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‘A victim not a criminal’: The push to stop the deportation of Marco Flores, who killed his abuser
Flores faces deportation to El Salvador after serving his sentence for killing the man who sexually abused him for years, his family said. Withdrawing his guilty plea could change that, said Barbara Munro, the lawyer appointed to see if there's a basis to reopen the case.

Special Report: The boy who burned inside

State tax revenues slump again, fall $263 million below dimmed projections

The development immediately sets the state behind its new benchmark by about 1 percent, and marks the seventh successive month that saw tax revenue fall below expectations.

Emergency patients in Boston are waiting longer than ever for care
Many patients at Boston’s best-known hospitals spend 12 to 24 hours in emergency departments, according to the Globe's analysis.

Watch: ER, urgent care or your doctor’s office? Choose wisely.

Historic storm sends debris through L.A.’s Hollywood Hills and leaves 1.1 million without power
A storm of historic proportions has unleashed record levels of rain over parts of L.A., endangering the city’s large homeless population, sending mud and boulders down hillsides dotted with homes, and knocking out power for more than a million people.

King Charles III has cancer and is receiving treatment, Buckingham Palace says
Less than 18 months into his reign he will suspend public duties but will continue with state business and won’t be handing over his constitutional roles as head of state.

Man in custody after female shot and standoff with police at trailer park in Danvers, officials say

A female was shot Monday at a trailer park on Route 1 in Danvers and after a standoff with police a male suspect was taken into custody shortly before 2 p.m., State Police said.

The view from Morris Island Loop Trail in Chatham.

Cape Cod in winter is a place of empty beaches and soothing solitude

Winter brings an opportunity for unlimited solitude and a real appreciation for the beauty of Cape Cod. “It’s paradise. There’s nobody around,” said a visitor.

‘What damage has been done?’ After strike’s end, Newton grapples with how to heal community rifts.
Monday will be a first day of school unlike any other in the city’s history, as nearly 12,000 public school students return to their classrooms following the state’s longest teachers strike in decades.

Editorial: Who won in Newton? Not the students. ‘I can’t wait!’: Newton schools reopened on Monday

Code blue. Carney Hospital in Dorchester is one of Steward's worst-performing hospitals.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Saving Steward Health Care will take a miracle

At stake? The future of Steward’s nine Massachusetts hospitals, which serve 200,000 patients a year.

When my daughter was born, I became the most scared dad there ever was

Parenthood felt like one long panic attack. I didn’t know it at the time, but these were the best words of parental advice I have ever been given.

Claudine Gay (left) and Laurie Glimcher have been on the hot seat over research integrity. How they’ve been treated couldn’t be any more different.

Claudine Gay was railroaded over research integrity. How has Dana-Farber’s Laurie Glimcher avoided that fate so far?

Two women leaders have been on the hot seat over research integrity. How they’ve been treated couldn’t be any more different.

Goalie Jacob Fowler and BC will tangle with freshman sensation Macklin Celebrini and BU in the first round of the men's Beanpot Monday night at TD Garden.

71st men's Beanpot

Beanpot 2024: BU and BC will face off once more, but don’t sleep on Northeastern-Harvard

Northeastern and Harvard will kick things off Monday in a rematch of last year's title game, while BC and BU play each other for the third time in 11 days in the nightcap.

What to know about the Beanpot: Schedule, how to watch, and why it’s such a big deal around here

Grammy Awards

Luke Combs bows to Tracy Chapman during their duet of "Fast Car" during the 66th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday.

A ‘Fast Car’ duet, Joni, Jay-Z, and more: Seven Grammy moments to remember

Tracy Chapman took a victory lap. Miley Cyrus got her flowers. Joni Mitchell held court. And Billie Eilish learned, despite her charming self-deprecation, that she was made for moments like this.

Watch: Tracy Chapman brings down the house with ‘Fast Car’ performance at 2024 Grammys Taylor Swift announces new album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ while accepting Grammy Photos: Taylor Swift, Robert Kraft, and more stars hit the red carpet

2024 Grammy winners list: Taylor Swift makes history with fourth album of the year win
Miley Cyrus won her first Grammy, Taylor Swift made history, plus more highlights.

Ben Affleck unleashes inner pop star in new Dunkin’ ad: ‘How hard can it be?’
"Underestimate Boston at your peril," Affleck says in the ad, which also features an appearance by New England TikTok star Charli D’Amelio.

Killer Mike arrested by police following altercation at the Grammy Awards after earning 3 trophies
In a video posted online, Mike was escorted in handcuffs by Los Angeles police from the venue.

For Massachusetts, where migrants have overwhelmed the state’s shelter system, the bipartisan border deal would offer more federal reimbursement funding. The state has been spending $45 million a month on services to migrants, such as housing, feeding, and providing necessary medical aid.

