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Boston City Council votes to accept $13.3 million federal antiterrorism grant that it previously rejected

After a tense discussion in which some councilors pushed for another hearing on the matter, the council ultimately voted to accept the funding, with 11 councilors in support and two abstaining.

‘Solidarity has bonded us’: On a break from the picket line, striking Newton teachers reflect

Many NTA members have said the past weeks have been exhausting — mentally, physically, and emotionally — and have continually said they would rather be in their classrooms than on the picket lines.

Teachers strike adds stresses for Metco families in Newton

YVONNE ABRAHAM

We know there are many ways to make a family. Why doesn’t state law see it?
Too often, LGBTQ people still must fight to be recognized as full parents of children they have raised since conception.

More money for parents? Both parties just might make it happen.

Two State Police troopers charged in alleged license scheme suspended without pay ‘indefinitely’

Sergeant Gary Cederquist and Trooper Joel Rogers were indicted with four other men Tuesday and charged with running a scheme that officials say resulted in more than two dozen people getting commercial licenses without passing required tests.

Read the texts between troopers accused in license scheme

In affidavit, investigators outline communication between ‘Turtleboy’ and Karen Read
Karen Read has allegedly been sharing non-public information about her murder case with Aidan Kearney, the blogger known as “Turtleboy,” investigators said.

Court documents detail trail of information passed between ‘Turtleboy’ blogger Aidan Kearney and Karen Read

Harvard’s chief diversity officer targeted by plagiarism accusations

The Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday that Sherri Ann Charleston is accused of plagiarizing multiple passages of her dissertation and improperly taking credit for her husband’s earlier research in a paper they later coauthored, allegations corroborated by a Globe analysis.

Nikki Haley takes aim at Trump and Biden with ‘Grumpy Old Men’ campaign: ‘The rematch nobody wants’

Titles of the episodes include “Debate Dodgers” and “Stumbling Seniors,” the Haley campaign said.

Chelsea man pleads guilty to illegally selling machine gun conversion devices to federal undercover agent, prosecutors say

St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center is among Steward's Massachusetts properties.

‘The boat is leaking big time’: Here’s what Steward’s financial crisis looks like for patients and staff at its hospitals

The long-brewing financial problems have meant a sudden lack of access to certain services and supplies and employees doing everything provide high-quality care despite difficult conditions.

Migrants expected to start being moved from Logan to Roxbury recreational complex
The proposal has received pushback from some local residents who say that Roxbury is already burdened with its own set of problems due in large part to decades of disinvestment that went hand-in-hand with systemic racism.

Boston University sophomore Noah Lenkin listened to a speaker during a rally to end gun violence at the Boston Common in Boston last year.

After months of Beacon Hill bickering, Mass. senators plan vote on sweeping gun bill

The Senate bill aims to rein in the spread of so-called ghost guns and expand the state’s “red flag” law.

Sandra Elliott and her dog, Henry, passed the water during their early morning walk in Marshfield.

‘Charlie’ and ‘Luna’ fetch most popular dog names in Boston, again

The city of Boston on Wednesday released 2023′s list of most-popular dog names, and notably, the leaders of the pack have stayed remarkably consistent.

‘They are terrified of Taylor Swift’: Right-wing media targets pop star with bizarre conspiracy theories
The pop superstar isn’t popular with everyone, namely right-wing pundits on networks including Fox News who have been seeing red at the mention of Swift for months.

Super Bowl-bound Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce to Taylor Swift: ‘Thanks for joining the team’ James Pindell: Why the latest MAGA conspiracy theory about Taylor Swift matters

MBTA stations were bid on and renamed for a Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center project released on Tuesday.

‘Ahhhhlington.’ ‘Mayharket.’ Boston Public Library asks supporters to come up with new names for MBTA stops

The Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library on Tuesday posted a new MBTA map featuring a host of creative station names — and they’re not what you might expect.

This image released by Sesame Workshop shows muppet character Elmo, host of the family friendly show called "The Not Too Late Show with Elmo" on HBO Max.

‘How is everybody doing?’ Elmo checked in emotionally. The Internet reacted as you’d expect.

The question “How are you?” carries a certain weight in 2024.

Chef Jamie Bissonnette at Little Donkey in Cambridge.

Jamie Bissonnette will open a Korean restaurant, sushi counter, and listening bar in Downtown Crossing

Last year, Bissonnette and Ken Oringer ended their long partnership (Coppa, Little Donkey, Toro, and more), with Bissonnette leaving to pursue other plans. Now we know what they are.

