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A speaker addressed the crowd at the Auerbach Center during a Celtics United event aimed at supporting the “Raise the Age” initiative in 2022.

Raise the Age was a policy priority of the Mass. Senate president. It still fell through.

Legislation that would allow 18-year-olds to be tried and sentenced as juveniles instead of adults for certain crimes, despite enjoying the strong support of one of the Legislature’s most powerful figures, was left behind in the economic development package passed last month.

HOLIDAYS

‘An honor and a privilege’: This R.I. company makes the official 2024 White House Christmas ornament
Beacon Design, a division of ChemArt in Lincoln, R.I., makes decorations that adorn Christmas trees across the country – and that bring a bit of history to the holidays.

Ben Affleck’s journey to becoming a pop star confirms that anything is possible when you run on Dunkin’. Premiered during Super Bowl LVIII, “The DunKings" ad features Affleck, Tom Brady, and Matt Damon.

THE YEAR IN ARTS

The 24 biggest Boston pop culture moments of 2024

From the DunKings' debut to the rise of "pommel horse guy," here are some of the year’s biggest Boston pop culture moments.

BOSTON AT A BARGAIN

Boston free events, deals: ‘Polar Express’ matinee, an epic theater trio, and ‘Nutcracker’ dance workshop
This week's highlights include the annual Harvard Youth Day game and all-you-can-game arcade date night.

Five things to do around Boston, Dec. 16-22

In his first year as a starter, Garrett Crochet had a 3.58 ERA and 209 strikeouts in 146 innings for the White Sox last season.

The numbers don’t lie. New Red Sox Garrett Crochet was one of baseball’s best last season, and he’s just getting started.

In 2024, the 25-year-old scratched the surface of what he could become, compiling a 3.58 ERA and 209 strikeouts in 146 innings over in 32 starts.

Dante Howard (left) and the Cambridge bench react to his basket late in the fourth quarter in a 68-66 win over No. 8 BC High.

Five takeaways from the first full night of high school basketball

A 45-game win streak ends, a thriller in Cambridge, a host of 30-point scorers, and even a little football scheduling.

Woman who falsely accused Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006 publicly admits she lied

“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t and that was wrong,” Crystal Mangum said in an interview.

Major cyberattack hits Rhode Island benefits sytem; hundreds of thousands of people may be affected
The attack hit RIBridges, the benefits system formerly known as UHIP, officials said Friday night.

South Korea’s parliament votes to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law order
Yoon issued a statement saying he would “never give up” and calling for officials to maintain stability in government functions during what he described as a “temporary” pause of his presidency.

A look at the South Korean leader who has been impeached after shocking martial law edict

Judge rules for Nantucket Wine & Food Festival owner in false claims case against Waltham liquor store chain

The Gordon Companies must retract false claims that they were running the popular Nantucket Food & Wine Festival, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

N.H. housing crisis: How Governor-elect Kelly Ayotte says she’ll tackle it
The housing crisis Ayotte is inheriting remains challenging. Experts say the Granite State is among the top 10 for rising housing prices and that housing instability is on the rise as well.

Mysterious drones spotted in Harwich, police say

Boston man arrested at MBTA Ruggles Station in 2020 pleads guilty to federal gun charges

Two-year-old among 4 injured in crash in rural Maine

Whitneys, a Harvard Square bar, is closing.

Pour one out for Whitneys, a stalwart Harvard Square dive bar that is closing at year’s end

The venerable stomping ground will shutter after more than 70 years in Cambridge, after a dispute with its landlord.

"Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'" from Commonwealth Shakespeare Company creates a pastiche of sumptuous holiday music and suggestive set pieces to enrich the color and sound of the loosely sketched Dickens story.

A new ‘Christmas Carol’ masters the music, but is leaner on the emotional power

The production comes courtesy of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.

(Left to right) Sam Jones, Tom Heinsohn, and Bob Cousy are among the greatest Celtics of all time.

