The transition to Trump

Did Mitt Romney get played by the king of reality TV?

President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney dined together at a New York restaurant last month.

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The selection of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state marks the end of a bizarre courtship between Mitt Romney and Donald Trump.

Lasers hit 11 aircraft, including Boston MedFlight helicopter

The helicopter was struck while landing at Mass. General Hospital with a critically injured patient.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/MHRD_14wall01_met.jpg A literal wall remains in place for women who want to become officers

A five-foot climbing wall at the center of the lawsuit is still in place ? a barrier to entry, critics say, to a career that has long struggled with a lack of diversity.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/14/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/prime-air_02.jpg With a 13-minute flight, Amazon leaps forward in drone delivery

The first package delivered by Prime Air to a customer in England contained a streaming device and popcorn.

The exhibit looks at housing needs in multiple Boston neighborhoods.

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Is the solution to Boston?s housing crisis all of 280 square feet?

At a ?tiny? exhibit, big ideas for affordable housing are on display.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren?s condemnation of a longtime Democratic supporter has caused some confusion ? from the supporter himself.

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California law requires a test permit for self-driving prototype vehicles, and Uber does not have one.

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the big picture

Images from the battle for Aleppo

After weeks of heavy fighting, regime forces are pushing to take the last of the Syrian city from rebels who oppose President Bashar Assad.

OPINION | THANASSIS CAMBANIS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/14/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/629478812.jpg Aleppo?s fall is our shame, too

The West?s decision to keep Syria on the path to destruction and authoritarianism marks the end of international law.

THOMAS FARRAGHER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Haley_farragher03_met.jpg My family built this house into a home

Half a century ago, we moved in and called it home. We still do.

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Globe Magazine

Bostonians of the Year 2016: Kylie Webster-Cazeau and Meggie Noel

The student-activists shook up Boston Latin and put race relations back on Boston?s list of priorities.

Globe Magazine

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From Zika researchers to GE dealmakers, Big Papi to an entire neighborhood, these people made a difference this year.

names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/pete150-5029.jpg Bouncer, singer almost got into a fight at Middle East because of a burger

Former Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy complained that the guard was eating during his show Friday, and apparently the guard got upset.

Ben Volin | on football

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_pats2_spts-001.jpg Patriots defense is hitting its stride

As the playoffs approach, the team has adjusted to a reevaluation and a reset.

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It?s a far cry from that groovy ?Brady Bunch? look.

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One theory is that viewers are finally starting to tire of the show?s hyping contestants who were already famous.

Special reports

special report

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

Renée Graham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Graham-1951.jpg Donald Trump?s master in Moscow

Trump is too vain to recognize that he?s nothing more than the easily manipulated means to Putin?s nefarious ends.

Life sciences

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

Investigations

The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20160923_SAMentalHealth_312.jpg The San Antonio solution

How one Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model.

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.

Cars

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Google's self-driving car project gets a new name

The self-driving car project that Google started seven years ago has grown into a company called Waymo, signaling its confidence that it will be able to bring robot-controlled vehicles to the masses within the next few years