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Fannie Mae keeps a secret condo blacklist

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In a bizarre day, Congress does its work to keep the government open — and narrowly avoids fistfights

The House easily cleared a temporary extension of government funding days ahead of a Friday night deadline, but tensions flared around the Capitol complex showing how much lawmakers seem desperately ready for a break from each other.

House votes to prevent a government shutdown as Speaker Johnson relies on Democrats for help

Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) spoke to reporters upon arrival to a House Republican Conference meeting on Nov. 14, 2023.

An alleged elbow. A challenge to a fight. A Smurf-related insult. Tempers flared Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

After ballot question exposed a divided front, rent control gets renewed push on Beacon Hill

Proponents of reviving rent control in Massachusetts returned Tuesday to making their case to the state Legislature, where Democratic leaders remain skeptical of erasing the state’s three-decade ban.

In Lewiston, hospital staff give shooting survivor a touching send-off
Hospital workers held their hands over their hearts as the patient was wheeled down the hall after a two-and-a-half week stay, hospital officials said.

‘I never realized what people go through’: Doctor and former hospital CEO with Stage 4 cancer calls for greater empathy in medicine

Dr. James E. Fanale’s new book “Onward” offers a glimpse of what it’s like to be a cancer patient as a geriatrician.

STAT

UnitedHealth pushed employees to follow an algorithm to cut off Medicare patients’ rehab care

UnitedHealth Group has repeatedly said its algorithm is merely a guidepost for their recoveries. But a STAT investigation has found that inside the company, managers delivered a much different message.

Wu stresses Boston will not abandon goal of becoming a ‘fossil fuel free city’

Manslaughter arrest made in death of hockey player whose neck was cut with skate blade during game

People walked through the campus of Brandeis University, whose president banned his school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a national pro-Palestinian advocacy group. He said he viewed the decision, in part, as a matter of safety.

Jewish college students targeted amid rising tensions over Israel-Hamas war

University leaders are trying to find the equilibrium between protecting free expression on campus and curtailing activist speech that some administrators and Jewish students say amounts to incitement to violence.

Jewish groups asks for civil rights probe of Wellesley College after dorm residents got ‘no support for Zionism’ email

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip were brought to a hospital in Deir al-Balah on Tuesday.

Calls grow to evacuate Gaza’s largest hospital as Israel and Hamas battle just outside

The Palestinian flag flies over the town common in North Andover.

Palestinian flag raised at North Andover’s town common after select board vote

People attended the March for Israel rally Tuesday on the National Mall in Washington.

Tens of thousands of supporters of Israel rally in Washington, D.C., crying ‘never again’

ben volin | on football

In a season that is imploding, Bills coach Sean McDermott is running out of scapegoats
Ken Dorsey took the fall Tuesday, but Buffalo's troubles extend far beyond the offensive coordinator.

Tom Brady addresses 2-8 Patriots, offers advice to Texans rookie C.J. Stroud Raiders claim cornerback Jack Jones off waivers from the Patriots

Cape Cod 5th grader’s message in a bottle found 26 years later in France

In 1997, fifth graders in Sandwich threw messages in bottles into Nantucket Sound as part of a science project on ecosystems and ocean currents. Those currents took one of the bottles to France, where it was found in August.

Adrian Mendoza of Mendoza Ventures announced new backing from Truist Financial for his firm's third venture capital fund.

innovation beat

After affirmative action ruling, one Boston VC firm is looking to redefine DEI

Mendoza Ventures may avoid controversy with a broader interpretation of diversity.

A wind turbine transmission cable is slated to run under Covell's Beach in Barnstable.

Cape Cod residents say no to offshore wind transmission lines under beaches

A growing wave of opposition in Barnstable and other coastal communities on the front lines of the offshore wind revolution represent a potential threat to the growth of clean energy.

National Climate Assessment points to a wetter and hotter Northeast The US military is preparing to fight climate change

A home for sale in Watertown earlier this year.

High prices, mortgage rates, keep Greater Boston housing market stuck in neutral

Sales hit record lows in October, while prices remain at record highs.

Desk chairs and other furniture lined up at Alex and Ani's former plant in East Greenwich, R.I.

