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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.

Lander was a tough boss at the Broad Institute, but not sexist, say former colleagues
Their reflections of Eric Lander paint a picture of a brilliant and complicated scientist who could be difficult.

COVID-19: THE LATEST

US braces for possible trucker protest; Biden says easing of mask rules by governors is ‘a tough call’

Patriots great Richard Seymour makes Pro Football Hall of Fame
Seymour received his golden moment Thursday, elected into the Class of 2022.

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
EDITORIAL

The US must make clear that any Russia cyberattack, including disinformation campaigns, will have consequences

Russia must know now that it can’t afford to pay the price for a cyberattack against Americans, regardless of the form that attack takes.
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Facing history to avoid repeating it

SCOT LEHIGH

Deterring Putin will test the mettle of the West

Katie Hitchcock-Smith

Navigating the Great Resignation as a jaded millennial

IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA

Loving sports can make you a better person

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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
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.
Shirley Leung

Sham interviews go way beyond the NFL

A “check the box” approach to diversity hiring — a la the NFL’s Rooney Rule — is also prevalent in the business world.
Christopher L. Gasper: Fight for racial equality in the NFL shouldn’t mean eliminating the Rooney Rule
Murray Whyte

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

“This is a new thing, for new generations,” says Mara De Anda, whose great-aunt was Frida Kahlo. “I think maybe this is the new museum — it’s not just about Frida’s paintings, but how she lived.”
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

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Hurricanes 6, Bruins 0
Shorthanded Bruins again dominated by Hurricanes
Boston was without captain Patrice Bergeron (head injury) and top scorer Brad Marchand (suspension).

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.

Home of the Week: Lynn Tudor gets the royal treatment
The dramatic living room is a surprisingly calming presence.

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.

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.

Some Trump records taken to Mar-a-Lago clearly marked as classified, including documents at ‘top secret’ level

The existence of clearly marked classified documents in the trove — which has not previously been reported — is likely to intensify the legal pressure that Donald Trump or his staffers could face, and raises new questions about why the materials were taken out of the White House.

Recommended reads

A vaccine for the youngest children brings hope, confusion, concern

For some parents who have been confined by COVID precautions for two years, the shots could not come soon enough. Others are wary.

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

Vegan vendors get ready for the return of RI VegFest

About 2,700 attendees are expected over the two days at the WaterFire Arts Center.
Coronavirus Live Updates

US braces for possible trucker protest; Biden says easing of mask rules by governors is ‘a tough call’

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

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.

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.

Sports

Olympics | Hockey

US women survive scare, beat Czechs in Olympic hockey

The defending champion United States women’s hockey team avoided an early exit by rallying to defeat the Czech Republic, 4-1, in the quarterfinals of the Beijing Olympics on Friday.
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.
Olympics | Figure skating

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

Olympics | WOMEN'S SUPER-G

Mikaela Shiffrin gave a heartfelt interview after finishing the super-G

John Powers | On Olympics

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

Business

US conservative figures cheer on Canadian trucker protest

Several conservative media figures in the US have taken up the cause of Canadian truckers who have occupied parts of Ottawa and blocked border crossings to protest COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates.

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

Tesla recalls more vehicles as US agency increases scrutiny

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
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

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

MIT president L. Rafael Reif to step down

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

sports

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers wins second straight NFL MVP

Patriots’ Matthew Slater captures Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award

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

business

Jobless claims fall again for third straight week

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

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

US braces for possible trucker protest; Biden says easing of mask rules by governors is ‘a tough call’

US conservative figures cheer on Canadian trucker protest

Officers charged in George Floyd’s killing omitted key details from the scene, Minneapolis officer testifies

World

Blinken says Russia could invade Ukraine during Olympics

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

‘Contactless’ humanitarian aid presents triumphs, tribulations

opinion

Listen to the experts on coexisting with coyotes

To combat lingering crisis from Mass. and Cass, attack root causes

This regressive ‘tax’ should go

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