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Biden announces sanctions against Russian oligarchs, banks

President Biden accused Vladimir Putin of flagrantly violating international law in what he called the “beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine,” and promised that more sanctions would be coming if Putin proceeds further.

Here’s what you need to know about the Russia-Ukraine situation Russia builds its case for a Ukraine invasion

‘People are preparing for the worst,’ Harvard scholar with relatives in Ukraine says

RUSSIA-UKRAINE: THE LATEST

European countries impose sanctions against Russia over Ukraine

Mass. reports 4,118 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 37 deaths over four days

Here’s a look at the latest coronavirus numbers in Massachusetts, including case numbers, deaths, demographics, and more.

Mass. reports 6,312 breakthrough COVID-19 cases, raising total to 8.5 percent of fully vaccinated people

WFXT Channel 25 acquired by hedge fund Standard General

Cox Media Group is selling the Boston-area TV station as part of a larger deal.

Jim Ewing’s robotic climbing foot, as seen in the documentary "Augmented."

‘Augmented’ documentary charts what is gained from a reimagined amputation

The film, which premieres on Feb. 23 on PBS, follows the work of MIT scientists and the surgical and technological innovations that are transforming the future of prosthetics.

Video footage sheds light on BU professor’s fatal fall at MBTA station, but key details remain unclear

The Globe analyzed video footage and photos of the staircase that provided a fuller reconstruction of what happened to the professor in the moments leading up to his death.

Three cars plunged into the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee heading to an ice fishing tournament

Two of the recovered cars were fully submerged below the ice, while another, a Ford Explorer, only partially sunk, with its front wheels falling into the lake.

As Giants head coach, Joe Judge (right) didn't make great strides in bringing along young quarterback Daniel Jones (left).

christopher l. gasper

Joe Judge is a dubious choice as Mac Jones’s tutor, and other thoughts

It seems as if kissing Bill Belichick's Super Bowl rings and genuflecting are qualities highly valued in Patriots assistant coaches.

Philip Crowther.

AP journalist impresses viewers on Twitter by reporting in six languages

An Associated Press television reporter delivering the news in six languages drew praise on Twitter Monday after posting a supercut of himself reporting in English, Luxembourgish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

Tourists Shelly Moss (left) from Texas and Belinda Byrne (right) from California were part of the first tour back inside the Massachusetts State House since it was closed to the public in 2020.

The Massachusetts State House reopened to public Tuesday — mostly

It had been 708 days since legislative leaders closed its doors to the public at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Opinion

Smoke rises from the Luhansk power station in Shchastia, in Eastern Ukraine, after it was heavily bombed on Tuesday.

Make Putin decide: All-out war in Ukraine or massive sanctions

For now, the United States and its allies are holding back on the ‘mother of all sanctions,’ preferring to raise the ante incrementally to save Kyiv. In the meantime, lives are at stake.

Michelle A. Williams

Paul Farmer taught us not to accept the status quo in public health

Alexandra Vacroux

What does Putin want?

Why a bust of Maya Angelou was vandalized at BPL during an anti-vaccine protest

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: In search of English’s missing words

Butter miso noodles with chicken and vegetables from Dumpling Daughter.

PROJECT TAKEOUT

3 places we supported this week

Want to order from local, independent restaurants? Here are some suggestions from Globe staff.

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INNOVATION BEAT

The end of 3G is not just about phones

On Tuesday, AT&T shut down its 3G network. T-Mobile will start to follow suit in a few weeks, and Verizon by year end. Here's what that means for a wide range of devices.

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All three men involved in murder of Ahmaud Arbery found guilty of federal hate crimes

The jury reached its decision after several hours of deliberation on the charges against father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan.

Best-selling author Ben Mezrich goes behind the scenes of his new book, ‘The Midnight Ride’

The new book, out Tuesday, is based on serialized novella “The Mechanic,” which ran in The Boston Globe for three weeks in 2020.

