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Patriots great Richard Seymour makes Pro Football Hall of Fame

Seymour received his golden moment Thursday, elected into the Class of 2022.
Patriots’ Matthew Slater captures Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award winner

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL
Brad Stevens corrects more of Danny Ainge’s mistakes with trade deadline moves
Thursday was spent clearing out roster space, ridding the Celtics of unwanted or unproductive bench players, and upgrading coach Ime Udoka’s frontline rotation.

In blockbuster deal, Nets trade James Harden to 76ers for Ben Simmons

Celtics shake up roster at deadline, dealing Dennis Schröder, Josh Richardson, and getting Derrick White, Daniel Theis

In a series of moves, the Celtics traded seven players and a protected first-round pick, leaving them with five open roster spots, so more moves will follow.
Beijing Winter Olympics

John Powers | On Olympics
Shaun White remained a contender on snowboard’s global stage until the end
The man who began as the Flying Tomato took his last ride at his fifth Games 16 years after he collected the first of his three halfpipe gold medals in Turin.

Here's today’s primetime TV schedule See more coverage of the Winter Olympics

Mikaela Shiffrin finishes her first run of Beijing Olympics, the super-G

Mikaela Shiffrin completed the super-G at the Beijing Olympics way out of medal contention — but for the first time in three races at the 2022 Games, she made it across the finish line.
Doping hearing to decide Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s Olympic fate
COVID-19: THE LATEST

Lynn drops mask mandate effective immediately; Masks no longer required at Mass as of Feb. 28, Archdiocese says

How Neo-Nazi and antivaccine protesters collided at the Brigham
Brigham and Women’s Hospital has felt like a war zone of sorts to its employees, and the unrelated protests heightened the feelings of crisis.

Boston to maintain mask requirement in schools, loosen vaccine mandate for educators

Masks will still be required in schools come March, Mayor Michelle Wu said, but the city has agreed to allow educators to be tested regularly for COVID-19 in lieu of vaccination, but only during periods of lower virus transmission.
Mass. reports 5,634 new coronavirus cases among public school students and 1,089 among staff A vaccine for the youngest children brings hope, confusion, concern

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

US urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade

For the fourth-straight day, scores of truckers taking part in what they dubbed the Freedom Convoy blocked the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, disrupting the flow of auto parts and other products between the two countries.

Lander was a tough boss at the Broad Institute, but not sexist, say former colleagues

Hurricanes 6, Bruins 0

Shorthanded Bruins again dominated by Hurricanes

Your Home | Globe Magazine

Their home design brings a bit of Prague, and a dash of Delhi, to Revere new construction

New homeowners hailing from different parts of the world seek a designer’s help blending their unique points of view.

Bold paint, plus even bolder wallpaper, transform a humdrum house in Cambridge

Add in vintage furniture covered in luxe fabrics and one thing is clear: Greige decor is highly overrated.

Designer’s mission impossible: Make an antique-filled 1790 farmhouse family friendly

A couple nurture two children — and a chocolate business — from a Sudbury home that’s filled with antiques, but still works for the whole family.
Opinion
SCOT LEHIGH

Deterring Putin will test the mettle of the West

Russia’s strongman doesn’t care about morality or international law, only gain versus pain.
IDEAS | PATRICK COLE

What we lose when our cultural icons die

Katie Hitchcock-Smith

Navigating the Great Resignation as a jaded millennial

Katherine Clark

My miscarriage was crushing. Overturning Roe could make the ordeal even worse.

LETTERS

Brigham and Women’s is right to decline heart transplant to unvaccinated patient

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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

Threats, angry notes, slashed tires: the saga of parking space savers in Boston is unrelenting

Parking space savers were out in full force in Boston after the Jan. 29 blizzard, and even though most of the snow is long gone, they remain a contentious issue in some neighborhoods.
MATTHEW GILBERT

You say you want miniseries that aren’t traumatizing? Here are some that stand out.

Most of these shows aren't light romps, exactly, but they're entertaining and aren't here to address social ills.

MIT president L. Rafael Reif to step down

He will resign at the end of 2022 after more than a decade leading the institution, and plans to take a sabbatical and then return as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Project Takeout

4 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

Maine man indicted on federal charges of setting fires at Black church in Springfield

Dushko Vulchev, 45, of Houlton, Maine, was indicted on one count of using fire to commit a federal felony and four counts of damage to religious property involving fire, the office of US Attorney Rachael Rollins said in a statement.

