Financial sector wants ties to Elizabeth Warren

The financial services industry, Senator Scott Brown’s biggest donor group, has begun a careful and unlikely mission to thaw relations with the senator-elect.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mohamed Amr of Egypt announced the cease-fire after talks in Cairo.

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Israel, Hamas accept cease-fire

Under intense Egyptian and American pressure, Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas halted eight days of bloody conflict on Wednesday.

An Iron Dome launcher fired an interceptor rocket near the Israeli city of Ashkelon on Monday.

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Israel’s Iron Dome

The rocket defense system altered the dynamic between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and bought time for crucial negotiations.

Sheila Burgess’s driving record was a major embarrassment to the Patrick administration.

Former highway safety chief quits state job

Sheila Burgess resigned as a state employee, three days after the Globe revealed that she had numerous infractions on her driving record.

Liliam Alvarez (left) became homeless after her husband died and she lost her job. Marion Davis, 71, cannot stay in a shelter because he uses an oxygen tank.

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Once-homeless seniors give their thanks

Older homeless people face a particular challenge: They tend to be beyond their employment years, and therefore less likely to find a way to support themselves.

The 54th Massachusetts Regiment owes much of its existence to Lewis Hayden and Governor John Andrew.

Lasting lessons in an 1862 Boston Thanksgiving

The dinner that Mass. Governor John Albion Andrew and abolitionist Lewis Hayden shared led to the creation of a storied black Civil War regiment.

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Thanksgiving and football are inseparable

Football owns Thanksgiving — especially in Mass., where just about every high school plays its final regular-season game this morning.

57th annual Globe Santa fund-raising drive kicks off

The Boston Globe Santa Fund Drive begins its traditional quest to bring Christmas joy to thousands of needy children across Eastern Mass.

Study links mammograms to overtreatment

The study’s controversial finding is sure to provoke more heated debate over the benefits of the screenings.

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Michael Jackson and Vincent Patterson worked out the dance for the “Smooth Criminal” video in a scene from “BAD 25.”

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Nate Silver, author of the political blog FiveThirtyEight.

The allure of the statistics field grows

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Alex Latteo (left) and Debra Davis were killed in a car accident in Wrentham on July 26, 2008.

Kraft Group sued over deaths after tailgating

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Retailers shouldn’t open on Thanksgiving

Mass. medical researchers’ funds at risk
Tom Zekos of Newbury, N.H., searched tubs of confiscated pocket knives for sale at the surplus property store.

TSA airport seizures create new market
Barry Cadden of the now-closed New England Compounding Center invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and declined to answer questions.

Pharmacy case may see call for jail time
The surviving members of the Oneida team at the Nov. 21, 1925, dedication of the marker on Boston Common, where they played football (top) and descendants of the players at the marker last month, with Oneida club president Tom McGrath (third from right).

Remembering the first high school football games
Governor Deval Patrick said he is encouraged by the state’s talks with Amazon. But “I’m just not sure that we’re going to have an agreement in place in time for the holidays.”

Mass. prods Amazon to collect sales taxes

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Sports

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Spurs 112, Celtics 100

Kevin Garnett and the Celtics are a .500 team again.

Spurs capitalize on Celtics’ poor defense

Tony Parker scored 26 points and Tiago Splitter scored 23 points as the Spurs turned the Celtics into a .500 team again with a 112-100 win.

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Jim Reams, Rockingham County attorney, vowed to find Jessica Linscott, 23, and her boyfriend, Roland Dow, 27, accused of badly abusing Linscott’s son.

N.H. police vow to find couple charged with child abuse

The child’s grandmother said the 3-year-old boy’s condition has improved dramatically.

Columnists

An Iron Dome launcher fired an interceptor rocket near the Israeli city of Ashkelon on Monday.

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Israel’s Iron Dome

Joan Vennochi

Mitt Romney loses the battle of ideas
Halo 4: $60, for Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console. It’s the best-looking, best-playing Halo game yet but lacks emotional resonance.

Tech Lab

A holiday banquet for gamers

Dan Shaughnessy

Thanksgiving and football are inseparable
An Israeli couple watched the Gaza Strip in the background as they stood on a hill at the Israeli town of Sderot on Tuesday.

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A vast moral difference

Derrick Z. Jackson

Retailers shouldn’t open on Thanksgiving
The wooden foreparts of Viking ships are thought to have been carved in dragon shapes to ward off sea monsters.

Carlo Rotella

The doomsayer in his hot tub

Kevin Cullen

The truth never dies

Opinion | Farah Stockman

Don’t break up, America

Joanna Weiss

Organizing a real Dumbledore’s Army
Rob Gronkowski will likely be out for several weeks with a broken forearm.

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Why are Patriots mum on Gronkowski injury?

Boston Capital

Comptroller takes tough line with banks

Nation & World

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Police and civilians gathered for an M23 rally Wednesday in Goma, Congo, which the rebel group seized this week.

Rwanda leads rebels, UN report says

The Rwandan military is commanding and supporting the rebel force that overtook a major city in eastern Congo this week.

Politics

Jesse Jackson Jr. has been treated for gastrointestinal issues and bipolar disorder at the Mayo Clinic.

Amid federal inquiries, Jesse Jackson Jr. leaves House

The Illinois Democrat resigned from Congress amid a struggle with bipolar disorder and an ethics investigation.

Business

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The remnants of a Twinkie poster remained Tuesday on the shuttered Hostess outlet store in Victorville, Calif.

Judge approves Hostess’ request to liquidate assets

A federal bankruptcy judge has approved Hostess Brands’ plans, officially putting the Twinkies brand on the auction block.

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Book Review

Lauren Slater

‘The $60,000 Dog: My Life With Animals’ by Lauren Slater

Slater’s “The $60,000 Dog” is too unsentimental to be lumped in with more traditional animal books.

Style

Bargain Bin

Laura Preshongis offering discounts on jewelry all day Friday.

Boutiques hold Black Friday bonanzas

Ami Albernaz runs down sales and specials at local stores and shops.

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7 holiday styles that shine
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Vacation options for single seniors and gays and lesbians
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How to be a New England vegetarian in winter
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The PANDAS puzzle: Can a common infection cause OCD in kids?

Opinion

“Iron Dome may have prevented the ultimate blows to Israel, but it didn’t diminish Hamas’s ability to show its strength.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“Funded in large part by the United States and its allies, Cambodia’s war-crimes court seeks to plant the seeds of Western-style justice in Eastern soil, transforming an entire legal system rather than merely putting aging war criminals behind bars.”

Peter Canellos on the power of imported justice 

“They went over the line of rationality. They gambled on a very virulent attack on Democrats and now they’ve got to deal with it.”

Rep. Barney Frank,  on the financial services industry