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Pelosi will transmit Trump impeachment article Monday, Schumer says

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will transmit Trump impeachment article Monday, triggering trial of former president, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says.
Senate Democrats call for ethics investigation into Cruz, Hawley

Lloyd Austin wins Senate confirmation as first Black defense secretary
Lloyd J. Austin, a West Point graduate who rose to the Army?s elite ranks and marched through racial barriers in a 41-year career, won Senate confirmation Friday to become the nation?s first Black secretary of defense.

Mass. exodus: A flurry of figures with Boston ties are heading to Washington. Here?s a look at who?s been tapped

Thousands of people work in the White House under each administration, and with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the helm, many will hail from Massachusetts.
The Globe's Fresh Start initiative

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.

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Going forward, the Globe will allow all people to appeal their presence in older stories published on our websites. If you?re looking for a Fresh Start, please fill out this form.

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Everyone in Phase 1 is now eligible for a coronavirus vaccination. Does that include you?

The list of those now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine is long and includes home-based health care workers, dentists, physical therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and many other groups.
Vaccine doses spoiled at Jamaica Plain VA facility Tracking who has been vaccinated here in Mass.

Biden ordering stopgap help as talks start on big aid plan

President Joe Biden plans to take executive action Friday to provide a stopgap measure of financial relief to millions of Americans while Congress begins to consider his much larger $1.9 trillion package to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden unveils a national pandemic response that Trump resisted
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Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that?s just the start.
More about Project Takeout

5 restaurants we supported this week

Want to order from local, independent restaurants? Here are some suggestions from Globe staff.

Where to get kid-friendly takeout

Here are 11 local spots with exceptional kids? menus.

Opinion

IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

A viral mystery: Does one infection prevent another?

Having one viral infection might protect you from another. Is this a clue to stopping a future pandemic?
Bruce Ackerman

John Roberts shouldn?t preside over impeachment trial. Nor should Kamala Harris
IDEAS | EVAN MCMULLIN

A conservative?s case for optimism
Renée Graham

From years of rage to tears of joy

Alex Beam

The ?New Sobriety? movement isn?t all it?s cracked up to be

Barbara Erickson, CEO of Trustees of Reservations since 2012, dies from rare form of cancer
Erickson, who was 42, had led the Trustees since 2012, and was only the fourth person ? and first woman ? to hold the job since the organization was founded in 1891.

Their friendship began 95 years ago, and it?s still going strong
Not even the COVID-19 pandemic has kept centenarians Allan Bikofsky and Joe Steinberg from staying in touch.

Shirley Leung

Restaurant reservations are off 78 percent, business foot traffic is down 50 percent. Should Boston loosen COVID-19 restrictions?

Since mid-December, Boston has rolled back its economy further than the state by closing museums, gyms, movie theaters, and other businesses. These restrictions are set to expire Wednesday, and city officials are weighing whether to extend them again.

Developer eyes another million square feet of labs, offices, and apartments for Harvard project
Tishman Speyer won one of the most sought-after development prizes in Boston when Harvard selected the company from a list of nearly 20 bidders to oversee development of 14 acres across from Harvard Business School.

For prosecutors, Trump?s clemency decisions were a ?kick in the teeth?

Just days after being granted clemency by former President Trump and released after serving four years of his 20-year sentence, Philip Esformes, a former nursing home executive who orchestrated one of the biggest Medicare frauds in US history, was under a disco ball celebrating his daughter?s wedding.

Boston scraps plans for Melnea Cass Boulevard following uproar over potential removal of trees
The city of Boston is discarding a plan that would have revamped Melnea Cass Boulevard, after community concerns about the environmental, social, and transportation effects of the initiative.

Four-year-old child seriously injured in Falmouth crash
A four-year-old was seriously injured in a car crash on Route 151 in Falmouth Thursday, police said.

Super Bowl to host 7,500 healthcare workers among 22,000 fans
Most of the workers will be from the Tampa area, but each of the 32 NFL teams will also be allowed to select local workers to send to the game at Raymond James Stadium as well.

Recommended Reads

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Boston?s exam schools adopt stricter camera mandates, frustrating some students

Schools across the country weighed the risks and benefits of camera mandates this fall, for kindergarten story time as well as college midterms. Some students fear the new policy puts a heavier burden on low-income students, who are more likely to live in small, crowded homes with unreliable Internet service.

