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Saturday, February 17, 2024


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🎞️ Black History Month: Join Globe writers and editors, filmmakers, and talent for a series of film screenings and post‑viewing discussions about the stories of strength, joy, and love. 🎟️
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Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, dies in prison at 47

Alexei Navalny, an anti-corruption activist who for more than a decade led the political opposition in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia while enduring arrests, assaults and a near-fatal poisoning, died Friday in a Russian prison, according to Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service. He was 47.
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FOOD


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How a Springfield mom of seven went from homelessness to the sweet smell of startup success

Hot Oven Cookies owner Sheila Coon has long planned to open seven stores — one for each kid to call their own. But that’s just the beginning for this entrepreneur.
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Politics


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The Supreme Court forced Biden to get creative on student debt relief. He did, but it still falls short of his promises.

The political damage of President Biden’s failure to deliver on his campaign promise could be limited with young voters.
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Commentary


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CVS rage is simmering as some consumers face long pharmacy lines and incarcerated shampoo

The pharmacy has made investments in its stores and employees. Some customers still aren’t feeling the love.
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Nation


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Trump ordered to pay $355m and barred from New York business

A New York judge Friday handed Donald Trump a crushing defeat in his civil fraud case, finding the former president liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordering him to pay a penalty of nearly $355 million plus interest that could wipe out his entire stockpile of cash.
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Boston Globe Today: Sports | February 16, 2024

WATCH: Friday's show. Stories include: More questions than answers as Spring Training heats up, and a split is brewing between the Patriots’ offense & defense.
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Spring Training: does hope spring eternal for the Red Sox?

WATCH: After an underwhelming offseason, reporter Pete Abraham weighs the team’s chances this year from Ft. Myers.
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Joe Mazzulla isn’t happy with Celtics’ All-Star snubs

WATCH: Does Boston.com writer Khari Thompson agree with the coach? And, as a viewer, is the NBA-All Star Weekend worth your time?
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Nation


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Trump privately favors a 16-week abortion ban

Trump has studiously avoided taking a clear position on restrictions to abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned in the middle of 2022, galvanizing Democrats before the midterm elections that year.
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2 juveniles charged in mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade

A news release from the Jackson County Family Court said the juveniles are being detained in the county’s Juvenile Detention Center on gun-related and resisting arrest charges. Additional charges are expected as the investigation continues.
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Nation


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Joe Manchin announces he won’t run for president, ending months of speculation

He also said he did not want to play the role of a spoiler as President Biden nears a likely rematch with former president Donald Trump.
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Israel says it won’t force Palestinians into Egypt, as it searches major hospital

The announcement appeared to reverse secret Israeli efforts earlier in the war to promote the idea of sending millions of Palestinians into Egypt.
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Kamala Harris seeks to reassure wary allies at Munich Security Conference

Harris’s speech precedes a busy weekend in which she will meet several European leaders, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Ukraine’s Zelensky in Paris to sign security agreement with France after similar deal with Germany

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived Friday in Paris to sign a bilateral security agreement with France hours after he officialized a similar one with Germany. The agreements send a strong signal of long-term backing as Kyiv works to shore up Western support nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale war.
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OPINION


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I wrote a definition of antisemitism. It was never meant to chill free speech on campus.

Anyone who cares about education should be focusing on not only how to respond in the moment but how we can work collaboratively to build a better campus for the future.
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LETTERS


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Aging: Political liability? Partisan weapon? Mere construct?

Renée Graham urged people to really talk about the impact of old age — on officeholders, on all of us — and readers have much to say on the issue.
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Higher Education


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Top lawmaker says she is subpoenaing Harvard for documents about antisemitism

The subpoenas follow nearly two months of haggling between the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and Harvard, which says it is fully cooperating.
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Crime & Courts


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Jury finds Emanuel Lopes guilty of murdering Weymouth police sergeant, 77-year-old woman

The crowd in the courtroom Friday erupted in cheers when the foreman of the jury read aloud the verdict of guilty of first-degree murder in Chesna's 2018 killing. The jury found Lopes guilty of second-degree murder in Adams’ killing.
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Somerville


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Highland Avenue is a bumpy road for Somerville residents — a smoother path is on the horizon

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 partially repave the road this summer ahead of a full-fledged redesign and reconstruction scheduled to begin in 2025.
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If he stays with Red Sox, Jarren Duran is their leadoff hitter — but that’s a big if

Duran's breakout 2023 season impressed not only Boston fans but other teams, and he is seen as a prime trade target.
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Thirty-three years after Dee Brown became a no-look sensation, Jaylen Brown is ready to follow suit at the NBA Slam Dunk Contest

Jaylen Brown, wearing No. 7, will participate in the dunk contest Saturday, and for those 40-plus-year-old NBA fans, it will conjure memories of Dee Brown’s stunning victory in 1991.
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Everything has gone according to plan for the Celtics … at least so far

The Celtics would have to go 16-11 or worse over the final 27 games to miss out on achieving the 14th 60-win season in franchise history and first since 2008-09.
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IRS commissioner warns budget cuts would add to deficit

The head of the IRS warned Thursday that proposed cuts to his agency’s budget would ultimately cost the federal government more money and pushed back against accusations that he had been disregarding laws for political purposes.
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These two Boston employers just tightened their return-to-office mandates

Fidelity Investments and Deutsche Bank AG are among the ranks of companies changing when and how frequently workers need to report to the office.
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What EV slowdown? Electric transition still booming in Massachusetts.

With almost 64,000 passenger EVs on the roads to start 2024, the battery-powered sector made up 1.3 percent of all passenger vehicles in the state, according to RMV data.
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Obituaries


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Khaled Nezzar, who led Algeria’s crackdowns on Islamists, dies at 86

An Algerian general and defense minister, Khaled Nezzar was part of a ruling junta in the 1990s that escalated an iron-fisted campaign of repression and bloodshed against Islamist opponents that claimed at least 100,000 lives during an era called the "Black Decade."
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Anthony Epstein, pathologist behind Epstein-Barr virus find, dies at 102

A British pathologist, Anthony Epstein's chance attendance at a lecture on childhood tumors in Africa began years of scientific sleuthing that led to the discovery of the ultra-common Epstein-Barr virus.
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MUSIC REVIEW


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Yunchan Lim makes triumphant debut with BSO

Thursday night’s crowd was there for Lim, who is almost definitely the most famous current undergraduate student at New England Conservatory.
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Mitski has all the answers at MGM Fenway

On her first of four nights in Boston, the singer performed before a rapt audience. At times you could hear the crowd not breathing. When it was time to applaud, they let it rip.
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Author Amber McBride on her powerful, folklore-infused poetry collection, ‘Thick With Trouble’

In her new book, the Emerson alumna explores rituals, magic, agency, and spirituality — and trouble as a good thing — through the lens of Black womanhood.
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