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Nightmare in Mission Hill | Chapter One

The untold story of the Charles and Carol Stuart shooting

You may have heard the story. You may think you know what happened. But you don’t.

US House expels George Santos in Friday vote

Representative Santos became the sixth House member in history to be expelled after a 311-114 vote. (C-SPAN)

House expels George Santos in bipartisan vote over falsehoods, criminal allegations

Santos, a 35-year-old first term lawmaker, became just the sixth House member in history to be expelled, and the first who wasn’t already convicted of crimes or who had demonstrated “disloyalty to the Union” during the Civil War.

Cambodian-Americans in Mass. remember Henry Kissinger as man who destroyed their country
US bombing helped paved the way for the rise of genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died
Justice O’Connor was named to the nation's highest court by President Reagan in 1981, and her pivotal role was most apparent in death penalty and abortion cases.

Foxborough resident Rayla Johnson

When you can’t afford to live in Boston, where do you go?

The third episode of the BoZton video series examines what the city loses when its sky-high cost of living pushes young people away.

This is Bill Belichick's 24th season as Patriots coach. Could it also be his last?

dan shaughnessy

Imagine if you will a Bill Belichick job interview, and other thoughts

The notion of Belichick coaching another team next season has taken on steam. But how would that hiring process go?

Dana White defends Bill Belichick: ‘You can’t have a 50-year dynasty. It just doesn’t work that way.’

Mass. Democrats again fail to pass $2.8 billion spending bill amid impasse with GOP

For the second time in as many days, Democratic leaders on Friday failed to pass a deal on a nearly $3 billion spending bill in the Massachusetts House, continuing a standoff with the small GOP caucus.

State treasurer suspended top cannabis regulator after she allegedly made racist remarks
The allegations detail publicly for the first time why state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg suspended Shannon O’Brien as the chair of the Cannabis Control Commission. O'Brien said none of the accusations have "any merit."

Forecast | Dave Epstein
Meteorological winter arrives with rain but mild temperatures
Saturday looks like the best day to head outdoors this weekend.

Family of 14-year-old girl who says she found hidden phone in restroom on Boston flight sues American Airlines

A North Carolina family is suing American Airlines, asserting the company is liable for the actions of a male flight attendant who allegedly secretly filmed their teenage daughter using a restroom on a flight to Boston in September.

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza resume after weeklong truce with Hamas ends

The renewed hostilities heightened concerns for Palestinians — many of whom have been displaced by the war — as well as about 140 hostages still in Gaza, after more than 100 were freed during the truce.

Israel knew Hamas’s attack plan more than a year ago

What’s your risk of dementia? New tool from Mass. General helps assess brain health.

New research suggests a high score on measures of physical health, lifestyle, and social life translates to a lower risk of some brain diseases.

A majority of the state’s youngest students struggle to read, new report finds

Five charged after delivery driver kidnapped in New York, body buried in N.H. forest

Cambridge woman identified as Central Square shooting victim

A group of people walk along the border wall near Jacumba, Calif., after crossing the border with Mexico to seek asylum on Oct. 24.

MARCELA GARCÍA

What’s behind the congressional fight over Ukraine and immigration

When Biden tied the new Ukraine aid to border security funds in his spending package, he also opened the door for Republicans to demand unreasonable measures about immigration.

IDEAS | Boštjan Videmšek

How to collect a sperm sample from an elephant

UN climate talks are in need of a fix

Start talking now about postwar Gaza

It’s been another deadly year for the trans community

Chris Dagesse, president of DCD Automotive Holdings, is dropping the Boch name from eight dealerships, including this one in Norwood.

DCD Automotive drops the famed Boch name from eight dealerships

Affected dealerships include the Boch Honda and Boch Toyota stores on the “Automile” stretch of Route 1 in Norwood.

My wife’s sex drive is gone

We’re in our 70s. Is it over?

A sailboat rests on the shore of Scituate Harbor in Scituate in October 2021.

‘There’s no way to sugarcoat it.’ The state’s first climate report card is out, and the grades are mixed.

