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Should you report your rapid test? The state says no

Most at-home COVID tests in Massachusetts are “not reportable” to public health authorities, according to the Department of Public Health, sparking questions about whether virus cases are being undercounted.
Experts divided on throat-swabbing when testing for COVID-19 at home
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Mayor Wu advocates for flexibility in remote learning; Mass. officials extend school mask mandate through Feb.

Boston’s COVID hospitalization rate jumps 50 percent; officials working to protect schools, city says

Boston’s COVD-19 hospitalization rate has spiked dramatically in the past week, and the test positivity rate is hovering at 32 percent, as city officials work to minimize transmission in schools amid the ongoing Omicron-fueled surge of the virus, officials said Tuesday.
Moderna says Omicron-specific vaccine won’t be ready before fall, data in young children imminent

Mayor Wu says 83 people have already moved from Mass. and Cass to new housing, with room for more before crews clear tents this week

Wu said at a City Hall news conference that officials have created enough new housing units to accommodate the roughly 145 people who were sleeping at the encampments overnight during a recent survey of the area, known to be the epicenter of the region’s opioid epidemic.
Shirley Leung: Owner of the Roundhouse hotel aims to help at Mass. and Cass
05savmor - Sav-Mor Liquors sign. (Sav-Mor Liquors)

The Sav-Mor Liquors sign on McGrath Highway in Somerville will no longer be telling you jokes

The company is moving its flagship to a spot in Assembly Row, and is giving up the large marquee where they’ve long posted humorous sayings to the delight of customers. Luckily, they will keep up the shenanigans on a much smaller sign at their new location.
Patriots linebacker Ja'Whaun Bentley trudges off the field Sunday after the Patriots' third loss in four games.
christopher l. gasper

Patriots aren’t an intimidating opponent in the playoffs this time

After the Dolphins dealt them another dose of reality, it's clear that their margin for error is supermodel-slim.
Audie Cornish, shown at the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in 2018.

Audie Cornish joins CNN after leaving NPR and ‘All Things Considered’

The Randolph native is joining the network as an anchor and correspondent for CNN+, a subscription streaming service due to launch this spring.
Opinion
Co-workers Sean Benedict and Dennis Dobbins Jr. prepare their self-administered COVID tests at Brick and Mortar on Dec. 29 before the restaurant opens.
Joseph Hogan, Alyssa Bilinski, Elizabeth Stuart, and Joshua Salomon

Surveillance, screening, and self-testing can help us manage COVID in the long term

Effective management requires prevention of new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, but also restoring stability to everyday life.
Cambridge students wait in line with their parents at King Open Elementary School on Jan. 3 to be tested for COVID-19 before school reopened after the winter break.
Alan Geller

To keep schools open during COVID, Governor Baker must make them safer
Qing Wang, who was accused of hiding ties to a Chinese university while securing US research grants, says he "was shocked" when he was arrested in May 2020. Wang is photographed at home in Cleveland on Aug. 18.
EDITORIAL

The Justice Department should back off researchers
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani in Vienna on Dec. 27.
EDITORIAL

If the US can’t hold Iran, it must know when — and how — to fold
How the filibuster used to be, as depicted in the 1939 film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
JEFF JACOBY

The filibuster has been bad, but repealing it would be worse
Mass. coronavirus at a glance
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Row 34's Warm Buttered Lobster Roll.
Row 34 will open a fourth branch in Kendall Square this fall
There are other Row 34 branches in Fort Point, Burlington, and Portsmouth, N.H.

A screenshot of the browser-based game Wordle
What is Wordle and why is everyone on Twitter playing it?
Wordle is a free, online word game created by Josh Wardle, a software engineer from Brooklyn.

Bob Saget in Beverly Hills in November.
Among Bob Saget’s many talents: his excellent voiceover work on ‘How I Met Your Mother’
He served as Future Ted for all nine seasons of the CBS sitcom, which ran from 2005-2013.

Bob Saget, comedian who starred in ‘Full House’ and ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos,’ dies

Officers pulled the pilot from the crashed plane moments before the train hit.
Watch: Los Angeles police pull pilot from crashed plane moments before train crash
Video of the harrowing rescue shows the officers pulling the bloodied man to safety seconds before the commuter train, blaring its horn, smashed the Cessna 172 into pieces.

US carbon emissions increased in 2021

The world must urgently curb greenhouse gas emissions to avert climate catastrophe, but last year, the nation moved in the wrong direction.
2021 ended as fifth-hottest year with push from spiking methane

A child and a Boston police officer injured in two-vehicle crash in Roslindale
Three people, including a child and a Boston police officer, were injured during a two-vehicle crash in Roslindale involving a Boston police vehicle and a private vehicle Monday, police said.

