Reprieves give immigrants cautious hope
A new training program for federal immigration agents will help them use prosecutorial discretion to halt deportations of low-priority cases and focus on serious cases quickly.
Tentative deal may end NBA lockout
NBA owners and players reached a deal early this morning and will return to work later today to move the process forward. Terms of the deal have yet to be announced.
Celtics face short turnaround on roster decisions
The Celtics have 31 days before their opener Dec. 25 on the road against the Knicks and have only nine players under contract.
Obama backs civilians in Egypt
President Obama called on the Egyptian military to quickly hand over power to a civilian, democratically elected government.
Milt Williamson/2008
Pollution in Cape Cod waters sparks debate
The remnants of sewage from septic tanks are seeping into the groundwater and polluting estuaries, bays, and other bodies of water.
No stopping this chain reaction
It’s a Black Friday ritual: teams come together to build and tweak elaborate Rube Goldberg machines, hooking them up in one long chain reaction at the MIT Museum.
Romney’s Medicare plan short on details
Mitt Romney’s partial privatization plan to rein in federal Medicare spending is being considered bold but vague on politically sensitive points.
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Scott Zeien, owner of Kingman Yacht Center
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Metro
New data on cod could have dire impact on industry
Preliminary data suggest the valuable species is in dismal shape and won’t rebuild in the time set by federal law, which could mean a broad fishery shutdown to protect the cod.
Business
Blue laws delayed onslaught
Under Massachusetts blue laws, employers could not force workers to come in until the stroke of midnight on Black Friday.
Politics
Biden to target 3 battleground states in ’12 campaign
Democrats are planning for Vice President Joe Biden to target Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, where he might be more of an asset to President Obama’s reelection than the president himself.
Nation & World
Syria ignores deadline, faces tough Arab League sanctions
Syria let pass an Arab League deadline yesterday to accept observers to oversee a peace deal to end more than eight months of bloodshed.
Sports
Bruins see winning streak end
The Bruins played the puck-possession game that Detroit usually masters, but utlimately ended up on the wrong end of a 3-2 shootout loss.
Arts
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW
Madeleine de Sinéty’s fine focus
“Madeleine de Sinéty: Photographs’’ consists of 71 black and white photographs, three countries, several ways of life, and (most important) a single sensibility.
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Holiday Arts Preview
Our critics give their top picks for what to see and experience this holiday season in the worlds of theater, dance, movies, DVDs, classical music, and pop music. This is your guide to holiday season entertainment.
Opinion
“[Michael E.] McLaughlin was a creature of a clueless — or worse — board that put him in office in 2000.”
Lawrence Harmon
Ideas
The improvements coming to air travel amount to a long-awaited application of new thinking and new technology to a complex system that has been slow to accommodate change.
Leon Neyfakh, Ideas staff writer