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Thomas F. Birmingham, former state Senate president, dies at 73

"I love this business," he said of politics in 1997, while serving as Senate president.

Biden aides want to force GOP to abandon debt limit threats

A showdown could be coming between the Biden Administration and House Republicans on the federal debt limit. The US is expected to hit that limit some time this summer.

ANALYSIS | JAMES PINDELL

For the first time in US history, a presidential race looms with both party front-runners under federal investigation

The investigations into the alleged mishandling of classified documents by Donald Trump and Joe Biden have real implications for the upcoming presidential race.

Wayfair, once a growth engine of the city, makes deep cuts as tech sector reels

When COVID-19 hit, locked-down consumers sent Wayfair’s growth into overdrive as they snapped up furniture for their homes and home offices. But the “new normal” didn’t stick.

These maps show the parts of New England that got the most snow — and another storm is on the way
Plan for dry and quiet weather through much of the weekend until clouds form on Sunday, bringing "beneficial" snows to ski country, the National Weather Service said.

Here's a look at snow totals in New England

Man was killed in Friday night hit-and-run near Mass. and Cass in Boston

Ringleader of sex cult at Sarah Lawrence College gets 60-year sentence

The Guardians have signed manager Terry Francona to what amounts to a rolling contract for the remainder of his career.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

This is how we ranked the 30 major league managers

The late Nick Cafardo made it an annual tradition to rank the 30 managers during the offseason. We’re bringing it back for a fourth consecutive year as a tribute.

Red Sox owner John Henry and chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom have a lot to answer to after the team's last-place finish.

Intended as a pep rally, John Henry and Chaim Bloom booed at Red Sox’ Winter Weekend

Both had to pause their answers because of the stormy reaction from fans who purchased tickets and turned out on a cold night for the town hall event.

Former Sox infielder Will Middlebrooks will become a familiar voice for Sox fans this season.

Lou Merloni and Will Middlebrooks to join NESN’s lineup for Red Sox broadcasts

Merloni and Middlebrooks are both joining the Sox' rotation of color analysts, helping fill the void left by Dennis Eckersley's retirement.

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The world’s elite gathered to talk climate change at Davos. Now, they’re flying home on private jets.
As the five-day World Economic Forum wrapped up on Friday, critics once again pointed to the contradictions surrounding it.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

The Patriots have a lot of competition for offensive coordinator, and other insights into the NFL coaching market
While several head coaches kept their jobs, most of their teams had to find a scapegoat.

It was a long night for Tom Brady when the Buccaneers bowed out against the Cowboys last Monday.

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A plea for Tom Brady to retire for good this time, and other thoughts

Count me as one Brady watcher who has had more than enough. I don’t want to see any more of what I saw last Monday night.

Denied a state job because she was Black, she took a stand. And became a hero.

“All this turmoil will probably do me no good,” Jane Bosfield said amid her 1915 fight for workplace equality, “but it will make the way easier for other girls of my race.”

Student Julia Malits (left), Dr. Gaurab Basu (center), and student Madeleine Kline championed the integration of climate change into Harvard Medical School's curriculum.

Harvard Medical School votes to embed climate change in its curriculum

Some 55 percent of US medical schools now teach students about the health effects of climate change, up from 27 percent in 2019.

A patron danced on stage at ManRay, in front of a projector screen that plays static, music videos, and movie clips.

A night at the resurrected ManRay, 18 years after the counterculture club closed

The iconic “underground” Central Square club closed in 2005 and has since sparked several rumors of its resurrection. Now, it’s back.

Winter Arts Preview

From left: Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, and Ike Barinholtz in Mel Brooks's "History of the World, Part II," premiering March 6 on Hulu.

10 TV shows we’ll be watching this winter

Deaf actors Stephanie Nogueras and Joshua M. Castille play a couple in an episode of "Accused" directed by Marlee Matlin.

Another first for Marlee Matlin with her directorial debut on ‘Accused’

SZA comes to TD Garden Feb. 28.

From SZA to the Boss, 10 concerts to heat up winter

María Berrío, "Oda a la Esperanza" (Ode to Hope), 2019. Collage with Japanese paper and watercolor paint on canvas. 92 x 118 inches (233.7 x 299.8 cm). Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Damian Delahunty.

10-plus eye-catching art exhibitions from Boston to the Berkshires to Portland

Storage jar (detail), 1857. Dave (later recorded as David Drake) (American, about 1800–about 1870). Stoneware with alkaline glaze.

At the MFA, ‘Hear Me Now’ tells the story of enslaved Black potters

Clare Perkins in "The Wife of Willesden," to be presented by the American Repertory Theater.

10 shows that will bring drama, music, and even ducklings to theater stages this season

Opinion

The patch of a Cambridge police officer during a special Cambridge City Council meeting about the police killing of Sayed Faisal.

No more excuses. Cambridge police should use body cameras.

Officers in one of America’s most liberal cities don’t wear body cameras.

