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THE GREAT DIVIDE

A look behind the curtain: How the Newton School committee and teachers union finally struck a deal

Behind the scenes, the parties worked furiously around the clock to settle. But acrimony had been ratcheting up for months, and both sides were determined to hold their ground.

‘There’s just a lot of vilification going on.’ Strike in Newton divided the community.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Quick-hitting nor’easter could bring 6 to 10 inches of snow Tuesday
Travel disruptions, power outages and school cancellations are expected with this storm.

Convicted of murder without ever killing, joint venturers are petitioning the State House to rethink the law
“If Massachusetts is to be a state that is fighting against racial disparity, then they really have no choice but to address the joint venture laws,” one activist said.

One dead, three injured in rollover crash Saturday morning off I-95 in Georgetown
At approximately 11:15 a.m., police and firefighters responded to a two-vehicle crash on an I-95 off-ramp at Route 133 in Georgetown.

Megadonors to universities flexing their muscle in an unprecedented way

It is a new and stunning kind of public power-push by uber-rich donors, whose ranks are growing, and who suddenly appear hungry to use their money to shape higher education in America today, experts said.

The conflagration that would consume Harvard? It began with a few words written in fear.
Harvard Law student Israa Alzamli is shocked and pained that the furor over the statement she helped write after the Oct. 7 attack has crowded out attention to the carnage in Gaza, including the deaths of many in her family.

Israel unveils tunnels underneath Gaza City headquarters of UN agency for Palestinian refugees

First lady questions whether special counsel referenced son’s death to score political points

How Biden and his allies are pushing back against a special counsel’s claims about his memory

Super Bowl LVIII | Chiefs vs. 49ers

Workers prepared the field outside Allegiant Stadium ahead of Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

NFL’s grass-growing abilities have become a major controversy for Super Bowl LVIII

The quality and maintenance of natural grass has become a major story line for Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Chiefs and 49ers.

This photo provided by Anheuser-Busch shows the Budweiser 2024 Super Bowl NFL football spot. Ahead of Super Bowl 58, some advertisers are releasing ads early in the hope of capitalizing on the buzz leading up to the game.

Super Bowl commercials 2024: See Tom Brady, Budweiser, and more big game ads

Super Bowl LVIII is in Las Vegas on Feb. 11.

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

Like Tom Brady, Brock Purdy was a low draft pick — in fact, Purdy was the last player drafted in 2022.

ben volin | on football

Bring on the Tom Brady comparisons, no matter which quarterback wins the Super Bowl

The Chiefs' Travis Kelce (left) has called 49ers counterpart George Kittle the most complete tight end in the game.

Mark Bavaro knows a thing or two about the great tight ends in this year’s Super Bowl

Bavaro, who won two Super Bowls with the Giants, said, “It is kind of mind blowing that the position is what it is today,”

Boom in youth gambling in Mass. fueled by online sports betting apps
A growing number of young people are showing up at mental health clinics and Gamblers Anonymous meetings.

Opinion: The hidden toll of sports gambling

Clara Bell is a lifelong member of Twelfth Baptist Church.

Black History Now

Clara Bell is a fixture of Twelfth Baptist Church. She was also a behind-the-scenes figure in the civil rights movement.

Bell, 81, is among 69 names honored on the 1965 Freedom Plaza.

On Tuesday, Milton will face the biggest test of the state’s ambitious-turned-contentious housing law.

In Milton, it’s downright ugly with neighbors against neighbors ahead of Tuesday’s vote on housing

After years of telling everyone to embrace more housing, this Globe columnist wrestles with welcoming development now that it’s in her backyard.

It all comes down to this: MBTA zoning fight roils Milton ahead of a key vote on Tuesday

Merchandise with the mugshot of former president and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump was displayed outside a Commit to Caucus Rally in Las Vegas on Jan. 27.

One more problem for Biden? Trump nostalgia.

President Biden's allies are quick to point out the omissions in Donald Trump's rose-colored recounting of his term. But are voters listening?

More women than ever are freezing their eggs. But there’s a problem.

Egg freezing was supposed to be the latest frontier of the sexual revolution. The reality is turning out to be more complex.

Lena Onalik, the first Inuit archeologist for the Nunatsiavut Government’s Department of Language, Culture, and Tourism, grew up with her grandparents in Makkovik. She works to preserve and record culturally important Inuit sites on the Labrador Coast, and to promote and protect Inuit culture and language.

We wanted northern lights and glacial fjords. We got so much more.

When my son and I booked a trip to Greenland and Labrador, we had a couple of goals, including finding a polar bear. What we hadn’t anticipated was the profoundly moving experience of traveling through Inuit territory with people who grew up in these regions.

