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Spotlight Report -- Introductions to women. Free flights. Business deals. Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Harvard run deeper than previously known. -- Some of Epstein's ties to the school were hiding in plain sight, yet Harvard officials missed or looked past them during their 2019 probe.

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Brockton teen charged with allegedly biting police officer during domestic dispute in Dorchester -- Kamora Davis, 19, allegedly struggled with police as they arrested her, prosecutors said.

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Dozens of flights canceled, hundreds delayed Wednesday at Logan Airport -- There were 73 cancellations, and 366 delays at Logan, FlightAware showed late Wedneday night.

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Stuck inside for days, South Coast and Cape Cod residents wonder when the plows will arrive

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Grandfather injured in mass shooting at Pawtucket ice rink has died -- Gerald Dorgan, 75, is the third person who died in the Feb. 16 attack at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena.

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'We should have reacted differently': Jeremy Swayman addresses players laughing at US women's expense during Trump call -- Team USA attended President Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night. Swayman said he got back to Massachusetts around 3 a.m. Wednesday.

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Hilary Knight wants focus on the US women's Olympic success, not President Trump's 'distasteful' joke

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A Natick couple wanted $500 million from eBay for stalking and harassment. Now they've struck a settlement. -- Ina and David Steiner published an ecommerce news web site that covered the company and angered its CEO.

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Forecast | Chris Gloninger - Thursday forecast: Sunny with light coastal snow later in the day. Another storm possible next week. Southern New England remains above freezing for the next few days, but more snow could be on the horizon.

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Cocaine levels in Nantucket's wastewater are growing. No one is sure exactly why. -- After testing showed cocaine levels in Nantucket wastewater that were 50 percent above national levels in September, the island saw even steeper increases later in the year.

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State report finds school facilities are improving, but conditions are deeply unequal -- Since 2016, many low-quality schools were replaced or closed. But the remainder are disproportionately in urban districts.

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Malden Public Schools teacher, basketball coach charged with rape of student, prosecutors say

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'The whole house was just an inferno': Mother and 2-year-old child injured after home explodes in Taunton

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Cuban government says troops kill 4 and wound 6 on Florida speedboat

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Justice Department says it's reviewing whether any Epstein-related records were mistakenly withheld

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ADRIAN WALKER -- Larry Summers' retirement is a small piece of justice for Epstein's victims -- Jeffrey Epstein's victims have lost things they'll never get back. It's way past time Epstein's enablers took some losses too.

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As Summers resigns from university, a look at his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

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FIRST PERSON -- With no power, no snow plows in Duxbury, neighbors helped my family reach safety -- Globe reporter Jessica Bartlett, with her husband, eight-year-old daughter, and dog in tow, hatched an unorthodox plan to escape her snowed-in home on the South Shore.

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'Truly unforgettable': A massive nor'easter couldn't stop this Boston couple from getting married

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'There's no place to put it.' City snow removal efforts improved, Boston residents say, even as mountains remain.

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As electric bills rise, Trump says tech companies should pay more -- Silicon Valley is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build power-hungry data centers for artificial intelligence as demand for electricity is increasing across the US.

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Trump proposed a new retirement plan with up to a $1,000 match. How might it work?

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Patriots - Patriots coach Mike Vrabel talks potential A.J. Brown trade, other notes from the NFL Combine - Vrabel, who drafted Brown in 2019 when he was Titans coach, has maintained a close bond with the Eagles wide receiver.

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A liquor magnate bought Vermont's former Green Mountain College campus for $5 million. Now, he's looking to donate it. -- Liquor magnate Raj Bhakta has scrapped his plans to turn Green Mountain into a $100 million complex of hotel rooms, condos, and a micro-distillery.

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EDITORIAL - Kristi Noem wants you to wait in longer lines at the airport - DHS secretary trivializes what's really at stake in the partial government shutdown.

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Trump's State of the Union message: Fear still sells

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IDEAS | Arlie Russell Hochschild -- The 'Melania' movie and the hollowed-out American dream

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RIGHT, LEFT, AND CENTER -- Boasting, bashing, and lying: Three writers on Trump's State of the Union address

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New Ipswich man died in Dover, N.H. police station from possible overdose -- Andrew Larose, 37, who was found dead in the lobby, was not in custody, Dover police said.