Jeneé Osterheldt
On Inauguration Day, the hill we climb and the dreams we can no longer defer
National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman read ?The Hill We Climb? at the inauguration of President Biden. A poem for us.

?Straight Pride? organizer jailed for alleged role in US Capitol attack freed but banned from protests, travel
A federal magistrate agreed to release Mark G. Sahady from jail Thursday but banned out-of-state travel.

metro

Watch live: Mayor Walsh speaks about coronavirus
Mayor Martin J. Walsh is expected to give an update on the city?s COVID-19 response.

RHODE MAP

What can Governor Raimondo do with the remaining $704,000 in her campaign account?

Ted Thompson, 68, GM when Packers won last Super Bowl, dies

Sports

Timeline: Looking back at Hank Aaron?s life and legendary career
In 1952, Aaron signed with the Boston Braves. By 1954, he had earned a spot in the big leagues after the team moved to Milwaukee.

baseball

Will Curt Schilling?s inflammatory rhetoric keep him out of the Hall of Fame?

Hank Aaron, the Braves legend and former home-run king who left his mark across 23 seasons in MLB, dies at 86

business

Stocks slip on Wall Street as worldwide rally takes a pause
The S&P 500 was 0.5 percent lower in morning trading, a day after inching up to its second straight all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 240 points, or 0.8 percent.

Biden ordering stopgap help as talks start on big aid plan

Barbara Erickson, CEO of Trustees of Reservations since 2012, dies from rare form of cancer

politics

Watch live: White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds press conference
Jen Psaki will hold a press conference amid Joe Biden?s second full day in office.

Pelosi will transmit Trump impeachment article Monday, Schumer says

Lloyd Austin wins Senate confirmation as first Black defense secretary

lifestyle

IN THE FAMILY WAY
Where to get kid-friendly takeout
Here are 11 local spots with exceptional kids? menus.

QUICK BITE

Geppetto carves out a niche in an evolving corner of Cambridge

Baker lifted his 9:30 p.m. curfew, but will it help restaurants?

arts

Bringing ?Moneyball?-style? data to the high-end art market
Artnome founder Jason Bailey originally set out to curb forgeries. Now he seeks to serve collectors with information and insights.

What?s happening in the arts world
TELEVISION

Imagine that: Some reboots and revivals TV hasn?t thought of yet

rhode island

RHODE MAP
What can Governor Raimondo do with the remaining $704,000 in her campaign account?
Spoiler alert: She can?t use it to buy a condo in Washington, D.C.

RI NEWS

More than 100 Rhode Island employees made more than $200,000 last year
CORONAVIRUS

R.I.?s COVID-19 rates trending down, but officials ask for patience on vaccines

Newton

Special Projects

A beautiful resistance | JENEÉ OSTERHELDT

With every sip, a labor of love

In Vermont, a winemaker is cultivating a legacy that pays homage to the Black folk who built this country and is celebrating life and the future of farming.
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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

2020 Bostonians of the Year: The Front Line
They stood up to fight the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice. Meet the people leading us through a harrowing year.

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

Inauguration Fashion

Inaugural fashion nods to political unity and American design

Before she strode across the Capitol dais on Wednesday to take her oath of office, Vice President Harris had already made a statement: one in brilliant purple. Several other guests at the inauguration also chose the hue, a rich blend of partisan red and blue.

Bernie Sanders and his bulky Vermont-made mittens won the Internet on Inauguration Day

Vermont senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders stole the show at Wednesday's inauguration when he sported oven mittens created by a teacher in his home state.

The BPL has posted 8,000 photos from its collection to Wikimedia Commons

The upload from the library's collection is in honor of Wikipedia?s 20th anniversary.
HISTORY

Inauguration Day trivia! From historic firsts to feats

All the stats you need on taking the presidential oath.

How to fall in love with winter running

How (and where) to keep moving amid Boston's chill, snow, and ice.
COMFORT ZONE

Five presidents and their musical moments

One hosted Elvis at the White House. Another channeled Al Green. And guess who had the best stereo in town?

