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impeachment hearings

Ousted ambassador says Trump?s comments about her to Zelensky felt like a ?threat?
Marie Yovanovitch said she was ?shocked and devastated? upon learning President Trump said ?she was going to go through some things? on his call with Ukraine. 34 minutes ago

Watch live: Former ambassador testifies in public impeachment hearing White House releases rough transcript of first Trump-Zelensky call Ask the Globe: You asked, we answered: The impeachment hearings

For many, the commuter rail is no easy ride
Between 2012 and 2018, commuter rail ridership grew from 104,574 to 126,754 trips per weekday. The Middleborough line had the fourth highest growth by percentage among the 12 rail lines, and riders are complaining about delays, crowded trains, not enough parking, the high cost of fares, and the lack of fare collection.

Elizabeth Warren lays out ambitious four-year timeline to transition to Medicare for All

The aggressive timeline would require Warren to spend a significant amount of political capital on health care early in her presidency. 50 minutes ago
Deval Patrick worked at Bain Capital, a one-time Democratic target. How will voters respond now?

Another floating ice disk emerges in Maine
Chris Gooley was driving to work Thursday morning when he saw a group of people taking pictures of something in what is normally a fairly desolate part of his drive through Northeastern Maine.

Investing in a college degree? These four Mass. schools offer the biggest payoff
Would you be better off enrolling at pharmacy school or Harvard University?

opinion

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

The Buttigieg Option
IDEAS | AMY CRAWFORD

Though ubiquitous, toilets aren?t available to everyone, and that should change
Editorial

Time to fix Boston?s electoral recount process
OPINION | ALEX BEAM

Mercury is in retrograde; take cover

Megan Rapinoe speaks out about using CBD for pain management and pushing CBD into the mainstream

?I believe the power in the athlete in this particular field is incredibly strong because what we?re asking for is a better, safer alternative to pain management,? said Megan Rapinoe, who has become a brand ambassador for the CBD company cofounded by her twin sister Rachael. 2 hours ago

Officials looking for motive in California school shooting that killed two

Investigators worked to figure out why a boy known as a ?regular kid? opened fire outside a Southern California high school on his 16th birthday, killing two students and wounding more before turning the gun on himself.

Here?s how you can help the family of Worcester Fire Lieutenant Jason Menard

A memorial fund has been established for the family of Worcester Fire Lieutenant Jason Menard, who died Nov. 13 after making ?heroic efforts? to search for people trapped inside a burning building. 3 hours ago
Funeral for Worcester Fire Lt. Jason Menard set for Monday
Coming soon: ?Seeing Red,? a Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling congestion
Coming soon: ?Seeing Red,? a Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling congestion (Shelby Lum|Globe Staff, Anush Elbakyan|Globe Staff)

Coming soon: ?Seeing Red,? a Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling congestion
Top Places to Work

The 2019 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

The 125 companies with the happiest workers in the state.
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see the winners

Top largest employers in Massachusetts for 2019

Top large employers in Massachusetts for 2019

Top medium-sized employers in Massachusetts for 2019

Top small employers in Massachusetts for 2019

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  1. Sorry Dunkin? fans: No more double-cupping, and they know you?re mad about it
  2. The 2019 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts
  3. Watch live: Former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testifies in public impeachment hearing
  4. For many, the commuter rail is no easy ride
  5. To beat the Patriots, the Eagles need to be spectacular. Don?t expect another Super Bowl LII
  6. Ousted ambassador says Trump?s comments about her to Zelensky felt like a ?threat?
  7. Investing in a college degree? These four Mass. schools offer the biggest payoff
  8. Myles Garrett smashes helmet over Mason Rudolph?s head, marring Browns? victory over Steelers
  9. Top largest employers in Massachusetts for 2019
  10. The Buttigieg Option
Ask the Globe

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Ask the Globe is a series where curious readers pose questions they'd like us to probe. We track down an answer and share the story of what we find.
NAMES

$14.85 million Martha?s Vineyard estate rented this summer by the Obamas is under agreement

The Edgartown spread, owned by Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck, has been on the market since 2015.
Political Notebook

?I?m embarrassed for you?: Kellyanne Conway lays into CNN?s Wolf Blitzer after he asks about her husband

Kellyanne Conway told CNN?s Wolf Blitzer that he embarrassed himself following a tense exchange Thursday where he asked the White House counselor to respond to her husband?s criticism of President Trump on television.
High Schools

Medford forced to forfeit boys? soccer playoff game, but officials may pursue legal action

Medford was ruled to have used an ineligible player by the MIAA and its appeal was denied Thursday.

