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Nightmare in Mission Hill | Chapter One

The untold story of the Charles and Carol Stuart shooting

You may have heard the story. You may think you know what happened. But you don’t.

Former New Hampshire camp counselor pleads guilty to sexual abuse of minor
Matthew J. Scavitto, 39, was a camper and later a counselor at Camp Tecumseh in Moultonborough, N.H., from 1994 to 2014.

Mass. House again fails to pass $3 billion spending bill amid GOP opposition

The House’s small GOP caucus used the same procedural move it did on previous days to halt Saturday's session and a deal Democrats negotiated on the wide-ranging budget bill.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

They’re poor, but not poor enough to qualify for emergency housing in Massachusetts
The income limits for those seeking emergency housing in our right to shelter state are ludicrously low, leaving desperate families like Tami Mitchell’s stranded.

Yvonne Abraham: For some families, the right to shelter isn’t a right at all

A plane passed over Interstate 5 on a routine approach to San Diego International Airport last month.

Drunk and asleep on the job: Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink

Israeli offensive shifts to crowded southern Gaza, driving up death toll despite evacuation orders
Israel pounded targets in crowded southern Gaza on Saturday and ordered more neighborhoods designated for attack to evacuate, driving up the death toll even as the United States and others urged it to do more to protect civilians a day after a truce collapsed.

Israelis are angry at Netanyahu, but chances of his ouster are slim

Union workers seeking labor contract rally outside Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum
More than 150 union workers and their supporters marched in front of Arnold Arboretum on Saturday, rallying for a fair contract for those in charge of the park’s upkeep.

Pittsfield airman identified in fatal Osprey crash in Japan

Sharon police investigating ‘hit list’ allegedly created by high school student

Back Bay building ‘miraculously’ becomes affordable housing

WATCH: Business columnist Shirley Leung explains how a building in Back Bay has been transformed into housing for people who used to be homeless.

shirley leung

A miracle on Clarendon Street: How a Back Bay building became apartments for homeless people

Projects like these typically take years to pull together, but this one took just a little over a year from the filing of its plan to the start of renovations.

FDA poised to approve first gene-editing therapy, made by local drug firms
The life-changing drug, developed by Boston-based Vertex and its Swiss partner CRISPR Therapeutics, targets sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that causes crippling pain.

A person runs along Quincy Shore Drive in Quincy, MA.

What’s your risk of dementia? New tool from Mass. General helps assess brain health.

New research suggests a high score on measures of physical health, lifestyle, and social life translates to a lower risk of some brain diseases.

On Football

Firing Patriots’ Bill Belichick and Chargers’ Brandon Staley sooner rather than later would be the humane thing to do
Week after week their job status is a main topic during game broadcasts, and they have to appear in front of cameras and take a beating for their underachieving teams.

Jabrill Peppers apologizes for disparaging comment caught on hot mike after Giants game

It will be interesting to see if Robert and Jonathan Kraft lean on outside consultants to help them navigate the head coach hiring process for the first time in 24 years.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

The Patriots may soon look for a new coach, and they’re going to have a lot of competition

Almost half of the NFL’s 32 teams are weighing whether to fire their coach.

Patriots add Malik Cunningham to roster for Chargers game

Ashley Randele (right) with her late father, Thomas Randele of Lynnfield, who turned out to be one of America’s most-wanted fugitives.

Daughter tells story of Lynnfield father’s secret past as an infamous bank robber, and how he got away with it

Remember the guy who robbed a bank in Cleveland, then changed his name and moved to Massachusetts, where he started a new life for himself and never got caught? In a new podcast, his daughter tells her side of the wild story.

Celtics guard Jrue Holiday (left) drives to the bucket against Philadelphia center Mo Bamba during the second half of Friday night's Boston win at TD Garden.

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

Celtics should feel fortunate they walked off Garden floor with that win

Maybe in previous years, this was one of those nights where the Celtics wouldn't have won. On Friday, it was their 15th victory in 19 games to begin the season.

