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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Today's Headlines

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Healthcare

Healey demands financial documents from Steward, says company should get out of Mass. hospital market

The governor gave Steward three days to provide critical financial documents that the company has long declined to make public. Continue reading →

THE GREAT DIVIDE

‘Incredibly problematic’: Experts, advocates warn against Brockton calling in National Guard to quell high school violence

The school has been engulfed in turmoil for months, with its halls and classrooms drastically understaffed due in large part to cuts last year caused by back-to-back multimillion-dollar budget deficits. Continue reading →

Politics

Mayor Wu wants to overhaul Boston’s rules for what can be built where. She’s stepping into a political minefield.

As the city revamps its zoning code, neighborhood groups and advocates are pushing back, posing a political risk for the mayor. Continue reading →

Business

Are taxis cool again? At Logan Airport, there are signs of a rebound.

Taxis logged more than 1 million ride pick-ups at Logan Airport in 2023, nearly double from 2021. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Meet the Mass Audubon naturalist who’s a witness to murder — the crow kind

Springfield has one of the largest roosts in the state and Patti Steinman leads an urban safari to observe the crows in all their glory. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Boston Globe Today | February 20, 2024

WATCH: Tuesday's show. Stories include: Inside Boston’s first alcohol-free bottle shop, and Harvard museum removes sacred Native American items from display. Watch →

The legacy of 10-time pro-bowler Matthew Slater

WATCH: The Patriots special teamer has retired after 16 seasons. Columnist Chad Finn reflects on his career and predicts the team's future without him. Watch →

Do you need to quarantine if you test positive for COVID-19? Maybe not.

WATCH: Are strict isolation guidelines here to stay? Health reporter Adam Piore explains. Watch →

The Nation

Politics

Supreme Court won’t hear new case on race and school admissions

The school's policy had dispensed with a rigorous entrance examination and prioritized admission to the top students from each public middle school in the area rather than the top applicants from any school. Continue reading →

Nation

Astronomers say mysterious galactic ‘wave’ may have once washed over Earth

Revelations are helping to explain the "Radcliffe Wave," a chain of star-forming clouds that the largest coherent structure ever seen in our galaxy — 9,000 light-years from end to end. Continue reading →

Political notebook

Ahead of South Carolina GOP primary, Haley vows to continue running

Nikki Haley struck a defiant tone Tuesday as she promised not to leave the Republican primary contest soon and escalated her attacks on front-runner Donald Trump. Continue reading →

The World

World

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange starts final UK legal battle to avoid extradition to US on spy charges

Assange has been fighting extradition for more than a decade, including seven years in self-exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and the last five years in a high-security prison. Continue reading →

World

US vetoes UN resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza

The calls for the cease-fire follow increasingly dire conditions in the Gaza Strip. Continue reading →

World

Legal fight ensues after some Israelis donate money to settlers hit with US sanctions

Far-right Israelis pledged the funds in a show of support for the settlers, whose efforts to exert Israeli control over lands in the West Bank have often involved maintaining illegal outposts and assaulting Palestinians. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

US can honor Navalny’s memory by supporting Ukraine aid

Putin is counting on the MAGA Republicans to continue to do his bidding. Continue reading →

OPINION

When freedom’s leaders die, the movements they championed must continue

Years before his suspicious death, Alexei Navalny recognized that the pursuit of freedom is bigger than one person. Continue reading →

LETTERS

When a T-shirt morphs from free speech to personal attack

A shirt that inscribes support for gender fluidity is not equivalent to one that says, "There are only two genders," a statement that dehumanizes those who don’t align with a single sex. Continue reading →

Metro

Money, Power, Inequality

For nearly 50 years on the radio, José Massó built a bridge between cultures in Boston

Massó has been the longtime host of WBUR’s “¡Con Salsa!,” a bilingual Afro-Latin music program that’s been on the air for nearly five decades. He also dedicated his years to civic affairs. Continue reading →

K-12

Gardner school administrators allegedly mishandled sexual misconduct and bullying among students, investigation finds

The sexual misconduct among students included groping, choking, and use of sexually explicit and derogatory language, according to a letter Superintendent Mary Skipper sent to the Gardner community. Continue reading →

Higher Education

‘Despicable’. Harvard student and faculty groups denounced over antisemitic cartoon

The cartoon showed a hand inscribed with a Star of David and a dollar sign holding ropes around the necks of a Black man and an Arab man. Continue reading →

Sports

Sports

Two adults are charged with murder in the deadly shooting at Kansas City’s Super Bowl celebration

Both adults are charged with second-degree murder and other charges. They have been hospitalized since the shooting, prosecutors said. Continue reading →

Patriots

Patriots’ Matthew Slater announces his retirement after 16 seasons

Slater played 239 games in New England, second only to Tom Brady, and was a three-time Super Bowl winner. Continue reading →

red sox

Though he won’t pitch for a while, Liam Hendriks already seems to be fitting in well with Red Sox

The chatty Australian reliever is all positive energy and, according to manager Alex Cora, "uplifting for everybody." Continue reading →

Business

Business

Are taxis cool again? At Logan Airport, there are signs of a rebound.

Taxis logged more than 1 million ride pick-ups at Logan Airport in 2023, nearly double from 2021. Continue reading →

Energy

Eversource, National Grid seek rate hikes to upgrade the grid to handle surge in electrification

Massachusetts' two major utilities are asking for around $2.4 billion over five years to finance improvements to the power grid, amid increasing demand from electric vehicles and heat pumps. Continue reading →

Retail

Elizabeth Grady beauty school shut down, salon chain struggles to operate

The company has been mired in lawsuits that also threaten the survival of its salons and beauty products business. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Rabbi Jules Harlow, 92, dies; helped redefine Conservative Jewish prayer

A liturgist, Rabbi Jules Harlow brought a poet’s sensibility and a musician’s cadence to the style of prayer in Conservative Judaism for much of the second half of the 20th century. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Movies

Beatles to get a Fab Four of biopics, with a movie each for Paul, John, George, and Ringo

The Beatles are getting the big-screen biopic treatment in a Fab Four of movies that will give each band member their own film. Continue reading →

BOOKS

For Hank Phillippi Ryan, serendipity is a power for good, in writing and life

The award-winning mystery writer believes in the power of randomness. Continue reading →

Arts

GBH’s ‘The Culture Show’ receives $5 million grant

The grant from The Fiducia Fund, paid out over the next five years, will allow the radio program to expand to other platforms. Continue reading →