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Patriots win thriller in Kansas City to earn a third straight Super Bowl trip

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An emotional Tom Brady embraced Dont’a Hightower after the win.

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Chiefs fans didn’t have much to say as Brady walked off the field.

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Rex Burkhead fought off multiple defenders to score in overtime.

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Sony Michel sprinted toward the end zone in the fourth quarter.

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Daniel Sorensen (49) and teammates celebrated an interception.

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Travis Kelce held on for a touchdown catch.

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Kyle Van Noy watched as Patrick Mahomes scrambled for a loose ball.

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Phillip Dorsett’s second-quarter touchdown catch was spectacular.

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Dorsett celebrated with an end zone spike.

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Julian Edelman signaled a first down.

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Leslie McCarthy of Medford could barely watch.

‘I feel like my whole world is about to crumble’: Patriots fans whiplash between anxiety, jubilance

Hundreds of fans braved icy conditions to cheer on their beloved Patriots Sunday night at Tony C’s in Somerville.

Scouting Super Bowl LIII: Patriots vs. Rams

The two teams in the NFL’s title game did not face off during the regular season.

Here are the 12 biggest plays and calls from the fourth quarter of the AFC Championship

From Julian Edelman’s overturned fumble to a roughing the passer penalty on the Chiefs, these moments were big down the stretch.

Tony Romo wowed TV viewers with his predictions during the AFC Championship

The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback predicted several Patriots plays during key stretches of the fourth quarter and overtime.

Tom Brady engineered a touchdown drive in overtime to lead the Patriots to a 37-31 victory and yet another trip to football’s biggest game. Like in February 2002, they’ll face the Rams.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Once dissed and dismissed, Patriots are back in the big game

After a death-defying comeback, New England will be in the Super Bowl for the third straight year.

CHAD FINN | 37 THOUGHTS

This Patriots win ranks in top five during Brady-Belichick run

With big plays from both teams and an electric finish, this game is hard to top.

Tara Sullivan

As always, when it mattered, there was Gronk

The special relationship between the quarterback and tight end exemplified by key catches down the stretch

What’s next for us: Brutal cold and a deep freeze

Winter’s first big snowstorm is over, but the bitter cold that descended in its wake will linger into the beginning of the workweek.

Senator Kamala Harris of California has taken to a book tour to introduce herself to more voters. — SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

Amid speculation she plans to run for president, Kamala Harris raises her profile

Harris’s rise has come quickly, and she is working hard to introduce herself to the more than half of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters, according to one recent poll, who have not heard of her.

Jonathan Walton (left) and Brandon Terry want Americans to consider challenging facets of Martin Luther King Jr.’s political thought. — Jeff Blackwell | Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff

Jeneé Osterheldt

Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a colorblind dreamer

At Harvard, two professors have created a class to reclaim Martin Luther King Jr. as a political thinker rather than a romanticized reverend.

What’s open, closed on Monday (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)

How will the holiday affect your routine?

On MLK Day, events to salute the man, celebrate his legacy

From Boston, to Dedham, to Gloucester, commemorations abound. Here is a look at some of them.

With new day-care inspection system, high caseloads and shorter visits

Inspectors were already monitoring two to four times the caseloads specialists recommend.

Four-alarm blaze destroys Manchester-by-the-Sea home

A four-alarm fire destroyed a Manchester-by-the-Sea home Sunday afternoon, displacing the family that lived there. No one was injured.

Giuliani says Cohen talked about Trump Tower in Moscow through 2016 election

Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, said Sunday that discussions about building a Trump Tower in Moscow lasted through the November 2016 election.

Wealth inequality ‘out of control,’ Oxfam warns

Billionaire fortunes increased by 12 percent last year, while the world’s poorest half saw their wealth decline by 11 percent, anti-poverty campaigner Oxfam said.

Opinion | Paul. S. Grogan and Gregory G. Groover

On MLK’s 90th birthday, the time is right for supporting King’s Boston legacy

Martin Luther King Jr. called Boston “home.” The city needs to memorialize him with a plan for social change.

Opinion | Glynn Lloyd

Strengthening the black and Latino entrepreneurial class

Blacks and Latinos face the same institutional barriers in business as they do in education and health care.

Opinion | John R. Kasich

What MLK knew — the solution is us

Our nation’s most challenging problems aren’t solved from the top down.

EDITORIAL

Martin Luther King Jr. was right: ‘The inseparable twin of racial injustice is economic injustice.’

As the nation celebrates what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 90th birthday, it’s fair to ask: Are we doing enough to take down the structural barriers to wealth?

Pembroke 01/20/19-A super blood wolf moon is seen during the totality of it's eclipse at 11:45 pm in the sky above Pembroke. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro) — John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

‘Super blood wolf moon’ eclipse makes a brief but notable appearance Sunday night

During a total lunar eclipse, the eclipsed, or blood, moon turns red from sunlight scattering off Earth’s atmosphere.

