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30 minutes in Roslindale: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s block has taken center stage in one of the city’s ugliest political dramas

The acrimonious dispute over Wu’s vaccine requirement for city employees has come to define her early tenure in City Hall. Lately, it’s been disrupting her early-morning life at home, too.

Joe Rogan apologizes for ‘shameful’ past use of racial slur

As pressure has intensified on Spotify and its star podcaster Joe Rogan, listeners reported that the company had quietly removed dozens of episodes of his show, while Rogan apologized early Saturday for his use of a racial slur in past episodes.

As Omicron wanes, hopes rise to travel and socialize again

Hints of optimism are seen in record advance bookings at some New England inns, a stream of tourists to Boston and beyond, and restaurants and clubs where tables are hard to reserve.

COVID-19: THE LATEST

CDC plans to let people with weakened immune systems get a booster earlier

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Worcester officials to review city’s mask mandate Monday

Who gets to live free in N.H.? Not the state’s teachers, if a law demanding their loyalty comes to pass.

Queen Elizabeth backs plan to one day call son’s wife ‘Queen Camilla’

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s history with Justice Stephen Breyer provides a window into what she might be like as a Supreme Court justice.

‘An amazing legacy’: Justice Breyer’s replacement could be a former clerk he considers family

Ketanji Brown Jackson, who would become the first Black woman on the court, spent a formative year clerking for the retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer more than two decades ago.

For years, the mother of Harmony Montgomery rang the alarm about her missing daughter. Few listened.

“I just can’t ... sit by the phone and hope,” says Crystal Sorey, whose daughter has been missing since 2019. “Not as a mother.”

N.H. governor questions Mass. court’s handling of Harmony Montgomery case

signs of the season | dave epstein

Solar spring is here, and that means we are gaining more daylight in an increasingly big way

Winter isn't over — not by a longshot — but each day now has more daylight, and it's becoming noticeable.

KMOX's Kevin Killeen.

This reporter perfectly summed up how miserable February is, and everyone agreed

“It’s a month that doesn’t hold up life any better than it really is,” said reporter Kevin Killeen, offering his bleak assessment of February.

The International Olympic Committee made history in awarding the Winter Games to the host of a previous Summer Olympics.

It’s OK to love the Olympics, yet also acknowledge Olympic fatigue

Maybe it’s because the Summer Games concluded a mere six months ago, postponed as they were by COVID-19.

How to watch: Day-by-day TV schedule and results See all of our ongoing Olympic coverage

Shimcheong

There’s no Korean Disney princess. So a Harvard student created her own.

Julia Riew has spent the past year and a half writing and composing a full-length musical as part of her senior thesis project — complete with script, screenplay, and more than 15 original songs. Now Hollywood is taking notice.

Civil rights activist Melnea Cass stood with US Senator Edward Brooke (left), US Representative Augustus Hawkins, and US Representative Bill Clay during a Congressional Black Caucus party held at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge on April 5, 1972.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Melnea Cass, ‘First Lady of Roxbury,’ gave Boston her all

The name of Melnea Agnes Cass, known as the “First Lady of Roxbury,” is emblazoned on public amenities across the neighborhood she called home, a testament to her legacy as a civil rights activist and community organizer.

Opinion

US Army soldiers from the 18th Airborne Division prepare to board an aircraft as they deploy to Europe from Fort Bragg, N.C., on Feb. 3. President Joe Biden is ordering 2,000 US troops to Poland and Germany amid the stalled talks with Russia over the Kremlin's military buildup on Ukraine's borders.

Skepticism of US intelligence? After Iraq fiasco, it’s a must.

The Biden administration should not equate the questioning of US intelligence as giving solace to Russia. From the Vietnam War to the invasion of Iraq, there are many lessons in the danger and death that can result from blind trust in the US government.

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IDEAS | TOM JOUDREY

‘Cabaret’ and the shadow of fascism

IDEAS | BINA VENKATARAMAN

How did Iceland become a model of gender equality?

MARCELA GARCÍA

Should Boston limit the use of gas-powered lawn tools?

Takeout from Leena's Kitchen in Plymouth.

