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Parents of students with disabilities say MIAA’s crackdown on sports eligibility is unfair to them

The dispute raises questions about whether the MIAA has gone too far by banning waivers in special cases — and whether that violates its commitment to non-discrimination.
The Super Bowl matchups are set. See who will face off.

Democrats race to confirm judges as a firewall against a Trump ‘revenge tour’
Federal courts played a pivotal role in stopping, stalling, or forcing rollbacks of several of Donald Trump’s most controversial first-term policies. Federal judges also halted Trump’s legal efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.

Milan Lucic to take ‘indefinite leave’ from Bruins after incident, team says
Lucic has been on long-term injured reserve since October.

Jason Momoa talks about his real-life love of the ocean in ‘SNL’ monologue

Suspect in deadly N.H. psychiatric hospital shooting identified by officials Saturday

Judge finds shooting of Lexington man by police justified

Lowell city councilor charged with domestic assault and battery

Man fatally shoots R.I. woman, then himself, at Rehoboth home
DEVRA FIRST

Restaurants wrestle with the war in Gaza

Some take a vocal stance. Others offer community, connection, and culture during a difficult time.

Deal to free hostages held by Hamas has gotten closer, Biden aide says

At least 30 premature babies evacuated from Gaza’s main hospital, health officials say

The Amesbury miracle: How a dying mill town went through a vibrant renewal
The small city on the Merrimack River has transformed into a locals-centered, pedestrian-friendly downtown with bustling restaurants, artist studios, a record store, cafes, florists, a hardware store, salons, and four breweries.

He was critically injured in the Maine shootings. Now recovering, a father recounts his story of survival.
After 2.5 weeks and four surgeries, Ben Dyer was discharged from the hospital. Now recovering at home, he said that while the tragedy in many ways has broken his life in two, it has not broken him.

More about the Maine shootings

Joe Walker, manager of Lewiston bar, left ‘legacy of heroism’ behind him

Joseph Walker, who died confronting the Maine gunman inside Schemengees Bar & Grille, was “a man that would do just about anything for anyone,” friends said at his funeral Friday.

Why Americans feel gloomy about the economy despite falling inflation and low unemployment
Inflation has reached its lowest point in 2 1/2 years. The unemployment rate has stayed below 4 percent for the longest stretch since the 1960s. Yet according to polls and surveys, most Americans hold a glum view of the economy.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Thursday night’s Bengals-Ravens game exemplified everything that has gone wrong with the NFL season

First and foremost, it was yet another premier matchup ruined by a quarterback injury when Cincinnati's Joe Burrow left in the second quarter with a season-ending wrist injury,

F1 exceeds Las Vegas expectations as Verstappen wins one of the most competitive races of the season

Max Verstappen won his 18th race of the season Saturday night with a pass of Charles Leclerc at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, which turned out to be one of the most competitive events of the season despite a disastrous start to Formula One’s expensive extravaganza.
Kevin Paul Dupont | Sunday hockey notes

Massachusetts loves its hockey, so why aren’t there more former Bay State high schoolers in the Hall of Fame?

For the great number of talented kids around here we’ve seen go on to succeed in the pros, it seems the Hub of Hockey deserves more locker space in the hallowed halls of Toronto.
Opinion
JEFF JACOBY

Palestinians can win the peace once Israel has won the war

An enlightened postwar plan can nurture what Gaza desperately needs: decent governance.
EDITORIAL

How to turn blighted properties into the new housing Massachusetts needs
Elizabeth Gaufberg and Cami Tussie

Israeli women and girls were raped during Hamas attack. Where’s the outcry?
RENÉE GRAHAM

A ‘crisis’ in masculinity? Look no further than the fussin’ and fightin’ Republicans
SCOT LEHIGH

Antisemitism on campuses should concern us all
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

Taylor Swift postpones Rio de Janeiro show, citing record heat a day after fan dies during concert
A 23-year-old fan died at the singer’s Eras Tour concert in Rio de Janeiro Friday night, according to a statement from the show’s organizers in Brazil.

Sam Altman is said to be discussing return to OpenAI with company’s board
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, two top executives at OpenAI who left the company after a dramatic board meeting Friday, are talking again with board members about returning to the artificial intelligence startup, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

UMass Amherst band to march in 2024 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
The Minuteman Marching Band was picked to perform as one of 10 elite bands in the 2024 edition of the parade next year, “representing the state of Massachusetts,” the university said.

