Today's Headlines
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
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Today's Headlines
▶️ Need an election update?
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Listen to Globe reporter James Pindell's latest 90 seconds (or less!) field memo from the 2024 presidential election campaign trail.
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Today's Paper
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Metro
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Opinion
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Crossword
Page one
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K-12
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At Boston’s high-flying charter schools, academic performance slow to bounce back from the pandemic
Nearly all of Boston’s 15 independently-run charters are struggling to boost MCAS scores, which tumbled after buildings closed during the pandemic, and are grappling with sharp increases in student absences.
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Higher Education
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The short, strange end to Claudine Gay’s once-promising Harvard presidency
A plan that never saw the light of day. A call in a hotel room in Rome. A courtside seat with the governor.
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Cambridge
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Cambridge installed a bus bench backward, facing a hedge. Residents complained almost immediately.
The bench faces a hedge on the other side of the sidewalk rather than toward the street and the approaching buses on their way to Belmont or Watertown.
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Politics
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In State of the City, Wu makes her case that Boston’s future is bright
Delivering her second State of the City address, Mayor Michelle Wu emphasized her administration’s work on problems that worry Boston: housing, public education, racism, climate change, and the opioid crisis, among others.
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Politics
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Trump leads Haley by big margin in N.H. primary, but would lose general election there to Biden, according to Globe poll
Two weeks before the vote, the former president holds a nearly 20 percentage point lead.
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Boston Globe Today
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Boston Globe Today | January 9, 2024
WATCH: Tuesday's episode. Stories include: Cambridge woman plants region's first 'microforest' in her yard and a Taylor Swift class lands at Harvard.
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Another storm brings snow, heavy rain and damaging winds
WATCH: Meteorologist Dave Epstein has what you need to know and how to prepare.
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Massachusetts wins big at the Golden Globes
WATCH: Plus, Oppenheimer dominates, but Barbie – not so much. Living arts assistant digital editor Matt Juul has this year’s must-see moments.
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The Nation
Politics
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Appeals court seems skeptical of Trump’s immunity claim
As Trump looked on, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit peppered his lawyer with tough questions about his assertion that his client could not be prosecuted for actions he took while in the White House.
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Nation
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Violent political threats surge as 2024 begins, haunting American democracy
Those on the receiving end of threats and swatting span the range of America's democratic system, including members of Congress, state officials, local leaders and judges. And the intensity of the threats has accelerated.
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Nation
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The FDA warned an asthma drug could induce despair. Many were never told.
The agency’s label, which was primarily aimed at doctors, was supposed to sound an alert about the 25-year-old medication, Singulair, also known by its generic name, montelukast. But it barely dented use.
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The World
World
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Blinken urges Israel to engage with region on postwar plans that include path to Palestinian state
The United States and Israel are united in the war against Hamas but sharply divided over Gaza’s future, with Washington and its Arab allies hoping to revive the long-moribund peace process.
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World
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Scientists knew 2023′s heat would be historic — but not by this much
Last year shattered the previous global temperature record by almost two-tenths of a degree, the largest jump scientists have ever observed.
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World
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France gets its youngest and first openly gay prime minister
Gabriel Attal, 34, was previously education minister and has occupied several government positions since Emmanuel Macron was elected in 2017.
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Editorial & Opinion
EDITORIAL
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How colleges can head off plagiarism wars
Schools need transparent, equitable standards of review.
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OPINION
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Austin going AWOL does Biden no favors
The defense secretary’s lack of transparency about his hospitalization is an unintended gift to Republicans.
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OPINION
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Beware any candidate who values loyalty above all else
Like LBJ and Nixon, Donald Trump craved blind fealty from his aides. That is one reason his presidency was riddled with dishonor.
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Metro
Suffolk/Globe/USA TODAY poll
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Most N.H. primary voters not concerned about northern border security, Suffolk/Globe/USA TODAY poll finds
Though nearly 80 percent of respondents said the number of immigrants entering the US was an “emergency situation” or a “major problem,” nearly two-thirds said they weren’t concerned about New Hampshire’s northern border with Canada.
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AS I SEE IT
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Training for the worst
“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers.
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Crime & Courts
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Aria Kamal, fatally shot by her father in Dover, remembered as a ‘brilliant and unique person’ who radiated ‘love and light’
Friends said Kamal reminded them often how much they meant to her. Now, through their grief, they are remembering how much she meant to them.
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Sports
bruins notebook
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Continued growth in Brad Marchand’s game noticeable to both Bruins and opponents
Marchand's second goal in Monday's shootout loss to Colorado gave him 899 career points, moving him into fifth on the franchise’s all-time list.
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celtics
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Jrue Holiday’s value as a role player, and other takeaways from two Celtics-Pacers games
The two-game set in Indianapolis started with a resounding win for the Celtics and ended with Monday’s frustrating loss.
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Mike Vrabel’s firing by the Titans could be bad news for Bill Belichick
If Robert Kraft is looking to go with a new coach, the former Patriot checks a lot of boxes.
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Business
AI/Robotics
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Plagiarism accusations are everywhere. Here’s how detection software works.
Computer programs that can compare one document with millions of others and spot similar words, phrases, or sentences are being used to look for instances of plagiarism. But they have their limitations.
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Business
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Dana-Farber makes first pitch to state regulators about need for new cancer center
The filing kicks off the Department of Public Health’s review of the plans, part of what is likely to be an extensive regulatory process on the $1.68 billion project.
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Trendlines
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When it comes to the economy, we’re never going back to 2019
Were massive stimulus spending and near-zero interest rates the right policies after all as the nation emerged from the pandemic?
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Obituaries
Obituaries
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Vinie Burrows, acclaimed actress who became an activist, dies at 99
A winner of an Obie lifetime achievement award in 2020, she continued to act into her 90s.
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Obituaries
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Klee Benally, Navajo activist and punk rock musician, dies at 48
He protested against a pumice mine on peaks sacred to Indigenous tribes and against uranium mining and transport in northern Arizona. He campaigned for the rights and care of Indigenous homeless people and against racial profiling.
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Arts & Lifestyle
MUSIC REVIEW
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At TD Garden, Madonna rewinds her career as a hitmaker and provocateur, from the very first time to now
Her “Celebration Tour,” which commenced its 2024 leg Monday night, is a dizzying trip through the singer and dancer’s career, incorporating dozens of songs from her gem-studded discography into its free-flowing, megamix-styled set list.
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Arts
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Caroline Fernald to head Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
Previously, Fernald was executive director at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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BOOKS
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Eight books to help you seize the day in 2024
It’s January. If you need a little help turning good intentions into reality, read on.
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