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Mass. reports 2,546 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 46 new deaths

The state also said 71,948 people were estimated to have active cases of the potentially deadly virus.

Forecast | Dave Epstein
Major winter storm on the way to Mass. on Monday
There?s a lot of strong evidence for some very intense snow tomorrow evening.

Snowstorm expected to begin Monday afternoon, could leave more than a foot in Boston Snow is projected to fall in Mass. on Monday. Here?s how much your area could see

Federal grand jury investigating potential fraud by top Methuen officials in approving exorbitant police salaries

Federal investigators have demanded all records related to a 2017 union contract which would have paid some Methuen police captains more than $400,000 and indirectly boosted the pay of controversial Chief Joseph Solomon.

What you need to know if you?re signed up to get the vaccine Monday

If you are signed up to receive the coronavirus vaccine Monday ? or plan on trying to get an appointment in the near future ? here?s what to know.
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Anti-vaccine protesters temporarily shut down major coronavirus vaccine site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles
One of the largest vaccination sites in the country briefly shut down Saturday afternoon because maskless, anti-vaccine protesters blocked the entrance, officials said.

Ten Republican senators offer stimulus compromise, ask for Biden meeting

A group of 10 Republican senators wrote to President Biden with an alternative proposal on COVID-19 economic stimulus that they say would gain bipartisan support, and urged a meeting to discuss it.

Trump parts ways with five lawyers handling impeachment defense

Former president Donald Trump has abruptly parted ways with five lawyers handling his impeachment defense, just over a week before the Senate trial is set to begin, people familiar with the situation said Saturday.

Mitt Romney calls out Marjorie Taylor Greene for pushing ?big lie? of a stolen election
Republican lawmakers Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mitt Romney made waves on Saturday with a public Twitter spat.

GOP Representative Kinzinger starts PAC to resist party?s Trump embrace Trump loyalists in South Dakota turn on home state Senator John Thune

Opinion

EDITORIAL

US reengages with the world

But near-term crises and the inevitable ?testing? of Biden?s leadership observe no honeymoon.
IDEAS | DAVID H. ROSMARIN

The psychologist will see everyone now
IDEAS | DAVID VELASQUEZ

One day, two worlds
IDEAS | KELLY HORAN

Karilyn Crockett, Boston?s chief of equity, on the city?s racial reckoning
Kimberly Atkins

With Biden in office, when will Breyer retire?

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

3 restaurants we supported this week How to help local spots without spending money Learn more about Project Takeout

COMFORT ZONE
How TikTok made one Bostonian a ?not-so starving artist?
Creating 60-second skits is comedian Stanzi Potenza?s full-time job, with more than 565,000 TikTok followers and her video collection receiving 20.5 million likes.

Newton native John Krasinski hosted ?SNL? for the first time. See some of his sketches
Newton native John Krasinski made his hosting debut on ?Saturday Night Live? this weekend, which also marked the first episode of the show to air this year.

?What still works??: ?SNL? tackles GameStop, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the vaccine rollout ? and even Tom Brady

shirley leung
The Seaport has become Boston?s Innovation District. Somewhere former mayor Tom Menino is saying ?I told you so?
Rather than commissioning a study on whether tech types would flock to the waterfront, the Menino administration took a page from the entrepreneurs they wanted to court: City Hall experimented.

Young men accuse Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver of harassment

The influential anti-Donald Trump group Lincoln Project is denouncing one of its co-founders after multiple reports that over several years he sexually harassed young men looking to break into politics.

Ambulance rolls over in Allston, leaving EMTs with minor injuries

An ambulance rolled over on Western Avenue Sunday afternoon, leaving the EMTs inside with minor injuries, State Police said.

Major League Baseball proposes one-month delay to spring training, and 2021 season
The players are expected to reject the proposal, which calls for a 154-game schedule and the DH in both leagues.

Red Sox? Tommy Harper sees racial bias in neighbor?s police complaint, Facebook post
Tommy Harper, who is Black, thought his white neighbor's reaction to a dispute over her dog was influenced by race.

Louis W. Cabot, former president and chairman of Cabot Corp., dies at 99
Mr. Cabot had been president and chairman of Cabot Corp., the company his grandfather founded.

