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Mass. to open monitoring centers for drug users who overdose

The centers wouldn?t allow illicit drugs inside, but could provide medical help after use, as part of a harm-reduction strategy.

A viral tweet claimed the Warren campaign rejected a job applicant over marijuana. The truth is more complicated
?A marijuana conviction disqualified me from working on the [Elizabeth Warren] campaign,? a Miami college student tweeted, adding Bernie Sanders ?is the only candidate fighting for criminal justice reform.?

Warren embraced high-dollar fundraisers for years ? until just before her presidential campaign

Where in the world is Santa? Depends on which online tracker you?re following ? Google or NORAD
Two popular Santa trackers ? Google and NORAD ? were purportedly showing different locations for St. Nick on Christmas Eve, causing many people (especially parents) to take to the Internet to air their grievances. an hour ago

Man stabbed, seriously injured on Mass. Ave. in Boston
A man in his 30s is in critical condition after he was stabbed at Massachusetts Avenue and Island Street Tuesday afternoon. He was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Suffolk DA Rollins cites ?#hypocrisy? in lack of uproar over ending criminal case against former Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill and wife

Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins, whose reformist policies have sometimes been criticized by her fellow district attorneys, used the hashtag ?#hypocrisy,? noting there was no uproar over Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey?s decision to end the criminal cases against Major League pitcher Richard Hill and his wife, Caitlin Hill. 8:34 p.m.
Rich Hill acted in ?tumultuous manner? toward Foxborough police, leading to his arrest, report says Former Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill, wife arrested outside Gillette Stadium before Patriots-Bills game

opinion

OPINION | STEPHEN KINZER

Among the casualties of US wars in the Middle East: Christianity
OPINION | Michael Mullen Jr.

Biden?s speaking up for those of us with a stutter silences Sarah Huckabee Sanders?s taunts
EDITORIAL

Reform the au pair program
OPINION | RENÉE GRAHAM

A very MBTA Christmas

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL
The Celtics look like the real deal but finding a missing piece for a Finals run is complicated
The Celtics? roster is made up of players they either can?t afford to deal or who don?t have enough value to bring back a top-notch talent.

Gordon Hayward ready to return to action in Celtics? Christmas game

10 injured, including two firefighters, after explosion at hotel in Lebanon, N.H.
Firefighters responded to the Element Hanover for a fire alarm activation early Tuesday morning. Shortly after, there was an explosion.

Chase Winovich pays off entire lunch debt of his hometown school district
The Patriots linebacker attended school in the West Jefferson Hills School District in Jefferson Hills, Pa.

The photos of the decade
The 2010s were a decade marked by turmoil and triumph. Here are a selection of images taken by the photographers of The Boston Globe that characterized the past 10 years.

Meet the most expensive Santa in Boston. He charges $700 an hour
Jim Manning has spent 15 years building up the reputation that has made him the most sought-after high-end Santa Claus in the game. The end product is a Santa that is in such demand, he is able to command double what his competitors charge.

Blotter Tales
Road rage incident ends with car covered in cement
The driver of a cement truck was charged with dumping cement on another vehicle, a woman is arrested after she drove into a police station, and other off tales from local police blotters.

More recent headlines

Methuen man injured in Christmas Eve shooting

It?s going to be a dry ? not white ? Christmas

Cambodian man temporarily released from ICE custody ahead of possible deportation
Ask the Globe

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

?Uncut Gems? excels with diamonds in the rough ? very rough

Adam Sandler is nothing short of brilliant as Howard Ratner, a New York diamond district hustler with a rare opal, a gambling addiction, and a history of terrible decisions.
MOVIE REVIEW ? ? ? ?

?Little Women?: When sisterhood is powerful (and not just in Concord)

Director Greta Gerwig knows how much Louisa May Alcott?s novel means to the DNA of American womanhood.

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
2019 basketball, hockey holiday tournament schedules
School may be out of session, but there will be plenty of basketball and hockey action throughout the state during the holiday break.

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Globe Santa comes through for Boston children
To the delight of thousands children, Globe Santa once again worked its holiday magic this year delivering gifts to young ones through greater Boston. For the 64th year in a row, the program, sponsored by the Boston Globe Foundation, helped to keep the holiday spirit alive for thousands of families.

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Recommended Reads

THOMAS FARRAGHER

Making a home away from home at a Vermont inn

They could be characters straight out of a Hollywood sitcom. The funny front man at the door, schmoozing with customers, laughing at their jokes, and remembering the first names of his guests as they slide into home-crafted booths for a home-cooked meal at the cozy country inn.

?God is not a ?he,?? says 90-year-old founder of R.I. girls? school
Sophia Academy, independent school in Providence, will honor Sister Mary Reilly as its 2020 ?Woman of Wisdom.?

Trump impeachment overshadows Markey-Kennedy Senate race
As impeachment moves to the Senate, the national drama that has overwhelmed the news may provide an opportunity for Markey to show voters back home that he is fighting against the president a sizeable majority of them love to hate.

