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US reports five people with virus from China

The US has five confirmed cases of the new virus from China, all of whom traveled to the city that is the center of the outbreak, health officials said Sunday. Dozens of people have died in China in the outbreak, and hundreds have been sickened. 2 hours ago
Virus death toll in China rises as US prepares evacuation These maps are tracking the spread and risk of the Wuhan coronavirus in real time

Teen fatally stabbed on Blue Hill Avenue Saturday night identified; his younger brother among those injured

A 16-year-old injured in a stabbing on Blue Hill Avenue Saturday evening has died, according to Boston police.

Elizabeth Warren's campaign against Scott Brown in 2012 was a glimpse of the future
Warren's challenge against Brown eight years ago was the most closely watched, high-stakes Senate race in the nation. And now, as she runs for president, Elizabeth Warren cites that victory as evidence that she can fight a bruising battle and win.

Elizabeth Warren?s plan to beat the other Democrats, and Trump? Her ground game, according to new campaign memo Warren gets coveted endorsement from Des Moines Register Union Leader newspaper in New Hampshire endorses Amy Klobuchar

Biden, Sanders handily top ?eld in national poll as Iowa nears

With Trump impeachment trial set to resume, a key question remains: Will senators hear witnesses?

President Trump?s impeachment trial enters a pivotal week as his defense team resumes its case and senators face a critical vote on whether to hear witnesses or proceed directly to a vote that is widely expected to end in his acquittal.
Trump?s legal team argues president did nothing wrong in Ukraine dealings

Opinion

OPINION | RENÉE GRAHAM

The truth about Trump?s lies
EDITORIAL

Time to get creative on Uber and Lyft fees
OPINION | Susan Church, Kerry Doyle, and Heather Yountz

Customs and Border Protection goes rogue
OPINION | Diane Hessan

About those ?Women for Trump?
GRAMMY AWARDS, 8 p.m.

Amid the chaos of this year?s Grammys, some predictions

With the Recording Academy's dysfunction out in the open, we predict this year's winners at our peril. (But we're still betting on "Old Town Road.")
An early list of Grammy Award winners

On ?SNL,? Adam Driver as Jeffrey Epstein and Jon Lovitz as Alan Dershowitz reunite in hell

Former ?SNL? cast member Jon Lovitz returned to Studio 8H to play Alan Dershowitz in the Harvard-affiliated legal scholar?s recently appointed role as a member of President Trump?s impeachment defense team and soon found himself in hell alongside his former client, Jeffrey Epstein, who was played by episode host Adam Driver.
Now on Trump?s team, Alan Dershowitz says, ?I haven?t changed?

Yvonne Abraham
Michelle Carter?s out of jail, but not out of the spotlight
It takes nothing away from the tragedy of Roy?s death, or the harm of Carter?s texts, to say that the reality of their relationship was far more complicated than it appeared, far less amenable to easy narratives and sermons about our unhinged times.

? DISPATCHES FROM IOWA
Looking for diversity in the presidential race? It?s with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other surrogates for the all-white top Democratic candidates
As the Iowa caucuses approach, Black and Latino politicians are among the most sought-after endorsers and surrogates on the campaign trail.

More recent headlines

Sunshine is here ? with plans to stay a while

In recent years, four Mass. jails got $164 million in federal money to house ICE detainees

Hingham police take armed man barricaded in home into custody

Don?t miss the Globe?s coverage and analysis of the Democratic primaries

The Globe?s politics team will help you sort through the noise with timely, in-depth news coverage, and sharp analysis of the state of the race. Here?s how to stay in the know.

Comedian Pete Holmes told Malia Obama to ?please shut the (expletive) up? while performing in Somerville
Holmes performed at the Comedy Studio in Somerville, and Malia Obama was in the front row in the audience. And Holmes didn't recognize her.

How Lexington?s Pete Holmes got Judd Apatow?s attention and became a comedy star

DAN SHAUGHNESSY
How can the Red Sox be so confident MLB?s investigation will end well for them?
The reporters who broke the news on the Houston Astros? cheating scandal are the same reporters that had three sources accusing the 108-win Red Sox of cheating in 2018.

