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Friday Snow Storm

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Storm prep

Snow will start in the predawn hours on Friday.

Dave Epstein | Forecast

Southern New England can expect its first significant snow Friday morning

It’s coming a little later than usual, but we’ve never had a winter where it hasn’t snowed at least 6 inches and it’s not going to be this one.

MassDOT says it’s confident in staffing levels for snow removal ahead of winter storm

Expected snowfall on Friday.

These maps show how much snow is expected to fall in Mass. by Friday evening

Despite low snowfall totals across the state so far this winter, Massachusetts and other parts of Southern New England will see significant snowfall on Friday.

A snow covered school bus traveled in the early morning enroute in Milton the day after a snowstorm hit the Boston area.

See Mass. school closures for Friday’s snow storm

As Southern New England expects its first significant snowfall of the season, Massachusetts schools are announcing school closures on Friday.

The Capitol Insurrection: One Year Later

‘I will defend this nation.’ Biden denounces Trump’s ‘web of lies’ as he remembers Jan. 6 insurrection

President Biden’s criticism was blistering of the “defeated president” who he blamed for the attack that has fundamentally changed Congress and raised concerns about the future of American democracy.

Analysis: The Sept. 11 era has ended. The Jan. 6 era has just begun Baker says Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection will ‘stain this nation’s history forever’

Capitol Police officers stood outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

Republicans’ reactions to Jan. 6 anniversary ranged from somber to flippant. Here’s a look

Brian McCreary, of Springfield, with mask, next to Jacob Anthony Chansley (center), and other supporters of President Trump who swarmed the US Capitol,

Jan. 6 arrests included 11 from New England. A look at who they are

THE LATEST COVID-19 NEWS

Biden administration urged to change its COVID strategy

24,570 confirmed cases and 43 deaths. See today’s COVID-19 data from Mass.

Here’s a look at the latest coronavirus numbers in Massachusetts, including case numbers, deaths, demographics, and more.

Mass. hospitals will begin reporting primary vs. incidental COVID-19 admissions on Monday, DPH says

Mass. schools return to class with highest COVID cases this academic year; state reports 38,887 new coronavirus cases among students and 12,213 among staff

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

Gloucester teenager dies from COVID-19 complications, family says

Kurt Ryan, a 15-year-old Gloucester High School sophomore, passed away on Jan. 4 due to complications from COVID-19.

‘True definition of soul mates’: A New Hampshire couple died of COVID-19 just seconds apart, holding hands as they took their last breaths

Bill and Carol Stewart were together for more than four decades. On the day they died, their hospital beds were wheeled into the same room so they could spend their final moments together.

Kevin Hayden, chair of the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board, spoke with Jim Braude, host of GBH News’ Greater Boston on Jan. 11, 2016 at the GBH Studios in Brighton, Mass.

Baker picks Kevin R. Hayden as Suffolk DA, with Rachael Rollins poised to become US attorney

Governor Charlie Baker has appointed Kevin Hayden to serve as Suffolk district attorney for the remainder of the term vacated by Rachael Rollins, who’ll be sworn in as US attorney for Massachusetts on Monday.

Investigators at the scene of a crash between two Green line T trains.

Suffolk District Attorney Rollins launches criminal probe into MBTA regarding Green Line crash that left 27 people hurt

Outgoing Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said Thursday that her office has launched a criminal probe into the MBTA stemming from a July 2021 Green Line crash that sent 27 people to the hospital.

Harmony Montgomery.

Woman linked to missing N.H. girl arrested for allegedly collecting welfare benefits for child

The wife of a man charged in connection with his 7-year-old daughter’s 2019 disappearance in New Hampshire has been arrested herself, for allegedly collecting government assistance benefits meant for the missing child, authorities said Thursday.

Kevin Cullen: The silent screams of invisible children

Opinion

President Joe Biden speaks in Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, marking one year since the deadly assault on the Capitol. President Biden denounced former president Donald Trump for promoting lies and tearing down American democracy because he could not stand the fact that he lost an election, accusing his predecessor of putting his own interests ahead of the country’s.

Biden’s powerful warning about democracy

Will his wake-up call work?

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Confusion is also a COVID-19 variant. The CDC is spreading it.

Health care workers put in a dialysis line in a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester on Dec. 2.

