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Police removed 600-plus names from a Boston gang database. For some councilors, it’s not enough.

More than 3,000 people are still listed in the controversial database, in which Black and brown Boston residents are disproportionately represented.

Tufts University president Anthony Monaco to retire

Monaco is the latest in a series of high-profile academic leaders to announce their departures recently.

‘Everything’s going up’: Seniors struggle with the prices of food, fuel, and medicine

The last time prices rose this fast, today’s seniors were in their prime and drawing paychecks. Now they’re older, retired, and feeling the crunch in a world where everything suddenly costs more.

You’re probably asking, why am I shoveling yet again?

The past 24 hours have brought nearly continuous snow to parts of central and eastern Massachusetts, with amounts piling up higher than expected, especially inland.

Here’s a look at snowfall totals from the storm

Double-decker tour buses are coming to Boston. But rivals say not so fast.

Open-top, two-level buses were apparently discouraged under Tom Menino’s long tenure as mayor. But last fall, the city’s main tour operators say they learned double-deckers could hit the road here soon.

COVID-19: THE LATEST

Baker signs $101 million supplement budget, with emergency paid sick leave, more COVID-19 resources

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As traffic resumes on crucial border crossing, Ottawa remains snarled
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First jury trials of 2022 underway after COVID-19 winter surge

Beijing Winter Olympics

Kamila Valieva is 26th on the start list for the women's short program on Tuesday.

John Powers | On Olympics

If the Russians are thumbing their nose at doping rules, it’s not hard to figure out why

With only minimal or symbolic penalties and “protected person” status for athletes who are minors, there are few deterrents for a country with a history of cheating.

Tara Sullivan: Don’t blame Kamila Valieva for this doping scandal. Blame Russia and the IOC.

Sha'Carri Richardson reacts after winning the women's 100-meter race in the track and field Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore.

Runner Sha’Carri Richardson suggests double standard in decision to allow Kamila Valieva to compete

Richardson is questioning whether there is a double standard at play after an international court allowed Russian skater Kamila Valieva to continue competing at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics despite having tested positive for a banned substance.

From left: Megan Keller, Caroline Harvey, and Kendall Coyne Schofield celebrate with their teammates after beating Finland on Monday to advance to the gold medal game.

US women’s hockey team beats Finland, 4-1, to advance to gold medal game vs. Canada

The two world powers have played for the championship in every Olympic tournament but the 2006 Turin Games.

See more coverage of the Winter Olympics

The Keurig of ice cream is heating up fast

ColdSnap’s single-serve ice cream machine uses aluminum pods that are roughly the size of a Red Bull can and deliver frozen treats, including ice cream, frozen smoothies, and frozen cocktails.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: Story lines we forgot to remember, the return of ‘Mrs. Maisel,’ and a Ye docuseries

When a show returns after being off the air for, in some cases, almost three years, who can remember where we left off?

Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp (left) capped a remarkable season with another clutch performance Sunday night.

chad finn | unconventional review

Evoking Tom Brady’s heroics, Rams’ best players delivered in crunch time in Super Bowl

Cooper Kupp, Aaron Donald, and Matthew Stafford played brilliantly when the stakes were highest and the situation demanded it.

Some of the most memorable ads from Super Bowl LVI

JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Fla., is a quiet place these days, and it appears that will be the case for at least the near future.

peter abraham | on baseball

As baseball standoff continues, the forecast for spring remains cloudy

That spring training will not start on time later this week is certain, and the lack of urgency in negotiations is what’s most disappointing.

This year, say "I love you" with these 13 unique Valentine's Day activities in and around the Boston area, including two Valentine's-themed events at Somerville's Urban Axes.

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

Skip the roses and chocolates this year with these 13 off-the-beaten-path Valentine's activities.

See more Valentine's Day ideas and coverage

Opinion

A flight attendant walks on board a Delta Air Lines plane at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville, North Carolina, on Jan. 20.

Violent outbursts on planes are getting worse. But a new no-fly list isn’t the solution.

Creating a national database of unruly passengers is an extreme step, one that the federal government should be cautious about taking.

Biden’s bill would be a cornerstone for US climate policy

Build Back Better is about opportunity, not sacrifice

Has Mass. missed the bus on electric vehicles?

NFL’s Super Sunday super mess

Masala Art's Gobhi Gulistan and Vegetable Samosa.

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

Father of Parkland high school shooting victim protests on crane near White House

“The whole world will listen to Joaquin today. He has a very important message,” the father, Manuel Oliver, said in a video tweeted at about 6:50 a.m., referring to his son, Joaquin Oliver. “I asked for a meeting with Joe Biden a month ago, never got that meeting.”

Here are some leading candidates to fill out a suddenly depleted Patriots coaching staff

Bill Belichick has lost four members of his 2021 staff, and it’s unclear whether longtime running backs coach Ivan Fears will be back.

