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CVS pharmacists are burned out and frustrated. What's being done?

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In New Hampshire, Nikki Haley’s support seems only to be growing

Haley also nabbed a big endorsement this week: Americans for Prosperity Action, the Koch network’s political arm, plans to bolster her candidacy.

Hamas releases 16 more hostages, Israeli military says

Hamas released 16 hostages in the last swap for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel under the current Gaza truce, as international mediators raced to seal another extension to allow further exchanges.

Amid concerns about antisemitism on campus, Department of Education opens investigation into Harvard Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt Boston City Council meeting

Turtleboy blogger could face more charges in witness intimidation case involving Karen Read trial, special prosecutor says
Aidan T. Kearney, the blogger behind the Turtleboy website, could soon face new criminal charges for his actions toward prosecution witnesses in the Karen Read murder case, according to the special prosecutor who has already filed nine criminal charges against him.

Cover-up claims, conspiracies, and a controversial blogger: A full breakdown of the Karen Read case

Mass. magician pleads guilty to abusing child in Cambodia, transferring illicit images

A Sutton man who worked for more than two decades as a magician pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges.

In Newton, Somerville, ‘catch-up’ water bills catch many off guard, with some owing thousands

For four years, Newton has sent residents water bills based on estimated usage, not the actual amount. Now, as city employees go door to door checking exact readings as they replace thousands of water meters, some residents are receiving big retroactive bills.

Man kills girlfriend, then himself, in Marlborough, officials say

Tell us: Do you live in a new apartment building in Greater Boston? We want to hear about it.

Retired New York State Police investigator Gloria Coppola began looking into the case of a teenage boy from Pawtuxet Village who disappeared in 1947. No one gave Frank Hanson Jr. a gravestone, so Coppola arranged to have a memorial bench with his name placed in the Pawtuxet Memorial Park.

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.

Freshed-baked bread is a hallmark at Tutto Italiano in Hyde Park.

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

A few weeks back, our restaurant critic, Devra First, went looking for the best Italian sandwiches around Boston. Then we turned the tables and asked Globe readers to weigh in. They had a lot to say.

Discussion: Where's your favorite place to get an Italian sandwich in Boston? Two New England eateries make Esquire’s list of best new restaurants in America

The sailboat, the skateboarder, and the shipwreck Gloucester was left to clean up
“We’ll never see this guy again,” said T.J. Ciarametaro, the Gloucester harbormaster, after the wreck.

celtics

10 Celtics thoughts, from a grueling schedule to Jayson Tatum’s turnovers
The Celtics will be covering a lot of miles and time-zone changes in the next couple of weeks if they reach the tournament final.

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

Sales of Truly in 2021 became fodder for shareholder litigation against parent company Boston Beer Co.

Boston Beer Co. scores a win on lawsuit over Truly hard seltzer sales

A court ruled that the maker of Sam Adams did not mislead its investors by hyping sales of its Truly hard seltzer in 2021.

Shareholder lawsuits are common. Here’s what makes the one at Tree House Brewing unique.

A fast moving jet stream brings several chance of precipitation to the northeast into the second week of December.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Sunny skies arrive on Thursday before rainy weather greets the weekend

Yesterday’s high temperature of only 40 degrees in Boston continued the trend of below average temperatures for the month.

Mayor Wu on Boston’s winter: ‘We will be prepared for anything’

Progressive activists with MoveOn displayed a 15-foot inflatable of Representative George Santos (R-NY) as they called for his expulsion from Congress on Capitol Hill Nov. 28, 2023 in Washington, D.C.

15-foot George Santos balloon becomes social media sensation. Congressman calls it ‘flattering.’

The inflatable was debuted by MoveOn, a progressive political action group that has called on the House to expel the New York representative following the release of a scathing House Ethics Committee report.

Lawmakers can ‘vote their conscience’ on expelling Santos, House speaker says, but he has concerns

After launching last November, ChatGPT became one of the fastest-growing online applications ever. And one year later, it attracts about 100 million users each week.

ChatGPT launched one year ago. Here’s what we’ve learned about AI and the future.

OpenAI's chatbot took the world by storm last November. But it will take much longer to understand generative AI's impact, its risks, its vast capacity for error, and the downsides of relying on machines to do our thinking and communicating for us.

Opinion

An old power plant along the Mystic River in Everett is being pitched as the location for a new stadium for the New England Revolution.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Where’s the public in the talks about Robert Kraft’s plan for a soccer stadium in Everett?

The public deserves the opportunity to get the full story on this stadium, from start to finish. So far, that hasn’t happened.

RENÉE GRAHAM

Donald Trump’s un-wonderful life

SCOT LEHIGH

Giving consumers a choice when buying their electricity

IDEAS | JOSHUA PEDERSON

Don’t draft horrible people for your fantasy sports team

JEFF JACOBY

The inescapable conundrum of anonymous speech

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

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Mass. Legislature closes out least productive period in decades
Lawmakers have failed to move proposals to Governor Maura Healey’s desk that would address some of the state’s most pressing issues.