Deer wanders into Walmart, slips around, gets tackled by customers

A whitetail went retail for a bit this week when it entered a Walmart store in Ohio. 2 hours ago
Holiday arts preview
Need help navigating Boston?s annual crush of arts and culture? Check out our guide to the season?s most exciting theater, music, dance, books, and more.
television

It?s a dysfunctional life for the fractious family in ?The Moodys?

Dance

The ?Urban Nutcracker? is looking for talented kids, with help from a Roxbury teacher

Dolly Parton transports ?A Christmas Carol? to a place she knows well

Boston Camerata uncovers sounds ?that early music tends to forget? with Hispanic Christmas concert

Keb? Mo?s ?Jingle Bell Jamboree? is his remedy for the holiday blues

Holiday Gift Guide: The perfect book for everyone on your list
More recent headlines

Woman remains hospitalized, baby OK after devastating house fire in Worcester

Peabody police perform sweep of Veterans Memorial High School

Good Samaritan killed on I-495 in Raynham

Texas tennis academy president to plead guilty today in college admissions scam

Recommended Reads

Sean P. Murphy | The Fine Print

Good times not so good for Neil Diamond fans whose plaque wasn?t delivered

Keith and Mary Irvine ordered a special commemorative Neil Diamond plaque in August for their daughter. It was supposed to arrive within 10 business days. They?re still waiting.

The Sky Bar?s triumphant return
The chocolate bar with four separate fillings is back in production this week. This is the unlikely story of its salvation.

NAMES
Jenny Slate?s grandmother made her steal a copy of The Boston Globe from a library
Slate told Conan O?Brien on his show Wednesday that her grandmother forced her to steal a copy of the Boston Globe from an elderly Jewish community.

Rhode Island

Globe panel explores big ideas on R.I. transit, hospitals, college affordability

Nearly 150 people turned out for the Globe panel discussion titled ?Rhode Map Live: Charting Rhode Island?s Future.?

Rhode Islanders lament the demise of the Dunkin? double-cup

Sorry Dunkin? fans: No more double-cupping, and they know you?re mad about it
Newton

Sports

You can watch all the Maine Red Claws? home games on TV this season

It?s not getting any easier for slumping Bruins

To beat the Patriots, the Eagles need to be spectacular. Don?t expect another Super Bowl LII

Politics / Business

Roger Stone found guilty of witness tampering, lying to Congress

Ousted ambassador says Trump?s comments about her to Zelensky felt like a ?threat?

Elizabeth Warren lays out ambitious four-year timeline to transition to Medicare for All

Nation / World

Suspect in ?Potomac River Rapist? cold case arrested

Watch live: Astronauts start spacewalk series to fix cosmic ray detector

Officials looking for motive in California school shooting that killed two

Lifestyle

Full Moon in Cambridge ? a true family favorite ? to close within a month

Matt Damon relives Boston sports memories on ?The Bill Simmons Podcast?

Ben Affleck battles alcohol addiction in first trailer for ?The Way Back?

Special Projects

Back to the battleground

A Pennsylvania roofer loved Bill Clinton and voted for Obama. Here?s how Trump lured him from the Democrats
Amid a stronger local economy, there are questions about whether Democrats can win back white working-class voters in western Pennsylvania in 2020.

What happened after a young Trump voter in Michigan transformed into a vegan AOC fan
One jarring experience shortly after President Trump?s election set off a chain of events that changed a Michigan college student?s political world forever, leaving a mother reeling as her son transformed from a conservative activist into a vegan Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fan in a little under a year.

