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Police investigating fatal shooting of 16-year-old girl in Dorchester

A 16-year-old girl was fatally shot in Dorchester on Sunday evening, police said.

Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., subpoenaed by N.Y. attorney general

New York’s attorney general has issued subpoenas to former former president Donald Trump and his two eldest children in connection with an ongoing civil investigation into the family’s business practices.

Baker touts testing programs as most Mass. schools reopen amid Omicron-fueled spike

A state effort to provide COVID-19 tests for public school employees stumbled when fewer available tests forced some districts to decide whether to issue a pair of tests, or provide just one per employee.
Wu warns BPS needs to be ‘realistic’ about staffing shortages amid Omicron

As Omicron surges, fear and frustration do too for people at high risk

The pandemic has sent immunocompromised folks on an especially jagged roller-coaster ride: hope for a vaccine soon dashed by the discovery that they don’t adequately protect them, then hope for preventive treatment, dashed by news that treatment is in short supply.
FDA decides to allow Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine booster for 12- to 15-year-olds
THE LATEST COVID-19 NEWS

Schools adapt for return from break as COVID-19 cases surge; Pentagon chief says he has tested positive for COVID

Waitstaff shortage? How about a robot?
A Kendall Square restaurant is experimenting with a robot server to supplement its human waitstaff.

A Kendall Square restaurant is experimenting with a robot server: ‘It’s a big help’

Amid a labor shortage, restaurants like The Smoke Shop are starting to experiment with robots to supplement their waitstaff.
Patriots 50, Jaguars 10

christopher l. gasper
"You certainly want to be playing in the postseason," Bill Belichick said Monday, a day after clinching a postseason berth. "That’s the idea.”
For getting the Patriots back in the playoffs, Bill Belichick should take a bow
After missing out last year, in his first season without Tom Brady, Belichick made the restoration look as quick and easy as the romp over the Jaguars.

Dan Shaughnessy: Mac Jones is breaking down walls every step of the way. It’s as if he was invented by Bill Belichick Chad Finn: Mac Jones landed in a perfect spot with Bill Belichick, but Trevor Lawrence hit rock bottom with Jags
A shirtless Antonio Brown gestured to the crowd as he left the field in the third quarter Sunday.
ben volin | on football

NFL Week 17: Let’s not jump to conclusions on the Antonio Brown case

It's hard to take Brown at face value given his history of dysfunction, but he did have an ankle injury and we should at least give him a chance to explain his actions.
Tara Sullivan: Is anyone actually surprised at Antonio Brown's outburst?

Forecast | Dave Epstein
Fog shrouds the Boston skyline.
The Cape and Islands may see a few inches of snow today, but none for Boston
It’s possible that the south side of Nantucket will see 2 to 5 inches of snow. But for Boston, a Friday system will bring the best chance for getting the shovels out.

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Opinion
US Capitol Police with guns drawn stand near a barricaded door as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
Jim McGovern

The coup is still underway

Make no mistake — an aspiring dictator, egged on by his allies in Congress, failed to hold on to power this time. But those very same people haven’t given up.
Demonstrators gather for the "Justice for J6" rally in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2021, in support of the pro-Trump rioters who ransacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Claire Wardle

Jan. 6 proved that what happens online doesn’t stay online
The John Adams Courthouse is home to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which recently ruled in favor of police officers who frisked a Black man under questionable circumstances.
EDITORIAL

The state’s high court backed police who frisked a Black man under questionable circumstances. Don’t take the decision too far.
Xiomara Castro (left) and Gabriel Boric.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Hopeful political signs from Central and South America
Amethyst Carey, center, greets friends during the Trans Resistance MA March + Vigil for Black Trans Lives in Boston on June 12.
RENÉE GRAHAM

‘What happens when the world isn’t ready for you to be who you are?’
Special Project

UNDER THE WHEEL

This is the story of Anthony Pledger and his mother, of Anthony’s lives and deaths, of Anthony and me.
Espresso Pizza announced it has closed for good.
RESTAURANT CLOSURES

Medford’s Espresso Pizza joins the list of Boston-area restaurants to close amid COVID-19

We started this list as the restaurant scene was changing rapidly, with closures ramping up due to COVID-19. After a somewhat calmer summer, we’re back at it.
An American flag flies in front of Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems facility in Woburn.