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

Biden takes on a long-deferred overhaul of immigration
Scot Lehigh

America re-embraces normality
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Biden?s same old foreign policy
Michael A. Cohen

Biden?s speech is what America needed to hear
EDITORIAL

Can a salve for a wounded nation become the glue that binds it?
IDEAS | MAGGIE JACKSON

The gift of being unsure of what to do

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
On the Cover

For schoolchildren struggling to read, COVID-19 has been a wrecking ball
Perspective

Three reasons why I know we have a great couple years ahead

Globe Magazine

Jujubee?s guide to making 2021 just a little brighter

Style Watch

Home design ideas: Making room for a study space and storage

sports

Washington?s Jennifer King set to become NFL?s first Black woman named full-time assistant coach

Super Bowl to host 7,500 healthcare workers among 22,000 fans

Brimming with young talent, Cathedral boys? basketball building for the future

metro

Boston Globe launches ?Fresh Start? initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed

The Globe?s Fresh Start initiative: Frequently Asked Questions

The Globe?s Fresh Start initiative: Submit your appeal

Nation

Watch live: White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds press conference

Has Mass. passed the peak of the second surge? Here?s what the numbers show

Massachusetts unemployment rate climbs to 7.4 percent in December

World

Biden?s US revives support for WHO, reversing Trump retreat

Biden administration to seek five-year extension on key nuclear arms treaty in first foray with Russia

China fires parting sanctions at Trump officials; seeks ?better angels? in Biden team

politics

Mass. exodus: A flurry of figures with Boston ties are heading to Washington. Here?s a look at who?s been tapped

?This is absurd:? Scores of National Guard members banished to Senate parking garage, soldiers say

Senate Democrats call for ethics investigation into Cruz, Hawley

business

Opponents continue push against Maine power project

Restaurant reservations are off 78 percent, business foot traffic is down 50 percent. Should Boston loosen COVID-19 restrictions?

Developer eyes another million square feet of labs, offices, and apartments for Harvard project

lifestyle

Newly single, seeking life partner

Is anyone more meme-able than Bernie? Debatable

Perillas expands to Brighton; Manoa resumes regular weekend service

marijuana

Healey appoints new commissioner to Mass. marijuana agency

Study: smoking pot raises level of harmful chemicals in body but smoking tobacco is more harmful

Q&A with outgoing cannabis commissioner Shaleen Title

opinion

A note from Italy to America

N.H. telecommuters have a point in fighting Mass. income tax

Brady chases another championship (woulda, coulda, shoulda)

food & dining

Geppetto carves out a niche in an evolving corner of Cambridge

Baker lifted his 9:30 p.m. curfew, but will it help restaurants?

Perillas expands to Brighton; Manoa resumes regular weekend service

travel

How to unlock an Airbnb account restricted because of COVID-19

Food and love are a great match in Portland, Maine. But does it make sense to go in winter?

That Trump sendoff song is really about gay sexual freedom

Books

Heal thyself in ?The Doctors Blackwell?

A fan of Wonder Woman and librarians

Life after loss in ?Sanctuary?

Movies

Doc Talk: Taking trains, dancing through age, visiting Earth (maybe), fighting for justice

Why the short shrift for movie shorts?

Mr. van Rijn? Why, meet Mr. Lurie.

Television

Imagine that: Some reboots and revivals TV hasn?t thought of yet

Podcasts are hot, hot, hot as TV adaptations

No inaugural balls on this night: just Tom Hanks, music, fireworks, and feel-good affirmations

music

Five presidents and their musical moments

What it takes to build a ?modular? opera

Passim sends grants totaling $40,000 to 24 project-minded musicians

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet revisits Yakobson gems and previews new work for spring

We, the jury: How courtroom dramas have primed us for Trump?s impeachment trial

The wide boundaries of ?Our Town?

globe local

Stream a concert right into your ?parlor?

To many in Newton, Kamala Harris?s vice presidency is a ?universal inspiration?

Their friendship began 95 years ago, and it?s still going strong

Obituaries

Ted Thompson, 68, GM when Packers won last Super Bowl, dies

Frank Limoncelli, former manager of Globe classified advertising, dies at 87

Don Sutton, Hall of Fame pitcher for Dodgers, dies at 75