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Biogen whistle-blower who received $266 million said people who report wrongdoing are ‘an anomaly’

Michael Bawduniak received $266.4 million last month as a result of a federal whistle-blower lawsuit he filed in 2012 against Biogen.

White House rebukes Trump’s suggestion to suspend Constitution over 2020 election

The White House issued a stern rebuke on Saturday after former president Donald Trump suggested suspending the Constitution in his ongoing crusade to discredit the results of the 2020 election.

Antiabortion forces push local bans in states with legal access

In the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, some antiabortion activists are ramping up the fight to restrict abortion rights at the ground level by pushing local-level regulations in municipalities across the country.

It’s OK to diss the Nazis

Kanye. Elon. Trump. This holy trinity, lionized by the GOP, are going to Make Antisemitism Great Again.

Antisemitic celebrities stoke fears of normalizing hate

Keke Palmer addresses pregnancy rumors in Saturday Night Live monologue
"SNL" also featured SZA, who revealed her next album's release date, as the night's musical guest.

Suspect in murder of Marshfield couple arrested in Florida Friday night

2 dead, 5 injured in Worcester crash after car speeds away from police

Police approached demonstrators outside Boston Children's Hospital in September. The demonstrators showed up as a counter-protest to a group that was opposing the hospital providing gender affirmation surgeries and hormonal treatments.

Boston Children’s faced months of death threats and hate mail. Here’s how the staff are coping.

The attacks come as caregivers at Children’s and beyond are already stretched thin from a surge of respiratory infections, a historic hospital capacity crisis, and several years of pandemic-induced exhaustion.

He got off Mass. and Cass. Now, he’s working to beat the odds and stay sober.
Addiction has been a long, dark path for Josh Kivlehan, but now he has hope he can remain clean for good.

Royal visit in Boston ends with a glittering finish
The Prince and Princess of Wales continued their whirlwind tour of Boston on Friday, while President Biden flew up from Washington and celebrities galore came for the Earthshot Prize ceremony.

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Guests attended The Earthshot Prize Awards at the MGM Music Hall in Boston on Friday.

Earthshot Prize Awards in Boston was an entertaining evening

The 90-minute ceremony, which capped a three-day royal visit to Greater Boston, will air on the BBC and PBS in the coming days.

Despite Thursday's ugly loss to the Bills, the playoffs are still within reach for Mac Jones and the Patriots.

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Patriots cut corners to get the team back on top, and now they’re falling apart

The Patriots violated a well-established NFL maxim in 2021 when they rebuilt through free agency, following one down year without Tom Brady.

Breaking down an incredible slate of NFL games in Week 13

Coach Joe Mazzulla has the NBA-leading Celtics pointed in the right direction at 18-5.

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NBA-best Celtics hit the road with a target on their backs and room to improve on a six-game trip

Coach Joe Mazzulla has his work cut out on a journey that starts in Brooklyn and includes tough tests stops out West in Phoenix and at Golden State.

The Bruins took a 3-0 lead as David Pastrnak connected for two goals, including this top- shelf shot off a breakaway in the second period when he beat Avalanche goaltender Pavel Francouz.

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Bruins overwhelm Avalanche to win 14th straight at home

David Pastrnak and Trent Frederic scored two goals each in the Bruins's devastating attack against the defending Stanley Cup champions.

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Half of workers tie their employer’s climate action to job satisfaction. These companies get it.

Alexia Pico has a dance lesson with instructor Marc Bertrand at Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Dedham in early November. Each month, Kymera Therapeutics gives its employees a $125 "wellness stipend," which Pico spends on ballroom dance lessons and a personal trainer.

The pandemic destroyed work-life balance. But it’s not broken forever.

There are ways to conquer ‘vacation guilt’ in the always-on American workplace

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Opinion

An oil jack in the Orinoco Belt of Venezuela in May 2018.

Biden’s new, common-sense approach to Venezuelan oil

Conditions attached to the deal should ensure that revenues from Venezuela’s oil go toward easing the country’s humanitarian catastrophe.

‘I want people to realize that violence against trans people . . . is real, and it’s an epidemic’

No, Justice Barrett should not recuse herself from same-sex marriage case

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Why racism is a public health crisis

Dr. Monica Wang breaks down a U.C. Berkeley study linking racism in a community to higher risk of heart disease deaths among both Black and White members of the community.

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Michael Burke and Samantha Perry, both 38, are facing charges after a 37-year-old man was found dead Friday inside their Coburn Street home, where he was allegedly restrained and held against his will, authorities said late Saturday night.

Police identify pilot killed in Falmouth plane crash, wife hospitalized with serious injuries

Carl Willis and his wife Candace "Candy" Oldham were returning from a day trip to Westfield they were taking with several other couples who loved to fly. Willis was remembered as kind and "always very friendly."

Bridge dedicated in honor of Weymouth police officer shot to death in 2018

As steady showers of rain moved through the area Saturday, state officials, including Governor Charlie Baker, Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito, and Transportation Secretary Jamey Tesler, gathered under a white tent to unveil a new sign and officially dedicate the Sergeant Michael C. Chesna First Responders Bridge.

