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Three armed suspects at large after robbing bank on Martha’s Vineyard, tying up employees, authorities say
State Police, the FBI, and local police are searching for three armed suspects who tied up the staff and then robbed a Rockland Trust branch in Vineyard Haven on Thursday, a crime that put the regional high school into a lockdown, officials said.

After denialism faltered in the midterms, Republicans seek distance from a movement they unleashed
After numerous election deniers lost statewide campaigns, an indication that their cause is politically toxic, GOP strategists are insisting it’s time to drop it.

Charlie Baker, once isolated in criticizing Donald Trump, believes many Republicans are ‘looking at a different 2024’

Ticketmaster cancels general sale for Taylor Swift tickets, cites ‘insufficient remaining ticket inventory’
This announcement comes after Ticketmaster reported “unprecedented traffic” for tour tickets during Tuesday's pre-sale, where about 1.5 million fans were permitted to scramble for tickets to the 52 show dates.

Tennessee AG probing Ticketmaster’s role in chaos over Taylor Swift tickets

Are you waiting on student debt forgiveness? Tell us in this survey.

President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 of student debt has faced a number of legal challenges recently. The Globe wants to hear from student borrowers on the topic.

A locked gate at Trinity Stadium, home field of the Haverhill High School football team, on Thursday.

Frustration, disappointment over alleged hazing incident in Haverhill

The alleged hazing incident in Haverhill that’s prompted the cancellation of the traditional Thanksgiving Day football game against Lowell High School as well as a criminal investigation is “extremely concerning,” a Haverhill city councilor said Thursday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she won’t seek leadership role, plans to stay in Congress
Pelosi said Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, a pivotal realignment making way for a new generation of leaders after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the midterm elections.

R.I. Democrats praise Pelosi as she announces she will step down

EDITORIAL

Pelosi passes the torch to a new generation
Her legacy assured, the speaker reminds fellow Democrats that the fight for democracy isn’t over.

Pelosi will go down in history as the first female House Speaker. But that’s only the beginning of her legacy.

These days, members of Congress largely fall into three categories: workhorses, show horses, and prolific fundraisers. Pelosi excels in all three.

Tufts University names Johns Hopkins University provost as its next president
Kumar replaces Anthony Monaco, who is stepping down after 12 years as the school’s leader.

4,497 confirmed cases and 72 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

Here’s a look at the latest coronavirus numbers in Massachusetts, including case numbers, deaths, demographics, and more.

An associate professor at Boston University was killed on Sept. 11, 2021, when he fell from a dilapidated state-owned staircase near a Dorchester T stop. His family is now suing Massachusetts transportation authorities and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

Family of BU professor who fell to his death in Dorchester sues MBTA, MassDOT

The wrongful death suit names the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the state Department of Transportation as defendants.

Sam Bankman-Fried, cofounder and former chief executive of FTX.

INNOVATION BEAT

Failed crypto firm FTX has some key Boston connections

Several top executives previously spent time in Boston, either attending school in the area, growing up here, or working at local companies.

Opinion

Keep your eye on Republican Asa Hutchinson, the former US senator from, and now outgoing governor of, Arkansas, who has signaled strong interest in running for president in 2024.

GOP governors can help rescue their party

They can move the party in a more moderate and constructive direction.

IDEAS | JOSHUA MACHT

An end run around a college degree

Thinking big about Boston’s transit future

Trump’s power comes from the press that promotes him

Antiabortion pregnancy centers are deceiving women. They need to know that.

The New York Police Department graduating class of 2016 salutes during a ceremony at Madison Square Garden, July 1, 2016.

The Emancipator

Call ‘tough on crime’ what it is: a tool of racial oligarchy

Conservatives and liberals alike embrace a “law and order” framework, which blames reformers, the poor, and the unhoused for concerns about crime, and enforces rule based on wealth and racism. We need to build a better future.

Special reports

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts 2022

The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine celebrate the state’s leading companies and nonprofits run by women.

