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Lawrence man pleads guilty in death, rape of 13-year-old girl who had drugs in her system

Carlos Rivera pleaded guilty Friday to involuntary manslaughter and rape charges in connection with the death of a 13-year-old Amesbury girl whom he allegedly assaulted and plied with cocaine before dropping her off unconscious at Lawrence General Hospital, where she died in May 2019, authorities said.

Surveillance video shows BU professor climbing T stairs moments before his fatal fall
David Jones can be seen jogging down the street, then climbing the badly damaged stairs, but the video cuts off before the BU professor falls.

Dave Epstein | Forecast

A two-season weekend is in store with potential record highs, followed by cold

As we come up on the second weekend of February, we can expect one day to feel like spring with near record high temperatures and the other like winter.

State of emergency declared in Ontario as trucker protest blocks US bridge
The premier of Canada's biggest province declared a state of emergency, warning protesters choking off traffic at a key U.S. border crossing and causing gridlock in Canada's capital they face stiff punishment if they don't leave.

Cassellius warns against school staffing shortages that ‘erode’ student learning

The piece, published in the Washington Post days after Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius announced she would step down, called for statewide and national solutions to an issue putting schools "at risk of defaulting on their moral obligation" to students.

End of mask mandate in Mass. schools prompts range of opinions among local infectious disease experts

Massachusetts is set to lift its mask mandate in K-12 schools at the end of the month, allowing local districts to decide whether to require masks and raising the prospect of students gathering maskless in classrooms just as they return from February break.
Infection rates could improve enough to lift indoor vaccine requirement in Boston, official says
COVID-19: THE LATEST

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

Mayor Wu makes three bus lines free in pursuit of ‘climate justice’

Advocates say fare-free transit could not only save residents money, but also help Boston achieve its climate goals.

How two strong-willed Cambridge moms are working to wean Mass. utilities off fossil fuels

Two activists, who joined forces over a common fear of how climate change would affect their children, have a plan to get the state off gas. Utilities are finally listening.
Beijing Winter Olympics

John Powers | On Olympics
The last ride of Shaun White: The ‘motivation’ for a new generation of snowboarders was a contender 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 didn’t medal in the Super-G. But it wasn’t about that.

For Mikaela Shiffrin, "what I expected from the feeling of the course is not how it went" earlier in the Games. Now, she has a successful run under her belt.
Doping hearing to decide Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s Olympic fate US women survive scare, beat Czechs in Olympic hockey to advance

dan shaughnessy
Celtics fans, be patient, because they’re sticking with this team, and other thoughts
Brad Stevens's flurry of moves at the trade deadline indicated that he is in it for the long run with this group.

Why the Celtics traded for Derrick White and Daniel Theis

Brad Stevens, in his first trade deadline, wasted no time in putting his stamp on the team. While White was one of Boston’s primary targets entering the day, the return of Theis came together in the rushed final minutes.
Five things to know about Derrick White, the Celtics new defensive-minded guard

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.

‘Thanks, New York Times’: Some people say their Wordle streaks were reset — but the Times is on it

While fervent Wordle fans knew the newspaper was taking over their new favorite pandemic pastime, they weren’t expecting the P-E-S-K-Y interruption.“Streak reset to 1,” one person tweeted Friday. “Thanks, New York Times!”
Beth Teitell: Wordle started as a sweet game. Then we got our hands on it.

The votes are in. This is the best sugar cereal, according to Globe readers.

Last week, Globe food critic Devra First gave us her definitive ranking of the best and worst sugar cereals, and we wanted to know: Do Globe readers agree? After more than 19,000 votes, we have a winner.
Devra First: The best — and worst — sugar cereals
Opinion
EDITORIAL

The Russian hackers are coming. Are we ready?

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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Globe Magazine
Your Home

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.
CONNECTIONS

I found a love note meant for someone else

I should’ve dropped it in a trash basket, but brought it inside anyway. I couldn’t resist.
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I can’t believe I said something as nerdy as “Do you know what Coruscant is?”’

Will these two daters hit the high notes?
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

COVID-19 numbers could improve enough to lift Boston’s indoor vaccine requirement ‘in the coming weeks,’ public health commissioner says

Speaking at a virtual city council hearing Friday, Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, executive director at the city’s public health commission, said that core metrics guiding the city’s pandemic response are all trending in the right direction.

