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Jan. 6 committee says it will move to hold former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol said it is preparing to hold Mark Meadows, former president Donald Trump’s chief of staff, in criminal contempt for not complying with the panel’s subpoena.

Parties? Concerts? Big family meals? Six experts share what they’re comfortable doing this holiday season

We asked experts about their holiday plans in regards to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19: THE LATEST

Booster vaccine dose is effective against Omicron variant, Pfizer says

‘Should we just send one to every American?’: Psaki faces backlash over response to whether rapid tests should be mailed to all

White House press secretary Jen Psaki's response came as parts of the US face a new surge in COVID cases as the weather cools and people gather indoors, and after a worrisome new variant was detected in several states.

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” environment.
A rendering of 100 Forge, a nine-story life sciences building in Watertown's Arsenal Yards that is fully leased before its completion.

More life science companies are heading to Watertown

Five drug startups have signed leases to fill a building still under construction at the site of the old Arsenal Mall.
A handful of employees back at work in Kayak's Cambridge office.
Innovation economy

Local tech firms try find a balance between WFH and the office

Some companies are encouraging in-person collaboration while maintaining flexibility.
Anaheim Ducks center Trevor Zegras lifted the puck on his stick as he prepared to deliver a pass to his teammate.

Watch: Former Boston University forward Trevor Zegras pulls off amazing assist for Anaheim Ducks

Zegras scooped the puck onto the blade of his stick behind the net and lobbed it over goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen’s head, where Sonny Milano batted it past Luukkonen’s glove for a goal.
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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Death of infant in Everett under investigation by prosecutors and police
Authorities are investigating the death of a nine-month old infant who fell ill at an Everett home the day after Thanksgiving and who died six days later at Boston Children’s Hospital, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan’s office.

Two men dead after double shooting outside Worcester bar
Authorities are investigating the deaths of two men who were found bleeding from gunshot wounds outside a Worcester bar early Wednesday.

Student at Milton school mistakes phone charger for weapon, sparking lockdown

Pierce Middle School in Milton briefly went into lockdown Wednesday morning after a student saw a staff member pull out a phone charger and mistook the device for a weapon, officials said.

Opening statements begin in trial of Kim Potter, former Minnesota police officer who killed Daunte Wright

Kim Potter, 49, who is charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in Daunte Wright’s death, has said she meant to use her Taser on the 20-year-old Wright during a traffic stop, but that she grabbed her handgun instead.

An employee at the Natick Mall Wayfair store that closed in 2020
Furniture e-commerce giant Wayfair will get back into brick and mortar
The stores will feature items for the tabletop, bedding, bath, as well as seasonal products, that customers can purchase in the store or for home delivery.

Analysis
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Potential GOP presidential candidates have been quietly visiting New Hampshire all year
On Wednesday, former vice president Mike Pence will make his second trip to the state this year.

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.”

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James Lucien was greeted as he walked out of Suffolk Superior Court a free man.
ADRIAN WALKER

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.

Jason Shaw, who chairs the Rockport Planning Board, at the commuter rail station.
With a new requirement to build housing near train stations, towns brace for density — and drama
The measure is one of the most ambitious housing laws to clear Beacon Hill in years. But months later, many details — like how much housing, exactly how close to the T, and how much should be affordable — remain unclear.

Deqa Dhalac, photographed at her home in South Portland in 2018.
A Somali-American woman is now mayor of South Portland, Maine, a first for the country
Deqa Dhalac, the first Black person and first Muslim elected to City Council in South Portland, Maine, in 2018, has now become mayor. She is also believed to be the first Somali-American to hold such a role in the country.

Medford City Hall
Medford mayor apologizes for menorah display at City Hall that offended Jewish community
Medford Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn on Tuesday apologized for the “appalling error” made by her office last week, when a City Hall menorah display outraged members of the local Jewish community for its anti-Semitic presentation that included Christian terminology.

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Culture & Lifestyle

From left: Scott Martino, Taryn Lane, Gina Carmela, Ryan Landry, Corey Desjardins, and Gary Croteau in "A Grinchley Christmas Carol."
STAGE REVIEW

A tradition continues, uproariously, with Ryan Landry’s ‘A Grinchley Christmas Carol’
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

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

HOMELESSNESS

Crossroads R.I. receives nearly $500k from Providence’s ARPA funds to begin homelessness intervention

The Rhode Island Foundation will also give $100,000 to the new Healthy and Safe Providence Fund if corporate, institutional, and private donors commit $20,000 to it by Dec. 31.
SHORE ACCESS

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.
Coronavirus Live Updates

Booster vaccine dose is effective against Omicron variant, Pfizer says

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

Mass. cannabis company bakes 850-pound pot brownie

The massive confection is 3-feet-by-3-feet square, 15 inches tall, and contains 20,000 mg of THC.

