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Maura Healey wants to go big on climate tech, housing, as she prepares to take office

“I don’t want to lose out to other states, other regions. I want people here,” Governor-elect Maura Healey told the Globe in a one-on-one interview.

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake shakes parts of Northern California
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook parts of Northern California early Tuesday, jolting people awake and leaving thousands without power.

Days away from dissolving, Jan. 6 committee goes for long-reaching impact

The committee's detailed referral of criminal charges against Donald Trump was a way for its 18-month investigation to ensure its work outlives the committee itself.

These are the laws the Jan. 6 panel says were broken

Donald Trump addresses a rally protesting the presidential election results on the Ellipse, with the White House in the background, in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. The House select committee laid out an ambitious road map for the prosecution of the former president and several of his allies, saying they had committed a number of federal crimes by undertaking overlapping plans to reverse the results of the 2020 election.

After criminal referral, what’s next for Donald Trump?

ANALYSIS | James Pindell

3 things to know about the final Jan. 6 committee hearing

Elon Musk has been silent since his poll. But Snoop Dogg hasn’t.
Out of the more than 3.3 million votes cast, a whopping 81 percent voted in favor of Snoop Dogg running the social media company.

Former Patriots linebacker Willie McGinest arrested and charged with assault in California

McGinest was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon for a Dec. 9 incident.

Former Patriots cornerback J.C. Jackson arrested on ‘non-violent family issue’ in Fall River

The most time-efficient exercise you’ve never heard of? It’s called VILPA. I tried it at home.

A study recently published in the journal Nature Medicine reported that short, vigorous bursts of movement not associated with traditional exercise — the kind you’d get from hustling for the bus — confer significant health benefits.

‘Dude, this is a bush’: He wanted a lopsided evergreen out of his yard. Some students gave it a home for the holidays.
Instead of chopping down the shrub-like greenery in his Somerville backyard, this resident convinced others it could make a perfect Christmas tree.

Christopher L. Gasper

The Patriots aren’t playing like a well-coached team, and that’s on Bill Belichick
It doesn’t matter how decorated the coach is. This team is too often situationally and operationally deficient.

AFC playoff picture: Surging Bengals continue their push for the postseason with visit to Patriots

Scenes from tea at the Four Seasons.

WHAT SHE'S HAVING | KARA BASKIN

At the Four Seasons, tea time is glorious, transportive, and sadly fleeting

This $99 afternoon treat is definitely beyond my typical food budget, but it’s a holiday tradition I’m happy to honor with friends, even under rushed circumstances.

The boom in food-delivery orders has caused congestion in front of the Chick-fil-A on Boylston Street.

Food delivery drivers are clogging city streets. Can Boston fix the problem?

Over the last several months, the City of Boston has been taking steps to mitigate the congestion, replacing street parking meters with 5- and 10-minute food pickup zones. But it's not enough, says Boston's chief of streets.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders spoke at a COVID briefing in April 2020

Sudders, state’s longest-serving health secretary, to step down

Health leaders said the new administration will have big shoes to fill.

The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology campus at 41 Berkeley St. in the South End will be transformed into three residential buildings.

South End, Seaport projects win BPDA approval

A half-billion dollars’ worth of new development got a green light in the city development board’s final meeting of the year.

Opinion

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

ChatGPT taught me something powerful about human collaboration

A system that produces plausible paragraphs can chat — but will it ever be able to tell you what you really need to hear?

Widett Circle’s future can still be bright

MARCELA GARCÍA

How Massachusetts can foster immigrant entrepreneurship

Roadmap to Justice: Trump must be held accountable

Jan. 6 committee has done the nation a huge service. Now Americans must step up.

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Bree Newsome Bass: Why The Revolution in America Isn’t Over

As the Jan. 6 committee releases its final report, we revisit Bree Newsome Bass’ message that racism isn’t a side issue in the conflict to save democracy – it’s the throughline of the entire American project. The United States was founded on the contradiction between democracy and White supremacy, and the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection was the latest battlefield between these forces.

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Members of the 2001 Patriots team that won the franchise’s first title.

