Commuter rail issues getting worse, not better

The system?s operator canceled four times as many trains this fall than last, one of the worst stretches since early 2015.

A light coating of snow lay on parts of Massachusetts Avenue late Sunday.

Good news: forecast is sticking to plan

Snow should gradually transition to rain as the morning progresses, according to the National Weather Service.

From left: Kevin Bacon, Mark Wahlberg and John Goodman in the Peter Berg-directed film ?Patriots Day.?

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For Mark Wahlberg, ?Patriots Day? is personal

?It?s not too soon? to make the movie, the Boston native said. ?It?s not soon enough.?

Adrian Walker

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The $30 million grant for a Roxbury development may be the last major federal cash injection that we?ll see for a long time.

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Andrea Campbell has become embroiled in a tense exchange with members of Boston?s African-American clergy.

Kevin O?Loughlin.

Jenifer McKim

Wrongly convicted in Mass.? Good luck getting compensation

The story of Kevin O?Loughlin, who spent four years in prison after a rape trial, isn?t the exception, it?s the rule.

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That assumes the secretary of state submits official results for certification in time.

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City officials and housing advocates have long complained there is no comprehensive data on evictions collected in Boston.

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Tom Brady is 14-6 in Monday night games.

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Chad Finn

From banished to brilliant, Patriots have run gamut on Monday nights

The Patriots, who didn?t host a Monday night game from 1981-95, make their 48th appearance this week.

Dan Shaughnessy

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Monday?s Patriots-Ravens clash could add another chapter to the bad blood between the teams.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/12/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/davis_nedenpre1_spts[1]-4950.jpg Monday night at Gillette? Some fans are punting

The prospect of attending a weeknight game is where season ticket holder Paul McCarthy draws the line.

Stuffed animals donated to Globe Santa by PetSmart sit beneath a Christmas tree at the Ferncroft Country Club in Middleton. The store donated 425 toys to Globe Santa, which provides more than 20,000 families in need with toys for the holidays.

Globe Santa

Caregivers want kids to know that Santa remembered them, too

Said one mom: ?I would wake up as a child and be so happy that Santa came and I want my children to feel the same.?

The transition to Trump

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

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Will the president-elect?s promised tax cuts and deregulation turn things around in the Nutmeg State?

Donald Trump spoke Friday in Baton Rouge, La.

Trump downplays CIA claims about Russian interference

The president-elect also said that he would not receive daily intelligence briefings.

Josh Haner/New York Times/file 2015

Michael Andor Brodeur | @Large

How to deal with Twitter trolls (when they?re president)

It?s tempting, but dangerous, to treat Donald Trump as an ordinary rabble-rouser.

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?An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us,? said Warren.

Special reports

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Every doctor told the Lacey family their son would die ? except one

Pat and Dina Lacey had been parents for only a few months when doctors discovered a tumor in their new baby?s chest. Told to take their son home to die, they put their faith in a young doctor who wouldn?t accept death as the answer.

Opinion & Ideas

Alex Beam

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My score would be so low it could crawl under a rattlesnake with a top hat on.

Life sciences

STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.

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.

Globe must-reads

Liang Liang (right) played with her 1-year-old female giant panda cub Nuan Nuan at a Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, zoo in August.

FINDINGS

Beauty, not need, often sways donors
Jasper Milstein, 11, of Brookline (center) and Lucas Harvey, 10, of Haverhill (right) picketed with fellow fifth-grade students outside of Wendy's on Saturday.

A picket line of fifth-graders downtown
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in Damien Chazelle?s ?La La Land.?

Local critics pick ?La La Land? as top film

Walter White features in ?SNL? cold open

Reps. worried about NBC Boston?s signal strength

Thomas Levenson

Let?s waste more money on science
US Senator John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, (center) spoke to the media after the Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hil last Tuesday.

GOP aims to trim regulations

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

What is it like to live in Groton?
Planters on Massachusetts Avenue are part of an effort to clean up and beautify that street and Melnea Cass Boulevard.

Public art, cleaner streets coming to city
A view from Sunrise Point at Bryce Canyon National Park.

A touch of Zeusian majesty in a world of Seussian whimsy

Even the gifts have been weaponized
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in New York, where she conceded her defeat to Republican Donald Trump after the hard-fought presidential election. A group of election lawyers and data experts have asked Clintonâ??s campaign to call for a recount of the vote totals in three battleground states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, in order to ensure that a cyberattack was not committed to manipulate the totals. There is no evidence that the results were hacked or that electronic voting machines were compromised. The Clinton campaign on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, did not respond to a request for comment as to whether it would petition for a recount before the three statesâ?? fast-approaching deadlines to ask for one.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Yvonne Abraham

Women are ready for their turn

Sports

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Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (0), who racked up 37 points, drove to the basket against Celtics guard Terry Rozier (12).

thunder 99, celtics 96

Thunder?s late surge overturns Celtics

Russell Westbrook?s triple-double streak was snapped at seven, although he scored 37 points.