Sports

Anaheim Ducks center Trevor Zegras lifted the puck on his stick as he prepared to deliver a pass to his teammate.
NHL

Watch: Former Boston University forward Trevor Zegras pulls off amazing assist for Anaheim Ducks

Zegras scooped the puck onto the blade of his stick behind the net and lobbed it over goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen’s head, where Sonny Milano batted it past Luukkonen’s glove for a goal.
The competitive balance tax is a tool designed to allow smaller-market teams — such as the Royals and Athletics — to compete on a level equal to that of large-market teams.
baseball

Examining the issues in MLB standoff: Competitive balance tax

The CBT — or luxury tax — is a sticking point, but to this point both sides have seemed willing to compromise on it.
Workers stand atop a building at the Big Air venue for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

UK to ‘effectively’ boycott Beijing Winter Olympics

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says no government minister will attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, calling it “effectively” a diplomatic boycott.
GARY WASHBURN | LAKERS 117, CELTICS 102

In disappointing loss to Lakers, only Jayson Tatum and Robert Williams showed up ready for the challenge
Lakers 117, Celtics 102

‘Our defense was horrible from the start.’ The Celtics’ game plan was flawed, and that’s why they lost

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

Business

Innovation economy

Local tech firms try find a balance between WFH and the office

Some companies are encouraging in-person collaboration while maintaining flexibility.

More life science companies are heading to Watertown

Five drug startups have signed leases to fill a building still under construction at the site of the old Arsenal Mall.

4.2 million Americans quit their jobs in October, as workers search for better opportunities

Newpath Partners raises $350 million for second life science fund

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

Then-Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor listens during a House Committee on Homeland Security meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 22, 2020, on the national response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Peter Gaynor is back in Rhode Island - and now he’s joining a prominent defense industry board

The Questions featuring Thaddeus Miles

Disability should not mean invisibility

sports

The Celtics' Aaron Nesmith was 3 for 4 from beyond the arc in Boston’s win over the Trail Blazers on Saturday, a big improvement for a player who came to this road trip with just eight made 3-pointers all season.

Celtics guard Aaron Nesmith searching for a confidence boost

Marlon Humphrey the latest big loss to befall reeling Baltimore

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

business

An employee at the Natick Mall Wayfair store that closed in 2020

Furniture e-commerce giant Wayfair will get back into brick and mortar

Third vaccine dose neutralizes Omicron variant, Pfizer says

With $3.5B acquisition, State Street makes clear it’s not going anywhere

politics

Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins, photographed in her office.

Senate deadlocks on procedural vote on Rachael Rollins’ US attorney nomination, so Vice President Harris will have to break tie

Potential GOP presidential candidates have been quietly visiting New Hampshire all year

Jan. 6 panel threatens contempt vote after Meadows withdraws

Nation

Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins, photographed in her office.

Senate deadlocks on procedural vote on Rachael Rollins’ US attorney nomination, so Vice President Harris will have to break tie

Booster vaccine dose is effective against Omicron variant, Pfizer says

COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations spike even as US reaches milestone of 200 million people fully vaccinated

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

A film crew pushed a vehicle up Dwight Street in Boston's South End during a shooting scene for "Boston Strangler."

Dispatches from ‘Boston Strangler’ set: Filming continues in the South End

Here are 10 of the season’s best cookbooks, for giving or keeping

So, who rules the roost?

food & dining

Cover of "Black Food," edited by Bryant Terry.

Here are 10 of the season’s best cookbooks, for giving or keeping

So, who rules the roost?

We roasted and taste tested 9 chickens — most from local supermarkets. Here’s which one is best

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

A film crew pushed a vehicle up Dwight Street in Boston's South End during a shooting scene for "Boston Strangler."

Dispatches from ‘Boston Strangler’ set: Filming continues in the South End

‘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

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

Adam Kerry Boyles is one of four candidates in the running to take over as music director of New England Philharmonic.

A strong showing from New England Philharmonic’s first music director hopeful, Adam Kerry Boyles

Drake withdraws 2 Grammy nominations from final ballot

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

Theater/Dance

From left: Scott Martino, Taryn Lane, Gina Carmela, Ryan Landry, Corey Desjardins, and Gary Croteau in "A Grinchley Christmas Carol."

A tradition continues, uproariously, with Ryan Landry’s ‘A Grinchley Christmas Carol’

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

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