A-Rod, once scorned by Trump, in group buying his D.C. hotel

Alex Rodriguez, once vilified by Donald Trump as a “druggie” and “joke” unworthy of wearing the pinstripes, is now a key part of an investment group seeking to buy the rights to the ex-president’s marquee Washington, D.C., hotel.

Box truck gets stuck under bridge in Weston; crews remove vehicle

A box truck was driving on Park Road around 10 a.m. when it encountered a bridge that was approximately 11 feet and 3 inches tall and became stuck, said Weston Fire Chief David Soar.

For the first time in US history, the top fund-raising Senate candidate in both parties is Black

In 2021, for the first time since the Federal Election Commission began keeping track, Black candidates topped both Democrat and Republican lists of biggest Senate fund-raisers in a quarter.

First jury trials of 2022 underway after COVID-19 winter surge

The pandemic has spurred intermittent pauses in trials and caused courthouse closures.

Recommended reads

Jose Alfaro, a stylist at Beaucage Salon and Spa in Boston, collected less than three months of state jobless benefits.

SHIRLEY LEUNG AND LARRY EDELMAN

They qualified for unemployment benefits. Then the state asked for the money back.

Months after approving their jobless claims, Massachusetts began telling people that they may need to return the money. Here are the stories of people battling with the Department of Unemployment Assistance.

Police seek charges against seven students after Woburn locker room incident

A hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Lowell Juvenile Court before a clerk magistrate to determine whether probable cause exists to issue criminal complaints against the seven students, said the family’s attorney, Peter Hahn.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Most of Boston’s schools lack fully functioning libraries. The superintendent vowed to change that — but will her successor?

In Boston, after years of decline in library access, a school library with regular hours, dedicated staff, and an up-to-date collection has become an extra bonus amenity, found at exam schools and campuses with robust parent fund-raising efforts — and hardly anywhere else.

A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt

The Black history I carry with me: Tyson Ali Clark

The Boston Ballet artist shares his beautiful resistance.

video

Culture & Lifestyle

"Incredible Predators" debuts at the New England Aquarium.

PARENTING UNFILTERED

Your February vacation week solved

Gordon Ramsay during an interview with the Boston Globe.

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

Visitors preview the "Frida: Immersive Dream" at the Saunders Castle at Park Plaza.

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

Author Gish Jen.

Place and displacement in ‘Thank You, Mr. Nixon’

Special Projects

Into the Red illustration.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Watermelon was a cash crop and a token of financial independence for the formerly enslaved. But white Southerners viewed any modicum of Black success as an affront to their own sense of dominance.

Fried chicken, watermelon, and the origins of racist food stereotypes

"Part of Ward 9, City of Boston [Plate 1],” in Atlas of the City of Boston, South Boston (Philadelphia: G. W. Bromley & Co., 1919).

IDEAS | GARRETT DASH NELSON

When Boston gave America some sugar

At her home in Havana, Zoila Rodriguez Marzo shows a document of the sentence handed to her son Exeynt Beirut and a photo of her son, her daughter, and their father, who have been detained since anti-government protests last July. Cuba is imposing sentences of up to 30 years on demonstrators.

Cuba’s dictatorship, not the embargo, is what needs to go

Raising the veil on drug prices

IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA

Loving sports can make you a better person

Metro

Box truck gets stuck under bridge in Weston; crews remove vehicle

A box truck was driving on Park Road around 10 a.m. when it encountered a bridge that was approximately 11 feet and 3 inches tall and became stuck, said Weston Fire Chief David Soar.

Police removed 600-plus names from a Boston gang database. For some councilors, it’s not enough.

More than 3,000 people are still listed in the controversial database, in which Black and brown Boston residents are disproportionately represented.

Coronavirus Live Updates

Baker signs $101 million supplement budget, with emergency paid sick leave, more COVID-19 resources

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

Rhode Island experts pick the best Super Bowl commercials

Didn't care about the game but loved the commercials? Here’s what some of Rhode Island’s most talented agencies thought of the Super Bowl ads.

Sports

Vermont's Megan Nick won silver in the women's aerials competition.

2022 WINTER OLYMPICS

2022 Winter Olympics: See tonight’s primetime schedule

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

David Culley, who was head coach of the Texans last season, has been coaching in the NFL since 1994.

Here are some leading candidates to fill out a suddenly depleted Patriots coaching staff

Bill Belichick has lost four members of his 2021 staff, and it’s unclear whether longtime running backs coach Ivan Fears will be back.

JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Fla., is a quiet place these days, and it appears that will be the case for at least the near future.

peter abraham | on baseball

As baseball standoff continues, the forecast for spring remains cloudy

That spring training will not start on time later this week is certain, and the lack of urgency in negotiations is what’s most disappointing.

chad finn | unconventional review

Evoking Tom Brady’s heroics, Rams’ best players delivered in crunch time in Super Bowl

Rhode Island experts pick the best Super Bowl commercials

US women’s hockey team beats Finland, 4-1, to advance to gold medal game vs. Canada

Business

A-Rod, once scorned by Trump, in group buying his D.C. hotel

Alex Rodriguez, once vilified by Donald Trump as a “druggie” and “joke” unworthy of wearing the pinstripes, is now a key part of an investment group seeking to buy the rights to the ex-president’s marquee Washington, D.C., hotel.