MARCELA GARCÍA

The ongoing disgrace over the Trump-era family separation policy

IDEAS | STEPHEN ASMA

A way out of the campus free speech wars

Embracing ‘The Embrace’

Harvard’s welcome reversal on Kenneth Roth

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Talking to your kids about race

What are we saying to our kids about race even when we don’t say anything? Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, explains how it is a false choice whether or not to teach your young child about race, because, either way, they’re picking up on your attitude about race.

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Their father is accused of killing their mother. What happens to the three young boys?
The three young boys of Brian and Ana Walshe have lost their mother, allegedly by their father’s hand. Many wonder who will care for the children, none older than 6, amid such significant loss.

More coverage of the Ana Walshe case

Michelle Wu rolls out legislative package, gearing up to lobby Beacon Hill
Boston is pushing for approval to levy a new tax on high-value real estate transactions, as well as a seat on the board that oversees the MBTA, both policies that failed on Beacon Hill last year.

Police release new photos of East Boston woman missing since last November
Reina Morales Rojas was last seen on Nov. 26.

Logan Clegg indicted for allegedly killing retired couple in Concord, N.H.
Logan Clegg, 26, was indicted by a Merrimack County grand jury on charges that included second-degree murder, falsifying physical evidence, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.

Prosecutors: Convicted Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk
Elizabeth Holmes had a one-way plane ticket to Mexico booked for Jan. 26, 2022, three weeks after being convicted by a jury on four counts of fraud and conspiracy, federal prosecutors said in a motion filed Thursday in federal court in Northern California.

Embattled Mass. GOP chairman spent $1,800 to investigate fellow Republicans, documents show
Jim Lyons spent $1,800 — including $800 in party funds — to investigate two political rivals who serve with him on the Republican State Committee, documents and invoices obtained by the Globe show.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Abortion opponents at the March for Life on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2022.

Abortion foes push on post-Roe, and so must those protecting reproductive rights

The money allocated to the IRS in President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act covers upgrading the oldest IT system in the federal government. Any new hiring would be over a decade, largely replacing retirees.

GOP grandstanding on the IRS

A firearms dealer posted a sign outside the Littleton Mill.

Gun safety is starting to work as an electoral issue

My favorite George Santos depredation is his apparently brief 2019 masquerade as “Anthony Devolder” — his full name seems to George Anthony Devolder Santos. Devolder urged transgender activists to consider switching their loyalty from Democrats to Republicans.

George Santos proves that two identities can be better than one

The parking lot at 371 D Street.

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Sidetrack students find a piece of machinery in an abandoned building on the Boston waterfront while exploring the city.

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The radical, forgotten experiment in educational integration that changed my life

Metro

Thomas F. Birmingham, former state Senate president, dies at 73

"I love this business," he said of politics in 1997, while serving as Senate president.

ANALYSIS | JAMES PINDELL

For the first time in US history, a presidential race looms with both party front-runners under federal investigation

The investigations into the alleged mishandling of classified documents by Donald Trump and Joe Biden have real implications for the upcoming presidential race.

Storm leaves up to 8 inches of snow in Northern Mass., little accumulation elsewhere

The weather system overspreading Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine shifted south Friday afternoon, leading the National Weather Service to increase its snowfall prediction for Boston and the suburbs.

Harvard Medical School votes to embed climate change in its curriculum

Some 55 percent of US medical schools now teach students about the health effects of climate change, up from 27 percent in 2019.

Sports

Tomas Nosek could miss extended time with a foot injury.

Bruins lose Tomas Nosek to foot fracture; center set to miss a month or more

Nosek was dropped by a one-timer from the Rangers' K’Andre Miller on Thursday.

Former Sox infielder Will Middlebrooks will become a familiar voice for Sox fans this season.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

Lou Merloni and Will Middlebrooks to join NESN’s lineup for Red Sox broadcasts

Merloni and Middlebrooks are both joining the Sox' rotation of color analysts, helping fill the void left by Dennis Eckersley's retirement.

There has been no reaction to any of Tony Dungy's statements from the NFL or NBC.

‘Nice guy’ Tony Dungy’s comments were anything but nice, and other thoughts

Dungy compared a Minnesota legislator’s suggestion to have menstrual products in all school bathrooms to a widely debunked story about litter boxes being placed in classrooms for students who identify as cats.

Matt Porter | Sunday hockey notes

Taking at look at the NHL trade possibilities before the March 3 deadline

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Here’s why the Celtics are likely targeting a 2026 application to host NBA All-Star Game

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

This is how we ranked the 30 major league managers

Business

Door of No Return: Yellen visits onetime slave-trading post

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the salmon-colored house on an island off Senegal that is one of the most recognized symbols of the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade that trapped tens of millions of Africans in bondage for generations.

Prosecutors: Convicted Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk

Elizabeth Holmes had a one-way plane ticket to Mexico booked for Jan. 26, 2022, three weeks after being convicted by a jury on four counts of fraud and conspiracy, federal prosecutors said in a motion filed Thursday in federal court in Northern California.

