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Representative Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, departs following a House Republicans caucus meeting at the US Capitol.

Analysis | James Pindell

Why picking a House speaker has been such a hot mess for Republicans

Representative Kevin McCarthy is just the latest in a string of House Republican leaders who’ve found their caucus is more or less ungovernable.

House is adjourned until Wednesday after standoff over electing McCarthy as speaker These 19 Republicans voted against McCarthy on the first ballot

House GOP’s speaker shambles only the beginning of the drama
As Tuesday wore on with no movement, hopes of a functional House dwindled along with it.

Chaos in the House; McCarthy fails in speaker votes
Republicans in the House of Representatives seem to be in disarray after failing on three ballots to elect a speaker.

The last time a House speaker vote went to multiple ballots? It was 100 years ago, for a Mass. Republican.

Welcome to the great Marblehead newspaper war
Three outlets — adhering to three different business models — are in the unexpected position of battling it out for the readers of the North Shore town.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Massachusetts teachers unions push for the right to strike
The effort has quickly sparked a backlash since the MTA unveiled it on Dec. 8 as part of its legislative priorities.

Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin had to be resuscitated twice, uncle says
Damar Hamlin’s family released a statement midday Tuesday that expressed “sincere gratitude” for public support and to the health care professionals who treated him.

Patriots’ Week 18 game vs. Bills is still on for Sunday, but Bills-Bengals will not resume this week

Experts break down medical response to Damar Hamlin’s collapse: Quick thinking saved his life

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ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt and Ryan Clark deftly handled the difficult Damar Hamlin story on air

The network's entire crew established a standard, if not a blueprint, for how coverage should proceed when a sports event veers toward tragedy.

NFL says it did not give instructions for a restart after Damar Hamlin’s injury, but ESPN stands by report

Pedestrians, cyclists gain protections with new law meant to reduce traffic deaths
On Monday, Governor Charlie Baker signed a bill into law requiring drivers to stay at least four feet away from “vulnerable users” of the road when passing them.

Charlie Baker, bidding farewell in State House address, said he governed ‘without partisan bickering’

Charlie Baker, wearing a purple tie and seated at the desk in his ceremonial office, at several points emphasized the bipartisan touch he sought to bring as a Republican governing a blue state. He called the speech what his late mother would term a “proper goodbye.”

Mass. House leaders say they’ll delay swearing in two Democrats to review ‘legal issues’ raised by GOP opponents

Thunder 150, Celtics 117

Celtics defense puts up little resistance in an embarrassing loss to the undermanned Thunder

Even without star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City hung 150 points on a hapless Boston defense.

Police shoot, kill 17-year-old in N.H. after 911 call reporting he was armed with knife

Trevor Bickford graduated from Wells High School last year.

The teenage jihadi from Maine

Trevor Bickford, 19, from the coastal town of Wells, Maine, was shot and wounded after he allegedly attacked police officers in Manhattan on New Year’s Eve. Authorities say he is a self-proclaimed jihadi.

Mr. White, on Boylston Street next to the memorial for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Bill White, who lost a leg in the Marathon bombings, dies at 81

"I knew I was going to die," Mr. White, a Vietnam War veteran, said of his injuries. "I was brought back to life twice."

A salad of roasted heirloom beets, queso fresco, tarragon-hazelnut pesto, yogurt, watercress, and kumquats.

Devra First | Restaurant review

Cuba, modern and graceful, is on the plate at Gustazo

In Cambridge and Waltham, the two restaurants serve delicious cuisine with warmth and style. See how many stars it earned from our food critic.

Longtime Harvard Gardens bartender Karen Peterson on serving Steven Tyler, her favorite neighborhood dive, and how not to get served

Opinion

President Biden handed the pen he used to sign the Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill to Senator Joe Manchin as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer watched, at the White House in August.

A new year’s nudge toward political reasonableness

There’s still plenty of room for national improvement.

Assisted suicide’s slippery slope

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

Pondering a world without humans

Remembering Anita Pointer, a country music pioneer

What I learned about Massachusetts playing GeoGuessr

Examples of racism denial.

