Boston clocked 100 more blustery days than usual, making 2025 the windiest yet. Is the trend likely to continue? -- Here's what fueled Boston's relentless, record-breaking winds that made the bad weather that much more intolerable.

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Weekend forecast: More rounds of rain and snow showers expected across New England

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'ICE Out': Protesters in Boston condemn federal immigration enforcement and shooting of Renee Good -- Shortly after noon, demonstrators filled Boston Common, chanting and holding signs reading "No Kings in America," "ICE Out," and "Justice for Renee Good."

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Anti-ICE protesters assemble across the US after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Ore.

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Congress is debating the possible consequences for ICE and even Noem after Renee Good's killing -- Lawmakers are demanding a range of actions, from a full investigation into Renee Good's shooting death to the defunding of ICE operations and the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Updating Drake Maye's MVP chances, and other notes as playoff football returns to Foxborough -- Even though Maye was named second-team All-Pro quarterback, he could stil come away with MVP.

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Sunday Football Notes: Trying to make some sense out of the NFL's coaching carousel

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SPURS 100, CELTICS 95 -- 'Extremely frustrating, bro': Jaylen Brown rips referees in expletive-peppered tirade after Victor Wembanyama, Spurs eke past Celtics -- The Celtics attempted just four free throws in the game. Brown, their leading scorer and most aggressive player around the rim, did not take any.

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Congress is reversing Trump's steep budget cuts to science -- Lawmakers from both parties are moving to undo thousands of cuts to federal science programs that President Trump called for last year.

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Death toll in violence surrounding protests challenging Iran's theocracy reaches 116, activists say

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As protests rage, Iran pulls the plug on contact with the world

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A construction worker's suicide in Massachusetts highlights a wider crisis -- A beloved and respected construction worker in Raynham ended his life, putting a spotlight on the rigors that workers in that industry face.

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Boston suspends Allston bar's liquor license after repeated underage drinking violations -- Members of the Boston Licensing Board sharply criticized the bar's management, with one saying the owner "might be deliberately catering to underage clientele."

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US launches new retaliatory strikes against ISIS in Syria after deadly ambush

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Driver charged in death of art collector John Axelrod to seek insanity defense

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Northampton mayor's husband offers apology after Stop & Shop altercation: 'I was the weak link in our local democracy'

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US Figure Skating Championships -- Ilia Malinin takes fourth straight US men's figure skating title; Madison Chock, Evan Bates win record seventh in ice dance -- The world champions and Olympic favorites turned the final night of the US Figure Skating Championships into less of a competition and more of a coronation.

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Bruins Notebook -- First NHL hat trick worth the wait for Bruins forward Pavel Zacha -- Zacha's netted a hat trick in the Bruins' win over the Rangers, Game No. 672 of his NHL career.

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All the videos in the world won't end the argument over Renee Good's death -- The polarized argument Americans are having about the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent is really about much more than who is at fault for her death.

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Jill Abramson -- Trump governs like a king, and the press is struggling on how to cover him

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IDEAS | JAMES DYKE -- We can't just burn carbon now and suck it out of the atmosphere later

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Andrew Mikula -- A 5,000-square-foot solution to the Massachusetts housing crisis

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LETTERS -- A week after Venezuela raid, the chips are falling where they may

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Five-year-old girl dies one week after New Year's Day fire in Manchester, N.H. -- A five-year-old girl died at a Boston hospital Wednesday, one week after a fire tore through her Manchester home on New Year's Day.

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Princeton afterschool teacher kills himself when police try to serve warrant for child porn, State Police say -- John Buffington, 67, taught after-school classes in the Central Massachusetts' town's recreation department.

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Mass. public school enrollment drops to lowest level in 30 years. Here's what's behind the decline. Many of the state's largest districts and centers of immigrant populations saw particularly large declines, amid President Trump's immigration crackdown.

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How the US could take over Greenland and the potential challenges -- Officials from Denmark, Greenland and the United States met Thursday in Washington and will meet again next week to discuss a renewed push by the White House, which is considering a range of options, including using military force, to acquire the island.

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Here are the highest earners on the Massachusetts state payroll for 2025 -- Employees at the University of Massachusetts again dominated the top positions on the state's public payroll.

