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It’s been a year since the vote. Where is Boston’s elected School Committee?

Nearly 80% of voters made it clear they wanted to elect Boston School Committee members, but Mayor Michelle Wu says now is no time for transition.

‘I wanted to learn from the best,’ Healey says of her early years of private law practice

Years before Maura Healey embarked on a public service career that would see her become the state’s first elected woman governor, she was a junior attorney in the litigation department of WilmerHale in Boston.

Here’s (almost) everything Prince William and Kate will do during their Boston visit
The Prince and Princess of Wales will be in Boston for three days, culminating with their attendance Friday at the Earthshot Prize, a star-studded awards ceremony at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway.

President Biden to be in Boston on Friday, just like the royals

From left to right, top to bottom, Billie Eilish, Rami Malek, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Dae Kim and Halle Bailey (left) and her sister Chloe Bailey, of the R&B duo Chloe X Halle are all slated to take part in the Earthshot Prize Awards this Friday.

Here are the celebs slated to appear at the Earthshot Prize awards with William and Kate

The aftermath of the Cocoanut Grove fire on Nov. 28, 1942.

Victims of Cocoanut Grove fire remembered on 80th anniversary

N.H. man arrested in Conn. agrees to return to Martha’s Vineyard to face bank robbery charge

Forecast | Dave Epstein

As November ends and December begins, expect some weather swings

A view of the Robert T. Lynch Municipal Golf Course in Brookline.

A group wants more green space in Brookline. Their proposal has led to a ‘rancorous’ debate about the town’s public golf course.

The future of the Robert T. Lynch Municipal Golf Course has stirred controversy for months, pitting those who want to increase public access to the 120-acre parcel against those who want it to remain mostly unchanged.

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We’ll find out Thursday against the Bills whether the Patriots defense is for real
The New England defense has put up impressive statistics for most of the season — but largely against subpar quarterbacks.

NFL Week 12: The balance of power has shifted in the AFC East, and it’s not in the Patriots’ favor

The secret to longer, healthier life? Ambitious new trial focuses on ‘super agers’ and seeks thousands of families.
Researchers hope to identify inherited and natural factors that protect against the diseases of aging.

A "hologram" of ARHT CEO Larry O'Reilly was projected on a screen for an interview at the company's WeWork studio in Boston, as ARHT's Jackson Wilken (right) watched.

Sick of Zoom? Try beaming in by ‘hologram.’

The technology is flashy, but it’s unclear if it will impact the future of videoconferencing.

Over 133 Kemp's ridley turtles and 37 green turtles have been rescued from the shores of Cape Cod Bay since Nov. 18, according to the New England Aquarium.

More than 150 hypothermic sea turtles rescued off Cape Cod are being treated at aquarium facility in Quincy

Cape Cod Bay traps turtles each fall, and volunteers and staff members at the New England Aquarium sea turtle hospital provide individualized care for the animals.

The Iranian team is coming off a victory over Wales. It will face the US Tuesday, with advancement on the line.

A coach who knows both teams sizes up the US-Iran World Cup match

Dan Gaspar has coached in the US ranks and was Iran's top assistant from 2011-17.

Milton Jones

Nearly 50 years later, his murder conviction was overturned. Now Milton Jones wants his name cleared.

Milton Jones has fought to prove his innocence since 1976, when a jury relied on flimsy evidence to convict him of second-degree murder in the robbery of a Roxbury bar.

Opinion

The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C.

We should all care about the integrity of the IRS

Tax administration that is fair, impartial, and free of meddling is essential to the nation.

MARCELA GARCÍA

World Cup’s frenzied fandom gives the boot to geopolitical morality

Time to end the mystery, incoming Governor Maura Healey

Biden must hold more press conferences

Adrian Bonenberger

Under fire from Russia, Ukrainian morale remains high

An engraving portrait of poet Phillis Wheatley Peters, circa 1773.

The Emancipator

Poetry and the struggle for justice

Early American abolitionists used the storytelling artistry of poetry as a way to dismantle White supremacist thinking. Paul Lewis dissects an 1820 poem published in the original Emancipator called “Far in a gloomy desart, waste and wild.”

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Robert Kraft lets Virginia football team use Patriots plane to attend funerals
The services for the three players slain this month were scheduled for locations in Florida, Virginia, and South Carolina.