Kevin Tabb, Kate Walsh, Anne Klibanski, and Michael Dandorph

Hospitals are doing their part on COVID-19; we ask the public to do theirs

Cornell William Brooks speaks outside the Justice Department in Washington in 2017.

Deborah D. Douglas

Q&A: You know we’re at war, right?

Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, in Board Game Art Park across from Philadelphia City Hall, was one of few members of the GOP to publicly disavow the lie that President Donald Trump won the last election. As a result, Schmidt has been attacked and targeted by the base of the party such that he had to move his children away from home with a constant security detail.

Threats against election officials must be stopped

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.

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Ben Affleck talks about ‘The Tender Bar,’ sobriety, and what it’s like being ‘the guy from Boston’

With “The Tender Bar” starting to stream on Amazon Prime Jan. 7 — it opened in theaters last month — we asked the Cambridge native if he had a few minutes to chat. He said sure.

A 5-year-old playing with a lighter might have started fatal Philadelphia fire, according to a search warrant

Investigators are looking into whether a 5-year-old child playing with a lighter set a Christmas tree on fire, sparking a conflagration that killed 12 people in a Philadelphia rowhome, officials revealed Thursday.

TABLES

McGuirk’s Folly pops up at Middlesex Lounge; Salt + Stone comes to Somerville

Plus, a bar menu with spicy cheese dip, poutine, pigs in a blanket, maple-bourbon wings, and more.

THE FINE PRINT

You can return an ugly sweater. What about a gift card you don’t want?

Tens of billions of dollars’ worth of gift cards got handed out during the holidays. Here's everything you need to know.

First woman to command USS Constitution dreamed of being in the Navy since sixth grade

The USS Constitution’s public affairs office announced Tuesday, Jan. 4 that Farrell, 39, will be the first woman ever to hold the title of commanding officer aboard the historic warship.

Violent crime declined in the city in 2021, property crimes also reported down, Boston police say

Violent crime in Boston fell by 15 percent in 2021, and property crime dipped by 13 percent as the city’s sworn officers “continued to drive down” those numbers while arresting fewer people, the Police Department said Thursday.

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The Massachusetts National Guard was deployed early in the pandemic to help overwhelmed nursing homes test staff and residents. Now nursing homes are urging the Baker administration to call in the Guard again.

Nursing homes at a tipping point: Many are forced to freeze admissions, stranding patients in hospitals for weeks

Nursing home leaders are calling on the Baker administration to provide help from the National Guard.

This chart may tell us more about the Mass. COVID surge than any other. Here’s why

Waste water — or sewage — surveillance data may provide the clearest picture of just how widely COVID-19 is circulating in the population right now. The staggering numbers are raising alarms about where the state, and the nation, might be headed.

Massachusetts lawmakers look to outlaw ‘stealthing,’ or nonconsensual condom removal

The practice of nonconsensual condom removal is common, but most states’ laws are silent on it. Now, some Beacon Hill lawmakers are pushing a bill that would make Massachusetts the first state to create both civil and criminal penalties for “stealthing.”

What to do if you test positive for COVID

As the Omicron variant continues to rapidly spread across the United States, many Americans, including those who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, are bound to test positive for the disease at some point.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Khao soi (center), tonkotsu ramen (right), and pho tai at the Soup Shack in Jamaica Plain.

January is National Soup Month. Here are 16 must-stop spots for soup in the Boston area

Maurice Emmanuel Parent with "Mr. Parent" director Megan Sandberg-Zakian.

The team that put ‘Mr. Parent’ in a class, by himself

Lowell's St. Jean Baptiste Church could one day house the Jack Kerouac Museum and Performance Center.

Newly formed Jack Kerouac Foundation aims to build a museum and performance center in Lowell

SubSpace's 2022 winter and spring "headliner" Taraji P. Henson.

Actress and advocate Taraji P. Henson is part of the Museum of Science’s upcoming programming

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, in Board Game Art Park across from Philadelphia City Hall, was one of few members of the GOP to publicly disavow the lie that President Donald Trump won the last election. As a result, Schmidt has been attacked and targeted by the base of the party such that he had to move his children away from home with a constant security detail.