Sunday basketball notes: Billy Donovan searching for answers that have eluded Bulls through a series of rebuilds

Wrexham owners Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds celebrated during a bus parade in May marking the title-winning seasons for both the women's and men's teams.

Tara Sullivan

‘Welcome to Wrexham’ another example of the right mix of sports, life, and television

The show chronicles the investment by Hollywood stars and friends Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds into the downtrodden but plucky soccer club in the North Wales city of Wrexham.

The website Futurism revealed Monday that Sports Illustrated had published an assortment of articles bylined by writers who didn’t exist — with accompanying headshots that originated on a website selling images generated by Artificial Intelligence.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

Talented humans still working at Sports Illustrated deserved so much more than shameful AI episode

It’s sad to see the life wrung out of it by parasitic owners who value Sports Illustrated’s name as a brand while utterly disregarding why it once meant so much to so many.

Opinion

A team of veterinarians, scientists, and volunteers attempt to turn a tranquilized 7-ton wild African elephant that had collapsed on his belly onto his side in preparation for an elaborate and messy procedure that will collect the animal's semen.

IDEAS | Boštjan Videmšek with photographs by Matjaž Krivic

How to collect a sperm sample from an elephant

Fertility rates of the majestic creatures are in decline, both in the wild and in captivity. Frozen Dumbo 3 aims to reverse that.

RENÉE GRAHAM

It’s been another deadly year for the trans community

RENÉE LOTH

The advent of the 2023 Advent calendar extravaganza

Barney Frank

A new name for members of a Grand Old Party

MARCELA GARCÍA

What’s behind the congressional fight over Ukraine and immigration

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

DCD Automotive drops the famed Boch name from eight dealerships
Affected dealerships include the Boch Honda and Boch Toyota stores on the “Automile” stretch of Route 1 in Norwood.

BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Hot Johnny Beecher sits for Bruins in Toronto, while Brad Marchand tries to play his way out of scoring funk
Beecher, the 22-year-old rookie center, was outscored by only Charlie Coyle in Boston's last six games, but he found himself on the sidelines at Scotiabank Arena.

Chicago and other northern US cities scramble to house migrants with coldest weather just ahead
Chicago is scrambling to house hundreds of asylum-seekers who are still sheltering on sidewalks, at police stations and at the city’s busiest airport as the cold weather sets in and with winter just around the corner

Crossing the Dnieper: What a Ukrainian military operation might mean
Bands of Ukrainian soldiers fighting to take back territory on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, an area long controlled by Russia, have been bombed by Russian warplanes, assaulted by Russian infantry and stalked by drones.

Globe Santa’s Gifts are Priority Mail
The task of delivering the gifts to children is the final step in a year-long, breathless feat of toy-shopping, donation-raising, letter-reading, logistics-calculating, database-making, label-printing, toy-sorting, box-packing, and pallet-piling

At UN climate talks, oil companies pledge to combat methane; environmentalists call it a ‘smokescreen’
Fifty oil companies have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations by 2030, the president of this year’s climate talks said Saturday.

US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate

Globe Santa

Grandparents lament they are ‘a little old for the task’ of raising children
Grandparents, ideally, can often offer a safe home with unconditional love. But for many it comes at a cost, and often this cost is financial.

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A majority of the state’s youngest students struggle to read, new report finds

As many as 20 percent of children studied showed signs of having dyslexia, a language processing disorder that must be addressed with specialized reading instruction.

In helping expel George Santos, House Republicans draw a line at his abuse of the political system
Santos, a 35-year-old first term lawmaker, became just the sixth House member in history to be expelled, and the first who wasn’t already convicted of crimes or who had demonstrated “disloyalty to the Union” during the Civil War.

