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NFL

Conflicting reports emerge as Tom Brady is reportedly planning to retire after 22 seasons

A league source confirmed Saturday afternoon that Brady, 44, is set to call it a career. However, his agent and reports from Tampa indicated that Brady may not have made a final decision. Continue reading →

Weather

Massive storm pelts the region, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of people

Packing brute force winds, a “bomb cyclone” of a winter storm barraged much of Eastern Massachusetts Saturday, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of people, disrupting travel, and leaving officials scrambling to assess the damage. Continue reading →

Metro

Long before Harmony Montgomery’s disappearance, New Hampshire’s child welfare system struggled to keep kids safe

Harmony’s disappearance has confounded the country and cast scrutiny on New Hampshire’s Division for Children, Youth, and Families, which historically has been one of the worst-performing agencies of its kind in the country. Continue reading →

Metro

RFK Jr.’s antivaxx crusade deepens rift with family and friends

His inflammatory comment about Anne Frank was not the first time he’s likened the movement to victims of the Holocaust. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Florida Democrat delivers an emotional critique of ‘anti-woke’ bills

Last week, as a GOP-sponsored bill banning critical race theory in Florida schools and workplaces worked its way through the Florida House, Ramon Alexander spoke out, delivering an emotional speech about the toll of debating this legislation as a Black American. Continue reading →

Nation

It’s Lunar New Year. Get ready for some fruit.

Lunar New Year traditions vary among Asian cultures, but their goal remains the same: to bring luck and prosperity. There are other traditions, too, such as exchanging red envelopes containing money and eating long noodles for a long life. Continue reading →

Nation

US says Kansas woman led all-female Islamic State battalion

Prosecutors say the woman wanted to recruit operatives to attack a college campus in the US and discussed a terrorist attack on a shopping mall. She told one witness that “she considered any attack that did not kill a large number of individuals to be a waste of resources,” according to an FBI affidavit. Continue reading →

The World

World

50 years on, Bloody Sunday’s wounds are still felt

The events themselves took a matter of minutes to unfold in a paroxysm of one-sided gunfire that snuffed out more than a dozen lives, each one of them a new martyr in Northern Ireland’s somber annals of loss. But the effort to unravel what happened in those brief moments devoured years of costly inquiry. Continue reading →

World

Ethiopian prime minister in UAE as Tigray war rages on

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has traveled to the United Arab Emirates on a state visit amid his country’s ongoing war against Tigray rebels. Continue reading →

World

North Korea tests possibly longest-range missile since 2017

In recent months, North Korea has been ramping up its testing activity, including seven rounds of weapons launches so far in 2022, demonstrating its military might amid pandemic-related difficulties and a prolonged freeze in nuclear diplomacy with the United States. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

LETTERS

A month in the life of a pandemic-era high school student

To us adults, the past two years have seemed like an eternity, but this has been only a blip in our lives. To these students, this has been the bulk of their high school years. Continue reading →

LETTERS

GOP stoops low by invoking MLK to boost cause

To protect their flank against a charge of racism, they cite the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. for the proposition that he would have opposed critical race theory. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

How to take a stand against RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine movement

RFK Jr. is not just another anti-vaxxer — he is the leader of the anti-vaccination movement. He’s also the most prominent Kennedy in public life. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Long before Harmony Montgomery’s disappearance, New Hampshire’s child welfare system struggled to keep kids safe

Harmony’s disappearance has confounded the country and cast scrutiny on New Hampshire’s Division for Children, Youth, and Families, which historically has been one of the worst-performing agencies of its kind in the country. Continue reading →

Metro

RFK Jr.’s antivaxx crusade deepens rift with family and friends

His inflammatory comment about Anne Frank was not the first time he’s likened the movement to victims of the Holocaust. Continue reading →

Weather

‘We’ve been through this before’: Scituate residents undeterred by powerful storm

Scituate was among the communities hardest hit by Saturday’s bellowing nor’easter. Continue reading →

Sports

On football

If Tom Brady is retiring, he deserves a grander, more regal farewell

The greatest quarterback of all time deserves the stage to himself. Continue reading →

On football

Jimmy Garoppolo gets no respect, but he keeps on delivering for the 49ers

The 49ers players have Garoppolo's back, but management showed little faith in trading high picks to draft Trey Lance. Continue reading →

Christopher L. Gasper

Check out this proposal to the NFL overtime format

If the opening team scores a touchdown, the team going second would have to attempt a 2-point conversion after a matching score. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

IDEAS

Let’s make the future what it used to be

We’re still waiting for flying cars, but we could be on the verge of the most expansive era of innovation in human history. Continue reading →

IDEAS

My family’s poverty nearly kept me from applying to medical school

Students like me are often forced to choose between supporting their families and pursuing their dream of a career in medicine. It doesn’t have to be this way. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Carol Speed, vixen of the blaxploitation era, dies at 76

Carol Speed, the leading lady of the cult blaxploitation films “The Mack” and “Abby,” who used her sex appeal for poignant drama in one and campy horror in the other, died Jan. 14 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She was 76. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Diego Verdaguer, popular Argentine singer, dies of COVID-19 complications

The Argentine singer-songwriter Diego Verdaguer, whose romantic hits such as “Corazón de papel,” “Yo te amo” and “Volveré” sold almost 50 million copies, has died of complications from COVID-19, his family said Friday. He was 70. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Bill Owens, groundbreaking senator ‘unapologetic about fighting for equal rights,’ dies at 84

A prominent voice for racial equality, Mr. Owens was the first Black state senator in Massachusetts history. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

In TV ads, A-list stars are breaking bad

Hawking everything from mattresses to Mountain Dew (we’re looking at you, Bryan Cranston), celebrities are cashing in at a cost to their reputations. Continue reading →

Arts

A year into his job leading the Mass Cultural Council, Michael Bobbitt sees opportunity amid struggles

“There’s a lot of trauma right now, but at the same time there’s a lot of rebirth, renewal, and a realization that what we have been doing needs to change,” says Mass Cultural Council's director Michael Bobbitt Continue reading →

QUICK BITES

A Chinatown institution makes a pop-up comeback

Why have one Quick Bite when you can enjoy a trio? Here are three tasty ways to broaden your culinary horizons this week. Continue reading →

Travel

TRAVEL

Embracing the short, sweet maple season

Mass Audubon's maple programs make perfect family experiences during the pandemic, since they take place almost entirely outside. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

Welcome to the Island of Love, St. Lucia

If this lush and luscious island could cast its spell on an accidental singleton, surely it would make couples swoon. Continue reading →

Real Estate