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Wednesday, December 22, 2021
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Coronavirus
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Finding COVID Tests. Scheduling booster appointments. Swabbing noses. Stressed moms have yet another job: medical practice manager
In one study, mothers told researchers they were not only monitoring their children’s COVID-safe behaviors, but their husbands’ too.
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Business
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Will Boston’s proof-of-vaccination order work without a verification system?
In Mayor Michelle Wu’s next move to get more Bostonians vaccinated, she’s calling on local servers, bartenders, gym owners, and concert venue staff to prohibit the unvaccinated from entering their establishments.
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Politics
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Biden to send millions of free COVID-19 tests, dispatch military to hospitals as experts worry about time already lost
Health experts differ on whether the Biden administration has done enough, or whether Omicron has simply moved too fast.
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Health
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Baker deploys National Guard to help stressed hospitals and advises residents to wear masks indoors
Democrats renewed their criticism of the governor for not instituting a mask mandate.
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Crime & Courts
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Crime reports paint a picture of violence radiating through Mass. and Cass
Mass. and Cass has been the scene of a disturbing level of violence, with six killings, more than a dozen rapes and attempted rapes, numerous assaults and stabbings, and two dozen unattended deaths in the past year.
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The Nation
Nation
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Biden administration moves to expand solar power on US land
The solicitation of interest comes as officials under President Biden promote renewable wind and solar power on public lands and offshore to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet.
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Nation
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Jury in Kim Potter trial ends another day without verdict
Jurors weighing the case of the suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright asked the judge after a full day of deliberations Tuesday what they should do if they can’t reach a verdict.
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Political Notebook
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Biden vows he, Manchin will ‘get something done’ on $2 trillion bill
Biden, responding to reporters’ questions at the White House, joked that he holds no grudges against the conservative West Virginia senator whose rejection of the social services and climate change bill stunned Washington just days ago.
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The World
World
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Putin blames West for tensions, demands security guarantees
The Russian president on Tuesday reiterated his demand for guarantees from the US and its allies that NATO will not expand eastward, blaming the West for “tensions that are building up in Europe.”
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British court orders Dubai ruler to pay over $700 million in custody settlement
London’s High Court has ordered the ruler of Dubai to pay his former wife and their two children more than 554 million pounds, according to court documents released Tuesday that said he posed “grave risk” to their safety.
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How the Kremlin is militarizing Russian society
Over the past eight years, the Russian government has promoted the idea that the motherland is surrounded by enemies, filtering the concept through national institutions like schools, the military, the news media, and the Orthodox Church. It has even raised the possibility that the country might again have to defend itself as it did against the Nazis in World War II.
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Editorial & Opinion
OPINION
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Global destruction isn’t funny, but when it comes to the climate crisis, it might have to be
Science isn’t finished until it’s successfully communicated. "Don’t Look Up" succeeds not because it’s funny and entertaining, but because it’s serious sociopolitical commentary posing as comedy.
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OPINION
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Voting is for citizens
Who is entitled to cast a ballot? New York’s city councilors come up with the wrong answer.
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EDITORIAL
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Debunking Manchin’s anti-Build Back Better myths
The bill would help everyone from families with children to coal miners to car manufacturers and small businesses.
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Metro
Politics
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‘The Commonwealth can and must do more’: Pressley urges Baker to take stronger measures to combat Omicron wave
In a letter to Governor Charlie Baker on Tuesday, Representative Ayanna Pressley urged the state to take “immediate action to mitigate the ongoing spread of the coronavirus,” as Massachusetts has reached the grim milestone of more than 1 million cases and nearly 20,000 deaths, disproportionately impacting disenfranchised families and communities of color.
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‘We’ve never had one here’: A rare Steller’s sea eagle, native to Asia, has been hanging out around the Taunton River
The baffling arrival of the eagle marked a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for birders to try to catch a glimpse of the large eagle, which is thousands of miles from home.
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Shaun Jenkins won a new trial on his murder conviction. That trial shouldn’t happen
Shaun Jenkins was released from prison last fall after serving 19 years for a murder he maintains he did not commit, the killing of his cousin, Stephen Jenkins.
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Sports
Tara Sullivan
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Bill Belichick had a plan in the first meeting against the Bills, and he’s sure to have another for Sunday’s showdown
For Super Bowl XXV against Buffalo, Belichick authored a defensive game plan so revolutionary and daring it ended up in the Hall of Fame.
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Patriots
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Josh McDaniels: Kristian Wilkerson and Tre Nixon ready if Patriots needs receivers for Sunday’s showdown with the Bills
Most weeks it’s a long shot that they’ll be in uniform on Sunday, but that could change for the two practice squanders this week.
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NHL
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NHL will reportedly pull its players out of Beijing Olympics
Last summer, the league and union bargained to participate in the 2022 and ‘26 Games, with an out clause for 2022 if this NHL season was impacted by COVID-19.
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Business
Business
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Will Boston’s proof-of-vaccination order work without a verification system?
In Mayor Michelle Wu’s next move to get more Bostonians vaccinated, she’s calling on local servers, bartenders, gym owners, and concert venue staff to prohibit the unvaccinated from entering their establishments.
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Retail
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Raves in toyland
Toy retailers — from big box stores to neighborhood shops — have accommodated growing crowds during the wackiest holiday season in recent memory.
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Wu launches push to expand affordable housing, study rent control rules
She says the high cost of living in the city is residents’ top concern.
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Obituaries
Obituaries
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Chuck Hunt, state’s first ‘first husband,’ dies at 67
Chuck Hunt, who made history as the state’s first “first husband” when his wife, Jane Swift, became acting governor, died Tuesday in hospice care in his Williamstown home, on land that had been in his family for more than a century.
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Obituaries
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Chuck Hunt, state’s first ‘first husband,’ dies at 67
Chuck Hunt, who made history as the state’s first “first husband” when his wife, Jane Swift, became acting governor, died Tuesday in hospice care in his Williamstown home, on land that had been in his family for more than a century.
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Arts & Lifestyle
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Terri Trespicio’s debut book tells readers to question their passion
The Emerson MFA grad talks about "Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life That Matters to You."
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Theater
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‘WILD,’ ‘Slutcracker’ canceled as COVID outbreak takes hold
The cancellations at American Repertory Theater and Somerville Theatre raise concerns that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus could wreak further havoc with the winter theater season in the Boston area.
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GETTING SALTY
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‘Quin House head of culinary Amber Lancaster was a college soccer star before finding new gourmet goals
But when it comes to snacking, it’s all popcorn, all the time. Just make it funky.
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