Metro

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Boston City Councilor Bill Linehan.

City council makes pitch for 2 percent alcohol tax

Proceeds from the tax would go toward treating substance abuse, said Bill Linehan of South Boston.

Real Estate

Home of the week: A Rockland freestanding condo in a 55-plus community

In architecture, it was a road less traveled ? a freestanding condo.

Politics

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In an interview on ??Fox News Sunday,?? President-elect Donald Trump said he?s ??very open-minded?? on whether climate change is underway.

Trump: ?Nobody really knows? if climate change is real

The president-elect said he?s studying whether the US should withdraw from the Paris agreement.

Cars

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What car experts say about the Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan

A premium car expert, an automotive market forecaster, and an industry analyst weigh in.

Columnists

Alex Beam

A social credit scorecard? No, thanks.
Architect?s rendering of the proposed tower at Winthrop square.

RENÉE LOTH

The trouble with Winthrop Square
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (C) speaks at a news conference with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (R) and other U.S. State Attorney's General to announce a state-based effort to combat climate change in the Manhattan borough of New York City, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar

JEFF JACOBY

Healey?s Exxon probe runs into the Bill of Rights
This image released by A24 Films shows Alex Hibbert in a scene from the film,

Renée Graham

?Moonlight? in Donald Trump?s America
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in New York, where she conceded her defeat to Republican Donald Trump after the hard-fought presidential election. A group of election lawyers and data experts have asked Clintonâ??s campaign to call for a recount of the vote totals in three battleground states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, in order to ensure that a cyberattack was not committed to manipulate the totals. There is no evidence that the results were hacked or that electronic voting machines were compromised. The Clinton campaign on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, did not respond to a request for comment as to whether it would petition for a recount before the three statesâ?? fast-approaching deadlines to ask for one.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Yvonne Abraham

Women are ready for their turn
Narcan is an antidote for a heroin overdose.

KEVIN CULLEN

When a needle is more deadly than a gun
FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2016, file photo, Miami Marlins hitting coach Barry Bonds looks on from the dugout during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, in Miami. The Miami Marlins have fired hitting coach Barry Bonds, third base coach Lenny Harris and bullpen coach Reid Cornelius. The Marlins announced the changes on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Rob Foldy, File)

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

Making Hall of Fame votes public a home run
FILE - This April 13, 1972 file photo shows Marvin Miller, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, announcing an end to the baseball strike at a news conference in New York. Players shown are, from left, Gary Peers of the Boston Red Sox, Wes Parker of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Joe Torre of the St. Louis Cardinals. At right is Dick Moss, assistant counsel for the association. Miller, the union leader who created free agency for baseball players and revolutionized professional sports with multimillion dollar contracts, died Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 in New York. He was 95. (AP Photo/File)

Kevin Paul Dupont | On Second Thought

Marvin Miller should be in Cooperstown
A ?silent disco? event at New York?s Museum of Modern Art in 2012 had participants wear wireless sets from Party Headphones.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Concerts in the future could be completely silent

Firefighters battled the 10-alarm fire in front of St. Patrick?s Place.

THOMAS FARRAGHER

Hope amid ashes at St. Patrick?s Place
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt arrives at Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday.

Michael A. Cohen

Welcome to America?s governing nightmare
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker.

Adrian Walker

Baker proves he?s tough on spending, but at what cost?

Nation & World

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A 7-year-old in Dubuque, Iowa, helped his father shovel on Sunday after a storm dumped heavy snow in the region.

Upper Midwest hammered by early winter storm

Some areas saw nearly a foot of snow, and low temperatures were trailing behind the system.

Business

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A wave of regulatory pressure is building across the country on Airbnb, the San Francisco company that has quickly dominated the online home-rental business.

What Airbnb regulations could mean for entrepreneurs

The miniature economy that has sprung up around short-term rentals could be hurt by local restrictions.

Arts

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Norah Jones, pictured performing in Los Angeles in 2014.

MUSIC REVIEW

Norah Jones fans warm to new, old at the Orpheum

Jones?s forthcoming album has a sound that?s a soulmate to ?Come Away With Me.?

The Big Picture

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Big Picture

Winter is coming

A look at wintry weather across the globe ahead of the start of the season that is fast approaching.

Ground Game

Ground Game

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Three things are absolutely incredible about this meeting.

Design New England

Design New England

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The lush landscape around Andrew Grossman?s home and studio is a showcase of possibilities.

Magazine

The cover for the December 11 2016 issue

Do airport security lines have to be so awful? A rare look inside TSA.

The cover for the December 4 2016 issue

Advice: Is it rude to give out lists for holiday presents?
The cover for the November 27 2016 issue

Blind date: The officer and the law student
The cover for the November 20 2016 issue

Blind date: ?He tried to feed me a smelt?