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Nation

President Biden grapples with children at the border. So much for a new day on immigration

Once again, thousands of unaccompanied minors have come to the border, entangling the new Biden administration in a familiar debate over the nation’s broken immigration system. Continue reading →

Coronavirus

Transplant patients face unanswered questions about COVID-19 vaccine

A recent study of transplant recipients, who take drugs to suppress their immune system, found that most failed to produce antibodies against COVID-19 after a first dose of the vaccine. A second dose, or simply more time following vaccination, may trigger antibody production, but many questions about transplant recipients' reactions to vaccines remain unanswered. Continue reading →

high schools

Duxbury football coach fired over team’s use of anti-Semitic terms in recent game

Dave Maimaron, the longtime head coach of the Duxbury High School football team, was fired Wednesday as the fallout widened from disclosures that his players used Holocaust-related language and Jewish words to call plays during a recent game. Continue reading →

Business

Broad Institute names new center on AI and medicine for former Google chief Schmidt

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced the creation of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center, a new $300 million initiative that applies advanced computer science to some of the hardest problems in medicine. Continue reading →

Coronavirus

‘I’m not ready for prime time’: Appearance anxiety is mounting as we emerge from our bubbles

Teeth are being whitened. Personal trainers are being retained. Wrinkles are being Botoxed. With the vaccine rollout accelerating, many people feel the race is on to prepare themselves for social life. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

EPA to review attacks on science under Trump

The Biden administration is taking the unusual step of making a public accounting of the Trump administration’s political interference in science, drawing up a list of dozens of regulatory decisions that may have been warped by political interference in objective research. Continue reading →

Political Notebook

White House event highlights pay disparity

Wednesday marked “Equal Pay Day” — which is how far into the year women must work on average to make up the pay disparity between what men and women earned the prior year. Continue reading →

Nation

Democrats take first steps on sweeping election changes

The Senate convened an opening hearing on a sweeping elections bill that would expand voting rights and blunt some Republican state legislators’ efforts to restrict access to the ballot box. Continue reading →

The World

World

After 4th vote in 2 years, Israelis wonder: When will the political morass end?

When Israelis woke Wednesday, the day after their fourth election in two years, it felt nothing like a new dawn. Continue reading →

World

US, Europe, NATO close ranks to counter ‘aggressive’ China

The United States and European countries are closing ranks to respond to what Washington calls “aggressive and coercive” behavior by China, days after the United States and its allies launched coordinated sanctions against Chinese officials accused of rights abuses in the far-western Xinjiang region. Continue reading →

World

Cache of 29 million AstraZeneca doses in Italy raises EU suspicions

A stockpile of 29 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine that were found languishing in a facility in Italy became the new flash point on Wednesday in the conflict between the pharmaceutical company and the European Union, as the bloc prepared to unveil stringent export restrictions primarily meant to stop drugmakers from sending doses abroad. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Women vs. violence: The work is far from over

Turkey’s president turns his back on a treaty, while in Washington a renewed battle for rights looms. Continue reading →

OPINION

Does the GOP have a problem with the vaccine?

Younger Republicans say they won’t get a COVID-19 shot. Here’s betting most of them will. Continue reading →

OPINION

A new day in Boston, and a new fight against racism

Is Boston ready to make history by electing a mayor of color whose agenda is a push for the kind of deep, systemic change needed to address the roots of racism? Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Kim Janey sworn in as acting mayor of Boston; ‘Today is a new day’

Acting Mayor Kim Janey on Wednesday was formally sworn into the post she moved into Monday night with the departure of Martin Walsh for the labor secretary job in the Biden administration. Continue reading →

Metro

The deadly price of ‘freedom’

If you want to mow down people in a public place to salve your sense of grievance, nobody can stop you from arming up, because our NRA-backed leaders won’t let them. Continue reading →

Education

State lets Boston and Worcester schools delay return to full-time classroom instruction

The waivers were among 64 approved since Tuesday. The decisions were welcomed by administrators and teachers unions, but some parents and elected officials cried foul as they saw yet another delay imposed on the children. Continue reading →

Sports

ON BASKETBALL

Today’s a day where Danny Ainge must act to better Celtics

There has never been a trade deadline where Boston's longtime president of basketball operations needed to make a move more than Thursday's. Continue reading →

Bruins

With fans returning, ticketing and seating at Boston sports arenas is like ‘a jigsaw puzzle’

TD Garden reopens to fans Thursday, followed soon by Fenway and Gillette, and it all requires complicated logistics and the introduction of many safety protocols. Continue reading →

Patriots

How Nelson Agholor is enjoying getting to know some of his new Patriots teammates

Agholor is one of the latest players to join the group of Patriots working out in California. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Broad Institute names new center on AI and medicine for former Google chief Schmidt

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced the creation of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center, a new $300 million initiative that applies advanced computer science to some of the hardest problems in medicine. Continue reading →

TECH LAB

NFTs (nonfungible tokens) are a weird new way to buy and sell digital assets

The tokens come out of the cryptocurrency world, based on the same technology as Bitcoin. The artificial currency is going through another crazy run-up in value, and the race to invest in tokens is shaping up to be just as manic. Continue reading →

Innovation economy

More women are leading Boston area startups. But still not nearly enough

According to an estimate from Crunchbase, 9 percent of all venture capital funding last year went to companies that had a woman on the founding team. In our tally, women represented about 8.3 percent of that $90 billion total raised. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

George Segal, durable veteran of drama and TV comedy, dies at 87

His long career began in serious drama but Mr. Segal became one of America’s most reliable and familiar comic actors. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Arts

Huntington set to raise the curtain on its $55 million theater renovation project

Starting the project now will enable the playhouse to reopen in the fall of 2022, if all goes according to plan. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

For her 87th birthday, Gloria Steinem opens her apartment to visitors, online

The virtual tour lets you see where the feminist icon has lived since 1966. Continue reading →

ART AUCTION

MassArt’s annual auction, virtual this year, supports student scholarships

Holding live and silent auctions virtually means no space constraints and the potential for much wider reach. Continue reading →