Justice Department investigating troubled infant formula plant

Elon Musk takes witness stand to defend Tesla buyout tweets

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metro

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.

Facing early pushback, Michelle Wu says her rent control proposal strikes proper balance

Tesla fire takes over two hours, 20,000 gallons of water to extinguish after Wakefield crash, police say

Jaylen Brown got stuck in Boston traffic on the way to Thursday’s Celtics game. He was ‘traumatized’ by it.

sports

Sean Payton is the biggest name in this NFL coaching cycle.

The Patriots have a lot of competition for offensive coordinator, and other insights into the NFL coaching market

Lavelle scores 2 goals, US women beat New Zealand 5-0

Going bananas: Australian Open player shares fruit with foe

business

Wayfair's office on Boylston Street in Boston.

Wayfair, once a growth engine of the city, makes deep cuts as tech sector reels

J&J pays $9.75 million to settle alleged kickbacks to Massachusetts surgeon

Big happenings all over town won BPDA approval this week

politics

Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department have announced special counsels in investigations into the handling of classified documents on behalf of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump, though under very different circumstances.

For the first time in US history, a presidential race looms with both party front-runners under federal investigation

March for Life kicks off in Washington, setting the stage for new ideas

Three active-duty Marines charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot

Nation

The Treasury Department in Washington.

Biden aides want to force GOP to abandon debt limit threats

Memphis police fire five officers involved in arrest of Tyre Nichols

Police, paramedics accused in Elijah McClain killing plead not guilty

World

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Northern School of Art in Hartlepool, England, on January 19, 2023.

Rishi Sunak is fined for not wearing a seat belt

Chris Hipkins to be New Zealand’s next prime minister

Macron to hike military funds amid Ukraine war, new threats

opinion

A firearms dealer posted a sign outside the Littleton Mill.

Gun safety is starting to work as an electoral issue

Embracing ‘The Embrace’

GOP lumbers toward fiscal cliff

lifestyle

Should I tell my friend how I feel — before her wedding?

Kim Kardashian speaks at Harvard Business School, checks out ‘The Embrace’ in Boston

‘Hiiii.’ Jennifer Coolidge joins TikTok, recites JLo ‘poem’

food & dining

Calentado especial

At El Peñol, an American dream realized

Civility comes to Somerville; Southie gets more pizza and fried chicken

Lobster Pot restaurant and building in Provincetown up for sale for $14 million, owner says

travel

Jeff and Jane model the dorky look.

New gear for new priorities

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YouTube travel vlogger Damon Dominique on his new book, going ‘unplugged,’ and Paris, Texas

Arts

María Berrío, "Oda a la Esperanza" (Ode to Hope), 2019. Collage with Japanese paper and watercolor paint on canvas. 92 x 118 inches (233.7 x 299.8 cm). Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Damian Delahunty.

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Books

A fragile island community faces destruction in Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Harding’s ‘This Other Eden’

In Selby Wynn Schwartz’s ‘After Sappho,’ long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize, the Greek poet empowers women artists to push against traditional boundaries

Jayne Ann Krentz on her love of contemporary gothic and what was missing from Nancy Drew

Movies

Jennifer Coolidge, winner of the best supporting actress in a drama series for "The White Lotus," poses in the press room during the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on Jan. 15, 2023 in Los Angeles.

‘Hiiii.’ Jennifer Coolidge joins TikTok, recites JLo ‘poem’

Another Boston movie theater could soon turn off the projectors

The sins of ‘The Son’

Television

Adam Sandler, who accepted the Film Tribute award during the Gotham Awards in November, will next be honored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in March.

Adam Sandler tapped for Mark Twain Prize

Kim Kardashian speaks at Harvard Business School, checks out ‘The Embrace’ in Boston

‘Hiiii.’ Jennifer Coolidge joins TikTok, recites JLo ‘poem’

music

Guest conductor Karina Canellakis with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, Jan. 19. The show featuring guest soloist violinist Nicola Benedetti repeats Saturday.

Guest conductor Karina Canellakis weaves clarity, control, and balance at the BSO

New England Philharmonic music director Tianhui Ng shares music through ‘human stories’

Aoife O’Donovan traverses the sparse terrain of Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’

Theater/Dance

LaTasha Barnes (center) and members of her dance company during a performance of "The Jazz Continuum."

LaTasha Barnes’s ‘The Jazz Continuum’ can’t stop moving

A creator of experimental theater steps anxiously into the spotlight with ‘Made in China 2.0’

10 shows that will bring drama, music, and even ducklings to theater stages this season

globe local

Skiers take to the slopes at Ski Bradford as a snowmaker makes snow behind them.

Quick getaways to the slopes

The Argument: Should Massachusetts give public school teachers the right to strike?

Two little girls laughing until someone told us to stop

Obituaries

Thomas Birmingham.

Thomas F. Birmingham, former state Senate president, dies at 73

Soccer player Anton Walkes, 25, dies in Florida boat crash

David Crosby, legendary rock singer and songwriter, dies at 81