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COVID-19


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Massachusetts exceeds 20,000 COVID deaths

With 54 COVID-19-related fatalities reported on Wednesday, a total of 20,008 people have died since March 2020.
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Health


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Nursing homes at a tipping point: Many are forced to freeze admissions, stranding patients in hospitals for weeks

Nursing home leaders are calling on the Baker administration to provide help from the National Guard.
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A year after the insurrection, the lies that fueled it shape the GOP and possibly threaten democracy

The false denial of former president Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election has become deeply embedded in the Republican base.
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Pressley wants Americans to ‘stay uncomfortable’ with memories of Jan. 6

The assault on the nation’s democracy continues, said Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley, as Republican legislators and candidates perpetuate the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, while states controlled by the GOP pass laws to curb who can vote and when.
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Despite violent history, father of missing N.H. girl was granted custody of child

Authorities in New Hampshire who have been desperately searching for Harmony Montgomery announced Wednesday they have arrested her father, Adam Montgomery, 31, for allegedly assaulting his daughter in 2019 and endangering her welfare.
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Nation


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Prosecutors move quickly on Jan. 6 cases, but big questions remain

Justice Department leaders are facing increasing pressure to investigate and charge all those responsible for conspiring to stop Congress from certifying the election of President Biden on Jan. 6 and for encouraging the insurrection that day. That includes possible action against Trump and his advisers.
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COVID-19


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Being ‘up to date’ on COVID vaccine now includes a booster, CDC says

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday said that three doses of Pfizer’s or Moderna’s vaccines should be considered “up-to-date” inoculations, and that Johnson & Johnson recipients should receive a second dose.
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Nation


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New study raises questions about rapid antigen tests and nasal swabs

A small, new real-world study suggests that two widely used at-home antigen tests, the Abbott BinaxNOW and Quidel QuickVue, may fail to detect some Omicron infections even when people are carrying high levels of the coronavirus.
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Using harsh language, Macron issues a challenge to the unvaccinated

Faced with a surge in coronavirus cases driven by the Omicron variant, President Emmanuel Macron of France said Wednesday that he wanted to “piss off” millions of his citizens who refuse to get vaccinated by squeezing them out of the country’s public spaces.
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World


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Kazakh protesters burn government offices as unrest sweeps country

The revolt began Sunday in western Kazakhstan as a protest against a surge in fuel prices. Four days later, with government buildings, TV stations, the airport, and numerous businesses stormed by thousands of antigovernment protesters, the uprising has expanded into a full-throated attack on an entrenched Kazakh elite widely reviled as autocratic and corrupt.
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News Analysis


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A year after the Capitol insurrection, the world still sees something broken in America’s democracy

As the world watches a riven, fact-relative nation still at war with itself, US allies are delivering their verdict: That an erratic United States can no longer be seen as the model democracy or reliable partner that some once thought it to be.
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EDITORIAL


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A year later, waiting for justice

The only way to protect the Republic is to hold accountable the people who perpetuated the Big Lie and provoked the insurrection.
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LETTERS


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Misery for Afghans and Haitians, with Biden presiding

A reader appreciates the awareness raised in recent opinion pieces on US policy over Afghanistan and Haiti.
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LETTERS


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Members of Congress, take note — Raytheon is watching closely

When I support a candidate, I’m supporting the candidate’s ideas and ideals. When Raytheon supports a candidate, the company wants the candidate to think well of them, and to listen to them when they are making decisions.
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THE GREAT DIVIDE


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Boston Mayor Wu urges vaccinations, pledges efforts to increase testing, after visit to Tufts Medical Center

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu stressed the importance of people getting vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 and said she was working to increase testing in the city, after a visit to Tufts Medical Center where she saw the workers on the front line of the pandemic.
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O’Keefe, Blodgett not seeking reelection as Cape and Islands, Essex County District Attorneys

With Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins primed to be sworn in as Massachusetts’ new US Attorney next week, at least three of the state’s 11 DA seats will now feature newly elected officials by next year.
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Rachael Rollins to be sworn in Monday as US attorney. Despite recent threats, she won’t receive security detail

Narrowly confirmed as US attorney for Massachusetts by the US Senate early last month, Rachael Rollins will officially take the reins Monday. She submitted her resignation from the Suffolk district attorney’s office to Governor Charlie Baker on Wednesday.
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Celtics notebook


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Celtics have nearly whole roster available against the Spurs

The Celtics are in a good position to find a rhythm over the coming days, with their next five games coming against teams with sub-.500 records.
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David Ortiz is trending the right way in Hall of Fame voting, but it could be a close call in the end

Through Tuesday, 134 members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America have made their ballots public and 110 of them included a vote for the former Red Sox star.
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Celtics continue to have trouble scoring late in games, a problem that should have been solved long ago

Coach Ime Udoka has to devise plays or rotations to make scoring easier for Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
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At the helm of BECMA, Nicole Obi wants to close the racial wealth gap

The new president and CEO of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts has a four-pillar plan to improve equity in the Commonwealth.
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Retail


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Brattle Square Florist closing its doors after 105 years

By the end of January, employees will empty the buckets and sweep up the last of the errant stems. Brattle Square Florist is closing up shop.
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Business


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Boys & Girls Clubs plans new fieldhouse in Dorchester

The Boys & Girls Club and Martin Richard Foundation aim to build a new field house in Dorchester by the 10th anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Obituaries


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David Wagoner, prolific poet of the Northwest, is dead at 96

David Wagoner, a leading figure in poetry circles, especially in the Pacific Northwest, who turned a keen eye on nature, his childhood, and numerous other subjects in more than 20 volumes published across half a century, died Dec. 18 at a nursing home in Edmonds, Wash. He was 96.
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Obituaries


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David Wagoner, prolific poet of the Northwest, is dead at 96

David Wagoner, a leading figure in poetry circles, especially in the Pacific Northwest, who turned a keen eye on nature, his childhood, and numerous other subjects in more than 20 volumes published across half a century, died Dec. 18 at a nursing home in Edmonds, Wash. He was 96.
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Arts & Lifestyle






WORKING ON IT


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What if you had time to just be creative? What would you do, make, sing, cook ... or actually complete?

A self-help book that wants to help you find creative time and ensure that it's satisfying.
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Newly formed Jack Kerouac Foundation aims to build a museum and performance center in Lowell

Jim Sampas, literary executor of Kerouac’s estate and CEO of the new foundation, and foundation board members already have a building in mind, the St. Jean Baptiste Church in the Acre.
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ASK AMY


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Good guests have responsibilities, too

Advice from Amy Dickinson.
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