Cruise-curious? Your cruise questions answered.

Opinion

A statue of Ronald Reagan at his presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif.

I was a young Republican. Now I want nothing to do with either party.

How much disillusionment can our political system tolerate before it cracks up?

IDEAS | STEPHEN LANE

Checking in with the COVID class of 2024

‘Ten years of nothing’ from the convention center authority

It’s corporate America’s most disingenuous time of the year — Black History Month

IDEAS | JOHN GOVE

Making Super Bowl guacamole? Read this before you pay more for organic avocados.

More recent News

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Bruins put up little fight in shutout loss to Capitals, and the fans voiced their displeasure
The TD Garden boo birds chirped early and crowed late as they watched the Capitals run roughshod over their team en route

Bruins’ Pavel Zacha is finally seeing his offense catch up to the rest of his game

CRIME

Kayla Montgomery shares gruesome testimony in husband Adam Montgomery’s murder trial
As the state’s star witness, the defendant’s estranged wife is expected to face significant scrutiny under cross-examination in relation to 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery’s death.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Grading the interesting NBA trades from a busy, but not monumental, deadline day
The NBA trade deadline has passed without many blockbuster trades, but it was eventful.

Marcus Smart got Xavier Tillman excited to be joining the Celtics

Only two months in and the 2024 campaign is not aging well
When the top two candidates for the presidency are 77 and 81, age is not just a number, it's a vulnerability.

In Concord, residents wonder what comes next after sprawling prison closes
Since news broke that the state plans to close MCI-Concord, the men’s prison in tony Concord, questions have swirled about what might take its place.

Brian McGrory

Steward chief Ralph de la Torre has two yachts, not one
Why is it important that the chief executive officer of Steward Health Care owns two yachts? Because hospitals, even for profit ones, are something of a public trust.

Recommended reads

Irene Li, founder and partner of Mei Mei Dumplings in South Boston, teaches Globe columnist Shirley Leung the fine points of folding jiaozi.

PODCAST | SAY MORE WITH SHIRLEY LEUNG

It’s the Year of the Dragon — time to make dumplings. But would I remember how?

With some coaching from Irene Li of Mei Mei Dumplings, Globe columnist Shirley Leung reconnected with her childhood memories of making homemade dumplings.

Does amassing a hoard of ‘sustainable’ mugs miss the point?
But the trend shows how a growing universe of eco-conscious products — things originally marketed to be sustainable — can morph into a catalyst for simply buying more, potentially canceling out environmental benefits.

RI COURTS

Judge lets lawsuit involving one of R.I.’s richest families go to trial
Superior Court Judge Brian P. Stern refuses to dismiss some key elements of a lawsuit accusing downtown Providence developer Arnold B. “Buff” Chace Jr. of self-dealing from a family trust.

‘We’ve lost both engines,’ pilot says before private jet crashed onto Florida interstate, killing 2
The jet, with five people aboard, was bound for the airport in Naples when it tried to make an emergency landing on Interstate 75 on Friday afternoon

Culture & Lifestyle

A scene from the 7 Fingers' "Duel Reality," now at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre through Feb. 18.

Wonders never cease with the 7 Fingers

A scene from "Tampopo."

From ‘Big Night’ to ‘Babette’s Feast,’ sink your teeth into these 7 great films about food

A view of Wu Tsang’s installation “Of Whales,” which opens this week at the ICA.

Contemporary Black poets celebrate Phillis Wheatley in new volume; ‘Moby-Dick’-inspired video installations at ICA

Willa Cather with Mount Monadnock in the background taken by her companion Edith Lewis.

Looking for a sensuous Valentine’s Day read? Let me suggest Willa Cather.

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.

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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

A nearly empty San Francisco International Airport on the eve of Memorial Day weekend, May 22, 2020.

A call for Americans to share their COVID-19 memories and experiences

The author with her mother, Lynne Griffin, at the Harbor Towers in 1987.

IDEAS | KRISTIN GRIFFIN

A Harbor Towers kid

End-of-life-doula Holly Strelzik (right), at home in Summit, N.J., talking with a client who lost her parents and her partner last year. Death doulas ready both the dying and their loved ones for the process of letting go, and they work with survivors to make sense of grief.

IDEAS | SHERRIE DULWORTH

What is a good death?

Students returned to the classroom on Feb. 5 at Lincoln-Eliot Elementary School after the Newton teachers strike was settled.