The Emancipator

The art of the denial

Racism denial is a political strategy and a coping tool, used by those who benefit from racism and those unwilling to confront the dire contradictions in our society. Phillipe Copeland walks us through its different forms so we can recognize and counter them.

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Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

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

More recent News

As offshore wind falters, Mass. makes its move to boost giant wind farm in Maine
Baker administration signs off on partnership with Maine to develop a major wind farm near the Canadian border.

Red Sox and Rafael Devers avoid arbitration and agree to one-year deal
According to a major league source, the one-year contract for the third baseman is for $17.5 million.

A crackdown on bad meetings? How one local company is trying to reduce wasted time.

In total, about 300 employees took part in a challenge to cut down on needless meetings, and employees saved more than 8,000 hours collectively over three months.

Suspect in slayings of four University of Idaho students waives right to extradition

A criminology graduate student charged in the November slayings of four University of Idaho students waived his right to an extradition hearing in a Pennsylvania court on Tuesday, speeding up his transfer to Idaho to stand trial.

Robert Kraft buys $23.75 million penthouse in Palm Beach
The four-bedroom, five-bath beachfront condo broke the record for the most expensive real estate transaction in the posh South Florida community, listing agent Paulette Koch of The Corcoran Group confirmed.

Here are some of the works that entered the public domain in 2023
Once a work enters the public domain it can legally be shared, performed, reused, repurposed, or sampled without permission or cost.

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

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Do you have a tip about something that needs to be investigated? Do you have documents or data we should dig into? We want to hear from you.

Recapping 2022

The 23 best photos of 2022 from Boston Globe photographers

Celtics great Bill Russell was court side for the Bill Russell Mentoring Grant Program partnering with the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation and the Mass Mentoring Partnership. Feb. 15, 2012.

A year in deaths

Other notable deaths

A photo collage with the year 2022 in large yellow characters. It's set on a backdrop of cutout photos with what appears to be Scotch tape keeping them together. Among the photos: Will Smith hitting Chris Rock at the Oscars, President Biden, Amber Heard in court, Queen Elizabeth, Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, Nancy Pelosi, and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Dave Barry’s 2022 Year in Review

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Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez attended the murder trial of Aaron Hernandez in Boston in 2017 with her daughter Avielle. Avielle is now 10 years old.

Gym fees, online shopping, bounced checks: Ex-fiancée of Aaron Hernandez accused of misspending money meant for couple’s young daughter

The fight started when Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez said she couldn’t afford the $10,697 bill for her daughter’s dance lessons. Jenkins-Hernandez denies wrongdoing in the dispute over the late Patriots player’s estate.

A change in Maine law prompts a wave of new church abuse allegations
A change in Maine law has unleashed a flood of new allegations of long-ago sex abuse by priests.

What’s in store for downtown Boston in 2023? Here are nine predictions.
Many see a year of “more,” driven by expansion and inclusivity, in the face of less: a tougher economy and dwindling COVID funds.

A movement is building to get women into construction
For the past two years, nearly 16 percent of first-year apprentices at IBEW Local 103 in Boston have been women — a record high — many of them women of color.

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Culture & Lifestyle

A New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square.

Eight podcasts to help you achieve your goals for the new year

Dick Pleasants, who died Nov. 8 at the age of 75, hosted folk music shows on WGBH and WUMB for 40 years.

WUMB will stream its Dick Pleasants tribute concert live

From left: Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Rachel Shenton, Anna Madeley, and Callum Woodhouse of "All Creatures Great and Small."

This week’s TV: Anne Rice’s ‘Witches,’ the history of soft rock, and the return of ‘All Creatures’

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Talking about ‘Women Talking’

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Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

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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Country musician Earl Thomas Conley and R&B-pop star Anita Pointer performed their duet "Too Many Times," during the Country Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 1986.

Remembering Anita Pointer, a country music pioneer

What I learned about Massachusetts playing GeoGuessr

The annual migration of wildebeest in Tanzania, a process that began long before humans existed.

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

Pondering a world without humans

Can America give hope a chance again?

A pedestrian was reflected in a window of Walgreens in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2.

Use opioid settlement funds to educate doctors

IDEAS | ADRIANA BARTON

The ‘Mozart effect’ is bunk. But your brain on music is still a wondrous thing.