The Keurig of ice cream is heating up fast

ColdSnap’s single-serve ice cream machine uses aluminum pods that are roughly the size of a Red Bull can and deliver frozen treats, including ice cream, frozen smoothies, and frozen cocktails.

Rhode Island experts pick the best Super Bowl commercials

China approves Pfizer pill, may stray from COVID zero strategy

STAT

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‘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

A copy of the discarded note the author found.

I found a love note meant for someone else

A photo illustration of smoke coming from a gas stove.

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

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

Mustard-Braised Chicken With
Tarragon served on egg noodles.

Recipes: A Valentine’s Day menu with French inspiration

metro

Joe Raymond wipes down and sanitizes railings in Lowell District Court in January.

First jury trials of 2022 underway after COVID-19 winter surge

Tufts University president Anthony Monaco to retire

Rhode Island crime news: February 2022

sports

Team USA's Savannah Harmon shoots past the Czech Republic's goalie, Klara Peslarova, during the Americans' quarterfinal win.

The US women’s hockey team is one win away from gold. See the schedule here.

Runner Sha’Carri Richardson suggests double standard in decision to allow Kamila Valieva to compete

If the Russians are thumbing their nose at doping rules, it’s not hard to figure out why

business

Destenie Vital is the executive director of What Cheer Flower Farm.

Cheer Flower Farm brings blossoms to people dealing with difficulties — for free

Key US-Canada bridge reopens after police clear protesters

Super Bowl ads go heavy on nostalgia and star power

politics

Minnesota Timberwolves co-owner and former New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.

A-Rod, once scorned by Trump, in group buying his D.C. hotel

Father of Parkland high school shooting victim protests on crane near White House

For the first time in US history, the top fund-raising Senate candidate in both parties is Black

Nation

Minnesota Timberwolves co-owner and former New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.

A-Rod, once scorned by Trump, in group buying his D.C. hotel

Baker signs $101 million supplement budget, with emergency paid sick leave, more COVID-19 resources

Asian woman followed into NYC apartment, killed, and found in bathtub

World

The hit television show "Friends" first premiered in 1994.

China censors ‘Friends’ to remove lesbian characters, orgasms, other topics

China approves Pfizer pill, may stray from COVID zero strategy

US-Canada border reopens but trucker protest still continues

opinion

People hold candles as they gather for a vigil in the aftermath of a deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Oct. 27, 2018.

A reminder that the fight against hatred goes on

Voter suppression is the point

A new understanding of ‘wealth’

lifestyle

The Boston Dynamics robots were featured in the Sam Adams Super Bowl LVI commercial.

Watch some of the most memorable ads from Super Bowl LVI

At Winter Olympics, virus fight waged with worker sacrifices

In times of need, Lasagna Love delivers

food & dining

Extra Cheesy Pepperoni Pizza Rolls: A perfect Super Bowl snack.

What to make for Super Bowl snacks this Sunday

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

Vegan vendors get ready for the return of RI VegFest

travel

Hadar Busia-Singleton in Brazil.

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

Visitors preview the "Frida: Immersive Dream" at the Saunders Castle at Park Plaza.

‘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

Fannie Lou Hamer spoke to Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sympathizers outside the US Capitol in 1965.

Two documentaries offer powerful 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

Rachel Brosnahan in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."

This week’s TV: Story lines we forgot to remember, the return of ‘Mrs. Maisel,’ and a Ye docuseries

Puzzle game show ‘Lingo’ set for a comeback

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

music

Eminem, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Curtis "50 cent" Jackson, Mary J. Blige and Snoop Dogg performed during the halftime show of Super Bowl LVI between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. on Sunday.

Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, Eminem perform at star-studded Super Bowl LVI halftime show

Drama and distinction for conductor Philippe Jordan and pianist Yefim Bronfman at BSO

Betty Davis, raw funk innovator, is dead at 77

Theater/Dance

Dancers rehearse on stage as hundreds of dancers auditioned for the Youth America Grand Prix on the stage of the Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts on March 20, 2021. The dancers performed before a group of judges in hopes of receiving scholarships to top dance academies.

The Youth America Grand Prix returns to Worcester

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

Chris Rock is coming to the Wilbur for five shows

globe local

Damages to the roof and solar panels at Bradford & Bigelow, a printing company on Perkins Way, are estimated at $2 million to $4 million, officials said.

3-alarm fire damages roof, solar panels at Newburyport printing company

Dracut police ask public to help identify 2 suspects in $12k robbery case

Surveillance video shows BU professor climbing T stairs moments before his fatal fall

Obituaries

Artist and children's book author Ashley Bryan.

Ashley Bryan, whose diverse characters enlivened children’s books, dies at 98

Stephanie Selby, ‘A Very Young Dancer’ who inspired many, dies at 56

Gloria Rojas, trailblazing Latina broadcaster, dies at 82