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

The 2022 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

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Wells Fargo to pay $3.7 billion over consumer loan violations

Consumer banking giant Wells Fargo was ordered to pay $3.7 billion in fines and refunds to customers by US government regulators, the largest fine to date against the bank, which has spent years trying to rehabilitate itself after a series of scandals tied to its sales practices.

One man dead, another hospitalized after ammonia leak at Norwood food processing facility

One man was stabilized and taken to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton before being transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital for specialized treatment. The other man, who was in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Quincy residents rally in support of high school principal targeted by racist graffiti

Parents of Quincy High School students gathered outside the school Monday night to rally in support of Principal Keith S. Ford after racist graffiti directed at him was found in a school bathroom last week.

Son of businessman accused of bribing former Harvard fencing coach testifies he was ‘definitely qualified’ for the team

A Maryland businessman’s two sons testified Monday at his federal bribery trial that they were among the nation’s top-ranked fencers in high school.

3M will stop producing ‘forever chemical’ PFAS by end of 2025

3M, confronting regulatory pressure and lawsuits that threaten billions of dollars in damages, will stop making so-called forever chemicals and discontinue their use in products by the end of 2025.

German court convicts 97-year-old ex-secretary at Nazi camp

A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.

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Best of the Arts 2022

The 50 best albums of the year

Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick" from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. (Paramount Pictures)

10 great movie performances to mark 2022

The 10 best TV shows of 2022

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After six months of living in motel rooms, and two weeks living in a tent in a campground, Kiel Strong and his family of six are now sharing one room in his cousin's house. He searches for a movie for his sick children to watch as they quarantine in their room.

How a hard-working, middle-class family spiraled into homelessness

With two working parents, $80,000 a year in income, four kids, and a stable home in Rhode Island, the Strong family was living the American dream. Then they were evicted. And the nightmare began.

‘They all dried up.’ Drought, climate change take toll on Christmas trees.
This past spring, Michael Smolak and his team planted more than 4,000 Christmas trees on their farm in North Andover. But within a few months, every single one was dead.

During holiday rush, a cheerfully old-school letter carrier picks up the pace
Dominic Corsetti and his veteran colleagues — more than 45 percent of carriers are ages 50 and over — are proudly old school. They show up in person and in every kind of weather.

Food delivery drivers are clogging city streets. Can Boston fix the problem?
Over the last several months, the City of Boston has been taking steps to mitigate the congestion, replacing street parking meters with 5- and 10-minute food pickup zones. But it's not enough, says Boston's chief of streets.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Karen Connell with artwork she makes from recycled materials, including coffee cups, Amazon boxes, and toilet paper rolls.

Southborough native turns discarded Dunkin’ cups into ‘trash art’

This image released by the Library of Congress shows Meg Ryan, left, and Billy Crystal in a scene from "When Harry Met Sally."

‘When Harry Met Sally,’ ‘Iron Man’ added to film registry

‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ is James Cameron’s ‘waking dream of the ocean’

Voices of Black Persuasion sing "Go Tell It on the Mountain" in "Black Nativity."

A cherished tradition is renewed in ‘Black Nativity’

Special Projects

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A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death

Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

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.

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A US government photo shows the BB-sized cryogenic target used to reach the burning plasma state in an experiment in November 2020 and February 2021 at the National Ignition Facility of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif.

Ernest J. Moniz

What a nuclear fusion breakthrough means for our energy future

President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act on the South Lawn of the White House on Dec. 13.

With marriage equality law, Catholic bishops refuse to separate civil rights from religious rights

IDEAS | JESS RULIFFSON

Excerpt: Invisible Wounds, the illustrated stories of 12 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Venezuela's petroleum minister, Tareck El Aissami, signed an agreement with Chevron in Caracas on Dec. 2 after the Biden administration eased some sanctions on Venezuela.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Biden puts Venezuela in the axis of lesser evils

Why is the US health care system maddeningly complicated, even for something as simple as a prescription refill?

Jeffrey L. Schnipper

What’s wrong with health care, and how to fix it

Snarled traffic in front of the Globe’s old Morrissey Boulevard building in the early 1960s.

IDEAS | CATESBY HOLMES

To curb greenhouse emissions by 2030, make traffic jams a thing of the past

Metro

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Another storm will hit New England just before Christmas Eve

The next couple of days will be sunny and seasonable before clouds arrive on Thursday and rain moves in.

