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Beacon Hill is at odds over whether lawmakers should require Healey to create overflow shelters for families

Massachusetts legislative leaders are at odds over whether to mandate that Governor Maura Healey create an overflow shelter for families with no other place to go.

Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but the policy lacks means of enforcement
The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to impose any significant new requirements and leaves compliance entirely to each justice.

Read the Supreme Court’s new code of ethics

Former MIT biologist, who lost positions after engaging in a prohibited sexual relationship, accepts new science job in Prague

Scientist David Sabatini said he has aspirations to one day expand this lab into the Greater Boston area.

Read the Spotlight report: Fate and the fallen star

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

All aboard? Amtrak joins push to relocate USPS and expand South Station.
The $2 billion-plus South Station expansion, which would add up to 10 tracks to the existing 13, has been sidelined in part because the postal service showed no sign of budging.

City of Lynn on edge after authorities find more than 10 million doses of illegal drugs in home’s basement

While the seized drugs are now off the streets, outreach workers worry that many of the candy-shaped pills may have already made their way into the community and possibly into area schools.

The northern lights were visible from the Mount Washington Observatory Sunday night.

What the northern lights look like from the Mount Washington Observatory

Secret Service agents protecting Biden’s granddaughter open fire when three people try to break into SUV

Crime alert issued for six Mass. communities after jewelry thefts; couple targeting older residents

Jackpot: “It was sheer, blind, ridiculous luck,” said Mary McPeak of the subsidized apartment she landed through a Brookline lottery.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

We’re living longer and making the housing shortage worse

Many people are staying in their homes years beyond what they would have a generation or two ago.

A shuttered power plant in Everett could be the site of a new purpose-built soccer stadium for the New England Revolution.

Mass. Senate advances plan to build Revolution stadium in Everett

A measure that would enable a soccer stadium to go on the site of a shuttered power plant took a big step forward on Monday.

Colts 10, Patriots 6

The Patriots released cornerback Jack Jones, who had a difficult few months on and off the field.

Patriots release cornerback Jack Jones amid a tumultuous season

Jones had not started the last two games, and he played only 10 snaps in Sunday’s loss to the Colts.

The Patriots will be taking a long hard look at Mac Jones during the bye week to determine whether he remains the starting QB.

Tara Sullivan

If Mac Jones is benched for good, that’s on him — and on the Patriots for failing to develop him

After 83 career sacks, including a season-high five by halftime Sunday, Jones is a shell of himself.

Here’s what Bill Belichick had to say about the quarterback situation Ben Volin: Will Robert Kraft look to fire Bill Belichick?

Medics and patients, including babies, stranded as battles rage around Gaza hospitals
Thousands fled Gaza’s Shifa Hospital over the weekend as Israeli troops encircled it, and doctors said gunfire and explosions raged all around it Monday.

Plymouth family that had been stuck in Gaza could return to Mass. on Tuesday, relative says Some Brown University faculty call on leadership to divest from weapons manufacturers over war in Gaza

People boarded a bus at Gillette Stadium to go to Washington, D.C., for Tuesday’s March for Israel.

On buses from Gillette, locals head to D.C. for March for Israel

“This is a historic opportunity for people — Jews, and friends, and allies across North America — to show up proud and strong in Washington, D.C.,” the leader of Combined Jewish Philanthropies said Monday.

Inside Central Perk, which evokes the coffeehouse in "Friends," but isn't an exact replica.

FOOD

World’s first ‘Friends’ coffeehouse opens in Boston Tuesday

Central Perk Coffeehouse will open its doors on Newbury Street on Nov. 14 and be open 7 days a week, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

A pedestrian passes down Congress Street during a morning rain in Boston.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Precipitation will likely come to Boston later this week, but it won’t be cold enough to snow

Many years, the Boston area makes it through the entire month of November without any measurable snowfall.

Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in the final season of "The Crown," premiering Thursday on Netflix.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: The final season of ‘The Crown,’ an Iceland thriller, and ‘Julia’ is back for seconds

Netflix's most prestigious series, “The Crown,” launches its sixth and final season in two parts, with four episodes on Thursday and the remaining six on Dec. 14.

