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Oscar winner and groundbreaking star Sidney Poitier dies

He was the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw.
Sidney Poitier in the 1967 film "To Sir, With Love."

As Mass. COVID hospitalization numbers surge over last winter’s, health care leaders urge public to get vaccinated, boosted

“We are here for you and your families, whether you have been vaccinated or not. We will do our part; we ask that you do yours,” hospital and health care system leaders said in a Globe op-ed.
‘It’s all hands on deck’: Hospitals scramble to staff the front lines as surge continues
THE LATEST COVID-19 NEWS

FDA shortens interval for Moderna COVID-19 booster to five months

Connecticut prep school hockey player dies after on-ice collision

A player fell to the ice and the other player was unable to stop, colliding with the downed player.
Thursday's last-second loss to the Knicks was another crusher for Jayson Tatum and the Celtics.
dan shaughnessy

The Celtics are the worst finishers in the NBA, and other thoughts

The 2021-22 Celtics have become the region’s most annoying and infuriating team since … last year’s Celtics.
Hiring slowed for a second straight month in December, the US Labor Department said Friday.
Larry Edelman | The 2-minute drill

The December jobs report shows workers with the upper hand

It’s a tight labor market with far more open jobs than workers willing to fill them.
Christine Pajarillo (left) and Dr. Stephen Wright of Whittier Street Health Center handed out COVID-19 rapid tests at Copley Square in Boston.

From skiing to shopping to testing, here’s what you need to know to stay safe during Omicron

Information is proliferating almost as fast as the virus itself, and it can be hard to keep up. So we asked questions and experts offered advice.
Opinion
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Can Mayor Wu really make the T free?

Sizing up the biggest idea in Massachusetts politics.
Alex Beam

Omicron gives new meaning to calculated risk
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
RENÉE GRAHAM

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
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.
SCOT LEHIGH

Biden’s powerful warning about democracy
Mass. coronavirus at a glance
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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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Greg McMichael, right, waits for the sentencing of he and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan.
Men convicted in Ahmaud Arbery murder face life sentences
Three men face sentencing by a judge Friday roughly six weeks after being convicted of murder for chasing a running Ahmaud Arbery in pickup trucks, cutting off the unarmed Black man’s escape, and fatally blasting him with a shotgun.

A Jan. 6 participant featured at Republican gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl’s campaign event

Matt Lynch, who quit his job at Braintree High School, went on to win a Braintree School Committee seat last year. Lynch presented at a South Shore Grassroots Alliance event being held in Abington for Diehl at the Emerald Hall Abington Banquette Hall.

A crash of two Green Line trains in Boston in late July sent more than two dozen people to the hospital.
Suffolk District Attorney Rollins launches criminal probe into MBTA
Outgoing Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said the inquiry will look into a potential “lack of oversight or negligence” at the MBTA stemming from a July Green Line crash that sent 27 people to the hospital, among other safety incidents.

PARENTING UNFILTERED
Cambridge students wait in line with their parents at King Open Elementary School to be tested for the COVID-19 virus before school reopens after the winter break.
Hey, parents, you’re on your own
Anxiety is high right now. Let’s talk about what we can do about it and how to regain some modicum of empowerment over the next month or so.

Dinner With Cupid
Seven lessons from another year of virtual blind dates
In a very weird 2021 — and a second year of dating done mainly by Zoom — a number of universal themes emerged.

MISS CONDUCT
Advice: I’m a woman of color often overlooked at work — until people realize I outrank them
Any ideas on how to handle colleagues’ sudden shifts toward politeness?

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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William and Carol Stewart were married for 44 years. The couple passed away, within seconds of each other, family says, after battling 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 CULLEN
Harmony Montgomery was reportedly last seen two years ago.
The silent screams of invisible children
Seven-year-old Harmony Montgomery is the latest child to tragically fall through the cracks of a system unable to keep pace with drug-accelerated familial dysfunction.

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.

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.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Mohammed Al-Kinani's story is included in a new book of Maine immigrant experiences. (Lilit Danielyan)
NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS

A poet’s funny, poignant memories and a new book of Maine immigrant experiences
Khao soi (center), tonkotsu ramen (right), and pho tai at the Soup Shack in Jamaica Plain.
FOOD

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

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

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.
EDITORIAL

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.
EDITORIAL

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.
Joan Vennochi

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

Coronavirus Live Updates

FDA shortens interval for Moderna COVID-19 booster to five months

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

As Mass. COVID hospitalization numbers surge over last winter’s, health care leaders urge public to get vaccinated, boosted

“We are here for you and your families, whether you have been vaccinated or not. We will do our part; we ask that you do yours,” hospital and health care system leaders said in a Globe op-ed.

Boston is finally seeing serious snowfall

Snowfall on Friday ended the city's fifth-longest snow-free stretch in its recorded history
RI Weather

How much snow has fallen in Rhode Island during the Jan. 7 storm?

Town-by-town snow totals as reported by the National Weather Service.

