Yahoo says hackers stole data from 1 billion accounts

The company says it?s a different breach from the one it disclosed in September, when 500 million accounts were exposed.

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Michael Flynn, Donald Trump?s pick for national security adviser, ?inappropriately shared? classified material, though he was never reprimanded.

Tomorrow it will be legal to possess, use, and home-grow marijuana for Massachusetts residents over the age of 21.

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It?s official: Marijuana will be legal at midnight

The Governor?s Council formally certified the results of Question 4 Wednesday afternoon.

A blustery cold front with bitterly low temperatures will hit New England Thursday and Friday.

Extreme cold to sweep into region Thursday night

The freezing weather could usher in dangerous, below-zero wind chills.

Fed hikes rates and sees more to come

The Fed signaled that additional rate increases will likely be made slowly.

The first-ever feline-friendly ?cafe? could open in Boston this spring.

Boston is finally getting a cat ?cafe?

The city approved plans for a cat cafe in Brighton, though food will not be prepared at the establishment.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/MHRD_14wall01_met.jpg A literal wall for women who want to become officers

A five-foot climbing wall at the center of the lawsuit is still in place ? a barrier to entry, critics say, to a career that has long struggled with a lack of diversity.

Lasers hit 6 aircraft, including Boston MedFlight helicopter

The helicopter was struck while landing at Mass. General Hospital.

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Businesses and other organizations will have to pay an estimated $2.3 million to put up the signs.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 12: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) listens as Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee November 12, 2013 in Washington, DC. Cordray testified before the committee on the topic on

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Yvonne Abraham

From Senator Warren, an explanation

?I think I took it too far,? Warren said in an interview about her ?heated? Facebook post blasting Whitney Tilson.

Elizabeth Warren at UMass Boston last month.

Warren gets spot on Armed Services Committee

Senator Elizabeth Warren has landed a high-profile perch on one of the US Senate?s most powerful committees.

Love Letters

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With dreams of being a wife and mother, should she stay with the love of her life?

The transition to Trump

JOAN VENNOCHI

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In a quest to become national intelligence director, Carly Fiorina is looking past any sexism she experienced first-hand from Donald Trump.

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Trump tries for positive tone at meeting with tech execs

Donald Trump called the tech executives gathered at Trump Tower ?a truly amazing group of people.?

President-elect Donald Trump tosses a 'Make America Great Again' hat into the crowd while speaking at the Dow Chemical Hangar in Baton Rouge on Dec. 9.

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Donald Trump leaving his critics in the dust

Trump?s critics view him as uninformed, but they miss the can-do qualities the American people crave in their president.

Names

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Former ?Saturday Night Live? star Taran Killam will be getting plenty of live performances next year.

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The last piano leaves Piano Row?for now

M. Steinert & Sons is relocating to a temporary store in Park Square after 120 years at its Boylston Street building, which is being renovated.

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The Denver linebacker wrote on The Players? Tribune about the five toughest guys he?s faced in the NFL.

Special reports

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Every doctor told the Lacey family their son would die ? except one

Pat and Dina Lacey had been parents for only a few months when doctors discovered a tumor in their new baby?s chest. Told to take their son home to die, they put their faith in a young doctor who wouldn?t accept death as the answer.

Opinion & Ideas

Renée Graham

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Trump is too vain to recognize that he?s nothing more than the easily manipulated means to Putin?s nefarious ends.

Life sciences

STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.

Investigations

The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20160923_SAMentalHealth_312.jpg The San Antonio solution

How one Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Cars

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Google's self-driving car project gets a new name

The self-driving car project that Google started seven years ago has grown into a company called Waymo, signaling its confidence that it will be able to bring robot-controlled vehicles to the masses within the next few years