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‘It’s frankly shameful.’ Mass. Legislature closes out least productive period in decades.

Lawmakers have failed to move proposals to Governor Healey’s desk that would address some of the state’s most pressing issues.

Families of wounded Palestinian students speak out
The parents of Kinnan Abdalhamid said he “told us that he was afraid to leave the hospital.”

College students shot in Vt. are leaders and proud advocates for Palestinian cause, former teacher says Mother of man charged with shooting three students of Palestinian descent in Burlington, Vt., speaks out

Amid Israel-Hamas unrest on campus, Department of Education opens investigation into Harvard

A Harvard spokesperson said Tuesday evening that the university supports “the work of the Office of Civil Rights to ensure students’ rights to access educational programs are safeguarded and will work with the office to address their questions.”
Mediators look to extend truce in Gaza on its final day, with one more hostage swap planned

No clues, no suspects, no trace. But thanks to a retired police investigator, an unsolved Cranston case won’t be forgotten.

A retired investigator who specializes in missing persons cases is captivated by the disappearance of a teenage boy more than 70 years ago. She worked to bring him home — and revived his memory.

Charlie Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway, has died

A lawyer by training, Munger helped Buffett, who was seven years his junior, craft a philosophy of investing in companies for the long term.

COVID-19 pandemic widened capital gap between white, minority businesses in Mass., data shows

Co-owner of Sons of Boston bar pleads guilty to accessory charge in connection with fatal stabbing of Marine
AS I SEE IT

How well do you know Boston?

The Boston area is full of iconic sights and scenes. How well do you know them?
ben volin | on football

Panthers are prowling for a big-name head coach. Watch out for Bill Belichick.

There are several reasons why taking over in Carolina next season would make sense for Belichick.

‘I feel reborn’: One man’s fight to overcome addiction after living at Mass. and Cass

Miguel Pagan is determined to fulfill a promise he made to his mother to get off heroin, yet the pull of his old life remains strong.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Expand the South Boston convention center? Close the Hynes? City’s convention authority needs a vision.

New leadership should mean swifter action on expansion, real estate deals.
JEFF JACOBY

The inescapable conundrum of anonymous speech
RENÉE GRAHAM

Donald Trump’s un-wonderful life
SCOT LEHIGH

Giving consumers a choice when buying their electricity
LETTERS

The Patriots’ quarterback problem
Beyond the Gilded Gate

Reimagining an American ideal

California is trying to tackle its housing crisis by rethinking the traditional single-family home. Why isn’t Massachusetts?

Explore the project

More recent News

Class is in session: Taylor Swift course coming to Harvard next year
“Taylor Swift and Her World” will dive into the singer’s evolution and her artistic counterparts, according to professor Stephanie Burt.

The upside of Boston’s office space glut? Opportunity for startups.
With millions of square feet on the market for subleasing, venture capital firms are snapping up cheap space.

GLOBE SANTA
Lives upended by crises, mothers ask Globe Santa for help
Globe Santa helps make wishes come true, delivering quality gifts to thousands of families annually since 1956.

US military Osprey aircraft with 6 aboard crashes off southern Japan, at least 1 dead

A crew member who was recovered from the ocean after a US military Osprey aircraft carrying six people crashed Wednesday off southern Japan has been pronounced dead, coast guard officials said.
THE FINE PRINT

Rent-a-Center to pay more than $8 million to settle claims of abusive conduct toward poor consumers

Texas-based Rent-a-Center agrees to pay $8.75 million to settle allegations it engaged in a pattern of abusive misconduct targeting low-income communities.

Newburyport plant where worker died to close permanently

The facility hasn’t operated for months and production will not resume, according to PolyCarbon Industries, Inc., known as PCI.

Recommended reads

You may think you know everything about the Charles Stuart case. You don’t.

For two years, a team of Globe reporters investigated the case. What they found reveals hard truths, unveils explosive new findings, and changes the narrative of a story long cemented in Boston’s lore.

