ Historians examine how Black History Month was intended to be celebrated

Meteorological winter ends this weekend

Boys & Girls Clubs, Y’s provide places for kids to study and play during pandemic

Obituaries

Sheila Washington dies at 61; helped exonerate Scottsboro Boys

Claudette White, innovative tribal judge, dies at 49

‘Meyers Manx’ dune buggy creator dead at 94