Sharlene and DeWayne Blake embraced in their home in Worcester. The couple met while he was incarcerated.

Three men were sentenced to life in prison. These women chose to love them anyway.

The arm of the justice system is long, and for both the partners of current inmates, and the families of those released on parole, common struggles underscore how that system touches many more people than just those incarcerated.

Love Letters podcast: How to find love in a hopeless place

A Green Line train passes through Coolidge Corner.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

What kind of town does Brookline want to be?

Brookline broadcasts an ethos of inclusivity, but it has become a preserve for the privileged. This is no accident, but the fruit of decades of exclusionary actions. Now, the town faces a state mandate to allow more multifamily housing, offering a litmus test of suburbs’ willingness to help reckon with the regional housing crisis.

Explore the project

Opinion

Brockton High School students are dismissed at the end of the school day on Sept. 22, 2023.

EDITORIAL

Defending the MCAS from evidence-free attacks

The Massachusetts Teachers Association’s charges run afoul of the facts.

Shira Schoenberg

Is there a future for Jewish progressivism after Oct. 7?

JOAN VENNOCHI

Jack Connors has a dream for a more inclusive Catholic Church

JEFF JACOBY

Please pull the plug on the White House daily press briefings

IDEAS | LEIF WEATHERBY

ChatGPT broke the Turing test

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Monica Tibbits-Nutt named Massachusetts secretary of transportation
She has been serving as acting secretary of transportation since mid-September when her predecessor, Gina Fiandaca, resigned from the post abruptly after fewer than eight months on the job.

Trump calls political enemies ‘vermin,’ echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini

Former president Donald Trump denigrated his domestic opponents and critics during a Veterans Day speech Saturday, calling them “vermin.” That language is drawing rebuke from historians, who compared it to that of authoritarian leaders.

Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald Trump’s older sister, has died

HEALTH CARE

He was a hospital CEO in Rhode Island. He cared for patients for 40 years. Now he’s facing Stage 4 lung cancer head on.
Dr. James E. Fanale’s new book “Onward” offers a glimpse of what it’s like to be a cancer patient as a geriatrician.

Denneno’s Pizza to close on New Year’s Eve after nearly 70 years in business
Denneno’s Pizza in Stoughton will close for good on New Year’s Eve after serving up pies for nearly 70 years, the iconic family-run business said recently.

Police seeking three suspects in connection with fatal shooting of dog in Jamaica Plain
Boston police are seeking the public’s help in locating three suspects in connection with the fatal shooting of a dog last month in Jamaica Plain, officials said Monday.

Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton pauses elective surgeries

An undisclosed number of procedures is on hold because of an equipment problem.

Maine gunman broke from reality into violence

To contemplate how a man could kill 18 people in Lewiston is to contemplate how society shunts responsibility and ignores red flags, and how ill-suited existing systems are to address acute mental illness.

Complete coverage of the Maine shootings

PERSPECTIVE

What we lost when we lost the Brockton Fair
It’s been canceled for good, leaving residents to ponder about what it meant to the city — and to families like mine.

More than a rock and the Mayflower, downtown Plymouth aims high
With Plymouth’s population growing by about 1,000 residents a year, business owners, developers, and town officials are increasing their focus on the sprawling community’s historic downtown.

Beth Teitell

Do you live with a decorative-pillow tyrant? Are you one yourself? Read on.
The trend has been declared over by Architectural Digest. But word hasn’t filtered down to the masses.

Culture & Lifestyle

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives. From left: Kenny Vaughan, Chris Scruggs, Harry Stinson, and Stuart.

Marty Stuart enjoying a Byrds-eye view from his new ‘Altitude’

Fans gathered outside the Wilbur Theatre for one of John Mulaney's record-setting 21 shows in August 2021.