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Celebrating 150 years of The Boston Globe

We’re marking the Globe’s 150th year with a look back through 15 decades of coverage. Explore 150 of the most significant front pages, revisit classic sports moments, try a crossword from 1917, and more.

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KEVIN CULLEN

The ‘don’t be gay’ World Cup
Officials in Qatar are dramatically altering the World Cup’s inclusive, carnival-like atmosphere — and not for the better.

MATTHEW GILBERT

‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ is still speaking to us
Two months after its release, the docuseries about what was happening in our own country while the Nazis were trying to exterminate the Jews in Europe has taken deep root in my mind, which is as it should be.

BOOK REVIEW

Michelle Obama’s ‘The Light We Carry’ offers tools for navigating a new era, but no deeper insights
As with her first book, “Becoming,” the most interesting and candid sections revolve around her family and early life.

Biden admin to ask high court to take up student debt plan
The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the president’s student debt cancellation plan, according to a Thursday legal filing, warning that millions of Americans will face financial strain if the plan remains stalled in court when loan payments are scheduled to restart in January.

MOVIE REVIEW

‘The Menu’ skewers foodies in a horror-satire that will leave you hungry
Ralph Fiennes plays a ruthless chef who serves up surprises to his diners, including Anya Taylor-Joy

WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving sentence in Russian penal colony
Griner was transferred to a penal colony in Mordovia, about 350 kilometers (210 miles) east of Moscow, after a Russian court last month rejected her appeal of her sentence.

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Venezuelan migrants board a bus on a ferry from Martha's Vineyard to Woods Hole on Sept. 16. The group was transported to Joint Base Cape Cod in Buzzards Bay.

In text messages, coordinators of Ron DeSantis’ migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard reveled in plotting surprise political stunt

The records come three months after the administration of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unceremoniously stranded migrants in Martha’s Vineyard.

See the texts between coordinators of Ron DeSantis’ migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard

‘Spirited’ was filmed entirely in Mass. Here are all the Boston-area locations.
It may feel early, but a new film starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds is about to jump-start a season of holiday streaming. Location manager Mark Fitzgerald popped open the hood on the Boston-based production.

Open-collar boomers ask nostalgically: Where have all the neckties gone?
More than a few older employees and retirees admit to nostalgia for a time when the tie signified a more structured, if slower paced, business world.

LEGO versions of the Mona Lisa, ‘Starry Night,’ coming to Boston
Michelangelo’s “David," Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” will all be on display in Boston starting Friday — their LEGO versions, that is.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Thom Yorke performs with The Smile at Roadrunner.

Radiohead offshoot brings a Smile to Roadrunner

Carey Mulligan as Megan Twohey (left) and Zoe Kazan as Jodi Kantor in a scene from "She Said."

‘She Said’ and the investigation that mobilized #MeToo

Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran, shown in a re-created image by video designer Katherine Freer that was inspired by a black-and-white photo taken by Jason Moran. The original photo was part of the couple's inspiration for "Family Ball."

For Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran, home is where the art is

Jesse Eisenberg as Toby Fleishman in "Fleishman Is in Trouble."

A middle-age muddle in ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’

Special Projects

Photo illustration

A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death

Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A rendering of a Green Line "Supercar."

Thinking big about Boston’s transit future

Members of the media set up their cameras on the back riser before the arrival of President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in 2020.

Trump’s power comes from the press that promotes him

The awning outside of Your Options Medical, a crisis pregnancy center in Revere.

Antiabortion pregnancy centers are deceiving women. They need to know that.

A police officer stood at the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge construction site in Boston on July 31, 2017.

Battle lines drawn in council’s quest for civilian flaggers

Barbara Anderson, the longtime executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation, outside of her home in Marblehead, Mass., in 1990.

RIP, Citizens for Limited Taxation

IDEAS | JOSHUA MACHT

An end run around a college degree

Metro

4,497 confirmed cases and 72 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

Here’s a look at the latest coronavirus numbers in Massachusetts, including case numbers, deaths, demographics, and more.

Rhode Island crime news: November 2022

Regular updates from police and the Rhode Island courts.

