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White House predicts Pelosi will ?yield? on impeachment delay

The House voted last week to impeach President Trump. But House speaker Nancy Pelosi has declined to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate until Republicans provide details on witnesses and testimony. 2 hours ago

For one Maine family, the long, hard road from ?nowhere? to home

The Lupien family, who have four special-needs children, this summer became part of the ?working homeless? ? people with jobs who aren?t making enough to cover the high cost of rent. Their experience over six months offers a window into the insecurity and panic that come with raising children on the brink of financial insolvency.

Mail order teeth aligners are controversial. Now they have an unlikely promoter at Boston Children?s
The founders of SmileDirectClub became billionaires on the strength of a compelling pitch to anyone with a less-than-perfect smile: You can straighten your teeth at home for a third of the price of braces. But there?s little research into the safety of mail order orthodontics and, in recent years, problems have cropped up.

Here?s what happened when Eddie Murphy returned to host ?SNL? after 35 years
In his long-awaited return to ?Saturday Night Live,? Eddie Murphy revived classic characters like Mister Robinson, Buckwheat, and Gumby for his first time hosting the show since 1984.

Jeneé Osterheldt: When Eddie Murphy returns to SNL, will he be raw?

opinion

EDITORIAL

A fair trial in the Senate

OPINION | JEFF JACOBY

To make Congress better, make it (a lot) bigger
OPINION | MICHAEL A. COHEN

The triumph ? and folly ? of a year in politics
IDEAS | ALEX KRIEGER & MATTHEW KIEFER

Boston?s new gilded age

Mild weather and dry conditions are in the forecast in Eastern Mass.
Holiday travelers could hardly ask for better weather conditions with little chance for precipitation and temperatures remaining above freezing in Boston for most of the upcoming week.

Huge interstate pileup with 63 vehicles in Virginia results in injuries
A pileup involving more than 60 cars on a major interstate in Virginia on Sunday morning injured dozens of people, some critically. 2 hours ago

Starts & Stops
Lechmere Station closure looming as Green Line extension moves forward
The MBTA is closing the decrepit Lechmere station next spring while it builds a new station across Monsignor O?Brien Highway, meaning for the better part of a year, the trolleys will end their run at North Station.

White House told Pentagon to stop Ukraine aid right after Trump-Zelensky call
A budget official also told the Pentagon to keep quiet about the aid freeze because of the "sensitive nature of the request," according to a message dated July 25.

?Governor Fix-It? faces a new management challenge
Governor Charlie Baker has boasted about improvements at the MBTA and the RMV. But those public-facing agencies that helped buttress Baker?s reputation as a governmental manager are now hampered by something else, experts say: management problems.

Yvonne Abraham
Australia right now offers a sense of how bad climate change can be
The consequences of a warming planet are unfolding in Australia: killing droughts, dying reefs, and the growing likelihood of climate refugees displaced from the country?s inhospitable center.

Australia battles ?catastrophic? wildfires
More recent headlines

13 people shot at house party in Chicago, police say

Somerset woman fatally mauled by family dog

?I?m amazed that anyone survived?: Small planes crash in Western Mass. and in Halifax
Ask the Globe

What do you wonder about Boston or Massachusetts? We want to hear your questions

We tried Tom Brady?s TB12 workout. Here?s what it was like
We went to a class at the TB12 Performance & Recovery Center in Back Bay to see if the workout lives up to the Tom Brady hype.

8 tips on holiday eating from a TB12 nutritionist

UMass Amherst professor on Hitler video parody controversy: ?I was crushed?
The UMass Amherst professor who was pulled from teaching an accounting class after a student parody video involving Adolf Hitler was shown in the class has said she was ?crushed? to learn someone was offended by the video.

Brad Stevens gave the people what they wanted: Tacko Fall
Once the chants started, they didn?t stop. ?We want Tacko!? shouted the sellout crowd at TD Garden, its volume increasing with each subsequent request. ?We want Tacko!?

globe santa
Single mother seeks a special Christmas for her children
Globe Santa?s mailbox is stuffed with letters from parents, grandparents, guardians and siblings. They all have the same goal: they want the children they love to wake up on Christmas morning and find presents from Santa Claus.

