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Trump looks like the inevitable nominee. Can anyone stop him?

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Trump looks like the inevitable nominee. Can anyone stop him?

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BC cuts ties to swimming and diving coaches, extends team suspension after hazing inquiry

In addition, every swimmer and diver on the 67-member team will be required to participate in a hazing education program.

New year, same terrible T commute
An electrical fire and planned closure for track work left only one subway line fully working Tuesday morning. Transit chaos ensued.

East Cambridge fish market closes after more than a century of fresh catches
“We’ve been at this for 53 years, and it’s just time for us to slow down [and] enjoy life,” said co-owner Joseph Damaso,

Icy patches on roadways to make for rough evening commute
Anywhere from 2 to 5 inches of snow and freezing rain fell on Tuesday.

Some schools close for Tuesday storm Dozens of flights canceled at Logan because of wintry weather

Snowfall totals for New England from the January 7 storm.

Here’s a look at snowfall totals from the storm

Last call for Drizly: Liquor delivery service shutting down
Uber paid $1.1 billion for the Boston firm in 2021. It will close at the end of March.

There were 19 domestic violence homicides in Massachusetts in 2023, data show

Gene-editing treatment from Vertex and CRISPR cleared for second rare blood disorder

Boston police seeking 14-year-old girl who went missing Thursday

John Fish and Stephen Weiner settle 2019 lawsuit over failed condo project

Sal Mive and Tracy Mailhot waited to attend a Donald Trump rally on Tuesday at the Atkinson Resort and Country Club in Atkinson, New Hampshire.

The Republican presidential race arrives in New Hampshire. It could be the last chance to stop Trump.

Spin aside, there was only one victor Monday night: Trump, whose enduring popularity among Republican voters in early states and across the country has kept him in a comfortable frontrunner position for months.

Analysis: The four questions to watch as the New Hampshire primary gets underway See results from the Iowa caucuses Top takeways from the voting in Iowa

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley spoke at a caucus night party at the Marriott Hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 15.

Weeks after backlash for Civil War remarks, Nikki Haley says ‘we’ve never been a racist country’

Trump supporter Jamie Brassill said the former president is "just a regular guy.”

‘I support him no matter what.’ Trump remains hugely popular among N.H. Republicans.

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, a Republican candidate for president, speaks at a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024.

Ron DeSantis went all in on Iowa to finish a distant second to Trump. What is he going to do next?

A Dover man hid financial ruin from his family. Then he got a gun.
Rakesh “Rick” Kamal’s veneer of wealth was an astonishing ruse, orchestrated so stealthily, family members said, that its mastermind managed to conceal it from colleagues, realtors, and even his own wife and daughter.

Craig Breslow acknowledges that ‘it’s been a challenge’ to find starting pitching for the Red Sox
The team's new chief baseball officer said the cost in trades has been high because "starting pitching is highly, highly desirable."

Robert Kraft (right) and Bill Belichick said they agreed to part ways last Thursday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Imagine what might happen if Bill Belichick signs on to coach the Cowboys

As the fallout continues from last week's decision to fire Belichick, things could escalate if the former Patriots coach lands in Dallas.

Your view: What do you think about the possibility of Belichick coaching the Cowboys? Christopher L. Gasper: Patriots need an experienced NFL personnel executive to help new coach Jerod Mayo

Boston City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune

ADRIAN WALKER

For Harvard alum Ruthzee Louijeune, Claudine Gay’s downfall stings

In Gay's downfall, Louijeune sees a familiar narrative for Black women in positions of leadership.

Dan Scalia posed for a portrait inside Charlestown MovementLab, where he is a managing director.

‘I live in the best state.’ And yet, for many living in Mass., the state of the Commonwealth is a complicated one.

As Governor Maura Healey prepares to deliver her first State of the Commonwealth speech on Wednesday, residents offered a divided picture of the state’s trajectory.

