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Future of affirmative action in higher education in limbo as Supreme Court agrees to hear Harvard case

The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority could mean that for the first time, the plaintiffs will find sympathy on the bench.

A timeline of lawsuits challenging admissions policies at Harvard and UNC

Commuter rail signal worker placed on administrative leave after fatal crash in Wilmington

The signal maintainer who officials said failed to restore a railroad crossing safety system less than an hour before a fatal train crash in Wilmington has been placed on administrative leave, the MBTA’s contractor Keolis said Monday.

Wilmington woman is mourned following MBTA crash

Larry Edelman

A wild ride for stocks, and an anxious wait for Fed’s plan on inflation

Stocks have gotten off to a terrible start this year, reflecting myriad concerns about the economy, the pandemic, and the geopolitical showdown with Russia over Ukraine.

THE LATEST COVID-19 NEWS

Mayor Wu says more than 94 percent of Boston city workers vaccinated

Gang Chen was photographed in his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge on Saturday.

‘In the end, you’re treated like a spy,’ says MIT scientist

Last week, the government dismissed charges of lying on grant applications against Gang Chen, an MIT professor. But he remains angry and is worried about his reputation, his research, and his future.

Gang Chen in Globe Opinion: I was arrested under the DOJ’s China Initiative. Congress must investigate the program.

The Biden administration is warning of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here’s a rundown of what to know.

Tensions are escalating between Russia and Western countries amid concerns that Russia could invade Ukraine, and the United States is putting troops on heightened alert for a potential deployment to Europe.

US puts 8,500 troops on heightened alert amid Russia tension

MFA to return stolen 17th-century painting to heirs of Jewish collector

The agreement restores ownership of the looted painting to the heirs of Ferenc Chorin, a Hungarian industrialist who placed the artwork in a bank vault before fleeing Hungary during World War II.

David Ortiz braces for the Hall of Fame decision that will come Tuesday

This is also an important writers ballot for Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, and Curt Schilling, who are eligible for the final time.

Tuukka Rask wipes his face during a break in the action Monday night at TD Garden.

Ducks 5, Bruins 3

With Tuukka Rask struggling, Bruins can’t hold off Ducks

David Pastrnak scored his 20th goal of the season for the Bruins and Taylor Hall got his ninth.

In a troublesome trend, Bruins were slow to recover from Ducks’ quick start

Massachusetts State Senator William Owens (center), in 1976 addressed a City Hall Plaza press conference the day after the assault on Ted Landsmark. State Representative Doris Bunte (left), also appeared.

Bill Owens, first Black state senator in Massachusetts, dies at 84

In the late 1980s, Owens called for governments to pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved Black Americans.

Greedy jobs are often on-demand, deadline-intense, and client-facing. They hog your life and won’t let go. But they can be very lucrative. And they’ve led to a shocking pay disparity for well-educated women.

THE BIG IDEA | KARA MILLER

‘Greedy jobs’ have led to a shocking pay disparity for well-educated women

Women now outpace men in college enrollment. But even those with more education and higher incomes are unlikely to hold the levers of power any time soon.

Opinion

Firefighters protest Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's vaccine mandate at Florian Hall on Jan. 21.

Unions run Boston — and they want the new mayor to know it

Her COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers is worth the fight, even as it shows how hard it is to shake the power of unions.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A simple card that drives conservatives crazy

The West End’s lesson for Mayor Wu

IDEAS | TANYA MOZIAS SLAVIN

Teach children about the Holocaust, and tell them the whole story

The Boston Police gang database gets overdue attention

Project Takeout Illustration

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We thought we’d be past this by now. We were wrong. Support your local restaurants.

We’re bringing back Project Takeout. Call it Project Take Two.

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More recent stories

Harmony Montgomery was last seen alive in Manchester, N.H., living in car with father in Dec. 2019, prosecutor says

Authorities said the new timeline conflicts with the account Adam Montgomery gave to law enforcement late last year, when he said the last time he saw his daughter was when he gave her to her biological mother, Crystal Renee Sorey, around Thanksgiving 2019.

Bike lane traffic cones on Mass. Ave. bridge tossed into river by vandals

The bike lanes on the bridge are part of an effort to increase safety for bikers in one of the Boston region’s most difficult to areas to navigate on wheels.

