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Friday, January 19, 2024
Today's Headlines

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Climate

The seas are coming for coastal homes. How will communities, and the state, respond?

Massachusetts, for example, is exploring the feasibility of a program that would purchase particularly vulnerable or extremely damaged properties from their owners. Continue reading →

Business

Ahead of the New Hampshire primary, the media spotlight has dimmed

While national news outlets are still sending correspondents, the typical frenetic atmosphere in the days leading up to the New Hampshire primary is more subdued. Continue reading →

Food & Dining

Is it fair for Dunkin’ to charge more for vegan milk? A class action lawsuit by the lactose intolerant says no.

Plaintiffs allege that Dunkin' charges as much as $2.15 extra for almond or oat milk. But people need their oat milk lattes. Continue reading →

Jobs

Migrants want to work. And employers want to hire them.

Migrants living in at-capacity emergency shelters are packaging cooking oil in Ayer, caring for patients with developmental disabilities in Waltham, and gearing up to clean hospital rooms in Salem. But getting to that point has required a massive undertaking. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Boston Globe Today | January 18, 2024

WATCH: Thursday's episode. Stories include: The Red Sox’s off-season picture comes into focus and the battle over the future of Boston Public Schools. Watch →

What is lost when Black churches leave Boston?

WATCH: Some congregations have left for the suburbs. Reporter Tiana Woodard explains why and what some leaders are doing to stay. Watch →

Why is Nikki Haley so cautious toward Trump?

WATCH: She never directly attacks the former President. Globe Ideas writer David Scharfenberg argues her approach is a winning one for the party's future. Watch →

The Nation

Nation

Antiabortion activists brace for challenges ahead as they gather for annual March for Life

Antiabortion leaders know that their side has a seven-state losing streak in votes on abortion-related ballot measures. Continue reading →

Nation

Justice Department finds ‘unimaginable failure’ in Uvalde police response

The “most significant failure,” investigators concluded, was the decision by local police officials to classify the incident as a barricaded standoff rather than an “active-shooter” scenario, which would have demanded instant and aggressive action. Continue reading →

Politics

Columnist accusing Trump of sex assault faces cross-examination in a New York courtroom

A Trump attorney tried to show the jury that E. Jean Carroll has achieved the fame, if not the fortune, she desired after the publication of a memoir accusing Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. Continue reading →

The World

World

US strikes Houthis for fifth time in week as tensions in region rise

The series of strikes, and the Houthis’ defiance, have fueled fears that the widening conflicts of the Middle East could worsen and provoke deeper military involvement by the United States and its allies. Continue reading →

World

Pakistan retaliates with strikes inside Iran as tensions spill over

The Pakistani Foreign Affairs Ministry said the country’s forces had conducted “precision military strikes” against what it called terrorist hideouts in southeastern Iran. Continue reading →

World

Netanyahu says he has told US he opposes Palestinian state in any postwar scenario

The tense back and forth reflected what has become a wide rift between the two allies over the scope of Israel's war and its plans for the future of the beleaguered territory. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Healey puts her housing bill front and center

In the governor’s state of the state address, she urged the Legislature to approve a $4 billion legislative package designed to solve the Commonwealth’s housing shortage — “the biggest challenge we face.” Continue reading →

OPINION

Tufts prison initiative gives grads the gift of hope

One soon-to-be-graduate said the program “helped me gain back that ineffable part of me that prison repressed — my humanity.” Continue reading →

LETTERS

The Iowa caucuses have spoken, and it hurts his ears

A tally of a little more than 110,000 people, 66 percent of whom still believe there was a vast conspiracy to rig the last presidential election, "represented" the will of the national Republican Party. Continue reading →

Metro

Crime & Courts

In Karen Read case, prosecutors seek to compel Boston magazine journalist to hand over confidential notes

An attorney for Boston magazine argued that Gretchen Voss, a contributing editor to the magazine who published in September a story on the case that included quotes from two interviews with Read, should not be required to turn over handwritten notes from a confidential third interview, or any other confidential material. Continue reading →

Weather

Two days since snow and rain fell on Boston, parts of the city are still sheets of ice. What gives?

Two days after a modest mix of rain and snow fell on Boston, pedestrians continued their careful, flat-footed shuffle across icy walkways on Thursday, even in the shadow of City Hall. Continue reading →

Transportation

AG Campbell threatens ‘legal action,’ loss of funding if Milton referendum tanks new zoning plan

Voters in Milton will go to the polls Feb. 13 to decide the fate of a land-use plan adopted in December to satisfy the town’s legal obligations under the MBTA Communities Act. Continue reading →

Sports

BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Parker Wotherspoon’s versatility, willingness to work has made him an easy fit on the Bruins blue line

Wotherspoon, just 17 games into his NHL career, has been a supersub, filling in for a variety of reasons and providing snarl and smarts. In a league where injuries are a fact of life, having Wotherspoons is a luxury. Continue reading →

Christopher L. Gasper

In a league short on Black head coaches, Jerod Mayo breaking ground with the Patriots is his first win

Mayo carries the hopes and dreams not only of an organization and a fan base but of aspiring Black coaches, present and future. Continue reading →

on college football

Harvard football was the right fit for Tim Murphy, and he made the most of it

By any standard, he achieved unparalleled success, remarkable both for both its excellence and its consistency. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Ahead of the New Hampshire primary, the media spotlight has dimmed

While national news outlets are still sending correspondents, the typical frenetic atmosphere in the days leading up to the New Hampshire primary is more subdued. Continue reading →

innovation economy

Can a Cambridge venture capital firm reinvent health care?

General Catalyst is buying Summa Health with a plan to infuse the Akron, Ohio, health system with technology and new ideas. Will it work? Continue reading →

Housing

Pandemic relief is over, and evictions are back

A new report estimates that eviction rates in Massachusetts, after falling sharply amid COVID-19 rent relief programs, have returned to at least pre-pandemic levels. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Peter Schickele, composer and gleeful sire of P.D.Q. Bach, dies at 88

American composer Peter Schickele's career as a writer of serious concert music was often eclipsed by that of his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly prolific, and mercifully fictional P.D.Q. Bach. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW

Up close and presidential: The Griffin looks at official White House photographers and their history-documenting practice

The Griffin Museum looks at a half century of official White House photographers and their history-documenting practice. Continue reading →

TELEVISION REVIEW

‘The Woman in the Wall’ wraps a whodunit around a shameful chapter in Irish history

Ruth Wilson plays Lorna Brady, the wounded soul at the center of this six-part drama who is haunted by her banishment decades earlier to one of the Magdalene Laundries. Continue reading →

Movies

Oscar noms drop Jan. 23. Will Jeffrey Wright get his due? Will ‘Barbie’ be ‘Kenough’?

And other questions and predictions from Globe film critic Odie Henderson. Continue reading →