Just 682 single-family homes sold in the region last month, a 24.6 percent drop from December 2022.

Greater Boston housing market still frozen — and it’s not just the weather

Just about every metric that encapsulates the current moment in the housing market is trending in the wrong direction, as interest rates and a massive supply shortage continue to freeze out buyers and sellers.

Opinion

Taylor Swift celebrated with fans during the AFC Wild Card Playoffs between the Miami Dolphins and the Kansas City Chiefs at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on Jan. 13, in Kansas City, Mo.

RENÉE GRAHAM

Why are men so triggered by Taylor Swift?

So long as Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs continue their playoff run, insecure man babies have a lot to complain about.

JEFF JACOBY

The answer Biden should have given on Taiwan

Steve Wessler

I have Alzheimer’s disease. This is what I need from you.

SCOT LEHIGH

Iowa deals Ron DeSantis a near-lethal blow and gives Nikki Haley a shot against a dominant Donald Trump

Gang Chen

I was wrongly charged under the DOJ’s failed China Initiative. A House bill would reinstate it.

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The Stump: Audio dispatches from James Pindell on the campaign trail

Listen to the latest updates from Globe political reporter James Pindell as he outlines what to watch as presidential contenders enter the final sprint to the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.

Globe Audio · Jan, 16, 2024 We're on to New Hampshire

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Healey pushes to expand free preschool and subsidize daycare for more families in Mass.
Healey announced sweeping changes to the state’s child care industry, offering an early look into some of the administration’s priorities for the next year.

Pembroke Schools considering policy to bar staff from displaying or discussing social and political views
A draft of the policy obtained by the Globe would bar school personnel from advocating or campaigning for “any political candidate or political, partisan, or social policy issue” on district property.

VC market tumbles for second straight year
Biotech and climate tech startups were a bright spot in the downturn.

Harvard graduate student, first active-duty Air Force officer wins Miss America title
Madison Marsh is a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force and is pursuing a master’s degree in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

THE FINE PRINT

A rental car nightmare offers some lessons
When Molly Hurley Moran's rented Mitsubishi compact wouldn't start, Dollar, a subsidiary of Hertz, provided little help, and even denied her a refund.

Under pressure from both developers and climate advocates, Boston charts a new path to a fossil fuel-free future
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu wasn't successful in efforts to join a state pilot program to ban fossil fuels in new buildings. Now, her administration is regrouping and rethinking its approach.

The Emmys pull off an awards show worth watching

After the disaster that was the Golden Globes last week, it was a relief to get an old-fashioned Emmy Awards show, one not straining to be snarkier than thou or heavily meme-able.

PERSPECTIVE

I’m a climate reporter trying to cut plastics out. But my kid wanted a Barbie Dreamhouse.
The hulking pile of plastic will surely delight my daughter – and likely waste away in a landfill some day in the future.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: The Emmys, Mandy Patinkin’s whodunit, and lots of cancellations
Still recovering from the mess that was the Golden Globes? Well snap out of it, because it’s time for the Emmy Awards, which were postponed in September due to the writers and actors strikes.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

When even text messaging is a struggle: The pain of being a teenager who can’t read well
It’s the experience of likely thousands of teenagers across Massachusetts each year, students who not only are failed by schools in early elementary years, but who are allowed to slide to the end of their public school experience without becoming competent readers.

Culture & Lifestyle

Alex Pollock (left) and Robert Kropf in "Northside Hollow."

Fighting for life, and trying to understand it, in Harbor Stage’s ‘Northside Hollow’

Welcome to Winter Soup Club

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is welcomed with a kiss by his wife, Coretta, after leaving court in Montgomery, Ala., on March 22, 1956.

14 events happening in and around Boston on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Michael John Gorman has been named the new director of MIT Museum.

Michael John Gorman named new director of MIT Museum

Special Projects

Beyond the Gilded Gate

People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

I paid $30 to activate the Plagiarism Checker at Grammarly.com. Then I fed a half-dozen of my recent columns into the portal.

