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AFC Wild-card | Titans 20, Patriots 13
Christopher L. Gasper

The 2019 Patriots weren't good enough to live up to the dynasty

This team ended up being exactly what we thought it might be, and Tom Brady warned us.
Bill Belichick says he doesn't know what the future holds for Tom Brady Chad Finn: 20 thoughts on the Patriots? loss to Titans Ben Volin: False start on these Patriots; playoff game was one of the worst of the Brady-Belichick era
dan shaughnessy

It?s the end for the Patriots, and perhaps, for Tom Brady

 Before looking ahead, an assessment of this season?s key Patriots
Ben Volin

A look at the timing in play for Brady, McDaniels, and other Patriots who might be moving on

 Brady says it is ?unlikely? he will retire
patriots notebook

In Patriots? locker room, mood is melancholy a day after wild-card loss

 Mike Vrabel took a page from Belichick?s playbook and the Patriots coach didn?t like it a bit
Golden Globes

?1917,? ?Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood? win big at Golden Globes
The 77th Golden Globes were meant to be a coronation for Netflix. Instead, a pair of big-screen epics took top honors Sunday, as Sam Mendes? technically dazzling World War I tale ?1917? won best picture, drama, and Quentin Tarantino?s radiant Los Angeles fable ?Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood? won best film, comedy or musical. 32 minutes ago

A full list of Golden Globe winners What is Baby Yoda?s real name? Taika Waititi knows

Matthew Gilbert
At the Golden Globes, gibe-talking Ricky Gervais delivers the snark
The British host did the job he was hired to do ? play the role of provocateur. 2 hours ago

In his monologue, Gervais gets bleeped ? twice Photos: Celebs on the red carpet Fashion: On the red carpet, risks and rewards Watch: Ellen DeGeneres turns acceptance speech into gently mocking stand-up routine

Host families fight back against au pair ruling

Families whose child care arrangements were upended by a December court ruling granting state labor protections to au pairs aren?t giving in to the new regulations without a fight. 8:37 p.m.

Iran general replacing Soleimani vows revenge for US killing

An Iranian general who replaced the leader killed by a US airstrike in Baghdad vowed to take revenge as Tehran abandoned the remaining limits of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers in response to the slaying. 13 minutes ago
US troops throughout Middle East brace for possible retaliation

Signs point to a housing construction slowdown in Boston area

Permits for new homes were down in Boston last year, and some suburbs are looking to slow down new projects.

Does the new Cosmic Crisp apple live up to the hype? We taste-tested it to find out

The Cosmic Crisp is supposed to be juicy, firm, and crisp; slow to brown; easy to grow; and, on top of all that, to maintain its flavor for a year in storage. Here at the Globe, we taste-tested the new apple against other varieties.

Kennedy outpaced Markey in Senate fund-raising race in final months of 2019

Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III raised more than $2.4 million over the last three months of 2019, outpacing incumbent Senator Edward J. Markey by about $1 million. 9:00 p.m.

opinion

OPINION | Françoise Baylis

Scientific ethics and gene edited babies
EDITORIAL

Our 2020 Vision

EDITORIAL

Let college athletes get paid for their images
OPINION | Marc Baker, Jeremy Burton and Robert Trestan

Anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem

BU assault case will test limits of schools? oversight

Boston University?s Student Village 2 dormitory has become a testing ground for the duty of colleges and universities to keep students safe.

Chris Donovan was a telephone repairman. Now he?s being called the next Manolo Blahnik

Chris Donovan, a retired phone company employee, is being hailed as the next superstar designer of high-end women?s footwear.

This week?s TV: Lifetime psychos, the return of ?Schitt?s Creek,? and a new ?Masterpiece?
Globe critic Matthew Gilbert navigates the week in television.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS
GE?s long-awaited tunaround starts to take hold
GE?s stock rose nearly 54 percent over 2019, the biggest such increase for the struggling Boston company since the 1980s.

More recent headlines

Male hospitalized after falling onto Red Line tracks at Park Street Station

Mt. Holyoke professor allegedly beat a colleague with a fire poker, garden shears

Methodists wary of potential split in global church over LGBTQ participation

Man arrested for breaking into car in Charlestown, possession of crystal meth

Get more out of your Globe subscription during the NFL playoffs by texting with Ben Volin

Hundreds of people honor 13-year-old girls in Pembroke crash at Plymouth vigil
A few hundred faces, illuminated in soft candlelight, filled Brewster Gardens park on Sunday evening to honor the memory of Claire Zisserson and share prayers of healing for her friend, Kendall Zemotel. 3 hours ago

Sydney Leonard, inspiring ballet mistress for generations of young dancers in ?The Nutcracker,? dies at 100
Sydney Leonard, who died Jan. 2, was a teacher, choreographer, and the longtime ballet mistress for young dancers in the Boston Ballet?s annual performances of ?The Nutcracker.?

Zoom Telephonics finally got traction selling modems. Then the trade war hit
The Boston company is moving its manufacturing from China to Vietnam after having to pay $1 million in US tariffs while trying to turn a profit.

