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Mass. eyes ‘baby bonds’ to help close the racial wealth gap

The state treasurer and lawmakers are pushing legislation that would create a trust fund for the most impoverished residents.

‘Turtleboy’ blogger ordered held after arraignment on charges of domestic assault and battery, witness intimidation

Aidan Kearney, the controversial blogger known as “Turtleboy,” was ordered held in detention for up to 90 days following a lengthy and chaotic arraignment in Dedham District Court Tuesday.

‘These are human beings’: Douglass Project comes to Mass., bringing community leaders and inmates together
Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian hosted the Massachusetts launch of the national initiative to destigmatize incarceration and help communities see prisoners as people.

South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun of Oscar-winning film ‘Parasite’ is found dead
Police and emergency officers initially found Lee in what they believed was an unconscious state in the car parked on a street in northern Seoul. Emergency officers later confirmed he was dead, according to Seoul’s Seongbuk police station.

Forecast | Dave Epstein
Where’s all the snow?
December looks like it will wrap up warmer and wetter than average and snowfall remains out of the forecast for the near future.

A look back at the extreme weather of 2023

Israel launches heavy strikes across central and southern Gaza after widening its offensive

 Robert Kraft warns of rising antisemitism in CNN interview: ‘Hate leads to violence’

R.I. shoreline fire district sues to stop path to beach from being opened to public

Authorities investigate ‘apparent homicide’ in Lawrence

‘Engagement needs to start now’: Amid push for Everett soccer stadium, calls for public input grow

As talks continue over bringing Robert Kraft’s New England Revolution to Everett, many local advocates say the public needs to have a chance to weigh in.
beat writer's notebook

From Derrick White’s All-Star candidacy to Oshae Brissett’s side hustle, nine nuggets from the Celtics’ road trip

White is making an excellent case to become an All-Star for the first time in his career.

Indictments, infighting, and intractable problems: 2023 was quite the year in politics

The year kicked off with an epic speaker of the House battle and then the political fights never really stopped.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Warren, Markey shine a much-needed light on prison health care

Staffing woes, response times faulted as the contract of Massachusetts’ for-profit provider comes up for renewal.
IDEAS | Alan Feigenbaum & Ariella Steinhorn

How to divorce better in 2024
Greg Vasil

Here’s how Massachusetts can make housing more affordable
Laura Kleiman

Cheap, effective treatments for cancer already exist, so why don’t you know about them?
LETTERS

Underwhelming world climate talks spur calls for action
Beyond the Gilded Gate

The $600,000 problem. Why does it cost so much to build housing in Boston, and what can we do about it?

Many forces drive the housing crisis here, and the sky-high cost of construction is one of the most powerful.
Calculator: How costs affect construction of an apartment building

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More recent News

For Conan O’Brien, a glimmer of hope at BC during early struggles
An oral history in Vanity Fair, tied to the 30th anniversary of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” contains the intriguing detail that Boston College students provided a rare ray of sunshine for O’Brien and his team during the dark days of the show’s battle to survive.

‘Intoxicated wrong-way driver’ kills man, grandson in Christmas night crash in Somerset, officials say

A wrong-way driver allegedly caused a three-vehicle crash late Christmas night on the Somerset side of Veterans Memorial Bridge that killed a Seekonk man and his teenage grandson and left the man’s wife critically injured, officials said.

Small Beverly art college dreaming big with $2.1 million federal grant
Montserrat will use a $2.1 million grant awarded by the US Dept. of Education in October to boost the success of low-income students. The grant is the largest ever received by Montserrat, and its first-ever from the DOE, college officials said.

First day of Kwanzaa celebration in Roxbury’s Nubian Square

The seven-day holiday of Kwanzaa runs through Jan. 1. It was created in the 1960s by the scholar Maulana Karenga to uplift and celebrate African-American and Pan-African culture, community, and values.

Van crashes into YMCA in Foxborough

A van crashed into a YMCA building in Foxborough and left four children suffering from non-life-threatening injuries, the town’s police department said.