Alex Beam

‘We are all plagiarists now’: What I learned from checking my own writing, and Bill Belichick’s

Roger J. Kreuz

Blurred lines: Universities need to define academic plagiarism — many don’t

Michael V. Dougherty

I work on plagiarism — the Harvard case has made my work much harder

Girl walks into a bar, breaks some stuff.

IDEAS | KATHY FLANN

I’m starting to think I’ll never break a chair over a trucker at a roadside bar

The Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Mass.

EDITORIAL

State’s highest court opens the way for second chances for some ‘lifers’

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

ADRIAN WALKER

For Harvard alum Ruthzee Louijeune, Claudine Gay’s downfall stings

In Gay's downfall, Louijeune sees a familiar narrative for Black women in positions of leadership.

‘I support him no matter what’: Trump remains hugely popular among N.H. Republicans

A core group of supporters has powered his campaign through challenges that might have ended any other candidate’s career.

East Cambridge fish market closes after more than a century of fresh catches

“We’ve been at this for 53 years, and it’s just time for us to slow down [and] enjoy life,” said co-owner Joseph Damaso.,

NH NEWS

Littleton, N.H., police consult attorney general after town manager is harassed

A red envelope left in the town’s drop box contained a photo of the town manager’s face, with an anti-LGBTQ slur scrawled across it. A local resident has said she was responsible.

Sports

A two-day storm last weekend led to New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, and the NFL citing public safety reasons to delay the Bills’ game against the Steelers from Sunday at 1 p.m. to Monday at 4:30 p.m.

NFL

Bills’ schedule could be disrupted by another lake-effect storm forecast for Buffalo

Coach Sean McDermott said the team is still scheduled to practice on Wednesday and Thursday, while monitoring a forecast that projects a storm dumping nearly 2 feet of snow.

Center Jason Kelce walked off the field following the Eagles' wild-card loss to the Buccaneers on Monday night.

NFL notebook

Eagles center Jason Kelce intends to retire after 13 seasons

After 13 seasons, 156 straight starts, and six All-Pro selections, Kelce has told teammates he intends to retire, three people informed of the decision told the Associated Press.

PWHL Boston coach Courtney Kessel is projecting big things from forward Alina Müller. "Once she adjusts to the physicality of the game, she’s going to do tremendous things. She’s so, so talented," Kessel said.

PWHL Boston notebook

Courtney Kessel hopes a shuffling of PWHL Boston’s lines will produce an offensive spark

“We’ve got some big goal-scorers on the team," said the coach. "So how do we get them going?"

CELTICS

The Celtics have been dabbling with a zone defense, and the early returns are promising

revolution

Revolution coach Caleb Porter says he is ‘cancer free’ after 2023 diagnosis

college sports

BC cuts ties to swimming and diving coaches, extends team suspension after hazing inquiry

Business

JetBlue’s $3.8 billion buyout of Spirit Airlines is blocked by judge citing threat to competition

The Justice Department sued to block the merger, saying it would drive up fares by eliminating Spirit, the nation’s biggest low-cost airline.

Burger King owner will buy out its biggest franchisee in US for about $1 billion

Restaurant Brands, the parent company of Burger King, plans to invest approximately $500 million to remodel about 600 of the restaurants it will acquire from Carrols.

Supreme Court rebuffs Apple’s appeal on app payments, threatening billions in revenue

Provider of faulty computer system apologizes to hundreds affected by UK Post Office scandal

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PERSPECTIVE

I’m a climate reporter trying to cut plastics out. But my kid wanted a Barbie Dreamhouse.

COOKING

Mexican-inspired dishes to chase away winter’s chill

Globe Magazine

‘God, I wish I hadn’t seen that’: On the trail of Bigfoot in the Berkshires

Bart Hanson lives with his family and North Reading and makes his living as a poker professional.

Globe Magazine

Trump looks like the inevitable nominee. Can anyone stop him?