Threats against election officials must be stopped

Former president Donald Trump, along with his enablers in the White House, Congress, and beyond, tried to subvert democracy in order to stay in power. There must be a reckoning for them as perpetrators of the lie that instigated the Jan. 6 insurrection.

A year later, waiting for justice

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnel's long game may be to delegitimize Trump, via the findings of the Jan. 6 committee, to the point where the former president can retain his base of loyalists but not expand it enough to run again for president in 2024.

For once, what’s good for Mitch McConnell could also be good for the country

Members of the military band rehearse in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

China gives us a taste of our own medicine

A statue of John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland.

IDEAS | KATHRYN TANNER

The Protestant work ethic doesn’t demand devotion to your job

IDEAS | WENDY SYFRET

Try upbeat nihilism in 2022

Metro

Central Falls becoming a pandemic hot spot once again

City’s chief health strategist predicts Rhode Island will see 25,000 to 50,000 cases per day by next week.

Rhode Island lawyers in a hot tub on New Year’s Day, what could go wrong?

Ryan McNelis was arraigned Tuesday before District Court Judge James Carulolo on multiple charges from that night.

See Mass. school closures for Friday’s snow storm

As Southern New England expects its first significant snowfall of the season, Massachusetts schools are announcing school closures on Friday.

Coronavirus Live Updates

Biden administration urged to change its COVID strategy

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

Sports

Dolphins coach Brian Flores (left) believes Bill Belichick's consistency is often overlooked.

patriots notebook

Dolphins coach Brian Flores has taken New England wisdom to Miami

Flores, who was with the Patriots from 2004-18, squares off against his former mentor, Bill Belichick, for the sixth time Sunday.

Hingham's Matty Beniers, a center from the University of Michigan, was taken second overall by the Seattle Kraken in the 2021 NHL draft.

Men’s college hockey notebook

Tenth-ranked UMass men’s hockey ready to take on powerhouse No. 6 Michigan

UMass travels this weekend for a two-game series at Michigan, which had three of the top four picks in this summer's NHL Draft.

Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is among the league leaders in several passing statistics.

Bengals will rest quarterback Joe Burrow in season finale Sunday

Burrow is nursing a sore right knee and sore finger on his throwing hand.

JIM CLARK | BOYS' HOCKEY NOTEBOOK

Caden Connors, Nick Dicioccio give Tewksbury boys’ hockey a pair of game-changing, puck-moving defensemen

revolution notebook

Winter home dates and Champions League games highlight Revolution’s early schedule

COVID-19 sports updates: The latest postponements, positive tests and more

Business

Corporate PACs bet on GOP takeover, hand cash to election deniers

Corporations have resumed donations to Republican lawmakers who objected to certifying the 2020 presidential election results the day a mob stormed the US Capitol, betting that the GOP will retake the House in November’s midterm elections.

US jobless claims rise by 7,000, but still low at 207,000

US labor force appears solid despite unemployment applications numbers hitting over 200,000 during New Year's week.

One in three NYC small businesses have vaccination requirements

More than 1,700 flights canceled Thursday after two weeks of disruption

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‘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.

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.

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.

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

The roller-skating heroes who fought racism in Boston

What reformed extremists taught me about preventing another Capitol insurrection

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’

My friend billed me after I attended her birthday party

metro

First grade teacher Donna Hennessy, left, picks up a COVID test kit from Jordan Weymer, right, principal at Donald McKay K-8 school in East Boston.

Mass. schools return to class with highest COVID cases this academic year; state reports 38,887 new coronavirus cases among students and 12,213 among staff

Vocational schools offer adults a blueprint for success, with classes funded by the state

R.I. doubles down on in-person learning, shortens quarantine time for kids and school staff

sports

Zack Scott was fired by the Mets after his arrest in August of 2021.

Former Mets acting GM Zack Scott acquitted of DUI charges

Group that has been busy buying minor league teams has its eye on Worcester Red Sox

Buccaneers terminate the contract of wide receiver Antonio Brown

business

Gift cards on display for sale at a retail store in Dallas, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021.

You can return an ugly sweater. What about a gift card you don’t want?

New York Times buys the Athletic in $550 million deal

The startup incubator for everyone else: EforAll’s growth in Roxbury

politics

President Joe Biden spoke from statuary hall.