Metro

Mass. House leaders say they’ll delay swearing in two Democrats to review ‘legal issues’ raised by GOP opponents

House Speaker Ronald Mariano, a Quincy Democrat, said in a statement late Tuesday that a special legislative committee will review the “last minute legal issues” raised in Kristin Kassner and Margaret Scarsdale’s victories by their GOP opponents.

Why picking a House speaker has been such a hot mess for Republicans

Representative Kevin McCarthy is just the latest in a string of House Republican leaders who’ve found their caucus is more or less ungovernable.

Bill White, who lost a leg in the Marathon bombings, dies at 81

"I knew I was going to die," Mr. White, a Vietnam War veteran, said of his injuries. "I was brought back to life twice."

Shekarchi and Ruggerio re-elected to lead R.I. Assembly in 2023 legislative session

Shekarchi received 63 votes in the 75-member House, and Ruggerio received 36 votes in the 38-member Senate.

Sports

Rui Hachimura can't slow Giannis Antetokounmpo, who proved all but unstoppable Tuesday, scoring 55 points in a victory over the Wizards.

Giannis Antetokounmpo has career-high 55 points as Bucks beat Wizards

Antetokounmpo has had at least 40 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 assists in each of the last three games he's played.

Dana White and his wife have been married for nearly 30 years.

UFC president Dana White seen on video slapping his wife

The video shows the couple arguing before Anne White slaps her husband, who slaps back.

Boston College forward Quinten Post tries to hold off Notre Dame's Dane Goodwin (23) and Matt Zona on a rebound during the second half of BC's victory.

BC 79, Notre Dame 63

Late rally lifts Boston College men’s basketball over Notre Dame

BC shot 52 percent from the floor.

HS girls' basketball: Bishop Feehan 67, Newton North 47

Sammy Reale leads the way for fifth-ranked Bishop Feehan girls’ basketball in nonleague road win at No. 3 Newton North

Thunder 150, Celtics 117

Celtics defense puts up little resistance in an embarrassing loss to the undermanned Thunder

Donovan Mitchell had 71 points Monday but NBA says his desperation score to tie game shouldn’t have counted

Business

As offshore wind falters, Mass. makes its move to boost giant wind farm in Maine

Baker administration signs off on partnership with Maine to develop a major wind farm near the Canadian border.

R.I. housing secretary fails to submit key report expected to shed light on state’s housing crisis

Joshua Saal, who has held the state’s top housing job for the past year, was required to submit an “integrated housing report” to the General Assembly by Dec. 31.

Japan’s business owners can’t find successors. This man gave his away.

Welcome to the great Marblehead newspaper war

magazine

The 23 best photos of 2022 from Boston Globe photographers

Charles Fessenden “Fez” Morse III, the writer’s father-in-law, at age 90, near Swan’s Island in Maine.

My father-in-law recently turned 100. His life has been quietly extraordinary.

This week's daters: Tim and Steven

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘He was easygoing and made good conversation’

Check out Getting Up(side Down): Handstands, an all-levels experiential workshop at Brookline’s Down Under School of Yoga.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do for fun in and around Boston, Jan. 2 - 8

metro

Trevor Bickford graduated from Wells High School last year.

The teenage jihadi from Maine

Bay State College faces uncertain future

Read R.I. House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi’s prepared remarks as 2023 legislative session opens

sports

Griffin gestures to an official in the second half of Tuesday's game in Oklahoma City.

For Celtics big man Blake Griffin, facing the Thunder in Oklahoma City is always a homecoming

Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin had to be resuscitated twice, uncle says

Girls’ hockey notebook: For Reading’s Jayda Hayes, hockey has been a coping mechanism for the pain of her rare abdominal disorder

business

The inside of Patriots owner Robert Kraft's new Palm Beach penthouse.

Robert Kraft buys $23.75 million penthouse in Palm Beach

Twitter stops paying rent, faces lawsuit

A crackdown on bad meetings? How one local company is trying to reduce wasted time.

politics

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy.