We asked for your help on who should be considered No. 5 on the list of all-time great Celtics, and you delivered

After Bob Cousy, Bill Russell, John Havlicek, and Larry Bird, who is the next most important/impactful/just-plain-awesome Celtic of them all?

The Globe podcast

Plagiarism accusations against Claudine Gay fueled headlines. ‘The Harvard Plan’ details the sources of backlash.

Episode two details the plagiarism allegations that surfaced just days after Claudine Gay gave testimony to Congress.

Listen to 'The Harvard Plan' on your favorite podcasting app

Opinion

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 18: Lindsay Lohan attends the screening of Netflix's "Our Little Secret" at The Paris Theatre on November 18, 2024 in New York City.

MARCELA GARCÍA

How far would you go to look younger?

Today’s arsenal of antiaging treatments — both surgical and nonsurgical — is vast and ever-growing, but it comes with a hefty price tag.

Joe Kriesberg

Lessons for Boston, from my hometown

EDITORIAL

Trump names a fellow hater of journalists to head Voice of America

IDEAS | ANDREA FLECK CLARDY

A letter to myself as a young girl

LETTERS

Fernandes Anderson, corruption charges, and what voters will stand for

Globe Santa

The hardships of healing at holiday time
For 69 years Globe Santa, a program of the Boston Globe Foundation, has provided gifts to children in need at holiday time.

Donate to Globe Santa

Bostonians of the Year 2024

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Bostonians of the Year: The do good, feel good Boston Celtics

Their impact only starts with the championship they won. Here are 18 things we loved about the journey to Banner 18.

Clockwise from top left: Ayo Edebiri, Zeyneb Magavi, Frederick Richard and Stephen Nedoroscik, Pastor Keke, and Nick Korn, Liz Miranda, Royal Smith, Brian Worrell, and Chris Worrell

A home-grown star, a climate innovator, the team behind new liquor licenses, and other Bostonians who made a difference

Clockwise from top left: Seiji Ozawa, Ethel Kennedy, Luis Tiant, Larry Lucchino, Jack Connors, Jasper White, and Gloria Fox

Remembering Jack Connors, Ethel Kennedy, Seiji Ozawa and others we lost in 2024

More recent News

The Detroit area’s many Syrians are celebrating Assad’s overthrow and planning long-delayed visits
Like millions of Syrians around the world, the thousands who have settled in the Detroit area are excited about the prospect of visiting now that rebels have overthrown the government of ousted President Bashar Assad.

Thousands of Syrians celebrate in central Damascus during first Friday prayers since Assad’s fall

Woman accusing Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of sexual assault acknowledges inconsistencies
A woman who has accused rappers Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 at an awards show after-party has acknowledged inconsistencies in her story.

Court denies TikTok’s request to halt enforcement of potential US ban until Supreme Court review
A federal court left a mid-January deadline in place that requires TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the U.S.

Nancy Pelosi hospitalized after she ‘sustained an injury’ from fall on official trip to Luxembourg
Pelosi's spokesman said that she is "receiving excellent treatment" and is unable to participate in the rest of her trip.

UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect was not an insured member, company says

Luigi Mangione, the man charged in the killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, did not have coverage from the health insurer, the company said Friday.

McKinsey to pay $650 million for conduct related to Purdue Pharma, opioid crisis
The global consulting firm’s deal with the Department of Justice requires the company to cease any work relating to controlled substances for five years and implement new policies to assess high-risk clients.

Helping student-athletes cope with an unspoken challenge: mental health

According to The American College of Sports Medicine, about 35 percent of athletes struggle with mental health issues. Francesca Corsinetti is trying to get them the help they need.

THE YEAR IN ARTS

Boston dance stages filled this year with everything from creative updates to troubling works, to the exhilaratingly new
Renewal and modernization were major themes on Boston dance stages in 2024.

Looking for the famous green lamps at Boston Public Library? Central branch now offers digital guide, audio tours.
The new tools offer a way to supplement the one daily in-person guided tour the library offers.

