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Elections


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‘The cruelest tax’: Inflation plays a unique role in America’s economic psyche, posing challenge for Biden

As President Biden has attempted to highlight positive developments about the economy, polls suggest many Americans aren’t listening. They’re more focused on rapidly rising prices.
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The science behind the state’s school mask policy is outdated, some experts say. Should the benchmarks change?

With the Omicron surge receding and the number of COVID-19 cases among Massachusetts students starting to decline, debate is growing about whether the state’s mandatory school mask rules should be revised or removed.
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Flashes still of violence, guns, drugs, and vandalism at Mass. and Cass

Residents and business owners in the area bemoan the pervasiveness of drug dealing and other crime weeks after city officials cleared the neighborhood of a homeless encampment.
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Healthcare


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Workers organizing at McLean Hospital face staunch resistance

In late summer, executives at the world-renowned psychiatric hospital in Boston launched a full-throated defense against unionization efforts.
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Islamic State leader dead after US commandos raid house in Syria

President Biden said the decision to send about two dozen helicopter-borne commandos to capture or kill the leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was made to minimize the risk of civilian harm. But then the terrorist leader set off a bomb.
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Nation


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Laquan McDonald’s killer, an ex-Chicago officer, leaves prison

Black community leaders in Chicago feel enraged and betrayed by the criminal justice system, as Jason Van Dyke, a former police officer convicted of the on-duty murder of a Black teenager, walks out of prison, having been released on good behavior.
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As states rush to fill schools with teachers, shortage fears climb

With numbers of teachers shrinking and the pandemic further exacerbating the existing vacancies, states are resorting to raising salaries among other tactics to fill the educator deficit. Administrator fears continue to rise that those measures won't be enough.
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Nation


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Alleging racial bias in the Human Rights Campaign, Black ex-president files suit

The former president of the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the US, the Human Rights Campaign, filed suit against the organization Thursday, asserting that his firing was the result of an alleged pattern of racial discrimination the HRC exhibited toward him as a Black man.
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N. Ireland 1st minister quits amid battle over Brexit checks

Northern Ireland’s First Minister resigned Thursday as tensions over Britain’s departure from the European Union triggered a fresh political crisis in the region.
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US exposes what it says is Russian effort to fabricate pretext for invasion

The United States has acquired intelligence about a Russian plan to fabricate a pretext for an invasion of Ukraine using a faked video that would build on recent disinformation campaigns, according to senior administration officials and others briefed on the material.
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Its beaches mired in crude oil, Peru vows to make refinery pay

More than two weeks after a botched tanker delivery sent thousands of barrels of crude oil spilling into the sea off Peru, black waves continue to foul beaches, and fingers are still being pointed.
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EDITORIAL


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Olympic athletes are people too. They have the right to protest.

The International Olympic Committee has a responsibility to protect athletes who speak out about human rights in China.
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OPINION


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Mass General Brigham’s expansion plan must be rejected

It would be inexcusable for Massachusetts, a state committed to cost containment and health equity, to allow this expansion to move forward.
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OPINION


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Moderate politics is the right path, even in Mass.

A new survey shows the popularity of a Charlie Baker-style approach.
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Governor Charlie Baker touts priority projects for new federal infrastructure funds

Baker said he anticipates people across Massachusetts will start to see the impact of the new funding on their roads and transit systems by this summer.
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH


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Pauline Hopkins, author and playwright, used fiction to explore justice

In the preface to her first novel, published in 1900, Cambridge author and playwright Pauline Hopkins wrote about the importance of telling one’s own story.
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Throwing games is far more problematic than Tom Brady throwing shade

Given that Black players account for more than 70 percent of NFL players, the dearth of Black head coaches — with Flores out, there is now just one — certainly deserves serious scrutiny.
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Basketball


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Kevin Garnett shares what motivated him to give 100 percent in every game he played for the Celtics

Garnett will have his No. 5 retired by the franchise at a ceremony on March 13 at TD Garden.
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Christopher L. Gasper


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Brian Flores just revealed what Black coaches have known all along: The odds are always stacked against them

Flores took what was an open industry secret and brought it into the legal light of day.
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Jayson Tatum lands third straight NBA All-Star berth, fellow Celtic Jaylen Brown not selected

The Celtics forward is the youngest player in franchise history to earn the honor three times.
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Meta plunges and sets off Wall Street’s worst drop in nearly a year

The stock price of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, sunk down 26.4 percent, a dive that eradicated more than $250 billion off its market value, the biggest tumble in American stock market history. Thursday also saw an overall downturn in tech stock prices during regular trading hours.
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Winthrop Center tower wins its first tenant

The 15-year lease is among the largest office deals downtown since the arrival of COVID-19 in Boston nearly two years ago, and the first major tenant for a tower that was almost halted mid-construction when it lost construction financing in the pandemic’s first year.
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Vericel on the move from Cambridge to Burlington

The cell therapy company has signed a lease for a new HQ and manufacturing facility off Route 3.
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Obituaries


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Avram Goldberg, former Stop & Shop chairman who forged a unique approach, dies at 92

Ahead of his time, Mr. Goldberg worked closely with his wife, Carol, in executive roles.
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Obituaries


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Avram Goldberg, former Stop & Shop chairman who forged a unique approach, dies at 92

Ahead of his time, Mr. Goldberg worked closely with his wife, Carol, in executive roles.
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CambridgeSide to host Black-owned business pop-up market

Shop more than a dozen Black-owned small businesses at CambridgeSide later this month.
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STAGE REVIEW


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Coming of age in a hostile world in ‘The Bluest Eye’

Awoye Timpo directs the spellbinding Huntington Theatre Company production of Lydia R. Diamond's play, adapted from Toni Morrison's debut novel.
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Visual Arts


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In Jamaica Plain, a cannabis dispensary and museum pre-rolled into one

In Hyde Square, Seed dispensary sells marijuana products — and an adjacent museum charts the complicated history of the drug's criminalization.
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