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Governor Charlie Baker has defended his decision to recommend pardons for Gerald Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave.

As Baker seeks pardons in Fells Acres abuse case, those who testified as children see ‘betrayal’

Governor Charlie Baker’s push to pardon Gerald Amirault and his sister, Cheryl Amirault LeFave, has incensed those who maintain that they or their child were sexually abused at the Fells Acres Day School nearly 40 years ago.

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Dear Kate and Will, welcome to Boston. Allow us to suggest an alternative (and much better) itinerary.
The omission of the words “package store” and “iced mochaccino” from your schedule is setting off serious alarms. And no visit would be complete without a spin through one of our most terrifying rotaries — um, roundabouts.

Here’s (almost) everything Prince William and Kate will do during their Boston visit For royals’ visit to Boston, security will be ‘team event’ between UK, US law enforcement

Mayor Kevin White escorted Queen Elizabeth II during her 1976 visit to Boston.

Can William and Kate keep the British monarchy relevant?

Their itinerary, and past actions, suggest Kate and William are people of conscience and admirable values. Their interest in climate change, mental health, and social justice fits their millennial generation nicely.

Dan Shaughnessy

Bruins are responding to a new coach, have a former MVP on the third line, and their locker room leadership is second to none
Tuesday’s victory over the Lightning made the Bruins 13-0 at home this season.

Taylor Hall, Bruins beat the Lightning again; record home streak at 13-0-0

Senate votes to protect same-sex marriage, with crucial backing from some Republicans who helped install conservatives on Supreme Court

Fears that some judges would upend the right helped fuel passage of the legislation, with 12 Republican senators joining all Democrats.

Study shows Alzheimer’s drug ‘moderately’ slowed cognitive decline

Despite the results, the death of a second patient in the trial may raise concerns about the experimental medicine made by Biogen and its Japanese partner, Eisai.

Lawsuits filed in deadly Hingham Apple Store crash; tragedy called ‘preventable’
The civil complaints name Apple, SUV driver Bradley Rein, and Newton-based WS Development and affiliated companies as defendants.

Migrant recruiter, transport company, and Fla. officials added as parties to federal lawsuit over Martha’s Vineyard flights

Perla Huerta and Vertol Systems, a Florida-based plane company, were named in an amended complaint filed Tuesday as part of a lawsuit brought by Lawyers for Civil Rights in US District Court in Boston.

Oath Keepers boss guilty of seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 case

A jury found Stewart Rhodes guilty of sedition after three days of deliberations in a nearly two-month-long trial that showcased the far-right extremist group’s efforts to keep Republican Donald Trump in the White House at all costs.

ADRIAN WALKER

He says he’s ready to put his life in a jury’s hands again. But Joey Bennett should be home to stay.
Joseph Bennett was released from prison in 2019, having served 22 years before being granted a new trial. The state plans to retry him in 2023.

A dish from Our Table in Jamestown, Rhode Island.

RI FOOD & DINING

Is Jamestown the new dining destination in Rhode Island?

More than half a dozen new restaurants have opened in this tiny Conanicut Island town over the past 18 months.

Christian Pulisic (10) took a hammering from Iran's Alireza Beiranvand (1) but finished off a crucial goal Tuesday.

Christian Pulisic and his US teammates put it all on the line to reach the next round of the World Cup

Pulisic sacrificed his body to put the Americans in front, at the end of a difficult week for the US team at a strange tournament.

Apprentice Brandel Johnson cut a sheet inside Forge, a new trade school that is combining training in construction with new technology, and guarantees a job upon graduation.

Innovation economy

This local startup is running a new kind of trade school — and hiring its graduates

The apprentices at Forge are part of a 12-week program that teaches the basics of construction and pays them $15 per hour as they learn.

Opinion

The "Man" burns in the Black Rock desert at Burning Man.

IDEAS | DAVID DESTENO

Church should be more like Burning Man

For many, the annual festival in the Nevada desert is more than a party. It’s a catalyst for spiritual awakening and long-lasting personal transformation.

Venezuelan migrants are being pushed into the shadows. Biden should let them work.

Joan Fitzgerald

Boston, state must act on home heating changes

IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

Is there a future for plastic recycling?

How Congress can attack inflation

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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The first baseman, who signed a three-year deal with the Astros, would have been a good fit in the lineup. Now, the Sox will turn to other names on the list of free agents.

Rescue attempt for stranded whales in Eastham ‘on hold,’ officials say
A team of rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare were sent out to help the whales after they were seen swimming dangerously close to shore north of Sunken Meadow Beach Monday, according to Stacey Hedman, a spokeswoman for the IFAW.

Former president Jiang Zemin, who guided China’s rise, dies
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led his country out of isolation after the crushing of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth, has died, state TV said. He was 96.

