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Thursday, January 5, 2023
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Politics

‘Frankenstein created a bunch of mini-Frankensteins’: With GOP speaker battle, Trump loses control of Trumpism

The battle is revealing the limitations of Donald Trump’s ability to reel in his allies and the burn-it-all-down political style he nurtured. Continue reading →

Politics

‘There isn’t any House’: Speaker drama ripples throughout basic congressional function

An impasse among Republicans will continue into Thursday as GOP lawmakers in the House continue to be divided over who should be speaker. Continue reading →

Politics

Big tests ahead for Healey administration

The new governor will have to deal with issues of transportation, climate, COVID-19, and the economy. Continue reading →

Metro

The outgoing governor’s ‘number one adviser’: Dad

After two terms, Charlie Baker leaves the job that he hopes has been the distillation of the values his father spent a lifetime imparting to his three beloved sons. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Red Sox reach a landmark agreement with Rafael Devers on an 11-year, $331 million extension

The financial commitment is easily the largest in franchise history and is the sixth-largest in major league history. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Biden promotes bipartisan victories as divisions roil the Republican Party

President Biden delivered a celebration of bipartisan achievement alongside the Senate’s top Republican on Wednesday, even as House Republicans continued their chaotic debate over who can best wage partisan warfare against his administration. Continue reading →

Nation

Fla. surgeon general used ‘flawed’ vaccine science, faculty peers say

In its new report, a task force of the University of Florida College of Medicine’s Faculty Council cites numerous deficiencies in the analysis Ladapo used to justify his vaccine recommendation. Continue reading →

Nation

Proud Boys go to trial on sedition as Jan. 6 probe heats up

Enrique Tarrio, who led the Proud Boys as it became a force in mainstream Republican circles, is perhaps the highest-profile defendant yet to stand trial for charges stemming from the insurrection. Continue reading →

The World

World

Iran releases Oscar-winning film actress held over protests

Iran released a prominent actress from an Oscar-winning film on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after she was jailed for criticizing a crackdown on antigovernment protests, local reports said. Continue reading →

World

For Russian troops, cellphone use is a persistent, lethal danger

Early in their invasion of Ukraine, some Russian fighters closing in on the capital, Kyiv, made calls with cellphones and uploaded videos to TikTok, betraying their location to Ukrainian eavesdroppers. Continue reading →

World

Israel’s new government unveils plan to weaken Supreme Court

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s justice minister on Wednesday unveiled the new government’s long-promised overhaul of the judicial system that aims to weaken the country’s Supreme Court. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

The math is clear: McCarthy should start courting Democrats

The next speaker of the House must work across the aisle if they actually want government to govern. Continue reading →

OPINION

Has the company building MBTA trains ‘completely abandoned its core responsibilities’?

A letter from the T says the management of the Springfield factory “has completely abandoned its core responsibilities and commitment to lead, monitor and support quality management.” Continue reading →

LETTERS

A Republican muddle in the House

Republicans don’t know how to govern, they only know how to rule. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

The outgoing governor’s ‘number one adviser’: Dad

After two terms, Charlie Baker leaves the job that he hopes has been the distillation of the values his father spent a lifetime imparting to his three beloved sons. Continue reading →

Politics

Charlie Baker takes ‘Lone Walk’ out of State House and into the next chapter

Governor Charlie Baker bid farewell to Beacon Hill on Wednesday, taking his first steps back toward life as a private citizen and out of the only job in elected office he’s said he ever wanted. Continue reading →

Health

Healey appoints acting secretary for Health and Human Services

Mary Beckman will temporarily oversee the largest single department in the state. Continue reading →

Sports

NFL

Bills resume team meetings after Damar Hamlin’s collapse, with Patriots game still on for Sunday

The Bills, who were already operating on a short week, will have just two days of practice before facing the Patriots. Continue reading →

Bruins

Bruins’ Jake DeBrusk could be out for an extended period after suffering leg injury in Winter Classic

DeBrusk scored twice after taking a shot off the left leg and was spotted in a walking boot after the game. Continue reading →

Patriots

Patriots linebacker Ja’Whaun Bentley is a tackling machine, and teammate Matthew Judon wants everyone to know it

Judon believes Bentley — and the entire New England linebacking corps — is underrated, and he admires the way they go about their business. Continue reading →

Business

Technology

2023 brings more jobs cuts for Mass. tech workers

Both companies sell customer relationship management software and experienced a sales lift at the start of the pandemic that has now faded amid higher interest rates and the slowing economy. Continue reading →

Finance

Credit-reporting firms face more scrutiny as complaints jump

Consumer complaints are one indicator of whether markets are serving consumers, and ‘’complaints about credit reporting suggest that the system increasingly is not,’’ said the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Continue reading →

Technology

Apple’s stock is losing its shine after an ugly month of December

Delays in production of iPhones and concern that demand is weakening as the economy slows are making the stock look more pedestrian by the day. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Walter Cunningham, an astronaut who helped clear the way to the moon, dies at 90

A civilian astronaut, Mr. Cunningham only flew on one space mission: aboard Apollo 7, which set back on course NASA’s quest to put men on the moon. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

MOVIES

First look at ‘Boston Strangler,’ which starts streaming on Hulu March 17

In the film shot in Boston, Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon star as journalists who connected the dots on the 1960s murders. Continue reading →

Working On It

I’m starting the year with ‘The Stress Prescription’

My anxious brain loved Elissa Epel’s book about learning to recognize and handle good and bad stress. Continue reading →

MUSIC

New York Public Library exhibition pays proper respect to native son Lou Reed

A superfan’s reaction to the recordings, photos, and fascinating ephemera on display in the first show culled from Reed’s archive. Continue reading →