More from the Battleground project

At a Michigan football field, impeachment is the political line of scrimmage for a suburb in flux

Here, the opioid crisis is bigger than politics. As rehab centers replace pill mills, an Ohio River city fights back
At the edge of a warming world

On Cape Cod, climate change is already terrifyingly real

To the millions of us who visit Cape Cod once or twice a summer, the effects of climate change can seem subtle, if we see them at all: A breach in the dunes. A crack in the pavement. But once you know how to see what is shifting, changing and washing away, it is impossible to ignore. Come with us as we explore the Cape to better understand what climate change is doing here, what it means for the future of this beloved place, and what the cost of inaction might be.
Education

The Great Divide

A new Globe initiative exploring the deep inequalities in our public education system, examining both the challenges and possible solutions to creating equal opportunity for all students.
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(Unsent) Love Letters

Columnist and podcast host Meredith Goldstein and psychotherapist and ?Where Should We Begin?? podcast host Esther Perel explore the messages we keep to ourselves.
Podcast: Listen to Love Letters Season 3
SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW-UP

Second major hospital chain agrees to pay millions to resolve concerns over concurrent surgery

Whistleblowers accused celebrity surgeon David Samadi of allowing trainees to perform surgeries while he was in another operating room.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

OPINION | SCOT LEHIGH

Daniel Ellsberg, the original whistle-blower, looks back ? and forward
Editorial Cartoon | Dan Wasserman

The latest Trump defense

OPINION | Thomas E. Patterson

The marketplace of delusion
OPINION | JOAN VENNOCHI

After Taylor and Kent, more truth-tellers are needed
OPINION | SCOT LEHIGH

Bloomberg?s a bad bet ? but don?t discount Deval

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Trump?s real impeachable offense

VISUAL STORIES

Photos: How the Myles Garrett helmet swing unfolded

Photos: Officials salute fallen Worcester fire lieutenant

Photos: Tourists, Venetians slosh through a flooded lagoon city

Two Hong Kong protesters shot, one in critical condition

Metro

Red Line to shut down between Broadway, Kendall/MIT for four weekends

Parts of the MBTA?s Red Line will shut down for four weekends from Friday through Dec. 15 to repair Park Street and Downtown Crossing stations.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev?s friend said they committed 2011 triple slay in Waltham, took cash, and tried to clean up the scene

The man who implicated Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in an earlier triple murder in Waltham said he and Tsarnaev took thousands of dollars from the Waltham victims and spent more than an hour trying to clean up the crime scene, law enforcement officials said.

Coming soon: ?Seeing Red,? a Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling congestion

The greater Boston region is now cursed with the nation?s worst rush-hour traffic. Our mass transit lines are crowded and inefficient. It?s small comfort that this is caused by a booming economy. Who is to blame? What are some solutions? The Boston Globe Spotlight Team tackles this question in a three-part series: Seeing Red.

Woman remains hospitalized, baby OK after devastating house fire in Worcester

A woman who was injured in the fire that claimed the life of Worcester Lieutenant Jason Menard remains hospitalized, a city official said Friday morning.

Texas tennis academy president to plead guilty today in college admissions scam
The former president of a private tennis academy in Texas is slated to plead guilty Friday to his role in the college admissions cheating scandal that outraged the public, ensnared the rich and famous, and sparked heated debates about class privilege in higher education.

Here?s how you can help the family of Worcester Fire Lieutenant Jason Menard
A memorial fund has been established for the family of Worcester Fire Lieutenant Jason Menard, who died Nov. 13 after making ?heroic efforts? to search for people trapped inside a burning building.

STAT

From assisted hatching to embryo glue, most IVF ?add-ons? rest on shaky science

Millennials caring for parents with Alzheimer?s face agonizing challenges

She was destined to get early Alzheimer?s, but didn?t. Did a rare mutation protect her?

Before signing up for drug trial, one patient wants to know: Can I afford it?

sports

Ben Volin | On Football

Five things the Patriots need to improve on in the second half

Despite an 8-1 record and the top seed in the AFC, there is plenty that needs work for Weeks 11-17.

It?s not getting any easier for slumping Bruins

With a lineup riddled by injuries, they play in Toronto tonight, then face the league-leading Capitals tomorrow.

To beat the Patriots, the Eagles need to be spectacular. Don?t expect another Super Bowl LII

Flashing back to Super Bowl LII is a reminder of how fast things change in the NFL. And also a reminder of how they don?t for the Patriots.

Myles Garrett smashes helmet over Mason Rudolph?s head, marring Browns? victory over Steelers

Garrett called his action ?inexcusable? following a fight that happened with eight seconds left in a nasty game between division rivals.

Photos: How the Myles Garrett helmet swing unfolded
The melee was sparked when Cleveland?s Myles Garrett brought down Pittsburgh quarterback Mason Rudolph well after he had completed a meaningless short pass near the end of the game.