State energy board greenlights East Boston substation, enraging environmental justice advocates

Massachusetts’ Energy Facilities Siting Board said it will allow Eversource to circumvent the 14 final state and local environmental permits needed for the proposed substation. The decision outraged environmental justice advocates who have bitterly opposed the project.

A refugee family from Ukraine rebuilds in Rhode Island
Oleksadr Kreshuchuk and his family found community at the Second Baptist Church, where he conducts the choir and works to create a new life in East Providence.

Wellesley woman convicted of motor vehicle homicide in crash that killed two Needham High students in 2018

A jury on Monday convicted a 56-year-old woman of motor vehicle homicide but acquitted her of manslaughter in connection with a February 2018 crash in Needham that killed two high school students.

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Blue Diana Limage, 5, helped to lead a lesson at the Mattahunt Elementary School's Toussaint L'Ouverture Academy, where students learn in both English and Haitian Creole.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

In Mattapan’s Haitian Creole program, a taste of the bilingual education BPS wants to expand

Bilingual education can be a tough sell to many immigrant parents who believe their children should focus only on English.

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.

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.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

It’s been a year since the vote. Where is Boston’s elected School Committee?
Nearly 80 percent of voters made it clear they wanted to elect Boston School Committee members, but Mayor Michelle Wu says now is no time for transition.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Keith Lockhart, shown conducting a Holiday Pops show at Symphony Hall, is preparing a program this season that augments classic Pops fare with a new work by México-born composer Arturo Rodríguez, a pair of Ukrainian carols, and songs sung in five different languages.

Keith Lockhart promises a festive Holiday Pops show in any language

An illustration from the Center for Cartoon Studies in the “Drawing Us Together” exhibit at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

At Harvard, drawing conclusions about America’s health care system

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

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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

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

Former president Donald Trump met with Kevin McCarthy at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., in January 2021.

The craven Kevin McCarthy

Knitting, cooking, cleaning the house, stacking paper cups — anything but actual work will do.

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Shirking work by doing any other worthwhile thing

Bob Dylan in the early 1970s.

Bob Dylan gets tangled up in green

Governor-elect Maura Healey is seen during a press conference following her meeting with Governor Charlie Baker at the State House on Nov. 9.

Time to end the mystery, incoming Governor Maura Healey

The Rev. Rob Schenck, who spent years at the center of the anti-abortion movement and led a secretive effort to influence Supreme Court justices, in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 15.

Confidence in the Supreme Court is cratering. It needs to adopt a code of ethics.

The author and his son, Misha, last February.

IDEAS | JOHN SUMMERS

The mismeasure of Misha

Metro

Rap pioneer Kurtis Blow brings ‘The Hip Hop Nutcracker’ to PPAC

Blow talks salvation through dance, Disney+, Tchaikovsky — and why he considers himself only 36.

RI FOOD & DINING

Is Jamestown the new dining destination in Rhode Island?

More than half a dozen new restaurants have opened in this tiny Conanicut Island town over the past 18 months.

As Baker seeks pardons in Fells Acres abuse case, those who testified as children see ‘betrayal’

Governor Charlie Baker’s push to pardon Gerald Amirault and his sister, Cheryl Amirault LeFave, has incensed those who maintain that they or their child were sexually abused at the Fells Acres Day School nearly 40 years ago.

Quincy council approves $23 million more for public safety building

Officials blamed the cost overrun primarily on inflation.

Sports

Taylor Hall, playing on the third line, scored twice Tuesday, including the winner.

Dan Shaughnessy

Bruins are responding to a new coach, have a former MVP on the third line, and their locker room leadership is second to none

Tuesday’s victory over the Lightning made the Bruins 13-0 at home this season.

Michigan defeated Ohio State Saturday, 45-23, but it was 24-20 game heading into the fourth quarter.

College football

Ohio State falls to fifth in second-to-last College Football Playoff rankings; USC is No. 4.

The Buckeyes are positioned to possibly take advantage if one of the top four slips up on championship weekend.

Michigan defeated Ohio State Saturday, 45-23, but it was 24-20 game heading into the fourth quarter.

College football

Ohio State falls to fifth in second-to-last College Football Playoff rankings; USC is No. 4

The Buckeyes are positioned to possibly take advantage if one of the top four slips up on championship weekend.

BRUINS 3, LIGHTNING 1

Taylor Hall, Bruins beat the Lightning again; record home streak at 13-0-0

Christian Pulisic and his US teammates put it all on the line to reach the next round of the World Cup

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' BASKETBALL

At Brookline, there’s bounce and buy-in with Johnny Williams taking charge of boys’ basketball program

Business

Inflation eases in Europe, but still in double digits

Inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro currency eased to 10% this month as fuel and utilities drifted down from painful highs, but it is near the record levels that have robbed consumers of spending power and led economists to predict a recession.

Congressional leaders say they will act to prevent rail strike

Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress vowed Tuesday to pass legislation averting a nationwide rail strike, saying they agreed with President Biden that a work stoppage during the holidays next month would disrupt shipping and deal a devastating blow to the nation’s economy.