Recommended Reads

Historically, crises have lasted longest in Black communities. Bostonians worry that COVID-19 will be no different

All signs point to COVID-19 leaving Black Americans likely to suffer elevated joblessness and poverty, vulnerability to infection, and poor health outcomes for many months to come.

What Capitol attack? Amnesia sets in among Republicans in Washington
Republicans ? some of whom initially showed willingness to push for consequences for Donald Trump ? have swiftly closed ranks around a new message: Let it go.

We may soon have a third vaccine. Here?s what you need to know about the Johnson & Johnson shot
The new Johnson & Johnson vaccine was hailed as good news, even though the company reported its one-shot dose had a lower efficacy rate than its two-shot rivals. Here's why.

metro

In push for clean transportation, Mass. focuses on electric cars over public transit
The state is not dismissing the role of public transit. But officials see the state?s auto-centric approach as appropriate, reflecting a plain reality: Even in Massachusetts, home to one of the nation?s most widely used transit systems, most people get around by car.

Blue Hills in Canton reopens after ski lift accidents last week

Snow is projected to fall in Mass. on Monday. Here?s how much your area could see

Sports

Matthew Stafford was reportedly willing to go anywhere but the Patriots
No reason was given for Stafford?s reported demand.

AT THE SENIOR BOWL

Deep wide receiver pool projects to help depleted Patriots, should they choose
NATE WEITZER | HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

For no-huddle football programs, Fall II modifications should pose no problems

business

Biden could change course in high court health care case
The pending Supreme Court case on the fate of the Affordable Care Act could give the Biden administration its first opportunity to chart a new course in front of the justices.

Building a bridge to normalcy, some companies follow the universities? example and test employees regularly
shirley leung

The Seaport has become Boston?s Innovation District. Somewhere former mayor Tom Menino is saying ?I told you so?

politics

As Biden plans global democracy summit, skeptics say: Heal thyself first
Among President Biden?s most specific foreign policy promises was a pledge to convene a global democracy summit during his first year in office.

Ten Republican senators offer stimulus compromise, ask for Biden meeting

GOP Representative Kinzinger starts PAC to resist party?s Trump embrace

lifestyle

COMFORT ZONE
How TikTok made one Bostonian a ?not-so starving artist?
Creating 60-second skits is comedian Stanzi Potenza?s full-time job, with more than 565,000 TikTok followers and her video collection receiving 20.5 million likes.

?City on a Hill? heads to Roxbury for Season 2
DEVRA FIRST

Boston-area restaurants are offering subscriptions to keep their kitchens busy during the pandemic

arts

Newton native John Krasinski hosted ?SNL? for the first time. See some of his sketches
Newton native John Krasinski made his hosting debut on ?Saturday Night Live? this weekend, which also marked the first episode of the show to air this year.

?What still works??: ?SNL? tackles GameStop, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the vaccine rollout ? and even Tom Brady
NAMES

Min Jin Lee?s ?Free Food for Millionaires? in development at Netflix

rhode island

CORONAVIRUS
Pandemic takes heavy toll on Latino-owned businesses in R.I.
The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce estimates 30 percent of the state?s Latino-owned businesses have closed since the outbreak began.

RI EDUCATION

R.I. legislative leaders want to make Rhode Island Promise permanent
RI SPORTS

Brown University Athletics Director Jack Hayes steps down after a decade

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.
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

Want to get kids outside this winter? Try selling them on animal tracking

Youngsters can get started with these tips from an expert.

?This work must be in an institution.? Amanda Gorman portrait gifted to Harvard

Ghanaian artist Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne painted the piece in just five days.
IN THE FAMILY WAY

Pandemic socializing means pods, smaller groups, and sometimes exclusion. Here?s how to help your child (and maybe even yourself)

Dealing with a pandemic is bad enough; questioning your social worth doesn?t make it any better. How to cope? We talked to three experts for ideas.

?Moved to Act? at the Multicultural Arts Center gathers images of protest

Protests of all types are the subject of a photography show in Cambridge.

19 mysteries and thrillers to lose yourself in this winter

Nothing takes the mind away from the twists and turns of reality like the twists and turns of a good mystery novel.
COMFORT ZONE

Three walks with poets through their favorite landscapes

They are worth visiting now, and worth revisiting later to watch the change of seasons.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

What?s taking so long to cancel Boston?s special election?
Renée Graham

A prophecy about white domestic terrorism foretold ? and ignored
IDEAS | STEVE NADIS

Q&A: The end of Cult 45?
Scot Lehigh

Arm yourself against conspiracy theories

EDITORIAL

Biden must not miss the urgency of the moment on criminal justice reform
IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

A viral mystery: Does one infection prevent another?