MATTHEW GILBERT

The 10 best TV shows of 2023
A sibling rivalry for the ages. A road-rage incident. A restaurant’s struggles. A chaotic cross-country journey. And many murders in many buildings. They all add up to a rewarding year for television viewers.

Dinner with Cupid

‘By the end of the meal, I had almost forgotten that I was on a blind date’
Will this law student make his case for a second date?

Culture & Lifestyle

The 10 best TV shows of 2023

Author Ben Mezrich at his Newton home in the room where he often writes.

Ben Mezrich’s new book is on Elon Musk and how Twitter broke the billionaire

Installation view of "Like Magic" at MASS MoCA. Foreground: Gelare Khoshgozaran, "U.S. Customs Demands to Know", ongoing. Courtesy of the artist. Background (from left): Raven Chacon, "Compass," 2021. "Score," painted on wall. Courtesy of the artist. Raven Chacon, For Zitkála-Šá, 2017–2020. Courtesy of the artist.

In ‘Like Magic,’ 10 artists conjure shadowy refuge at MassMoCA

In his chaotic live shows, Eric Andre detonates a comedy ‘explosion’

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

Students participated in a protest outside the Columbia University campus on Nov. 15.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Rejecting students who support terrorism isn’t cancel culture

RENÉE LOTH

The advent of the 2023 Advent calendar extravaganza

JEFF JACOBY

The inescapable conundrum of anonymous speech

Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges, pictured, was charged with felony domestic assault by Los Angeles County prosecutors after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend in front of their two children in 2022.

IDEAS | JOSHUA PEDERSON

Don’t draft horrible people for your fantasy sports team

Lights adorned a Marshfield home. Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Governor Maura Healey have called for the end of the state’s residential electricity retail program. But Massachusetts should fix rather than nix the residential retail program.

SCOT LEHIGH

Giving consumers a choice when buying their electricity

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

BLOTTER TALES

Unexpected cattle call on a baseball field in West Bridgewater

Officers encounter large animals on a baseball field in West Bridgewater, a rat on the loose warrants attention of police in Wareham, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.

Union workers seeking labor contract rally outside Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum

More than 150 union workers and their supporters marched in front of Arnold Arboretum on Saturday, rallying for a fair contract for those in charge of the park’s upkeep.

Former New Hampshire camp counselor pleads guilty to sexual abuse of minor

Matthew J. Scavitto, 39, was a camper and later a counselor at Camp Tecumseh in Moultonborough, N.H., from 1994 to 2014.

Globe Santa’s Gifts are Priority Mail

The task of delivering the gifts to children is the final step in a year-long, breathless feat of toy-shopping, donation-raising, letter-reading, logistics-calculating, database-making, label-printing, toy-sorting, box-packing, and pallet-piling

Sports

Brad Marchand has struggled to find his scoring form of late, going eight games without a goal and five games without a point heading into Saturday night's Bruins game in Toronto.

BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Hot Johnny Beecher sits for Bruins in Toronto, while Brad Marchand tries to play his way out of scoring funk

Beecher, the 22-year-old rookie center, was outscored by only Charlie Coyle in Boston's last six games, but he found himself on the sidelines at Scotiabank Arena.

PATRIOTS

Patriots add Malik Cunningham to roster for Chargers game

The Patriots elevated the rookie quarterback/wide receiver from the practice squad Saturday in advance of Sunday’s game against the Chargers.

Celtics

‘Let’s take action and get these guys back’: How Joe Mazzulla’s homecoming push has reconnected Celtics past and present

“Joe wants this to be a huge family,” assistant coach Sam Cassell said. “The tradition is there, but he just wants this to be a huge family.”

Kevin Paul Dupont | Sunday hockey notes

Former Northeastern goalie Devon Levi’s road with the Sabres taking a detour

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Billy Donovan searching for answers that have eluded Bulls through a series of rebuilds

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Who will be in the spotlight at baseball’s Winter Meetings?