Twitter ends its ban on COVID misinformation

Congress prepares to take up bill preventing rail strike

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Captain Chris Haught of Inshore Charters.

I went to Tampa Bay in search of big fish. I found an angler’s paradise.

10 hacks for the perfect Disney World vacation

The writer (left) and his son after a two-hour round-trip flight in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk from Nashua, New Hampshire, to Portland, Maine, on March 4.

I was scared to fly in a small plane with my son, a new pilot. Here’s why I did it.

The 80th annual Christmas tree lighting on Boston Common in 2021.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD

Five things to do for fun in and around Boston, Nov. 28-Dec. 4

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu participated in the First Literacy Scholar Ceremony at Faneuil Hall in August. On Friday, a top aide will speak at a First Literacy event at Bunker Hill Community College highlighting new grant initiatives. (Globe Staff/file photo)
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Boston immigration leader to speak at First Literacy event highlighting new initiatives

Here’s what that big machinery is doing in the Providence River

Rescue attempt for stranded whales in Eastham ‘on hold,’ officials say

sports

Derek Forbort (left) joined in with all of his Bruins teammates on the ice to help thwart the Lightning's Vladislay Namestnikov.

Derek Forbort returns from finger fracture to lend a hand on Bruins’ penalty kill

Previewing and predicting the Division 4 Super Bowl: Duxbury vs. Grafton

MLBPA keeps Tony Clark, extends executive director through 2027

business

Biogen headquarters in Cambridge's Kendall Square.

Study shows Alzheimer’s drug ‘moderately’ slowed cognitive decline

Mass. council names a new chief executive

Shoppers broke records this holiday weekend, but inflation took its toll

politics

Former UN Ambassador and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley speaks during an event sponsored by Turning Point USA at Clemson University on Nov. 29, in Clemson, S.C.

Haley signals 2024 openness despite pledge to back Trump

Senate votes to protect same-sex marriage, with crucial backing from some Republicans who helped install conservatives on Supreme Court

Senate passes landmark bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriages

Nation

Lightning brightens the evening sky in Jackson, Miss., on Nov. 29.

Storms cause major tornadoes, flooding around the South

Hawaii volcano eruption has some on alert, draws onlookers

Plea deal in attacks on California Planned Parenthood clinic

World

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen applauds during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the European Parliament, Nov. 22, in Strasbourg, eastern France.

EU seeks specialized court to investigate Russia war crimes

Former president Jiang Zemin, who guided China’s rise, dies

NATO seeks to ease war impact on Bosnia, Georgia, Moldova

opinion

Bob Dylan in the early 1970s.

Bob Dylan gets tangled up in green

May I have a word: Shirking work by doing any other worthwhile thing

Confidence in the Supreme Court is cratering. It needs to adopt a code of ethics.

lifestyle

Love Letters Podcast 11/29/22

The best partner I ever had

Metallica announces two Gillette Stadium dates on upcoming world tour

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

food & dining

Dolly's Favorite Banana Puddin' Cake, as baked by Globe staff writers Devra First and Christopher Muther. It was created using a Dolly Parton-branded Duncan Hines cake mix.

Baking 9 to 5! Dolly Parton can do it all, but can her cake mixes of many colors satisfy our picky palates?

Recipes: Add global flair to roasted veggies with miso, honey and ginger, and more

Recipe: Press the holiday reset button with warm roasted vegetables drizzled with citrus dressing

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

An illustration from the Center for Cartoon Studies in the “Drawing Us Together” exhibit at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

At Harvard, drawing conclusions about America’s health care system

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

At Yale, Fazal Sheikh exposes the elements in every sense

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

Jesse Eisenberg as Toby Fleishman and Lizzy Caplan as Libby Epstein in "Fleishman Is in Trouble."

It’s easy to warm up to Lizzy Caplan’s complexity in ‘Fleishman’

Clarence Gilyard, ‘Die Hard’, ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ actor, dies at 66

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

music

Keith Lockhart, shown conducting a Holiday Pops show at Symphony Hall, is preparing a program this season that augments classic Pops fare with a new work by México-born composer Arturo Rodríguez, a pair of Ukrainian carols, and songs sung in five different languages.

Keith Lockhart promises a festive Holiday Pops show in any language

Joyce Bryant, a pop singer of vast range who created a sensation before becoming a missionary, dies at 95

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

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 rendering of the new public safety building to be built in Quincy.

Quincy council approves $23 million more for public safety building

More than 1,600 sign petition supporting permanent outdoor dining in Newton

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

Obituaries

Mr. Gilyard was an associate professor of theater and film at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Clarence Gilyard, ‘Die Hard’, ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ actor, dies at 66

Joyce Bryant, a pop singer of vast range who created a sensation before becoming a missionary, dies at 95

Virginia Representative Donald McEachin dies at 61 after cancer battle