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Here’s what the new federal tax bill would mean for Mass. families and businesses

“Massachusetts may be the state of the union that most benefits from this deal,” said Representative Jake Auchincloss, a Newton Democrat.

Newton School Committee calls on judge to double fines against striking teachers union
The strike is causing “irreparable harm” to the district’s roughly 12,000 students who as of Thursday already have missed 10 days of school, according to documents filed with the Middlesex Superior Court.

Meet the man leading the longest Mass. teacher strike in decades

Biden will reportedly issue an executive order targeting Israeli settlers who attack Palestinians in West Bank

President Biden is expected to issue an executive order targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been attacking Palestinians in the occupied territory, according to the Associated Press.
Lloyd Austin says he never told anyone on his staff to keep White House in the dark on hospitalization

New month, same T: Closures are coming to the Red, Green, and Orange lines

Here's a guide to February's MBTA shutdowns as the agency continues its aggressive campaign of repairs and upgrades.

Karen Read, ‘Turtleboy’ blogger had nearly 200 phone calls over months, new affidavit says

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 and Karen Read

Gig worker ballot fight is heading to court — again

A coalition of drivers and labor leaders will file a lawsuit Thursday aiming to block five versions of a state ballot initiative that would classify app-based workers as independent contractors.

Annette Bening is Hasty Pudding’s 2024 Woman of the Year

Kingston man allegedly stabbed dog to death after trying to poison it with fentanyl, police say

Mayor Wu and volunteers canvas Boston for 44th annual homeless census. ‘It just puts everything in perspective.’
TRAVEL

Kennebunkport hopes you’ll stop canceling your plans to visit

After news spread about damage from a major storm and king tides, tourists started canceling reservations. But the town wants everyone to know it’s open for business.

Margaritaville resort will open in Hyannis this summer, company says

The Cape Codder Resort & Spa in Hyannis, managed by Plymouth-based hospitality management company Linchris, will be rebranded as Margaritaville Resort Cape Cod this summer following a $30 million renovation.

A pastel past lingers in this Gulf Coast getaway

Despite its early brush with fame as “Hollywood East” during the silent film era, New Port Richey remains a low-key kind of place. It's perfect for those who like a few diversions and adventures, but don’t need to be entertained every minute.
Travel troubleshooter: Dollar Car Rental didn’t have my car, but still charged me $82

A looming threat to Greater Boston’s biotech dominance, 700 miles away
Boston-based firms that build biomanufacturing space see big opportunity in Raleigh-Durham — posing a threat that a key pillar of our region’s economy could grow faster elsewhere.

tara sullivan
NFL game-fixing? Worry about Kayshon Boutte, not Taylor Swift.
The ridiculous claims barely merit acknowledgment, but here we are, driven to madness by media trolls insisting the television coverage is inordinately focused on Swift.

Right-wing media targets Taylor Swift with MAGA conspiracy theories

Tanglewood announces summer 2024 programming

Among other highlights, the festival fetes the 150th anniversary of Koussevitzky’s birth and offers a glimpse into "Tanglewood’s inception moment," says BSO president and CEO Chad Smith.

New Harvard president worried by ‘social shunning’ of Jewish students

Harvard University’s interim president Alan Garber waded into the debates over antisemitism and free speech this week in his first interview with a news organization.
Harvard’s chief diversity officer targeted by plagiarism accusations
Black History Month

For Black History Month, we reflect on the heroes honored on the 1965 Freedom Plaza
Their names are marked on the 1965 Freedom Plaza, the circular plaza that surrounds the Embrace sculpture, forever enjoining them with the Kings’ legacy.

Royal L. Bolling Jr., former state representative, on helping end race-biased banking, housing discrimination

15 ways to celebrate Black History Month around Boston
Odie Henderson review | 0 stars

‘Argylle’ deserves a big fat hiss — and zero stars

To quote Roger Ebert’s famous pan of “North,” (1994), “I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it.”
Director Matthew Vaughn talks new spy film ‘Argylle’
BEAT WRITER'S NOTEBOOK

Red Sox left to embrace underdog role in an offseason that was anything but a big deal

As currently constructed, the roster has flaws that are impossible to overlook. But the team and its fans can dream at full throttle.
LOVE LETTERS

‘He’s a textbook narcissist’

“If you read anything about narcissists, he checks every box based on just about everything ever written.”
Opinion
Alex Beam

It’s the end of the world as we know it; do you feel fine?