Dave Epstein | Forecast

This week’s ever-changing weather could bring record highs and snow

Spring in this part of the country doesn’t arrive overnight. It comes in little waves, with bouts of winter in between. Over the next few days, we’ll have more from both seasons.

Moose in Marlborough: 600-pound moose tranquilized after wandering into residential area

A female moose wandered into a residential area Tuesday morning in Marlborough, where Environmental Police tranquilized the animal before taking her to a wildlife management area for observation.

Eli Lilly to establish $700 million genetic medicine institute in Fort Point

The pharmaceutical giant is expanding into 15 Necco St., an under-construction 12-story lab and office building fronting the Fort Point Channel.

Recommended reads

Dr. Farmer spoke with an HIV patient at the Partners in Health hospital in Cange, Haiti, in 2003.

Dr. Paul Farmer, who tirelessly brought health care to the world’s neediest, dies at 62

A cofounder of Partners in Health, Farmer believed that “medicine should be viewed as social justice work in a world that is so sick and so riven by inequities.”

RI NEWS

Nonprofit library book reading of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ interrupted by protesters with Nazi flag

The publication of the Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels manifesto is celebrated each year by thousands around the world as “Red Book Day.”

The Constitution and the Ten Commandments: A Christian group plants its flag

A look inside Camp Constitution, a New Hampshire-based organization whose request to fly a Christian flag for an hour outside Boston City Hall was rejected by city officials in 2017. The case has been taken up by the US Supreme Court.

beth teitell

We’re not hosting the Olympics in 2024. Who’s luckier — Boston or the Olympics?

If Boston’s bid had been successful, we’d be looking back now with nostalgia at the days when all we fought about were vaccine mandates and masking rules.

video

Culture & Lifestyle

Celebrity guests who appeared on "Arthur" included (clockwise from top left) Matt Damon, Michelle Kwan, Fred Rogers, Idina Menzel, Ming Tsai, and John Lewis.

10 unforgettable guest stars who appeared on ‘Arthur’

The new PlantPub will open near Fenway Park in the former Boston BeerWorks space. Pat McCauley and Mary Dumont, owners of PlantPub in Cambridge, have teamed up with Matthew Kenney to open the second location.

PlantPub is coming to the Fenway this spring

Billie Eilish, backed by her brother Finneas, performs at the TD Garden Sunday night.

At TD Garden, Billie Eilish is in her happy place

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, who'll perform in Boston April 3-6.

LCD Soundsystem announces Boston residency at Roadrunner in April

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

Russian howitzers are loaded onto train cars at a station outside Taganrog, Russia, near the border with Ukraine, on Feb. 22.

Alexandra Vacroux

What does Putin want?

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: In search of English’s missing words

IBM e-mails about making ‘dinobabies’ extinct confirm what older workers already know

Lakesha Hall, center, and her son, Calvin Simms, right, participate in a rally for Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., on March 22, 2012.

IDEAS | KHARI THOMPSON

A decade after Trayvon Martin’s killing, the burden of Blackness persists

Former Florida State and Tennessee Titans defensive back Myron Rolle is a neurosurgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Apply the 2% way to systemic racism

IDEAS | JOE KEOHANE

Why does parenthood make us nostalgic?

Metro

The Massachusetts State House reopened to public Tuesday — mostly

It had been 708 days since legislative leaders closed its doors to the public at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

William Monroe Trotter, editor of the Boston Guardian

William Monroe Trotter graduated from Hyde Park High School and Harvard before he began publishing the Boston Guardian, a weekly African American newspaper, in November of 1901.

Mass. reports 4,118 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 37 deaths over four days

Here’s a look at the latest coronavirus numbers in Massachusetts, including case numbers, deaths, demographics, and more.

Mass. reports 6,312 breakthrough COVID-19 cases, raising total to 8.5 percent of fully vaccinated people

The department also reported 124 more COVID-19 deaths among fully vaccinated people, bringing the total to 2,346 deaths.