‘Bigger than Benny’s’: Alex and Ani’s asset auction has attracted nearly 900 bidders

Alex and Ani left behind thousands of items when it vacated its Rhode Island headquarters in June, including equipment and memorabilia from the once-successful jewelry company.

Opinion

Former president Donald Trump during a campaign event at Stevens High School in Claremont, N.H. on Nov. 11, said, "...we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country."

SCOT LEHIGH

Donald Trump goes full fascist in his rhetoric

Watergate whistleblower John Dean: The media must call out the former president.

RENÉE GRAHAM

Tim Scott is awful — but he wasn’t awful enough for today’s Republicans

Jennifer Nassour

GOP should dump Trump and rally around Nikki Haley

IDEAS | CHARLES E. KRAUS

A bibliophile’s dilemma: downsizing

EDITORIAL

If family members can be paid caregivers, why not spouses?

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

More recent News

Sharp drop in airfares cheers inflation-weary travelers
The glut of deals suggests that the airline industry’s supercharged pandemic recovery may finally be slowing as the supply of tickets catches up and, on some routes, overtakes demand, which appears relatively robust.

3 dead, 15 hospitalized when bus carrying students and truck crash on Ohio highway, officials say
Five vehicles were involved in the crash, including a Pioneer Trails charter bus that was transporting students from a school in eastern Ohio, about 26 miles east of Columbus.

Credit card skimmers found in Concord, N.H., officials say
The skimmers made the chip reader seem jammed, forcing customers to swipe their cards, police said.

Inflation eased in October in latest sign of cooling economy

Prices rose 3.2 percent over the year ending in October. That’s down from the 3.7 percent annual figure notched in September and August, but still above the 2 percent considered to be the normal rate.

EMD Serono headquarters plans to join biopharma cluster in Boston’s Seaport

The company will join more than two dozen life sciences companies, including Vertex and Eli Lilly, in the neighborhood.

Federal judge dismisses COVID-19 relief fraud charges against Marblehead man and his attorney

A federal judge has dismissed charges against a monk and his attorney who were both arrested last year on allegations of fraudulently obtaining over $3.5 million in COVID-19 relief funds meant for businesses throttled by the pandemic, legal filings show.

Dozens of young people have created a thriving underground concert scene. The only challenge: keeping it underground.

House shows are a draw for young people migrating to Boston. In a city with a lackluster nightlife scene that’s financially and logistically inaccessible for many, student-run concerts provide a place for twenty-somethings to hang out.

Campbell says new unit will crack down on crisis pregnancy centers, providing guidance in era of abortion misinformation
Crisis pregnancy centers outnumber abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood more than 2-to-1 in Massachusetts.

Spotlight follow-up

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.

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.

Culture & Lifestyle

Molly Tuttle (center) and Golden Highway play the Berklee Performance Center on Friday.

Rising bluegrass star Molly Tuttle is picking her way to the top

"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

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’

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

Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, left, and philanthropist Jack Connors, right, at a gala where the two were honored for their leadership and impact on Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Boston, Nov. 2

JOAN VENNOCHI

Jack Connors has a dream for a more inclusive Catholic Church

A protester wrapped in an Israeli flag during a rally for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas operatives in Times Square in New York on Oct. 19, 2023.

Shira Schoenberg

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

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

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Oct. 30.

JEFF JACOBY

Please pull the plug on the White House daily press briefings

IDEAS | LEIF WEATHERBY

ChatGPT broke the Turing test

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

MBTA to change ‘MyCharlie’ website for CharlieCard users Wednesday

The current ‘MyCharlie’ website will go into retirement Wednesday with an updated and more accessible version taking its place, according to the MBTA.

Andover educators and School Committee reach tentative contract agreement, ending strike

Students in Andover will be returning to school tomorrow after the strike closed campuses in the district for three days.

Campbell says new unit will crack down on crisis pregnancy centers, providing guidance in era of abortion misinformation

Crisis pregnancy centers outnumber abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood more than 2-to-1 in Massachusetts.