John Podesta talks before President Biden speaks in the East Room during an event to welcome mayors attending the US Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting to the White House.

John Podesta will reportedly take over for John Kerry as the US special climate change envoy

Podesta was a behind-the-scenes veteran on climate in past Democratic administrations and was brought back to the White House last year to put into place an ambitious US climate program newly revived by $375 billion from Congress.

PERSPECTIVE

Time to embrace the sump pump. Flooded basements are the future of New England’s winters.

Flooded basements, swollen rivers, and battering surf are the new normal in the climate-change era. Be prepared.

How to prevent pipes from freezing when the power goes out

Opinion

A member of the army patrolled the Lucha de los Pobres neighborhood in southern Quito, on Jan. 12, as Ecuador is in a "state of emergency" since the prison escape of one of the country's most powerful narco bosses.

Renée Loth

Letter from Ecuador: We flew into a national emergency

Is this a lesson — or preview? — in how a population can submit to authoritarian rule in the service of “order” so long as they’re not personally affected?

JEFF JACOBY

Big Brother to motorists: No smiling

Don Siegel and Jerome Weinstein

How to get Newton teachers back to work

EDITORIAL

Bear Mountain nursing home report alleges neglect, overmedication

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

The time Ronald Reagan kept the US out of war in the Middle East

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Gisele Bündchen shares heartfelt message after the death of her mother
"It hurts to know that I won’t be able to hug you anymore, but I know that you will always be watching over us," Bündchen wrote on Instagram.

Fenway Sports Group-backed consortium strikes $3 billion deal with PGA Tour

Strategic Sports Group, of which FSG principal owner John Henry is manager, is made up of a number of North American sports executives.

Attorneys in brothel case seek private communication ‘process’ with clerk-magistrate
New filings were among those submitted to the state’s highest court ahead of a deadline Wednesday afternoon. Justice Frank M. Gaziano of the Supreme Judicial Court will decide whether initial court hearings should be open and what documents should be public.

christopher l. gasper

Tom Brady Sr. is going to bat for Bill Belichick
The senior Brady is not at all inclined to gloat about the struggles the coach encountered after Tom Brady left the Patriots.

TV CRITIC'S CORNER

With renewal, ‘Colin From Accounts’ can continue to charm
Created by Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, the Australian romantic comedy, which premiered last November on Paramount+, is a light treat about how an injured dog brings two people into each other’s orbit.

LOVE LETTERS

My fiancé doesn’t know I’ve been married before
The relationship I had prior to Mr. Right was an absolute train wreck, and he persuaded me to elope. It’s my biggest regret.

Highland Avenue is a bumpy road for Somerville residents — a smoother path is on the horizon
Highland Avenue — one of the city’s busiest streets — has gotten so bad that residents made stickers saying their car “survived” driving on it. The city says it will temporarily repave the road this summer.

CELTICS

Malcolm Brogdon said he didn’t feel valued with the Celtics and is happy playing for Blazers instead
"I was there for a year, won Sixth Man of the Year, and they shipped me out. So like … I didn’t feel very valued there," Brogdon said.

A regulatory vacuum has spawned a multibillion-dollar trade in intoxicating hemp-derived products
Delta-8 is among a class of intoxicants derived from the hemp plant that are thriving in a legal grey area.

Influencers and the skincare industry have convinced middle schoolers they need to spend hundreds on skincare

Doctors are seeing 12-year-olds worried about wrinkles, and kids with irritation from retinol.

Globe Magazine

Boston restaurant economics are punishing. $600,000 liquor licenses make it worse.
A shortage of licenses makes for a system stacked against small businesses and Black entrepreneurs. Can it be fixed?

More than 20 skiers had to be rescued from the Killington, Vt., backcountry. But how did they all get lost?
Christopher Campanella wound up being one of 20 guests, along with a longtime ski instructor, who’d wandered off the sprawling 1,500-acre resort, requiring a five-hour, multi-agency rescue effort to bring them all to safety.

How to convert your home into a small power plant, and make your money back doing it
Mathew Tuttelman is building a net-zero home, a structure that produces the same amount of energy it consumes. Here’s how he’s almost reached his goal.

Culture & Lifestyle

Cliff Notez is curating the We Black Folk Festival at Club Passim Feb. 4 and Feb. 11.

We Black Folk Festival at Passim brings new voices into the club

When making nonfiction movies in France, Wiseman puts a more direct focus on the arts. And his latest French-made movie, “Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros,” adds culinary arts to the menu.

Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros’ is a four-hour French feast

Jesse Hinson (left) and De'Lon Grant in "A Case for the Existence of God" at SpeakEasy Stage Company.

In ‘A Case for the Existence of God,’ two lonely strangers, intertwined

Hush Club fans enjoy their free pizza at Graffiti Pizza and Street Food in Allston. The band had invited ticket buyers to a pizza party after their Jan. 25 show at Brighton Music Hall.

Any way you slice it, indie band Hush Club’s pizza giveaway paid off

Special Projects

Ashfield, MA 06/13//2023, At Sanderson Academy, books in a fourth-grade classroom.

Suzanne Kreiter\Globe staff

Lost in a World of Words

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

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, 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

Hundreds of striking Newton teachers and supporters rallied outside Newton City Hall on Jan. 19.

EDITORIAL

Newton teachers should end illegal strike

Donald Trump tossed a pen as he addressed members of the press during a campaign stop in Londonderry, N.H., on Jan. 23.

SCOT LEHIGH

Trump’s mysterious force of accomplishment

Striking members of the Newton Teachers Association and their supporters in front of Newton City Hall on Jan. 22.

JEFF JACOBY

Give Newton’s teachers an ultimatum: Return to work or forfeit your jobs

Justin Hernández Morales, 14, and Kimberling Hernández Morales, 16, are the children of Reina Carolina Morales Rojas, a Salvadoran immigrant who went missing in Massachusetts on Nov. 26, 2022. They posed with a portrait of their mom in Santa Ana, El Salvador, where they live.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A small bit of good news for the children of missing East Boston woman

Rotted doors front Howe Hall at the Former Fernald School in 2017.

EDITORIAL

Fernald School: Waltham is letting a historic property fall apart

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

YVONNE ABRAHAM

We know there are many ways to make a family. Why doesn’t state law see it?

Too often, LGBTQ people still must fight to be recognized as full parents of children they have raised since conception.

Jan. 6, classified documents, hush money: Tracking the investigations into Donald Trump

Former president Donald Trump faces a growing mountain of legal trouble. We've compiled all the cases in one place to help you keep track.

Attorneys in brothel case seek private communication ‘process’ with clerk-magistrate

New filings were among those submitted to the state’s highest court ahead of a deadline Wednesday afternoon. Justice Frank M. Gaziano of the Supreme Judicial Court will decide whether initial court hearings should be open and what documents should be public.

Dick Traum, 83, dies; marathoner championed disabled athletes

He was regarded as the first person to run a marathon on a prosthetic leg, finishing New York’s race in 1976, and he went on to found the Achilles Track Club to encourage other disabled athletes.

Sports

The Eagles have been bowl eligible three times in Hafley's four years at Boston College.

Boston College football coach Jeff Hafley will reportedly become Packers’ defensive coordinator

Hafley spent four years as the Eagles' coach and compiled a record of 22-26, bringing them to bowl eligibility in three of his four years.

Dover-Sherborn High School junior captain Elliana Scalabrine, is a key cog in her team's 10-2 start. She is also the daughter of former Celtic and current analyst Brian Scalabrine, who has played a huge role in her development as a player as a youth coach, clinician.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK

Dover-Sherborn’s Elliana Scalabrine draws upon the expertise of her father, former Celtic Brian Scalabrine, to blaze her own trail

"As a girl dad, you support and you provide your kid with the path:" Brian Scalabrine on the basketball support and guidance he's given his daughter, Elliana, a junior captain on the No. 19 Dover-Sherborn girls' basketball team.

revolution

New goalkeeper Henrich Ravas believes the Revolution ‘can do something big here’

The 26-year-old Slovak said the Premier League is his dream but he does not see MLS as a mere steppingstone.

CELTICS

Malcolm Brogdon said he didn’t feel valued with the Celtics and is happy playing for Blazers instead

Dick Traum, 83, dies; marathoner championed disabled athletes

red sox notebook

Red Sox claim infielder/outfielder Romy Gonzalez off waivers from White Sox

Business

Traffic-blocking farmers now closing in on EU capital in a protest seeking better market conditions

The protests had an immediate impact on Wednesday — the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, announced plans to shield farmers from cheap exports from Ukraine during wartime and allow farmers to use some land that had been forced to lie fallow for environmental reasons.

Federal Reserve signals that interest rate cuts aren’t imminent and leaves them unchanged for now

The Fed did signal that it’s nearing a long-awaited shift toward cutting interest rates.

