All of the headlines from today's paper.
Monday, January 9, 2023
Today's Headlines
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Dan Shaughnessy

The Patriots were not going to beat the inspired Bills, not on this day, as Buffalo honored Damar Hamlin

The Patriots might as well have been the Washington Generals. Virtually no one in NFL America cared about their postseason prospects. Continue reading →

Politics

After the Supreme Court ruling, she beat antiabortion amendments in two states. Here’s her advice to the abortion rights movement.

The mistake her allies on the abortion rights side often make, she said, is pressuring persuadable voters out of their comfort zones. Continue reading →

Health

Despite federal rules, HIV prevention drug still comes with costs

The billing errors have forced some to stop taking the medicine, putting them at heightened risk for contracting the virus. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Husband of missing Cohasset woman charged by police for misleading investigation

Ana Walshe, 39, has not been heard from since she left her home around 4 a.m. on New Year’s Day to take a rideshare to Logan International Airport for a flight to the nation’s capital, family have told police. Continue reading →

Politics

House Republicans preparing broad inquiry into FBI and security agencies

The House plans to vote this week on a resolution to create a special Judiciary subcommittee on what it calls the “weaponization of the federal government,” a topic that Republicans have signaled could include reviewing investigations into former president Donald Trump. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Biden visits southern border amid fresh crackdown on migrants

As President Biden arrived Sunday to tour a US border city swamped by migrants, he found himself under siege from all sides. Continue reading →

Nation

Extreme winds knock out power in Sacramento as California faces another onslaught of storms

Heavy winds pummeled the Sacramento region late Saturday, toppling trees and knocking out power for more than 300,000 customers, as the state braced for yet another series of storms this week that could bring additional flooding, more outages, and tree damage, as well as dangerous mudslides and mountain snow. Continue reading →

Nation

Teacher shot by 6-year-old known as devoted to students

The Virginia teacher who authorities say was shot by a 6-year-old student is known as a hard-working educator who is devoted to her students and enthusiastic about the profession that runs in her family, according to fellow teachers and city officials. Continue reading →

The World

World

Now fighting for Ukraine: volunteers seeking revenge against Russia

Ukraine’s military commanders have long said they do not lack soldiers for the war, but they have nonetheless welcomed to their ranks thousands of volunteers, including foreign citizens. Continue reading →

World

Pro-Bolsonaro rioters storm Brazil’s top government offices

Supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his election defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court, and presidential palace in the capital on Sunday, a week after the inauguration of his leftist rival, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Continue reading →

World

Israel revokes Palestinian foreign minister’s travel permit over UN move

Israel on Sunday revoked the Palestinian foreign minister’s VIP travel permit, part of a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians that Israel’s new hard-line government announced days ago. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

An interfaith, international affair at Pope Benedict’s funeral

It was nothing short of thrilling as an African American to see Black Catholic faces in various roles of the ceremony. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Child sex abuse is ‘soul murder.’ Massachusetts should lift the statute of limitations.

The Bay State has fallen behind neighboring states, which have opened up new legal avenues for victims to sue the institutions that harbored their abusers decades ago. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Debating the safeguards of medical aid in dying

Opponents know that there’s overwhelming support for this in Massachusetts, which is why they want to talk about Canada or anything else that will distract us. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts

Martin Luther King Jr. celebrated at Twelfth Baptist Church

The annual church service celebrates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was an assistant minister at the Twelfth Baptist Church in the early 1950s while he earned his doctorate in systematic theology at Boston University. Continue reading →

K-12

Here’s what is on the horizon for Boston Public Schools in 2023

It will also be the district’s first full calendar year under Superintendent Mary Skipper, who took charge in September. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

City announces new North End center, unprecedented investments for BCYF network

The city has received $25 million in state funding to partly support the construction of a new center next to the BCYF Mirabella Pool, Mayor Michelle Wucq announced during a Friday news conference. Continue reading →

Sports

Jim McBride | Between the hash marks

Patriots’ season ends in a familiar place — in Buffalo — but with a mind-numbing breakdown on special teams

Two kickoff return touchdowns by Nyheim Hines were the difference in an emotional loss to the Bills. Continue reading →

Ben Volin | Instant Analysis

Patriots came to play, but season-long problems haunt them in loss to Bills

The Patriots don’t have enough high-end talent on offense and the quarterback is limited physically. That's just the start. Continue reading →

Christopher L. Gasper

The inevitable outcome of a lost season should help the Patriots initiate necessary changes

It should spur the Patriots to stop fooling themselves about what they are now on the NFL food chain, parasites feeding off bad teams. Continue reading →

Business

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Sale of Everett power plant site could set the tone for city’s future

The future of an old power plant along the Mystic River is also the future of Everett. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Dick Flavin, who turned Red Sox heroics into poems, dies at 86

In poems like "Long Live Fenway Park" and "Teddy at the Bat," he celebrated his love of baseball. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Bill Campbell, 74, first big-money free agent of the Sox, dies

Mr. Campbell, a Vietnam War veteran, led the team in wins and the league in saves in 1977. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Bernard Kalb, journalist and commentator, dies at 100

Mr. Kalb covered global affairs and later cast a critical eye on the media as a commentator for CNN, but he may be best remembered for his resignation in 1986 as State Department spokesman to protest a government disinformation campaign. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Visual Arts

Portland Museum of Art announces architects for $100 million expansion

The PMA has chosen a Portland firm — Portland, Ore., that is — LEVER Architecture. Continue reading →

Movies

Belmont World Film’s 20th Family Festival fosters a love of film for young audiences

The films range from animation to live action and span different genres. The majority are adaptations of children’s books. Continue reading →

Names

Three Kings Day arrives with music, entertainment in Boston’s Latin Quarter

Saturday afternoon’s event at the Hyde Square Task Force building featured live music and interactive presentations. Continue reading →