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As states try to limit abortion access, popularity of pill method complicates debate

As the nation awaits a Supreme Court ruling that could result in abortion being outlawed in roughly half the states in the country, medication abortion is emerging as a new front in the emotional and sharply contested debate.

Lawsuit alleges MIT professor ‘groomed’ young women, ran ‘sexually charged’ lab

A woman whose sexual harassment allegation forced a prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor to resign from a biomedical institute has filed a civil lawsuit claiming he coerced her into sex and that the laboratory he ran had a “toxic and sexually charged” environment.

ADRIAN WALKER
James Lucien was greeted as he walked out of Suffolk Superior Court a free man.
A wrongfully convicted man walks free, but the stench of police misconduct remains
James Lucien walked free because his prosecution was rotten at its core.

Judge tosses murder conviction, cites Boston police corruption in freeing man after 26 years

GARY WASHBURN | LAKERS 117, CELTICS 102
Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum went up for a dunk during the first half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers on Dec. 7, 2021, in Los Angeles.
In disappointing loss against the Lakers, only Jayson Tatum and Robert Williams showed up ready for the challenge
The loss was an old-fashioned kick in the butt, where the Celtics were constantly gashed defensively by vintage performances from LeBron James and Russell Westbrook.

Snow flurries fall along Commonwealth Ave.
Forecast | Dave Epstein

Our first snow of the season will be followed by a burst of warmth

The first snow of the season always gets people talking. But so do 60-degree days in December. Greater Boston is in store for a bit of both over the next couple of weeks.
The roughly three-feet long alligator shortly after if was captured in the Westfield River.

Alligator rescued from Westfield River by a local fisherman

“I saw the snout come up out of the water and my jaw dropped. I really didn’t think I was gonna see it. Like, what are the odds?” said local fisherman Jeremy White.
The bar area at Guy Fieri’s Kitchen & Bar.

At Guy Fieri’s new Theater District restaurant, gluttony takes center stage

Celebrity chef and TV host Guy Fieri, who has elevated junk food to an art form, opens Guy Fieri’s Kitchen & Bar on Thursday in the old Explorateur Café space overlooking Boston Common. In true Fieri tradition, the menu reads like Mad Libs.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

In Mass., authorities can take your money. Or your car. Or your shoes.

The Commonwealth has the lowest burden of proof in the nation for district attorneys to seize money and property that they think might be connected to the commission of a crime.
Traffic on the Massachusetts Turnpike on Nov. 12.
Timmons Roberts

Who killed the TCI?
The conservative radio host Alex Jones addresses the "Rally to Save America" in Washington on Jan. 5, 2021, the evening before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol.
Scot Lehigh

Courts reveal truths, rogues, rascals
Pallbearers, who were among only 10 allowed mourners, walked the casket for internment at the funeral for Larry Hammond, who died from the coronavirus, at Mount Olivet Cemetery in New Orleans, April 22, 2020.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Don’t look away from 800,000 dead from COVID-19
Mourners gather near a makeshift memorial at Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., on Dec. 1, one day after four students were fatally shot and seven injured.
LETTERS

Another school shooting, another chance to ask why
Mass. coronavirus at a glance
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Kinesha Goldson and Sofi Madison are sisterhood and self-love: Black Girl Magic.
A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt

What we mean by Black Girl Magic

Black women are not mythical. Nor superhuman. Our magic is in our realness, our love, and the way we rally around one another.
See more from A Beautiful Resistance Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

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Tod Mott.
The legend of Mott the Lesser
For nearly three decades, Tod Mott has been making one of the most sought-after beers in the world. This is the story of that beer.

MOVIE REVIEW | ★★★½
The dance at the gym from "West Side Story."
Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated remake of ‘West Side Story’ is a triumph
Spielberg’s maximalist, go-big-or-go-home aesthetic captures the pulse rate of the stage musical in a way the Oscar-winning 1961 film version failed to do.

Movie review: ‘Don’t Look Up’ is coming soon, to a planet near you

The Red Sox have two more years of control of third baseman Rafael Devers before he becomes a free agent at 27.
Examining the issues in the MLB standoff: Compensating younger players
The union is seeking a higher minimum wage, fewer ways to manipulate service time, and a reduction in the time it takes to be eligible for arbitration and free agency.

T says it doesn’t have enough drivers, will have to cut bus service starting Dec. 19

Already this fall, the MBTA has been canceling about one of every 20 scheduled bus trips because it lacks the drivers to operate them, the agency said.