Tesla board dubbed ‘servants’ by judge rejecting Musk salary

Federal judge dismisses Disney’s free speech lawsuit against DeSantis

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PERSPECTIVE

Time to embrace the sump pump. Flooded basements are the future of New England’s winters.

Rufus Faulk, Jarvis Adams, and Levi Samedi, co-owners of the Mix restaurant, slated to open this spring.

Globe Magazine

Boston restaurant economics are punishing. $600,000 liquor licenses make it worse.

MISS CONDUCT

My new neighbors want to get together, but I’d rather keep them at arm’s length

Cooking

WATCH: Interest rates are high right now. Here's where you'll get the most bang for your buck.

Boston City Council votes to accept $13.3 million federal antiterrorism grant that it previously rejected

‘Solidarity has bonded us’: On a break from the picket line, striking Newton teachers reflect

YVONNE ABRAHAM We know there are many ways to make a family. Why doesn’t state law see it? Too often, LGBTQ people still must fight to be recognized as full parents of children they have raised since conception.

Two State Police troopers charged in alleged license scheme suspended without pay ‘indefinitely’

In affidavit, investigators outline communication between ‘Turtleboy’ and Karen Read Karen Read has allegedly been sharing non-public information about her murder case with Aidan Kearney, the blogger known as “Turtleboy,” investigators said.

Harvard’s chief diversity officer targeted by plagiarism accusations

Nikki Haley takes aim at Trump and Biden with ‘Grumpy Old Men’ campaign: ‘The rematch nobody wants’

Chelsea man pleads guilty to illegally selling machine gun conversion devices to federal undercover agent, prosecutors say

‘The boat is leaking big time’: Here’s what Steward’s financial crisis looks like for patients and staff at its hospitals

After months of Beacon Hill bickering, Mass. senators plan vote on sweeping gun bill

‘Charlie’ and ‘Luna’ fetch most popular dog names in Boston, again

‘They are terrified of Taylor Swift’: Right-wing media targets pop star with bizarre conspiracy theories The pop superstar isn’t popular with everyone, namely right-wing pundits on networks including Fox News who have been seeing red at the mention of Swift for months.

‘Ahhhhlington.’ ‘Mayharket.’ Boston Public Library asks supporters to come up with new names for MBTA stops

‘How is everybody doing?’ Elmo checked in emotionally. The Internet reacted as you’d expect.

Jamie Bissonnette will open a Korean restaurant, sushi counter, and listening bar in Downtown Crossing

John Podesta will reportedly take over for John Kerry as the US special climate change envoy

Time to embrace the sump pump. Flooded basements are the future of New England’s winters.

Letter from Ecuador: We flew into a national emergency

Big Brother to motorists: No smiling

How to get Newton teachers back to work

Bear Mountain nursing home report alleges neglect, overmedication

The time Ronald Reagan kept the US out of war in the Middle East

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Gisele Bündchen shares heartfelt message after the death of her mother "It hurts to know that I won’t be able to hug you anymore, but I know that you will always be watching over us," Bündchen wrote on Instagram.

Fenway Sports Group-backed consortium strikes $3 billion deal with PGA Tour

christopher l. gasper Tom Brady Sr. is going to bat for Bill Belichick The senior Brady is not at all inclined to gloat about the struggles the coach encountered after Tom Brady left the Patriots.

TV CRITIC'S CORNER With renewal, ‘Colin From Accounts’ can continue to charm Created by Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, the Australian romantic comedy, which premiered last November on Paramount+, is a light treat about how an injured dog brings two people into each other’s orbit.

LOVE LETTERS My fiancé doesn’t know I’ve been married before The relationship I had prior to Mr. Right was an absolute train wreck, and he persuaded me to elope. It’s my biggest regret.

CELTICS Malcolm Brogdon said he didn’t feel valued with the Celtics and is happy playing for Blazers instead "I was there for a year, won Sixth Man of the Year, and they shipped me out. So like … I didn’t feel very valued there," Brogdon said.

A regulatory vacuum has spawned a multibillion-dollar trade in intoxicating hemp-derived products Delta-8 is among a class of intoxicants derived from the hemp plant that are thriving in a legal grey area.

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Influencers and the skincare industry have convinced middle schoolers they need to spend hundreds on skincare

Globe Magazine Boston restaurant economics are punishing. $600,000 liquor licenses make it worse. A shortage of licenses makes for a system stacked against small businesses and Black entrepreneurs. Can it be fixed?

How to convert your home into a small power plant, and make your money back doing it Mathew Tuttelman is building a net-zero home, a structure that produces the same amount of energy it consumes. Here’s how he’s almost reached his goal.

