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Report on Russia probe finds no evidence of political bias, but does issue critiques

The FBI was justified in opening its investigation into ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia and did not act with political bias, despite ?serious performance failures? up the bureau?s chain of command, the Justice Department?s internal watchdog said in a highly anticipated report Monday. The findings undercut President Donald Trump?s claim that he was the target of a ?witch hunt.? 37 minutes ago
Impeachment hearings

Acrimony is sharp as Democrats prepare formal impeachment charges against Trump

A House impeachment hearing quickly fell into partisan fighting Monday as lawmakers formally received the investigative findings against President Trump to lay out the case for the charges against him. 50 minutes ago
Watch live: House Judiciary Committee holds impeachment hearing

Safety ?is not the priority? at the MBTA, panel finds

The MBTA?s intense focus on tightening its budget while speeding the pace of capital projects has been ?detrimental? to the operations of the agency, and it?s helped foster a culture where safety is not the priority, a panel of experts found.
Read the panel?s summary on T operations and safety 5 withering takeaways from the report

MBTA?s new fare system will be years late, and it?ll cost a lot more money

Boston makes Travel + Leisure?s list of top 50 places to visit in 2020
The magazine cited an influx of new restaurants and luxury lodgings for Boston, calling the city ?the country?s next great hotel city.? 2:52 p.m.

opinion

EDITORIAL

Police body cam rollout hits a snag
Ideas | Loretta Waldman

We?re all shark researchers now
OPINION | Conrad Crawford and Jim Stergios

Dynamic pricing for the Expressway
Editorial

What should our Editorial Board ask the 2020 presidential candidates?

Mild temperatures won't last, with more snow possible Wednesday
High temperatures in the 50s ? and rain ? are expected to continue Tuesday. But Wednesday will bring colder weather and the chance of snow.

Sean P. Murphy | The Fine Print
A plea from a friend, via a hacked e-mail account, is a cautionary tale about scams
Judy Murphy didn?t think it would happen to her. ?I?m a capable person,? she said. And she still fell for a gift-cards scheme.

NAMES
Broadcast TV shut out of Golden Globe nods, Netflix edges HBO
The 77th annual Golden Globe Award nominations were announced Monday morning.

See the list of nominees (?Game of Thrones? got just 1)

Hundreds of scholars protest Harvard?s decision to deny tenure to Latinx studies professor
The decision to deny Lorgia García Peña tenure demonstrates a ?refusal to recognize the invaluable contributions of [work in her field] to the larger academic community,? the scholars said in a letter.

TV CRITIC'S CORNER
?The Morning Show? offers an eye-opening take on a TV anchor?s bad behavior
The Apple TV+ drama stars Steve Carell as the anchor sidelined by a sexual misconduct scandal. 2 hours ago

More recent headlines

?She didn?t want this man to take the ring?

Frank DePaola, former MBTA general manager, dies after lengthy cancer battle

Dorchester man arrested after stealing packages from porch of Roslindale home

California woman to plead guilty in college scam case
Opinion: Choosing, using, losing your health care: A policy first-aid kit

Part 2: Using

So you have health insurance, but do you know if that test your doctor ordered is covered? Or perhaps you received an unexpected bill following an unexpected surgery. If you think twice before visiting the doctor, you?re not alone. In a four-part weekly series, Globe Opinion offers a baseline assessment of health care as well as prescriptions for fixing the industry.

Now that you have insurance, how do you use it?

Ending surprise billing: A moral test for physicians

Cutting through the clutter on surprise billing

On the frontline of the Health Care For All HelpLine
Ask the Globe

What do you wonder about Boston or Massachusetts?

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.

INNOVATION ECONOMY
Mass. biotech, tech companies scramble to fill openings
Some biotech firms are paying for new employees? moving expenses, temporary housing, and other costs, while tech companies are allowing people to work out of state.

Elizabeth Warren says she earned about $1.9 million for legal work while she was a law professor
Warren then was one of the nation?s foremost experts in bankruptcy law, and her campaign has said her work involved balancing various competing interests in as fair a way as possible.

Elizabeth Warren has ?a plan for that? ? more than 50 expensive ones

Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey join the fight to save minor league baseball
The two Massachusetts senators shared their concerns in a letter to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.

Globe Santa
Cancer diagnosis leaves family reeling
A single mother with two healthy sons living in southeastern Massachusetts remembers beaming with joy as she welcomed a third baby boy into the world in 2017. Then last summer doctors told her that the little boy had cancer.

