No charges for operator of Christmas train that struck, killed two people

The victims were identified as Melissa Gaudette and Edwin Benitez-Figueroa.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/BORKCPIC.jpg Calling treatment ?nothing short of horrifying,? veterans groups demand VA nursing home fixes

Six national veterans groups, who together represent nearly 5 million members, say veterans who risked their lives for our country shouldn?t have to risk their lives in VA nursing homes.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/110918WiggsLowry4.jpg Rest homes closing as financial pressures mount

When it closes on Dec. 1, the financially troubled Somerville Home will become the 100th such facility in the state to shut down in the past two decades.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/03/21/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/655626150.jpg ?Wow, Mr. President, that?s a good one?: Schiff replies to Trump?s vulgar tweet

In a tweet, President Trump took aim at Rep. Adam Schiff, misspelling his name as a profanity.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/reporters-2f59424e-eb48-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09-3605-kOhB--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg White House again threatens Jim Acosta?s pass

The White House sent the CNN reporter a letter saying they had made the ??preliminary decision?? to suspend his pass when a judge?s temporary order expires.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/df1b303b984d4eefb1e9652eb202fcb6-df1b303b984d4eefb1e9652eb202fcb6-0.jpg Trump cites Finland on forest fire prevention, but Finnish president is puzzled

Sauli Niinisto isn?t sure where President Trump got the idea that raking is part of his country?s routine for managing its forests.

Talking Points AM/Larry Edelman

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Plus: Uneasy future for Mass. rest homes, Ghosn is out as Nissan chairman, and a bridge over calm waters.

Program from first World Series sells at auction for $228,780

The program is from Game 7 of the nine-game series in 1903 between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/egettysburg1117.jpg On this day in 1863: President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address

Read the text of the Gettysburg Address as inscribed on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/orbey111818rhodes1met.jpg 7 new Rhodes scholars have ties to New England

They were among 32 who won the prestigious award to study at Oxford University next fall.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ludlow.jpg Knife-wielding Ludlow man assaults woman speaking to police

Ernest Marasa was arrested after he allegedly yelled at a woman while brandishing a knife as the woman was speaking to police about an unrelated matter, officials said.

Alicia Restrepo was found fatally shot in her car on Oct. 15. She was 24.

WBZ-TV/Globe staff illustration

8 killings, 11 days, and the last to die was Alicia

It was a stunning cluster of shootings even for a part of the city that knows violence too well.

Zach (left) and Luke Maffeo pose for a portrait in their home. The twin brothers will play each other on Thanksgiving day.

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TARA SULLIVAN

Maffeo vs. Maffeo: Twin brothers, opposing QBs, and a new layer to a Thanksgiving rivalry

Luke and Zach Maffeo, the starting QBs at O?Bryant and Latin Academy, respectively, will share the field as opponents before sharing the table as family on Thanksgiving.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/30/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Lee102818bosbuff15spts.jpg Tom Brady weighs in on his award-winning 8th-grade acting career

?It was the Wizard of Oz, and I was the Cowardly Lion,? Brady said. ?The lion?s a pretty big character in that particular show.?

Lawrence, MA--9/13/2018-- Workers stage at Columbia Gas of Massachusetts in Lawrence. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: Reporter:

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Editorial

Mass. should mandate federal safety board recommendations on gas

The state needs to act on recommendations from the NTSB as well as end the moratoriums on new gas hookups.

Michael Dwyer/AP

THOMAS GAGEN

Don?t run, Senator Warren, don?t run

Elizabeth Warren would face problems inherent in the Massachusetts political culture if she runs.

travel

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Millions of people will be on the roads and in the air. If you?re going to be one of them, there are ways to be smart about it.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Boghosian_traffic1_MET.jpg Here are the best and worst times to leave to avoid Thanksgiving traffic

If the predictions from the experts are any indication, Thanksgiving traffic this year will be worse than last year. Here?s are the best and worst times to leave.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tlumacki_plimouth%20plantation_metro2784.jpg Thursday could be the coldest Thanksgiving on record

The coldest Thanksgiving recorded was November 28, 1901, when the high was 24 degrees, but this Thursday could set a new record.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse19potcustomers1.jpg Meet the first legal recreational marijuana customers in Massachusetts: a pair of veterans

Iraq veteran and medical marijuana advocate Stephen Mandile and Northampton Mayor and Air Force veteran David Narkewicz will make the legal pot purchases on Tuesday.

YOUR TV GPS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/AFP_1A73MN.jpg What to watch: A comic genius, an intriguing le Carré miniseries, and a great ?Escape?

Critic Matthew Gilbert guides you through this week in television.

?America needs to be careful? says John Oliver on ?Last Week Tonight? season finale

In his show?s season finale, John Oliver asked his audience to be vigilant against those who have authoritarian impulses ? including, he said, President Trump.

Special reports

Globe Magazine

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My wife, Laura Levis, did everything she could to save herself when the asthma attack began. She went to Somerville Hospital and called 911, too. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?

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Aerial photos show devastation from Calif. wildfires

At least 56 people have lost their lives in California?s deadliest wildfire.