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BU, Maine post shutouts to advance in Hockey East women's tournament -- The Terriers will face regular season champion Northeastern and Maine gets to tangle with UConn in the quarterfinals on Saturday.

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N.H. lawmakers move to reject 20-week abortion ban -- The proposal would make it a felony for health care providers to perform an abortion after 20 weeks.

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Man charged with fatally shooting 13-year-old in Mattapan wants to be transferred to Boston jail -- Csean Skerritt is scheduled to go on trial on April 27 for the killing of 13-year-old Tyler Lawrence.

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Families of D.C. plane crash victims 'devastated' after safety bill fails by one vote with R.I., Mass. lawmakers absent -- Monday's historic blizzard kept members of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island delegations from making it to Washington to vote.

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Money, Power, Inequality - Can landlords charge renters legal fees for eviction if the case is dismissed? Two lawsuits say no. Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the lawsuits against two real estate corporations argue the practice goes against Mass. state law.

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How to come up with a down payment in the Boston area: 'Things have never cost more'

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'An extension of the racialized body': Lawsuit highlights how Black hair remains a pain point in struggle for equality -- Last week's race discrimination lawsuit against ART points out a sometimes-overlooked element in the long fight for equality: hair.

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Dartmouth College went all-in on AI. Then came the tension. -- The swift rollout at the Ivy League school is a case study in the turbulence that AI can bring.

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Poor Clare nuns are 'in a state of crisis' as Boston holds up housing plan for years -- Three years after a move to Westwood, the Poor Clare nuns say they're "in a state of crisis."

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Comedy might not have been Sindhu Vee's first career choice, but she's made it her own

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A new 'Jane Eyre' adaptation is in the works, starring Aimee Lou Wood

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Lauren Groff's latest is a story collection that packs a punch

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Tracy Morgan returns (with Daniel Radcliffe) in the winning fall-from-grace mockumentary 'Reggie Dinkins'

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Boston Globe Spotlight Team - Nearly 250 patients at top Mass. hospitals say they were abused by a renowned doctor. Why wasn't he stopped sooner? A Globe Spotlight investigation found the state's medical establishment missed key warning signs.

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Why Trump and the MAGA movement turned against Harvard -- Over a decade of political and cultural upheaval, America's most powerful university grew vulnerable to attack. There were warning signs.

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Why the middle class is disappearing in Massachusetts -- The middle class in Massachusetts is being hollowed out. Driving the squeeze is a stratospheric rise in inequality.

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Water is coming for the Seaport; the whole city will be poorer for it. -- Buildings in the Seaport fund one-tenth of Boston's property-tax base. Flood waters and sea level rise will soon put that at risk.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- High court hypocrisy, as conservative justices split on Trump's tariffs

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Can the Edward M. Kennedy Institute save the Senate and itself?

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JEFF JACOBY -- Nativism is a bipartisan American temptation

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IDEAS -- Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

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MIAA BOYS' HOCKEY TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP -- Stoneham storms out of gates to bounce Blue Hills in first round of Division 4 boys' hockey tournament -- The line of Dylan Krasco, Bryce Leonard, and Cosmo Ciccarello totaled five goals and six assists, while Andrew Pugliese and Dante Guarino both added 3 points apiece.

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MIAA GIRLS' HOCKEY TOURNAMENT -- Young stars strike, Acton-Boxborough girls' hockey takes a big step with Division 1 first-round win -- Freshman Riley Bergeron and sophomore Alexis Maranian tallied goals, and the Revolution (14-5-3) defended with purpose to oust Arlington Catholic.

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METHUEN 63, EVERETT 41 -- Motivated Methuen boys' basketball beats Everett with heavy hearts after death of assistant coach -- James Staples, who spent the past three seasons as the lead assistant to Methuen boys' basketball coach Ryan Middlemiss, died Wednesday morning from a cancerous tumor. He was 33.