Mass. becomes first state to stop asking doctors about past mental illness and drug use

Doctors struggling with trauma or depression avoided seeking treatment due to fear they might have to disclose it in the future, according to physician groups.
Globe Santa

Half a century of remembering Globe Santa
Joseph A. Milano, president of Boston’s Union Oyster House, has many titles and many interests, but an initiative that’s particularly close to his heart is Globe Santa.

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Fitfully, a community finds its way past the grief from so much death in aftermath of Lewiston shootings

Their love of bowling brought them together, until violence tore them open the night of the shootings in Lewiston, Maine. Now, can it bring them healing?

2023 was the year of the social thriller. Here are six favorites.
Mystery and mayhem paired with thoughtful social critique? Sign us up.

At CambridgeSide mall, a vending machine that vends for good
Items bought via the Giving Machines are dispensed elsewhere — in the form of diapers handed out to families at Boston-area homeless shelters, or a digital literacy class taught to a local formerly incarcerated person.

GETTING SALTY
At Charlestown’s Good Company, cocktail innovator Seth Freidus talks cilantro, swingers, dive bars, and chicken wings
Since he’s now carving ice and making tinctures behind a quartz bar, you’d never suspect that he got his start as a chatty dishwasher at Bertucci’s.

Culture & Lifestyle

‘The Color Purple’: A movie-musical sings Miss Celie’s Broadway Blues

Forgotten women of the American landscape

From across the pond, a steady stream of excellence

‘Moulin Rouge’ actor is also a nurse. His two vocations are not that different, he says.

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

Roland Merullo

Why boomers should give Gen Z a break
IDEAS | JUDY KUGEL

Learning new things never gets old

EDITORIAL

Amend the Community Preservation Act to promote more housing
John Wilson

I was unjustly targeted in the college admissions scandal. This is my story.
Kathryn E. Miller

How the Supreme Court could address racial disparities in the criminal legal system
Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

‘These are human beings’: Douglass Project comes to Mass., bringing community leaders and inmates together

Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian hosted the Massachusetts launch of the national initiative to destigmatize incarceration and help communities see prisoners as people.
RI REAL ESTATE

The 5 most expensive homes that sold in Rhode Island in 2023

Newport County saw a 64 percent increase in home purchases of more than $1 million, with an average sale price of a little over $2 million.

5 education stories to watch in R.I. in 2024

From the status of the state’s takeover of the Providence public schools, to improving test scores, it’s shaping up to be a busy year.

Wolfgang Schaeuble, German elder statesman and finance minister during euro debt crisis, dies at 81

Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and as finance minister was a central figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis more than two decades later, has died.

Sports

christopher l. gasper

In a backward Patriots season, even when they win, they still lose

With draft position seemingly the prize to play for now, it's difficult for Patriots fans to know which way to root.
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

It's a stacked lineup for holiday week high school basketball tournaments

The BABC Classic at Archbishop Williams, the Commonwealth Motors Classic in North Andover, and the Garden City Classic in Newton headline an impressive list.
NBA

Pistons lose NBA season record 27th straight game

Next up is the overall record of 28 straight losses, set by the Philadelphia 76ers from late in the 2014-15 season through early 2015-16.
HS hockey | Michael Giordano Christmas Classic

At Boston Latin School, the Michael Giordano Christmas Classic celebrates not only a devoted alum but his love for high school hockey
GIRLS' HOCKEY NOTEBOOK

A goaltender at heart, Alyse Mutti has been a stalwart in net for the Peabody/Lynnfield/North Reading co-op squad

Americans skate past Norway to open World Junior Championship

Business

This Westwood pickle company is up against the Wahl

Grillo’s Pickles Inc. recently amended its lawsuit against Patriot Pickle, ARKK Food Co., and Wahlburgers, alleging the contents of their pickles are falsely advertised.
RI REAL ESTATE

The 5 most expensive homes that sold in Rhode Island in 2023

Newport County saw a 64 percent increase in home purchases of more than $1 million, with an average sale price of a little over $2 million.

