Super Bowl bound

Tom Brady (right) and Danny Amendola bask in the celebration.

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Chad Finn

Yeah, that really happened

Things looked bleak for the Patriots, but then Tom Brady and Co. did what they do best.

Receiver Alshon Jeffery celebrates a touchdown in the first half of the NFC title game.

Five things to know about the Eagles

Here?s what you need to know about the team the Patriots will face in Super Bowl LII.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/08/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Tlumacki_patriotstrainingcampwithjaguars_sports643.jpg Looks like Super Bowl LII has the potential to be a Brady family reunion

?I have always felt a connection to Minnesota,? said the quarterback, whose mother is from Browerville, Minn.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/21/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy.jpg There was never any doubt

The Patriots win. They always win. And Sunday they earned their 10th trip to the Super Bowl.

Tara Sullivan

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/04/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/tara_sullivan_20171204.jpg Again, you have to hand it to Tom Brady

Brady found a way to write yet another unlikely chapter of greatness to his already winning story.

Foxborough, MA 1/21/2018 Patriots Chris Hogan lifts Danny Amendola after he made a touchdown in the fourth quarter. The New England Patriots host the Jacksonville Jaguars in an NFL AFC championship game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., Jan. 21, 2018.(Barry Chin/Globe Staff)

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Danny Amendola saved the day for the Patriots

He came up big in the clutch once again with two TDs and a key conversion in the fourth quarter.

AFC PATRIOTS SLIDER Foxborough, MA - 1/21/2017 - Tom Brady checks his hand before the AFC Championship playoff game between the New England Patriots and the Jacksonville Jaguars at Gillette Stadium. (Stan Grossfeld / Globe staff)

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Here?s a closeup of Brady?s un-bandaged hand injury

It wasn?t until after Sunday?s game that we actually got a clear view of the injury.

Fans waited outside U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

Want to fly to Minn.? It?ll cost you

Nonstop flights between Boston and Minneapolis for the Super Bowl were checking in at more than $1,000.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/19/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Saglio_Solar-4.jpg Is Eversource throwing shade on solar users?

The utility will soon start charging customers for the privilege of soaking up sun, and the solar industry is fighting back.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/02/27/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/AFP_M42BT.jpg New rules to govern handling of Oscar envelopes

Oscar voting procedures and the tabulation of nominees and winners won?t change. Instead, reforms focus on envelope rituals.

enator Elizabeth Warren says now, as she has from the first days of her public life, that she based her assertions about her heritage on her reasonable trust in what she was told about her ancestry as a child.

Warren?s claims about her ancestry still draw scrutiny

There?s a ghost haunting the US senator as she ramps up for this year?s reelection campaign and a possible 2020 presidential bid.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/586113592-5912.jpg Walsh aims to rein in short-term rental market

Boston?s mayor wants new rules to limit how frequently landlords can offer rentals through Airbnb and similar services.

Brigham and Children?s each get $50m gift

The donations by Robert Hale Jr. and his wife, Karen, are among the largest received by each hospital.

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Pope apologizes to abuse victims for demanding proof of accusations, but still defends Chile bishop accused of cover-up.

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Tom Kawczynski recently made public comments bashing Islam and calling for preservation of white European heritage in northern New England.

Jens and Ursula Dill of Switzerland were disappointed, but not entirely surprised that the JFK Presidential Library and Museum was closed due to the shutdown.

Shutdown sows confusion as it stretches into the workweek

Many federal employees started the workweek Monday with confusion and anxiety over a shutdown that will lock hundreds of thousands of them out of their jobs.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Trump is taking the ??absolute opposite approach?? from the previous administration, which she says tried to ?weaponize? a 2013 shutdown.

Opinion | Richard North Patterson

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/13/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/0116beam.jpg Donald Trump proves the adage ?ignorance is bliss?

Again and again, Trump says that ?nobody knows more than I do.?

Tech Lab

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/18/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Boghosian_18techlab2_BIZ.jpg A not so self-driving Cadillac

Testing the Cadillac new self-driving system is like that first drive by your teenager, expecting to grab the wheel when he does something crazy.

Starts & Stops

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/NIGHTOWL14-1355891.jpg Free bus service? Only for night owls

The MBTA is considering an overnight bus service?and making it free for riders.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_120217_BC_BU_1450x-13265.jpg Boston College hockey player assaulted near Fenway Park

A 6-foot 5-inch defenseman for the Boston College men?s hockey team is ?out indefinitely? after being assaulted at Domino?s on Boylston Street.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/fire1-13259.jpg Dozens of animals die in barn blaze on Holliston farm

A blaze destroyed a barn, killing most of the animals trapped inside at a Holliston farm Sunday morning, fire officials said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/22/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/19fe14f4147f451bb82d4f34f012adb0-19fe14f4147f451bb82d4f34f012adb0-2405-U84729691248auC--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg German nurse charged with 97 more murders at hospitals

Niels Hoegel said during his trial he intentionally brought about cardiac crises in about 90 patients because he enjoyed the feeling of being able to resuscitate them.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/22/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/AFP_UU8QR.jpg Sanofi buys Waltham-based Bioverativ for $11.6 billion

Sanofi says the deal for the Biogen spinoff will boost its profile for fighting rare diseases.

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Opinion | Margery Eagan

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/18/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/8d5627a41b9f4f3b88c0a4fb3f6a2b3a-8d5627a41b9f4f3b88c0a4fb3f6a2b3a-0.jpg It?s time to say goodbye to the NFL cheerleaders

They?re underpaid, exploited, and objectified, in a game with a lousy history of violence against women.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/22/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Kimmelman.jpg Experts struggle to predict clinical trial outcomes

Researchers might not be as great at determining the likelihood of a clinical trial?s success as they think they are.

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