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Recommended Reads

In warming winters, a new method of preserving snow for skiing

Led by professors at the University of Vermont, a first-time experiment in the US is seeking to preserve more of the Nordic ski season and turn bare trails into ribbons of snow.

Joe Biden offers up fire and folksiness on his ?No Malarkey? tour in Iowa
The campaign swing showed he was more than willing to deliver some punches ? and not just at President Trump.

The Great Divide
Boston?s school bathrooms are a big mess
Filthy, unsanitary, and often lacking basics like toilet paper and hot water, the bathrooms of the city?s public schools are, far too frequently, in appalling condition.

Rhode Island

Cicilline?s all in on impeachment; Langevin not there yet

If you think you know how Rhode Island?s two members of the US House of Representatives feel about impeaching President Trump, think again.

R.I. nonprofit has made food for 10 million malnourished children in 55 countries

Climate change activists marching to R.I. State House to press Raimondo
Newton

Sports

As a ballplayer and a person, Pete Frates hit it out of the park

Tacko Fall gets his wish and gets to meet Kevin Garnett

Patriots cooperating with NFL after Bengals? videotaping allegations, confident no subterfuge involved

Politics / Business

Consulting firm where Pete Buttigieg used to work will allow him to release names of clients

Acrimony is sharp as Democrats prepare formal impeachment charges against Trump

Joe Biden offers up fire and folksiness on his ?No Malarkey? tour in Iowa

Nation / World

Report on Russia probe finds no evidence of political bias, but does issue critiques

Up to 13 feared dead in volcanic eruption off New Zealand

Documents reveal US made misleading statements on Afghanistan war

Lifestyle

CenterStage gala raises $2.5 million for Mass General Cancer Center research

Boston makes Travel + Leisure?s list of top 50 places to visit in 2020

Eight cold-weather beers to drink this winter

Special Projects

Back to the battleground

What we learned from each of the battleground states we visited ahead of the 2020 election
Who will win in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin next year? The Globe?s D.C. bureau spent time reporting in these crucial battleground states. This is what they found.

Trump?s evangelical support mystifies his critics, but in Wisconsin, it looks stronger than ever
The president?s personal behavior and some of his core political beliefs, including his hostility toward refugees, seem at odds with the major tenets of Christianity. But Trump?s bond with evangelicals has proven to be remarkably resilient.

More from the Battleground project

Trump promised Wisconsin?s farmers his trade wars would pay off. They?re still waiting

A Pennsylvania roofer loved Bill Clinton and voted for Obama. Here?s how Trump lured him from the Democrats
Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Seeing Red: A Globe Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling traffic

We endure some of the nation?s worst rush hour traffic. Our aging transit system is maddeningly unreliable. It is a crisis ? a very slow moving crisis ? that puts our region?s economic prosperity at risk. Who is to blame? Can anything be done? The Globe Spotlight Team investigates.
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
At the edge of a warming world

On Cape Cod, climate change is already terrifyingly real

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

The 2020 election must be a time of reckoning on climate change
Shola Lawal

Exporting the American Dream
OPINION | AYANNA PRESSLEY AND MONIQUE MORRIS

A just society doesn?t criminalize girls
OPINION | MICHAEL A. COHEN

Bill Barr?s troubling view of law enforcement
EDITORIAL

Impeach the president
OPINION | David Ureña

I am a public servant, not a public charge

VISUAL STORIES

Photos: Patriots vs. Chiefs

Globe staff photos of the month, November 2019

At Millbrook Farm in Concord, an early Christmas miracle

Photos of Massachusetts? first major snowfall of the season

metro

Framingham man charged with gun possession after police find handgun in car towed after OUI stop
A Framingham man arrested for driving under the influence in Holliston late last month was arraigned Monday on gun charges after police discovered a handgun while searching his towed car, police said.

Framingham man charged with gun possession after police find handgun in car towed after OUI stop

A Framingham man arrested for driving under the influence in Holliston late last month was arraigned Monday on gun charges after police discovered a handgun while searching his car, police said.

Pete Frates? death registers far beyond the sports world

Frates? influence spread across the country and around the world.

ALS groups, others mourn passing of Pete Frates

MBTA?s new fare system will be years late, and it?ll cost a lot more money

STAT

How a billionaire couple greased the skids for Nancy Pelosi?s drug pricing bill

Why the surge in EEE cases? Rules on samples mean we may never know

Report hints at why vaping illnesses may have sprung up in 2019

With ketamine, researchers rewrite memories in bid to curb drinking

sports

Timeline: Looking back at Pete Frates?s life

A look at Frates?s journey from St. John?s Prep baseball to an honorary contract with the Red Sox.