Cover-up claims, conspiracies, and a controversial blogger: A full breakdown of the Karen Read case
Last week, a boisterous crowd of Canton residents voted for an outside review of its police department. It was just the latest dramatic development in a murder case filled with controversy, conspiracy accusations, and runaway speculation and theories.

With funding challenges looming, Mass. child care could be in jeopardy
Many early education providers have already reached a breaking point, and the loss of additional state funding in June could be devastating.

Governor Healey unveils plan to protect Mass. coastline from climate change
Governor Maura Healey laid out a new regional approach to collaborate with 78 coastal communities to protect the state's shoreline from the impacts of climate change.

Culture & Lifestyle

Salem Film Festival spotlights documentary films from around the world

Tess Gerritsen spies literary opportunity in the unexpected

President Biden to join James Taylor at benefit concert in Boston

Boston Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’ brings classic holiday magic

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

JOAN VENNOCHI

More rabbis are calling for Israel-Hamas cease-fire

MARCELA GARCÍA

A collision with Boston City Hall over Wu’s car accident
EDITORIAL

Cannabis worker’s death cries for improved workplace safety rules
William Lefebvre and Victoria Wisniewski

Gen Z takes a seat — and sets the table — at COP28
Uri Dromi

A UN refugee agency has been perpetuating the problem of Palestinian refugees
IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

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

Metro

No clues, no suspects, no trace. But thanks to a retired police investigator, an unsolved Cranston case won’t be forgotten.

A retired investigator who specializes in missing persons cases is captivated by the disappearance of a teenage boy more than 70 years ago. She worked to bring him home — and revived his memory.
RI FOOD & DINING

4 pop-up restaurants worth checking out in Rhode Island in December 2023

A ticketed dinner serving small plates, a bar takeover from a Boston sake expert, smash burgers, and more.

‘It’s frankly shameful.’ Mass. Legislature closes out least productive period in decades.

Lawmakers have failed to move proposals to Governor Healey’s desk that would address some of the state’s most pressing issues.

Amid Israel-Hamas unrest on campus, Department of Education opens investigation into Harvard

A Harvard spokesperson said Tuesday evening that the university supports “the work of the Office of Civil Rights to ensure students’ rights to access educational programs are safeguarded and will work with the office to address their questions.”

Sports

christopher l. gasper

The way the NBA’s In-Season Tournament is set up now, there are no winners

Instead of reproducing the soccer model, the NBA has just repackaged regular-season games with bad floors, bad feelings, and point-padding victories.
gary washburn | on basketball

When it came time, Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla pulled out all the stops to advance in In-Season Tournament

Mazzulla, who downplayed the tournament for weeks, spent the final period feverishly coaching his team to win by enough points to reach the quarterfinals.
no. 7 colorado 85, boston university 55

Boston University women’s basketball led late in the third quarter, before No. 7 Colorado went on a 38-3 run

Trailing 50-47 with 2:27 left in the third, the Buffaloes went on a spurt to pull away from the Terriers.
Celtics 124, Bulls 97

In need of making a point, Celtics blow out Bulls on a bizarre night at TD Garden to advance to quarterfinals of In-Season Tournament
nhl

Blackhawks cutting ties with Corey Perry, citing unacceptable conduct on part of veteran forward
Celtics

Celtics honor hero who saved lives during Lewiston shooting

Business

RI FOOD & DINING

4 pop-up restaurants worth checking out in Rhode Island in December 2023

A ticketed dinner serving small plates, a bar takeover from a Boston sake expert, smash burgers, and more.

Lawsuit against Tree House is a classic small business power struggle

The case is a face-off between a minority shareholder, Eric Granger, and the duo that owns 98 percent of the successful brewery.