Here’s how goalie Linus Ullmark paid tribute to Gerry Cheevers and the Big, Bad Bruins
Ullmark, who now guards that same 6-foot-by-4-foot area that Cheevers blocked, wore a modern-day version of Cheevers's stitched-face cage during the morning skate and warm-ups.

13-year-old Medford motorcyclist to represent US at MiniGP World Series in Spain
Nathan Bettencourt, who has been racing mini motorcycles for seven years, is one of three racers representing the US at the 2023 FIM MiniGP World Series in Spain during Thanksgiving week.

Maine and Massachusetts are the last states to keep bans on Sunday hunting. That might soon change.
Some states are steadily chipping away at longstanding bans on Sunday hunting, and there’s a push to overturn the laws in Maine and Massachusetts, the final two states with full bans.

Recommended reads

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.

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.

Three months after council approval, a retired Boston firefighter’s pension boost still waiting for Wu
Three months after the Boston City Council passed a home rule petition for a boosted pension for Al Curry, a Black firefighter who said he was subjected to a racist attack in the 1980s, Mayor Wu has yet to sign off on the proposal.

BOZTON
‘Cheap here doesn’t really mean cheap’: How one Gen Z Bostonian is coping with the ever-rising cost of rent
The second episode of the BoZton video series explores how Boston’s soaring rents hurt young people as they try to find their footing.

Culture & Lifestyle

A warm and welcoming Thanksgiving feast, Grandma-style

Black women authors seek to inspire young readers and writers at Dorchester event on Saturday

Our favorite love stories for snuggle season

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 doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

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

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Altaf Saadi

Physicians should not be censored from discussing the medical devastation in Gaza
IDEAS | MICHAEL SERAZIO

This is a genuine article. The same can’t be said about much of what passes for authentic today.

EDITORIAL

Holding nursing homes accountable, while paying them fairly
LETTERS

Mass. right-to-shelter law collides with harsh reality
Hiba Husseini

A pathway to a two-state solution for Palestinians and Israelis
IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

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

Metro

Bunker Hill’s One Book Program celebrates one of its own

Students and faculty are reading and discussing Professor Caroline Kautsire’s memoir of emigrating from Malawi and assimilating in the US.
SUNDAY'S CHILD

Brothers are ready to join a family together

Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child or children currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

13-year-old Medford motorcyclist to represent US at MiniGP World Series in Spain

Nathan Bettencourt, who has been racing mini motorcycles for seven years, is one of three racers representing the US at the 2023 FIM MiniGP World Series in Spain during Thanksgiving week.

Suspect in deadly N.H. psychiatric hospital shooting identified by officials Saturday

Authorities on Saturday identified the 33-year-old man they said opened fire and gunned down a security guard inside a state psychiatric hospital lobby Friday afternoon before being killed by a state trooper.

Sports

HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOCKEY

Best of 60 senior field hockey all-star rosters for Sunday at Nashoba Regional

The Massachusetts State Field Hockey Coaches Association games will be played at 10 and 11:30 a.m. in Bolton.

F1 exceeds Las Vegas expectations as Verstappen wins one of the most competitive races of the season

Max Verstappen won his 18th race of the season Saturday night with a pass of Charles Leclerc at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, which turned out to be one of the most competitive events of the season despite a disastrous start to Formula One’s expensive extravaganza.
high schools

It’s state championship season. See which teams have taken home a title.

Champions will be crowned in soccer, field hockey, volleyball, and cross country.
HS GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL: NEWTON NORTH 3, BARNSTABLE 2

On her final hit, in a five-set thriller, Jojo Wang delivers Newton North girls’ volleyball a repeat championship in Division 1
NEPSAC Bowls

Bo MacCormack (431 yards, 8 TDs), BB&N trample Tabor in NEPSAC John Papas Bowl victory
miaa football playoffs

The Super Bowl matchups are set. See who will face off.

Business

Why Americans feel gloomy about the economy despite falling inflation and low unemployment

Inflation has reached its lowest point in 2 1/2 years. The unemployment rate has stayed below 4 percent for the longest stretch since the 1960s. Yet according to polls and surveys, most Americans hold a glum view of the economy.

Deal to free hostages held by Hamas has gotten closer, Biden aide says

An agreement for Hamas to release hostages may be the closest yet and would require a multiday pause the fighting in Gaza, a White House official said on Sunday.