Raytheon quietly resumed political donations to election deniers, report finds

Analysts found the company gave $186,000 in political action committee contributions to 62 members of Congress who voted against certifying President Biden’s election.
Adrienne Warren as Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, in ABC's “Women of the Movement.”
MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: An HBO tome, the story of Emmett Till’s mother, and the return of ‘All Creatures’

Globe TV critic Matthew Gilbert shares his thoughts on James Andrew Miller’s “Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers,” and takes a peek at new series premiering this week.

More recent stories

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Senate to vote on filibuster change on voting bill, Schumer announces
Days before the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the Senate will vote on filibuster rules changes to advance stalled voting legislation.

Mayor Michelle Wu swore in the new Boston City Council in the City Hall courtyard on Monday.
Mayor Wu swears in new Boston City Council amid anti-vax protest
The swearing-in ceremony, which marked the official beginning for a diverse group of newcomers to the council, was disrupted by a small group of protesters frustrated with the city’s vaccination mandates in response to the surge of the highly infectious Omicron variant.

Vladislav Klyushin’s Russian Ministry of Defense ID.
US catches Kremlin insider who may have secrets of 2016 hack
In the days before Christmas, US officials in Boston unveiled insider trading charges against Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian tech tycoon they had been pursuing for months.

Still no improved Mattapan trolleys nearly five years after $7.9m MBTA investment announced

The MBTA vehicle maintenance team working on refurbishing the Mattapan trolley line is more than two years behind schedule, frustrating elected officials who have long advocated for improvements.

Scituate man, 28, charged in four-car crash in Duxbury apprehended after fleeing scene

A 28-year-old Scituate man allegedly caused a multi-vehicle crash in Duxbury late Sunday that left a 59-year-old Plymouth resident seriously injured, according to State Police, who said the suspect fled the scene on foot and was apprehended a short time later.

The One Charles Park office complex in East Cambridge was sold last week and will be converted to lab space.
From Cambridge to Medford, more office buildings bound for lab space
Davis Cos. closed last week on the sale of three office buildings in the Boston area — fetching nearly $1.1 billion in all — with the vast majority of the space destined for conversion to labs.

Jason Mayden, president of Fear of God Athletics, shares his beautiful resistance.
A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt

The Questions featuring Jason Mayden

The president of Fear of God Athletics shares his beautiful resistance.
See more from A Beautiful Resistance Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

THE GREAT DIVIDE ⟶

See the latest from our education team focused on race, class, and opportunity in schools.

RHODE ISLAND ⟶

See the latest from Globe Rhode Island.

NEWTON ⟶

See the Globe’s expanded Newton coverage in partnership with Boston University.

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Marijuana in a jar.

Legal and scientific experts sharply question proposed crackdown on drugged driving

A number of the Baker administration’s highest-ranking public safety officials urged lawmakers to advance the bill, but prominent experts are stepping forward to warn the plan is fundamentally flawed.

For the fourth time in as many years, the minimum wage in Massachusetts will increase, this time from $13.50 per hour to $14.25 per hour. It’s the second-to-last in a series of hikes that will push the state’s wage floor to $15 per hour by 2023.
Massachusetts’ minimum wage will go up again. The fate of other laws is less certain in 2022
For the fourth time in as many years, the minimum wage in Massachusetts will increase on Jan. 1, this time from $13.50 per hour to $14.25.

Bob Ryan
Sam Jones was at his best in the playoffs, such as here against the Lakers in the 1968 NBA Finals.
Even for a Hall of Famer, Celtics great Sam Jones may have been underrated
Jones, who died Thursday at age 88, was a nonpareil shooter — the master of the bank shot — and his was a life well-lived.