Swastika, threat to Black people found at Curry College after rash of racist graffiti on campus

The messages included a swastika and a threat against Black members of the campus community that gave a date of Saturday, Feb. 12, according to a Thursday statement from the college.

Investigators find gaps in White House log of Trump’s Jan. 6 calls

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has discovered gaps in official White House telephone logs from the day of the riot, finding few records of calls by President Donald Trump from critical hours when investigators know that he was making them.

Bill allowing driver’s licenses for people without legal immigration status will advance to a vote in the Mass. House, speaker’s office says
If the bill becomes law, Massachusetts would become the 17th state to give undocumented immigrants the ability to obtain a license.

KEVIN CULLEN
Preaching to everybody but the choir
As secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Brandon Lewis is the British government’s top official there, and as such is used to bitter divisions.

Christopher L. Gasper
Fight for racial equality in the NFL shouldn’t mean eliminating the Rooney Rule
The Rooney Rule isn’t perfect, and teams have gotten exceedingly good at skirting its true spirit. But it would be a huge mistake to simply junk it.

Recommended reads

Susan M. Collins becomes first woman of color to lead Boston Federal Reserve Bank

The economist will join the Fed in July from the University of Michigan, where she has been provost and executive vice president for academic affairs since 2020.

Beth Teitell
Wordle started as a sweet game. Then we got our hands on it.
No one can escape the long arm of Wordle. There are Wordle TikToks, Wordle spoilers, Wordle nerds, and, of course, Wordle rage.

Harvard professors drop support for colleague accused of sexual harassment
Many professors say they now regret signing a letter in support of John Comaroff without knowing more about the allegations against him. Multiple graduate students have accused him of sexual harassment, unwanted touching, and professional retaliation.

When will the Massachusetts State House reopen?
The Massachusetts State House is the last state capitol in the continental United States still closed to the public. But there is daylight between legislative leaders in the Massachusetts House and the Senate on the specifics of a reopening policy.

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Culture & Lifestyle

With love, Alyssa Limperis spoofs her mom, remembers her dad

ART

At SPOKE Gallery, L’Merchie Frazier’s quilts speak volumes

From the unemployment line to the small screen of ‘Power,’ Shane Johnson is paving his own lane

I spent time in a kitchen with Gordon Ramsay — and I survived

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

IDEAS | PATRICK COLE

What we lose when our cultural icons die

Katherine Clark

My miscarriage was crushing. Overturning Roe could make the ordeal even worse.

Joan Vennochi

Boston will bounce back when office workers come back to Boston

Sharon E. Burke

Should the Defense Dept. be exempt from cutting greenhouse gas emissions?

Laurence H. Tribe and Dennis Aftergut

Supreme Court shows its true colors by greenlighting Alabama’s racial gerrymander

IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA

Loving sports can make you a better person

Metro

Electrical unions donate van and equipment to Madison Park Technical Vocational High School

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103 in Boston donated a van, with a decorative wrap in the school’s colors. The New England Contractors Association of Greater Boston donated $10,000 worth of tools to the school on Wednesday, the unions said.
Coronavirus Live Updates

Lynn drops mask mandate effective immediately; Masks no longer required at Mass as of Feb. 28, Archdiocese says

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

Betty Davis, raw funk innovator, is dead at 77

As the decades passed, she was far from forgotten; hip-hop samples made it clear how hard-hitting her productions still sounded.

John Wesley, an artist who couldn’t be pinned down, dies at 93

Through the years, critics would describe him variously as a “surrealist secret agent,” a sly eroticist, a latter-day manifestation of rococo, a renegade color field artist, and a “Greek vase painter by way of Aubrey Beardsley.”

Sports

John Powers | On Olympics

Shaun White remained a contender on snowboard’s global stage until the end

The man who began as the Flying Tomato took his last ride at his fifth Games 16 years after he collected the first of his three halfpipe gold medals in Turin.
Olympics | Snowboarding

Snowboard legend Shaun White finishes fourth in final run of his career

Shaun White had a front-row seat to what the next generation can do after he pushed the limits of snowboarding for more than a decade. He finished in fourth place in the halfpipe as he fell on the final run of a career that’s seen the American star win three Olympic titles.
Olympics | Women's Super-G

Mikaela Shiffrin finishes her first run of Beijing Olympics, the super-G

Mikaela Shiffrin completed the super-G at the Beijing Olympics way out of medal contention — but for the first time in three races at the 2022 Games, she made it across the finish line.
NFL notebook

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers wins second straight NFL MVP

Olympics | Figure skating

Doping hearing to decide Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s Olympic fate

Patriots

Patriots’ Matthew Slater captures Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award

Business

US urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade

For the fourth-straight day, scores of truckers taking part in what they dubbed the Freedom Convoy blocked the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, disrupting the flow of auto parts and other products between the two countries.