These decadent hot chocolate confections cost a whopping $13. Are they worth it?
One intrepid reporter put several fancy flavors to the test.

Culture & Lifestyle

The 24 biggest Boston pop culture moments of 2024

Morfydd Clark as Galadriel; Benjamin Walker as High King Gil-galad; Ismael Cruz Córdova as Arondir in "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power."

Recognize that show’s name? More and more on TV, you will

Kendrick Lamar performs onstage during The Pop Out – Ken & Friends Presented by pgLang and Free Lunch at The Kia Forum on June 19, 2024 in Inglewood, Calif.

After a static summer and fall, pop music is showing a spark again

Alan Michelson's "The Knowledge Keepers," a pair of chromium-sheen sculptures of two current Native American cultural leaders, Julia Marden and Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines Jr., was installed at the main entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts in November. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

For Native American art and culture, 2024 brought meaningful change

Special Projects

Seventh-graders at the Curley School on the first day of school in 1975. (Ulrike Welsch/Globe staff)

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

An Ambulance passed Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, La.

A Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

The Boston Globe’s Best of the Best

Our ultimate guide to more than 200 winners for Boston's best food, drinks, and fun things to do.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A temporary shelter was ready for migrants in Roxbury on Jan. 31, 2024. Although the details of the Marlborough case are particularly shocking, problems in migrant shelters have been well documented.

Carine Hajjar

A migrant girl was allegedly raped. Why wasn’t an arrest made?

The author at the elementary school he attended in Syracuse, N.Y.

Joe Kriesberg

Lessons for Boston, from my hometown

In my column, I mentioned being so utterly repulsed by the closing pages of Ian McEwan’s “The Comfort of Strangers” that I tossed it out the window of a car I was riding in.

SCOT LEHIGH

Readers explain their fiction addiction

The gutted interior of Melbourne's Adass Israel Synagogue. There is a long and painful history of antisemites putting Jewish houses of worship to the flames.

JEFF JACOBY

‘First, set fire to their synagogues’

President-elect Donald Trump picked broadcaster turned unsuccessful political candidate Kari Lake to head the Voice of America — this nation’s highly respected, federally funded purveyor of news to millions of people around the world.

EDITORIAL

Trump names a fellow hater of journalists to head Voice of America

IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Raise the Age was a policy priority of the Mass. Senate president. It still fell through.

HOLIDAYS

‘An honor and a privilege’: This R.I. company makes the official 2024 White House Christmas ornament

Beacon Design, a division of ChemArt in Lincoln, R.I., makes decorations that adorn Christmas trees across the country – and that bring a bit of history to the holidays.

Mysterious drones spotted in Harwich, police say

A resident and an off-duty police officer each reported spotting the drones on Thursday night.

Judge rules for Nantucket Wine & Food Festival owner in false claims case against Waltham liquor store chain

The Gordon Companies must retract false claims that they were running the popular Nantucket Food & Wine Festival, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Sports

HIGH SCHOOLS

Five takeaways from the first full night of high school basketball

A 45-game win streak ends, a thriller in Cambridge, a host of 30-point scorers, and even a little football scheduling.

Wellesley sophomore Dominic Staunton (left) has racked up more than 50 wins already in his varsity wrestling career despite continuing issues from being hit by a car when he was 7.

HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING NOTEBOOK

Missing an eye. A partial leg. No right hand. Blind. For these disabled athletes, wrestling is the great equalizer.

“Wrestling gave me an outlet for my energy and didn’t limit me by my deformations," said Wellesley sophomore Dominic Staunton, who suffers complications from being hit by a car when he was 7 years old.

Cambridge junior Itamar Fox (left) scored 12 points in his varsity debut, including 8 in the fourth quarter of a win over BC High.

CAMBRIDGE 68, BC HIGH 66

In his varsity debut, Itamar Fox was the closer No. 15 Cambridge boys’ basketball needed to hold off No. 8 BC High

The guard delivered 12 points — 8 of them in the final frame — to help Cambridge secure a thrilling 68-66 win on Friday night at War Memorial Gym.