Amazon Network Services outage leads to cancellation of parking tickets, shuts down local services in Boston

Amazon Web Services, which provides cloud computing services to many companies, governments, and universities, experienced a major outage on Tuesday that disrupted access to websites and electronic services.

Weekly averages of COVID-19 detected in Boston wastewater reach highest levels yet

The weekly averages reported Tuesday surpass levels reached during last winter’s COVID-19 surge.

Best of the holidays

The 80th annual Christmas tree lighting event was held on the Boston Common Dec 2.

Boston is dressed in its wintery best. Here’s where to see Christmas trees, menorahs, and other holiday decorations

It’s that time of year where every walk around the block feels like a stroll through a storybook, and we want to connect readers to all the best spots around Boston to revel in the holiday spirit.
20 family-friendly events to put you in the holiday spirit 10 TV shows that bring the holidays home Shop local gift guide: 30 ideas from New England stores and makers
Globe Santa

A home in ashes, a family begins anew

“In March, our home burned down and we were left homeless with nothing but what was on our backs,” reads a letter to Globe Santa. “We lost everything.”

LEARN MORE ABOUT GLOBE SANTA

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Some of the paintings gifted to Boston College by Peter Lynch: A Winslow Homer painting (left) a Martin Johnson Heade (center top) a Pablo Picasso (center bottom) and Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Child, right.

Boston College museum receives $20m gift of art from Peter Lynch

Lynch’s gift to BC’s McMullen Museum of Art includes works by Pablo Picasso, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Mary Cassatt.

Shootings and homicides are down in Boston this year compared to 2020.
Shootings and homicides are down in Boston this year, defying national trends
Through Sunday, Boston had 38 homicides for the year, down from 53 for the same time period last year. It’s a dip from the city’s five-year-average of 51 killings a year.

Julia Bonzanini worked on antibody production at Adimab in Lebanon, N.H. Waltham-based Adagio Therapeutics was spun out of the company.
In the long war against COVID, this Waltham biotech is designing a way to fight all variants
The Omicron variant has driven home the reality that COVID-19 may be with us for a long time. But one of New England’s leading biotech thinkers is pursuing a new way to fight it.

Jerry Rappaport left his mark on the city's neighborhoods and skyline.
Jerome Rappaport, philanthropist and civic leader who shaped Boston and its institutions, dies at 94
Mr. Rappaport had been changing Boston’s history since helping to defeat Mayor James Michael Curley in 1949.

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Culture & Lifestyle

A scene from "Apple Cinema" shows Boston under attack.

An empty Cambridge movie theater is just what this filmmaker needed to create a zombie apocalypse
Mariah Carey offered to replace Ayanna Pressley's missing copy of the singer's Christmas album on Twitter on Friday morning.

All Ayanna Pressley wants for Christmas is her Mariah Carey album returned

The set of actress Margot Robbie's video for "73 Questions," a Vogue video series where Boston College alumnus Joe Sabia asks celebrities 73 rapid-fire questions.

The guy from ‘73 Questions’ answers 73 questions
Olympic figure skater Ashley Wagner

Olympic figure skater Ashley Wagner is back on the ice, on her own terms

Special Projects

The 2021 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

Is your employer among the 150 companies to make the list?
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.
Special Report

In Harm’s Way

Vehicle rammings against protesters are on the rise, but the justice system often sides with drivers

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Caroline McDonald (left) a student at Georgetown University, Lauren Morrissey, with Catholics for Choice, and Pamela Huber, of Washington, join an abortion-rights rally outside the Supreme Court on Nov. 1.
Joan Vennochi

From Texas to Massachusetts for an abortion
Jamel Davis stands in front of his tent in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood in San Francisco, on April 17. He said his girlfriend died from a fentanyl overdose.
John E. Rosenthal

Why isn’t the US treating the overdose epidemic like the public health emergency it is?
Photos of murdered transgender women and men at the 3rd annual Queer Liberation March in New York June 27, 2021.
RENÉE GRAHAM

In 2021, another devastating record for deadly anti-transgender violence
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a ceremony to receive credentials from foreign ambassadors in Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 1.
Sheldon Whitehouse

Summit for Democracy will follow the money

During the trial on Nov. 9, Mark Richards, Kyle Rittenhouse's lead attorney (left) and Kenosha Police Department Detective Ben Antaramian looked at the weapon Rittenhouse used on the night of Aug. 25, 2020.
Cynthia Lee

When it comes to guns and claims of self-defense, juries need guidance
Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Joe Biden, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

What if a new New Deal was coming and no one noticed?