In Boston, a comedy boom fills the biggest rooms

"Toshiko Takaezu: Shaping Abstraction" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

At the Museum of Fine Arts, an abstract artist’s ‘painting in the round’

Sohla El-Waylly will be discussing her debut cookbook, "Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook," at a Harvard Book Store event Monday.

Sohla El-Waylly prioritized accessibility and technique for her ‘fun school’ debut cookbook

Special Projects

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

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

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

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

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Teaching about the Middle East is challenging, especially now as violence flares in the region. But if college students don't learn about the conflict in the classroom, they'll learn about it instead from the loudest, least nuanced voices of advocates on both sides.

EDITORIAL

Students should learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the classroom — not on TikTok

LETTERS

Moved by the memory of a final conversation

People walked through Brandeis University’s Waltham campus on Tuesday.

LETTERS

Brandeis lands in the thick of clashing views over Israel-Hamas war

A Stop Handgun Violence billboard went up at the garage on 50 Dalton St., Aug. 11, 2020. It depicts Joaquin Oliver, one of the students killed in the Parkland high school shooting in 2018.

Jonathan Lowy and Manuel Oliver

If the US can’t fix its gun policy, maybe an international lawsuit can

Leaders of member countries of the Arab League and of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation attend an emergency summit in Riyadh on Nov. 9, amid the war between Israel and Hamas.

Alan Berger

The question remains: Why did Hamas attack Israel?

A dog named Ducky demonstrated FluentPet's communication buttons during the Pepcom Digital Experience before the CES tech show in January.

IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Metro

AS I SEE IT | STAN GROSSFELD

An American dream

“As I See It,” by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. This week Grossfeld introduces readers to new American citizens.

Beacon Hill is at odds over whether lawmakers should require Healey to create overflow shelters for families

The state Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on a wide-ranging package that includes $250 million for the state’s overwhelmed emergency shelter system. If passed as expected, House and Senate leaders would then have about a day to negotiate a final version before lawmakers are scheduled to end formal sessions for the year and head into a holiday break.

ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

Some Brown University faculty call on leadership to divest from weapons manufacturers over war in Gaza

More than 190 Brown faculty call on President Christina Paxson to drop all charges against students who were arrested last week during a protest calling for the university to promote a ceasefire.

High-ranking Mormon leader M. Russell Ballard dies at age 95

He was second-in-line to lead the faith.

Sports

Triston Casas swatted 24 home runs and had an .856 OPS in 2023 — and he's just getting started.

red sox

Triston Casas wasn’t Rookie of the Year, but he looks like a huge part of the Red Sox’ future

What Casas did in the second half of 2023 suggests a big place in the lineup, particularly given his sense of the gap between his performance and his potential.

This will be the last school year in which a game like Everett-Beverly could be counted as an exclusion game by Beverly, as Everett will be removed from the exclusion list for 2024-25.

MIAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

What is the MIAA’s exclusion list and why are five Greater Boston League schools being removed from it?

The exclusion list, which will drop from 23 to 18 schools, was created to make it easier for schools in small conferences to fill out their nonleague slate by allowing opponents to exceed schedule limits.

Freshman Bradly Nadeau is tied for the Maine scoring lead with six goals and four assists in eight games.

men's college hockey

Maine is for real, and other takeaways from the weekend in men’s college hockey

The Black Bears improved to 6-1-1 with a win and an overtime loss against Boston College at Orono.

Patriots

Patriots release cornerback Jack Jones amid a tumultuous season

Mass. Senate advances plan to build Revolution stadium in Everett

PWHL Boston

Meet the defenders and goaltenders on PWHL Boston’s training camp roster

Business

Donald Trump Jr. exuberantly lauds dad’s real estate exploits as civil fraud trial shifts to defense

Donald Trump’s eldest son was making an encore appearance at the Manhattan trial, this time as defense lawyers started calling their own witnesses.

ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

Some Brown University faculty call on leadership to divest from weapons manufacturers over war in Gaza

More than 190 Brown faculty call on President Christina Paxson to drop all charges against students who were arrested last week during a protest calling for the university to promote a ceasefire.