Here’s what’s in the Senate border deal for Mass.

The bipartisan compromise, which faces an uncertain future in Congress, contains several provisions that could help the state deal with a surge of migrants.

Amy Carnevale, chairperson of the Mass. Republican Party, seen last year inside the party's Woburn headquarters. The Mass. GOP is shifting its office back to Merrimac Street in Boston.

In symbolic reversal, Mass. GOP moving office to Boston and ‘back in the fight’

The Massachusetts Republican Party had for years called 85 Merrimac Street home before its former chair moved its headquarters to Woburn in what was billed then as a cost-cutting maneuver.

Edmund Barry Gaither is one of the 69 civil rights leaders whose names were inscribed into the 1965 Freedom Plaza.

Black History Now

Edmund Barry Gaither worked to bring Black art to the masses during the era of desegregation

“There isn’t an American art without African American art. ...There’s something that’s integral to it,” Gaither said.

See more Black History Month coverage

Opinion

If anyone is pandering to antisemitic stereotypes about Jews, it is, by all reports, Republican Representative Elise Stefanik of New York.

Steven Beller and Joshua Shanes

Elise Stefanik’s vendetta against Harvard isn’t about antisemitism; it’s political — and personal

Why the attacks on Harvard’s Derek Penslar by the Elise Stefaniks of the world are dangerous.

When the barbed wire comes down at Concord prison, the possibilities are endless

State officials knew about Steward finances long before this crisis

I visited supervised consumption sites in six cities. Here’s what I found.

Newton teachers strike is over but much remains unsettled

More recent News

‘Outrageous.’ Healey wants to let police training chief earn $150,000 salary while drawing taxpayer-funded pension.
Governor Maura Healey’s proposal has raised alarms with the state’s inspector general and officials in Methuen.

TRANSPORTATION

Replacing R.I.’s Washington Bridge could take 1 to 2 years, federal official says
The new timeframe is significantly longer than the original estimate of three months to repair the major I-195 bridge when it abruptly closed in December.

What to know about the US strikes in Iraq and Syria and its attacks with the UK in Yemen
British forces on Saturday joined their American allies in new attacks against militia in Yemen. Tensions have been rising in the region since the Israel-Hamas war started on Oct. 7.

Dartmouth reinstating SAT, ACT requirement for applicants after pause during pandemic
Dartmouth College announced Monday it will reinstate the requirement that applicants submit SAT or ACT scores beginning next year, making it the first Ivy League school to do so and renewing the debate over the role of standardized test scores in college admissions.

Plan to build theme park with world’s tallest flagpole in Maine has been withdrawn, lawyer says
The family behind the proposed Flagpole of Freedom Park in Columbia Falls, Maine, has withdrawn the plan after hearing from locals, their lawyer said.

Red Line closed between Alewife and Harvard this week
Free shuttle buses will replace subway service between Alewife and Harvard through Feb. 14.

Recommended reads

Steve Jesi left the Flint Public Library where a box of Narcan was installed at his request.

‘It’s inexcusable’: As overdose deaths mount, millions in opioid settlement funds go unspent in Massachusetts

Less than 5 percent of the money paid to cities and towns has been deployed to combat the epidemic.

ANALYSIS

Nikki Haley might rack up a win in Nevada’s primary. But, confusingly, it won’t count.
The state Republican Party decided that delegates would only be awarded to those who win in insular caucuses held two days after the primary.

Tara Sullivan

Shame on Roger Goodell for being ignorant or uninformed — or both — about concussed NFL players
The NFL commissioner continues to downplay what is obvious to anyone who has ever watched the game: Head injuries happen as part of football, and sadly, for some players, they trigger lifelong complications.

With plenty of empty seats to fill, some theater companies are in a fight for survival
If COVID was an earthquake, what theaters are now trying to cope with is an ongoing series of nerve-wracking aftershocks. And the stakes are high.

Culture & Lifestyle

Actor Barry Keoghan was honored as Hasty Pudding's Man of the Year during a ceremony at Harvard's Farkas Hall in Cambridge on Feb. 2.

Barry Keoghan hits the dance floor as Hasty Pudding’s 2024 Man of the Year

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at Sanders Theatre Friday night.

Burt Bacharach here, Kate Bush there: Cécile McLorin Salvant makes classic songs her own at Sanders Theatre

Meghan Markle played Rachel Zane in "Suits."

With new series, ‘Suits’ gets expansive

Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan in "The Greatest Night in Pop."

Remember when music’s biggest stars sang ‘We Are the World’ for Ethiopian aid? Netflix does — in entertaining new doc.

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.

stuart landing page illustration

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

Joe Damaso at Courthouse Fish Market on its last day of business last month.