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“The rats are absolutely going to hate this announcement. But the rats don’t run this city; we do.”

Iran suspends morality police unit that sparked major protests
The operations of Iran’s “morality police” have effectively been suspended after months of massive anti-government protests over the death of a young woman in its custody, a top official said.

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Don Byron returns to New England Conservatory, where he was a student in the early 1980s, for a performance at Jordan Hall on Dec. 8.

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Britain's Prince William and Kate, Princess of Wales, watch the Celtics play the Miami Heat on Nov. 30 in Boston.

Let’s face it: We Americans want our own royals

A law enforcement officer placed an eviction notice in the doorway of an apartment in Springfield in 2020.

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A cyclist navigates traffic and parked vehicles within a poorly-painted bike lane on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square in June 2022.

Blue Hill Avenue is choking on traffic. Here’s a way to unclog it.

Auto show attendees look at the VF6 all-electric vehicle from Vietnamese automaker Vinfast on display at the 2022 Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, Calif., on Nov. 17.

EVs are selling like hotcakes. Don’t rejoice just yet.

With hours to go until the polls closed, Tom Smith with Neighbors United for a Better East Boston was door knocking to ask people to vote yes on Questions 1 and 4.

Pollsters should look hard at their Question 1 misfire

The "Man" burns in the Black Rock desert at Burning Man.

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Bridge dedicated in honor of Weymouth police officer shot to death in 2018

As steady showers of rain moved through the area Saturday, state officials, including Governor Charlie Baker, Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito, and Transportation Secretary Jamey Tesler, gathered under a white tent to unveil a new sign and officially dedicate the Sergeant Michael C. Chesna First Responders Bridge.

Missing elderly man found safe in Concord, police say

Huanlu Wang, who only speaks Mandarin, left his home on Sachem Way in Acton on foot around noon Friday. On Saturday morning, police announced he had been located.

Boston Children’s faced months of death threats and hate mail. Here’s how the staff are coping.

The attacks come as caregivers at Children’s and beyond are already stretched thin from a surge of respiratory infections, a historic hospital capacity crisis, and several years of pandemic-induced exhaustion.

He got off Mass. and Cass. Now, he’s working to beat the odds and stay sober.

Addiction has been a long, dark path for Josh Kivlehan, but now he has hope he can remain clean for good.

Sports

Coach Deion Sanders (right) speaks with Jackson State cornerback De'Jahn Warren at Saturday night's Southwestern Athletic Conference title game. In three seasons at Jackson State, Sanders only lost five games.

College football

Deion Sanders leaves Jackson State for Colorado

With Colorado, which has posted two winning seasons since 2006, Sanders will face one of the country’s greatest rebuilding challenges.

Colston Loveland (left) hung on to a touchdown catch on Michigan's first possession of the game.

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No. 2 Michigan beats Purdue to capture Big Ten crown

College football's winningest program has the first 13-win season in school history and likely secured the No. 2 seed in the College Football Playoff.

Zdeno Chara was back on skates for the first time since his last game with the Islanders in the spring, playing on an Alumni squad in the Nathan H. Hardy Game against a Navy team.

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Bruins’ alumni game provides a first for Zdeno Chara - playing alongside Ray Bourque

"Such a legend of the sport, for the city, for the organization," Chara said of Ray Bourque. "Even if it’s a charity game for a good cause, it’s a privilege and honor.”

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Unbeaten, unbowed, Catholic Memorial defeats King Philip for second straight Division 2 Super Bowl title

Business

OPEC+ oil producers face uncertainty over Russian sanctions

The Saudi-led OPEC oil cartel and allied producing countries, including Russia, are expected to decide how much oil to supply to the global economy amid weakening demand in China and uncertainty about the impact of new Western sanctions against Russia that could take significant amounts of oil off the market.

Iran suspends morality police unit that sparked major protests

The operations of Iran’s “morality police” have effectively been suspended after months of massive anti-government protests over the death of a young woman in its custody, a top official said.

Biogen whistle-blower who received $266 million said people who report wrongdoing are ‘an anomaly’

More of your paycheck is going to pay rent. Which cities are keeping pace?

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How to get stuff done in a post-pandemic open-plan office

After reconnecting with my ex, I realize I want her back in my life

Pan-Roasted Winter Vegetables With Miso, Ginger, and Honey

Recipes: Add global flair to roasted vegetables

metro

Kanye West in New York on Sept. 12.

It’s OK to diss the Nazis

When everything that can go wrong does, parents look to Globe Santa for help

Earthshot Prize Awards in Boston was an entertaining evening

sports

Declan O’Callahan and Wakefield celebrated the Division 3 state title.

All heart, tight-knit Wakefield uses long drives to hold off potent Milton in Division 3 Super Bowl

Stetson Bennett throws four TDs passes as top-ranked Georgia rolls past LSU in SEC championship game

Boston College men’s basketball team loses to No. 17 Duke in ACC season opener

business

Oil pumping jacks were seen in an oilfield near Neftekamsk, in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, last month.