Culture & Lifestyle

We Black Folk Festival at Passim brings new voices into the club

Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros’ is a four-hour French feast

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Newton teachers should end illegal strike

Trump’s mysterious force of accomplishment

Give Newton’s teachers an ultimatum: Return to work or forfeit your jobs

A small bit of good news for the children of missing East Boston woman

Fernald School: Waltham is letting a historic property fall apart

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

We know there are many ways to make a family. Why doesn’t state law see it?

Jan. 6, classified documents, hush money: Tracking the investigations into Donald Trump

Attorneys in brothel case seek private communication ‘process’ with clerk-magistrate

Dick Traum, 83, dies; marathoner championed disabled athletes

Sports

Boston College football coach Jeff Hafley will reportedly become Packers’ defensive coordinator

Dover-Sherborn’s Elliana Scalabrine draws upon the expertise of her father, former Celtic Brian Scalabrine, to blaze her own trail

New goalkeeper Henrich Ravas believes the Revolution ‘can do something big here’

Malcolm Brogdon said he didn’t feel valued with the Celtics and is happy playing for Blazers instead

Dick Traum, 83, dies; marathoner championed disabled athletes

Red Sox claim infielder/outfielder Romy Gonzalez off waivers from White Sox

Business

Traffic-blocking farmers now closing in on EU capital in a protest seeking better market conditions

Federal Reserve signals that interest rate cuts aren’t imminent and leaves them unchanged for now

Tesla board dubbed ‘servants’ by judge rejecting Musk salary

Federal judge dismisses Disney’s free speech lawsuit against DeSantis

Time to embrace the sump pump. Flooded basements are the future of New England’s winters.

Boston restaurant economics are punishing. $600,000 liquor licenses make it worse.

My new neighbors want to get together, but I’d rather keep them at arm’s length

Up your Super Bowl snack game with crowd-pleasing chili and garlic shrimp

metro

Harvard’s chief diversity officer targeted by plagiarism accusations

‘Ahhhhlington.’ ‘Mayharket.’ Boston Public Library asks supporters to come up with new names for MBTA stops

Northern border crisis? In N.H., just 21 encounters over 15 months, data show

sports

Super Bowl-bound Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce to Taylor Swift: ‘Thanks for joining the team’

YVONNE ABRAHAM

We know there are many ways to make a family. Why doesn’t state law see it?
Too often, LGBTQ people still must fight to be recognized as full parents of children they have raised since conception.

In affidavit, investigators outline communication between ‘Turtleboy’ and Karen Read
Karen Read has allegedly been sharing non-public information about her murder case with Aidan Kearney, the blogger known as “Turtleboy,” investigators said.

‘They are terrified of Taylor Swift’: Right-wing media targets pop star with bizarre conspiracy theories
The pop superstar isn’t popular with everyone, namely right-wing pundits on networks including Fox News who have been seeing red at the mention of Swift for months.

Gisele Bündchen shares heartfelt message after the death of her mother
"It hurts to know that I won’t be able to hug you anymore, but I know that you will always be watching over us," Bündchen wrote on Instagram.

christopher l. gasper

Tom Brady Sr. is going to bat for Bill Belichick
The senior Brady is not at all inclined to gloat about the struggles the coach encountered after Tom Brady left the Patriots.

TV CRITIC'S CORNER

With renewal, ‘Colin From Accounts’ can continue to charm
Created by Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, the Australian romantic comedy, which premiered last November on Paramount+, is a light treat about how an injured dog brings two people into each other’s orbit.

LOVE LETTERS

My fiancé doesn’t know I’ve been married before
The relationship I had prior to Mr. Right was an absolute train wreck, and he persuaded me to elope. It’s my biggest regret.

CELTICS

Malcolm Brogdon said he didn’t feel valued with the Celtics and is happy playing for Blazers instead
"I was there for a year, won Sixth Man of the Year, and they shipped me out. So like … I didn’t feel very valued there," Brogdon said.

A regulatory vacuum has spawned a multibillion-dollar trade in intoxicating hemp-derived products
Delta-8 is among a class of intoxicants derived from the hemp plant that are thriving in a legal grey area.

Globe Magazine

Boston restaurant economics are punishing. $600,000 liquor licenses make it worse.
A shortage of licenses makes for a system stacked against small businesses and Black entrepreneurs. Can it be fixed?

How to convert your home into a small power plant, and make your money back doing it
Mathew Tuttelman is building a net-zero home, a structure that produces the same amount of energy it consumes. Here’s how he’s almost reached his goal.