MIAA Super Bowl live updates: West Boylston leads 12-7 at halftime of Division 8 title game
Follow along as 16 schools from across the state vie for the ultimate crown here in Foxborough, starting with Division 8 on Wednesday evening.

Mother of man charged with shooting three college students of Palestinian descent in Burlington, Vt., speaks out

Jason J. Eaton was charged with attempted murder in connection with the shootings. Investigators are trying to determine if the attack was a hate crime.

Families of wounded Palestinian students speak out

STAGE REVIEW

‘Chicago’ holds up a mirror to its times, and to ours
A mordant, ink-dark sendup of celebrity culture, a corrupt legal system, tabloid journalism, and showbiz, “Chicago,” now at the Emerson Colonial Theatre, remains a warhorse with bite.

What a tail: In widely shared video, man records rat crawling up his leg in Fort Point
David Gomez, 24, of East Boston, remained calm and took video while his friends ran in fright.

ADDRESS

Home of the Week: For less than $600k, a three-bedroom Roslindale condo
The unit, which has been completely renovated, comes with a private deck and three parking spots.

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‘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.

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.

Coming soon: ‘Nightmare in Mission Hill,’ the true story of the Charles Stuart case
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.

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How well do you know Boston?
The Boston area is full of iconic sights and scenes. How well do you know them?

Culture & Lifestyle

From left: Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean in 1984's "This Is Spinal Tap."

6 ‘Spinal Tap’ moments to savor before the sequel

Josh Andrés Rivera attended "The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes" in Hollywood earlier this month. The actor will play Aaron Hernandez in the upcoming series "American Sports Story."

‘American Sports Story’ cast shapes up for Aaron Hernandez FX series

The 2024 Salem Film Fest runs March 21-24. Tickets are on sale at its website.

Salem Film Festival spotlights documentary films from around the world

Tess Gerritsen and her book “The Spy Coast”

Tess Gerritsen spies literary opportunity in the unexpected

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

A woman wore a yarmulke that reads "Ceasefire Now" during a Jewish Shacharit morning prayer service near the US Capitol on Nov. 13.

JOAN VENNOCHI

More rabbis are calling for Israel-Hamas cease-fire

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu faced questions from media reporters after being involved in a car crash in Roslindale in early June.

MARCELA GARCÍA

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

A marijuana cultivation and production facility in Holyoke owned by Florida-based Trulieve.

EDITORIAL

Cannabis worker’s death cries for improved workplace safety rules

Avangrid said its Vineyard Wind 1 offshore substation will collect power generated by 62 wind turbine generators, and will bring it to shore through two export cables powering 400,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts.

William Lefebvre and Victoria Wisniewski

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

Two boys carried a jerrycan through a yard at a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov. 14, where internally displaced Palestinians have taken refuge amid the Israel/Hamas war.

Uri Dromi

A UN refugee agency has been perpetuating the problem of Palestinian refugees

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

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Textron plans to cut more than 700 jobs

It’s unclear how many layoffs will take place in Providence, R.I.-based headquarters.

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Parenting alone, with strength and courage

The usual tribulations of parenting are magnified — greatly — when there is only one parent. All the more so when there’s bereavement, divorce, or separation to contend with.

US moves to protect wolverines as climate change melts their mountain refuges, threatens extinction

The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists warning that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges.

SJC justice stepping down early to join UMass, giving Healey another chance to mold high court

David Lowy, the only Republican on the seven-seat bench, will replace former Middlesex County district attorney Gerry Leone as the UMass system’s top lawyer.

Sports

West Boylston and Carver take the field at Gillette Stadium for the Division 8 Super Bowl, which kicks off eight championship games over three days.

MIAA Super Bowl live updates: West Boylston leads 12-7 at halftime of Division 8 title game

Follow along as 16 schools from across the state vie for the ultimate crown here in Foxborough, starting with Division 8 on Wednesday evening.

Stonehill defender Hannah Squires didn't look out of place in net, backstopping the Skyhawks to two wins in early November.

women's college hockey notebook

Stonehill defender Hannah Squires making big saves, on and off the ice

The sophomore donated stem cells to a cancer patient in October, and donned the goalie gear for two wins earlier this month.

Mark Cuban, 65, purchased the Mavericks in 2000.

NBA

Sands casino family says they’ll buy majority of Dallas Mavericks from Mark Cuban; AP source says valuation is $3.5 billion.

Cuban would retain control of basketball operations in the deal.

Olympics

In a surprise, IOC lines up French Alps to host 2030 Winter Olympics; Salt Lake City, a shoo-in, set for 2034 edition

MIAA super bowls

Watch live: Carver and West Boylston battle it out for the Division 8 Super Bowl title

NFL notebook

Jets begin Aaron Rodgers’s 21-day practice window in next step in recovery from torn Achilles’

Business

Conservative Supreme Court justices seem open to an attack on the Securities and Exchange Commission

A majority of the nine-member court suggested that people accused of fraud by the SEC should have the right to have their cases decided by a jury in federal court, instead of by the SEC’s in-house administrative law judges.