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'The Traitors,' 'Tron: Ares,' plus more new TV shows and films to stream this weekend

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The Karen Read story gets the Lifetime movie treatment

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2026 Golden Globes: 15 nominated films you can stream this weekend

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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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IDEAS | BILL MCKIBBEN -- We can't 'stop' climate change. But we can stop it short.

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Eugene R. Fidell -- Why Pete Hegseth's case against Mark Kelly is doomed to fail

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- An insurrection, an impeachment, and the same rogue president five years later

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Eugene Scott -- Trump acts like a strongman because Americans want one

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IDEAS -- Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

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Don Aucoin Appreciation - Tina Packer, who brought the Bard to life for audiences in Lenox and beyond, dies at 87 - She founded Shakespeare & Company and championed a more visceral, less mannered approach to performing and interpreting Shakespeare's works.

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All this is mine? -- The US Postal Service delivered every single one of the 15,358 gift boxes to Greater Boston families who requested gifts, and they all arrived in time for Christmas.

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PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL -- With Alex Bregman off the board, where do the Red Sox turn? -- The Red Sox clearly need another hitter and Alex Bregman remains a free agent. Spring training is still a month away, but as every day passes that hole in the roster gets bigger.

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US FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS -- Maxim Naumov wins bronze at US figure skating nationals in bid to make Olympic team

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Bears 31, Packers 27 -- Bears overcome 18-point deficit, beat Packers in wild-card round for first playoff win since 2010

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HIGH SCHOOLS -- Both of the Globe's No. 1 hockey teams lost, and more HS sports takeaways from an action-packed Saturday

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Protests in Iran near the 2-week mark as authorities intensify crackdown on demonstrators -- Protests sweeping across Iran neared the two-week mark Saturday, with the country's government acknowledging the ongoing demonstrations despite an intensifying crackdown and as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world.

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'It just didn't feel real': Why are younger people getting colon cancer?

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Charting the global economy: US employers stay cautious on hires

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Higher Education -- 'We are in class five rapids right now.' New England's liberal arts colleges are in crisis. Can their model survive?

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DINNER WITH CUPID -- Blind date: 'They sat the wrong person at the table and so I had a good laugh'

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CONNECTIONS -- We offered refuge to a Brown University student on that night of horror. She brought light to the darkness.

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Trump is waging war on Democrat-led states

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Fire at Maine Wildlife Park accidentally caused by electrical malfunction, investigators say

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Alex Bregman leaves Red Sox for five-year deal with Cubs, source says

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No. 2 St. John's (Shrewsbury) boys' hockey takes down No. 1 Xaverian in overtime

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Luke Kornet brought levity, quality minutes while rejuvenating career with Celtics

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Charting the global economy: US employers stay cautious on hires

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Trump promises oil executives 'total safety' if they invest in Venezuela after Maduro ouster

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MCCA board taps John Barros to be interim executive director

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Trump was reportedly briefed on options for striking Iran as protests continue

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Bird flu viruses raise mounting concerns among scientists

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Canine prodigies can develop vocabularies like toddlers

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Supporters press for a DC memorial to Thomas Paine, whose writings helped fuel the Revolutionary War

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Ukrainian drones set fire to Russian oil depot after Moscow launches new hypersonic missile

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Trump can't legally abandon a Senate-approved climate treaty

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A killing in Minneapolis. By a federal officer.

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Transgender athletes get their day at the Supreme Court. It probably won't go well for them.

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Scientists find new clues to why female fertility declines with age

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The best time to date on apps? Maybe it's when you're too busy.

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Don't be an Ashley Tisdale. How to avoid toxic mom friends.

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Brooksy's brings pizza, beer, and good cheer to Belmont Center

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Si Cara opens in South Boston; First Watch brings brunch to Back Bay

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It's a great year to go play in the snow

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I climbed a glacier-topped volcano . . . and survived!

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Here's looking at you, Boston: Downtown buildings sport googly eyes as part of winter public art exhibition

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A new gem among the MFA's studiously historic galleries: Modern art

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Janet Fish, painter of luminous still lifes, dies at 87

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Cynthia Zarin never expected to write novels. Now she's not sure she'll stop.

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Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir has died

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Senator Markey, public health officials condemn new HHS child vaccine recommendations

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Glenn Hall, pathbreaking all-star hockey goalie, dies at 94

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Aldrich Ames, CIA turncoat who helped the Soviets, dies

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