A woman waited to board a train as it arrived at Metro Center station in Washington.
What sectors of the economy will the Omicron wave overwhelm next?
Vital public services and industries are bracing for impact from an Omicron wave that is expected to significantly slow the nation’s economy over the coming weeks.

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Culture & Lifestyle

These are some of our favorite music discoveries of the year.
MUSIC

Artists past and present, podcasts, rarities, and songs that hit the spot: Our favorite music discoveries of the year
Getting fresh air is one way to stay sane during quarantine.

Found yourself in quarantine? We asked public health experts for suggestions on how to spend the time

A 2022 podcast preview
A room with a fireplace? Yes, please. The Rose Room at Castle Hill Inn, shown here, is one option.
TRAVEL

The snuggle is real: These are the five coziest inns for a winter getaway

Special Projects

Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, then president of Brigham Health, brought a Boston delegation in April 2018 to celebrate the opening of the Boao Evergrande International Hospital in China, constructed in a new medical tourism hub.
Spotlight team report

How Brigham Health helped create a Chinese hospital for elites — and almost nobody came

In a deal worth millions with Chinese developer Evergrande, a Harvard teaching hospital risked its reputation on what would become a near-empty shell.
An older lobsterman passed by Tanner Lazaro as he hauled up his traps in his boat, Used N Abused, on Aug. 24. During the summer Tanner hauled his own traps on whatever days his mentor Frankie Thompson or another lobsterman didn't need his help.

The lobster trap

The plentiful catch that brought wealth to fishing families is at risk, as climate change warms the Gulf of Maine. A way of life is on the line, but lobstermen can't, or won't, imagine another.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

James Donovan and Skyler Brooks light their candles during a candlelight vigil for transgender activist and advocate for abuse survivors Jahaira DeAlto on May 8, 2021 in Pittsfield. DeAlto, along with Fatima Yasin, were stabbed and killed, allegedly by Yasin’s husband, on May 2.
Renée Loth

In memoriam of victims of domestic violence

IDEAS | WENDY SYFRET

Try upbeat nihilism in 2022
A station in Los Angeles was selling gas for more than $6 a gallon on Dec. 10. Many economic experts failed to predict 2021's sharp increases in the prices of gasoline and other consumer products.
JEFF JACOBY

Nobody knows anything
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Michael Burlingame

Refusal to abide by the results of elections threatens the stability of the US more than at any time since 1860
Governor Charlie Baker (left) and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Pat Greenhouse and David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
EDITORIAL

New Year’s Resolutions for the new mayor and the outgoing governor
"I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t know how I’d pull it off." The author runs along a dilapidated street in Maracaibo.
IDEAS | ANTONIO MATHEUS

The lunacy of the long distance runner

Metro

Coronavirus Live Updates

Schools adapt for return from break as COVID-19 cases surge; Pentagon chief says he has tested positive for COVID

The latest news and guidance on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in New England and beyond.

Wu warns BPS needs to be ‘realistic’ about staffing shortages amid Omicron

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday that the city will do everything it can to keep schools open as Omicron bears down on the region, but warned that keeping classrooms open may not be possible.

Schools, businesses brace for chaotic return from winter break amid Omicron spike

The pandemic’s unrelenting waves haunt working parents who don’t have anyone to look after their kids if school is closed, small businesses who depend on in-person purchases, teachers and other workers who do not have the option to do their jobs from home, and health care workers who burned out long ago.

Mayor Wu swears in new Boston City Council amid anti-vax protest

The swearing-in ceremony, which marked the official beginning for a diverse group of newcomers to the council, was disrupted by a small group of protesters frustrated with the city’s vaccination mandates in response to the surge of the highly infectious Omicron variant.