If it’s the apocalypse, “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Trump’s fraud is not victimless. We all pay.
JOAN VENNOCHI

Healey and Wu feel the squeeze over the migrant crisis
EDITORIAL

Too many bullets, too many guns, and the buck stops on Beacon Hill
IDEAS | AUDREY JIAJIA LI

China’s first viral true crime story may also be its last

More recent News

Who can ban books in New Hampshire schools could soon change
Pending legislation would direct unhappy parents to the New Hampshire State Board of Education as a centralized authority to hear disputes over books alleged to be sexually obscene or “harmful to minors”

Massachusetts will receive $8 million from marketing company as part of opioid settlement
The payment resolves allegations that the American unit of a French marketing company helped fuel the deadly opioid epidemic.

IRobot faces a murky future amid rising Roomba competitors
This week’s collapse of a proposed acquisition by Amazon leaves the Bedford company in search of new options for success as an independent company beset by ferocious competition.

UK judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit over dossier containing ‘shocking and scandalous claims’

The ruling comes as former president Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, faces legal problems on both sides of the Atlantic.

Massachusetts companies are suing the US government over marijuana prohibition. Could they win?

By suing the US Justice Department, four cannabis entrepreneurs are seeking no less than to overturn America’s prohibition on cannabis, which began in 1937.

Why are so few top Americans running this year’s Boston Marathon?
The US Olympic trials are Saturday in Orlando. Every four years, many of the nation's best runners forgo the oldest marathon for the shot at a medal.

Globe Magazine
Iceland’s ‘Silicon Valley of Cod’ holds secrets for New England’s fishing industry
The Iceland Ocean Cluster has sparked a movement that’s captured the attention of leaders from Maine to Alaska.

Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj: Who’s mad at whom?
In terms of social media oxygen consumed, not even Taylor Swift’s making it into the Super Bowl could compete with the weekend’s real main event: the very public drawing of battle lines between two titans of contemporary hip-hop.

A woman and her two young daughters were hospitalized after a ‘corrosive substance’ attack in London
A woman and her two young daughters had a corrosive substance thrown on them in London, where they were receiving treatment at a hospital Thursday, police said.

Recommended reads

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 scheme

Beth Teitell
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.

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.

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.

Culture & Lifestyle

15 ways to celebrate Black History Month around Boston

After ‘Atlanta,’ a spy caper? ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ is Donald Glover’s mission improbable

Director Matthew Vaughn talks new spy film ‘Argylle’ and casting his family’s adorable cat Chip

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

Special Projects

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 doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

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
SCOT LEHIGH

Trump’s mysterious force of accomplishment
MARCELA GARCÍA

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

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Gee whiz: Ms. G not stepping out this year on Groundhog Day for health reasons, Mass Audubon says

Ms. G, the state’s beloved groundhog whose appearances on Groundhog Day predict the course of the weather heading into spring, will not make an appearance Friday during the cherished annual rite due to a health issue, Mass Audubon said.
NH Politics

On second thought, N.H. House opts to leave its ‘bathroom bill’ approval intact

If enacted, the bill would allow public and private entities to differentiate on the basis of “biological sex” in multi-person bathrooms and locker rooms, athletic events, and detention facilities

Massachusetts will receive $8 million from marketing company as part of opioid settlement

The payment resolves allegations that the American unit of a French marketing company helped fuel the deadly opioid epidemic.
Forecast | Dave Epstein

Cloudy skies to linger, then a sunny, pleasant weekend awaits

Bright sunshine beckons Saturday and Sunday as temperatures reach into the mid-30s.

Sports

BEAT WRITER'S NOTEBOOK

Red Sox left to embrace underdog role in an offseason that was anything but a big deal

As currently constructed, the roster has flaws that are impossible to overlook. But the team and its fans can dream at full throttle.
NFL

Commanders reportedly will hire Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn as coach

The last remaining NFL head coaching vacancy is set to be filled.
Boston Marathon

Why are so few top Americans running this year’s Boston Marathon?

The US Olympic trials are Saturday in Orlando. Every four years, many of the nation's best runners forgo the oldest marathon for the shot at a medal.
Lakers at Celtics | 7:30 p.m. (TNT)

Lakers at Celtics: Boston hosts Los Angeles in another edition of storied rivalry
NEW BALANCE INDOOR GRAND PRIX

Noah Lyles, Gabby Thomas highlight professional field at New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
tara sullivan

NFL game-fixing? Worry about Kayshon Boutte, not Taylor Swift.