Rhode Island

We asked, you answered: These were the biggest R.I. stories of the last decade

There?s only a week left in this decade, so it?s about time we start reminiscing.

?God is not a ?he,?? says 90-year-old founder of R.I. girls? school

Judge Caprio just came out with another show. This time his family is in on the action
Newton

Newton South jazz ensemble?s holiday concert raises funds for Panama trip

The ensemble treated the audience in Newton South High School?s Seasholes Auditorium to renditions of holiday classics.

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

The photos of the decade

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

Photos: Mourners remember Pete Frates at funeral

Photos: Patriots defeat Bills in a thrilling AFC East showdown

metro

Two men arrested for drug trafficking in separate incidents
Two men were arrested this week for alleged drug trafficking in two separate motor vehicle stops in Taunton and Sturbridge, State Police announced Tuesday night.

Where in the world is Santa? Depends on which online tracker you?re following ? Google or NORAD

Two popular Santa trackers ? Google and NORAD ? were purportedly showing different locations for St. Nick on Christmas Eve, causing many people (especially parents) to take to the Internet to air their grievances.

Suffolk DA Rollins cites ?#hypocrisy? in lack of uproar over ending criminal case against former Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill and wife

Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins, whose reformist policies have sometimes been criticized by her fellow district attorneys, used the hashtag ?#hypocrisy,? noting there was no uproar over Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey?s decision to end the criminal cases against Major League pitcher Richard Hill and his wife, Caitlin Hill.
GET SMART

The Yule log, a Christmas tradition
THOMAS FARRAGHER

?He?s the glue who holds it all together?

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

College Basketball Notes

Here?s how Massachusetts teams stack up as college basketball shifts its focus to conference play

Boston College could be good enough to be an NCAA bubble team, while Harvard looks like the chalk in the Ivy League.
GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

The Celtics look like the real deal but finding a missing piece for a Finals run is complicated

The Celtics? roster is made up of players they either can?t afford to deal or who don?t have enough value to bring back a top-notch talent.

J.J. Watt returns to practice, expects to rejoin Texans for playoffs
Ben Volin | On Football

Film study: Josh McDaniels was masterful in Patriots? win over Bills

Politics

Warren embraced high-dollar fundraisers for years ? until just before her presidential campaign

Business

Where?s Santa? Wildly popular NORAD returns to give real-time updates this Christmas

Marijuana

A viral tweet claimed the Warren campaign rejected a job applicant over marijuana. The truth is more complicated
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

Holiday season means many things to many Bruins

Chase Winovich pays off entire lunch debt of his hometown school district

Gordon Hayward ready to return to action in Celtics? Christmas game

metro

Two men arrested for drug trafficking in separate incidents

Where in the world is Santa? Depends on which online tracker you?re following ? Google or NORAD

Suffolk DA Rollins cites ?#hypocrisy? in lack of uproar over ending criminal case against former Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill and wife

Nation

Sea World Orlando to change killer whale show in 2020

Colleges are turning students? phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands

A Trump policy ?clarification? all but ends punishment for bird deaths

World

Saudi court sentences 5 to death in Khashoggi murder

India?s main opposition party stages protest against new law

Inside Christmas card, girl finds plea from Chinese prison laborers

politics

Warren embraced high-dollar fundraisers for years ? until just before her presidential campaign

The Lincoln Project takes on Trump ? and possibly Maine?s Susan Collins

Trump lashes out as impeachment trial stuck in limbo

business

Where?s Santa? Wildly popular NORAD returns to give real-time updates this Christmas

This Christmas, Italy?s in a cookie war

A career spent helping people ?do things right?: State?s campaign finance chief is retiring

lifestyle

Special guests make the scene at George Regan?s holiday bash

A Company Christmas at Pops raises $1.2 million

Recipe: Tarte Flambee, or Alsatian pizza, is a thin crust spread with soft cheese, golden onions, and bacon

marijuana

A viral tweet claimed the Warren campaign rejected a job applicant over marijuana. The truth is more complicated

Search for juvenile turns up marijuana growing operations, explosives in Wisconsin

Hemp will qualify for new crop insurance pilot program next year, USDA announces

opinion

Among the casualties of US wars in the Middle East: Christianity

Biden?s speaking up for those of us with a stutter silences Sarah Huckabee Sanders?s taunts

?Twas the night before Christmas

food & dining

Recipe: Bake this cinnamon dough in one large round, then cut it into warm, plump wedges

Tea-infused honey makes for a soothing winter drink

After a tremendous loss, brewing beer helped him cope. Now he?s helping others.

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?: When sisterhood is powerful (and not just in Concord)

?Uncut Gems? excels with diamonds in the rough ? very rough

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

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

Mama Cax, an amputee model and disability activist, 30

Elspeth Halvorsen Vevers, whose dioramas explored the ?mystery of the cosmos,? dies at 90

Randy Suess, computer bulletin board inventor, dies at 74