Gambling pioneer Steve Norton, who ran first US casino outside Nevada, dies at age 89

Steve Norton spent more than half a century in the casino industry, running companies and advising state governments on the expansion of gambling, including on riverboats.

Sports

Ravens coach John Harbaugh said of his brother, Michigan's Jim Harbaugh, “He’s a great man, he’s a great coach."

NFL notebook

Ravens coach John Harbaugh defends his brother, Jim Harbaugh, amid Michigan sign-stealing scandal

The Big Ten conference banned Jim Harbaugh from coaching Michigan’s final three regular-season games, saying the school violated its sportsmanship policy

PWHL vice president of hockey operations Jayna Hefford said Tuesday that the league's goal is to create a professional environment for the players despite not having all details worked out yet.

women's hockey notebook

With PWHL training camp starting Wednesday, there’s plenty — from team names to home arenas — still to be decided

The jerseys for all six teams in the new professional women’s hockey league, which were revealed Tuesday, are only temporary.

patriots

Raiders claim cornerback Jack Jones off waivers from the Patriots

Jones, a 2022 fourth-round draft pick, played 18 games with New England.

BASEBALL

Peter Seidler, big-spending owner and ceaseless booster of the San Diego Padres, dies at 63

ben volin | on football

In a season that is imploding, Bills coach Sean McDermott is running out of scapegoats

pro lacrosse

In restructured PLL, Boston again will be a home city for a pro lacrosse team in 2024

Business

Gambling pioneer Steve Norton, who ran first US casino outside Nevada, dies at age 89

Steve Norton spent more than half a century in the casino industry, running companies and advising state governments on the expansion of gambling, including on riverboats.

Sharp drop in airfares cheers inflation-weary travelers

The glut of deals suggests that the airline industry’s supercharged pandemic recovery may finally be slowing as the supply of tickets catches up and, on some routes, overtakes demand, which appears relatively robust.

Theseus lays off almost three-fourths of its staff

RI BUSINESS

‘Overworked and lied to’: Starbucks workers will try to unionize in Providence

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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

Fannie Mae keeps a secret condo blacklist

In a bizarre day, Congress does its work to keep the government open — and narrowly avoids fistfights

An alleged elbow. A challenge to a fight. A Smurf-related insult. Tempers flared Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

After ballot question exposed a divided front, rent control gets renewed push on Beacon Hill

In Lewiston, hospital staff give shooting survivor a touching send-off Hospital workers held their hands over their hearts as the patient was wheeled down the hall after a two-and-a-half week stay, hospital officials said.

‘I never realized what people go through’: Doctor and former hospital CEO with Stage 4 cancer calls for greater empathy in medicine

UnitedHealth pushed employees to follow an algorithm to cut off Medicare patients’ rehab care

Wu stresses Boston will not abandon goal of becoming a ‘fossil fuel free city’

Manslaughter arrest made in death of hockey player whose neck was cut with skate blade during game

Jewish college students targeted amid rising tensions over Israel-Hamas war

Calls grow to evacuate Gaza’s largest hospital as Israel and Hamas battle just outside

Palestinian flag raised at North Andover’s town common after select board vote

Tens of thousands of supporters of Israel rally in Washington, D.C., crying ‘never again’

ben volin | on football In a season that is imploding, Bills coach Sean McDermott is running out of scapegoats Ken Dorsey took the fall Tuesday, but Buffalo's troubles extend far beyond the offensive coordinator.

Cape Cod 5th grader’s message in a bottle found 26 years later in France

After affirmative action ruling, one Boston VC firm is looking to redefine DEI

Cape Cod residents say no to offshore wind transmission lines under beaches

High prices, mortgage rates, keep Greater Boston housing market stuck in neutral

‘Bigger than Benny’s’: Alex and Ani’s asset auction has attracted nearly 900 bidders

Donald Trump goes full fascist in his rhetoric

Tim Scott is awful — but he wasn’t awful enough for today’s Republicans

GOP should dump Trump and rally around Nikki Haley

A bibliophile’s dilemma: downsizing

If family members can be paid caregivers, why not spouses?

What kind of town does Brookline want to be?