Metro

Coronavirus Live Updates

Antibody treatment found effective against Omicron variant

The latest news and guidance on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in New England and beyond.

Water woes wash over the Ocean State

Officials with the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, an independent state agency whose job is to help make that a reality, recently took the Globe on a tour of the coastline they are responsible for regulating.

Alligator rescued from Westfield River by a local fisherman

“I saw the snout come up out of the water and my jaw dropped. I really didn’t think I was gonna see it. Like, what are the odds?” said local fisherman Jeremy White.

Lawsuit alleges MIT professor ‘groomed’ young women, ran ‘sexually charged’ lab

A woman whose sexual harassment allegation forced a prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor to resign from a biomedical institute has filed a civil lawsuit claiming he coerced her into sex and that the laboratory he ran had a “toxic and sexually charged” environment.

Sports

Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum went up for a dunk during the first half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers on Dec. 7, 2021, in Los Angeles.
GARY WASHBURN | LAKERS 117, CELTICS 102

In disappointing loss against the Lakers, only Jayson Tatum and Robert Williams showed up ready for the challenge

The loss was an old-fashioned kick in the butt, where the Celtics were constantly gashed defensively by vintage performances from LeBron James and Russell Westbrook.
The Lakers' Anthony Davis drives between Celtics guards Dennis Schröder (71) and Marcus Smart (36).
Lakers 117, Celtics 102

Celtics can’t keep up and fall to Lakers

LeBron James led the Lakers with 30 points, and Russell Westbrook added 24 points and 11 assists.
Mac Jones and the Patriots now lead the AFC.

Taking a look at the AFC playoff picture after a wild Week 13

The Patriots — along with the Steelers, Chargers, and Titans — were among the big movers this past week. Meanwhile, the Ravens, Bengals, and Bills all took a tumble.
Celtics notebook

Celtics guard Aaron Nesmith searching for a confidence boost
NFL NOTEBOOK

Marlon Humphrey the latest big loss to befall reeling Baltimore
SPORTS LOG

UConn’s Paige Bueckers to miss 6-8 weeks with knee injury

Business

State Street remains a ‘consolidator’ as it regains the top spot in its industry

With the pending $3.5 billion acquisition of Brown Brothers Harriman's investment services unit, Boston-based State Street is becoming “too big to acquire.”

Amazon Network Services outage leads to cancellation of parking tickets, shuts down local services in Boston

Amazon Web Services, which provides cloud computing services to many companies, governments, and universities, experienced a major outage on Tuesday that disrupted access to websites and electronic services.

Pfizer vaccine gives partial protection against Omicron in early study

Significant Amazon outage slows websites, delays packages

STAT

Dr. Monica McLemore, Associate Professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department at UCSF, stands for a portrait at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Friday, September 10th, 2021 in Oakland, Calif.
‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities
A STAT investigation shows that researchers with little or no background or training in health equity research are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.

Covid winter illustration
Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms
STAT spoke with infectious disease experts and others about what to expect from Covid-19 as the seasons change.

Funeral goers sing during a service for Daisy Pace at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in January 2021.
DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South
Photographer Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities in the South.

Boston, MA -- 05/12/21 -- Dr. Matthew Carty examines patient Jerry Majethic at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital on May 12, 2021, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real
The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.

magazine
Efforts to make companies more equitable have gone “way past the business case,” says Sara Nochur, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
Top Places to Work

Talk about diversity and inclusion is easy. These companies are putting in the real work
CONNECTIONS

Even Robert's Rules can't keep order in our family. We've tried
Sarah F. and David R.
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: "Talking about food was a great icebreaker"
Urban Nutcracker celebrates its 20th anniversary season at the Shubert Theatre.
YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do in and around Boston, Dec. 6-19

metro

Demonstrators with abortion pills protested in front of the Supreme Court last week.

As states try to limit abortion access, popularity of pill method complicates debate

Senator Mendes and others have slept in tents outside the R.I. State House for a week. Now, a storm is coming

A Somali-American woman is now mayor of South Portland, Maine, a first for the country

sports

Damien Harris and the rest of the Patriots rushing attack had the likes of Ted Karras (center) backing them up all night on Monday.

Ground extremes in windy Buffalo lead to an intriguing snap breakdown for Patriots

Bruins are bracing for a tough three-game trip through Canada

Taylor Twellman happy that being honored by The Tradition gives his Revolution teams a chance to shine

business

Julia Bonzanini worked on antibody production at Adimab in Lebanon, N.H. Waltham-based Adagio Therapeutics was spun out of the company.