VERMONT 1, DENVER 1 (VERMONT ADVANCES 4-3 ON PENALTIES)

Vermont men’s soccer to play for a national title after surviving penalty shootout against Denver

SKIING

US Olympic and Paralympic officials put coach on leave after AP reports sexual abuse allegations

Woman who falsely accused Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006 publicly admits she lied

Business

HOLIDAYS

‘An honor and a privilege’: This R.I. company makes the official 2024 White House Christmas ornament

Beacon Design, a division of ChemArt in Lincoln, R.I., makes decorations that adorn Christmas trees across the country – and that bring a bit of history to the holidays.

Judge rules for Nantucket Wine & Food Festival owner in false claims case against Waltham liquor store chain

The Gordon Companies must retract false claims that they were running the popular Nantucket Food & Wine Festival, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Court denies TikTok’s request to halt enforcement of potential US ban until Supreme Court review

OpenAI’s legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI ‘dictatorship’

magazine

2024

Bostonians of the Year: The do good, feel good Boston Celtics

Honorable Mentions

A home-grown star, a climate innovator, the team behind new liquor licenses, and other Bostonians who made a difference

Lasting Legacies

Remembering Jack Connors, Ethel Kennedy, Seiji Ozawa and others we lost in 2024

MISS CONDUCT

Our politics are very different, ‘but I hate being alone.’ Should I breakup with him?

metro

Christopher R. Kavanaugh, the US attorney for the Western District of Virginia, gestured while announcing that the McKinsey & Company agreed to pay $650 million for helping Purdue Pharma boost opioid sales, during a news conference at the Moakley Federal Courthouse on Friday in Boston.

McKinsey to pay $650 million for conduct related to Purdue Pharma, opioid crisis

Major cyberattack hits Rhode Island benefits sytem; hundreds of thousands of people may be affected

Boston man arrested at MBTA Ruggles Station in 2020 pleads guilty to federal gun charges

sports

Canucks left wing Jake DeBrusk (No. 74) is congratulated by Elias Pettersson (left, No. 40) after DeBrusk's winning second-pereiod goal against Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman in a 2-0 victory Nov. 26 at TD Garden.

Desperate for scorers, why did the Bruins allow Jake DeBrusk to leave for Vancouver?

De’Vondre Campbell won’t be part of the 49ers after his refusal to enter Thursday’s game, Kyle Shanahan says

The numbers don’t lie. New Red Sox Garrett Crochet was one of baseball’s best last season, and he’s just getting started.

business

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a Time magazine Person of the Year event at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in New York.

Unique among ‘Person of the Year’ designees, Donald Trump gets a fact-check from Time magazine

Drones, planes, or UFOs? Americans abuzz over mysterious New Jersey sightings.

Pour one out for Whitneys, a stalwart Harvard Square dive bar that is closing at year’s end

politics

House Speaker Emerita Representative Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference on Nov. 19, 2024, in front of the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Nancy Pelosi hospitalized after she ‘sustained an injury’ from fall on official trip to Luxembourg

US military flies American released from Syrian prison to Jordan, officials say

Unique among ‘Person of the Year’ designees, Donald Trump gets a fact-check from Time magazine

Nation

Jay-Z smiles ahead of the Champions League final soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid at Wembley stadium in London, on June 1.

Woman accusing Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of sexual assault acknowledges inconsistencies

The Detroit area’s many Syrians are celebrating Assad’s overthrow and planning long-delayed visits

Texas’ abortion pill lawsuit against New York doctor marks new challenge to interstate telemedicine

World

People hold candles during a candlelight vigil against South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 4.

A look at the South Korean leader who has been impeached after shocking martial law edict

South Korea’s parliament votes to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law order

President Macron names centrist ally Bayrou as France’s next prime minister

opinion

Shelby Hewitt at her pre-trial hearing at Suffolk County Courthouse.