The ‘don’t be gay’ World Cup

Officials in Qatar are dramatically altering the World Cup’s inclusive, carnival-like atmosphere — and not for the better.

$130 million made available for health worker loan repayment

The grants are geared toward behavioral health and primary care workers.

Sports

The latest lawsuit is the second against the Commanders in eight days.

Commanders sued by District of Columbia, this time for cheating fans out of ticket money

The lawsuit says the NFL team took season ticket-holder money and kept it for its own purposes.

Bruins defenseman Anton Stralman had not suited up since the Nov. 3 game against the Rangers at Madison Square Garden.

Bruins notebook

Defenseman Anton Stralman returns to Bruins’ lineup for game against Flyers

Stralman paired with Brandon Carlo on the No. 3 defense unit, replacing Jakub Zboril, a healthy scratch.

Cole Hammer shot an 8-under 64 to post the low score of the opening round of the PGA Tour's RSM Classic at Sea Island in St. Simons Island, Ga.

Texas exes Cole Hammer, Beau Hossler off to good start at PGA Tour’s finale at Sea Island

Hammer shot an 8-under 64 and wound up sharing the low score with fellow Texas alum Hossler after one round of the RSM Classic in St. Simons Island, Ga.

college football

A sliver of the Ivy League football title is possible for Harvard if it beats Yale

NCAA men's basketball | UMass 66, Colorado 63

Noah Fernandes (22) helps UMass men’s basketball defeat Colorado at Myrtle Beach Invitational

NCAA men's basketball | UMass 66, Colorado 63

Noah Fernandes (22 points) leads UMass men’s basketball to win over Colorado in Myrtle Beach Invitational

Business

New chief calls FTX’s corporate control a ‘complete failure’

In a blistering court filing, John Jay Ray III described an astonishing level of disarray and said he had never seen “such a complete failure of corporate control.”

SpaceX employees say they were fired for speaking up about Musk

On Wednesday, unfair-labor-practice charges were filed with the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of eight workers, arguing that their firings were illegal.

Macy’s boosts 2022 guidance while Kohl’s outlook withdrawn

Are you waiting on student debt forgiveness? Tell us in this survey.

magazine

Lamingtons

Five treats guaranteed to wow at your next holiday party. Get the recipes here.

I was laser focused on getting into Harvard. Here’s why I want my kids to be different.

Advice: Why does small talk get such a bad rap?

Austrian Pot-Roasted Beef With Root Vegetables

Recipes: Skip the turkey this Thanksgiving and try one of these creative alternatives

metro

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California with impeachment managers Representative David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat, right, and Representative Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, left, speaking to the media during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, after the U.S. Senate voted not guilty, to acquit former President Donald Trump of inciting riot at U.S. Capitol, ending impeachment trial, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021.

R.I. Democrats praise Pelosi as she announces she will step down

More than 100 warning signs posted at Mount Washington trailheads in response to hiker rescues

At Harvard-Yale game, Cambridge students will make the case for a new college mascot: A turkey.

sports

A lake-effect snowstorm is expected to hit Buffalo this weekend.

NFL moves Bills-Browns game to Detroit to avoid lake-effect snowstorm in Buffalo

Pete Rose’s latest plea is among topics addressed by baseball commissioner Rob Manfred

Olympic ice dance champion Alexander Gorshkov dies at 76

business

James Bullard.

Fed official suggests substantial rate hikes may be needed

Failed crypto firm FTX has some key Boston connections

Ticketmaster cancels general sale for Taylor Swift tickets, cites ‘insufficient remaining ticket inventory’

politics

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., spoke on the House floor at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she won’t seek leadership role, plans to stay in Congress

Biden admin to ask high court to take up student debt plan

After denialism faltered in the midterms, Republicans seek distance from a movement they unleashed

Nation

Payton Gendron was led into the courtroom for a hearing at Erie County Court, in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, May 19, 2022.

Buffalo mass shooter to plead guilty, victims’ lawyers say

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

4,497 confirmed cases and 72 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

World

On Thursday, a Dutch court convicted three with ties to Russian security services to life in prison for the downing of a passenger jet above eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people aboard. The wreckage of flight MH17 was reconstructed on May 26, 2021.