What to expect on Day 2 of House speaker election

House is adjourned until Wednesday after standoff over electing Kevin McCarthy as speaker

House GOP’s speaker shambles only the beginning of the drama

Nation

A San Francisco Department of Public Works worker loaded sandbags into a truck on Tuesday. San Franciscans were preparing for a huge wind and rain storm that is expected to hit on Wednesday.

Ice storms, heavy snowfall, tornadoes threaten Midwest and South

Paralyzed by gun violence, they seek solace from other survivors

Suspect in slayings of four University of Idaho students waives right to extradition

World

An elderly man wearing a face mask pushes his partner in a wheelchair as visitors tour a pedestrian shopping street at Qianmen, in Beijing, on Jan. 3.

Beijing threatens response to ‘unacceptable’ virus measures

Thousands of records shattered in historic winter warm spell in Europe

Russia, shaken by Ukrainian strike, said mulling more drones

opinion

Involuntary outpatient commitment is not an answer to mental health woes

‘New realities’ of policing are that Boston’s force is exhausted, depleted

‘Died peacefully’ — the obituary line we all wish for

lifestyle

The inside of Patriots owner Robert Kraft's new Palm Beach penthouse.

Robert Kraft buys $23.75 million penthouse in Palm Beach

This Lowell native has spent 15 years on a quest to become a McDonald’s ‘super collector’

My long-distance relationship felt different in person

food & dining

A salad of roasted heirloom beets, queso fresco, tarragon-hazelnut pesto, yogurt, watercress, and kumquats.

Cuba, modern and graceful, is on the plate at Gustazo

10 simple things you can do to start fresh in the kitchen

Dressing up a salad or leftovers just got easier

travel

Angela Harrelson, aunt of the late George Floyd, sat at the location where he was killed in 2020. She hopes to see the area turned into a proper gathering place for community healing.

How the most tragic intersection in Minneapolis became a beacon of hope

Dear member of the flying public, please remember that a happier flight starts with YOU!

Season’s greetings from the river

Arts

Jamie Mitri with some of her framed moss artwork.

R.I. engineer is creating live wall art that breathes

At Mass MoCA, Jason Moran’s ‘Black Stars’ pays tribute to the ghosts of jazz history

At Norman Rockwell Museum, ‘Eloise and More’ is an enchanting look at the artist who drew her

Books

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes work entered the public domain on Sunday.

Here are some of the works that entered the public domain in 2023

In Tracey Rose Peyton’s ‘Night Wherever We Go,’ enslaved women on a Texas plantation struggle with their desperate white captors

Tom Crewe’s memorable debut, ‘The New Life,’ chronicles the fortunes of a gay man and a social reformer in Victorian England

Movies

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes work entered the public domain on Sunday.

Here are some of the works that entered the public domain in 2023

Talking about ‘Women Talking’

When it comes to animated films, stardom speaks loudly

Television

William Jackson Harper was excellent as the leading man in season 2 of "Love Life."

Most cancellations seem warranted. These 3 did not.

This week’s TV: Anne Rice’s ‘Witches,’ the history of soft rock, and the return of ‘All Creatures’

On PBS, new year brings ‘Tom Jones,’ ‘Marie Antoinette’

music

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes work entered the public domain on Sunday.

Here are some of the works that entered the public domain in 2023

WUMB will stream its Dick Pleasants tribute concert live

Singer Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters dies at age 74

Theater/Dance

Lamont Price is headlining two New Year’s Eve shows at Cinema Salem.

Comedy headliner Lamont Price will let the most wonderful time of the year linger a bit longer

Southie native David Lindsay-Abaire has fashioned a ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ that sings

A ‘Solstice Celebration’ for everyone

globe local

Regina Wu is the president of the Newton Food Pantry, which is participating in a community food drive in the city.

Newton to hold MLK celebration; weeklong community food drive

Restaurant owner toasts staff with trip to Disney World

As one of the earliest local COVID cases, he was hospitalized for 100 days. Now, he’s devoted to helping others.

Obituaries

Mr. White, on Boylston Street next to the memorial for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Bill White, who lost a leg in the Marathon bombings, dies at 81

Former R.I. governor Lincoln Almond dies at 86

Ken Block, rally driver and YouTube stuntman, dies at 55