Project Takeout

3 places we supported this week

Want to order from local, independent restaurants? Here are some suggestions from Globe staff.

Browse a map of reader-recommended takeout spots Explore the full project

More recent stories

Cape Cod Hospital removes doctor who brought unloaded rifle to work

The physician, whose name was not released, will not be permitted to “return to work or otherwise,” a hospital spokesman said Saturday.

Parents, staff gather to protest plans to close Tufts Children’s Hospital

Participants displayed signs that included photographs of young patients and messages like, “Save Tufts Children’s” and “Pediatrics Over Profits.”

NFL notebook

Roger Goodell says NFL’s diversity hiring results are ‘unacceptable’ in memo to teams

Goodell told teams Saturday that the league will look to bolster hiring policies and pledged an investigation into tanking allegations raised by Brian Flores.

Morocco’s king says boy, 5, trapped in deep well has died

The Moroccan royal palace said Saturday that a 5-year-old boy who was trapped in a deep well for four days has died.

Warmest welcome for Jennifer Garner, Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year, on frigid parade day

Actress dines with students, wishes teen a happy birthday, and is feted on parade route ahead of her Saturday night roast and award ceremony.

Here’s what has gone right in the Celtics’ best stretch of the season

The Celtics are hardly title contenders, but they have shown that they do not plan to simply crumble.

Recommended reads

A scene from the Netflix miniseries "Unorthodox."

MATTHEW GILBERT

Miniseries have been thriving on streaming services. Here are the 10 best.

These originals from the likes of Netflix and Hulu embraced the shorter format for stories that made a big impression.

‘Should I start returning to normal?’ Experts still advise caution for those recovering from Omicron.

Scientists say that vaccinated people who have also recently recovered from a natural infection have among the highest degrees of protection. But it’s not clear how long that protection will last.

Vote in round three of our bracket: Which sugary cereal is best?

We’ve put together the ultimate breakfast cereal bracket. Help us decide once and for all which childhood favorite should be crowned champion.

INNOVATION BEAT

We took a ‘self-driving’ Tesla for a spin in Boston. Here’s how it did.

Amid ongoing safety and regulatory issues, our intrepid tech reporter tries out the automaker's new "full self-driving" feature.

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Culture & Lifestyle

A cold that bites in Sarah Manguso’s ‘Very Cold People’

From left: Brittany-Laurelle, Hadar Busia-Singleton, and Alexandria King in "The Bluest Eye" at the Huntington Theatre Company.

Coming of age in a hostile world in ‘The Bluest Eye’

Which sugar cereal is superior?

Vote in round three of our bracket: Which sugary cereal is best?

Oludara Adeeyo's new book is "Self-Care for Black Women"

‘Self-Care for Black Women’ offers strategies for nurturing mind, body, and soul

Special Projects

Into the Red illustration.

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

A Ukrainian border guard patrols the country's border with Russia on Wednesday.

Andrew Bacevich

Who ya gonna believe about Russia invading Ukraine?

Former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores walks off the field in October. Flores has sued the NFL and three teams over alleged racist hiring practices for coaches and general managers.

America’s national pastimes — football and racism

Whoopi Goldberg, a host of the daytime talk series "The View." Goldberg was suspended for two weeks following comments she made about the Holocaust and Jews.

It’s not just the Holocaust that Whoopi Goldberg got wrong

Police members are seen on Jan. 9 in the backyard of 77 Gilford Street in Manchester, which has been part of the investigation into the disappearance of 7-year-old Harmony Montgomery. The home is the last known residence of the child.

Jay D. Blitzman, Stephen M. Limon, Tony DeMarco, Leslie Harris, Sydney Hanlon, Deborah Ramirez, John Greaney, and Leslie Donahue

In search of answers in the Harmony Montgomery case

The corporate offices of Massachusetts General Brigham hospitals in Assembly Square in Somerville.

Timothy J. Garvin, Katie Murphy, and Robin Smith

Mass General Brigham’s expansion plan must be rejected

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Republicans are making it harder to vote. How much will it matter?