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL
Former Boston College star Ky Bowman goes from undrafted to NBA starter
It was a dream come true as he keeps proving his doubters wrong.

Politics

Roger Stone found guilty of witness tampering, lying to Congress
Trump associate Roger Stone found guilty Friday of witness tampering and lying to Congress about his attempts to contact WikiLeaks.

Business

Swiss drug giant Roche buying Lexington?s Promedior for $390m
The local biotech is working on a treatment for a rare and deadly lung disease.

Marijuana

Apple to ban vaping apps from its store
Apple said on Friday that it would ban vaping apps from its online store, affecting 181 apps in total.

magazine
Women & Power

The 2019 Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts

Women & Power

How successful female entrepreneurs beat the odds
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ?She began the conversation by rattling off 10 questions?
Cooking

Recipes: Three surprising ways to make meatballs

sports

Patience pays off as Brockton outlasts Xaverian in Division 1 South boys? soccer semifinal

Browns waive troubled receiver Antonio Callaway

Somerset Berkley returns to D1 state finals

metro

Coming soon: ?Seeing Red,? a Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling congestion

Here?s how you can help the family of Worcester Fire Lieutenant Jason Menard

State Senate strips Brockton lawmaker of chairmanship after OUI arrest

Nation

What to watch on Day 2 of the impeachment hearings

Watch live: Astronauts start spacewalk series to fix cosmic ray detector

Officials looking for motive in California school shooting that killed two

World

Venice floods after seeing highest tide in 50 years

Hong Kong universities cut semester short as protests roil city

Brits lash out at Boris Johnson as he visits flooded towns

politics

Ousted ambassador says Trump?s comments about her to Zelensky felt like a ?threat?

Elizabeth Warren lays out ambitious four-year timeline to transition to Medicare for All

White House releases rough transcript of first Trump-Zelensky call

business

City approves supportive housing complex for homeless in Jamaica Plain

As gig economy expands into temporary staffing, worker protections retreat

WeWork had $1.25b in losses in the third quarter

lifestyle

Full Moon in Cambridge ? a true family favorite ? to close within a month

Matt Damon relives Boston sports memories on ?The Bill Simmons Podcast?

Ben Affleck battles alcohol addiction in first trailer for ?The Way Back?

marijuana

Apple to ban vaping apps from its store

Man sentenced for buying marijuana with intent to distribute in Maine

Megan Rapinoe speaks out about using CBD for pain management and pushing CBD into the mainstream

opinion

The Buttigieg Option

Time to fix Boston?s electoral recount process

Massachusetts should ban flavored tobacco

food & dining

Test-driving Bluestone Lane in Harvard Square

Frank, meet Beverly: L?Espalier chef opens new restaurant on North Shore

The Sky Bar?s triumphant return

travel

Here, there, and everywhere

My kids wanted to know: What exactly did Jefferson do at Monticello, anyway?

How to navigate solo travel as a young woman

Books

Holiday Gift Guide: The perfect book for everyone on your list

Books led Ojibwe author David Treuer from the reservation to Middle-earth

Local bestsellers for the week ending 11/10

Movies

From Turkey to the Gardner to underground

?Marriage Story? belongs to a small but distinctive genre: D-I-V-O-R-C-E M-O-V-I-E-S

In ?Ford v Ferrari,? a lot more than just vroom-vroom

Television

It?s a dysfunctional life for the fractious family in ?The Moodys?

10 TV picks to channel the holiday spirit

After five-season run, ?Poldark? fades to black

music

10 pop concerts sure to bring seasonal cheer

Boston Camerata uncovers sounds ?that early music tends to forget? with Hispanic Christmas concert

Ten ways to celebrate the holidays with classical music old and new

Theater/Dance

Dolly Parton transports ?A Christmas Carol? to a place she knows well

10 holiday theater picks, from ?Rudolph? to the ?Revels?

From ?Orient Express? to ?Oliver!,? some treats for theatergoers in any season

globe local

Son vows to beautify Mansfield cemetery where his father is buried

Brockton museum portrays the agony of opioid addiction

A ?Deaf Car Guy? with a driving passion

Obituaries

Dr. Wayne Bardin, innovative researcher on birth control, dies at 85

Peter Gossels, who escaped the Holocaust and became a beacon of hope and optimism, dies at 89

Tour de France ?eternal runner-up? Poulidor dies at 83