Nation

A heavily armed man caused panic at a supermarket. But did he break the law?

Two days after a gunman killed 10 people at a Colorado grocery store, leaving many Americans on high alert, Rico Marley was arrested as he emerged from the bathroom at a Publix supermarket in Atlanta. He was wearing body armor and carrying six loaded weapons — four handguns in his jacket pockets, and in a guitar bag, a semiautomatic rifle and a 12-gauge shotgun. Continue reading →

Nation

This land becomes their land: New US citizens hit a 15-year high

On a windswept morning last spring, Mom Leveille slipped into a flowing red dress and high-heeled sandals and headed to a ballpark in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, her nerves jangled. A Cambodian refugee, Leveille had applied for US citizenship nearly two years earlier, and, finally, the moment was nigh when she would take a permanent oath of allegiance to the country where her family had found safe haven. Continue reading →

Nation

Transgender woman’s scheduled execution would be US first

Unless Missouri Governor Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first transgender woman executed in the United States. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003. Continue reading →

World

How Russia’s war on Ukraine is worsening global starvation

Hulking ships carrying Ukrainian wheat and other grains are backed up along the Bosporus strait in Istanbul as they await inspections before moving on to ports around the world. Continue reading →

World

A chance to say goodbye to Benedict draws tens of thousands

Tens of thousands of people lined up outside St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on Monday to pay last respects to Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus, who died Saturday at age 95 and is now lying in state. Continue reading →

World

EU Parliament starts process to lift 2 lawmakers’ immunity

The president of the European Parliament has launched an urgent procedure to waive the immunity of two lawmakers following a request from Belgian judicial authorities investigating a major corruption scandal rocking EU politics. Continue reading →

OPINION

Use opioid settlement funds to educate doctors

A nurse or pharmacist outreach educator can provide an interactive one-on-one conversation with a physician, like pharmaceutical sales reps do for other purposes. Continue reading →

OPINION

A clean energy power system isn’t as simple as flipping a switch

The reality is that many things have to be in place to facilitate clean energy growth, and the ISO is doing its part to make it possible. Continue reading →

OPINION

Can America give hope a chance again?

The hope deficit goes beyond specific problems. It’s a pervasive feeling that, as a country, we no longer know how to rally around solutions — if they even exist. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

How one Afghan family is forging a new community in Lowell

Several hundred Afghan refugees who have been resettled in Lowell have set about doing what they could not in their own country: They’re building lives in peace while forging a united community that is, slowly, bridging the divides of language and creed that have riven Afghanistan for decades. Continue reading →

Metro

Transgender worker denied health care files discrimination complaint

A transgender New Hampshire woman has filed a discrimination complaint against her Christian employer for denying her gender-transition health coverage. Continue reading →

Maine

Maine teen charged in alleged New Year’s machete attack on police officers in Times Square

Residents of the small Maine community said they are stunned and saddened by the news of Trevor Bickford’s arrest. Continue reading →

TARA SULLIVAN

It’s no longer groundbreaking, but Monday’s Winter Classic showed event can still deliver

An outdoor NHL game is not the stop-the-presses novelty it once was, but from the outset, it was clear this was one of those Boston sports days people talk about and remember for years. Continue reading →

NFL

Buffalo’s Damar Hamlin suffers cardiac arrest, in critical condition after on-field collapse, requiring CPR; Bills-Bengals game postponed

Hamlin, 24, collided with a receiver after a completion, got to his feet, then fell backward about three seconds later and lay motionless. Continue reading →

Ben Volin | On football

Damar Hamlin’s condition is far more important than football

The game meant everything in a football sense — playoff seeding, MVP race, a big-time matchup for ESPN — but there was no way this game could continue. Continue reading →

Business

What’s in store for downtown Boston in 2023? Here are nine predictions.

Many see a year of “more,” driven by expansion and inclusivity, in the face of less: a tougher economy and dwindling COVID funds. Continue reading →

Jobs

A movement is building to get women into construction

For the past two years, nearly 16 percent of first-year apprentices at IBEW Local 103 in Boston have been women — a record high — many of them women of color. Continue reading →

BOLD TYPES

Constant Contact boss bucks the trend by choosing downtown Boston to expand

While many employers shrink their presence among the high-priced towers in Boston’s Financial District, Constant Contact chief executive Frank Vella is expanding there. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Edith Pearlman, award-winning short story writer of ‘quiet, humble precision,’ dies at 86

The characters in her stories were often as observant as she was, missing no telling detail. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Tony Vaccaro, 100, dies; photographed war from a soldier’s perspective

As a high school student in the New York City suburbs, Tony Vaccaro became intrigued by photography. Two months after graduation, when he was inducted into the Army during World War II, he showed a captain the photos he had taken for his yearbook and requested an assignment as a combat photographer with the Signal Corps. Continue reading →

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Music

WUMB will stream its Dick Pleasants tribute concert live

Chris Smither, Tom Rush, Lori McKenna, Guy Davis, Kate Campbell, and Garnet Rogers will celebrate the late radio host Saturday at Somerville Theatre. Continue reading →

Arts

Barack Obama liked these movies the most in 2022. Here’s where to watch them.

Obama's list of 17 favorites ranges from blockbusters ("Top Gun: Maverick") to foreign films ("Decision to Leave," "Happening"). Continue reading →

LOVE LETTERS

My long-distance relationship felt different in person

“It kind of felt like an out-of-body experience the whole time.” Continue reading →