Sports

The Main Media Center in Beijing was the base of operations for many of the journalists who covered the Olympics.

What it was really like to cover the Olympics in Beijing

The author knew Beijing was going to be unlike any Olympics he had covered.

Spanish figure skating Laura Barquero (left) tested positive for a banned steroid at the Olympics.

Spanish figure skater Laura Barquero fails Olympic drug test

Barquero has become the fourth athlete to fail a doping test at the Beijing Olympics after testing positive for the banned steroid clostebol.

Deshaun Watson has requested a trade from the Texans, but lawsuits kept the quarterback out all last season.

Judge denies Deshaun Watson a delay, says depositions can begin in assault lawsuits

Watson's lawyer wanted to wait until after an ongoing criminal investigation of the allegations against Watson concluded.

‘Wait, did you play with Bill Russell?’ The quiet, impactful substitute teaching career of Celtics legend Sam Jones.

Aaron Rodgers says he still hasn’t decided on his 2022 plans

christopher l. gasper

Joe Judge is a dubious choice as Mac Jones’s tutor, and other thoughts

Business

Littleton tech startup wants to make drunken driving impossible

KEA Technologies is working on a system that will prevent a car from moving if there’s an intoxicated driver at the wheel. A new federal law will make this technology mandatory in cars starting in 2026.

Macy’s Q4 results tops analysts’ estimates, completes review

The New York company also said that it would not spin off its e-commerce division from its Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores.

Oil prices jump, nearing $100 a barrel, as Ukraine developments roil energy markets

Fed firms up plans for a swift pullback of economic help

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

Freshman Alyssa Holguin at her high school in San Francisco, in front of a mural about resistance.

New ethnic studies requirements mean more lessons on race in Boston classrooms

No, college students aren’t obsessed with free speech. Here’s what they do worry about.

If we love our pets so much, why do we treat their veterinarians so poorly?

Portuguese-Style Rice With Kale and Plum Tomatoes.

Recipes: Sturdy and sweet, kale amps up the flavor and texture of 3 dishes

metro

Lawyer and LGBTQ activist Mr. Easley fought for gay rights in a decades-long battle that surpassed the turn of the century.

Joe Tom Easley, 81, prominent gay rights activist

Smithfield-based health diagnostics company earns national investor

Three cars plunged into the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee heading to an ice fishing tournament

sports

The US Open trophy paid a visit to The Country Club in Brookline last October and posed on the 18th green.

First steps on the road to the US Open in Brookline will be taken this week

Bruins are impressed with how Jeremy Swayman has handled a tricky season

Phil Mickelson apologizes for remarks, hints that he’ll step away from golf for a while

business

Smithfield-based Alcor Scientific announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Chicago-based Water Street Healthcare Partners, which has committed ‘significant capital’ to help the Rhode Island company in its expansion efforts.

Smithfield-based health diagnostics company earns national investor

A Framingham startup could find a forever home for your NFTs

What comes next for R.I.’s two healthcare systems?

politics

President Biden spoke about Ukraine at the White House on Tuesday.

Biden announces sanctions against Russian oligarchs, banks

Supreme Court will take case on refusal to serve gay couples

Biden agency vacancies to drag on White House priorities

Nation

Former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao. Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights “chose to do nothing” as a fellow officer squeezed the life out of Floyd, a prosecutor said in her closing argument Tuesday.

Three officers in Floyd killing ‘chose to do nothing,’ prosecutor says

Biden announces sanctions against Russian oligarchs, banks

4-year-old shooter acted on his father’s instructions, police say

World

Iryna Kolontai waited Sunday with her children at a bus station after crossing over from Luhansk, a Russian-backed enclave. With separatist enclaves as an integral part of the simmering conflict between Russia and Ukraine, civilians have been caught in the middle.