Sugar prices are rising worldwide after bad weather tied to El Nino damaged crops in Asia

Sam Altman is said to be discussing return to OpenAI with company’s board
magazine
Holiday Style

You really shouldn’t have. Gifts these writers won’t forget.
Holiday Style

At the holidays, my mom always critiqued my clothes. Now that she’s gone, I miss it.

CONNECTIONS

What my mother was trying to protect in a fortress of Christmas cookies
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We both went to school in the Bronx’

metro

UMass Amherst band to march in 2024 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Judge finds shooting of Lexington man by police justified

Plymouth Thanksgiving parade highlights ‘the price of freedom,’ as it honors veterans

sports

Inspired Bruins dominant again, gleefully dispatch Canadiens

Quinten Post’s double-double rallies Boston College past Harvard for the Eagles’ first 4-0 start in 16 years

Top seed Concord-Carlisle wears down Needham to capture Division 1 boys’ soccer state title

business

SpaceX launched its giant new rocket but explosions end the second test flight

Climate change is hurting coral worldwide. But these reefs off the Texas coast are thriving

SpaceX launches its giant new rocket but a pair of explosions ends the second test flight

politics

Democrats race to confirm judges as a firewall against a Trump ‘revenge tour’

Speaker Johnson says he’ll make 44,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage available to the general public

Rosalynn Carter in hospice care at home

Nation

Trump is returning to the US-Mexico border as he lays out a set of hard-line immigration proposals

Day of gorging gets its wings clipped

Maine and Massachusetts are the last states to keep bans on Sunday hunting. That might soon change.

World

Deal to free hostages held by Hamas has gotten closer, Biden aide says

At least 30 premature babies evacuated from Gaza’s main hospital, health officials say

Argentines vote in an election that could lead a Trump-admiring populist to the presidency

opinion

Are immigrants welcome here or not?

Dean Tran doesn’t deserve the public trust

Mass. right-to-shelter law collides with harsh reality

lifestyle

Her work trip was bad for us

How young should kids start dating, using social media, and breaking away from their parents?

Dating my ex again

food & dining

Restaurants wrestle with the war in Gaza

The best pies to make for Thanksgiving dessert

ButcherBox, the meat delivery service, expands its customer base — to pets

travel

Wild about trolls? See the movie — or even better, Norway

La Réserve Eden au Lac Zurich blends old and new, ‘like rock and roll dancing with the Queen of England’

Elvis still steals the spotlight and holds the crown, but Memphis’s musical royalty reaches far beyond the gates of Graceland

Arts

In a stunningly honest exhibition, Harvard Art Museums put their links to China’s opium trade on display

Safety, surveillance, and being seen — Joanna Tam examines it all in ‘Visibility Studies’

Some clean, well-lighted places at the Griffin

Books

Author readings around Boston through Nov. 25

When you want a recipient to feel truly understood, choose the perfect book

Framingham poet wins prize for a memoir about the body; a new book illuminates what it means to be a twin, and a human; Mass Poetry’s annual fundraiser to be held on Monday

Movies

‘Thanksgiving’: How Eli Roth made the most Massachusetts horror movie ever

Wes Anderson will curate new film club Galerie

Watch: ‘Ted’ turns back the clock in teaser for Framingham-set prequel series

Television

Jason Momoa talks about his real-life love of the ocean in ‘SNL’ monologue

Cary Grant limited series coming to BritBox

Watch: ‘Ted’ turns back the clock in teaser for Framingham-set prequel series

music

Boston Symphony Orchestra honors Ligeti’s birthday — minus the orchestra

In the early days of hip-hop, Boston made its own history

Not just Marky Mark: Boston’s hip-hop scene spans MC Spice and Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs

Theater/Dance

An all-in ensemble elevates Lyric Stage’s madcap ‘The Game’s Afoot’

The two Asian moms who inspired Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Heart Sellers’

In Boston, a comedy boom fills the biggest rooms

Health

R.I. attorney general sues Prospect Medical Holdings, says his concern for its hospitals is ‘greater than it has ever been’

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

Prospect Medical Holdings has underfunded two R.I. hospitals and affected operations, state says

Obituaries

Daisaku Ikeda, head of global Japanese Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai, dies at 95

Sally Darr, formidable chef of ‘80s-era French bistro, dies at 100

Roger Kastel, ‘Jaws’ poster artist, dies at 92