Shelby Hewitt conned a lot of people. Globe reporter Patricia Wen tries to explain why.

‘First, set fire to their synagogues’

Readers explain their fiction addiction

lifestyle

Catch a ride on the Polar Express at Roadrunner, where the Christmas classic will be screened this week.

Boston free events, deals: ‘Polar Express’ matinee, an epic theater trio, and ‘Nutcracker’ dance workshop

Should I have given this relationship more time?

Here’s where your whole family can give, donate, and volunteer for the holidays (and all year)

food & dining

Pour one out for Whitneys, a stalwart Harvard Square dive bar that is closing at year’s end

These decadent hot chocolate confections cost a whopping $13. Are they worth it?

The mother-daughter business trying to keep N.H. seafood local

travel

A sculpture of Jólakötturinn, the Icelandic yule cat, lights Reykjavik's city center. According to Icelandic folklore, Jólakötturinn eats children who do not have new clothes at Christmas.

Cold nights, hot lava, and a giant murderous cat. How I found the holiday spirit in Iceland.

Looking for a mix of French flair and Caribbean cool? Here’s where you’ll find it.

Boy, does this place look familiar — if you’re a ‘Death in Paradise’ fan

Arts

For Native American art and culture, 2024 brought meaningful change

MFA removes 20 Dutch and Flemish paintings from its collection

Worlds collided when a museum steward found clues about her Chippewa family in Harvard’s possession

Books

The remarkable, resilient public library

Author Alison Espach on writing, teaching in R.I., and why her latest novel, ‘The Wedding People,’ takes place in Newport

The 75 best books of 2024

Movies

Scenes from the Boston Tea Party will be reenacted on Monday.

Five things to do around Boston, Dec. 16-22

The 24 biggest Boston pop culture moments of 2024

TSA agent Taron Egerton has to keep calm in ‘Carry-On’

Television

Jane Kaczmarek and Bryan Cranston in "Malcolm in the Middle," which ran on Fox from 2000-06.

Cranston, Kaczmarek, and Muniz to reprise their roles in revival of ‘Malcolm in the Middle’

Recognize that show’s name? More and more on TV, you will

The 24 biggest Boston pop culture moments of 2024

music

For the first time, the Kingdom Choir plays Boston

It’s ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ season, and Darlene Love is in town

Five things to do around Boston, Dec. 16-22

Theater/Dance

A new ‘Christmas Carol’ masters the music, but is leaner on the emotional power

Boston dance stages filled this year with everything from creative updates to troubling works, to the exhilaratingly new

Ensembles took the lead this year in Boston theater

Health

Dr. Susan Meschwitz, center, a chemistry professor at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I., in her lab with two undergraduate students.

About 30% of women are reinfected with a UTI within a year. This R.I. professor is looking for a way to change that.

Why is Lifespan buying hospitals in Massachusetts instead of saving two in Rhode Island?

R.I. Life Science Hub still in negotiations to develop lab incubator space: ‘In the business world... things moved a lot faster’

Obituaries

Dr. Thomas F. O'Brien was the first director of the division of infectious diseases at what is now Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Raise the Age was a policy priority of the Mass. Senate president. It still fell through.

HOLIDAYS ‘An honor and a privilege’: This R.I. company makes the official 2024 White House Christmas ornament Beacon Design, a division of ChemArt in Lincoln, R.I., makes decorations that adorn Christmas trees across the country – and that bring a bit of history to the holidays.

The 24 biggest Boston pop culture moments of 2024

BOSTON AT A BARGAIN Boston free events, deals: ‘Polar Express’ matinee, an epic theater trio, and ‘Nutcracker’ dance workshop This week's highlights include the annual Harvard Youth Day game and all-you-can-game arcade date night.

The numbers don’t lie. New Red Sox Garrett Crochet was one of baseball’s best last season, and he’s just getting started.

