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SJC justice rules Karen Read can access small portion of cellphone records she sought

Karen Read is awaiting trial on murder charges in the death of her boyfriend, a Boston police officer.

Woman who allegedly posed as teenage Boston high school student indicted by grand jury on nine charges

Shelby Hewitt is due to be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on Dec. 12.

China’s Xi tells Biden as talks open: ‘Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed’
President Biden and China’s Xi Jinping plunged into their first-face-to-face meeting in more than a year Wednesday pledging to work to stabilize fraught relations in talks with far-reaching implications.

China, US pledge to step up climate efforts Biden aims for improved military relations with China when he meets with Xi

MIT's campus is seen in this file photo.

President of MIT announces effort to combat hate on campus amid tumult over Israel-Hamas war

Israeli forces raid Gaza’s largest hospital, where hundreds of patients are stranded by fighting

As Israeli forces tighten their hold on northern Gaza, Israeli leaders have increasingly talked of expanding their ground operation into the south to root out Hamas.

Jewish groups seek federal probe of Wellesley College after email declares ‘no support’ for Zionism ‘There is no place safe’: Plymouth family returns home after more than a month in Gaza

Joe Manchin says he is ‘absolutely’ considering a run for president

Horse loose on a flight to Belgium forces cargo jet back to New York; pilot dumps 20 tons of fuel off of Martha’s Vineyard

Tanker rolls over, thousands of gallons of fuel spill in multi-car crash on Route 3 in Billerica; section of highway closed

Some doctors and parents are frustrated that a new drug designed to protect babies from a common and serious infection is in short supply.

Seasonal surge in RSV has begun in Massachusetts, and a drug to treat it is limited

Supplies of monoclonal antibodies that protect infants will remain tight through this season.

Tracking COVID, RSV, and the flu in Massachusetts

Brookline overwhelmingly accepts plan to rezone its major commercial corridor to allow multifamily housing
The vote is expected to put the town in compliance with the state’s historic law requiring communities served by mass transit to rezone to help alleviate the region’s housing crisis.

From Spotlight: An identity crisis in Brookline Editorial: The MBTA Communities law is putting Brookline’s liberal values to the test

These six graphs show how bad the Greater Boston housing market is right now

Inventory is plummeting, renters are getting squeezed, and many communities simply aren’t building enough to keep pace.

New Hampshire Secretary of State David M. Scanlan announces the date of the state’s 2024 presidential primary at the State House in Concord.

New Hampshire schedules presidential primary for January, flouting DNC’s 2024 calendar

New Hampshire Secretary of State David M. Scanlan formally announced the election date, with a splashy press event Wednesday afternoon in the Hall of Flags at the State House.

Sean O'Brien, General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, testified during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on unions on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

Teamsters president Sean O’Brien, who almost came to blows with an Oklahoma senator, has deep Mass. ties.

Teamsters boss Sean O’Brien made headlines Tuesday when US Senator Markwayne Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican and former mixed martial arts combatant, challenged him to a fight during a tense committee hearing on the Hill.

Third-year quarterback Mac Jones has been the focal point for a lot of criticism with the Patriots sitting at 2-8.

dan shaughnessy

Aren’t we being a little too rough on Mac Jones around here?

In New England, I like to think we reserve the hammer for guys who don’t run out ground balls, rip teammates, or insult fans.

Ben Volin: In a season that is imploding, Bills coach Sean McDermott is running out of scapegoats

MIT Sloan School researcher and author Andrew McAfee in Cambridge.

kara miller | the big idea

Why are ‘geeky’ companies winning? It’s about culture, not tech.

MIT researcher Andrew McAfee's new book, "The Geek Way," argues that young companies have outcompeted traditional corporate America by eschewing bureaucracy, red tape, and boot-licking.

Kristaps Porzingis is averaging a career-low shots per game, but has been a hallmark of efficiency for the 8-2 Celtics.

How Kristaps Porzingis is sacrificing — and thriving — in his role with the Celtics

Porzingis is shooting and touching the ball less, but has become one of the NBA's most efficient scorers.

The new Terminal E at Logan International Airport.

