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Monday, January 6, 2025


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Cambridge tried to get better racial and economic diversity among students. Now it has one of the most segregated schools in the state.

Data show wide disparities in the distribution of low-income students and those of different racial backgrounds among the district’s schools, according to a Globe review.
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Patriots


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Jerod Mayo fired as Patriots head coach after tumultuous rookie season

According to a league source, most of the coaching staff is not expected to be retained, either.
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Healthcare


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‘This is an urgent situation’: Norwood presses state officials to back reopening of flood-ravaged hospital

The 215-bed Norwood Hospital, previously operated by Steward and shuttered since 2020, is facing permitting issues that could delay its search for a new operator.
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Shelters low on cash, an escalating audit fight, and more: Beacon Hill is about to get busy, again.

“It’s going to be a really important first month," one expert said. And several of the issues rearing their heads so early in the Legislature’s two-year session are “going to have long tails.”
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Lawmakers brace for Trump’s promised Jan. 6 pardons. Some are urging restraint.

The fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has a new focus as lawmakers brace for the prospect that Donald Trump may soon pardon many of the more than 1,500 people charged with crimes for their actions related to the riot.
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Nation


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Biden signs bill to increase Social Security benefits for millions of people

President Biden on Sunday signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, affecting nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers, and in other public service jobs.
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Nation


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Potent storm blasts parts of US with sleet, snow, and freezing rain

A fierce storm barreling across the country toward the mid-Atlantic states pounded a vast area with a wintry mix of sleet, snow, and freezing rain that the Weather Prediction Center warned could bring “significant disruptions” to daily life and travel Sunday and Monday.
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Nation


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Border shelters relieved the pressure during migrant surges; under Trump, they could become a target

When Roselins Sequera’s family of seven finally reached the United States from Venezuela, they spent weeks at a migrant shelter on the Texas border that gave them a place to sleep, meals, and tips for finding work.
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World


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Israel’s military pounds Gaza as pressure mounts for cease-fire

Israel’s military said Sunday that it had hit more than 100 targets across the enclave over the weekend, including sites from which militants had fired at least four projectiles toward Israeli territory Friday and Saturday.
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World


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Ukraine launches new attack in Kursk region of western Russia

Ukraine took about 500 square miles last summer in the Kursk region in a surprise incursion, but Russia clawed back about half of the territory in the months that followed.
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Why South Korean protesters are using US flags and a pro-Trump slogan

US flags, “Stop the Steal,” and the Virginia state motto are finding a home in a political battle halfway around the world from Washington, as supporters and critics of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol invoke familiar American political symbols of freedom and defiance.
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EDITORIAL


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Auditor should review shelter meal contracts

The migrant crisis isn’t going away, and state costs will continue to mount. Officials should make sure costs are reasonable and sustainable.
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OPINION


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From hope to despair: A writer’s lament for a nation

What of the boy on the swing, the boy with the raisin cookie in his hand? So buoyant in his idealism and his faith in his country? He woke as an old man in November. His childhood now lies in shards at his feet.
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LETTERS


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One more 2024 word of the year: gaslighting

For at least the past year, the hiding or obscuring of the diminished capacity of President Biden by the White House, Democrats, and many in the media was despicable.
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Metro






Crime & Courts


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Is responding to a fake prostitution advertisement human trafficking? The SJC may soon decide.

Authorities seeking to crack down on sex buyers indicted five men on charges under the state’s human trafficking law. These are felonies, and a conviction would carry a minimum of five years in state prison.
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Boston Family Days program kicks off at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

On Boston Family Days, students in grades K-12 who live in the city, plus two guests, will be able to visit nine institutions free of charge on the first two Sundays of each month.
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Here are five new lawmakers joining the Massachusetts Legislature

As the state legislature’s 20 new members take office in January, they’ll grapple with a host of pressing issues.
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Sports






Dan Shaughnessy


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In Jerod Mayo’s case, nice guys really do finish last

Robert Kraft loves Mayo like a son, and Mayo’s disastrous one-year reign was an ownership blunder. He simply did not have the credentials for this job, and he never had a chance.
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Tara Sullivan


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Robert Kraft went against his gut instinct, but he had no choice in firing coach Jerod Mayo

In a statement, Kraft called it “one of the hardest decisions I have ever made.”
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Patriots’ win over the Bills turned out to be Jerod Mayo’s final revenge

Patriots owner Robert Kraft wasted no time firing Mayo after the game. New England didn’t do much of anything right this year, including clinching the No. 1 draft pick.
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CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS


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Here’s one chain that won’t be on the new Mass. Pike menu: Chick-fil-A

Redevelopment rules require all food vendors to be open seven days a week, but the Atlanta-based chicken chain stays closed on Sundays.
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Goodies galore: New Roslindale market, Dorchester bakery come to town

Plus, good news for Ocean State Job Lot.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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William Thilly, MIT genetics professor who invented Apple Jacks cereal, dies at 79

William Thilly had many job titles during his life: leader of groundbreaking research into human genetic mutations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, and the inventor of Kellogg’s Apple Jacks cereal.
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Obituaries


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Woody Fraser, pioneering producer of daytime talk shows, dies at 90

Woody Fraser, an Emmy Award-winning television producer who helped invent the daytime talk show format with programs like “The Mike Douglas Show” in the 1960s and “Good Morning America” in the 1970s, died Dec. 21 in Ojai, Calif. He was 90.
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Obituaries


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Tomiko Itooka, Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person, has died at 116

Tomiko Itooka became the oldest person last year following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
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Arts & Lifestyle






Boston at a Bargain


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New year, new deals: bingo, Latin dancing, $1 oysters, and more

Free events, classes, and other things to do on a budget in Boston this week.
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ASKING ERIC


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Grandfather resents family time

Advice from R. Eric Thomas.
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your tv gps


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This week’s TV: ‘Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action,’ ‘Hollywood Squares,’ and more

Plus, a new show from "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf.
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