Man shot by Burlington police has died, DA says

Paul Courtemanche, 42, was shot by police after allegedly charging at officers with a knife outside his apartment building in Burlington on Sunday, officials said.

Caught on a hot mic: Biden has harsh words for Peter Doocy of Fox News

In a hot-mic moment that may enter the annals of presidential insults, Biden directed an under-the-breath expletive Monday toward Peter Doocy, the White House correspondent for Fox News, that was amplified by a live microphone onto television and laptop screens around the world.

Joe Yukica, former coach at Boston College and Dartmouth, dies

Coach Yukica helped set Eagles path toward bowl games.

Three skaters rescued after falling through ice at Spy Pond in Arlington

Three skaters fell through the ice in separate incidents at Spy Pond in Arlington on Sunday.

Recommended reads

Provincetown Town Manager and former Holyoke mayor Alex Morse posed with his goldendoodle, Oliver, in Provincetown.

Was losing the best thing that ever happened to Alex Morse?

The wunderkind Holyoke mayor turned failed western Mass. congressional candidate turned Provincetown manager is only 32. Given his age and obvious ambition (mayor was his first job out of college), many wonder what’s next for Morse.

SHIRLEY LEUNG

Is it a case of finders keepers if the state mistakenly overpays you in jobless benefits?

Massachusetts mistakenly overpaid jobless claims by billions during the pandemic, and now must go through the painstaking process of taking back the money from thousands of people. Is that fair?

Gordon Ramsay’s Back Bay restaurant opens its doors

Ramsay’s Kitchen opened on Monday in the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Boylston Street. The 7,000-square-foot space represents a new dining concept for the UK chef, and it occupies the former Bar Boulud space, which closed in 2020.

THE FINE PRINT

Have a problem with your property tax bill? Here’s what you should know.

If you want to challenge your property tax bill, time is running out. In most cities and towns, you only have until Feb. 1 to file the necessary paperwork.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Artist Agnieszka Pilat with Spot and one of her paintings of the Boston Dynamics robot.

How the Boston Dynamics robot Spot became one artist’s muse — then, her assistant

Thrity Umrigar (”Honor”) is in conversation with Ellen Barry at 7 p.m. Thursday at Belmont Books.

Author readings around Boston Jan. 23-29

Kate McKinnon as Fox host Laura Ingraham during the cold open of the most recent episode of "Saturday Night Live."

This season, viewers who complain ‘SNL’ isn’t what it used to be might have a point

Kofi Boakye, 22, is preparing for his second shot at the Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night.

An enterprising Berklee pianist’s next gig: Live at the Apollo

Special Projects

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Into the Red: How the Globe will cover climate change

To report on the most pressing issue of our time, the Globe’s climate team is expanding and rethinking its coverage.

Under the wheel

This is the story of Anthony Pledger and his mother, of Anthony’s lives and deaths, of Anthony and me.

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

High-rise towers sit on the fringe of Charles River Park in the West End in this 2005 photo.

The West End’s lesson for Mayor Wu

Students at the Drancy Shoah memorial outside Paris work on deportees' files during a workshop dedicated to Holocaust remembrance.

IDEAS | TANYA MOZIAS SLAVIN

Teach children about the Holocaust, and tell them the whole story

There are currently 3,406 individuals in the Boston Police Department gang assessment database.

The Boston Police gang database gets overdue attention

In 2015, City of Boston housing inspectors found more than 30 violations at this Allston rental. This image shows a point at the base of the house where rats burrowed inside.

Gordon Schnell and Elizabeth Soltan

A tool to help level the playing field for low-income tenants

President Bill Clinton speaking on welfare reform at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, October 1996. It's time for Congress, and the states, to correct some of the reforms that resulted from Clinton's promise to “end welfare as we know it.”

Ending welfare as we know it — again

The Muddy River as it emerges beneath Perkins Street from its source in Jamaica Pond.

IDEAS | MILES HOWARD

Set the underground rivers free

Metro

New report says R.I.’s property tax system is ‘out of balance,’ hindering affordable housing construction, economic development

Tax policy choices, classification differences and homestead exemptions shift the tax burden away from resident homeowners and toward businesses and renters, said the report.