Explore the project

More recent News

Sharp drop in airfares cheers inflation-weary travelers The glut of deals suggests that the airline industry’s supercharged pandemic recovery may finally be slowing as the supply of tickets catches up and, on some routes, overtakes demand, which appears relatively robust.

3 dead, 15 hospitalized when bus carrying students and truck crash on Ohio highway, officials say Five vehicles were involved in the crash, including a Pioneer Trails charter bus that was transporting students from a school in eastern Ohio, about 26 miles east of Columbus.

Credit card skimmers found in Concord, N.H., officials say The skimmers made the chip reader seem jammed, forcing customers to swipe their cards, police said.

Inflation eased in October in latest sign of cooling economy

EMD Serono headquarters plans to join biopharma cluster in Boston’s Seaport

Federal judge dismisses COVID-19 relief fraud charges against Marblehead man and his attorney

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Dozens of young people have created a thriving underground concert scene. The only challenge: keeping it underground.

Campbell says new unit will crack down on crisis pregnancy centers, providing guidance in era of abortion misinformation Crisis pregnancy centers outnumber abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood more than 2-to-1 in Massachusetts.

Spotlight follow-up 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.

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.

Culture & Lifestyle

Rising bluegrass star Molly Tuttle is picking her way to the top

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

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

Special Projects

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

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

How the missing become the uncounted

Two Weeks in America

FROM OUR PARTNERS

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Jack Connors has a dream for a more inclusive Catholic Church

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

Defending the MCAS from evidence-free attacks

Please pull the plug on the White House daily press briefings

ChatGPT broke the Turing test

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

Metro

MBTA to change ‘MyCharlie’ website for CharlieCard users Wednesday

Andover educators and School Committee reach tentative contract agreement, ending strike

Campbell says new unit will crack down on crisis pregnancy centers, providing guidance in era of abortion misinformation

Gambling pioneer Steve Norton, who ran first US casino outside Nevada, dies at age 89

Sports

Ravens coach John Harbaugh defends his brother, Jim Harbaugh, amid Michigan sign-stealing scandal

With PWHL training camp starting Wednesday, there’s plenty — from team names to home arenas — still to be decided

Raiders claim cornerback Jack Jones off waivers from the Patriots

Peter Seidler, big-spending owner and ceaseless booster of the San Diego Padres, dies at 63

In a season that is imploding, Bills coach Sean McDermott is running out of scapegoats

In restructured PLL, Boston again will be a home city for a pro lacrosse team in 2024

Business

Gambling pioneer Steve Norton, who ran first US casino outside Nevada, dies at age 89

Sharp drop in airfares cheers inflation-weary travelers

Theseus lays off almost three-fourths of its staff

‘Overworked and lied to’: Starbucks workers will try to unionize in Providence

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

Wu stresses Boston will not abandon goal of becoming a ‘fossil fuel free city’

Federal judge dismisses COVID-19 relief fraud charges against Marblehead man and his attorney

In Lewiston, hospital staff give shooting survivor a touching send-off
Hospital workers held their hands over their hearts as the patient was wheeled down the hall after a two-and-a-half week stay, hospital officials said.

ben volin | on football

In a season that is imploding, Bills coach Sean McDermott is running out of scapegoats
Ken Dorsey took the fall Tuesday, but Buffalo's troubles extend far beyond the offensive coordinator.

Sharp drop in airfares cheers inflation-weary travelers
The glut of deals suggests that the airline industry’s supercharged pandemic recovery may finally be slowing as the supply of tickets catches up and, on some routes, overtakes demand, which appears relatively robust.

3 dead, 15 hospitalized when bus carrying students and truck crash on Ohio highway, officials say
Five vehicles were involved in the crash, including a Pioneer Trails charter bus that was transporting students from a school in eastern Ohio, about 26 miles east of Columbus.

Credit card skimmers found in Concord, N.H., officials say
The skimmers made the chip reader seem jammed, forcing customers to swipe their cards, police said.

Campbell says new unit will crack down on crisis pregnancy centers, providing guidance in era of abortion misinformation
Crisis pregnancy centers outnumber abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood more than 2-to-1 in Massachusetts.

Spotlight follow-up

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.

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.