BC cuts ties to swimming and diving coaches, extends team suspension after hazing inquiry

New year, same terrible T commute An electrical fire and planned closure for track work left only one subway line fully working Tuesday morning. Transit chaos ensued.

East Cambridge fish market closes after more than a century of fresh catches “We’ve been at this for 53 years, and it’s just time for us to slow down [and] enjoy life,” said co-owner Joseph Damaso,

Icy patches on roadways to make for rough evening commute Anywhere from 2 to 5 inches of snow and freezing rain fell on Tuesday.

Here’s a look at snowfall totals from the storm

Last call for Drizly: Liquor delivery service shutting down Uber paid $1.1 billion for the Boston firm in 2021. It will close at the end of March.

There were 19 domestic violence homicides in Massachusetts in 2023, data show

Gene-editing treatment from Vertex and CRISPR cleared for second rare blood disorder

Boston police seeking 14-year-old girl who went missing Thursday

John Fish and Stephen Weiner settle 2019 lawsuit over failed condo project

The Republican presidential race arrives in New Hampshire. It could be the last chance to stop Trump.

Weeks after backlash for Civil War remarks, Nikki Haley says ‘we’ve never been a racist country’

‘I support him no matter what.’ Trump remains hugely popular among N.H. Republicans.

Ron DeSantis went all in on Iowa to finish a distant second to Trump. What is he going to do next?

A Dover man hid financial ruin from his family. Then he got a gun. Rakesh “Rick” Kamal’s veneer of wealth was an astonishing ruse, orchestrated so stealthily, family members said, that its mastermind managed to conceal it from colleagues, realtors, and even his own wife and daughter.

Craig Breslow acknowledges that ‘it’s been a challenge’ to find starting pitching for the Red Sox The team's new chief baseball officer said the cost in trades has been high because "starting pitching is highly, highly desirable."

Imagine what might happen if Bill Belichick signs on to coach the Cowboys

For Harvard alum Ruthzee Louijeune, Claudine Gay’s downfall stings

‘I live in the best state.’ And yet, for many living in Mass., the state of the Commonwealth is a complicated one.

Greater Boston housing market still frozen — and it’s not just the weather

Why are men so triggered by Taylor Swift?

The answer Biden should have given on Taiwan

I have Alzheimer’s disease. This is what I need from you.

Iowa deals Ron DeSantis a near-lethal blow and gives Nikki Haley a shot against a dominant Donald Trump

I was wrongly charged under the DOJ’s failed China Initiative. A House bill would reinstate it.

The Stump: Audio dispatches from James Pindell on the campaign trail

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Healey pushes to expand free preschool and subsidize daycare for more families in Mass. Healey announced sweeping changes to the state’s child care industry, offering an early look into some of the administration’s priorities for the next year.

VC market tumbles for second straight year Biotech and climate tech startups were a bright spot in the downturn.

Harvard graduate student, first active-duty Air Force officer wins Miss America title Madison Marsh is a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force and is pursuing a master’s degree in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

THE FINE PRINT A rental car nightmare offers some lessons When Molly Hurley Moran's rented Mitsubishi compact wouldn't start, Dollar, a subsidiary of Hertz, provided little help, and even denied her a refund.

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PERSPECTIVE I’m a climate reporter trying to cut plastics out. But my kid wanted a Barbie Dreamhouse. The hulking pile of plastic will surely delight my daughter – and likely waste away in a landfill some day in the future.