Drydock turned lab space: Inside developer Jon Cronin’s plans for a unique corner of Boston’s waterfront
The restaurateur-turned-developer envisions a trio of lab buildings overlooking the drydock — one of the last of its kind on the East Coast — that together will total nearly 900,000 square feet.

Bob Dylan apologizes following controversy about autographs in new book
The artist admitted to using an auto-pen to sign special editions of "The Philosophy of Modern Song.”

Braintree police officer disciplined for conduct during incident involving woman being booked
A Braintree police lieutenant was disciplined earlier this year for conduct during a November 2021 booking of a woman who kicked and tried to bite a fellow officer, prompting the lieutenant to grab her by the hair, push her head back, and scream in her face, according to records from the Norfolk district attorney’s office.

Boston mRNA startup raises millions to test its targeted cancer therapies
A $97 million funding round comes as anticipation builds for companies to prove that the COVID-19 vaccines were not one-hit wonders for mRNA technology.

Elon Musk says Apple threatened to remove Twitter from its App Store

Elon Musk on Monday went on a tear against Apple, Twitter's top advertiser, after he said the company threatened to block the social network from its App Store and mostly had stopped advertising on Twitter.

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Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, with the Atlas robot.

Boston Dynamics, known for its wacky robot videos, is now focused on making money

With its newest robot, Stretch, Boston Dynamics is taking a more commercial — and lucrative — approach.

On a Cape Cod golf course, the region’s housing crisis comes to a head
The 40-acre Twin Brooks Golf Course in Hyannis is the site of converging debates over the region's housing shortage, environment, and the economy itself.

Ten years later, a new memorial and indelible memories in Sandy Hook
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Boston schools lost 15,000 Black students in the past 20 years. Where did they go, and will they ever return?
In a dramatic reshaping of its makeup, Boston Public Schools has lost half its Black student population in the last two decades, as Black enrollment fell from from 29,300 in the 2002-2003 school year to 14,600 last year.

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Justin Freed, the Coolidge Corner Theatre’s former owner and film programmer, will bring his film “Jazz Saved My Life” to the theater, as well as musicians Maria Schneider and Donal Fox for "An Evening of Jazz and Healing."

‘Jazz and healing’ at Coolidge Corner, through the lens of Justin Freed

James Hetfield, left, and Kirk Hammett of Metallica perform during the Global Citizen Festival on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, at Central Park in New York.

Metallica announces two Gillette Stadium dates on upcoming world tour

Authors Stacy Schiff (left) and Bora Chung will be reading at author events in Boston this week.

Author readings around Boston Nov. 27-Dec. 3

Boston Ballet principal dancer Jeffrey Cirio and soloist Chisako Oga in Mikko Nissinen's "The Nutcracker."

Boston Ballet returns with a full staging of ‘The Nutcracker’

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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

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

President Biden responded to a question from a reporter during a press conference in the State Dining Room of the White House a day after the midterm elections on Nov. 9.

Biden must hold more press conferences

An apartment building in Irpin, Ukraine. Heavily damaged during the fight to retake the town in April, it serves as evidence of the terrible toll that Ukrainian civilians have suffered at the hands of Russia.

Adrian Bonenberger

Under fire from Russia, Ukrainian morale remains high

Plastic waste and garbage on the beach in Costa del Este, Panama City, Panama, on Sept. 21.

Carroll Muffett

The world can’t recycle its way out of the plastics crisis

Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito speaks during the Federalist Society's 40th Anniversary dinner at Union Station in Washington, Nov. 10, 2022.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Supreme Court wining, dining, and leaking no light matter

A police officer left the station on Nov. 9 in Blackstone. A former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth police officer accused of groping a female student was hired by the police department in Blackstone. He is assigned to investigate sexual assaults.

Ridding police of bad actors a work in progress

The author and his son, Misha, last February.

IDEAS | JOHN SUMMERS

The mismeasure of Misha

Metro

A group wants more green space in Brookline. Their proposal has led to a ‘rancorous’ debate about the town’s public golf course.

The future of the Robert T. Lynch Municipal Golf Course has stirred controversy for months, pitting those who want to increase public access to the 120-acre parcel against those who want it to remain mostly unchanged.

‘I wanted to learn from the best,’ Healey says of her early years of private law practice

Years before Maura Healey embarked on a public service career that would see her become the state’s first elected woman governor, she was a junior attorney in the litigation department of WilmerHale in Boston.