Five takeaways from the first full night of high school basketball

Woman who falsely accused Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006 publicly admits she lied

Major cyberattack hits Rhode Island benefits sytem; hundreds of thousands of people may be affected The attack hit RIBridges, the benefits system formerly known as UHIP, officials said Friday night.

South Korea’s parliament votes to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law order Yoon issued a statement saying he would “never give up” and calling for officials to maintain stability in government functions during what he described as a “temporary” pause of his presidency.

Judge rules for Nantucket Wine & Food Festival owner in false claims case against Waltham liquor store chain

N.H. housing crisis: How Governor-elect Kelly Ayotte says she’ll tackle it The housing crisis Ayotte is inheriting remains challenging. Experts say the Granite State is among the top 10 for rising housing prices and that housing instability is on the rise as well.

Mysterious drones spotted in Harwich, police say

Boston man arrested at MBTA Ruggles Station in 2020 pleads guilty to federal gun charges

Two-year-old among 4 injured in crash in rural Maine

Pour one out for Whitneys, a stalwart Harvard Square dive bar that is closing at year’s end

A new ‘Christmas Carol’ masters the music, but is leaner on the emotional power

We asked for your help on who should be considered No. 5 on the list of all-time great Celtics, and you delivered

The Globe podcast

Plagiarism accusations against Claudine Gay fueled headlines. ‘The Harvard Plan’ details the sources of backlash.

How far would you go to look younger?

Lessons for Boston, from my hometown

Trump names a fellow hater of journalists to head Voice of America

A letter to myself as a young girl

Fernandes Anderson, corruption charges, and what voters will stand for

The hardships of healing at holiday time For 69 years Globe Santa, a program of the Boston Globe Foundation, has provided gifts to children in need at holiday time.

Bostonians of the Year: The do good, feel good Boston Celtics

A home-grown star, a climate innovator, the team behind new liquor licenses, and other Bostonians who made a difference

Remembering Jack Connors, Ethel Kennedy, Seiji Ozawa and others we lost in 2024

More recent News

Woman accusing Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of sexual assault acknowledges inconsistencies A woman who has accused rappers Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 at an awards show after-party has acknowledged inconsistencies in her story.

Court denies TikTok’s request to halt enforcement of potential US ban until Supreme Court review A federal court left a mid-January deadline in place that requires TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the U.S.

Nancy Pelosi hospitalized after she ‘sustained an injury’ from fall on official trip to Luxembourg Pelosi's spokesman said that she is "receiving excellent treatment" and is unable to participate in the rest of her trip.

UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect was not an insured member, company says

McKinsey to pay $650 million for conduct related to Purdue Pharma, opioid crisis The global consulting firm’s deal with the Department of Justice requires the company to cease any work relating to controlled substances for five years and implement new policies to assess high-risk clients.

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Helping student-athletes cope with an unspoken challenge: mental health

THE YEAR IN ARTS Boston dance stages filled this year with everything from creative updates to troubling works, to the exhilaratingly new Renewal and modernization were major themes on Boston dance stages in 2024.

Looking for the famous green lamps at Boston Public Library? Central branch now offers digital guide, audio tours. The new tools offer a way to supplement the one daily in-person guided tour the library offers.

These decadent hot chocolate confections cost a whopping $13. Are they worth it? One intrepid reporter put several fancy flavors to the test.

Culture & Lifestyle

The 24 biggest Boston pop culture moments of 2024

Recognize that show’s name? More and more on TV, you will

After a static summer and fall, pop music is showing a spark again

For Native American art and culture, 2024 brought meaningful change

Special Projects

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

A Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

The Boston Globe’s Best of the Best

Nightmare in Mission Hill

FROM OUR PARTNERS

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A migrant girl was allegedly raped. Why wasn’t an arrest made?

Lessons for Boston, from my hometown

Readers explain their fiction addiction

‘First, set fire to their synagogues’

Trump names a fellow hater of journalists to head Voice of America

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Raise the Age was a policy priority of the Mass. Senate president. It still fell through.