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Abortion rights advocates showing a pack of abortion pills demonstrate in front of the US Supreme Court on Dec. 1.

The next abortion battleground: campus health clinics

A campaign to make medication abortions available on college campuses is viewed as a way of destigmatizing abortion care, and as a Blue State response to restrictions anticipated in the South and Midwest.

Police Sergeant Shana Cottone (center) protest the new vaccine mandate at City Hall.
Leader of Boston city workers group opposing vaccine mandate placed on leave
Sergeant Shana Cottone, a 14-year-veteran of the Boston Police Department, said two internal affairs officers visited her home early Saturday morning to inform he she had been placed on leave and took her gun and badge.

Governor Charlie Baker has said he would act on recommendations from the state’s Advisory Board of Pardons within one year.
Will Charlie Baker commute a convicted murderer’s life sentence?
Baker’s decision in the case of Thomas E. Koonce, a Brockton native who has spent nearly three decades in prison, is expected this week and could have far-reaching reverberations, both legal and political.

The state is seeking developers to redo the Charles F. Hurley Building on Cambridge Street in downtown Boston.
The state wants to redo the Hurley Building. But how?
State officials are considering four proposals to redevelop the Hurley Building on Cambridge Street alongside Beacon Hill. But they're keeping the proposals themselves under tight wraps.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Jabari Asim (”Yonder”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store.
BOOKINGS

Author readings around Boston Jan. 9-15
Steve Aoki (pictured in July 2021 at Lollapalooza in Chicago) performs Jan. 8 at Big Night Live and Jan. 9 at Mémoire.
THE TICKET

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond
Aaron LaVigne (left) as Jesus and Tommy Sherlock as Pilate in "Jesus Christ Superstar."
STAGE REVIEW

A ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ with swagger, but imbued with sorrow
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

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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.
Hanson-11/20/2021- Hingham vs Natick in the MIAA Division1 title game. The Natick girls soccer team celebrate their Division 1 MIAA win over Hingham at Whitman - Hanson High school. Photo by Debee Tlumacki for the Boston Globe (sports)
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Meet the Globe’s Fall 2021 All-Scholastics

The Globe salutes the region's best high school athletes and coaches in the seven fall sports.
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

Alex Beam

Omicron gives new meaning to calculated risk
More than two dozen countries make voting a civic duty akin to jury duty.
IDEAS | Miles Rapoport and Alex Keyssar

How to boost voter turnout to nearly 100 percent
Activists attend a "Defend Democracy" vigil near the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6.
LETTERS

A still-smoldering injustice at the Capitol
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
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.
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Hospitals are doing their part on COVID-19; we ask the public to do theirs
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Can Mayor Wu really make the T free?

Metro

Yale, MIT sued for colluding to hold down financial aid packages

More than a dozen top US colleges including Yale, Columbia, and MIT were sued for allegedly conspiring to manipulate the admissions system to hold down financial aid for students and benefit wealthy applicants.

Boston’s COVID hospitalization rate jumps 50 percent; officials working to protect schools, city says

Boston’s COVD-19 hospitalization rate has spiked dramatically in the past week, and the test positivity rate is hovering at 32 percent, as city officials work to minimize transmission in schools amid the ongoing Omicron-fueled surge of the virus, officials said Tuesday.

The Sav-Mor Liquors sign on McGrath Highway in Somerville will no longer be telling you jokes

The company is moving its flagship to a spot in Assembly Row, and is giving up the large marquee where they’ve long posted humorous sayings to the delight of customers. Luckily, they will keep up the shenanigans on a much smaller sign at their new location.
Coronavirus Live Updates

Mayor Wu advocates for flexibility in remote learning; Mass. officials extend school mask mandate through Feb.

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

Sports

Brian Flores was fired by the Miami Dolphins on Monday.
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NFL Black Monday tracker: Dolphins shock the league by firing Brian Flores after three seasons

The 2021 NFL regular season has come to an end, and with it comes a flurry of coach, coordinator, and general manager firings. We're tracking the latest.
Patriots linebacker Ja'Whaun Bentley trudges off the field Sunday after the Patriots' third loss in four games.
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Patriots aren’t an intimidating opponent in the playoffs this time

After the Dolphins dealt them another dose of reality, it's clear that their margin for error is supermodel-slim.
Getting former Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas back in the fold — and back in a green Boston uniform — could be just what the Celtics need to boost their roster right now: a play-making point guard.
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The Celtics need some energy. Maybe signing Isaiah Thomas to a 10-day contract would do it?