Eleanor Jackson Piel, lawyer who fought capital convictions, dies at 102

In a profile of Ms. Piel in 1999, The New York Times called her “the courts’ most elegant pain in the neck.”

Police say Quincy man stole cigarettes, tried to take officer’s gun in Salem, N.H.

John Horrigan was charged with theft, resisting arrest, and the attempted taking of a firearm from a law enforcement officer, police said.

Sports

Casemiro scored the only goal in an important win for tournament favorite Brazil.

World Cup Notebook

Casemiro’s stunning volley lifts Brazil over Switzerland, into knockout stage

The Manchester United star delivered a moment of brilliance to break the deadlock and send Brazil to the Round of 16.

Former Red Sox GM Theo Epstein (above) is among those who will decide the fate of Hall of Fame candidates Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, and Curt Schilling, among others.

Voting panel is announced for Hall of Fame’s Contemporary Baseball Era committee

Chipper Jones and Greg Maddux are among the ex-players on the panel, and former Red Sox GM Theo Epstein also is on it.

Guard Jaeden Zackery started all 33 games as a freshman in 2021-22, and now he is a sophomore leader for the Eagles.

men's college basketball notebook

Jaeden Zackery took a circuitous route but has found his place with BC basketball

Zackery went from high school in Wisconsin to prep school in Pennsylvania to junior college in Florida before being recruited by BC.

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Judging by the way he is thumping opponents, Charlie McAvoy’s shoulder is fine

Keep up with the World Cup: See the scores of every match, and check out today’s schedule

World Cup 2022: Meet the 26 players on the US Men’s National Team roster who are vying for glory in Qatar

Business

Two Fed officials endorse raising key rate to 5% or more

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Yahoo takes minority stake in ad network Taboola

The deal is part of a 30-year exclusive advertising partnership that allows Yahoo to use Taboola’s technology to manage its sizable business in native advertising.

Meta fined $275m for breaking EU data privacy law

Sick of Zoom? Try beaming in by ‘hologram.’

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10 hacks for the perfect Disney World vacation

How to find a New England ski adventure that’s just right for you

This week's daters: Ben and Garabed

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘He moved to a new city and proceeded to join every sports league you can imagine’

Romanian Pork and White Bean Soup With Vinegar and Caraway (Ciorba de Porc) accompanied by pickled red onions.

Recipes: Boost your stock with a Romanian white bean soup, Basque-style leek soup, and more

metro

Michael D. O'Neill, vice chairperson of the Boston School Committee talked with Jeri Robinson, the committee's chairperson,
during a retreat.

It’s been a year since the vote. Where is Boston’s elected School Committee?

Victims of Cocoanut Grove fire remembered on 80th anniversary

More than 150 hypothermic sea turtles rescued off Cape Cod are being treated at aquarium facility in Quincy

sports

Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen is 3-1 in his last four games against the Patriots, and the one loss was somewhat of a fluke.

We’ll find out Thursday against the Bills whether the Patriots defense is for real

A coach who knows both teams sizes up the US-Iran World Cup match

Robert Kraft lets Virginia football team use Patriots plane to attend funerals

business

An Amazon driver loads packages into a delivery van at an Amazon delivery station on Nov. 28, 2022 in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Cyber Monday deals lure in consumers amid high inflation

Biogen stock falls on report that patient died in Eisai’s Alzheimer trial

Elon Musk says Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter

politics

President Joe Biden gives a thumbs up before boarding Air Force One at Nantucket Memorial Airport in Nantucket, Mass., Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022.

President Biden to be in Boston on Friday, just like the royals

‘We the People’ is the White House’s theme for the holidays

Biden boosts US effort to stem sexual violence in war zones

Nation

Lava poured from the summit crater of Mauna Loa Monday morning, as seen from Gilbert Kahele Recreation Area on Maunakea, Hawaii.

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano starts to erupt, sending ash nearby

Buffalo gunman pleads guilty in racist supermarket massacre, guaranteeing life in prison

Crews rescue 2 from plane caught in power lines in Maryland

World

Police officers blocked a street where protests had taken place the night before, in Shanghai, China, on Sunday.

What you need to know about China’s COVID-19 protests

Music superstar Dua Lipa granted Albanian citizenship

Young women are at front line of China’s sweeping COVID-19 protests

opinion

A police officer left the station on Nov. 9 in Blackstone. A former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth police officer accused of groping a female student was hired by the police department in Blackstone. He is assigned to investigate sexual assaults.