Russia rejects $60-a-barrel cap on its oil, warns of cutoffs

Molten lava on Hawaii’s Big Island could block main highway

Earthshot Prize unveils five winners at Boston ceremony

politics

Mark Dickson speaks to the Odessa City Council on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021 in Odessa, Texas.

Antiabortion forces push local bans in states with legal access

In Georgia, a heated Senate race stirs mixed emotions in Black voters

Nonreligious voters wield clout, tilt heavily Democratic

Nation

Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in the Georgia state Senate runoff election at East Point Library in East Point, Ga. on Dec. 2, 2022.

Senate campaign hits fever pitch in final days of Georgia runoff

White House rebukes Trump’s suggestion to suspend Constitution over 2020 election

Widow parts with rare emerald from 1622 shipwreck to help Ukraine

World

A protestor with red tears painted on her face during a rally in support of the demonstrations in Iran, in Toulouse, south-western France, on Dec. 3.

Iran suspends morality police unit that sparked major protests

China reports 2 new COVID deaths as some restrictions eased

After fanning COVID fears, China must now try to allay them

opinion

With hours to go until the polls closed, Tom Smith with Neighbors United for a Better East Boston was door knocking to ask people to vote yes on Questions 1 and 4.

Pollsters should look hard at their Question 1 misfire

Installing a heat pump was simple

Keep Trump off the front page

lifestyle

Pantone has selected "Viva Magenta" as its 2023 color of the year.

The Pantone 2023 color of the year is bold and very ‘90s

Both sides see high stakes in gay rights Supreme Court case

All the big names on the ‘green carpet’ at William and Kate’s Earthshot ceremony

food & dining

Guest Chef and Johnson & Wales University Board of Trustees Member Lorena Garcia, right, and her sous-chef, Grace Racho, left, prep with students for a dinner at Johnson & Wales University in Providence.

Johnson & Wales secret society dishes out a unique menu for members while mentoring future chefs

A winter relaunch for Season to Taste; Eataly hosts Globe Santa Day; Umbria returns to the North End

On Block Island, Ballard’s Beach Resort and town council agree to new round of restrictions

travel

A Chase Sapphire card

Hey, Chase Sapphire Reserve, where’s my $15,194?

When Bermuda had an identity crisis, the island turned to a Bostonian for help

‘Biguanas’ and Bogie add to the allure of this funky Florida outpost

Arts

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu arrived at The Earthshot Prize Awards MGM Music Hall at Fenway.

Guests at the Earthshot Awards were encouraged to dress sustainably. Mayor Wu understood the assignment.

Does the art world finally ‘get’ Alex Katz?

At Yale, connecting two great Britons

Books

In Jane Smiley’s latest novel, two young women navigate sex work and detective work on the frontier

Kerri Maher, author of ‘The Paris Bookseller’ and other historical novels, takes a contemporary approach to reading

In Kevin Wilson’s ‘Now Is Not the Time to Panic,’ remembering a summer of adolescent upheaval

Movies

Jan Decorte and Delphine Seyrig in "Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles."

The greatest films of all time, according to critics? ‘Jeanne Dielman,’ ‘Vertigo,’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’ make the cut

‘Sr.’ is Robert Downey Jr.’s moving tribute to his filmmaker-father

Lights! Camera! DeLillo!

Television

US actress Keke Palmer attends the Time 100 Next gala in New York, on Oct. 25.

Keke Palmer addresses pregnancy rumors in Saturday Night Live monologue

On their final day in Boston, Prince William and Kate had a packed agenda

Michael Gandolfini goes from ‘Many Saints’ to ‘Daredevil’

music

(From left to right) Chloe and Halle Bailey arrived at the green carpet for The Earthshot Prize 2022 at MGM Music Hall at Fenway on Friday afternoon.

All the big names on the ‘green carpet’ at William and Kate’s Earthshot ceremony

On their final day in Boston, Prince William and Kate had a packed agenda

Musk says Twitter has suspended rapper Ye over swastika post

Theater/Dance

Faran Tahir, shown in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's Free Shakespeare on the Common production of "Richard III" in 2018.

Faran Tahir to play the title role in ‘Macbeth’ on the Common

In bringing ‘Life of Pi’ to the stage, a sea of possibilities, and challenges

Season’s greetings from Cirque du Soleil

globe local

Close-toed shoes are required at all times at KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate, but individuality still is allowed.

Among charter schools in Greater Boston suburbs, dress codes are anything but uniform

The Argument: Should Massachusetts raise the maximum age of juvenile court jurisdiction to 20?

Another plan for long-vacant Atlantic Aquarium in Hull

Obituaries

Jeff Reichert (left), Julia Reichert, and Steven Bognar celebrated their Oscar for best documentary feature for "American Factory."

Julia Reichert, documentarian of the working class, dies at 76

Mary Shannon Little, who prosecuted Wedtech scandal, dies at 65

Allen Kay, 77, dies; coined ‘If you see something, say something’