China sanctions a US research firm and 2 individuals over reports on human rights abuses in Xinjiang

A look back at the top business stories of 2023
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GLOBE MAGAZINE

The 1980s dream team that made WBZ news must-see TV in New England
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Dec. 25-31
Globe Magazine

The 29 best photos of 2023 taken by Boston Globe photographers
LOVE LETTERS

My boyfriend kissed someone else. What should I do?

metro

First day of Kwanzaa celebration in Roxbury’s Nubian Square

Small Beverly art college dreaming big with $2.1 million federal grant

Mass. eyes ‘baby bonds’ to help close the racial wealth gap

sports

EMass girls’ hockey: Malden Catholic on the move, up to No. 3 in the Globe’s Top 20

From Derrick White’s All-Star candidacy to Oshae Brissett’s side hustle, nine nuggets from the Celtics’ road trip

Matt Poitras’s participation in World Juniors triggers good memories for Bruins teammates

business

SEC payouts to whistle-blowers plummet despite record surge in tips

Downturn or not? At year’s end, Wall Street is split on what’s ahead.

The rapper Ye, who has a long history of making antisemitic comments, issues an apology in Hebrew

politics

Americans sour on the primary election process and major political parties, new poll shows

Lawmakers with disabled children find common ground in divided Congress

Biden orders strikes on an Iranian-aligned group after 3 US troops wounded in drone attack in Iraq

Nation

Michael Flynn’s Rhode Island Hall of Fame inclusion prompts resignations

Ice storms and blizzards pummel the central US a day after Christmas

FDA warning and Matthew Perry’s death darken ketamine’s glow

World

Israel launches heavy strikes across central and southern Gaza after widening its offensive

Israeli military says Gaza ground offensive has expanded into urban refugee camps

A Russian drone and artillery attack kills 6 in Ukraine and knocks out power in a major city

opinion

I know what happens to children of war

Harvard strains to find other words for ‘plagiarism’

Debating the MCAS ballot question

lifestyle

Can I follow them on social media?

Hush Club’s TikTok strategy went viral — it’s anything but cheesy

Dating during perimenopause

food & dining

What resolutions? Try these two indulgent cheesecake recipes any time of year.

How to dine like an expert in 2024

Cookie fans have a new destination: Chip City

travel

Busiest holiday travel season in years is off to a smooth start with few airport delays

We took a girlfriend getaway to Savannah. Plenty of other women had the same idea.

This Booking.com reservation is fake! Will the company pay up?

Arts

At the Griffin, a trio of shows looks at ‘Solstice,’ transcendence, and visual correspondence in the ongoing ‘Archive’ series

Dog-and-painting show

Banksy stop sign taken from London street soon after it appears

Books

2023 was the year of the social thriller. Here are six favorites.

Why Girls Write Now matters right now

For Justin Torres, reading is about finding the sweet spot between poetry and prose

Movies

South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun of Oscar-winning film ‘Parasite’ is found dead

Holidays got you down, Charlie Brown? Take our quiz on classic Christmas specials for a hit of holiday cheer.

Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ fails to rev up

Television

For Conan O’Brien, a glimmer of hope at BC during early struggles

The 1980s dream team that made WBZ news must-see TV in New England

Misguided reboot of ‘Frasier’ messes with a legacy

music

The rapper Ye, who has a long history of making antisemitic comments, issues an apology in Hebrew

Amp Fiddler, versatile keyboardist, singer, and mentor, dies at 65

Before coming to Cambridge, the Felice Brothers hatch a surprise for their fans

Theater/Dance

A ‘Die Hard’ diehard creates ‘Yippee Ki Yay,’ and the Huntington gets in on the action

There’s life after COVID for Jamaica Plain’s 147-year-old Footlight Club theater

Midwinter Revels serves up a frolicsome ‘Feast of Fools’

Health

CVS to launch new pharmacy reimbursement model aimed at simplifying drug pricing

Many Americans ration insulin to save money. One nonprofit is trying to make the life-saving drug more affordable.

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

Obituaries

Wolfgang Schaeuble, German elder statesman and finance minister during euro debt crisis, dies at 81

Amp Fiddler, versatile keyboardist, singer, and mentor, dies at 65

Mildred Miller, stalwart of the Metropolitan Opera, dies at 98