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Mass. mask mandate for K-12 schools will be lifted Feb. 28, Baker says

“It’s time to give students and staff a sense of normalcy,” Governor Charlie Baker said Wednesday during an announcement. Local school districts will have the option to keep their own mask mandates in place if they wish.

Coronavirus levels continue to decline in Eastern Mass. waste water
The good news keeps flowing in from testing of Eastern Massachusetts waste water for traces of coronavirus.

COVID-19: THE LATEST

World surpasses 400 million known COVID cases

In ongoing COVID-19 vaccine mandate battle, frictions emerge between council and Wu
The political jousting between Mayor Michelle Wu, who served on city council for more than seven years, and certain councilors is the latest development in a conflict that has dominated the early part of her tenure.

Three graduate students file sexual harassment suit against prominent Harvard anthropology professor

The suit alleges that Harvard ignored numerous warning signs, enabling professor John Comaroff to sexually harass one student and damage her career, as well as the careers of two classmates who spoke in her defense.
FORECAST | DAVE EPSTEIN

Get out for a walk! Wednesday’s weather will be beautiful, but snow could be in store for Sunday.

Expect warm temperatures and sunshine for now, but accumulating snow could be in store later this weekend.

Obama portraits heading to Boston this fall

In September, the MFA will present portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama as part of an extended National Portrait Gallery tour.

In 2018, this family had to tear down their Cape Cod beach house due to coastal erosion

John Musnuff knows the impacts of coastal erosion all too well. So he wasn’t surprised when an oceanfront home in Truro had to be moved back earlier this month to prevent it from toppling down onto the beach below.

Why Trump’s endorsement of this candidate is roiling the MAGA base

Former president Donald Trump has caused an uproar among his most fervent loyalists after he offered a preliminary endorsement to a former State Department spokesperson in a Tennessee congressional primary over a Republican ally in the race.
Opinion
RENÉE GRAHAM

The Capitol insurrection was not ‘political discourse.’ It was a violent act of sedition.

RNC invites more white extremist attacks on democracy.
IDEAS | SASWATO R. DAS

An inventor that isn’t human

JEFF JACOBY

Putin’s phony grievance

IDEAS | JERRY BERGER

What are they hiding on Beacon Hill?

SCOT LEHIGH

The GOP’s bad bet: Declaring war on the truth

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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
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4 places we supported this week

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More recent stories

Boston expands online ordering for federal food aid program

Nonprofit grocer Daily Table is now the first independent store in Massachusetts where customers can use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits to order their groceries online.

Maine cat that ended up in Florida is on its way home

A Maine family that long ago gave up on a lost family cat is being reunited — more than six years and 1,500 miles later.

She’s on a mission to meet — and highlight — the people who make up the fabric of Boston

Naomi Szanto, who recently moved to the city, launched a social media campaign called “Boston Commoners,” where she sets out to spend time and talk with the strangers we pass by everyday — and share their stories with the world.

MISS CONDUCT
I caught COVID from my boyfriend’s sister. And now she’s mad at me!
What can I say to her to make amends?

Brad Marchand given match penalty, Patrice Bergeron injured as Bruins suffer costly loss to Penguins

Marchand could face a suspension after taking a swing at Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry, while Bergeron left the game in the third period with an apparent head injury.

Husband and wife injured in three-alarm Peabody house fire

A Peabody husband and wife were injured early Wednesday when a massive broke out at in the two-family home where they lived, a three-alarm fire that eventually consumed half of the building, officials said.

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‘Completely blindsided’: Tewksbury home evacuates seniors after citing disputed emergency order

More than 30 memory care residents were uprooted from Wood Haven Senior Living in late January after they and their families were told the fire department ordered an evacuation.

For some, report on Mass. traffic stops shows stubborn racial biases persist in policing
The report determined Black and Latino drivers were more likely than white drivers to be subjected to searches during stops and had a higher chance of receiving a criminal citation or being arrested.

DEVRA FIRST
Happy Valentine’s Day to me!
What are your favorite self-indulgences? We asked local figures from the food world and beyond to share the foods they crave when they want to indulge in something special.

In a significant step to cut emissions, Mass. officials propose new building codes to promote energy efficiency
State officials Tuesday released a much-anticipated proposal for new building codes that would require new homes and offices to be far more energy efficient.

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Culture & Lifestyle

TELEVISION

Hulu’s ‘The Girl From Plainville’ premieres March 29

One hour on a bench with the $1 sketch artist of Boston Common

Rachel Bertone named new leader of Reagle Music Theatre

TikTok hair icon Brad Mondo is plotting his world domination

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

EDITORIAL

Lift the school mask mandate

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: That curious thing dogs do

Paul Farmer, Sheila Davis, and Ophelia Dahl

The white nationalist threat to antiracist medicine in Boston

Joan Vennochi

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

EDITORIAL

After Cassellius, BPS needs rapid improvement

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

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

Metro

Coronavirus Live Updates

World surpasses 400 million known COVID cases

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

Mass. mask mandate for K-12 schools will be lifted Feb. 28, Baker says

“It’s time to give students and staff a sense of normalcy,” Governor Charlie Baker said Wednesday during an announcement. Local school districts will have the option to keep their own mask mandates in place if they wish.
RI politics

Rhode Island political news: February 2022

Regular updates about Rhode Island politics and political leaders.