Like ‘Seinfeld,’ Newton teachers strike was about nothing

A woman entered the emergency department entrance at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Long emergency department wait times are perilous. Fix this — stat!

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Si Spiegel, Jewish war hero who modernized Christmas trees, dies at 99

Before he became known as the father of artificial Christmas trees, Si Spiegel was a valiant Army aviator. In the closing days of World War II, he was piloting his B-17 Flying Fortress in an armada of 1,500 Allied bombers that pummeled Berlin. Struck by anti-aircraft flak, two of the plane’s four engines lost power as Spiegel reversed course to return to England.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

A look behind the curtain: How the Newton School committee and teachers union finally struck a deal

Behind the scenes, the parties worked furiously around the clock to settle. But acrimony had been ratcheting up for months, and both sides were determined to hold their ground.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Quick-hitting nor’easter could bring 6 to 10 inches of snow Tuesday

Travel disruptions, power outages and school cancellations are expected with this storm.

Quinton is ready for a loving family

Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

Sports

Jayson Tatum (left) and the Celtics crushed Tyler Herro and the Heat in January.

Celtics at Heat | 2 p.m. (ABC)

Celtics at Heat: Miami star Jimmy Butler to miss Sunday’s matinee vs. Boston

Just over two weeks ago, the Celtics demolished the Heat in Miami.

Rafael Devers (left) and Trevor Story are two players the Red Sox are counting on to provide some star power, and significant WAR.

It’s been a long time since the Red Sox have had a team this lacking in star power

Stars alone cannot guarantee success in Major League Baseball, but it’s almost impossible for teams to achieve greatness without great players.

Iowa guard Caitlin Clark.

Caitlin Clark was a grade-school phenom. And now she is close to breaking the NCAA Division 1 scoring record.

She's nearing a college basketball feat. And Caitlin Clark was a hoops prodigy for years before arriving on the University of Iowa campus.

PRESEASON: ORLANDO CITY SC 3, REVOLUTION 1

Revolution squander early goal in preseason loss to Orlando City SC

Kyle Lowry gets buyout from Hornets, reportedly plans to sign with 76ers

Dustin Johnson finishes strong in Las Vegas for third LIV Golf tourney title

Business

Trump says Ukraine war must end as US aid advances in senate

Donald Trump said that war between Ukraine and Russia must end, reiterating his disapproval for sending more aid overseas as the Senate seeks to move forward with a package to provide emergency funding for Ukraine and Israel.

Trump has 11-point lead over Biden on economy, FT poll shows

More Americans trust Donald Trump to handle the US economy than President Joe Biden, the Financial Times reported, citing a survey it commissioned.

Israel, just downgraded, readies bond spree to pay for war against Hamas

White House rebukes Trump for remark on urging Russia to attack allies

magazine

The Parenting Issue

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

This week's daters: Mandy and Claire

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘Mandy is from the South, like me’

Jason Margolis with his father in the early 1980s.

One more game with Dad: Why the 49ers getting to the Super Bowl meant so much to me

The Parenting Issue

More women than ever are freezing their eggs. But there’s a problem.

metro

Middle and high school students are flocking to sports betting apps and becoming addicted, according to mental health counselors and child advocates in Massachusetts. What is the state doing to reign in an industry that has collected $5 billion in wagers in less than a year?

Boom in youth gambling in Mass. fueled by online sports betting apps

Man rescued from Fore River Channel in Quincy, police say

Saturday’s springlike temperatures bring a welcome break from winter

sports

Methuen's Dom Gangi shows his home faithful who came out triumphant, after the Rangers senior captain bested Michael Morris of Haverhill for the 113-pound title in the Division 1 North championships Saturday at Methuen High.

Methuen’s Dom Gangi wins first sectional crown for ill coach; St. John’s Prep gives Manny Costa fifth straight Division 1 North team title

Attleboro’s Zuri Ferguson shatters records, while Duxbury swims to South team title

Notoriously rowdy, even the Phoenix Open had to draw the line with crowd control; Taylor takes 1-shot lead as play suspended

business

A sign for Remington Arms Co. is displayed in front of their compound in Ilion, N.Y. on Feb. 1.

This small New York village made guns for 200 years. What happens when Remington leaves?

CEO of major Nigerian bank killed in California helicopter crash, director-general of WTO says

Israel hit with first ever downgrade as Moody’s cites war impact

politics

First Lady Jill Biden listens during a roundtable discussion on women's health on Feb. 7 in Atlanta.

First lady questions whether special counsel referenced son’s death to score political points

One more problem for Biden? Trump nostalgia.