Ideas: Democracy under siege

Democracy as we know it is under attack around the world. In our own country, threats once hard to imagine have taken root: Voter suppression and foreign interference; misinformation and ?fake news;? extreme polarization and gerrymandering. Starting today, the Ideas section is embarking on an ongoing look at the state of democracy ? exploring the ways it has failed to live up to its promise, the forces that endanger it, and ways to shore it up for the future.
IDEAS | CALEB GAYLE

Think the Constitution guarantees your right to vote? Think again
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Republicans have been playing hardball for decades, will Democrats push back?
OPINION | CAROL ROSE

New Year?s resolution: Let?s exercise our body politic
IDEAS | PAYAL DHAR

Could a spoof government on Twitter be the platform of political change in India?
OPINION | RENÉE GRAHAM

John Roberts is no defender of democracy

Recommended Reads

Kevin Cullen

After you have a panic attack on live TV, being 10 percent happier is a good start to a changed life

Dan Harris, the ABC news anchor, had a panic attack on live television some 15 years ago. Since then, he has found a way to be happier and more present, or, as he puts it, less of a jerk.

Here?s your chance, T riders: Rank the best seats on the Green Line!
Which seat is best to snag on a crowded train? Is it the coveted single seat? The spot next to the door? Or is sitting for amateurs?

Globe Magazine | Miss Conduct
Advice: My brother-in-law skipped out on a $1,000 dinner bill
He invited us to a restaurant to celebrate my sister?s birthday. Shouldn?t he have paid?

Rhode Island

After fatal shooting, R.I. leaders look at banning ?ghost guns? and 3D printed guns

Days after a Pawtucket woman was fatally shot by a gun that police say appears to have been made with a 3D printer, a state senator said she will again sponsor legislation banning these and other ?ghost guns.?

Get ready for a hot special election in Providence

R.I. is usually a hot spot for presidential candidates. What?s gone wrong this time around?
Newton

Referendum could decide future of Newton?s biggest mixed-use development

Organizers have gathered enough signatures to force city councilors to either rescind zoning approval for the project or schedule a special election to decide its fate.

Newton artist?s ?universal? menorah is featured at Museum of Fine Arts

Newton takes a step to solve housing crisis

Special Projects

Back to the battleground

What we learned from each of the battleground states we visited ahead of the 2020 election
Who will win in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin next year? The Globe?s D.C. bureau spent time reporting in these crucial battleground states. This is what they found.

Trump?s evangelical support mystifies his critics, but in Wisconsin, it looks stronger than ever
The president?s personal behavior and some of his core political beliefs, including his hostility toward refugees, seem at odds with the major tenets of Christianity. But Trump?s bond with evangelicals has proven to be remarkably resilient.

More from the Battleground project

Trump promised Wisconsin?s farmers his trade wars would pay off. They?re still waiting

A Pennsylvania roofer loved Bill Clinton and voted for Obama. Here?s how Trump lured him from the Democrats
Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Seeing Red: A Globe Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling traffic

We endure some of the nation?s worst rush hour traffic. Our aging transit system is maddeningly unreliable. It is a crisis ? a very slow moving crisis ? that puts our region?s economic prosperity at risk. Who is to blame? Can anything be done? The Globe Spotlight Team investigates.
Education

The Great Divide

A new Globe initiative exploring the deep inequalities in our public education system, examining both the challenges and possible solutions to creating equal opportunity for all students.
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spotlight fellow report

The federal government has one main law to prevent child abuse. No state follows all of it

Hundreds of thousands of children face abuse every year, but there is only one federal law that directly addresses this national tragedy.
At the edge of a warming world

On Cape Cod, climate change is already terrifyingly real

Come with us as we explore the Cape to better understand what climate change is doing here, what it means for the future of this beloved place, and what the cost of inaction might be.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Cartoon | Beth Wolfensberger Singer

?Little Women? and the Beth trap
OPINION | JEFF JACOBY

Politicians are only human
OPINION | Renee Loth

And now, the good news
OPINION | David Nussbaum

Courage could be contagious in the Senate
OPINION | Jennifer C. Braceras

DeVos restores fairness to campus sexual misconduct cases
OPINION | Stephen Kulik and Daniel E. Bosley

Baker?s climate program could help rural commuters

VISUAL STORIES

Photos: Patriots vs. Titans in AFC wild-card playoffs

Globe staff photos of the month, December 2019

Photos from the 2020 L Street Brownies? polar plunge in South Boston

The best Boston Globe photos of 2019

metro

Firefighters rescue missing dog from pond in Amesbury
A video posted on Facebook showed firefighters using a white rowboat to guide the dog, a female pitbull named Navia, to safety on a wooden dock on Clarks Pond.

Dave Epstein

What the weather holds for the week ahead

If you are a snow lover, I?d like to be able to tell you that there?s more on the way, but we will actually start falling behind over the next couple of weeks.

Hundreds of people honor 13-year-old girls in Pembroke crash at Plymouth vigil

A few hundred faces, illuminated in soft candlelight, filled Brewster Gardens park on Sunday evening to honor the memory of Claire Zisserson and share prayers of healing for her friend, Kendall Zemotel.