Dutch court convicts 3 of murder for 2014 downing of airliner in Ukraine

Sunak budget seeks to stabilize Britain’s economy, rattled by Truss

WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving sentence in Russian penal colony

opinion

Demonstrators marching in solidarity with protesters in Iran stood around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington on Oct. 29.

A startling split in the Iranian American community

Trump’s power comes from the press that promotes him

Despite midterms, Trump’s MAGA movement leaves him a force to be reckoned with inside the GOP

lifestyle

Can I say ‘I love you’ first?

Open-collar boomers ask nostalgically: Where have all the neckties gone?

Right Here Waiting for You

food & dining

Arancini at Si Cara restaurant in Central Square.

At Si Cara, crusty delights in edgy surrounds

Once last resorts, hotel restaurants are making a comeback

Tiffani Faison pitches a nostalgic pizza parlor in the Fenway; Cambridge’s Beat Brew Hall says goodbye

travel

Get your sweet tooth on and join the Mt. Washington Valley Inn to Inn Cookie Tour, Dec. 10-11.

Cookies and crafts in N.H., art in Worcester, and a superhero’s view of New York City

With no hotel experience, they quit their jobs and bought a Vermont inn

American Cruise Lines protection plan isn’t protecting me

Arts

A visitor pauses to look at the roller coaster that is part of artist E.J. Hill’s "Brake Run Helix" inside Mass MoCA. Hill has based a lot of his work around amusement parks and roller coasters in particular as places where terror meets elation, and the potential for these places, as simulated spaces, to generate very real extremes of emotion.

Inside Mass MoCA, EJ Hill’s ‘Break Run Helix,’ is a rideable roller coaster that does double duty as art

LEGO versions of the Mona Lisa, ‘Starry Night,’ coming to Boston

Fuller Craft Museum offers ‘Food Justice’ for thought

Books

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

Beverly Gage’s biography ‘G-Man’ examines J. Edgar Hoover’s controversial tenure at the FBI

Michelle Obama’s ‘The Light We Carry’ offers tools for navigating a new era, but no deeper insights

Nicholas Dawidoff on violence in novels, favorite books, and the power of rereading

Movies

Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy in "The Menu."

‘The Menu’ skewers foodies in a horror-satire that will leave you hungry

How ‘She Said’ breaks the journalism movie mold

Marine-turned-movie director Elegance Bratton on making ‘The Inspection’

Television

Members of the Sturmabteilung, the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing, as seen in "The U.S. and the Holocaust."

‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ is still speaking to us

Bob Odenkirk is back — is AMC?

Jay Leno has ‘serious burns’ from a gas fire at his LA garage

music

Ray Angry

Ray Angry of the Roots makes his classical composing debut

Ticketmaster cancels general sale for Taylor Swift tickets, cites ‘insufficient remaining ticket inventory’

Radiohead offshoot brings a Smile to Roadrunner

Theater/Dance

How well did the audience play its part? The reviews are mixed.

‘Into the Breeches!’ gives rise to an all-female Boston-based Shakespeare production

So much goes right in Lyric’s uproarious ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’

globe local

"Holiday Gala at the Whistler House," painted by Dave Drinon in 2015 for that year's auction, imagines the house's main gallery through a 19th-century lens. The annual party and auction returns Dec. 2.

Open skating, a call for artists, and a Thanksgiving reenactment

Church coffeehouse honors late comrades

Newton family offers city nearly 15 acres for $24 million

Obituaries

Soviet ice dancers Lyudmilla Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov during compulsories of Olympic ice dance in Olympic Stadium, Innsbruck, Austria, Feb. 5, 1976. The pair won the first Olympic ice dance gold medal for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Games and Gorshkov later became a leading official in Russian figure skating. He has died at the age of 76, it was announced Thursday.

Olympic ice dance champion Alexander Gorshkov dies at 76

Robert Clary, last of the ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ stars, dies at 96

Henry Rosovsky, who redefined Harvard to its core, dies at 95