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MIAA BOYS' BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP -- Senior Jimmy Mortarelli gets gritty in leading Natick boys' basketball past Haverhill

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TALKING POINTS - TJ Maxx owner sees slowing growth after strong holiday season - Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

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Surgeon general nominee faces sharp questions about vaccines, birth control and qualifications - The Senate health committee will next consider whether to advance Dr. Casey Means' nomination, in which case it would go to a vote in the full Senate.

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Paramount tops profit outlook amid Warner Bros. bidding war

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About 100,000 residents, mostly on the Cape and in Plymouth County, remain without power Wednesday

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PERSPECTIVE -- I've always been a Boston sports fan. But the women's hockey team is something different.

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LOVE LETTERS -- My boyfriend says his wife is delaying their divorce

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THE BIG DAY -- How Dan and Vicki overcame a big red flag, fell in love fast, then took their time getting married

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KARA BASKIN -- The GLP-1 dream is over. What now, for patients who've relied on it for weight loss?

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Her game shaped by nine siblings, Ursuline senior Sofia Pichay proves her toughness with playoff win

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Scotland fans get FIFA approval to don traditional sporrans with their kilts at World Cup games

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Cards Against Humanity to give tariff refunds to buyers who 'overpaid'

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Trump summons Amazon, Google, Meta to sign power-cost pledge

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Discord postpones age verification rollout amid criticism, promises transparency

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Lawrence Summers to retire as Harvard professor, resign from Kennedy School post following Epstein revelations

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Epstein files are missing records about woman who made claim against Trump, NYT review finds

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Pennsylvania student protesters did not know man in scrum was police chief, lawyers say

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A bleak research report about AI stokes debate on Wall Street

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Harvey Weinstein hires Luigi Mangione and Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyers as his 3rd NY trial looms

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Cartel violence fuels doubts about FIFA World Cup games in Mexico

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Ukraine wants the West's support, not just its admiration from afar

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Trump's new tariffs are another dangerous presidential power grab

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Why a conservative justice threw shade at congressional Republicans

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Costa Rica's exceptionalism is fading

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Superagers' brains have a special ability, new study suggests

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Met Gala guests (and the rest of us) learn the next dress code: 'Fashion is Art'

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Men on dating apps don't know how to ask questions

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World Central Kitchen brings food to war zones and disaster areas. And after the blizzard we just had, to Cape Cod.

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Recipe: A golden pub pie with a flaky top crust and chicken and leek filling will cure what ails you

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Where to eat this week: Ama at the Atlas

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I was in the middle of Puerto Vallarta's fiery Sunday. It was an unprecedented day of fear.

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Is it safe to travel to Mexico right now?

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Escape winter's bitter grip at these cozy local hotels

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Louvre Museum director resigns in the wake of October's brazen French crown jewels heist

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Snowed in? Explore free, virtual programming from the MFA, New England Aquarium, and more Boston cultural institutions.

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In Portland, Ming Smith makes light cascade and darkness abide

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Local bestsellers for the week ended Feb. 22

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Are things terrible, or is humanity on an upswing? Yes, says Rebecca Solnit.

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Robert Carradine, 'Revenge of the Nerds' and 'Lizzie McGuire' star, dies at 71

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New movies and shows to stream while you're stuck at home during the blizzard

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BBC and host apologize after racial slur shouted during BAFTA awards by guest with Tourette's

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'It was like a Christmas message from the Grinch': Kimmel, Colbert, and more react to Trump's State of the Union address

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Seven New England 'Survivor' stars who left their mark on the reality competition

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New Edition, Phil Collins, Lauryn Hill, Iron Maiden, Luther Vandross, and Shakira get Rock Hall nominations

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Willie Colón, architect of urban salsa music, has died

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Why music is so key to figure skating's popularity — and how that music is changing

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Hub Theatre Company's 'The Bald Soprano' hits the high notes, but 'The Lesson' flunks

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'We Had a World' — of monotony

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Two Boston-area theaters revive plays from the '50s with very modern resonances

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Another weight-loss pill in the works, as Ozempic-maker Novo Nordisk strikes deal with Boston startup

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Caregivers want state to take better care of them

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Jeff Galloway, who inspired people with his run-walk method, dies

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Gloucester's longest-serving mayor, Bruce Tobey, dies at 73

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