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Governor Charlie Baker says he won’t seek reelection

The Republican, who maintained the enduring support of his blue-state constituents through boom times, the Trump presidency, and the COVID-19 pandemic, will not seek a third term in 2022, he said Wednesday.
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Maura Healey? Martin Walsh? With Baker out, who might run for governor of Massachusetts?

Among the hopefuls who could join the four major candidates already in the race: the state’s attorney general and a former Boston mayor.
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COVID infections in Mass. reach highest level in months, while first Omicron case in US is identified

Thanksgiving was probably a factor in the Massachusetts numbers, doctors say.
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Biden faces new pressure on vaccine equity as Omicron variant reveals perils of global gap

Many health experts have warned that a failure by rich countries and manufacturers to distribute COVID-19 vaccines widely enough throughout the developing world would create opportunities for the spread of new variants.
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Supreme Court seems poised to uphold Mississippi abortion law

The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, in what would be a momentous and polarizing decision to roll back the abortion rights the court has defined over the last half-century.
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Government nears weekend shutdown as Republicans take aim at vaccine and testing mandates

The US government on Wednesday teetered one step closer to a potential weekend shutdown, as a number of Republicans seized on a fast-approaching fiscal deadline to mount fresh opposition to President Biden’s vaccine and testing mandates.
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Michigan teen charged in Oxford High School shooting; fourth student dies

A prosecutor said the shooting was premeditated, based on a “mountain of digital evidence” collected by police.
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Abrams tosses her hat in for governor in Georgia

Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and leading voting rights activist, said Wednesday that she will launch another campaign to become the nation’s first Black woman governor.
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New EU measures set to restrict asylum rights at Belarus border

The European Union on Wednesday proposed new measures that would allow Poland and other member states bordering Belarus to suspend some protections for asylum-seekers, raising concerns that they may undermine the ability of migrants to seek refuge in the bloc.
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Putin and West spar over NATO’s military ties to Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin of Russia demanded “legal guarantees” Wednesday that the NATO alliance would never expand eastward, ratcheting up the stakes as the West scrambled to respond to Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine.
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World agrees to negotiate a global ‘pandemic treaty’ to fight the next outbreak

Less than a week after the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus was reported to the World Health Organization, global leaders on Wednesday agreed to start negotiations to create an international agreement to prevent and deal with future pandemics — which some have dubbed a “pandemic treaty.”
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Massachusetts lawmakers must protect the rights of LGBTQ and other parents

Current law leaves nonbiological parents of children in the lurch, legally and financially.
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Charlie Baker leaves on his terms. Where does that leave Massachusetts?

Beyond rendering the already pathetic Massachusetts GOP even more pathetic, this is a big moment for blue state political reckoning. How far left will Massachusetts voters want the next governor to take the Commonwealth?
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Baker’s exit creates a huge vacuum

Attorney General Maura Healey now becomes the strong favorite to be the next governor.
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Harvard’s public health school forms partnership with Chinese university to tackle global threats

The partnership, announced Thursday, pairs Harvard’s estimable public health school with the newly founded Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University in Beijing, led by the former director general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan.
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THE GREAT DIVIDE


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Cassellius approves adding sixth grade to three elementaries after closure of BPS middle schools left some students in lurch

BPS will add a sixth grade to Blackston, Mendell, and Sumner schools starting in the fall of 2022.
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Trump and Republicans are claiming credit for Baker’s decision not to run. It’s more complicated than that

Charlie Baker faced the prospect of battling his own party to secure the GOP nomination. But his reasons for stepping aside go beyond that.
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Philadelphia was a formative stop for Celtics’ head coach Ime Udoka

Said Udoka: "That was the step I needed and progression to get away and see some different philosophies, be around different players."
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Free-agent bonanza shows baseball is healthy, but there’s plenty of work to be done

The players have a point about their share of baseball's largesse, the way the sport's salary structure hasn't kept up with how teams are built, and tanking, but protracted bickering over a new CBA will serve neither side well.
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MLB owners lock out players, beginning sport’s first work stoppage in 26 years

Major League Baseball informed the MLB Players Association that the players were being locked out, effectively turning out the lights on a business that is four months from playing regular season games.
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Lawmakers’ spending plan spreads COVID money far and wide

House and Senate negotiators on Beacon Hill filed a $4 billion state spending plan Wednesday night that would set aside hundreds of millions of dollars for various causes ranging from housing to healthcare to workforce training.
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Is it smart to use an old smartphone?

When companies stop providing support, security can become an issue.
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Vertex to advance kidney disease drug after positive early data

It’s an important advance for the Boston biotech, which has been trying to diversify its business beyond cystic fibrosis treatments.
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Six places to ice skate outdoors in and around Boston

Many rinks were closed last year, but this year the skating is back on. Here are a few spots to get some exercise under an open sky.
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‘What’s up, fellas?’: Tom Brady, Bucs drop in on a high school basketball team’s group chat

When a freshman basketball player was left in charge of setting up a group chat for his high school team, one erroneous number landed the group a FaceTime with Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Therapist and podcast star Esther Perel has made a card game to help players get closer

We tried out Where Should We Begin — A Game of Stories to see what we'd learn about each other.
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