Medford police increase presence at high school this week after student was stabbed

Medford police will have a “visible police presence at Medford High School” following a stabbing there Monday that injured a student, authorities said.

A big night for charter schools in Rhode Island

Rhode Island's Council on Elementary and Secondary Education on Tuesday will consider an expansion of two existing charter schools and charter renewals of three to five years for 11 more schools.

‘Dude, this is a bush’: He wanted a lopsided evergreen out of his yard. Some students gave it a home for the holidays.

Instead of chopping down the shrub-like greenery in his Somerville backyard, this resident convinced others it could make a perfect Christmas tree.

Sports

Connor Clifton, right, celebrated with Derek Forbort after he gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead Monday night.

Kevin Paul Dupont | On hockey

Connor Clifton and the Bruins defensemen were more offensive, and that made Monday’s win different

Clifton scored the first goal of the game and added and an assist, part of a 2-4—6 contribution the Bruins blueliners in the win over the Panthers.

Joe Burrow has won nine straight games in December/January.

AFC playoff picture: Surging Bengals continue their push for the postseason with visit to Patriots

A whopping 13 of the 16 teams in the AFC still have a shot at reaching the postseason. The Patriots are among them, but how they respond to Sunday's loss will be telling.

Canada's Danielle Serdchny scores against United States goaltender Nicole Hensley during overtime.

WOMEN'S ICE HOCKEY | CANADA 3, US 2 (OT)

Serdachny’s goal in OT gives Canadian women 3-2 win over US

Danielle Serdachny scored at 2:16 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States in the fifth game of the Rivalry Series on Monday night.

Bruins notebook

Craig Smith clears waivers, takes ice for Bruins against Panthers

Packers 24, Rams 12

Aaron Rodgers remains a prime-time star as Packers defeat Rams to keep playoff hopes alive

Bruins 7, Panthers 3

Patrice Bergeron (2 goals, 2 assists), Bruins pour it on Panthers to remain unbeaten at TD Garden

Business

Maine lawmakers using spending bill to delay lobster restrictions

Maine’s congressional delegation is using the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill to try to delay for six years new protections for endangered whales to protect Maine’s lobster industry.

3M will stop producing ‘forever chemical’ PFAS by end of 2025

3M, confronting regulatory pressure and lawsuits that threaten billions of dollars in damages, will stop making so-called forever chemicals and discontinue their use in products by the end of 2025.

Elon Musk has been silent since his poll. But Snoop Dogg hasn’t.

Ocean State Job Lot boss presides over massive coat collection campaign for veterans

magazine

FILE - Bill Russell grins at announcement that he had been named coach of the Boston Celtics basketball team, April 18, 1966. The NBA great Bill Russell has died at age 88. His family said on social media that Russell died on Sunday, July 31, 2022. Russell anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 titles in 13 years. (AP Photo, File)

Jeneé Osterheldt

Bostonian of the Year: Bill Russell, a giant of Celtics basketball and American civil rights

4/23/1972: Bill Russell holds his daughter, Karen Kenyatta, April 23, 1972. (Dan Goshtigian/Globe Staff) --- BGPA Reference: 170808_ON_003

Bostonian of the Year

‘To me, he was always just Daddy’: Karen Kenyatta Russell on her father’s lessons

How do I keep half-hearted gifts from hurting my feelings?

Nihari-Inspired Beef Stew

Recipes: Skip the browning step when making beef stew

metro

The most time-efficient exercise you’ve never heard of? It’s called VILPA. I tried it at home.

Coolidge Corner Theatre to host historian Edward J. Larson for Brookline’s MLK Celebration

Quincy residents rally in support of high school principal targeted by racist graffiti

sports

East Bridgewater's Phoebe Katilus found herself surrounded by Norwell defenders Reagan Dowd (left) and Sara Cashin.

With the offense slumping, Norwell girls’ basketball relied on stout defense to beat East Bridgewater

Tom Browning, who pitched perfect game for Reds, dies at 62

Versatility at the heart of success for Burlington boys’ basketball team

business

A sign read 'We're sorry' in a children's pain and fever remedy section of a CVS pharmacy on Dec. 6 in Burbank, Calif.