Coronavirus Live Updates

Mayor Wu says more than 94 percent of Boston city workers vaccinated

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

Future of affirmative action in higher education in limbo as Supreme Court agrees to hear Harvard case

The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority could mean that for the first time, the plaintiffs will find sympathy on the bench.

Bill Owens, first Black state senator in Massachusetts, dies at 84

In the late 1980s, Owens called for governments to pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved Black Americans.

Sports

A man walked near the Olympic Park at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, in Beijing.

2008 Beijing Olympics vs. 2022: No lofty promises this time

The Games are a reminder of China’s rise, but also its disregard for civil liberties, prompting a diplomatic boycott led by the United States, which has called China’s internment of at least 1 million Uyghurs a genocide.

Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask turns his head to watch the puck slowly slide over the line for the Ducks second goal of the game, a 2-0 deficit that proved insurmountable in Monday night's 5-3 loss to the Ducks.

In a troublesome trend, Bruins were slow to recover from Ducks’ quick start

Coming into Monday night's 5-2 loss to the Ducks, the Bruins were 9-7-2 when they gave up the first goal.

Plymouth South junior captain Declan Davis scored 12 of his 15 points for the No. 16 Panthers (7-2) in the fourth quarter of a 56-51 win over Duxbury.

MONDAY'S BOYS' BASKETBALL

Declan Davis heats up late to lead Plymouth South boys’ basketball past Duxbury

After Plymouth South was held to 28 points in the first three quarters, the junior captain scored 12 of his 15 points for the No. 16 Panthers (7-2) in the fourth quarter of a 56-51 win.

Wake Forest 87, Boston College 57

Boston College men blown out on the road by Wake Forest

Ducks 5, Bruins 3

With Tuukka Rask struggling, Bruins can’t hold off Ducks

MONDAY'S GIRLS' BASKETBALL roundup

After pandemic pause, Sierra Cherrie leads Fenway girls’ basketball to 3-0 start

Business

New report says R.I.’s property tax system is ‘out of balance,’ hindering affordable housing construction, economic development

Tax policy choices, classification differences and homestead exemptions shift the tax burden away from resident homeowners and toward businesses and renters, said the report.

Lee Enterprises asks investors to help fight off hedge fund

Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is asking its shareholders to help it fight off a hostile takeover offer from “vulture hedge fund” Alden Global Capital.

Neil Young threatens to delete Spotify catalog over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation

Dylan sells all of his recorded music to Sony

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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

Dumplings the author made for the Chinese New Year in 2019 following her mom's recipe.

My mom’s dumplings were the perfect therapy as I underwent chemo

The 30 best comfort foods you’ll find at Boston area restaurants

For small restaurants, Guy Fieri and ‘Triple D’ are ‘the gift that keeps on giving’

This week's daters: Johnny and Tarah.

Dinner with Cupid

'My mom has tried to set me up on blind dates'

metro

Provincetown Town Manager and former Holyoke mayor Alex Morse posed with his goldendoodle, Oliver, in Provincetown.

Was losing the best thing that ever happened to Alex Morse?

Man shot by Burlington police has died, DA says

Woman, 88, identified as victim in fatal fire at Arlington senior development

sports

Defenseman Urho Vaakanainen has been getting into the swing of things with the varsity during his recent callup, including scoring his first NHL goal against Montreal, much to the delight of Tuukka Rask and Charlie McAvoy.

Bruins reward Urho Vaakanainen’s consistency with more ice time

Winter Warmup offers Red Sox prospects a chance for some supervised on-field time

Did rout of Wizards reveal a winning formula for the Celtics?

business

A trader applauded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday as the Dow turned positive.

A wild ride for stocks, and an anxious wait for Fed’s plan on inflation

Ex-Massport executive tries to replicate agency’s success to diversify the biotech industry

Treasury officials launch website for claiming part 2 of child tax credit

politics

President Joe Biden speaks to Peter Doocy, Fox News White House correspondent, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 24, 2022.

Caught on a hot mic: Biden has harsh words for Peter Doocy of Fox News

Democrats make surprising inroads in redistricting fight

Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to consideration of race in college admissions

Nation

Healthcare worker Lorena Aranda gave Marcial Dominguez a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Luque, Paraguay, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022.