Architecture Review

Logan’s new Terminal E has much to recommend, starting with its jazzy red exterior

Approximately $50 million of the terminal’s cost came from the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill passed in 2021, Massport’s Luciana Burdi said. Did the taxpayers get their money’s worth?

Opinion

For now, the clients of a brothel ring that operated out of locations in Cambridge, Watertown, including 66 Bond St., and the Washington, D.C., suburbs remain anonymous.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Why aren’t the clients of brothel ring being named?

The women hired for sex haven’t been charged or named because they are considered victims of sex trafficking. But it doesn’t justify protecting the clients.

EDITORIAL

How to get absent students back in the classroom

RACHELLE G. COHEN

State shouldn’t house migrant families in the Hynes

SCOT LEHIGH

Donald Trump goes full fascist in his rhetoric

LETTERS

Biden vs. Trump — how on earth could this be a tossup?

A Green Line train passes through Coolidge Corner.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

What kind of town does Brookline want to be?

Brookline broadcasts an ethos of inclusivity, but it has become a preserve for the privileged. This is no accident, but the fruit of decades of exclusionary actions. Now, the town faces a state mandate to allow more multifamily housing, offering a litmus test of suburbs’ willingness to help reckon with the regional housing crisis.

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Janitors’ union in Boston and beyond reaches a tentative agreement, narrowly averting a strike

If the agreement is approved by workers, the 12,500 cleaners represented by SEIU 32BJ will get a roughly 20 percent wage increase, the largest amount the union has ever negotiated.

Smoky morning commute for passengers on MBTA Red Line train

T riders found themselves walking through a smoky haze at Harvard Station this morning.

Hospital director in Haiti says police rescued women and children after gangs surround facility

A heavily armed gang surrounded a hospital in Haiti on Wednesday, trapping women, children and newborns inside until police rescued them, according to the director of the medical center who pleaded for help via social media.

Feds penalize state agency for the blind more than $1 million due to former commissioner’s missteps

The lost federal grant money is the latest evidence of financial mismanagement under the commission's prior administration.

UMass Lowell to lay off 23 employees
Facing a “daunting financial challenge,” the University of Massachusetts Lowell is taking a number of cost-cutting measures.

Piping plovers have record year on local beaches, Mass Audubon says
The roughly 1,145 piping plover breeding pairs found on beaches up and down the state’s shoreline this year was a new record.

Cape Cod residents say no to offshore wind transmission lines under beaches

A growing wave of opposition in Barnstable and other coastal communities on the front lines of the offshore wind revolution represent a potential threat to the growth of clean energy.

Families in Maine mass shootings explore lawsuits against Army, other agencies
If filed, the claims would be at least the fifth time in recent years that shooting victims have used the courts to hold the federal government accountable.

Dozens of young people have created a thriving underground concert scene. The only challenge: keeping it underground.
House shows are a draw for young people migrating to Boston. In a city with a lackluster nightlife scene that’s financially and logistically inaccessible for many, student-run concerts provide a place for twenty-somethings to hang out.

STAT

UnitedHealth pushed employees to follow an algorithm to cut off Medicare patients’ rehab care
UnitedHealth Group has repeatedly said its algorithm is merely a guidepost for their recoveries. But a STAT investigation has found that inside the company, managers delivered a much different message.

Culture & Lifestyle

Special Projects

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

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

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Nikki Haley is a fearless leader with executive, legislative, and international experience.

Jennifer Nassour

GOP should dump Trump and rally around Nikki Haley

IDEAS | CHARLES E. KRAUS

A bibliophile’s dilemma: downsizing

MassHealth allows children, siblings, and other relatives to be paid caregivers for their loved ones. But it makes one glaring exception: spouses.

EDITORIAL

If family members can be paid caregivers, why not spouses?

A protester wrapped in an Israeli flag during a rally for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas operatives in Times Square in New York on Oct. 19, 2023.

Shira Schoenberg

Is there a future for Jewish progressivism after Oct. 7?

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Oct. 30.

JEFF JACOBY

Please pull the plug on the White House daily press briefings

A dog named Ducky demonstrated FluentPet's communication buttons during the Pepcom Digital Experience before the CES tech show in January.

IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Metro

Tanker rolls over, thousands of gallons of fuel spill in multi-car crash on Route 3 in Billerica; section of highway closed

A tanker carrying several tons of fuel rolled over Wednesday morning on Route 3 in Billerica in a multivehicle crash that shut down a section of the highway in both directions.

SJC justice rules Karen Read can access small portion of cellphone records she sought

Karen Read is awaiting trial on murder charges in the death of her boyfriend, a Boston police officer.

NH BUSINESS

How immigrants drive New Hampshire’s economy

Without newcomers, New Hampshire’s population would shrink and with it, the state’s economy. Some business owners say the state needs to do more to attract New Americans.

HEALTH

Products made for CVS, Walmart recalled by Indian eyedrop maker

Bloomberg reported Nov. 10 that Kilitch made the eyedrops in an unsanitary factory in India.

Sports

As expected, the outgoing Pac-12 schools appealed the decision Wednesday.

Colleges

Judge gives Oregon State, Washington State control of Pac-12 and assets; outgoing schools appeal

Oregon State and Washington State could soon determine how they will go about keeping the Pac-12 alive.

Patriots

What do the Patriots have planned for their time off during the bye week?

The four days off — following a 2-8 start — represent an opportunity to unplug and hit the reset button.

Photos of Adam Johnson lined the ticket window booth at the Hibbing Memorial Building, in Hibbing, Minn., Monday.

Hockey

Man arrested over death of a hockey player whose neck was cut with skate blade is released on bail in London

South Yorkshire Police did not name the suspect or provide his age. He was arrested on Tuesday.

sports business

Fenway Sports Group heads a consortium trying to become a partner in the PGA Tour

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

To reach the state football semifinals, these teams have relied upon their standout defensive leaders

NFL notebook

Jets say Aaron Rodgers will make final call on whether he plays again this season

Business

FCC adopts rules to eliminate ‘digital discrimination’ for communities with poor internet access

The rules package would empower the agency to review and investigate instances of discrimination by broadband providers to different communities based on income, race, ethnicity, and other protected classes.

Veteran GM workers resist tentative deal over retirement aid

Voting at most union locals has been completed and the final result, due as early as Thursday evening, will very likely be decided by a narrow margin.

NH BUSINESS

How immigrants drive New Hampshire’s economy

Senate looks to speed ahead on temporary funding to avert government shutdown through the holidays

magazine

PERSPECTIVE

What we lost when we lost the Brockton Fair

MISS CONDUCT

Do I have to get back in line at the pharmacy after waiting 15-20 minutes?

COOKING

Stick with tradition for cooking the turkey but get creative with sides

LOVE LETTERS

The government temporarily avoids a shutdown. What's next?

SJC justice rules Karen Read can access small portion of cellphone records she sought

Woman who allegedly posed as teenage Boston high school student indicted by grand jury on nine charges

President of MIT announces effort to combat hate on campus amid tumult over Israel-Hamas war

Israeli forces raid Gaza’s largest hospital, where hundreds of patients are stranded by fighting

Joe Manchin says he is ‘absolutely’ considering a run for president

Horse loose on a flight to Belgium forces cargo jet back to New York; pilot dumps 20 tons of fuel off of Martha’s Vineyard

Tanker rolls over, thousands of gallons of fuel spill in multi-car crash on Route 3 in Billerica; section of highway closed

Seasonal surge in RSV has begun in Massachusetts, and a drug to treat it is limited

Brookline overwhelmingly accepts plan to rezone its major commercial corridor to allow multifamily housing The vote is expected to put the town in compliance with the state’s historic law requiring communities served by mass transit to rezone to help alleviate the region’s housing crisis.

These six graphs show how bad the Greater Boston housing market is right now

New Hampshire schedules presidential primary for January, flouting DNC’s 2024 calendar

Teamsters president Sean O’Brien, who almost came to blows with an Oklahoma senator, has deep Mass. ties.

Aren’t we being a little too rough on Mac Jones around here?

Why are ‘geeky’ companies winning? It’s about culture, not tech.