‘I will defend this nation.’ Biden denounces Trump’s ‘web of lies’ as he remembers Jan. 6 insurrection

Corporate PACs bet on GOP takeover, hand cash to election deniers

Republicans’ reactions to Jan. 6 anniversary ranged from somber to flippant. Here’s a look

Nation

Soot covered the exterior wall of the building of Wednesday's fatal fire in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia on Thursday.

A 5-year-old playing with a lighter might have started fatal Philadelphia fire, according to a search warrant

‘I will defend this nation.’ Biden denounces Trump’s ‘web of lies’ as he remembers Jan. 6 insurrection

Biden administration urged to change its COVID strategy

World

People line up for coronavirus testing in Xi'an, China, on Sunday.

China’s latest lockdown shows stubborn resolve on zero-COVID

France hits another record for COVID infections

Germany seeks to dodge full lockdown with ‘reasonable measures’

opinion

Cornell William Brooks speaks outside the Justice Department in Washington in 2017.

Q&A: You know we’re at war, right?

For once, what’s good for Mitch McConnell could also be good for the country

What happens to voting rights in the US doesn’t stay in the US

lifestyle

Green tea and mango ice creams at Toscanini's.

The scoop on Main Street: Toscanini’s returns

McGuirk’s Folly pops up at Middlesex Lounge; Salt + Stone comes to Somerville

January is National Soup Month. Here are 16 must-stop spots for soup in the Boston area

food & dining

Green tea and mango ice creams at Toscanini's.

The scoop on Main Street: Toscanini’s returns

McGuirk’s Folly pops up at Middlesex Lounge; Salt + Stone comes to Somerville

January is National Soup Month. Here are 16 must-stop spots for soup in the Boston area

travel

Seth Sikes at Fire Island Pines, N.Y.

Seth Sikes on beach massages, Judy and Liza, and his upcoming show at Club Café

Orbitz switched her Aruba vacation — but not her hotel in Tahiti

The Beatrice in Providence opens, and Mom would be so proud

Arts

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940), "Landscapes and Interiors: Through the Fields, 1899." Lithograph on paper.

‘Hue & Cry’ at the Clark explores controversy of color printmaking in 19th-century France

Mass. and Cass, cast in bronze and on canvas

Actress and advocate Taraji P. Henson is part of the Museum of Science’s upcoming programming

Books

Kathryn Schulz’s memoir traces life’s gifts and sorrows

Martín Espada: stacks of books, from poetry to photography

Hanya Yanagihara’s new novel ponders freedom and loneliness

Movies

Ben Affleck, left, in "The Tender Bar."

Ben Affleck talks about ‘The Tender Bar,’ sobriety, and what it’s like being ‘the guy from Boston’

Looking for intimations of immortality

‘A Hero’: when the arc of a fable takes on the weight of a tragedy

Television

Rachel Shenton and Nicholas Ralph in "All Creatures Great and Small."

Calm down: ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ has returned

50 years ago, ‘Zoom’ took over TV with Ubbi Dubbi, that ZIP code song, and 10,000 letters a week

Focus on the French scenery, not the fluff, in ‘Emily in Paris’

music

GBH recording engineer Antonio Oliart Ros, who has been behind the console for dozens of virtual events throughout the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.

Antonio Oliart Ros brings artistry to sound recording at GBH and beyond

With every note, Ranky Tanky honors an ancestry

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

Theater/Dance

Maurice Emmanuel Parent with "Mr. Parent" director Megan Sandberg-Zakian.

The team that put ‘Mr. Parent’ in a class, by himself

Rather than try to explain Lord Buckley, he becomes him onstage

Comedian Valerie Tosi knows her way around a joke — and Salisbury Beach’s Broadway Loop

globe local

Auto shop instructor Louis Beckwith talks about brakes with students during an adult education class at the Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School in Danvers.

Vocational schools offer adults a blueprint for success, with classes funded by the state

A runaway goat is apprehended in Norfolk

Jan. 6 arrests included 11 from New England. A look at who they are

Obituaries

Jim Corsi, left, pitched for the Red Sox from 1997 to 1999.

Jim Corsi, Newton native who pitched for the Red Sox, dies at 60

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

Former NFL head coach Dan Reeves dies at 77