Business

shirley leung

A miracle on Clarendon Street: How a Back Bay building became apartments for homeless people

Projects like these typically take years to pull together, but this one took just a little over a year from the filing of its plan to the start of renovations.

FDA poised to approve first gene-editing therapy, made by local drug firms

The life-changing drug, developed by Boston-based Vertex and its Swiss partner CRISPR Therapeutics, targets sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that causes crippling pain.

Surging US oil production brings down prices and raises climate fears

Chicago and other northern US cities scramble to house migrants with coldest weather just ahead

magazine

2023

Top Places to Work in Massachusetts 2023: Explore the winners lists and more

PERSPECTIVE

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

CONNECTIONS

What 52 bandannas say about my late son’s life

MISS CONDUCT

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

metro

Mass. House again fails to pass $3 billion spending bill amid GOP opposition

They’re poor, but not poor enough to qualify for emergency housing in Massachusetts

A gift for Globe Santa, from Ukraine

sports

The Patriots may soon look for a new coach, and they’re going to have a lot of competition

Bruins at Maple Leafs: A trip to Toronto is the perfect way to take the temperature of this team

With baseball’s Winter Meetings about to start, here are some pros and cons of pitchers the Red Sox may target

business

Drunk and asleep on the job: Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink

US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate

Biden rule aims to reduce methane emissions, targeting US oil and gas industry for global warming

politics

Elon Musk departed following a meeting in the office of then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at the Capitol in Washington in September.

The US government can’t quit Elon Musk - even amid erratic behavior

How Republicans split over whether to expel George Santos

Lawsuits against Donald Trump over Jan. 6 insurrection can move forward, appeals court says

Nation

Mule deer near Descanso Beach in Avalon, Calif., on Santa Catalina Island, on Nov. 14. A proposal to kill all of the island's mule deer, which along with other non-native animals have been destroying the island's plant habitat, is infuriating many local residents and animal lovers.

The plan to save a California island? Shoot all of the deer.

Surging US oil production brings down prices and raises climate fears

Chicago and other northern US cities scramble to house migrants with coldest weather just ahead

World

Palestinians fled their homes after the end of a temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Friday.

Israel orders evacuations amid ‘intense’ attacks on southern Gaza

Israeli offensive shifts to crowded southern Gaza, driving up death toll despite evacuation orders

Crossing the Dnieper: What a Ukrainian military operation might mean

opinion

Owner Gary Brockney wears a "Team Trump" T-shirt inside Gary’s Barber Shop in Wolfeboro, N.H.

If you can’t trust your barber, who can you trust?

Trump recycles his health care hokum

A new name for members of a Grand Old Party

lifestyle

My wife’s sex drive is gone

The Children’s Room in Arlington wants to normalize the last taboo: grief

She says she won’t date men

food & dining

Four people charged in connection to Thanksgiving Eve brawl at Kowloon Restaurant

Somerville’s Wade BBQ promises smoky meat with a Boston spin; june bug opens from the Field & Vine team

In Harvard Square, the Painted Burro is a stylish replacement for the Border Cafe

travel

The essence of a Saint Lucia getaway: piton views, the sea, and a hammock (in your own private villa).

We’ve visited St. Lucia 10 times. Here’s what we’ve learned.

How to eat your way around San Juan

What we learned on our multigenerational trip to Disney World

Arts

In ‘Like Magic,’ 10 artists conjure shadowy refuge at MassMoCA

Sylvia Plath’s botanical interests offer a fresh perspective on the poet’s life and work in a Smith College exhibit

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

Books

The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum recently acquired a rare first edition of Phyllis Wheatley's poetry collection.

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum acquires first-edition copy of Phillis Wheatley’s poetry collection; new book offers complex portrait of Henry David Thoreau; Rumspringa Books opens in Springfield

Former New Hampshire camp counselor pleads guilty to sexual abuse of minor Matthew J. Scavitto, 39, was a camper and later a counselor at Camp Tecumseh in Moultonborough, N.H., from 1994 to 2014.