Kevin Cullen
A blueprint to remaking the Patriots
We put it to each of the Globe?s NFL writers to determine a course of action for the Patriots this offseason, including a plan for Tom Brady, and what to do in free agency and in the NFL Draft.

The last time Brad Stevens coached All-Stars, he went deep into the video vault
Stevens asked Celtics video coordinator Matt Reynolds to create a highlight reel that showed clips of the stars before they truly became stars.

Recommended Reads

Spotlight Investigative Journalism Fellowship

The danger in our salad bowls

Leafy green vegetables have become the leading cause of E. coli poisoning. And the federal government still lacks the means, and maybe the will, to take it on.

How do animals survive long winters?
In all kinds of ways, it turns out. Birds switch their diets, coyotes grow thicker fur, and turtles bury into mud.

The puck stops here: Boston Public Schools superintendent is at home in the hockey rink
Wearing a white and purple Boston Latin practice jersey, Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius looked like just another skater out on the ice.

Rhode Island

Bill would let R.I. lawmakers hide behind tinted windows

State legislator from Providence wants to allow tinted windshields on private vehicles of lawmakers, police, firefighters, and judges

Tampa-area educator tapped to lead Providence schools

Bill would let R.I. lawmakers hide behind tinted windows
Newton

After opposition to Albemarle, Newton continues search for proposed senior center?s home

The search for a new home for the city?s senior center ? launched shortly after Fuller took office in 2018 ? has grown into something of a game of musical chairs.

Newton City Council sets March 3 special election to decide Northland mixed-use development

Newton gets grant to study potential affordable housing at armory

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

EDITORIAL

The Trump administration owes the public answers on Iranian deportations
OPINION | SCOT LEHIGH

The Senate?s choice: Integrity or servility

EDITORIAL

Recycling programs need a reboot ? and some financial help from online retailers
OPINION | Alex Beam

Let?s analyze Donald Trump?s reelection chances
OPINION | JOAN VENNOCHI

Mayor Walsh wants to change the Boston Fire Department. Can he?
IDEAS | LINDA RODRIGUEZ MCROBBIE

It?s a right-handed world. What if we looked at it from the left?

VISUAL STORIES

The danger in our salad bowls

Warnings of ?volcanic tsunami? after eruption in the Philippines

Ground Zero?s deadly dust claims another victim

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

metro

Ed Markey blasts GOP for Senate impeachment ?cover-up?
US Senator Edward J. Markey on Sunday blasted the opening arguments made a day earlier by lawyers representing President Trump in his Senate impeachment trial and called on Republican colleagues to allow the introduction of new witnesses and evidence ? even as he admitted there?s little chance GOP senators will cross the aisle.

Sunshine is here ? with plans to stay a while

Sunday is expected to be a temperate day for late January, with a high temperature reaching 47 under sunny skies and a breeze in Boston. Highs in the 30s and 40s are in the forecast in the coming days, with little expectation of precipitation.

2 adults, 1 child hospitalized after Charlestown apartment fire

A fire that broke out at a Charlestown apartment building early Sunday morning displaced eight people and left two adults and one child hospitalized, fire officials said.
sunday?s child

Zadrik is talkative and friendly

In recent years, four Mass. jails got $164 million in federal money to house ICE detainees

STAT

New heart transplant method being tested for the first time in the U.S.

Opinion: Why Black doctors like me are leaving academic medicine

?How long do I have?? A website on cancer survival rates seeks to help

Watch: Consumer genetic testing: What do you get for your money?

sports

Kobe Bryant

Recounting Kobe Bryant?s most memorable Boston moments

Bryant?s shared history with the Celtics -- even before he played in the NBA -- helped shape his legacy.
PATRIOTS

20 years later, Bill Belichick hire still reverberates

His wild, controversial departure from the Jets set the stage for his joining the Patriots and kicking off the most dominant two-decade stretch in league history.

Watch live: California officials give update on helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, daughter
NHL

Some post-game shots from the All-Star game

Politics

With Trump impeachment trial set to resume, a key question remains: Will senators hear witnesses?