There is a long, potholed road ahead to get to the state’s near-term targets for the years 2025 and 2030.

Harris heads to Dubai to tackle delicate tasks of talking climate and Israel-Hamas war

“Freddy’s a well-respected teammate because he does everything he can to defend his teammates and also to play the game the right way," said Bruins coach Jim Montgomery.

Trent Frederic answers for hit on Brad Marchand as Bruins finally deliver some pushback

Trent Frederic’s second-period scrap against Sharks forward Givani Smith might have been the most reassuring sight for a team marred by a lack of push-back over this extended lull.

Bruins 3, Sharks 0: This time, Sharks sighting is just what the Bruins needed

Single family garage

Beyond the Gilded Gate

Reimagining an American ideal

California is trying to tackle its housing crisis by rethinking the traditional single-family home. Why isn’t Massachusetts?

Explore the project

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NH POLITICS
5 revelations since N.H. state Representative Troy Merner’s arrest on a felony charge of wrongful voting
Representative Matthew B. Wilhelm of Manchester, the Democratic leader in the House, said the public’s trust “took a serious hit” this week.

PARENTING UNFILTERED
The Children’s Room in Arlington wants to normalize the last taboo: grief
1 in 13 Massachusetts kids will experience the death of a parent or sibling by 18. We need to talk about it.

New R.I. Ethics Commission appointee faced sexual harassment allegations from six women
Governor Daniel J. McKee defends appointment, but Common Cause says Bryant Da Cruz is “unfit to serve on such an important body.”

DeSantis and Newsom lob insults and talk some policy in a faceoff between two White House aspirants
In an alternate reality, the prime-time showdown between California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis could have been a preview of a 2024 general election debate.

COVID levels in waste water edge up post-Thanksgiving
But the numbers remain low relative to this time last year.

Dinner with Cupid
‘By the end of the meal, I had almost forgotten that I was on a blind date’
Will this law student make his case for a second date?

Grandparents lament they are ‘a little old for the task’ of raising children
Grandparents, ideally, can often offer a safe home with unconditional love. But for many it comes at a cost, and often this cost is financial.

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Discover the 175 companies with the happiest employees in the state.

Mass. lawmakers reach deal on delayed $2.8 billion spending bill with shelter funding, but its fate remains unclear amid GOP objections
The deal would pour $250 million into the struggling emergency shelter system and mandate that the state create overflow sites for families with nowhere else to go.

RFK Jr.’s campaign spending is as unconventional as his run for president
Running for president as a political neophyte, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign has been financed by millions in donations from a motley group of supporters that include a sizable group who share Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism.

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Culture & Lifestyle

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Shane MacGowan performing with the Pogues in 1988.

With his rebel spirit, Shane MacGowan fought ‘to make Irish music hip’

Special Projects

Photo Illustration

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Students participated in a protest outside the Columbia University campus on Nov. 15.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Rejecting students who support terrorism isn’t cancel culture

The advent of the 2023 Advent calendar extravaganza

The inescapable conundrum of anonymous speech

Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges, pictured, was charged with felony domestic assault by Los Angeles County prosecutors after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend in front of their two children in 2022.

IDEAS | JOSHUA PEDERSON

Don’t draft horrible people for your fantasy sports team

Lights adorned a Marshfield home. Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Governor Maura Healey have called for the end of the state’s residential electricity retail program. But Massachusetts should fix rather than nix the residential retail program.

Giving consumers a choice when buying their electricity

A dog named Ducky demonstrated FluentPet's communication buttons during the Pepcom Digital Experience before the CES tech show in January.

IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Metro

Unexpected cattle call on a baseball field in West Bridgewater

Officers encounter large animals on a baseball field in West Bridgewater, a rat on the loose warrants attention of police in Wareham, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.

Mass. Democrats again fail to pass $2.8 billion spending bill amid impasse with GOP

For the second time in as many days, Democratic leaders on Friday failed to pass a deal on a nearly $3 billion spending bill in the Massachusetts House, continuing a standoff with the small GOP caucus.