Mass. House again fails to pass $3 billion spending bill amid GOP opposition

YVONNE ABRAHAM They’re poor, but not poor enough to qualify for emergency housing in Massachusetts The income limits for those seeking emergency housing in our right to shelter state are ludicrously low, leaving desperate families like Tami Mitchell’s stranded.

Drunk and asleep on the job: Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink

Union workers seeking labor contract rally outside Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum More than 150 union workers and their supporters marched in front of Arnold Arboretum on Saturday, rallying for a fair contract for those in charge of the park’s upkeep.

Pittsfield airman identified in fatal Osprey crash in Japan

Sharon police investigating ‘hit list’ allegedly created by high school student

A miracle on Clarendon Street: How a Back Bay building became apartments for homeless people

FDA poised to approve first gene-editing therapy, made by local drug firms The life-changing drug, developed by Boston-based Vertex and its Swiss partner CRISPR Therapeutics, targets sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that causes crippling pain.

What’s your risk of dementia? New tool from Mass. General helps assess brain health.

The Patriots may soon look for a new coach, and they’re going to have a lot of competition

Daughter tells story of Lynnfield father’s secret past as an infamous bank robber, and how he got away with it

Celtics should feel fortunate they walked off Garden floor with that win

‘Welcome to Wrexham’ another example of the right mix of sports, life, and television

Talented humans still working at Sports Illustrated deserved so much more than shameful AI episode

How to collect a sperm sample from an elephant

It’s been another deadly year for the trans community

The advent of the 2023 Advent calendar extravaganza

A new name for members of a Grand Old Party

What’s behind the congressional fight over Ukraine and immigration

Reimagining an American ideal

Explore the project

More recent News

DCD Automotive drops the famed Boch name from eight dealerships Affected dealerships include the Boch Honda and Boch Toyota stores on the “Automile” stretch of Route 1 in Norwood.

BRUINS NOTEBOOK Hot Johnny Beecher sits for Bruins in Toronto, while Brad Marchand tries to play his way out of scoring funk Beecher, the 22-year-old rookie center, was outscored by only Charlie Coyle in Boston's last six games, but he found himself on the sidelines at Scotiabank Arena.

Crossing the Dnieper: What a Ukrainian military operation might mean Bands of Ukrainian soldiers fighting to take back territory on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, an area long controlled by Russia, have been bombed by Russian warplanes, assaulted by Russian infantry and stalked by drones.

Globe Santa’s Gifts are Priority Mail The task of delivering the gifts to children is the final step in a year-long, breathless feat of toy-shopping, donation-raising, letter-reading, logistics-calculating, database-making, label-printing, toy-sorting, box-packing, and pallet-piling

At UN climate talks, oil companies pledge to combat methane; environmentalists call it a ‘smokescreen’ Fifty oil companies have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations by 2030, the president of this year’s climate talks said Saturday.

Grandparents lament they are ‘a little old for the task’ of raising children Grandparents, ideally, can often offer a safe home with unconditional love. But for many it comes at a cost, and often this cost is financial.

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A majority of the state’s youngest students struggle to read, new report finds

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Culture & Lifestyle

The 10 best TV shows of 2023

Ben Mezrich’s new book is on Elon Musk and how Twitter broke the billionaire

In ‘Like Magic,’ 10 artists conjure shadowy refuge at MassMoCA

In his chaotic live shows, Eric Andre detonates a comedy ‘explosion’

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

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Rejecting students who support terrorism isn’t cancel culture

The advent of the 2023 Advent calendar extravaganza

The inescapable conundrum of anonymous speech

Don’t draft horrible people for your fantasy sports team

Giving consumers a choice when buying their electricity

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

Metro

Unexpected cattle call on a baseball field in West Bridgewater

Union workers seeking labor contract rally outside Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum

Former New Hampshire camp counselor pleads guilty to sexual abuse of minor

Globe Santa’s Gifts are Priority Mail

Sports

Hot Johnny Beecher sits for Bruins in Toronto, while Brad Marchand tries to play his way out of scoring funk

Patriots add Malik Cunningham to roster for Chargers game

‘Let’s take action and get these guys back’: How Joe Mazzulla’s homecoming push has reconnected Celtics past and present

Former Northeastern goalie Devon Levi’s road with the Sabres taking a detour

Billy Donovan searching for answers that have eluded Bulls through a series of rebuilds

Who will be in the spotlight at baseball’s Winter Meetings?