Metro

Coronavirus Live Updates

CDC plans to let people with weakened immune systems get a booster earlier

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

As Omicron wanes, hopes rise to travel and socialize again

Hints of optimism are seen in record advance bookings at some New England inns, a stream of tourists to Boston and beyond, and restaurants and clubs where tables are hard to reserve.

There’s no Korean Disney princess. So a Harvard student created her own.

Julia Riew has spent the past year and a half writing and composing a full-length musical as part of her senior thesis project — complete with script, screenplay, and more than 15 original songs. Now Hollywood is taking notice.

For years, the mother of Harmony Montgomery rang the alarm about her missing daughter. Few listened.

“I just can’t ... sit by the phone and hope,” says Crystal Sorey, whose daughter has been missing since 2019. “Not as a mother.”

Sports

Joe Burrow of the Bengals is the first quarterback drafted No. 1 overall to reach the Super Bowl within his first two seasons.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Rams and Bengals bring little history but explosive offenses to the Super Bowl

They play each other just once every four years, with the Bengals holding an 8-6 advantage dating to 1972.

United State's Leif Nordgren, 32, is now the elder statesman of the US biathlon team and hoping to make the most of what he says will be his final Olympic Games.

Winning Olympic Gold with US biathlon team would be nice, but Leif Nordgren is most looking forward to birth of first child

As he readies himself for what will be his last Olympics, Nordgren is savoring the experience.

The iconic Los Angeles Coliseum has hosted the USC Trojans football games and the summer Olympics and now has been transformed to host the unofficial season-opening NASCAR Cup Series Light Clash on Sunday night.

NASCAR goes West to LA Coliseum as warmup for the Super Bowl

Run under different formats with different presenting sponsors over the years, The Clash was the opening event of Speed Weeks and a warmup for the Daytona 500

China wins first gold of Beijing Games in new mixed-gender short-track event

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Former NBA great Spencer Haywood can relate to the risk NFL coach Brian Flores is taking

Here’s what has gone right in the Celtics’ best stretch of the season

Business

Delta asks DOJ to put unruly passengers on no-fly list

Delta Air Lines has requested that the US Department of Justice put any person convicted of a disruption on board a flight to the national “no fly” list.

Despite Omicron surge, businesses desperate to find and keep workers

Unlike previous waves of the virus, when businesses were quick to pause operations and lay off workers, many are now going to greater lengths to hang on to their employees.

Stocks climb as investors weigh surprising jobs report, Amazon earnings

Boston’s largest hotel just sold. Changes could be in store.

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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

Those COVID tracking charts start here, with Biobot sewage analysis that knows we’re sick before we do

Mitchell (front) and astronomy students in front of the Vassar College Observatory, 1878.

She was a self-taught astronomer with a radical idea: The stars belong to all

Advice: How do I get people off the phone when I’m not up for talking?

Black Bean Tostadas

Recipes: Two secrets to quick and easy Mexican black bean dishes

metro

Civil rights activist Melnea Cass stood with US Senator Edward Brooke (left), US Representative Augustus Hawkins, and US Representative Bill Clay during a Congressional Black Caucus party held at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge on April 5, 1972.

Melnea Cass, ‘First Lady of Roxbury,’ gave Boston her all

Yale Kamisar, known as the ‘father’ of the Miranda rule, dies at 92

Worcester officials to review city’s mask mandate Monday

sports

USA's Megan Keller (L) and Russian Olympic Committee's Polina Bolgareva vie for the puck during their women's preliminary round group A match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games ice hockey competition, at the Wukesong Sports Centre in Beijing on February 5, 2022.

2022 Beijing Olympics: Day-by-day TV schedule and results

It’s OK to love the Olympics, yet also acknowledge Olympic fatigue

Patriots’ Jakob Johnson joins ownership group of European Football League’s Stuttgart Surge

business

Santander Bank's office complex on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester.