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Year in arts 2019
TELEVISION

Six things television taught us this year

Among the lessons: Second seasons are a bad idea ("Big Little Lies"), except when they're a good idea ("Fleabag").
10 best TV shows of 2019
MOVIES

Ty Burr?s best movies of 2019

It was a good year for the movies and maybe a better year for moviegoers.
VISUAL ARTS

In 2019, New England museums upended ?dominant? narratives, and almost everything was political

Narrow histories were being broadened, often uncomfortably; conventional wisdom was being pushed aside. Things were getting messy. It was time to choose a side.

Books

BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2019

In fiction, an all-too familiar struggle with the facts
BEST nonfiction BOOKS OF 2019

In nonfiction, a moment defined by the #MeToo movement
BEST young adults BOOKS OF 2019

As YA fiction grapples with gender and sexuality, the coming of age tale comes of age

Recommended Reads

It's a thing

Wrapping hacks, ugly sweaters, lonely grandmas, and rolling disasters

This week, the Internet was full of gifts.

ARTS
2019: A year of unstable memes for unstable times
It was the year memes stopped helping.

Jeneé Osterheldt
Dudley Square is Nubian Square now. Will the neighborhood keep reflecting the name?
Sometimes, changing a name doesn?t do enough because history and racism are powerful and people will cling to their chosen titles. But other times, a name change is exactly what a community needs.

Rhode Island

Providence bishop deflects questions about administrator accused of abuse at Bristol church

In his first public remarks about a Globe investigation into a Bristol church administrator accused of sexually abusing boys, Bishop Thomas Tobin said repeatedly that he couldn?t ?remember all the details? about the investigation his own office conducted.

Westerly shooting suspect was once deemed ?homicidal and suicidal,? records indicate

We played word games with Governor Raimondo. The race for president was the topic
Newton

Newton artist?s ?universal? menorah is featured at Museum of Fine Arts

Teachers? contract settled in Newton

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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spotlight fellow report

The federal government has one main law to prevent child abuse. No state follows all of it

Hundreds of thousands of children face abuse every year, but there is only one federal law that directly addresses this national tragedy.
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

OPINION | SCOT LEHIGH

The incredible shrinking House Republicans

OPINION | RENÉE LOTH

No room at Trump?s inn
OPINION | Josephine Wolff

Mass. tax agency has failed to make your security and privacy a priority
OPINION | MICHAEL A. COHEN

Impeaching Trump is a celebration and national renewal
OPINION | JOAN VENNOCHI

Impeachment is forever
EDITORIAL

Impeach the president

VISUAL STORIES

Photos: Patriots defeat Bills in a thrilling AFC East showdown

Photos: Mourners remember Pete Frates at funeral

Photos: Santa Speedo Run through the years

Fitting 7-foot-5-inch Tacko Fall for a tuxedo is no small feat

metro

Boston man arrested after wild chase that started in Braintree and ended on Cape Cod
A Mattapan man allegedly took a relative?s minivan and led local and State Police on a chase that spanned from Braintree and over the Sagamore Bridge to Yarmouth, where he crashed.

Man seriously injured after falling off overpass near Gillette Stadium after Patriots game

A man fell off an overpass and suffered serious injuries following Saturday night?s game between the Patriots and Bills in Foxborough.

Mild weather and dry conditions are in the forecast in Eastern Mass.

Holiday travelers could hardly ask for better weather conditions with little chance for precipitation and temperatures remaining above freezing in Boston for most of the upcoming week.

?I?m amazed that anyone survived?: Small planes crash in Western Mass. and in Halifax

Delaware Tribe of Indians to skip meeting with Elizabeth Warren

STAT

Surgeons test-drive the amputation of the future

Huntington?s clinical trial opens a door to hope ? but only if patients get in

Families reeling after FDA rejects therapy for kids without a thymus

Richard Sackler proposed plan to play down OxyContin risks

sports

RAVENS 31, BROWNS 15

It?s official: The AFC Super Bowl road will go through Baltimore

Lamar Jackson threw three touchdown passes and rushed for 103 yards as the Ravens trounced Cleveland to lock up the No. 1 seed.
Patriots notebook

Patriot Joejuan Williams was ready when pressed into service

The rookie cornerback played a career-high 29 snaps after Jason McCourty exited with a groin injury.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY

In all likelihood, get ready for a Patriots-Chiefs rematch in the playoffs
CHAD FINN

Just when Patriots? problems seemed irreparable, they solved them in remarkable fashion

Politics

White House predicts Pelosi will ?yield? on impeachment delay

Business

Boeing capsule returns to Earth after aborted space mission

Marijuana

Montana vape shop turns to home kits avoiding flavored ban

magazine
cover story

Meet the 2019 Bostonians of the Year: Andrew Lelling and Rachael Rollins

Honorable Mention

The Celtics? Enes Kanter stands tall for human rights
Honorable Mention

To make a deaf child feel welcome, this neighborhood learned sign language
Honorable Mention

The Harvard and MIT economists finding new ways to fight global poverty

sports

Villanova knocks off No. 1 Kansas on late 3-pointer from Franklin native Jermaine Samuels

Predators rally past Bruins, win in overtime

49ers eliminate Rams from playoffs

metro

Boston man arrested after wild chase that started in Braintree and ended on Cape Cod

Man seriously injured after falling off overpass near Gillette Stadium after Patriots game

Mild weather and dry conditions are in the forecast in Eastern Mass.

Nation

Fear and loyalty: How Donald Trump took over the Republican Party

For one Maine family, the long, hard road from ?nowhere? to home

Pope denounces ?rigidity? as he warns of Christian decline

World

Palace: Prince Philip in hospital as ?precautionary measure?

Parliament advances Brexit bill, all but assuring January exit

Prince Philip is admitted to hospital for ?precautionary measures?

politics

White House told Pentagon to stop Ukraine aid right after Trump-Zelensky call

Trump slams ?unfair? Pelosi delay, rallies conservatives

Impeachment trial plans are uncertain amid impasse among Senate leaders

business

Boeing capsule returns to Earth after aborted space mission

Trump signs $1.4 trillion in spending, avoids shutdown

United pulls 737 Max until June, adding to Boeing woes

lifestyle

Adam Sandler talks shooting hoops with Kevin Garnett, getting punched in the face for ?Uncut Gems?

The women of ?The Witcher? discuss their Netflix fantasy series

Pistons player, Boston native Bruce Brown Jr. surprises Wakefield METCO students with shopping spree

marijuana

Montana vape shop turns to home kits avoiding flavored ban

?Vast majority? of vaping illnesses blamed on vitamin E

Wisconsin Assembly leader says medical marijuana will pass someday

opinion

We must not be bystanders to childrens? misery

A fair trial in the Senate

To make Congress better, make it (a lot) bigger

food & dining

High Street Place announces new vendors, and Lion?s Tail goes out with a roar

At Backbar, a not-so-dry January

Longtime Chinatown favorite BLR by Shojo to close this week

travel

Shayna Smith put college on ice to travel with Disney on Ice

Japan?s top ski gems, and the guys who can guide you there

A visit to a German Christmas market is a gift in itself

Books

Local bestsellers for the week ending 12/15

Paper cuts J.P. gets an upgrade, Josh Cook gets a tattoo, and a ?Cub? reporter gets the story

In fiction, an all-too familiar struggle with the facts

Movies

?Little Women? was filmed entirely in Mass. Here?s where pivotal scenes were shot

A big stage for Concord in ?Little Women?

?Who let the ?Cats? out? Oof. Oof, oof?: Here?s what flabbergasted critics have to say about ?Cats?

Television

This week?s TV: Playing catch-up, thinking about ?You,? holiday marathons

Here?s what happened when Eddie Murphy returned to host ?SNL? after 35 years

Netflix to revisit Aaron Hernandez story in ?The Killer Inside?

music

Holiday cheer and grownup pop from Hanson at the House of Blues

Handel and Haydn Society offers an intimate Christmas feast at Jordan Hall

At the Sinclair, Lucero chases the regrets away

Theater/Dance

Last chances, unexpected gems, and a Boston flavor in New York theater

Merrimack Rep picks the leader of a Seattle children?s theater as its new artistic director

For new faces, a key role in 2019

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

Randy Suess, computer bulletin board inventor, dies at 74

Junior Johnson, 88, good-old-boy auto racing star and member of NASCAR Hall of Fame

England?s 1966 World Cup winner Martin Peters dies at age 76