IDEAS | DAMON KRUKOWSKI

In the age of soulless self-checkout, my friendly fishmongers in Cambridge held back the tide

Democratic Representative Cori Bush of Missouri at a press conference in Washington in October.

Stop policing Black women’s comportment

Holy Family Hospital in Methuen is one of the hospitals for which Steward is seeking buyers.

Help Steward patients but don’t bail out the hospital system

Lynda Bluestein spread her arms wide to greet her daughter, Aimee, as she arrived to the home hospice in Concord, Vt., where she would say goodbye to her mom for the last time.

A full life, an assisted death

Cornelia Griggs

It’s not just superstition: Why I’m worried on this Groundhog Day

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Dartmouth reinstating SAT, ACT requirement for applicants after pause during pandemic

Dartmouth College announced Monday it will reinstate the requirement that applicants submit SAT or ACT scores beginning next year, making it the first Ivy League school to do so and renewing the debate over the role of standardized test scores in college admissions.

‘A victim not a criminal’: The push to stop the deportation of Marco Flores, who killed his abuser

Flores faces deportation to El Salvador after serving his sentence for killing the man who sexually abused him for years, his family said. Withdrawing his guilty plea could change that, said Barbara Munro, the lawyer appointed to see if there's a basis to reopen the case.

Why is N.H. considering a ban on social emotional learning?

Social emotional learning is the latest target in the culture wars waged over what can be taught in schools.

State tax revenues slump again, fall $263 million below dimmed projections

The development immediately sets the state behind its new benchmark by about 1 percent, and marks the seventh successive month that saw tax revenue fall below expectations.

Sports

Celtics guard Jordan Walsh got his wish, scoring his first Celtics points with a two-handed dunk in in the fourth quarter Sunday at TD Garden.

BEAT WRITER'S NOTEBOOK

Jordan Walsh made his dream for first Celtics’ points a reality, and seven other nuggets

Marcus Smart’s view from the other side, Jordan Walsh’s new keepsake, the Celtics’ trade deadline approach, and other odds and ends about the NBA’s best team.

The Dartmouth men's basketball team won a ruling against the school in front of the National Labor Relations Board.

Dartmouth College men’s basketball players declared employees in blow to future of college athletics

The National Labor Relations Board's Region 1 director ruled that the players can hold a union election.

Could Tom Brady (left) have replaced Brock Purdy for a year in San Francisco?

Kyle Shanahan said he was ‘serious’ about trying to get Tom Brady to play for the 49ers in 2023

Brady, having retired for the second time earlier in year, grew up a 49ers fan in the Bay Area.

HS BOYS' BASKETBALL: PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

EMass boys’ basketball: Scoring a perfect 30, Brookline’s Alan Shi headlines Players of the Week

HS BOYS' BASKETBALL: TOP 20

EMass boys’ basketball: Depth of Merrimack Valley, Bay State conferences on display in Globe Top 20

Revolution president says Foxborough was a big winner with 2026 World Cup schedule

Business

Kelley Tuthill takes the reins at Catholic Charities amid rising demand for services

Tuthill is best known for her work as a longtime reporter at WCVB-TV. But she has been busy with nonprofits since 2016.

Boeing flags potential delays after supplier finds another problem with some 737 Max fuselages

The head of Boeing’s commercial airplanes division said some planes that have not yet been delivered to airlines will need to be reworked, but he said the issue did not affect the safety of Max jetliners that are already flying.

Mass. employers feeling more upbeat

Mass Coastal Railroad acquires Bay Colony Railroad

magazine

When my daughter was born, I became the most scared dad there ever was

Celebrate love of all kinds on Wednesday at the Palentine’s Day Pottery Class, hosted at The Broadway Bar.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Feb. 5-Feb. 11

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

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

Iceland’s ‘Silicon Valley of Cod’ holds secrets for New England’s fishing industry

metro

First-grader Izzy Fink arrived at school with flowers for his teachers. Students returned to school at Lincoln-Eliot Elementary School after the Newton teachers strike was settled.

‘I can’t wait!’: Newton schools reopen following School Committee, union agreement

Burbage Theatre Co.’s production of ‘Playhouse Creatures’ misses the mark

In symbolic reversal, Mass. GOP moving office to Boston and ‘back in the fight’

sports

Former Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona was named the honorary chair of the 44th US Senior Open Championship, which will take place at Newport Country Club.

Terry Francona named honorary chair of US Senior Open

A late teammate is very much in the hearts and minds of the Salem State men’s basketball team

Your guide to the 2024 Super Bowl: What to know about the Chiefs and 49ers, how to watch, prop bets, and more

business

This photograph shows a sentence reading "More or less SUVs in Paris?" as Paris residents vote on the creation of special parking fees for the heaviest and most polluting cars and sports utility vehicles in Paris on Feb. 4.