In the long war against COVID, this Waltham biotech is designing a way to fight all variants

National Grid says not ‘more than 20 gallons’ of coal tar oil spilled in Seekonk River at Tidewater Landing site

A ‘superhero’ startup gala returns in-person

politics

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters outside the White House, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington.

Jan. 6 panel threatens contempt vote after Meadows withdraws

Biden-Putin talks yield no breakthrough in Ukraine tensions

Supreme Court takes up religious rights case from Maine

Nation

President Biden on Dec. 2, 2021.

What courts have said about Biden’s vaccine mandates

Antibody treatment found effective against Omicron variant

Jan. 6 panel threatens contempt vote after Meadows withdraws

World

Members of parliament congratulated Olaf Scholz, center, after he was elected new German Chancellor in the German Parliament Bundestag in Berlin on Dec. 8, 2021.

Scholz succeeds Merkel as German chancellor, opening new era

Chile legalizes same-sex marriage at fraught political moment

Countries weigh whether to join diplomatic boycott of Olympics

opinion

A woman is vaccinated against COVID-19 at the Hillbrow Clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Dec. 6.

No one taught me that epidemiology is political — but it is

From Texas to Massachusetts for an abortion

Summit for Democracy will follow the money

lifestyle

The Winner, #7, was a Green Circle Chicken from D'Artagnan, the favorite among nine chickens. Free-range Green Circle chickens are raised by 17 farmers in Amish country in Pennsylvania.

So, who rules the roost?

Battle of the birds

Recipe: Glazed Cornish hens with citrus and honey make a fine party dish

food & dining

The Winner, #7, was a Green Circle Chicken from D'Artagnan, the favorite among nine chickens. Free-range Green Circle chickens are raised by 17 farmers in Amish country in Pennsylvania.

So, who rules the roost?

Battle of the birds

Recipe: Glazed Cornish hens with citrus and honey make a fine party dish

travel

A nearly empty shopping district in Seoul. A vast majority of Chinese tourists are staying home because of the coronavirus epidemic.

When the biggest spenders aren’t coming back any time soon

Omicron is here. Should you cancel your trip?

Shopping in R.I.: Check out these great holiday markets

Arts

Some of the paintings gifted to Boston College by Peter Lynch: A Winslow Homer painting (left) a Martin Johnson Heade (center top) a Pablo Picasso (center bottom) and Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Child, right.

Boston College museum receives $20m gift of art from Peter Lynch

In new exhibit at Beacon Gallery, Caron Tabb explores privilege — and the past — with mixed results

Art school confidential

Books

The mystery of Garbo

At the bottom of the bottle in ‘Bright Burning Things’

A neuroscientist on the science of reading

Movies

From left: Cate Blanchett, Tyler Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jennifer Lawrence in "Don't Look Up."

‘Don’t Look Up’ is coming soon, to a planet near you

Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated remake of ‘West Side Story’ is a triumph

🧙🏻‍♀️The latest on ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ in Rhode Island

Television

Chris Cuomo.

This week’s TV: Chris Cuomo’s gone, the ‘Sex and the City’ revival is here, and two retro sitcoms go live

GBH puts ‘Talking Politics’ in old ‘Beat the Press’ time slot

The 10 best TV shows of 2021 (and 10 more that almost cracked the list)

music

Drake at the Billboard Music Awards in May.

Drake withdraws 2 Grammy nominations from final ballot

Olivia Rodrigo announces Boston date for 2022 ‘Sour’ world tour

Julian Lage Trio stretches out at Berklee Performance Center

Theater/Dance

Matthew Aucoin posed for a photo outside the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Nov. 28, 2021.

Matthew Aucoin’s adventures in opera

Idina Menzel stars in ‘WILD’ at the ART in Cambridge — a show that imagines the world in better hands

In Arlekin Players’ ‘Witness,’ there’s nowhere for Jews to call home

globe local

Newton city councilors Susan Albright and Rick Lipof.

Albright, Lipoff reelected to lead Newton City Council

Brookline teen helps pass Town Meeting animal fur ban

Pop-up retailers are on the rise around Greater Boston

Obituaries

Jerry Rappaport left his mark on the city's neighborhoods and skyline.

Jerome Rappaport, philanthropist and civic leader who shaped Boston and its institutions, dies at 94

Philip Heymann, former Harvard Law professor and US deputy attorney general, dies at 89

Robert Dole, presidential candidate and stalwart of Republican Party, dies at 98