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Supreme Court sides with GOP in Alabama election map case

The Supreme Court on Monday put on hold a lower court ruling that Alabama must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections, boosting Republican chances to hold six of the state’s seven seats in the House of Representatives.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius announces departure

Cassellius’ future had been the topic of widespread speculation ever since former mayor Martin Walsh departed for the Biden administration a year ago.

Mass. reports 6,725 confirmed COVID cases over three days; 56 deaths reported on Friday

Here’s a look at the latest coronavirus numbers in Massachusetts, including case numbers, deaths, demographics, and more.
COVID-19: THE LATEST

N.J. to lift school mask mandate; Boris Johnson tries to move past ‘partygate’

Analysis

The West has a strategic weakness in countering Russia. There’s little agreement on how to address it

Russia’s biggest strength is its national resources, namely as a producer of oil and gas. And the biggest weakness of the West in confronting Putin’s Russia is that they are dependent on that oil and gas.
Biden promises ‘united’ response to Russia after meeting with German chancellor

Missing personal care attendant payments strain an already taxed workforce

Thousands of personal care attendants in Mass. saw delays in getting paid, highlighting the difficulties that this vital but vulnerable labor segment faces.

6 things we learned from the Eric Lander story in Politico

The workplace behavior of Eric Lander, President Biden’s top science adviser who was previously the president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is under scrutiny.

Coyotes are seemingly everywhere these days. And there aren’t many hunters standing in their way.

In 1996, voters outlawed the traps that were the chief method of coyote control. Now, with the population burgeoning in Massachusetts, hunters are asking for new tools.
Opinion
Joan Vennochi

Corey Lewandowski was fired by Trump. Now, he’s advising Geoff Diehl’s campaign.

It’s all part of Diehl’s unabashed hunt for votes in contrarian Trumpachusetts.
MARCELA GARCÍA

A butterfly sanctuary and the real-life implications of the far right’s web of lies

Colette A.M. Phillips

What Whoopi Goldberg misunderstood about racism and the Holocaust

Silvana Gómez

Affirmative action doesn’t give people like me an unfair advantage

EDITORIAL

Facing primary challenge, Galvin steps up on public records

Mass. coronavirus at a glance | on
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NOTE: Mass DPH releases data Monday-Friday. Fully vaccinated means Mass. residents with 2 doses of Moderna/Pfizer vaccine or a dose of J&J. Boosters include Pfizer or Moderna. Mass. population of 6,892,503 is used to calculate vaccination percentages. SOURCE: Mass. Dept. of Public Health
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

US Attorney Rollins says she would reinstate death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber

Attorney Rachael Rollins said Monday that, if instructed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, she would attempt to reinstate the death penalty against convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago

Former president Donald Trump improperly removed multiple boxes from the White House that were retrieved by the National Archives and Records Administration last month from his Mar-a-Lago residence.

Police investigate more hateful graffiti at Danvers school

Police and school authorities are investigating the vandalism, which comes after a swastika was found in a Danvers High School bathroom in December and homophobic graffiti was discovered at a softball field on Pickering Street that same month.

Black History Month
Randolph Bromery, education pioneer, broke barriers throughout his life
Bromery became the sixth African American faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1967 when he joined the geology department. He became the university’s first Black chancellor in 1971.

Drivers, beware of flying ice chunks — and remember to clear snow and ice from the roof and hood of your vehicle
After responding to several reports of broken windshields, State Police in Massachusetts and New Hampshire are cautioning motorists to completely clear all snow and ice off their vehicles before taking to the road.

Spotify CEO to employees: Canceling Rogan not ‘the answer’
Joe Rogan’s mouth has put Spotify in a tough spot, but the streaming giant is apparently not ready to part ways with the popular podcast host despite intense criticism over his anti-coronavirus vaccine comments and racial slurs.

Recommended reads

‘I still refuse to call a milkshake a frappe’: Newcomers share what baffles them about Boston

How is it that a place so progressive also houses rotaries that spin in endless circles of doom? How can a bastion of logic like MIT be in a region that has highways that go in two different directions — at the same time? Bostonians are used to these contradictions. Now it’s the interlopers’ turn to weigh in.

In less than a decade, nearly every state has outlawed ‘revenge porn.’ So why hasn’t Massachusetts?
Nonconsensual pornography, or “revenge porn,” has proliferated with smart devices and social media, sparking legislators in 48 states to make it illegal. Governor Charlie Baker is prodding lawmakers here to finally act.

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, Harmony Montgomery’s mother 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.”

video

Culture & Lifestyle

Singer-songwriter Lauren Hashian is living her middle school dream

13 offbeat ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day — no date required

HASTY PUDDING

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

BOOK REVIEW

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

Special Projects

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Silvana Gómez

Affirmative action doesn’t give people like me an unfair advantage

Ilya Somin

Court should reject the flawed diversity theory

Viet Andy Nguyen

Ditching legacy admissions is first step in ending disparities

EDITORIAL

Facing primary challenge, Galvin steps up on public records

EDITORIAL

After violence of Jan. 6, Congress must fix the antiquated way presidential votes are counted

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

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

Metro

COVID spurred bike lane construction. Will the Boston area keep up the momentum?