Mayor Wu says more than 94 percent of Boston city workers vaccinated

New York judge rules state’s mask mandate is unconstitutional and can’t be enforced

3 firefighters die after being trapped in blaze at vacant Baltimore row house

World

A fire burns at the Double O nightclub in Sorong in Indonesia's West Papua province on January 25, 2022.

Police: Fire, clash at nightclub kill 19 people in Indonesia

Omicron offers hope that coronavirus pandemic could stabilize, WHO official says

Johnson orders inquiry into UK lawmaker’s Islamophobia claims

opinion

Done right, online learning could be answer to our education needs

Wave the white flag in City Hall Plaza free speech case, Mayor Wu

How real could virtual reality become?

lifestyle

The Bittered Berry Bubbles cocktail is photographed in the dining room of the recently opened Blu Violet restaurant on the top floor of the newly opened Aloft Providence Downtown hotel.

Restaurant owners are divided on lifting the ban on Happy Hour in Rhode Island

Recipes: Tortilla soup and two more spicy soups to warm a winter night

Gordon Ramsay’s Back Bay restaurant opens its doors

food & dining

The Bittered Berry Bubbles cocktail is photographed in the dining room of the recently opened Blu Violet restaurant on the top floor of the newly opened Aloft Providence Downtown hotel.

Restaurant owners are divided on lifting the ban on Happy Hour in Rhode Island

Recipes: Tortilla soup and two more spicy soups to warm a winter night

Gordon Ramsay’s Back Bay restaurant opens its doors

travel

The Lodge at Spruce Peak in Stowe, Vermont.

This Vermont town was named among the best places to travel in February

Help! My Expedia tour credit is about to expire

A romantic weekend in Portsmouth

Arts

Artist Agnieszka Pilat with Spot and one of her paintings of the Boston Dynamics robot.

How the Boston Dynamics robot Spot became one artist’s muse — then, her assistant

10 museum must-sees

‘Vernacular Glamour’ excavates the material world

Books

New novel ‘Devil House’ looks at our true crime obsessions

Jabari Asim: an ‘eclectic, voracious’ reader

Science, fiction, and fantasy blend in ‘A Snake Falls to Earth’

Movies

Tom Cruise attends the U.S. Premiere of "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on July 22, 2018 in Washington, DC.

Tom Cruise’s next ‘Mission: Impossible’ films are delayed over COVID

Doc Talk: An incurable optimist, a fleeing fugitive, and an undaunted soul

Death becomes him

Television

Kate McKinnon as Fox host Laura Ingraham during the cold open of the most recent episode of "Saturday Night Live."

This season, viewers who complain ‘SNL’ isn’t what it used to be might have a point

This week’s TV: A Netflix price hike, ‘The Gilded Age’ arrives, and a Janet Jackson doc

Pop culture and politics intertwine on ‘SNL’

music

Kofi Boakye, 22, is preparing for his second shot at the Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night.

An enterprising Berklee pianist’s next gig: Live at the Apollo

Bad Bunny to play Fenway Park Aug. 18

Conductor Elim Chan, pianist Igor Levit offer familiar comforts and new delights at the BSO

Theater/Dance

Director Awoye Timpo (left) leads a rehearsal of the Huntington Theatre Company's "The Bluest Eye" at the Calderwood Pavilion, with actors Hadar Busia-Singleton (center) and Alexandria King.

In ‘The Bluest Eye’ at the Huntington, the challenge of capturing Toni Morrison’s unerring vision

Dramas, musicals, and a trio of blue men: 10 shows for theatergoers this winter

See dancers from all over New England during a weekend of Boston performances

globe local

Traffic cones that had been set up to protect bike lanes across the Massachusetts Avenue bridge ended up in the frozen Charles River over the weekend.

Bike lane traffic cones on Mass. Ave. bridge tossed into river by vandals

What to do in this bleak midwinter: How about visiting a museum?

Should Massachusetts guarantee anyone serving a life sentence the chance for parole?

Obituaries

Massachusetts State Senator William Owens (center), in 1976 addressed a City Hall Plaza press conference the day after the assault on Ted Landsmark. State Representative Doris Bunte (left), also appeared.

Bill Owens, first Black state senator in Massachusetts, dies at 84

Joe Yukica, former coach at Boston College and Dartmouth, dies

Willem Jewett helped enact Vermont’s death-with-dignity law; then he needed to use it