Business

Gig worker ballot fight is heading to court — again

A coalition of drivers and labor leaders will file a lawsuit Thursday aiming to block five versions of a state ballot initiative that would classify app-based workers as independent contractors.

Margaritaville resort will open in Hyannis this summer, company says

The Cape Codder Resort & Spa in Hyannis, managed by Plymouth-based hospitality management company Linchris, will be rebranded as Margaritaville Resort Cape Cod this summer following a $30 million renovation.

More Americans apply for unemployment benefits but layoffs still historically low

A looming threat to Greater Boston’s biotech dominance, 700 miles away
magazine
LOVE LETTERS

My fiancé doesn’t know I’ve been married before
Globe Magazine

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

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

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

metro

New Harvard president worried by ‘social shunning’ of Jewish students

‘Find the failures and plug the holes’: Families, survivors of Lewiston shooting testify before fact-finding commission

Newton School Committee calls on judge to double fines against striking teachers union

sports

Caitlin Clark moves into second place on NCAA women’s basketball scoring list as Iowa rolls over Northwestern

No. 14 Tewksbury boys’ hockey packs a punch in its redemptive win over No. 11 Concord-Carlisle

Western Conference-leading Canucks acquire center Elias Lindholm from Flames

business

Biden to celebrate his UAW endorsement in Detroit, where Arab American anger is boiling over Gaza

Massachusetts companies are suing the US government over marijuana prohibition. Could they win?

Introducing: The Globe Rhode Island Food Club

politics

Biden sanctions four Israeli settlers who attacked Palestinians in the West Bank

Lloyd Austin says he never told anyone on his staff to keep White House in the dark on hospitalization

Oregon high court says ten GOP state senators who staged long walkout can’t run for reelection

Nation

Three people killed and nine injured in collapse of Boise, Idaho, airport hangar

A Dallas pastor is stepping into Jesse Jackson’s role as leader of his Rainbow PUSH Coalition

First of back-to-back atmospheric rivers drenches Northern California while moving south

World

The European Union overcame Hungary veto’s threat to seal a 50 billion-euro aid package for Ukraine

Farmers on tractors create chaos outside an EU summit to protest rising costs and bureaucracy

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

opinion

Ads on Prime Video could be one more prod back to the movie theater

Healey and Wu feel the squeeze over the migrant crisis

Letter from Ecuador: We flew into a national emergency

lifestyle

‘He’s a textbook narcissist’

Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj: Who’s mad at whom?

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

food & dining

Introducing: The Globe Rhode Island Food Club

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

R.I. chef Eli Dunn will open a Portuguese cafe this spring

travel

Margaritaville resort will open in Hyannis this summer, company says

Kennebunkport hopes you’ll stop canceling your plans to visit

Dollar Car Rental didn’t have my car, but still charged me $82

Arts

Former US senator Patrick Leahy, with new photo show, has plenty of company as a celebrity camera enthusiast

Vera Klement, painter who saw both beauty and evil, dies at 93

University of New Hampshire shutters Museum of Art on Durham campus

Books

Ruha Benjamin makes the case for a more compassionate imagination

Poetry collection on Emmett Till; NEA awards local fellowships; Candlewick Press books receive honors

Odie Henderson talks the history of Blaxploitation in cinema

Movies

‘Argylle’ deserves a big fat hiss — and zero stars

Director Matthew Vaughn talks new spy film ‘Argylle’ and casting his family’s adorable cat Chip

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

Television

After ‘Atlanta,’ a spy caper? ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ is Donald Glover’s mission improbable

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

With renewal, ‘Colin From Accounts’ can continue to charm

music

Tanglewood announces summer 2024 programming

Pearl Jam throws a listening party for their new album that Eddie Vedder calls ‘our best work’

NEC’s Anna Webber challenges the notion of what it means to be a ‘jazz musician’

Theater/Dance

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

In Company One’s ‘The Interrobangers,’ the truth is out there . . . in the woods

‘Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight’ defies definition, and that’s a very good thing

Health

Prospect Medical Holdings wants to sell its 2 R.I.-based hospitals. Here’s what a proposed deal could look like, executives say.

Timeline: Proposed sale of Rhode Island hospitals preceded by years of regulatory fights, funding problems

Incel culture and its rise in the modern dating world

Obituaries

Dick Traum, 83, dies; marathoner championed disabled athletes

Melinda Wilson, who helped Brian Wilson battle mental illness, dies at 77

Jean Carnahan, first woman to represent Missouri in US Senate, dies at 90