US economic growth for last quarter is revised up to a 5.2% annual rate

In the current fourth quarter, though, economists say growth is likely slowing sharply from the cumulative effects of higher borrowing rates on consumer and business spending.

RI BUSINESS

Textron plans to cut more than 700 jobs

Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users

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PERSPECTIVE

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

LOVE LETTERS

Can this couple rekindle their spark by reliving a relationship milestone?

MISS CONDUCT

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

COOKING

CVS pharmacists are burned out and frustrated. What's being done?

In New Hampshire, Nikki Haley’s support seems only to be growing

Hamas releases 16 more hostages, Israeli military says

Mass. magician pleads guilty to abusing child in Cambodia, transferring illicit images

In Newton, Somerville, ‘catch-up’ water bills catch many off guard, with some owing thousands

Man kills girlfriend, then himself, in Marlborough, officials say

Tell us: Do you live in a new apartment building in Greater Boston? We want to hear about it.

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

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

The sailboat, the skateboarder, and the shipwreck Gloucester was left to clean up “We’ll never see this guy again,” said T.J. Ciarametaro, the Gloucester harbormaster, after the wreck.

celtics 10 Celtics thoughts, from a grueling schedule to Jayson Tatum’s turnovers The Celtics will be covering a lot of miles and time-zone changes in the next couple of weeks if they reach the tournament final.

Boston Beer Co. scores a win on lawsuit over Truly hard seltzer sales

Sunny skies arrive on Thursday before rainy weather greets the weekend

15-foot George Santos balloon becomes social media sensation. Congressman calls it ‘flattering.’

ChatGPT launched one year ago. Here’s what we’ve learned about AI and the future.

Where’s the public in the talks about Robert Kraft’s plan for a soccer stadium in Everett?

Donald Trump’s un-wonderful life

Giving consumers a choice when buying their electricity

Don’t draft horrible people for your fantasy sports team

The inescapable conundrum of anonymous speech

Reimagining an American ideal

Explore the project

More recent News

Mass. Legislature closes out least productive period in decades Lawmakers have failed to move proposals to Governor Maura Healey’s desk that would address some of the state’s most pressing issues.

MIAA Super Bowl live updates: West Boylston leads 12-7 at halftime of Division 8 title game Follow along as 16 schools from across the state vie for the ultimate crown here in Foxborough, starting with Division 8 on Wednesday evening.

Mother of man charged with shooting three college students of Palestinian descent in Burlington, Vt., speaks out

STAGE REVIEW ‘Chicago’ holds up a mirror to its times, and to ours A mordant, ink-dark sendup of celebrity culture, a corrupt legal system, tabloid journalism, and showbiz, “Chicago,” now at the Emerson Colonial Theatre, remains a warhorse with bite.

What a tail: In widely shared video, man records rat crawling up his leg in Fort Point David Gomez, 24, of East Boston, remained calm and took video while his friends ran in fright.

ADDRESS Home of the Week: For less than $600k, a three-bedroom Roslindale condo The unit, which has been completely renovated, comes with a private deck and three parking spots.

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US economic growth for last quarter is revised up to a 5.2% annual rate

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In Newton, Somerville, ‘catch-up’ water bills catch many off guard, with some owing thousands

What a tail: In widely shared video, man records rat crawling up his leg in Fort Point

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10 Celtics thoughts, from a grueling schedule to Jayson Tatum’s turnovers

The sailboat, the skateboarder, and the shipwreck Gloucester was left to clean up
“We’ll never see this guy again,” said T.J. Ciarametaro, the Gloucester harbormaster, after the wreck.

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10 Celtics thoughts, from a grueling schedule to Jayson Tatum’s turnovers
The Celtics will be covering a lot of miles and time-zone changes in the next couple of weeks if they reach the tournament final.

Mass. Legislature closes out least productive period in decades
Lawmakers have failed to move proposals to Governor Maura Healey’s desk that would address some of the state’s most pressing issues.

MIAA Super Bowl live updates: West Boylston leads 12-7 at halftime of Division 8 title game
Follow along as 16 schools from across the state vie for the ultimate crown here in Foxborough, starting with Division 8 on Wednesday evening.

STAGE REVIEW

‘Chicago’ holds up a mirror to its times, and to ours
A mordant, ink-dark sendup of celebrity culture, a corrupt legal system, tabloid journalism, and showbiz, “Chicago,” now at the Emerson Colonial Theatre, remains a warhorse with bite.

What a tail: In widely shared video, man records rat crawling up his leg in Fort Point
David Gomez, 24, of East Boston, remained calm and took video while his friends ran in fright.

ADDRESS

Home of the Week: For less than $600k, a three-bedroom Roslindale condo
The unit, which has been completely renovated, comes with a private deck and three parking spots.

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.

Coming soon: ‘Nightmare in Mission Hill,’ the true story of the Charles Stuart case
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.

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How well do you know Boston?
The Boston area is full of iconic sights and scenes. How well do you know them?