Business

The suburbs are cheaper, but they don?t have what Kendall Square has for biotechs: serendipity

Marijuana

State-run marijuana stores? Proponents ? including Rhode Island?s governor ? say it?s an idea worth exploring
magazine
Cover story

The 29 best new restaurants in Boston and the suburbs
Perspective

Has Louis C.K. earned a comeback?
Cooking

Recipes: Turn this stew into 2 different weeknight meals
Miss Conduct

Advice: A co-worker took a gift I left for someone else

sports

The Mookie dilemma: Red Sox face franchise-changing decision

NBA, athletes mourn Kobe Bryant after former Lakers star dies in crash

Mookie Betts trade talks evolving with Dodgers, Padres

metro

Ed Markey blasts GOP for Senate impeachment ?cover-up?

Sunshine is here ? with plans to stay a while

2 adults, 1 child hospitalized after Charlestown apartment fire

Nation

Trump defense begins by accusing Democrats of subverting election

Tape made public of Trump discussing Ukraine with donors

After berating reporter, Pompeo says she lied

World

Effects of coronavirus begin echoing far from China epicenter

?This is huge?: Locust swarms in Africa are worst in decades

75 years after Auschwitz liberation, fear that ?never again? is not assured

politics

Union Leader newspaper in New Hampshire endorses Amy Klobuchar

Trump?s legal team argues president did nothing wrong in Ukraine dealings

Warren gets coveted endorsement from Des Moines Register

business

The suburbs are cheaper, but they don?t have what Kendall Square has for biotechs: serendipity

Clayton Christensen, renowned Harvard Business School professor, dies at 67

Diverse, locally owned food start-ups make the menus at Harvard, UMass, and BC

lifestyle

Comedian Pete Holmes told Malia Obama to ?please shut the (expletive) up? while performing in Somerville

As ?flight shame? movement grows, more airlines and travelers seek to offset carbon footprint

Newton-raised actress Hari Nef joins Aly Raisman in Aerie?s self-love campaign

marijuana

State-run marijuana stores? Proponents ? including Rhode Island?s governor ? say it?s an idea worth exploring

Colorado State University gets gift to open research center on cannabis compounds

Greek police find 1.25 tons of cannabis hidden in date paste

opinion

Time to get creative on Uber and Lyft fees

When iconic restaurants close, they chip at our memories

Pelosi can hold her head up high

food & dining

At Parsnip, a Filipino pop-up is a chef?s passion project

At Good Thymes in Lowell, an emphasis on what really matters

How Eastern Standard?s Vanessa Rea-Marcel went from ice-cream scooper to award-winning sommelier

travel

As ?flight shame? movement grows, more airlines and travelers seek to offset carbon footprint

Tourism industry is (finally) shining a light on the women of the world

Learning how to ski (and have fun) from a real pro

Books

Local bestsellers for the week ending Jan. 19

Author Donna Jackson Nakazawa searches for answers, cell by cell

Swiss novelist Peter Stamm not always in it for the long haul

Movies

Report from the Sundance Film Festival: from Taylor Swift to a ?dying? dad

Some ?Gentlemen? are more gentlemanly than others

Hiding in plain, and not-so-plain, sight: Gene Hackman turns 90

Television

On ?SNL,? Adam Driver as Jeffrey Epstein and Jon Lovitz as Alan Dershowitz reunite in hell

Musical stars to sing for Oscar at awards show

?Sex Education? joins the teen TV hall of fame

music

BSO and Nelsons warm up for Asia tour, check off another Shostakovich selection

Violinist Johnny Gandelsman finds ?infinite possibilities? in Bach?s cello suites

Amid the chaos of this year?s Grammys, some predictions

Theater/Dance

Rubberband gets sociopolitical in ?Ever So Slightly?

In ?Shadow? at ArtsEmerson, revelations from a struggle to be understood

Boston stand-up Don Gavin is ready for the secret to get out

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

Michael I. Sovern, who led Columbia in eventful era

?Dark Shadows,? ?Cagney & Lacey? actor John Karlen dies

James J. McCarthy, Harvard oceanographer who focused attention on climate change, dies 75