5 revelations since N.H. state Representative Troy Merner’s arrest on a felony charge of wrongful voting

Representative Matthew B. Wilhelm of Manchester, the Democratic leader in the House, said the public’s trust “took a serious hit” this week.

Around New England with Kevin Cullen

In Vermont, a mother and father marvel at a son who will not be stopped by bullets

Elizabeth Price and her husband, Ali Awartani, have been bolstered by their son Hisham’s resilience, and his determination to stay strong for other Palestinians.

Sports

The Uxbridge football team files off the bus at Gillette Stadium ahead of their Division 7 Super Bowl showdown with Amesbury.

MIAA Super Bowl live updates: Uxbridge jumps out to early lead on Amesbury in Division 7 title match

Follow along as the final three Super Bowls (Divisions 7, 4, and 5) unfold at Gillette Stadium.

West Boylston and Carver take the field at Gillette Stadium for the Division 8 Super Bowl, which kicks off eight championship games over three days.

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Watch live: The MIAA Super Bowl slate wraps up with three championship games on Friday

The eight championship games are being held across a three-day span at Gillette Stadium.

Dana White, president of UFC, reflected on his career during The Tradition sports awards program at TD Garden.

Dana White defends Bill Belichick: ‘You can’t have a 50-year dynasty. It just doesn’t work that way.’

"We'll get some good picks next year, and Belichick will do what he does," White said. "We'll end up with some guys that you've never heard of that'll end up being great."

Trent Frederic answers for hit on Brad Marchand as Bruins finally deliver some pushback

One sign of the times: At Patriots games, not many fans wear jerseys of the current players

Rating the Red Sox’ top 10 prospects: Marcelo Mayer and Roman Anthony are reasons for optimism

Business

DCD Automotive drops the famed Boch name from eight dealerships

Affected dealerships include the Boch Honda and Boch Toyota stores on the “Automile” stretch of Route 1 in Norwood.

When you can’t afford to live in Boston, where do you go?

The third episode of the BoZton video series examines what the city loses when its sky-high cost of living pushes young people away.

R.I. reaps millions in first year of recreational cannabis sales

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Cumberland Farms scion George P. Haseotes bets big on St. Regis condos

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The Globe’s film critic picks 6 holiday movies that are actually good

What 52 bandannas say about my late son’s life

My in-laws helped repay my student loan. How do I thank them?

metro

Vesna Nuon, a Lowell City Councilor, says that as a child in Cambodia he heard his father discussing how Henry Kissinger and others who planned the US bombing of the country "got away with it."

Cambodian-Americans in Mass. remember Henry Kissinger as man who destroyed their country

Photo archives

Case documents

sports

Bailey Zappe got the bulk of the reps in the brief window the media were allowed to view practice Wednesday,

Although it still remains a secret, Bailey Zappe in line to start for the Patriots on Sunday

76ers at Celtics: With season series tied, Boston looks for a leg up on its division rival on Friday night

It’s tough to get too charged up about Sunday’s Patriots game

business

A sign outside a home for sale in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sept. 6.

Average long-term US mortgage rate falls for a fifth week

Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures continuing to cool

OPEC Plus cuts production further to blunt falling oil prices

politics

Donald Trump spoke during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as president on Jan. 6, 2021.

Lawsuits against Donald Trump over Jan. 6 insurrection can move forward, appeals court says

House expels George Santos in bipartisan vote over falsehoods, criminal allegations

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died

Nation

Florida Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis speaks in the spin room following a debate held by Fox News, in Alpharetta, Georgia, on Nov. 30.

Five takeaways from the DeSantis-Newsom debate

Belief death penalty is applied unfairly shows capital punishment’s growing isolation in US, report says

Don’t eat pre-cut cantaloupe if the source is unknown, CDC says, as deadly salmonella outbreak grows

World

People walked inside a temporary refuge for displaced people as smoke rose during an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 1, 2023, after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas.

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza resume after weeklong truce with Hamas ends

Japan expresses concern about US Osprey aircraft continuing to fly without details of fatal crash

Ukraine’s Zelensky says the war with Russia is in a new phase as winter looms

opinion

Do you believe that Trump is seriously looking at cover-everyone alternatives to the ACA? Do you think he will ever propose, let alone develop, one?