Thomas returning to the Celtics has been a simmering topic since Danny Ainge traded him to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the summer of 2017.
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Bill Belichick on NFL officiating, the Patriots’ inconsistency, and playoff experience
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Business

Yale, MIT sued for colluding to hold down financial aid packages

More than a dozen top US colleges including Yale, Columbia, and MIT were sued for allegedly conspiring to manipulate the admissions system to hold down financial aid for students and benefit wealthy applicants.

Moderna says Omicron-specific vaccine won’t be ready before fall, data in young kids imminent

Speaking at the virtual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Moderna chief executive Stéphane Bancel also said the company is working on an all-in-one annual vaccine for respiratory illnesses.

Should you report your rapid test? The state says no

Medicare told to reassess premium hike for Biogen Alzheimer’s drug

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.

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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

Buses wait to load up with students.

Boston Public Schools will be closed Tuesday due to extreme cold

Mayor Wu says 83 people have already moved from Mass. and Cass to new housing, with room for more before crews clear tents this week

Audie Cornish joins CNN after leaving NPR and ‘All Things Considered’

sports

Fans of tennis star Novak Djokovic celebrated outside the offices of his legal team in Melbourne, Australlia, after Djokovic won a court battle to overturn the cancellation of his visa.

Judge rules Novak Djokovic can stay in Australia, but his quest to play Australian Open isn’t over

Ben Roethlisberger extends career, Steelers get in playoffs with OT win, major assist

Erin Jackson makes Olympic speedskating team after Brittany Bowe gives up 500 meters spot

business

Medics administer the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, on January 2, 2022.

Cypriot scientist says Deltacron COVID Variant isn’t error

Moderna says it has $18.5 billion in vaccine orders for 2022

Building the credibility of the cannabis industry, one sample at a time

politics

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference urging the Senate to secure a pathway to citizenship in President Biden's legislative agenda Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

NY Representative Ocasio-Cortez recovering after positive COVID test

Biden comes out swinging against Republicans as his agenda stalls

Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson will seek reelection

Nation

Moderna chief executive Stéphane Bancel.

Moderna says Omicron-specific vaccine won’t be ready before fall, data in young kids imminent

Boston’s COVID hospitalization rate jumps 50 percent; officials working to protect schools, city says

When the pandemic began, some reconsidered getting pregnant. The result: 60,000 missing births

World

A health worker administers the third dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

India starts booster shots for vulnerable amid Omicron surge

India bans election rallies for a week, as virus cases soar

Russia warns that US doesn’t understand its goals on Ukraine

opinion

Activists attend a "Defend Democracy" vigil near the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6.

A still-smoldering injustice at the Capitol

Kevin Hayden must carry forward the mandate for progressive reform in Suffolk DA’s office

Vaccination rates for Massachusetts children, ages 5-11, are a ‘tale of two states’

lifestyle

Row 34's Warm Buttered Lobster Roll.

Row 34 will open a fourth branch in Kendall Square this fall

Audie Cornish joins CNN after leaving NPR and ‘All Things Considered’

What is Wordle and why is everyone on Twitter playing it?

food & dining

Row 34's Warm Buttered Lobster Roll.

Row 34 will open a fourth branch in Kendall Square this fall

The scoop on Main Street: Toscanini’s returns

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

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 ‘Lost & Found’ 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

Sidney Poitier poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif., on June 2, 2008.

The power of Sidney Poitier’s stardom

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’

Television

Bob Saget in Beverly Hills in November.

Among Bob Saget’s many talents: his excellent voiceover work on ‘How I Met Your Mother’

Bob Saget, comedian who starred in ‘Full House’ and ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos,’ has died

What I’m watching this week: the debut of ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ a ‘Ray Donovan’ movie, new family dramas, and a superhero spinoff

music

A Far Cry performing at Jordan Hall on Friday.

A Far Cry’s ‘Firefly’ brought comforting night music, perfect for the darkest days of the year

At BSO, the year’s first notes are new

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

Theater/Dance

Aaron LaVigne (left) as Jesus and Tommy Sherlock as Pilate in "Jesus Christ Superstar."

A ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ with swagger, but imbued with sorrow

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

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

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

Mr. Saget had attended the red carpet premiere and party for Peacock's new comedy series "MacGruber" at California Science Center on Dec. 8, in Los Angeles.

Bob Saget, comedian who starred in ‘Full House’ and ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos,’ has died

Michael Lang, co-creator of the Woodstock music festival in 1969, dies at 77

‘A towering figure’ in American law, Harvard professor Lani Guinier dies at 71