Sports

"You certainly want to be playing in the postseason," Bill Belichick said Monday, a day after clinching a postseason berth. "That’s the idea.”
christopher l. gasper

For getting the Patriots back in the playoffs, Bill Belichick should take a bow

After missing out last year, in his first season without Tom Brady, Belichick made the restoration look as quick and easy as the romp over the Jaguars.
A shirtless Antonio Brown gestured to the crowd as he left the field in the third quarter Sunday.
ben volin | on football

NFL Week 17: Let’s not jump to conclusions on the Antonio Brown case

It's hard to take Brown at face value given his history of dysfunction, but he did have an ankle injury and we should at least give him a chance to explain his actions.
Bill Belichick was happy with the way the Patriots responded after consecutive losses.
Patriots

Bill Belichick explained Patriots’ mental health approach in response to question about Antonio Brown

In his weekly interview on WEEI, Belichick also discussed how his team responded to a two-game losing streak.
live updates

COVID-19 sports updates: Lionel Messi among four PSG players to test positive

Patriots’ season finale shifted to 4:25 p.m. at Dolphins
RHODE MAP

URI is selling beer and wine at basketball games on a trial basis

Business

RESTAURANT CLOSURES

Medford’s Espresso Pizza joins the list of Boston-area restaurants to close amid COVID-19

We started this list as the restaurant scene was changing rapidly, with closures ramping up due to COVID-19. After a somewhat calmer summer, we’re back at it.

Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., subpoenaed by N.Y. attorney general

New York’s attorney general has issued subpoenas to former former president Donald Trump and his two eldest children in connection with an ongoing civil investigation into the family’s business practices.

Raytheon quietly resumed political donations to election deniers, report finds

Thousands of flights canceled, delayed at start of workweek due to snow, COVID

STAT

Dr. Monica McLemore, Associate Professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department at UCSF, stands for a portrait at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Friday, September 10th, 2021 in Oakland, Calif.
‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities
A STAT investigation shows that researchers with little or no background or training in health equity research are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.

Covid winter illustration
Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms
STAT spoke with infectious disease experts and others about what to expect from Covid-19 as the seasons change.

Funeral goers sing during a service for Daisy Pace at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in January 2021.
DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South
Photographer Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities in the South.

Boston, MA -- 05/12/21 -- Dr. Matthew Carty examines patient Jerry Majethic at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital on May 12, 2021, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real
The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.

magazine
This week's daters: Carol and Ed.
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘The lobster was still in the shell. Not a very good choice for a first date’
MISS CONDUCT

Advice: My friend billed me after I attended her birthday party
Tortilla soup.
COOKING

Recipes: Tortilla soup and two more spicy soups to warm a winter night
The best photos of 2021 from Boston Globe photographers.
2021

The 24 best photos of the year by Globe photographers

metro

Fog shrouds the Boston skyline.

The Cape and Islands may see a few inches of snow today, but none for Boston

Cambridge-based nonprofit focused on bridging opportunity gaps to open second location in Boston

Baker touts testing programs as most Mass. schools reopen amid Omicron-fueled spike

sports

Celtics head coach Ime Udoka talks with Marcus Smart and forward Grant Williams (12) during the second half against the Orlando Magic on Sunday in Boston.

The Celtics needed this win, but they’re still wildly inconsistent and make things more difficult than necessary

‘It’s about time he scored 50.’ How Jaylen Brown rescued the Celtics with a career-high performance

Adrian Phillips shares why he wanted to stay with Patriots, plus postgame comments from players

business

Waitstaff shortage? How about a robot?

From Cambridge to Medford, more office buildings bound for lab space

A Kendall Square restaurant is experimenting with a robot server: ‘It’s a big help’

politics

Former President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., subpoenaed by N.Y. attorney general

Senate to vote on filibuster change on voting bill, Schumer announces

Trump offers unusual endorsement of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban ahead of parliamentary elections

Nation

Espresso Pizza announced it has closed for good.

