Ruth Bader Ginsburg has cancerous growths removed from lung

The surgery comes weeks after the 85-year-old Justice, who leads the Supreme Court?s liberal wing, fractured ribs in a fall in her office.

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Amid the fond farewells and the upbeat flourishes, departing members sounded alarms about the state of Congress and the nation.

President Donald Trump (left) with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (right) in June.

Analysis

As Mattis leaves, President Trump?s guardrails come off

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis?s abrupt resignation Thursday marks the end of the ?contain and control? phase of President Trump?s administration.

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Samuel Little provided so much detailed information about where he met the woman, how he murdered her, and where he murdered her, that authorities are certain he did in fact kill her.

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The first day of winter brings heavy rain, 45 mile per hour wind gusts, and coastal flooding for the Boston area. The temperature at Logan Airport hit 63 degrees at 12:37 p.m.

Grinch in hooded jacket slashes Natick family?s inflatable Christmas decorations

A Grinch wearing a hooded jacket slashed several inflatable holiday decorations in Natick on Wednesday night, according to police.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/12/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/cambridge.JPG Surveillance video released in hopes of identifying man involved in suspected assault at McDonald?s

Cambridge police are looking to identify a man who physically threw another man out of a McDonald?s restaurant in Cambridge Wednesday afternoon.

Globe journalist Carrie Blazina on Jeopardy.

I was on ?Jeopardy!? Here?s what it was like

Globe journalist Carrie Blazina appeared on Jeopardy! Thursday night and offered a first-person perspective on what it?s like to be on the storied game show.

Starts & Stops

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Transit officials are considering linking the Newburyport/Rockport commuter lines with the Fitchburg Line, somewhere just north of North Station.

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, leaves the US Capitol as he goes to the White House to discuss to discuss the Funding Bill and the importance of Border Security, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, December 21, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

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Senate preps for a likely doomed vote on funding bill

President Donald Trump tried to build a case that Democrats would be responsible for a government shutdown while encouraging the GOP to use the ?nuclear option? to pass the bill.

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President Trump?s sophomore year is coming to a close with a news cycle that has been bruising and dramatic even by the standards of his freewheeling presidency.

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Recently, the pace of events surrounding the Trump administration feels like it?s accelerating.

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With back-to-back scandals plaguing the company this year, those who never joined social media platform think they made the right decision.

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The public adored Barry Maiden?s Hungry Mother restaurant. Then he closed it and vanished.

FILE -- President Donald Trump meets with his Cabinet, at the White House in Washington, Oct 17, 2018. Even for some Republicans, the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was a deeply unsettling prospect, especially after Trump rejected a deal to keep the government running and announced a troop withdrawal in Syria without consulting allies or warning Congress. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

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Opinion | Stephen Kinzer

Trump?s vow to pull US out of Syria is his best foreign-policy decision so far

Wherever the United States deploys troops, we stay until we get what we want. President Trump seems to recognize this as a recipe for permanent war and occupation.

Opinion | Nancy Gertner and Laurence H. Tribe

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Despite arguments to the contrary, Judge Sullivan has every right to threaten Flynn with a harsher sentence than prosecutors promised.

OPINION | CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

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Santa now has another way to know if you?ve been naughty or nice ? courtesy of a certain social media giant.

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?He was one of the nicest people you could ever meet,? Donna Harris Lewis told the Globe in an exclusive interview.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/wiggs_Practice_01.jpg Bill Belichick on Josh Gordon: ?I hope he?s able to deal with it successfully?

The Patriots coach spoke for the first time since the receiver announced his departure from the team and was suspended by the NFL.

The Big Picture

The Big Picture

The year 2018 in pictures: Part I

Photographs from January to June on a range of topics from around the world.

Special reports

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The unthinkable has been an all-too-common companion in two small neighboring towns, where six young people took their lives in the short span of 30 months. The questions keep coming: What is happening? Why? When will it stop?

Podcasts

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

Newsletters

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Follow the Celtics? quest for a title and other NBA news both on and off the court. Sign up here.

STAT

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It?s been a busy 2018 at STAT, but we still have found the time to see what other journalists are writing ? and get jealous we didn?t do it ourselves.

Love Letters: The Podcast

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In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.

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