Ridding police of bad actors a work in progress

The world can’t recycle its way out of the plastics crisis

‘Bought and sold’: that troublesome UMass Lowell hydrogen study

lifestyle

James Hetfield, left, and Kirk Hammett of Metallica perform during the Global Citizen Festival on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, at Central Park in New York.

Metallica announces two Gillette Stadium dates on upcoming world tour

‘Gaslighting’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2022

How chasing viral guitar riffs made Will Paquin a TikTok sensation

food & dining

Levain Bakery of New York opened its Newbury Street shop earlier this year, introducing Bostonians to its hefty, 6-ounce cookies.

Gift boxes they’ll devour: Here are 4 ideas for people who love food

After 10 years of cooking in Chicago, this chef is hosting pop-ups in North restaurant’s former space

Farm-to-table-to-bed in Vermont, ski resort deals, and California dreaming

travel

Weston Backcountry, also a leader in offering scholarships for women and underrepresented groups (and supporting backcountry safety and education, in general), has released its first women’s-specific swallowtail snowboard, The Revel, available in 143, 148, and 153 cm.

New winter sports gear worth checking out

Despite a reality TV makeover, this Berkshires motel is not quite ready for its close-up

Holiday splendor in the Brandywine Valley

Arts

Edward Hopper, "Manhattan Bridge Loop," 1928. Oil on canvas. Gift of Stephen C. Clark, Esq.

In ‘Edward Hopper’s New York,’ a city and artist forever entwined

At Yale, Fazal Sheikh exposes the elements in every sense

Looking back at an experiment in looking and learning at MIT

Books

Do not go gentle

A new study of John Singer Sargent views the painter through a 21st century lens

Netflix and poetry in Darryl Pinckney’s post-pandemic literary life

Movies

Thomas Hudner III, whose father, Thomas Hudner Jr., was a Korean War hero and is one of the subjects of a new film called "Devotion," held a flight jacket that belonged to his Navy aviator father.

Stirring tale of Korean War heroism of Thomas Hudner comes to the big screen

With ‘The Fabelmans,’ Spielberg joins the club of filmmakers mining their early years for the movies

‘Devotion’ is an interracial friendship story that flies

Television

From left to right, top to bottom, Billie Eilish, Rami Malek, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Dae Kim and Halle Bailey (left) and her sister Chloe Bailey, of the R&B duo Chloe X Halle are all slated to take part in the Earthshot Prize Awards this Friday.

Here are the celebs slated to appear at the Earthshot Prize awards with William and Kate

This week’s TV: Why Scrooge is timeless, a ‘Willow’ series, and a Dolly Parton movie

‘The Chosen’ makes Jesus Christ into a streaming star

music

Tenor soloist Ben Bliss and conductor Václav Luks performing Handel's "Messiah" with the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus on Sunday.

Guest conductor Václav Luks brings out musical merits of Handel and Haydn Society’s ‘Messiah’

‘Jazz and healing’ at Coolidge Corner, through the lens of Justin Freed

Bob Dylan apologizes following controversy about autographs in new book

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet principal dancer Jeffrey Cirio and soloist Chisako Oga in Mikko Nissinen's "The Nutcracker."

Boston Ballet returns with a full staging of ‘The Nutcracker’

At many Boston-area theaters, audiences haven’t staged a comeback

Not ready for the seasonal influx of holiday theater? Try these 4 shows.

globe local

A view of the pond before the Bond-Hampton House, which was designated as an official city landmark in early November. The building at 88 Lambert Ave. stands out as a remaining example of 19th-century suburban architecture, but it's perhaps most known as the longtime home of "Eyes on the Prize" filmmaker and community organizer Henry Hampton.

Former home of beloved ‘Eyes on the Prize’ creator becomes Boston landmark

NO LIMITS: Waypoint Adventure gives students with physical and emotional challenges real-life experiences outdoors

The Argument: Should the state require later start times for all middle and high schools?

Obituaries

Ms. Piel, in her law office in 1999. She served as a lawyer for seven decades and her cases included several death penalty appeals.

Eleanor Jackson Piel, lawyer who fought capital convictions, dies at 102

Lucia Small, who brought women’s and girls’ voices to forefront in documentaries, dies at 59

Rugby star and ALS campaigner Doddie Weir dies at 52