CVS, Walgreens limit kids’ pain and fever medicine

South End, Seaport projects win BPDA approval

Encore Boston Harbor sued over alleged “bait and switch”

politics

A lobster was caught off Spruce Head, Maine, in August 2021.

Maine lawmakers using spending bill to delay lobster restrictions

Wells Fargo to pay $3.7 billion over consumer loan violations

Trump’s tax returns to be discussed by congressional panel

Nation

Earthquake data from the USGS showed a northern California earthquake and several aftershocks Tuesday.

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake shakes parts of Northern California

Planned Parenthood starts telemedicine abortions in Kansas

Suspense, pressure build at border over US asylum rules

World

Explosion rips through gas pipeline in Russia

Officials say Pakistan raid kills all Taliban hostage-takers

German court convicts 97-year-old ex-secretary at Nazi camp

opinion

Thumbnail for The New Crusades video with Jemar Tisby.

The New Crusades: White Christian Nationalism and the threat to democracy

The fusion opportunity is enormous — it would be a shame to waste it

Excerpt: Invisible Wounds, the illustrated stories of 12 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

lifestyle

I’m worried about money

East End Books pop-up hosts book signing with Jenny Slate, Ben Shattuck

The Rink at MarketStreet Lynnfield celebrates the season with themed skates

food & dining

Scenes from tea at the Four Seasons.

At the Four Seasons, tea time is glorious, transportive, and sadly fleeting

NKOTB’s Jordan Knight on his newly reopened Novara restaurant, very manageable backstage food requests, and favorite band

A celebrity chef offers advice for new owners and a look at the future of the restaurant industry

travel

These are the best airlines for customer experience, according to a recent study.

The best and worst airlines for customer experience, revealed

Jazz saxophonist Grace Kelly on Taos, AirPods, and all forms of ice cream

Exploring Palermo through its street food

Arts

Sean Sullivan, "We Can't Unmix the Colors."

In ‘Winter Solstice’ at the Griffin, it’s most everything under the sun

Museum of Science launches ‘Mission: Mars’ on Roblox

Art museums didn’t go back to ‘normal’ in 2022 — and that’s a good thing

Books

Shoebert, once the star attraction at Beverly's Shoe Pond in September, is now the subject of a children's book.

Of snails, Shoebert the seal, and histories of New England

Local bestsellers for the week ended Dec. 11

Author readings around Boston Dec. 18-24

Movies

Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick" from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. (Paramount Pictures)

10 great movie performances to mark 2022

A freewheeling guide to who’s who in ‘Babylon’

The most stylish people of 2022? Ayanna Pressley made the NYT’s list. So did ... Ben Affleck.

Television

Idina Menzel at the DOC NYC premiere of "Which Way to the Stage?" on Nov. 13 in New York City.

‘Which Way to the Stage?’ chronicles Idina Menzel’s winding journey

Better late than never: When you change your mind about an actor

Austin Butler chokes up during ‘Saturday Night Live’ monologue, Cecily Strong departs

music

Snoop Dogg attends the 2022 MTV VMAs at Prudential Center on Aug. 28, 2022 in Newark, New Jersey.

Elon Musk has been silent since his poll. But Snoop Dogg hasn’t.

Shirley Watts, widow of drummer Charlie Watts, dies at 84

On an ‘Unsilent Night,’ the audience is the star

Theater/Dance

A scene from "Midwinter Revels" on stage at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre.

A ‘Solstice Celebration’ for everyone

In ART’s ‘Life of Pi,’ a tiger burns brightest

In ‘Torch Song,’ a lovelorn drag queen, his heartbreaks, and his Ma

globe local

Regie Gibson a poet, educator, and performance artist, will “provide his unique and thought-provoking verses" at the celebration.

Coolidge Corner Theatre to host historian Edward J. Larson for Brookline’s MLK Celebration

Carlisle brightens the night in memory of one child while helping others

Keeping the miracle of Hanukkah glowing despite hate

Obituaries

Musician Terry Hall of The Specials performs on the Main Stage, at the Isle of Wight Festival in Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, England, on June 14, 2014.

Terry Hall, singer with ska icons The Specials, dies at 63

Tom Browning, who pitched perfect game for Reds, dies at 62

Shirley Watts, widow of drummer Charlie Watts, dies at 84