Legislature may get involved in fight over housing at old power plant in South Boston

South Boston politicians who have concerns about a massive redevelopment project at the shuttered Boston Edison plant have taken their fight to the State House.

Protests, Frisbees, and deep thinking — Hampshire College has carved an offbeat path

Alumni, faculty, and students worry about the school’s long-term future and fear something unique could be lost.

Logan Airport due for huge makeover aimed at improving access

Plans are underway for expanded and updated terminals, new access ramps, and limited curbside access to terminals. Is there a monorail in its future?

Special reports

Boston, MA - 1/16/1919: Looking across North End Park on Jan. 16, 1919, the day after a giant tank at the Purity Distilling Co. on Commercial Street collapsed, sending a wave of an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses through the streets of Boston. The great molasses tank was located in the center of this picture. Sections of the metal may be seen at the extreme left and right in the picture. Twenty-one people perished, including two 10-year-olds, Pasquale Iantosca and Maria Distasio, who were collecting firewood near the molasses tank while home from school for lunch. (Boston Globe Archive/) --- BGPA Reference: 150115_MJ_001 — Boston Globe Archive

Globe Magazine

The day Boston was swamped by a deadly wave of molasses

One hundred years ago today an enormous steel tank ruptured, sending a torrent of brown syrup on a deadly path through the North End.

The Big Picture

The best Globe staff photos of 2018

Our photographers share the stories behind what went into making the year’s best photos, as selected by the editors of the Globe Magazine and photo department.

Podcasts

Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

The story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America’s most popular sport.

The Help Desk

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HELP DESK

Here are small, realistic ways to start eating healthier

You don’t have to leave photos on your phone, where they could be lost. Protect them by saving them to the cloud and printing them.

How to protect all of those pictures trapped on your phone (and how to untrap them)

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A look behind the scenes at a NESN Bruins broadcast

Students worked in the greenhouse, in 1976, at Hampshire College, which encourages educational experimentation.

Hampshire College’s offbeat path now uncertain

In rebuke to Baker, state GOP picks conservative to lead party

01/19/2019 Londonderry NH -Federal worker's Kelly Devine (cq) left and her husband Mick Devine (cq) right , at their home with their family. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe StaffReporter:Topic:

As shutdown lurches forward, financial strain deepens

The National Weather Service's Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City.

Snow and stress: Tracking the storm with no paycheck

Sarah Hodge Grob said, “I’ve always loved fashions, especially the transformative effect that clothing can have on someone.”

ON THE JOB

Her mission: finding clothes that you won’t return

Stop & Shop wants to roll out the driverless stores this spring.

Turning city streets into a grocery aisle

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley gave high-fives to children on Friday after speaking at a Temple Israel gathering dedicated to the vision of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Pressley stresses King’s message in temple address

Customers lined up to make purchases of recreational marijuana products, at the Alternative Therapies Group marijuana dispensary in Salem at its opening in December, one of four companies that have reached agreement with the city on marijuana sales licenses.

Pot store sues Salem to stop it from allowing competing shop to advance

“I hold him in extremely high regard, I do, personally and professionally,” Representative Stephen Lynch said of Joe Biden at a news conference Friday outside his South Boston home.

Who’s aboard the Biden 2020 train? Stephen Lynch

Surgeon accused of trying to record staff in Winchester hospital restroom

Peabody, MA - 01/015/19 - Dr. Alain Chaoui (cq) co-authored a new report on physician burnout. (Lane Turner/Globe Staff) Reporter: (Priyanka McCluskey) Topic: (17burnout)

Physician burnout now amounts to a public health crisis

Sports

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How Globe writers cast their votes in the 2019 Baseball Hall of Fame election

All five Globe reporters with a ballot voted for Mariano Rivera. Here’s a look at their full votes.

Metro

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Anne Hutchinson’s home once stood at the site of the former Old Corner Bookstore and the current home of a Chipotle restaurant.

Restored plaque remembers Anne Hutchinson

A plaque that commemorates one of Boston’s most important Colonial-era women was recently restored.

Politics

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 19, 2019 US President Donald Trump speaks as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, before flying to Dover Air force Base to visit with families of fallen soldiers. - US President Donald Trump bitterly attacked top Democrat Nancy Pelosi on January 20, 2019 after she rejected a deal on immigration and the Mexico border wall that would end a 30-day-old government shutdown. Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, on Saturday called Trump's offer of temporary protections for about a million immigrants in return for $5.7 billion to fund the wall a

Trump defends his border plan even as others look for a deal

President Trump continued to push a plan he put forward Saturday, one rejected by Democrats, even as other Republicans on Sunday left the door open to negotiation.

Nation & World

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Students in ‘MAGA’ hats mock Native American veteran after D.C. rally

A diocese in Kentucky apologized after videos emerged showing students from a Catholic boys’ high school mocking Native Americans after a rally in Washington.