Business

A miracle on Clarendon Street: How a Back Bay building became apartments for homeless people

FDA poised to approve first gene-editing therapy, made by local drug firms

Surging US oil production brings down prices and raises climate fears

Chicago and other northern US cities scramble to house migrants with coldest weather just ahead

Top Places to Work in Massachusetts 2023: Explore the winners lists and more

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

What 52 bandannas say about my late son’s life

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

metro

Mass. House again fails to pass $3 billion spending bill amid GOP opposition

They’re poor, but not poor enough to qualify for emergency housing in Massachusetts

A gift for Globe Santa, from Ukraine

sports

The Patriots may soon look for a new coach, and they’re going to have a lot of competition

Bruins at Maple Leafs: A trip to Toronto is the perfect way to take the temperature of this team

Former New Hampshire camp counselor pleads guilty to sexual abuse of minor
Matthew J. Scavitto, 39, was a camper and later a counselor at Camp Tecumseh in Moultonborough, N.H., from 1994 to 2014.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

They’re poor, but not poor enough to qualify for emergency housing in Massachusetts
The income limits for those seeking emergency housing in our right to shelter state are ludicrously low, leaving desperate families like Tami Mitchell’s stranded.

Union workers seeking labor contract rally outside Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum
More than 150 union workers and their supporters marched in front of Arnold Arboretum on Saturday, rallying for a fair contract for those in charge of the park’s upkeep.

FDA poised to approve first gene-editing therapy, made by local drug firms
The life-changing drug, developed by Boston-based Vertex and its Swiss partner CRISPR Therapeutics, targets sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that causes crippling pain.

DCD Automotive drops the famed Boch name from eight dealerships
Affected dealerships include the Boch Honda and Boch Toyota stores on the “Automile” stretch of Route 1 in Norwood.

BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Hot Johnny Beecher sits for Bruins in Toronto, while Brad Marchand tries to play his way out of scoring funk
Beecher, the 22-year-old rookie center, was outscored by only Charlie Coyle in Boston's last six games, but he found himself on the sidelines at Scotiabank Arena.

Crossing the Dnieper: What a Ukrainian military operation might mean
Bands of Ukrainian soldiers fighting to take back territory on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, an area long controlled by Russia, have been bombed by Russian warplanes, assaulted by Russian infantry and stalked by drones.

Globe Santa’s Gifts are Priority Mail
The task of delivering the gifts to children is the final step in a year-long, breathless feat of toy-shopping, donation-raising, letter-reading, logistics-calculating, database-making, label-printing, toy-sorting, box-packing, and pallet-piling

At UN climate talks, oil companies pledge to combat methane; environmentalists call it a ‘smokescreen’
Fifty oil companies have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations by 2030, the president of this year’s climate talks said Saturday.

Grandparents lament they are ‘a little old for the task’ of raising children
Grandparents, ideally, can often offer a safe home with unconditional love. But for many it comes at a cost, and often this cost is financial.

MATTHEW GILBERT

The 10 best TV shows of 2023
A sibling rivalry for the ages. A road-rage incident. A restaurant’s struggles. A chaotic cross-country journey. And many murders in many buildings. They all add up to a rewarding year for television viewers.

Dinner with Cupid

‘By the end of the meal, I had almost forgotten that I was on a blind date’
Will this law student make his case for a second date?