Video shows dramatic helicopter rescue of fisherman off Nantucket
Authorities on Friday released dramatic video footage of a US Coast Guard rescue Wednesday of a fisherman who had trouble breathing while aboard a vessel 58 miles southeast of Nantucket.

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.

A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt
The Black history I carry with me: Tyson Ali Clark
The Boston Ballet artist shares his beautiful resistance.

More Black History Month coverage

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.

Black News Hour
Black mental health professionals spotlight resources for locals looking for care
Local health experts and advocates emphasized the importance of centering wellness and detailed inclusive resources available for Boston’s communities of color.

Recommended reads

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Culture & Lifestyle

FOOD

What to make for Super Bowl snacks this Sunday

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

Murray Whyte

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

PARENTING UNFILTERED

Your February vacation week solved

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

End of mask mandate in Mass. schools prompts range of opinions among local infectious disease experts

Massachusetts is set to lift its mask mandate in K-12 schools at the end of the month, allowing local districts to decide whether to require masks and raising the prospect of students gathering maskless in classrooms just as they return from February break.

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.
RI politics

Rhode Island political news: February 2022

Regular updates about Rhode Island politics and political leaders.
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.

Sports

dan shaughnessy

Celtics fans, be patient, because they’re sticking with this team, and other thoughts

Brad Stevens's flurry of moves at the trade deadline indicated that he is in it for the long run with this group.
Celtics

Celtic create five trade exceptions with deadline deals

Trade exceptions are valid for one year and they allow teams to acquire players without sending out matching salary in return.

Matt Turner’s summer transfer to Arsenal has been completed, Revolution announce

The 27-year-old goalie will play for the Revolution in the 2022 Concacaf Champions League and nearly half of the 2022 MLS regular season.
Celtics

Why the Celtics traded for Derrick White and Daniel Theis

olympics

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

2022 WINTER OLYMPICS

2022 Winter Olympics: See tonight’s primetime schedule

Business

COVID-infected kids are missing out on school lunches

First Jill Carey and her children got sick. Then they got hungry.

Fed is slamming the door on pandemic era of dirt-cheap credit

For much of the past two years, money managers were handing out credit to just about anyone that asked for it: Tech startups with no profit. Cruise companies struggling to navigate a pandemic. Retailers that rely on fading malls.

Childcare providers across US are still struggling to survive

Biden to split frozen Afghan funds for 9/11 victims, relief

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

COVID-19 numbers could improve enough to lift Boston’s indoor vaccine requirement ‘in the coming weeks,’ public health commissioner says

Cassellius warns against school staffing shortages that ‘erode’ student learning

Coast Guard makes second dramatic rescue of fisherman off Mass. waters in past week

sports

Getting rid of the Rooney Rule could make it even harder to bring racial equity to the NFL

Five things to know about Derrick White, the Celtics new defensive-minded guard

🏈 The wackiest Super Bowl bets you can make in Rhode Island 💰

business

Diversity nonprofit spins out of local venture capital group

US conservative figures cheer on Canadian trucker protest

US urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade

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

End of mask mandate in Mass. schools prompts range of opinions among local infectious disease experts

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

5 Phoenix police officers wounded in shootout at home

World

State of emergency declared in Ontario as trucker protest blocks US bridge

Hong Kong virus cases top 1,000 again as flight ban extended

Malaysian economy rebounds, fears of inflation and virus complications on horizon

opinion

Exporting the American way

Navigating the Great Resignation as a jaded millennial

What we lose when our cultural icons die

lifestyle

Drag performer Milk to host free disco skating show in the Fenway on Saturday

Design ideas: Black walls and lighter furnishings create a modern dining room

What to make for Super Bowl snacks this Sunday

food & dining

What to make for Super Bowl snacks this Sunday

The votes are in. This is the best sugar cereal, according to Globe readers.

Dig into Needham’s Little Spoon for terrific Thai food

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

‘Moon Witch, Spider King’ turns 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

Drag performer Milk to host free disco skating show in the Fenway on Saturday

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

Will viewers stream toward CNN+?

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

Drag performer Milk to host free disco skating show in the Fenway on Saturday

Chris Rock is coming to the Wilbur for five shows

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

globe local

Black mental health professionals spotlight resources for locals looking for care

A dazzling spectacle of orchids will mesmerize at Tower Hill

Should Massachusetts adopt Election-Day voter registration?

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