The world economy will slow next year because of inflation, high rates and war, OECD says

Conservative attack on government regulation reaches the Supreme Court
magazine
PERSPECTIVE

The Globe’s film critic picks 6 holiday movies that are actually good
MISS CONDUCT

My in-laws helped repay my student loan. How do I thank them?
winter travel

30 tiny, perfect things about winter in New England
Winter travel

New England ski resorts are rolling out upgrades this winter. Here’s what you should know.

metro

Boston police renew calls for leads on 25th anniversary of transgender woman’s death

Families of wounded Palestinian students speak out

Lives upended by crises, mothers ask Globe Santa for help

sports

Five story lines to watch with the start of the boys’ hockey season

Tiger Woods not optimistic PGA Tour deal with Saudis will be done by end of year

AP source: Mark Cuban working on $3.5 billion sale of Mavericks to Sands casino family

business

AIM to help diverse companies improve digital skills

Elevator plummets at a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 workers and injuring 75

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong

politics

Hunter Biden offers to testify in House inquiry, but only in public

Mr. Amo goes to Washington (and Smithfield)

Koch network endorses Nikki Haley in Republican presidential primary

Nation

Opening statements to begin in the final trial in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain

Biden targeting GOP’s Boebert in fresh political attack on Republicans

US life expectancy rose last year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level

World

US military Osprey aircraft with 6 aboard crashes off southern Japan, at least 1 dead

An ailing Pope Francis appears at a weekly audience but says he’s not well and has aide read speech

Kuwait’s ruling emir, 86, was hospitalized due to emergency health problem but is reportedly stable

opinion

Cannabis worker’s death cries for improved workplace safety rules

More rabbis are calling for Israel-Hamas cease-fire

In praise of the staple

lifestyle

With White House holiday decorations, Jill Biden wanted holiday visitors to feel like kids again

Vermilion Theater presents ‘God of Carnage’ as a Mandarin and English production

Should I stay with my husband?

food & dining

We asked Globe readers to tell us where to find the best Italian sandwiches. Here’s what they said.

4 pop-up restaurants worth checking out in Rhode Island in December 2023

Training the next generation of chefs in New Hampshire

travel

New England ski resorts are rolling out upgrades this winter. Here’s what you should know.

How to act like a rude jerk while traveling. (But please don’t.)

Shelby Acosta on having curves, scoring a deal, and the appeal of airport food

Arts

The rooms where it happened: A new MFA show looks at photographers’ studios

Stolen . . . or saved? Professor accuses late minister of pilfering Edward Hopper artwork now at MFA.

’80s hip-hop culture, courtesy of Ice-T and DJ Afrika Islam, is on vivid display at Harvard

Books

Tess Gerritsen spies literary opportunity in the unexpected

Rhode Island bookstore offers holiday gift to support Indigenous author and museum; new book presents portrait of Bangor during a decade of change; Purple Couch Bookshop opens in North Andover

Claire Keegan chronicles malignant masculinity in slim but foreboding collection

Movies

‘Maestro’ presents master challenge for director, star Bradley Cooper

Salem Film Festival spotlights documentary films from around the world

Watch: Chris Evans’s rescue dog Dodger adorably crashes interview on ‘The View’

Television

A world at war in season 4 of ‘All Creatures Great and Small’

This week’s TV: Eddie Murphy makes a deal with an elf, ‘Bookie’ debuts, and the return of Blue Sky shows

This week’s TV: ‘Fargo’ is back, Hannah Waddingham sings, and about those ghosts in ‘The Crown’

music

Morgan Wallen tops Apple Music’s 2023 song chart while Taylor Swift, SZA also lead streaming lists

Jean Knight, who struck platinum with ‘Mr. Big Stuff,’ dies at 80

Class is in session: Taylor Swift course coming to Harvard next year

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’ brings classic holiday magic

Two Broadway legends with staying power: ‘Chicago’ and composer John Kander

For these superstar queens, the holidays are anything but a drag

Health

In R.I., there’s a lack of dentists caring for patients with special needs. This program is trying to change that.

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

Obituaries

Jean Knight, who struck platinum with ‘Mr. Big Stuff,’ dies at 80

Charlie Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway, has died

Judge Baron H. Martin, a groundbreaking Black lawyer for MBTA, dies at 97