Culture & Lifestyle

Fighting for life, and trying to understand it, in Harbor Stage’s ‘Northside Hollow’

Welcome to Winter Soup Club

14 events happening in and around Boston on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Michael John Gorman named new director of MIT Museum

Special Projects

Beyond the Gilded Gate

Nightmare in Mission Hill

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

‘We are all plagiarists now’: What I learned from checking my own writing, and Bill Belichick’s

Blurred lines: Universities need to define academic plagiarism — many don’t

I work on plagiarism — the Harvard case has made my work much harder

I’m starting to think I’ll never break a chair over a trucker at a roadside bar

State’s highest court opens the way for second chances for some ‘lifers’

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

For Harvard alum Ruthzee Louijeune, Claudine Gay’s downfall stings

‘I support him no matter what’: Trump remains hugely popular among N.H. Republicans

East Cambridge fish market closes after more than a century of fresh catches

Littleton, N.H., police consult attorney general after town manager is harassed

Sports

Bills’ schedule could be disrupted by another lake-effect storm forecast for Buffalo

Eagles center Jason Kelce intends to retire after 13 seasons

Courtney Kessel hopes a shuffling of PWHL Boston’s lines will produce an offensive spark

The Celtics have been dabbling with a zone defense, and the early returns are promising

Revolution coach Caleb Porter says he is ‘cancer free’ after 2023 diagnosis

BC cuts ties to swimming and diving coaches, extends team suspension after hazing inquiry

Business

JetBlue’s $3.8 billion buyout of Spirit Airlines is blocked by judge citing threat to competition

Burger King owner will buy out its biggest franchisee in US for about $1 billion

Supreme Court rebuffs Apple’s appeal on app payments, threatening billions in revenue

Provider of faulty computer system apologizes to hundreds affected by UK Post Office scandal

I’m a climate reporter trying to cut plastics out. But my kid wanted a Barbie Dreamhouse.

Mexican-inspired dishes to chase away winter’s chill

‘God, I wish I hadn’t seen that’: On the trail of Bigfoot in the Berkshires

YouTube poker player Bart Hanson just can't stop winning

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Providence man who coerced young girls into sexually explicit acts sentenced to 10 years in federal prison

SWAT was called to Mattapan apartment building hours before man shot at firefighters, documents say

New year, same terrible T commute

sports

EMass girls’ hockey: With 7 goals, Waltham 7th grader Molly Whittier headlines Players of the Week

New year, same terrible T commute
An electrical fire and planned closure for track work left only one subway line fully working Tuesday morning. Transit chaos ensued.

East Cambridge fish market closes after more than a century of fresh catches
“We’ve been at this for 53 years, and it’s just time for us to slow down [and] enjoy life,” said co-owner Joseph Damaso,

Icy patches on roadways to make for rough evening commute
Anywhere from 2 to 5 inches of snow and freezing rain fell on Tuesday.

Last call for Drizly: Liquor delivery service shutting down
Uber paid $1.1 billion for the Boston firm in 2021. It will close at the end of March.

A Dover man hid financial ruin from his family. Then he got a gun.
Rakesh “Rick” Kamal’s veneer of wealth was an astonishing ruse, orchestrated so stealthily, family members said, that its mastermind managed to conceal it from colleagues, realtors, and even his own wife and daughter.

Craig Breslow acknowledges that ‘it’s been a challenge’ to find starting pitching for the Red Sox
The team's new chief baseball officer said the cost in trades has been high because "starting pitching is highly, highly desirable."

Healey pushes to expand free preschool and subsidize daycare for more families in Mass.
Healey announced sweeping changes to the state’s child care industry, offering an early look into some of the administration’s priorities for the next year.

VC market tumbles for second straight year
Biotech and climate tech startups were a bright spot in the downturn.

Harvard graduate student, first active-duty Air Force officer wins Miss America title
Madison Marsh is a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force and is pursuing a master’s degree in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

THE FINE PRINT

A rental car nightmare offers some lessons
When Molly Hurley Moran's rented Mitsubishi compact wouldn't start, Dollar, a subsidiary of Hertz, provided little help, and even denied her a refund.

PERSPECTIVE

I’m a climate reporter trying to cut plastics out. But my kid wanted a Barbie Dreamhouse.
The hulking pile of plastic will surely delight my daughter – and likely waste away in a landfill some day in the future.