Trump recycles his health care hokum

A new name for members of a Grand Old Party

Ben Mezrich’s new book is on Elon Musk and how Twitter broke the billionaire

lifestyle

My wife’s sex drive is gone

The Children’s Room in Arlington wants to normalize the last taboo: grief

She says she won’t date men

food & dining

Exterior of the Kowloon at dusk.

Four people charged in connection to Thanksgiving Eve brawl at Kowloon Restaurant

Somerville’s Wade BBQ promises smoky meat with a Boston spin; june bug opens from the Field & Vine team

In Harvard Square, the Painted Burro is a stylish replacement for the Border Cafe

travel

The essence of a Saint Lucia getaway: piton views, the sea, and a hammock (in your own private villa).

We’ve visited St. Lucia 10 times. Here’s what we’ve learned.

How to eat your way around San Juan

What we learned on our multigenerational trip to Disney World

Arts

Installation view of "Like Magic" at MASS MoCA. Foreground: Gelare Khoshgozaran, "U.S. Customs Demands to Know", ongoing. Courtesy of the artist. Background (from left): Raven Chacon, "Compass," 2021. "Score," painted on wall. Courtesy of the artist. Raven Chacon, For Zitkála-Šá, 2017–2020. Courtesy of the artist.

In ‘Like Magic,’ 10 artists conjure shadowy refuge at MassMoCA

Sylvia Plath’s botanical interests offer a fresh perspective on the poet’s life and work in a Smith College exhibit

The rooms where it happened: A new MFA show looks at photographers’ studios

Books

The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum recently acquired a rare first edition of Phyllis Wheatley's poetry collection.

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum acquires first-edition copy of Phillis Wheatley’s poetry collection; new book offers complex portrait of Henry David Thoreau; Rumspringa Books opens in Springfield

‘Faces of Phillis’ imagines Phillis Wheatley’s life for the 250th anniversary of her poetry collection

Author readings around Boston through Dec. 9

Movies

Beyonce performs at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough Aug. 1, 2023, on her "Renaissance World Tour."

‘Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé’ illuminates a superstar in command of her artistry, onstage and off

In John Woo’s ‘Silent Night,’ all is neither calm nor bright

‘The Last Detail’: How Hal Ashby’s 1973 Navy movie gave me a portal into my Pops’ past

Television

On March 10, Jimmy Kimmel (pictured in 2018) will host the Academy Awards for the fourth time.

Oscars to start an hour early next year

The 10 best TV shows of 2023

‘Slow Horses’ cast hits its stride in season 3

music

Beyonce performs at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough Aug. 1, 2023, on her "Renaissance World Tour."

‘Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé’ illuminates a superstar in command of her artistry, onstage and off

Darren Criss is having himself a merry little ‘Crissmas’

Why has ‘Messiah’ been so popular for nearly 300 years?

Theater/Dance

Judy Song (left) and Jenna Agbayani in Lloyd Suh's "The Heart Sellers," now at the Huntington.

Alone together in a new world

In his chaotic live shows, Eric Andre detonates a comedy ‘explosion’

‘Chicago’ holds up a mirror to its times, and to ours

Health

Dr. Elizabeth Benz is the director of the Samuels Sinclair Dental Center in Providence.

In R.I., there’s a lack of dentists caring for patients with special needs. This program is trying to change that.

R.I. attorney general sues Prospect Medical Holdings, says his concern for its hospitals is ‘greater than it has ever been’

‘I never realized what people go through’: Doctor and former hospital CEO with Stage 4 cancer calls for greater empathy in medicine

Obituaries

Supreme Court nominee Sandra Day O'Connor, speaking before a Senate hearing on her nomination to the Supreme Court on Sept. 9, 1981.

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died

Greek author Vassilis Vassilikos, whose political novel inspired award-winning film ‘Z,’ dies at 89

Julius Becton, Army general who led FEMA and D.C. schools, dies at 97