Kennedy outpaced Markey in Senate fund-raising race in final months of 2019

Sydney Leonard, inspiring ballet mistress for generations of young dancers in ?The Nutcracker,? dies at 100

STAT

Surgeons test-drive the amputation of the future

Huntington?s clinical trial opens a door to hope ? but only if patients get in

Families reeling after FDA rejects therapy for kids without a thymus

Richard Sackler proposed plan to play down OxyContin risks

sports

ADAM HIMMELSBACH

Celtics? Carsen Edwards adjusts to up and downs of rookie season

The 33rd overall pick in the 2019 draft continues to work on his skills, whether it?s with the Celtics or G League Maine.
SPORTS LOG

Saint Louis edges UMass in OT

Hasahn French scored 19 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead Saint Louis to an overtime victory over Massachusetts, 83-80.
Julian Benbow

Boston College athletic director Martin Jarmond aiming to put programs on a path to success
AROUND THE HORN | DESIGNATED HITTER

J.D. Martinez locked and loaded as Red Sox DH

Politics

Pompeo says US may attack again if Iran retaliates

Business

It?s not just software: new safety risks under scrutiny on Boeing?s 737 Max

Marijuana

How Trump?s vape plan could affect New England states
magazine
cover story

The best Boston Globe photos of 2019
Perspective

There's a law that could reduce gun violence. More should know about it
Miss Conduct

Advice: My brother-in-law skipped out on a $1,000 dinner bill
Cooking

Recipes: Three light dishes that will help you keep your resolutions

sports

Shay Bollin leads Bridgewater-Raynham?s girls? basketball comeback at Newton North

It?s (finally) official: Jason Garrett out as Cowboys coach

In Patriots? locker room, mood is melancholy a day after wild-card loss

metro

Firefighters rescue missing dog from pond in Amesbury

What the weather holds for the week ahead

Hundreds of people honor 13-year-old girls in Pembroke crash at Plymouth vigil

Nation

Pompeo says US may attack again if Iran retaliates

Trump threatens to strike 52 Iranian targets if Tehran retaliates

Amid palm trees at his Florida resort, Trump decided on strike against Iranian commander

World

Australian premier defends response to fires; weather brings respite

Indonesia?s flooded capital disinfected to fend off disease

Leftist beats conservative in Croatia?s presidential vote

politics

Trump threatens to strike 52 Iranian targets if Tehran retaliates

Amid palm trees at his Florida resort, Trump decided on strike against Iranian commander

White House notifies Congress of Suleimani strike under War Powers Act

business

Host families fight back against au pair ruling

Signs point to a housing construction slowdown in Boston area

GE?s long-awaited tunaround starts to take hold

lifestyle

Watch: Ellen DeGeneres turns Globe Globes acceptance speech into gently mocking stand-up routine

Hits and misses from the Golden Globes? red carpet

Photos: Celebs on the Golden Globes? red carpet

marijuana

How Trump?s vape plan could affect New England states

State?s first cannabis microbusiness is a family affair

Arkansas? cannabis shops rake in $28 million in 2019

opinion

Scientific ethics and gene edited babies

Our 2020 Vision

Do the math

food & dining

After L?Espalier, a new chapter on the North Shore

The 2019 Boston-area restaurant awards

Tom Fosnot of Lincoln?s new Real gets real

travel

New Haven pizza tour: a love story

Celtic music, drunk yoga, and a new hotel that brings a Peloton to your door

For actress Kelli O?Hara, Ireland is calling, and family comes first

Books

Local bestsellers for the week ending 12/29

Gene Simmons eats breakfast, Dr. Phil leaves his lair, and New Yorkers take a seat

Jonathan Waldman?s ?SAM? documents the quest to invent a robotic bricklayer

Movies

A full list of Golden Globe winners

In Focus: ?That single fleeting moment when you feel alive?

A second look at 2019?s overlooked movie performances

Television

At the Golden Globes, gibe-talking Ricky Gervais delivers the snark

This week?s TV: Lifetime psychos, the return of ?Schitt?s Creek,? and a new ?Masterpiece?

Eddie Murphy brings millions of extra viewers to ?SNL?

music

BSO starts the new year with familiar fare and old friends

Why Symphony Hall sounds so great to classical music-lovers

The last go-round for record store owner Skippy White

Theater/Dance

Kelli O?Hara, in full voice

Choreographer imagined ?Cats,? then he reimagined it

As an artistic inspiration, ?Moby-Dick? looms large

globe local

Get crafty with your holiday shopping at local fairs

Hardiest hikers, campers don?t come in from the cold

Should Massachusetts exempt police body camera footage from state public records law?

Obituaries

Sydney Leonard, inspiring ballet mistress for generations of young dancers in ?The Nutcracker,? dies at 100

Bronco Horvath, who set a Boston Bruins scoring record in 1959-60, dies at 89

Vaughan Oliver, 62, dies; his designs gave indie rock ?physical dimension?