‘An honor and a privilege’: This R.I. company makes the official 2024 White House Christmas ornament

Mysterious drones spotted in Harwich, police say

Judge rules for Nantucket Wine & Food Festival owner in false claims case against Waltham liquor store chain

Sports

Five takeaways from the first full night of high school basketball

Missing an eye. A partial leg. No right hand. Blind. For these disabled athletes, wrestling is the great equalizer.

In his varsity debut, Itamar Fox was the closer No. 15 Cambridge boys’ basketball needed to hold off No. 8 BC High

Vermont men’s soccer to play for a national title after surviving penalty shootout against Denver

US Olympic and Paralympic officials put coach on leave after AP reports sexual abuse allegations

Woman who falsely accused Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006 publicly admits she lied

Business

‘An honor and a privilege’: This R.I. company makes the official 2024 White House Christmas ornament

Judge rules for Nantucket Wine & Food Festival owner in false claims case against Waltham liquor store chain

Court denies TikTok’s request to halt enforcement of potential US ban until Supreme Court review

OpenAI’s legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI ‘dictatorship’

Bostonians of the Year: The do good, feel good Boston Celtics

A home-grown star, a climate innovator, the team behind new liquor licenses, and other Bostonians who made a difference

Remembering Jack Connors, Ethel Kennedy, Seiji Ozawa and others we lost in 2024

Our politics are very different, ‘but I hate being alone.’ Should I breakup with him?

metro

McKinsey to pay $650 million for conduct related to Purdue Pharma, opioid crisis

HOLIDAYS

‘An honor and a privilege’: This R.I. company makes the official 2024 White House Christmas ornament
Beacon Design, a division of ChemArt in Lincoln, R.I., makes decorations that adorn Christmas trees across the country – and that bring a bit of history to the holidays.

BOSTON AT A BARGAIN

Boston free events, deals: ‘Polar Express’ matinee, an epic theater trio, and ‘Nutcracker’ dance workshop
This week's highlights include the annual Harvard Youth Day game and all-you-can-game arcade date night.

Major cyberattack hits Rhode Island benefits sytem; hundreds of thousands of people may be affected
The attack hit RIBridges, the benefits system formerly known as UHIP, officials said Friday night.

South Korea’s parliament votes to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law order
Yoon issued a statement saying he would “never give up” and calling for officials to maintain stability in government functions during what he described as a “temporary” pause of his presidency.

N.H. housing crisis: How Governor-elect Kelly Ayotte says she’ll tackle it
The housing crisis Ayotte is inheriting remains challenging. Experts say the Granite State is among the top 10 for rising housing prices and that housing instability is on the rise as well.

The hardships of healing at holiday time
For 69 years Globe Santa, a program of the Boston Globe Foundation, has provided gifts to children in need at holiday time.

Woman accusing Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of sexual assault acknowledges inconsistencies
A woman who has accused rappers Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 at an awards show after-party has acknowledged inconsistencies in her story.

Court denies TikTok’s request to halt enforcement of potential US ban until Supreme Court review
A federal court left a mid-January deadline in place that requires TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the U.S.

Nancy Pelosi hospitalized after she ‘sustained an injury’ from fall on official trip to Luxembourg
Pelosi's spokesman said that she is "receiving excellent treatment" and is unable to participate in the rest of her trip.

McKinsey to pay $650 million for conduct related to Purdue Pharma, opioid crisis
The global consulting firm’s deal with the Department of Justice requires the company to cease any work relating to controlled substances for five years and implement new policies to assess high-risk clients.

THE YEAR IN ARTS

Boston dance stages filled this year with everything from creative updates to troubling works, to the exhilaratingly new
Renewal and modernization were major themes on Boston dance stages in 2024.

Looking for the famous green lamps at Boston Public Library? Central branch now offers digital guide, audio tours.
The new tools offer a way to supplement the one daily in-person guided tour the library offers.

These decadent hot chocolate confections cost a whopping $13. Are they worth it?
One intrepid reporter put several fancy flavors to the test.