Ukraine’s enclaves, long steeped in conflict, face new peril

Russia builds its case for a Ukraine invasion

New COVID cases around the world fall for the third week, WHO says

opinion

Governor Charlie Baker outlines the Commonwealth's initial plans to make investments in roadway, bridge, public transportation, and environmental infrastructure projects through the recently passed federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, at UMass Lowell's Allen House, on Feb. 3.

Hat no longer in the ring, Baker still plans nod of the head

Something rings familiar in Wu’s inauguration backers

Studying atrocities ought to function as strong preventive

lifestyle

Jim Ewing’s robotic climbing foot, as seen in the documentary "Augmented."

‘Augmented’ documentary charts what is gained from a reimagined amputation

A slicer that’s easy on the eyes (and the wrist)

Recipe: Turn a gyro into a vegetarian version with roasted eggplant as the main ingredient

food & dining

Midnight Slice from Midnight Kitchen Tools.

A slicer that’s easy on the eyes (and the wrist)

Recipe: Turn a gyro into a vegetarian version with roasted eggplant as the main ingredient

Recipe: If you love black pepper, rub it all over the meat in this classic French steak au poivre

travel

Tourists waited in line to purchase tickets to Broadway shows in New York's Times Square on Nov. 12, 2021, the first weekend that travel restrictions into the US were lifted for fully vaccinated travelers.

Expedia CEO predicts the ‘busiest travel season ever’ this summer

These days, apres-ski can mean coaster rides and ziplining

The funkiest, baddest ‘burg in Florida

Arts

A video still from Kerry Tribe's "Afasia," 2017. Installation view by Emerson Contemporary.

Kerry Tribe uses language as a medium in ‘Onomatopoeia’

At the Gardner, Zanele Muholi contains and represents multitudes

Carmen Herrera, Cuban-born artist who won fame at 89, dies at 106

Books

Ben Mezrich stops by his Boston office in this May 26, 2015 file photo.

Best-selling author Ben Mezrich goes behind the scenes of his new book, ‘The Midnight Ride’

In Neal Thompson’s ‘The First Kennedys,’ how one brave widow built an American dynasty

Garrett Hongo: reading through Los Angeles and Hawaii

Movies

Jim Ewing’s robotic climbing foot, as seen in the documentary "Augmented."

‘Augmented’ documentary charts what is gained from a reimagined amputation

What’s up, Doc? Just the Bugs Bunny Film Festival at the Brattle.

Volcanic activity, an ‘Alien’ sighting, inscrutable icons

Television

Sandra Oh and Jay Duplass in "The Chair."

Sandra Oh indicates that ‘The Chair’ won’t return

This week’s Euphoria explores viewpoint in a whole new way

This week’s TV: A ‘Beat the Press’ podcast, Uber CEO’s wild ride, and the words of Frederick Douglass

music

Billie Eilish, backed by her brother Finneas, performs at the TD Garden Sunday night.

At TD Garden, Billie Eilish is in her happy place

LCD Soundsystem announces Boston residency at Roadrunner in April

A decadent 25th birthday for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Theater/Dance

From left: Charis Michelle Gullage (“Disco Donna”), Brittny Smith (“Diva Donna”), and Amahri Edwards-Jones (“Duckling Donna”) in "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical."

An array of Donnas in ‘Summer,’ a musical that sets out to capture a rich and complex life

Before she left Boston, Donna Summer found her voice

A vision of Miriam Makeba in ‘Dreaming Zenzile’

globe local

Jack Berry's "Goodnight Moon" story box contains items that are written about in the story and an information sheet where families can access the audio recording and description of its contents.

Framingham Eagle Scout gives back to Perkins School for the Blind

Maynard’s pollinator meadow puts native species first

Can shabby shopping plazas become vibrant new villages?

Obituaries

Lawyer and LGBTQ activist Mr. Easley fought for gay rights in a decades-long battle that surpassed the turn of the century.

Joe Tom Easley, 81, prominent gay rights activist

Dr. Paul Farmer, who tirelessly brought health care to the world’s neediest, dies at 62

With Paul Farmer’s passing, the world has lost the gift of a rare man