How Biden and his allies are pushing back against a special counsel’s claims about his memory

Nation

Former president Donald Trump appears at a campaign event Saturday at Coastal Carolina University, in Conway, S.C.

Trump suggests he’d disregard NATO treaty, urge Russian attacks on allies

Republicans are ‘owning’ the message of abandoning Ukraine

Report of a stolen phone led to arrests in slaying of Maryland toddler

World

Argentine President Javier Milei, right, greets Pope Francis prior to the start of the canonization mass of Argentine first female saint, María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa also known as "Mama Antula" presided over by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican on Feb. 11. At center Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino looks on.

Pope canonizes Argentina’s first female saint as the country’s libertarian president Milei looks on

‘They are shooting at us.’ A fleeing Gaza family is killed along with the medics sent to find them

Egypt threatens to suspend key peace treaty if Israel pushes into Gaza border town, officials say

opinion

Students returned to the classroom on Feb. 5 at Lincoln-Eliot Elementary School after the Newton teachers strike was settled.

Like ‘Seinfeld,’ Newton teachers strike was about nothing

A ruling that frees up local political discourse

The hidden toll of sports gambling

lifestyle

A behemoth sound truck popularly referred to as an electric trio makes it way through a street crowded with revelers during the "Academicos do Baixo Augusta" pre-Carnival street party in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. In the seven decades since the first one hit Brazil’s streets, trios have grown ever more sophisticated and ever larger — with lights, LED screens, dressing rooms and VIP areas. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

How a run-down Ford launched a music revolution that swept Brazil’s Carnival

Schools are trying to get more students therapy. Not all parents are on board

Read My Lips Boston wants to help everyone find their happily ever after

food & dining

The Lanzhou beef noodle soup at Zhi Wei Cafe on South Street.

Celebrate the new year at one of these new Chinese restaurants

L Street Tavern, made famous in ‘Good Will Hunting,’ being sold in March

What to make for the Super Bowl this Sunday

travel

Lena Onalik, the first Inuit archeologist for the Nunatsiavut Government’s Department of Language, Culture, and Tourism, grew up with her grandparents in Makkovik. She works to preserve and record culturally important Inuit sites on the Labrador Coast, and to promote and protect Inuit culture and language.

We wanted northern lights and glacial fjords. We got so much more.

Not into roller coasters at sea with 5,000 other passengers? Consider an expedition voyage.

A fall foliage cruise from New England to Canada (minus the colorful leaves)

Arts

"Sumojazz (6)" (left) and Sumojazz (13)" are both 2011 works by James Luna.

With a small show of prints by Indigenous artists, the MFA looks to the future

A pair of ambitious photo exhibits look at sexuality and race in Boston during the ’70s

MFA agrees to return sacred relics to Korea

Books

A view of Wu Tsang’s installation “Of Whales,” which opens this week at the ICA.

Contemporary Black poets celebrate Phillis Wheatley in new volume; ‘Moby-Dick’-inspired video installations at ICA

Author readings around Boston through Feb. 17

Looking for a sensuous Valentine’s Day read? Let me suggest Willa Cather.

Movies

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., founding director of the Black Film Project, and Jacqueline Glover, executive director.

Harvard’s Black Film Project will spotlight Black history and culture through documentary, narrative stories

L Street Tavern, made famous in ‘Good Will Hunting,’ being sold in March

The world’s most famous dragon, Bruce Lee, was a natural entrepreneur

Television

Kathy Bates had a short run as a TV lawyer in David E. Kelley’s “Harry’s Law,” which ran on NBC for two seasons, from 2011-12.

‘Matlock’ comeback marks the latest series reboot

Everything you need to know about Usher’s 2024 Super Bowl halftime show

With a focus on World War II, TV series are remaking history

music

Karina Canellakis conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance of Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle," featuring mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill and bass-baritone Nathan Berg.

A sunny concerto and a haunting ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ with the BSO

Everything you need to know about Usher’s 2024 Super Bowl halftime show

Seiji Ozawa, trailblazing BSO music director, dies at 88

Theater/Dance

A scene from the 7 Fingers' "Duel Reality," now at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre through Feb. 18.

Wonders never cease with the 7 Fingers

In ‘John Proctor Is the Villain,’ a high school is a #MeToo crucible

It’s the humans who are in need of repair in ‘Machine Learning’

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

Mr. Spiegel, with a photo of his original flight crew at his home in New York in 2021.

Si Spiegel, Jewish war hero who modernized Christmas trees, dies at 99

Seiji Ozawa, trailblazing BSO music director, dies at 88

Aston Barrett, 77, bass-playing force with Bob Marley and Wailers, dies