How Kristaps Porzingis is sacrificing — and thriving — in his role with the Celtics

Logan’s new Terminal E has much to recommend, starting with its jazzy red exterior

Why aren’t the clients of brothel ring being named?

How to get absent students back in the classroom

State shouldn’t house migrant families in the Hynes

Donald Trump goes full fascist in his rhetoric

Biden vs. Trump — how on earth could this be a tossup?

What kind of town does Brookline want to be?

Explore the project

More recent News

Janitors’ union in Boston and beyond reaches a tentative agreement, narrowly averting a strike

Smoky morning commute for passengers on MBTA Red Line train

Hospital director in Haiti says police rescued women and children after gangs surround facility

Feds penalize state agency for the blind more than $1 million due to former commissioner’s missteps

UMass Lowell to lay off 23 employees Facing a “daunting financial challenge,” the University of Massachusetts Lowell is taking a number of cost-cutting measures.

Piping plovers have record year on local beaches, Mass Audubon says The roughly 1,145 piping plover breeding pairs found on beaches up and down the state’s shoreline this year was a new record.

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Cape Cod residents say no to offshore wind transmission lines under beaches

Families in Maine mass shootings explore lawsuits against Army, other agencies If filed, the claims would be at least the fifth time in recent years that shooting victims have used the courts to hold the federal government accountable.

Culture & Lifestyle

Special Projects

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

How the missing become the uncounted

Two Weeks in America

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

GOP should dump Trump and rally around Nikki Haley

A bibliophile’s dilemma: downsizing

If family members can be paid caregivers, why not spouses?

Is there a future for Jewish progressivism after Oct. 7?

Please pull the plug on the White House daily press briefings

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Metro

Tanker rolls over, thousands of gallons of fuel spill in multi-car crash on Route 3 in Billerica; section of highway closed

SJC justice rules Karen Read can access small portion of cellphone records she sought

How immigrants drive New Hampshire’s economy

Products made for CVS, Walmart recalled by Indian eyedrop maker

Sports

Judge gives Oregon State, Washington State control of Pac-12 and assets; outgoing schools appeal

What do the Patriots have planned for their time off during the bye week?

Man arrested over death of a hockey player whose neck was cut with skate blade is released on bail in London

Fenway Sports Group heads a consortium trying to become a partner in the PGA Tour

To reach the state football semifinals, these teams have relied upon their standout defensive leaders

Jets say Aaron Rodgers will make final call on whether he plays again this season

Business

FCC adopts rules to eliminate ‘digital discrimination’ for communities with poor internet access

Veteran GM workers resist tentative deal over retirement aid

How immigrants drive New Hampshire’s economy

Senate looks to speed ahead on temporary funding to avert government shutdown through the holidays

What we lost when we lost the Brockton Fair

Do I have to get back in line at the pharmacy after waiting 15-20 minutes?

Stick with tradition for cooking the turkey but get creative with sides

A friend wants to have a baby with me. I’m considering it.

metro

Migrant families in Massachusetts sit in limbo while politicians debate shelter solutions

Investigation into Warwick parents charged after 3-year-old son drowned continues

Authorities investigate potential voter fraud in Lawrence municipal election

sports

Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson out for the remainder of the season

A pioneer of women’s hockey at Northeastern marvels at the sport’s progress

High school football semifinals: Games to watch and picks

business

Products made for CVS, Walmart recalled by Indian eyedrop maker

Why are ‘geeky’ companies winning? It’s about culture, not tech.

Brookline overwhelmingly accepts plan to rezone its major commercial corridor to allow multifamily housing
The vote is expected to put the town in compliance with the state’s historic law requiring communities served by mass transit to rezone to help alleviate the region’s housing crisis.

UMass Lowell to lay off 23 employees
Facing a “daunting financial challenge,” the University of Massachusetts Lowell is taking a number of cost-cutting measures.

Piping plovers have record year on local beaches, Mass Audubon says
The roughly 1,145 piping plover breeding pairs found on beaches up and down the state’s shoreline this year was a new record.

Families in Maine mass shootings explore lawsuits against Army, other agencies
If filed, the claims would be at least the fifth time in recent years that shooting victims have used the courts to hold the federal government accountable.