AGs asked to oppose rule that could impede clean energy expansion

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Tesla recalls more vehicles as US agency increases scrutiny

Jobless claims fall again for third straight week

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.

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PERSPECTIVE

There’s an invisible air quality threat lurking inside our homes

MISS CONDUCT

I caught COVID from my boyfriend’s sister. And now she’s mad at me!

Love Letters

She broke things off, but can’t seem to move on

Cooking

Recipes: A Valentine’s Day menu with French inspiration

metro

MIT president L. Rafael Reif to step down

‘Promising, but not yet definitive,’ R.I. officials say of Captain Cook’s ship

How Neo-Nazi and antivaccine protesters collided at the Brigham

sports

Dave Fazio nets his 500th win as Andover boys’ basketball coach

Pentucket beats Newburyport to take Cape Ann League Kinney Division title in girls’ basketball

Patriots great Richard Seymour makes Pro Football Hall of Fame

business

Senate passes bill to end forced arbitration in sexual assault, harassment cases

Biden to propose 4.6 percent pay raise for federal employees, the biggest hike in 20 years

US buys 600K doses of new COVID antibody awaiting clearance

politics

Biden highlights plan to trim drug costs

Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for mixing up Gestapo and gazpacho

Abortions in Texas fell 60 percent in first month under new limits

Nation

Lynn drops mask mandate effective immediately; Masks no longer required at Mass as of Feb. 28, Archdiocese says

Betty Davis, raw funk innovator, is dead at 77

John Wesley, an artist who couldn’t be pinned down, dies at 93

World

With buildup on land and sea, Russia closes in on Ukraine

‘Contactless’ humanitarian aid presents triumphs, tribulations

Russia’s daily COVID-19 infections near 200,000 for 1st time

opinion

My miscarriage was crushing. Overturning Roe could make the ordeal even worse.

Brigham and Women’s is right to decline heart transplant to unvaccinated patient

Canadian truckers, the Greatest Generation, and service to others

lifestyle

Dig into Needham’s Little Spoon for terrific Thai food

Second-guessing a breakup one year later

Hadar Busia-Singleton on fresh pasta, her Nintendo Switch, and memories of Miffy

food & dining

Dig into Needham’s Little Spoon for terrific Thai food

Conan O’Brien raves about a new Newton restaurant — and a New Republik is founded in Inman Square

I spent time in a kitchen with Gordon Ramsay — and I survived

travel

Hadar Busia-Singleton on fresh pasta, her Nintendo Switch, and memories of Miffy

Historic Harris Hill Ski Jump celebrates 100 years with a winter carnival

A portable cinema, an Empire State proposal, and two weekends of live dance

Arts

‘Frida,’ the latest immersive show to land in Boston, is a spectacle — but is it art?

Remembering Todd McKie, a painter known for his bright palette, dark humor, and friendship

At SPOKE Gallery, L’Merchie Frazier’s quilts speak volumes

Books

Turning African fantasy on its head

She follows her hunches for what to read next

The creation and the critique in ‘Pure Colour’

Movies

Profiles of Black resistance

Flight patterns, the plight of the rights, class actions

Director Josephine Decker on adapting Jandy Nelson’s YA novel ‘The Sky Is Everywhere’

Television

You say you want miniseries that aren’t traumatizing? Here are some that stand out.

Will viewers stream toward CNN+?

From the unemployment line to the small screen of ‘Power,’ Shane Johnson is paving his own lane

music

Betty Davis, raw funk innovator, is dead at 77

BMOP celebrates 25 years of searching for the new

The ‘identity crisis’ that produced Lady Pills’ confident new sound

Theater/Dance

In ‘People, Places & Things,’ a plunge into the depths of addiction

‘Sing Street’ to make a stop at the Huntington on its way back to Broadway

With love, Alyssa Limperis spoofs her mom, remembers her dad

globe local

A dazzling spectacle of orchids will mesmerize at Tower Hill

Should Massachusetts adopt Election-Day voter registration?

It was this loon’s lucky day

Obituaries

Betty Davis, raw funk innovator, is dead at 77

John Wesley, an artist who couldn’t be pinned down, dies at 93

Luc Montagnier is dead; received Nobel for his work discovering HIV