Parisians vote to hit SUVs with eye-popping parking costs in latest green drive before Olympics

Boeing flags potential delays after supplier finds another problem with some 737 fuselages

Saving Steward Health Care will take a miracle

politics

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken disembarked from the plane upon arriving at King Khalid International Airport, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Monday.

Blinken returns to Mideast in push for hostage deal and postwar plan for Gaza, but obstacles loom

Here’s what’s in the Senate border deal for Mass.

Why Nevada is having both a Republican primary and caucuses and how they’ll work

Nation

Collins Avenue is the main shopping street in Bal Harbour, Fla. A new law in Florida has stirred an uproar in affluent Bal Harbour and other places.

This Florida mall has Gucci, Prada … and soon, affordable housing?

Ocean sponges suggest Earth has warmed longer, more than thought; some scientists dubious

Jury gets manslaughter case against Michigan school shooter’s mother

World

Residents on Monday inspected damage to their homes caused by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, Gaza Strip.

Blinken meets with Saudi crown prince, hoping to rally support to end war in Gaza

Parisians vote to triple parking fees for big SUVs and other hefty cars

King Charles III has cancer and is receiving treatment, Buckingham Palace says

opinion

Activists protesting the death penalty had placed signs along the road to Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., ahead of the scheduled execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith on Jan. 25.

Ala. execution by gas is the very definition of cruel and unusual

In Milton, a critical vote to help ease the housing crisis

Grief is hard. Not talking about it makes it even harder.

lifestyle

Patriots owner Robert Kraft attended the Grammys in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

Photos: Taylor Swift, Robert Kraft, and more stars hit the red carpet at the 2024 Grammys

Is anyone taking care of themselves?

Should I tell my friend I’m in love with him?

food & dining

Ben Affleck unleashes his inner pop star while poking fun at his viral 2023 Grammys moment (and wearing a giant doughnut necklace) in a new ad for Dunkin'.

Ben Affleck unleashes inner pop star in new Dunkin’ ad: ‘How hard can it be?’

Two Boston Beer Company vets want to challenge the Michelob Ultras of the world

Moon Bar offers a spirited way in to the Mooncusser experience

travel

JetBlue tails at Logan.

JetBlue to begin offering nonstop flights from Boston to Dublin and Paris

These are the most crowded and expensive theme parks in the world. If you’re headed to Disney, start saving now.

Margaritaville resort will open in Hyannis this summer, company says

Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts said it will remove eight objects from display in response to updated federal regulations.

MFA to pull Native objects from display

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

Books

This Groundhog Day, take a quick lesson on hurkle-durkling — or lazing about — courtesy of TikTok and . . . Scotland?

In the haunting photographs of ‘Ghosts of Segregation,’ the scars of racism hide in plain sight

Parker-Vincent Alva named Boston’s third Youth Poet Laureate

Movies

Ben Affleck unleashes his inner pop star while poking fun at his viral 2023 Grammys moment (and wearing a giant doughnut necklace) in a new ad for Dunkin'.

Ben Affleck unleashes inner pop star in new Dunkin’ ad: ‘How hard can it be?’

Sign up for the Globe’s 4th annual Black History Month Film Festival

Donnie Yen to star in film remake of ‘70s TV series ‘Kung Fu’

Television

Ben Affleck unleashes his inner pop star while poking fun at his viral 2023 Grammys moment (and wearing a giant doughnut necklace) in a new ad for Dunkin'.

Ben Affleck unleashes inner pop star in new Dunkin’ ad: ‘How hard can it be?’

This week’s TV: A Super Sunday primer, Netflix’s ‘One Day,’ and ‘Stupid Pet Tricks’

Dorchester native Ayo Edebiri hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Jennifer Lopez performs

music

Luke Combs bows to Tracy Chapman during their duet of "Fast Car" during the 66th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday.

A ‘Fast Car’ duet, Joni, Jay-Z, and more: Seven Grammy moments to remember

Marilyn Manson completes community service sentence for blowing nose on videographer in N.H.

Killer Mike arrested by police following altercation at the Grammy Awards after earning 3 trophies

Theater/Dance

Christopher Edwards, artistic director of Actors' Shakespeare Project, shown outside of Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, where his company is staging its next production.

With plenty of empty seats to fill, some theater companies are in a fight for survival

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

Health

Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence, R.I.

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

President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to retired Captain Larry Taylor at the White House last year.

Larry Taylor, gunship pilot in Vietnam who led daring rescue, dies at 81

Richard Caster, three-time Pro Bowler and favorite target of Joe Namath, dies at 75

Larry Kessler, whose HIV/AIDS activism changed policy and saved lives, dies at 81