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For Cisco’s Harman, a long road to an expensive whiskey

Exxon Mobil plans to produce lithium in Arkansas

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PERSPECTIVE

What we lost when we lost the Brockton Fair

CONNECTIONS

At a dark time in my life, an oak tree gave me hope

Globe Magazine

Cheryl Katon’s impossible decision

Check out model trains and railroads at the Bay State Model Railroad Museum Open House in Roslindale on Saturday and Sunday.

Your Week Ahead

Opinion: Lighten up on Bill Belichick

Beacon Hill is at odds over whether lawmakers should require Healey to create overflow shelters for families

Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but the policy lacks means of enforcement The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to impose any significant new requirements and leaves compliance entirely to each justice.

Former MIT biologist, who lost positions after engaging in a prohibited sexual relationship, accepts new science job in Prague

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS All aboard? Amtrak joins push to relocate USPS and expand South Station. The $2 billion-plus South Station expansion, which would add up to 10 tracks to the existing 13, has been sidelined in part because the postal service showed no sign of budging.

City of Lynn on edge after authorities find more than 10 million doses of illegal drugs in home’s basement

What the northern lights look like from the Mount Washington Observatory

Secret Service agents protecting Biden’s granddaughter open fire when three people try to break into SUV

Crime alert issued for six Mass. communities after jewelry thefts; couple targeting older residents

We’re living longer and making the housing shortage worse

Mass. Senate advances plan to build Revolution stadium in Everett

Patriots release cornerback Jack Jones amid a tumultuous season

If Mac Jones is benched for good, that’s on him — and on the Patriots for failing to develop him

Medics and patients, including babies, stranded as battles rage around Gaza hospitals Thousands fled Gaza’s Shifa Hospital over the weekend as Israeli troops encircled it, and doctors said gunfire and explosions raged all around it Monday.

On buses from Gillette, locals head to D.C. for March for Israel

World’s first ‘Friends’ coffeehouse opens in Boston Tuesday

Precipitation will likely come to Boston later this week, but it won’t be cold enough to snow

This week’s TV: The final season of ‘The Crown,’ an Iceland thriller, and ‘Julia’ is back for seconds

Three men were sentenced to life in prison. These women chose to love them anyway.

What kind of town does Brookline want to be?

Explore the project

Defending the MCAS from evidence-free attacks

Is there a future for Jewish progressivism after Oct. 7?

Jack Connors has a dream for a more inclusive Catholic Church

Please pull the plug on the White House daily press briefings

ChatGPT broke the Turing test

More recent News

Monica Tibbits-Nutt named Massachusetts secretary of transportation She has been serving as acting secretary of transportation since mid-September when her predecessor, Gina Fiandaca, resigned from the post abruptly after fewer than eight months on the job.

Trump calls political enemies ‘vermin,’ echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini

HEALTH CARE He was a hospital CEO in Rhode Island. He cared for patients for 40 years. Now he’s facing Stage 4 lung cancer head on. Dr. James E. Fanale’s new book “Onward” offers a glimpse of what it’s like to be a cancer patient as a geriatrician.

Denneno’s Pizza to close on New Year’s Eve after nearly 70 years in business Denneno’s Pizza in Stoughton will close for good on New Year’s Eve after serving up pies for nearly 70 years, the iconic family-run business said recently.

Police seeking three suspects in connection with fatal shooting of dog in Jamaica Plain Boston police are seeking the public’s help in locating three suspects in connection with the fatal shooting of a dog last month in Jamaica Plain, officials said Monday.

Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton pauses elective surgeries

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More than a rock and the Mayflower, downtown Plymouth aims high With Plymouth’s population growing by about 1,000 residents a year, business owners, developers, and town officials are increasing their focus on the sprawling community’s historic downtown.

Beth Teitell Do you live with a decorative-pillow tyrant? Are you one yourself? Read on. The trend has been declared over by Architectural Digest. But word hasn’t filtered down to the masses.