As a ballplayer and a person, Pete Frates hit it out of the park

The onetime Baseball Beanpot star for BC became a real-life hero, turning a huge negative into a huge positive.

Tacko Fall gets his wish and gets to meet Kevin Garnett

Patriots cooperating with NFL after Bengals? videotaping allegations, confident no subterfuge involved

Politics

Consulting firm where Pete Buttigieg used to work will allow him to release names of clients

Business

Stocks close broadly lower, with trade talks still the big issue

Marijuana

New rule proposed in Rhode Island for out-of-state medical marijuana users
magazine
Miss Conduct

Advice: Are you sure you want to give your wife an exercise bike?

Cover Story

Raising a black son in America
Dinner With Cupid

Blind date: ?I was a pool lifeguard; pool lifeguards are inferior to ocean lifeguards?
Cooking

Recipes: Three traditional holiday cookies updated

sports

Patriots fans should not be complaining about officiating

23 thoughts on the loss to the Chiefs and why everyone was up in arms over the (bad) officiating

Former NFL officials supervisor: Patriots-Chiefs crew was not up to league standards

metro

Framingham man charged with gun possession after police find handgun in car towed after OUI stop

Framingham man charged with gun possession after police find handgun in car towed after OUI stop

Pete Frates? death registers far beyond the sports world

Nation

FBI investigating base shooting as act of terror

Conservation groups make major land buy along Georgia coast

Houston police sergeant shot and killed; suspect in custody

World

Iran says new budget bucks US oil embargo, uses Russian loan

Lebanese-born donor of Hitler items welcomed in Israel

Hundreds of thousands march as Hong Kong protests near half-year mark

politics

Acrimony is sharp as Democrats prepare formal impeachment charges against Trump

Joe Biden offers up fire and folksiness on his ?No Malarkey? tour in Iowa

Former congresswoman Katie Hill says, ?I?m in the fight?

business

Marijuana allegations brings call for probe into Serb president

Amazon accuses Trump of ?improper pressure? on JEDI contract

Mass. biotech, tech companies scramble to fill openings

lifestyle

CenterStage gala raises $2.5 million for Mass General Cancer Center research

Boston makes Travel + Leisure?s list of top 50 places to visit in 2020

Eight cold-weather beers to drink this winter

marijuana

New rule proposed in Rhode Island for out-of-state medical marijuana users

Vaping 101: A crash course on how it works

Mass. health officials concede lung patients may have used illicit vapes, too

opinion

T stands not for MBTA, but for ?troubled,? or ?tardy,? or . . .

No joy in Foxborough

Who?s the boss? Nancy Pelosi

food & dining

Elaine Hsieh went from being a doctor to being a chocolatier, and now her conversations with people are a lot more fun

Lumiere in Newton, a special occasion destination for 20 years, set to close in February

Restaurant guide: Where to eat in Providence, R.I.

travel

An amateur and his bike take on the Alps

By car, train, plane, and ferry: 4 long weekend winter getaways

Fly by night: Exploring the secretive world of owls

Books

?The German House? an underwhelming tale of overcoming history

Local bestsellers for the week ending 12/1

?Disappearing Earth? author Julia Phillips always has something good on hold

Movies

HBO?s ?Finding the Way Home? shows children betrayed ? and rescued

Beethoven as inspiration; dogs as art; babies as burdens

A different sort of papal conclave in ?The Two Popes?

Television

?The Morning Show? offers an eye-opening take on a TV anchor?s bad behavior

Miss Universe winner: We should be teaching young girls to ?take up space?

In Netflix special ?Joke Show,' Michelle Wolf takes no prisoners

music

Composer Matthew Aucoin is ?uncomplicatedly excited? for his new opera

?Hallelujah? for Amanda Forsythe and Ann McMahon Quintero in Boston Baroque?s ?Messiah?

Bringing Schoenberg to the shadow of a five-story steam engine

Theater/Dance

More valleys than peaks in ?Dolly Parton?s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol?

A spirited ?Oliver!? at New Rep

Boston Ballet?s ?Nutcracker? keeps the faith

globe local

Get crafty with your holiday shopping at local fairs

Hardiest hikers, campers don?t come in from the cold

Should Massachusetts exempt police body camera footage from state public records law?

Obituaries

Pete Frates, who raised millions for ALS research by championing the Ice Bucket Challenge, dies at 34

Rapper Juice WRLD dies after medical emergency in Chicago

Caroll Spinney, who played Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch on ?Sesame Street,? dies at 85