Santander says it will stop writing new mortgages

Bill in Congress echoes Mass. automotive right-to-repair plan

Austria’s COVID vaccine mandate is becoming law

politics

Art Cooley in New York in June 2017

Art Cooley, co-founder of Environmental Defense Fund, dies

‘An amazing legacy’: Justice Breyer’s replacement could be a former clerk he considers family

Trump is ‘wrong’ to say 2020 election could be overturned, Mike Pence says

Nation

Workers wore protective equipment at a COVID-19 testing site on Jan. 26, 2022, in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles.

CDC plans to let people with weakened immune systems get a booster earlier

Jason Epstein, publishing executive who shaped literary tastes, dies at 93

Yale Kamisar, known as the ‘father’ of the Miranda rule, dies at 92

World

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II waves to the crowds with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall at right, as they arrive by carriage on the first day of the Royal Ascot horse race meeting in Ascot, England, Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

Queen Elizabeth backs plan to one day call son’s wife ‘Queen Camilla’

Morocco’s king says boy, 5, trapped in deep well has died

Russian bombers fly over Belarus amid Ukraine tensions

opinion

Republicans are making it harder to vote. How much will it matter?

Mass General Brigham’s expansion plan must be rejected

It’s not just the Holocaust that Whoopi Goldberg got wrong

lifestyle

Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year Jennifer Garner sits between Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals performers Lyndsey Mugford (left) and Nick Amador as they parade down Massachusetts Avenue Saturday.

Warmest welcome for Jennifer Garner, Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year, on frigid parade day

There’s no Korean Disney princess. So a Harvard student created her own.

TikTok hair icon Brad Mondo is plotting his world domination

food & dining

Dorchester Vietnamese restaurant Anh Hong isn't going away after all.

A seasoned chef opens South Boston’s Lenox Sophia; Dorchester’s Anh Hong gets a second chance

3 places we supported this week

These are the best — and worst — sugar cereals

travel

Maine celebrates winter, Newport enjoys the spotlight, and Arches slows the flow of tourists

Italy is a cut above for this hairstylist to the stars

Mother Nature’s magic kingdom: Florida’s best state parks

Arts

"Malum Geminos" (2019) by Courtney Mattison, now on view at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. (This photo is from its presentation at the Florence Griswold Museum in 2019.)

Sculptor Courtney Mattison conjures the sea and its discontents at New Bedford Whaling Museum

In Jamaica Plain, a cannabis dispensary and museum pre-rolled into one

Textile paintings at Nearby Gallery invite viewers to probe, peer inside

Books

A cold that bites in Sarah Manguso’s ‘Very Cold People’

Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s new novel, ‘The Books of Jacob,’ awes in size and scope

Chuck Klosterman: reading a little bit of everything, all of nothing

Movies

Shimcheong

There’s no Korean Disney princess. So a Harvard student created her own.

A host of reasons to follow the Oscars

Mark Wahlberg thinks Tom Brady’s story could make a great movie. And he wants to play Bill Belichick.

Television

Tracee Ellis Ross (pictured in November) will cohost the announcement of the Academy Award nominations this coming Tuesday.

A host of reasons to follow the Oscars

Miniseries have been thriving on streaming services. Here are the 10 best.

Mark Wahlberg thinks Tom Brady’s story could make a great movie. And he wants to play Bill Belichick.

music

Jakub Hrůša led Czech pianist Lukáš Vondráček and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Thursday.

At BSO, a Czech conductor’s bold return

Courtney Barnett is giving optimism a shot

A force in jazz, Cécile McLorin Salvant isn’t stopping there

Theater/Dance

Shimcheong

There’s no Korean Disney princess. So a Harvard student created her own.

Feet make music, too, in Subject:Matter’s ‘Songbook’ at the Somerville Theatre

Coming of age in a hostile world in ‘The Bluest Eye’

globe local

As Omicron wanes, hopes rise to travel and socialize again

Melnea Cass, ‘First Lady of Roxbury,’ gave Boston her all

Salem State University campus police officers equipped with body cameras

Obituaries

Yale Kamisar in an undated photo from the University of Michigan Law School.

Yale Kamisar, known as the ‘father’ of the Miranda rule, dies at 92

Art Cooley, co-founder of Environmental Defense Fund, dies

Avram Goldberg, former Stop & Shop chairman who forged a unique approach, dies at 92