Sports

Thursday's last-second loss to the Knicks was another crusher for Jayson Tatum and the Celtics.
dan shaughnessy

The Celtics are the worst finishers in the NBA, and other thoughts

The 2021-22 Celtics have become the region’s most annoying and infuriating team since … last year’s Celtics.
The glove worn by Red Sox Roger Clemens when he struck out 20 players in a 9-inning game sits in a glass case on display in the Baseball Hall of Fame on Friday, June 12, 2015 in Cooperstown NY. (Nancy L. Ford for The Boston Globe)
mlb

Join us Tuesday for a conversation with the Globe’s Baseball Hall of Fame voters

Our seven voters will reveal their ballots on Tuesday, and chat with subscribers on Tuesday night at 6 p.m. Send your questions here.
Payton Pritchard
live updates

How the surge in COVID-19 cases unfolded in the sports world

We tracked the latest news, including postponements, positive tests, and other adjustments.
Chad Finn I Unconventional Preview

When the Patriots play at Miami late in the season, expect things to get a little weird
US FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Mariah Bell’s dazzling short program puts her in the lead at US Figure Skating Championships
US FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Mariah Bell’s dazzling short program puts her in the lead at US Figure Skating Championships

Business

US hospitals face tight labor market as staff flees Omicron

US hospitals are struggling to get the workers they need to treat patients through the winter’s COVID-19 surge as the virus collides with a historically tight labor market.
Larry Edelman | The 2-minute drill

The December jobs report shows workers with the upper hand

It’s a tight labor market where many workers have little trouble finding a job even as employers struggle to fill all their open positions.

Sidney Poitier, first Black actor to win Oscar, dies at 94

FDA shortens interval for Moderna COVID-19 booster to five months

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
It's been 50 years since the groundbreaking kids' show "Zoom" debuted on WGBH.
Television

In 1972, the kids took over TV on the first "Zoom" to enter our homes
Local history

The roller-skating heroes who fought racism in Boston
Love Letters

My fiance thinks my dress is too short for our courthouse wedding
Peruvian Quinoa and Corn Chowder (Chupe de Quinoa)
Cooking

Recipes: Keep that resolution to eat better with 3 quinoa dishes

metro

Geoff Diehl, Republican gubernatorial candidate, was in the mix with protesters as Boston Mayor Michelle Wu held a press conference in City Hall to discuss the city’s response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

A Jan. 6 participant featured at Republican gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl’s campaign event

Season’s first storm drops more than a foot of snow in some areas

The best places to go sledding in Boston and beyond

sports

Dracut's Cameron Watkins (left) plays hands-on defense against Andover's Mariissa Kobelski (right) in Thursday night's matchup of ranked Merrimack Valley Conference girls' basketball teams.

Anna Foley helps Andover girls’ basketball ‘visualize success’ vs. Dracut

Patrick Cantlay and Jon Rahm don’t miss a beat with good starts in Hawaii

Penguins belt depleted Flyers for 10th straight victory

business

A customer carries a shopping bag outside past a "Now Hiring" sign outside a Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. store in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

US employers slowed hiring in December, adding 199,000 jobs

Lancaster promoted to CEO of Stavis Seafoods

France fines Google, Facebook millions over tracking consent

politics

President Biden spoke from Statuary Hall at the US Capitol to mark the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol by supporters loyal to then-president Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington.

A year later, Jan. 6 becomes just another wedge in a divided nation

A day of truth in a divided nation

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

Nation

Pharmacist Kenni Clark prepares a booster dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at City of Lawrence's "The Center," which serves seniors, families, and the community, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021, in Lawrence, Mass.

FDA shortens interval for Moderna COVID-19 booster to five months

As Mass. COVID hospitalization numbers surge over last winter’s, health care leaders urge public to get vaccinated, boosted

Oscar winner and groundbreaking star Sidney Poitier dies

World

A member of NHS walks with a trolly at the Royal London Hospital.

As Omicron spreads, Europe scrambles to shore up health care

World surpasses 300 million known virus cases

Pope scolds couples who choose pets over kids

opinion

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

Social Studies: Money anxiety; the decline of rationality; illusions about time

China gives us a taste of our own medicine

lifestyle

Sidney Poitier in the 1967 film "To Sir, With Love."

Oscar winner and groundbreaking star Sidney Poitier dies

The best places to go sledding in Boston and beyond

Hey, parents, you’re on your own

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

AutoCamp lands in Joshua Tree, Skyspace debuts in South America, and a new lodge opens in Stowe

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 ‘To Paradise’ ponders freedom and loneliness

Movies

Sly Stone performing at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, featured in the documentary "Summer of Soul."

A list of 20 movies, TV shows, and documentaries to stream during the snowstorm

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

Looking for intimations of immortality

Television

Sly Stone performing at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, featured in the documentary "Summer of Soul."

A list of 20 movies, TV shows, and documentaries to stream during the snowstorm

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

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