Statewide mask mandate for K-12 schools will be lifted Feb. 28, Baker says

The Baker administration announced Wednesday that the statewide mask mandate for K-12 schools will be lifted Feb. 28.

Sports

2022 WINTER OLYMPICS

2022 Winter Olympics: See the results you missed overnight, and tonight’s primetime schedule

View the official 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games event schedule. Find out how to watch your favorite Olympic winter sports.
olympics

2022 Olympics: See the US women’s hockey team’s path to a third gold medal

The US Olympic women's hockey team is looking to win their third gold medal. View the schedule and take a look back at the team's history at the Winter Olympic Games.
dan shaughnessy

We just said goodbye to Tom Brady, and he’s already talking about a comeback?

Feeding his seemingly endless desire for attention, Brady floated the idea of playing in the NFL again on his podcast.
Olympics

Why haven’t figure skaters from Russia, the US, and Japan received their medals? IOC says there’s a ‘legal issue.’

Olympics

Medway’s Zack DiGregorio and partner finish 11th in doubles luge at Beijing Olympics

Will Mikaela Shiffrin race in super-G? Her mom says, ‘We’re going to wait and see.’

Business

Boston data firm nearly triples valuation after raising $250 million

The deal makes Starburst Data one of the most highly valued private technology firms in Massachusetts.

Boston expands online ordering for federal food aid program

Nonprofit grocer Daily Table is now the first independent store in Massachusetts where customers can use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits to order their groceries online.

Musk helping restore Tongan internet; virus outbreak growing

Markey, Warren, Moulton lean on GE to bring back work to Lynn

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

In ongoing COVID-19 vaccine mandate battle, frictions emerge between council and Wu

Mayor Wu announces three buses will be free for two years starting in March

Rhode Island crime news: February 2022

sports

‘It kept me hungry’: Sixteen years after her infamous mistake, Lindsey Jacobellis is finally an Olympic gold medalist

After a fall, Shaun White stomps his way into Olympic final

‘It makes me second-guess, like, the last 15 years’: Mikaela Shiffrin misses another gate, out of her second straight Alpine race

business

How will Boston bounce back from COVID?

New York to end mask rule

Hyundai, Kia recall vehicles due to fire risk

politics

Why Trump’s endorsement of this candidate is roiling the MAGA base

Now it’s Democratic governors pushing to ease up on COVID restrictions

Eric Lander’s resignation is latest setback as Biden seeks to elevate science

Nation

Coronavirus levels continue to decline in Eastern Mass. waste water

World surpasses 400 million known COVID cases

New York Governor lets broad mask mandate expire, but not in schools

World

Canadian demonstrations inspire vaccine-mandate protests from New York to New Zealand

Hong Kong mandates testing for neighborhood exposed to Omicron outbreak

Spain’s king and Denmark’s queen test positive for virus

opinion

The GOP’s bad bet: Declaring war on the truth

May I have a word: That curious thing dogs do

All need to condemn racist attacks against Mayor Wu

lifestyle

4 places we supported this week

Can you get long COVID after an infection with Omicron?

Happy Valentine’s Day to me!

food & dining

4 places we supported this week

Happy Valentine’s Day to me!

We wanted a bean snack to scratch our itch for a salty crunch. These were our favorites.

travel

Spirit and Frontier are merging, but what should the new airline be called? We have ideas.

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

Arts

One hour on a bench with the $1 sketch artist of Boston Common

Conscious coupling in ‘Love Stories,’ now at Worcester Art Museum

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

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

‘2001,’ ‘Blade Runner’ effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull dies

Globe critics react to the 2022 Oscar nominations list

How to watch the 2022 Oscar-nominated films

Television

Hulu’s ‘The Girl From Plainville’ premieres March 29

‘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’

music

Angelique Kidjo’s music and her mission to empower women

Zander and Boston Philharmonic take on Shostakovich and Beethoven

Singer-songwriter Lauren Hashian is living her middle school dream

Theater/Dance

Angelique Kidjo’s music and her mission to empower women

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

Rachel Bertone named new leader of Reagle Music Theatre

globe local

City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo to run for Suffolk district attorney

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

Salem State University campus police officers equipped with body cameras

Obituaries

‘2001,’ ‘Blade Runner’ effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull dies

Robin Herman, ‘perfect role model’ for female sports journalists, dies at 70

George Crumb, eclectic composer who searched for sounds, dies at 92