Medford’s Espresso Pizza joins the list of Boston-area restaurants to close amid COVID-19

Schools adapt for return from break as COVID-19 cases surge; Pentagon chief says he has tested positive for COVID

Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., subpoenaed by N.Y. attorney general

World

Passengers disembark from the cruise ship 'MSC Preziosa'', in the Port Area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Brazil health agency confirms COVID-19 cases in cruise ship

Sudan’s prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, resigns

Israel to offer 4th COVID shot to people 60 and over

opinion

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Refusal to abide by the results of elections threatens the stability of the US more than at any time since 1860

Wu is right to stay the course amid anti-vax misinformation

Policing the police finally gets underway

lifestyle

Espresso Pizza announced it has closed for good.

Medford’s Espresso Pizza joins the list of Boston-area restaurants to close amid COVID-19

In film and theater, intimacy coordinators and directors redefine how to practice safe sets

I have a bad habit of being silent

food & dining

Espresso Pizza announced it has closed for good.

Medford’s Espresso Pizza joins the list of Boston-area restaurants to close amid COVID-19

This app is preventing food waste by connecting consumers to surplus food at local restaurants in Providence and Boston

Despite a few bumps, Wusong Road is on the fast track to becoming a local favorite

travel

Jessica Brown in Greece.

TV news anchor Jessica Brown on Greece, going for the gold in London, and eating her way through Boston

What experts say about planning your 2022 vacation as Omicron surges

This Legoland deal included tickets. Where are they?

Arts

Documentary photographer Henry Horenstein has two exhibitions opening Jan. 7.

Photographer Henry Horenstein elevates the overlooked with shows in Portsmouth and Boston

In Helina Metaferia’s show at the MFA, an ‘army of women’ wear history on their heads

In SoWa Art + Design District, video gallery brings art to the sidewalk 24/7

Books

Thrity Umrigar on ‘Honor’ and dishonor

Jason Mott: reading Greek myths and comic books

A puzzling child in ‘This Boy We Made’

Movies

A photograph from a rehearsal of "Romeo and Juliet" at UMass Boston, in which Angie Jepson served as intimacy director.

In film and theater, intimacy coordinators and directors redefine how to practice safe sets

True crime; doubtful solutions

‘Green’ technology of a different sort

Television

Adrienne Warren as Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, in ABC's “Women of the Movement.”

This week’s TV: An HBO tome, the story of Emmett Till’s mother, and the return of ‘All Creatures’

In film and theater, intimacy coordinators and directors redefine how to practice safe sets

‘Our national treasure’: Tributes pour in for Emmy-winning actress and cultural icon Betty White

music

Top row (from left): Phil Chan, Kathleen Fay, Iman Habibi. Bottom row (from left): Lucia Lin, Keith Lockhart, Miki Sawada.

6 standouts in classical music on the changes they hope to see, and make, in the new year

Artists past and present, podcasts, rarities, and songs that hit the spot: Our favorite music discoveries of the year

Hey, what’s that sound?

Theater/Dance

A photograph from a rehearsal of "Romeo and Juliet" at UMass Boston, in which Angie Jepson served as intimacy director.

In film and theater, intimacy coordinators and directors redefine how to practice safe sets

Lord knows lyricist Tim Rice didn’t foresee ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ becoming such a huge hit

‘Teenage Dick’ closes early at the Huntington due to COVID cases

globe local

The Possible Project is a Cambridge-based nonprofit offering after school programs to disadvantaged youth. The organization is building a second, 36,000 sq. ft. location in Jamaica Plain and hopes to begin accepting students next year. Jake Murray (left) and Vilma Silva toured a new co-working space there.

Cambridge-based nonprofit focused on bridging opportunity gaps to open second location in Boston

Boston’s First baby of 2022 born at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

L Street Brownies mark the start of 2022 with their annual polar plunge

Obituaries

Peter Mehegan and Mary Richardson in the WCVB Channel 5-TV studio in Needham.

Mary Richardson, pioneering female anchor and ‘Chronicle’ cohost, dies at 76

Former NFL head coach Dan Reeves dies at 77

To those who departed in 2021: A look back at the notable figures who died