As bike lanes proliferate, there’s been backlash from some business owners and drivers who say that the changes, made for a minority of commuters, have been too sweeping and swift.

Mass. reports 6,725 confirmed COVID cases over three days; 56 deaths reported on Friday

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

N.J. to lift school mask mandate; Boris Johnson tries to move past ‘partygate’

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

Police investigate more hateful graffiti at Danvers school

Police and school authorities are investigating the vandalism, which comes after a swastika was found in a Danvers High School bathroom in December and homophobic graffiti was discovered at a softball field on Pickering Street that same month.

Sports

BOYS' BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK

Q&A: Inside the stunning turnaround of Pembroke boys’ basketball under first-year coach Matt Vincenzi

The Titans (14-0), one five undefeated teams remaining in Eastern Massachusetts, are two wins away their first outright Patriot League Fisher title since 2009.
Sports Log

Auburn, Gonzaga stay 1-2 in AP Top 25 men’s poll; South Carolina remains No. 1 in women’s poll

Auburn hasn't lost since November and is firmly locked into the top spot after earning 48 of 61 first-place votes.

Police investigate more hateful graffiti at Danvers school

Police and school authorities are investigating the vandalism, which comes after a swastika was found in a Danvers High School bathroom in December and homophobic graffiti was discovered at a softball field on Pickering Street that same month.
NFL notebook

Texans expected to hire Lovie Smith as new head coach

celtics notebook

Jayson Tatum becomes an All-Star starter in Kevin Durant’s absence

BOYS' BASKETBALL | PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

EMass boys’ basketball: Andover’s Ryan MacLellan headlines Players of the Week

Business

Two biotechs sign leases at Waltham development off Route 128

Seqirus and ElevateBio BaseCamp will join software company Pegasystems at 225 Wyman St. this spring.

Missing personal care attendant payments strain an already taxed workforce

Thousands of personal care attendants in Mass. saw delays in getting paid, highlighting the difficulties that this vital but vulnerable labor segment faces.

New GM of Seaport Hotel sees sunnier times ahead for city’s pandemic-battered hospitality industry

Spotify chief: Censoring Joe Rogan isn’t ‘the answer’

STAT

‘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
CONNECTIONS

After my son died, a victim of the opioid epidemic, my heart broke beyond repair

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We both aren’t the kind of people to binge-watch TV’

On the cover

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

nantucket

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

metro

You get more allies with honey than vinegar

Mass. legislators may soon take up ‘revenge porn’ bill

Mattiello is latest former R.I. lawmaker to line up lucrative lobbying clients

sports

EMass boys’ basketball: Andover’s Ryan MacLellan headlines Players of the Week

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

A delayed spring training is not seen as any impetus in baseball negotiations

business

Biden task force releases report to strengthen labor unions

Peter Thiel to leave Meta board to pursue Trump political agenda

IRS to end use of facial recognition for identity verification

politics

Temple professor files to reinstate claims for damages against FBI

The West has a strategic weakness in countering Russia. There’s little agreement on how to address it

Supreme Court sides with GOP in Alabama election map case

Nation

Temple professor files to reinstate claims for damages against FBI

The West has a strategic weakness in countering Russia. There’s little agreement on how to address it

National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago

World

Ireland to hold first St. Patrick’s Day celebrations since pandemic began

Australian protestors echo Canadian riot sentiments

Ottawa declares emergency after protests spin ‘out of control’

opinion

Tom Brady walked off into the sunset, under a cloud or two

Clear solution to biotech hiring woes: Expand pipeline of workers

After violence of Jan. 6, Congress must fix the antiquated way presidential votes are counted

lifestyle

With new Frontier flight to Cancun, Rhode Island’s ‘international’ airport will soon live up to the name

Singer-songwriter Lauren Hashian is living her middle school dream

3 jaw-dropping moments from last night’s episode of ‘Euphoria’

food & dining

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

With new Frontier flight to Cancun, Rhode Island’s ‘international’ airport will soon live up to the name

Counting on ‘endemic’: The travel industry readies for a potentially new phase

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

Arts

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

Composer John Williams turns 90 on Tuesday, the same day Oscar nominations are announced

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

A host of reasons to follow the Oscars

Television

‘The Afterparty’ is a playful whodunit, but Sam Richardson’s appeal is no mystery

3 jaw-dropping moments from last night’s episode of ‘Euphoria’

This week’s TV: A new prince in ‘Bel-Air,’ a con artist’s caper, and a creepy mystery

music

Singer-songwriter Lauren Hashian is living her middle school dream

The Who to play TD Garden in May

At BSO, a Czech conductor’s bold return

Theater/Dance

‘An Octoroon’ offers a challenging, heart-stirring look at the past and present

Rachel Bertone named new leader of Reagle Music Theatre

Boston-based tap dance company Subject:Matter makes ‘Songbook’ sing

globe local

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

Salem State University campus police officers equipped with body cameras

Gas-powered leaf blowers are noisy and bad for the environment. Boston will soon consider what to do about them.

Obituaries

Dr. Herbert Benson, who documented and promoted meditation’s health benefits, dies at 86

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

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