Culture & Lifestyle

Marty Stuart enjoying a Byrds-eye view from his new ‘Altitude’

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At the Museum of Fine Arts, an abstract artist’s ‘painting in the round’

Sohla El-Waylly prioritized accessibility and technique for her ‘fun school’ debut cookbook

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Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

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How the missing become the uncounted

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Students should learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the classroom — not on TikTok

Moved by the memory of a final conversation

Brandeis lands in the thick of clashing views over Israel-Hamas war

If the US can’t fix its gun policy, maybe an international lawsuit can

The question remains: Why did Hamas attack Israel?

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Metro

An American dream

Beacon Hill is at odds over whether lawmakers should require Healey to create overflow shelters for families

Some Brown University faculty call on leadership to divest from weapons manufacturers over war in Gaza

High-ranking Mormon leader M. Russell Ballard dies at age 95

Sports

Triston Casas wasn’t Rookie of the Year, but he looks like a huge part of the Red Sox’ future

What is the MIAA’s exclusion list and why are five Greater Boston League schools being removed from it?

Maine is for real, and other takeaways from the weekend in men’s college hockey

Patriots release cornerback Jack Jones amid a tumultuous season

Mass. Senate advances plan to build Revolution stadium in Everett

Meet the defenders and goaltenders on PWHL Boston’s training camp roster

Business

Donald Trump Jr. exuberantly lauds dad’s real estate exploits as civil fraud trial shifts to defense

Some Brown University faculty call on leadership to divest from weapons manufacturers over war in Gaza

For Cisco’s Harman, a long road to an expensive whiskey

Exxon Mobil plans to produce lithium in Arkansas

What we lost when we lost the Brockton Fair

At a dark time in my life, an oak tree gave me hope

Cheryl Katon’s impossible decision

Five things to do around Boston, Nov. 13- Nov. 19

metro

He was a hospital CEO in Rhode Island. He cared for patients for 40 years. Now he’s facing Stage 4 lung cancer head on.

Service resumes on section of Green Line in Boston; MBTA crews repair cracked rail

Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but the policy lacks means of enforcement
The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to impose any significant new requirements and leaves compliance entirely to each justice.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

All aboard? Amtrak joins push to relocate USPS and expand South Station.
The $2 billion-plus South Station expansion, which would add up to 10 tracks to the existing 13, has been sidelined in part because the postal service showed no sign of budging.

Medics and patients, including babies, stranded as battles rage around Gaza hospitals
Thousands fled Gaza’s Shifa Hospital over the weekend as Israeli troops encircled it, and doctors said gunfire and explosions raged all around it Monday.

Monica Tibbits-Nutt named Massachusetts secretary of transportation
She has been serving as acting secretary of transportation since mid-September when her predecessor, Gina Fiandaca, resigned from the post abruptly after fewer than eight months on the job.

HEALTH CARE

He was a hospital CEO in Rhode Island. He cared for patients for 40 years. Now he’s facing Stage 4 lung cancer head on.
Dr. James E. Fanale’s new book “Onward” offers a glimpse of what it’s like to be a cancer patient as a geriatrician.

Denneno’s Pizza to close on New Year’s Eve after nearly 70 years in business
Denneno’s Pizza in Stoughton will close for good on New Year’s Eve after serving up pies for nearly 70 years, the iconic family-run business said recently.

Police seeking three suspects in connection with fatal shooting of dog in Jamaica Plain
Boston police are seeking the public’s help in locating three suspects in connection with the fatal shooting of a dog last month in Jamaica Plain, officials said Monday.

PERSPECTIVE

What we lost when we lost the Brockton Fair
It’s been canceled for good, leaving residents to ponder about what it meant to the city — and to families like mine.

More than a rock and the Mayflower, downtown Plymouth aims high
With Plymouth’s population growing by about 1,000 residents a year, business owners, developers, and town officials are increasing their focus on the sprawling community’s historic downtown.

Beth Teitell

Do you live with a decorative-pillow tyrant? Are you one yourself? Read on.
The trend has been declared over by Architectural Digest. But word hasn’t filtered down to the masses.