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
The Pandemic

Helping health care workers: The Emotional PPE Project covers what masks don't

On the Cover

Music's first responder: How Yo-Yo Ma consoled a reeling nation
Perspective

Is reconciliation in a divided America possible? Look to Northern Ireland to see what could happen.

Cooking

Recipes: Italian flatbread, focaccia, and pizza dough

sports

Major League Baseball proposes one-month delay to spring training, and 2021 season

Ron Johnson leaves behind a lifetime of memories for those he touched during his long career in baseball

For the Celtics to be better, Kemba Walker has to step up

metro

Federal grand jury investigating potential fraud by top Methuen officials in approving exorbitant police salaries

Louis W. Cabot, former president and chairman of Cabot Corp., dies at 99

Fiery Black abolitionist from Boston is all but forgotten. Yet his words still resonate.

Nation

Columbia Swinson: Good will and Italian meatballs

Dorothy Proietti, 92: Wanted a big Italian family ? and got one

Mass. reports 2,546 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 46 new deaths Sunday

World

EU makes a sudden and embarrassing U-turn on vaccines

At elite French universities, students demand environmental action

?Like wartime?: Canadian companies unite to start mass virus testing

politics

Trump loyalists in South Dakota turn on home state Senator John Thune

Trump parts ways with five lawyers handling impeachment defense

For McCarthy and McConnell, two paths on Trumpian crisis management

business

White House presses ahead on coronavirus economic aid even as Republicans withhold support

Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray tapped to run mass vaccination sites

Biden warns of growing cost of delay on $1.9t economic aid plan

lifestyle

Is a first date ever fun?

Want to get kids outside this winter? Try selling them on animal tracking

Pandemic socializing means pods, smaller groups, and sometimes exclusion. Here?s how to help your child (and maybe even yourself)

marijuana

Northampton drops controversial fees on marijuana companies

Marijuana trade group drops lawsuit against state after backlash

2 years after legalizing cannabis, has Canada kept its promises?

opinion

Even if not in urban stores? straits, suburban retailers face crushing woes

US reengages with the world

The psychologist will see everyone now

food & dining

Boston-area restaurants are offering subscriptions to keep their kitchens busy during the pandemic

Japanese sandwiches come to Central Square; Bianchi?s stages a comeback in Revere

Filling a hole in the banh mi-verse

travel

When travel resumes, politics is ?absolutely? likely to affect where people want to go and where they?ll feel welcome

On Chinese food around the world, a love of snacks, and the wonder of planes

?Things will never be as they were before.? An expert offers 12 COVID-era air travel trends and predictions

Books

19 mysteries and thrillers to lose yourself in this winter

Finding oneself in ?Surviving the White Gaze?

Every book is arguably a journey, but as the pandemic grinds on, those that are explicitly about journeys hold special appeal

Movies

A dozen or so great moments in screen overacting

Doc Talk: Escher aesthetics, extremist extrication, homelessness in Hungary

A long night?s journey in ?Malcolm & Marie?

Television

Newton native John Krasinski hosted ?SNL? for the first time. See some of his sketches

?What still works??: ?SNL? tackles GameStop, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the vaccine rollout ? and even Tom Brady

Min Jin Lee?s ?Free Food for Millionaires? in development at Netflix

music

Online concerts replace the BSO season that might have been

Louie Phipps is about to release his debut album, with help from some first-class musicians. He?s 9.

Boston Lyric Opera drops a fully animated ?Fall of the House of Usher? production

Theater/Dance

Actor Denis O?Hare on ?King Lear,? Trump, and the one role he never wants to play again

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

globe local

Snow is projected to fall in Mass. on Monday. Here?s how much your area could see

High pressure will keep things dry and cold through Sunday afternoon, then snow on Monday

How this Gloucester restaurant transformed into a haven for homeless people

Obituaries

Louis W. Cabot, former president and chairman of Cabot Corp., dies at 99

Ezra Vogel, a Harvard scholar of Japan and China, dies at 90

Sekou Smith, award-winning NBA reporter and analyst, dies at 48