The transition to Trump

Trump taps school-choice advocate as education secretary

Betsy DeVos, a charter school advocate and GOP donor from Michigan, becomes the second woman chosen to fill a spot in Trump?s Cabinet.

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Those three states were key in deciding the election.

Trump says he prays for Americans to ?begin to heal our divisions?

Donald Trump released a Thanksgiving-themed video statement Wednesday night, calling on Americans to unite.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Elijah Cummings issued the request to the Government Accountability Office.

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The odd story has put a popular Amherst establishment in the national spotlight.

State trooper convicted in domestic violence case

Thomas Downs was convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend in the Salisbury home they shared in 2015.

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A suspect is in custody after four Boston police officers were injured when they were struck by a car early this morning.

EDITORIAL

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Rosenberg was wrongfully convicted and executed in the 1950s. President Obama should make a historical reparation and grant her a presidential pardon.

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It began with some gentle poking at my unruly hair. It ended with insinuations that I was a leader of the alt-right who hated Jews.

Thanksgiving

For many of us, this year?s celebration of bountiful harvest and unrestrained gluttony will be even more treacherous than usual.

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Yvonne Abraham

Surviving Thanksgiving dinner, one land mine at a time

It?s finally here, the day where we eat turkey and try to run out the clock so that decades-old familial resentments don?t explode over the apple pie.

Massachusetts is one of three states to bar retailers from opening before the clock strikes midnight on Black Friday.

Want to shop on Thanksgiving? Not in Mass.

The state?s so-called Blue Laws prevent stores from opening on Thanksgiving night, ahead of Black Friday. Rhode Island and Maine are also hold-outs.

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President Obama is getting the holiday mood started at the White House with the traditional pardoning of the national Thanksgiving turkey.

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Don?t want to wreck Thanksgiving? Here?s the way to cook the perfect bird. Plus, roasting times and food safety tips.

When the dancing began, Governor Charlie Baker was in the thick of it.

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Goodwill workers honored at Thanks-for-giving dinner

When the dancing began at Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries in Roxbury, Governor Charlie Baker was in the thick of it.

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A Suffolk Superior Court judge denied a request to stop Boston Children?s Hospital from demolishing a beloved healing garden on its campus.

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Patriots special teamer Matthew Slater also did not practice Wednesday because of a foot injury.

Boston Ballet?s soaring production of ?The Nutcracker? runs Friday through Dec. 31.

THINGS TO DO

The Weekender: Modern lovers, dancing Nutcrackers, and multiple Messiahs

The best things to do in Boston and beyond.

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The USS Zumwalt was built at Bath Iron Works in Maine and was on its way to San Diego when it had an engineering problem in the Panama Canal.

Perspective | Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/21/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/perspective1127mag.jpg I won?t be guilted into giving $1 in the checkout line

The case for ignoring the shakedown and making your own decisions about charity.

FLUTO SHINZAWA | ON HOCKEY

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Their captain has a lower-body injury and is likely to miss at least the next two games.

Special reports

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Stacey Kozel has hiked more than two-thirds of the trail, trekking solo with a major disadvantage: She cannot walk on her own.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

The Big Picture

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Big Picture

Training Afghanistan?s women soldiers

Kabul?s military training academy is churning out classes of enthusiastic women to serve in Afghanistan?s army.