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How many cancer beds does Boston need? Planned Dana-Farber hospital sparks questions.
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute plans to build a 300-bed hospital just for cancer care. But the ramifications of the new hospital could reverberate far beyond the institute and its patients.

Convention Center board taps former chair Gloria Larson as interim executive director
Larson succeeds David Gibbons, who stepped down two weeks ago amid questions about a scathing diversity audit and an aborted attempt to hire a developer for six-plus acres in the shadow of the authority’s flagship Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Protesters demand cease-fire in Gaza, shut down key Boston intersection
Holding signs reading “Justice”, “Cease Fire,” and “Peace,” the protesters shouted and chanted as they brought traffic to a standstill at State and Congress streets during the evening rush hour commute Thursday.

Israeli defense minister says war on Hamas will last months as US envoy discusses timetable

Dorchester Brewing to merge with Aeronaut, forming ‘Tasty Liquid Alliance’

What to know about the Boston fertility doctor accused of impregnating patient with his own sperm

A number of similar accusations have come to light in recent years as people research their ancestry through genetic testing companies.
Boston fertility doctor accused of impregnating woman with own sperm instead of anonymous donor’s

Worcester man who allegedly kidnapped a young girl and threw her off a bridge is now charged with rape

Superior Court Judge James G. Reardon Jr. released Hubert on personal recognizance. Hubert has been out on $50,000 cash bail on the original charges since January 2018.

The town menorah was destroyed. Residents rallied to raise funds for a new one in time to celebrate the end of Hanukkah.

Israeli military veteran Mazi Pilip tapped as GOP candidate in special election to replace George Santos

Ohio boy, 13, charged after allegedly planning mass shooting in a synagogue

3,156 confirmed cases and 25 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Does Logan really need a fifth Legal Sea Foods? What we like and don’t like about the airport’s Terminal E expansion.

Space-age TSA screening lanes and a bizarre duty-free shop are among the additions. I spent six hours in the terminal (on purpose!) taking it all in. Here are some thoughts.

From water’s edge to mountain ridge, a Northwest passage

What’s on your skiing and riding bucket list this year?
Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Cradle of Doubt
The Internet is awash in parents who endorse co-sleeping. And public health agencies are largely silent.
Government officials can be quick to punish parents whose babies die while sleeping with them, but slow to craft a safety message that resonates with today’s parents.

Read Part 1: Judging Emily Share your thoughts on Part 2 of Spotlight’s ‘Cradle of Doubt’ series

What to know about Mayor Wu’s ‘Electeds of Color’ holiday party and why it’s caused such a stir
Mayor Michelle Wu said it was “just an honest mistake” when an email went out from her office Tuesday to the full Boston City Council inviting them to an annual “Electeds of Color Holiday Party” at the Parkman House.

A big project is coming to the Lynn waterfront, helped along by a $45 million tax break
A Boston-based developer won approval for 850-unit apartment complex at the mouth of the Saugus River, despite protests from dozens who say the project does too little to create housing Lynn residents can afford.

Unlike peers, MIT’s president spared worst of blowback from antisemitism hearing

The board moved decisively to show its support for president Sally Kornbluth, praising her leadership and integrity at the height of a public outcry.
Cornel West says university presidents gave ‘weak’ answers on antisemitism but shouldn’t lose their jobs Mass. Teachers Association sparks controversy with call for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war
Podcast

Listen to ‘Murder in Boston’

Presented in association with HBO, “Murder in Boston: The untold story of the Charles and Carol Stuart shooting,” is available wherever you get your podcasts.
Read chapter one of ‘Nightmare in Mission Hill’ Read the full series

The Salem Bruins? The Hartford Patriots? Remembering when Boston teams almost left the city.

The Capitals and Wizards planning to leave Washington, D.C. The same thing has been threatened by owners of every pro team in the Boston area. Let's take a walk down memory lane.

Future COVID vaccines should be inhaled, suggests new study by Boston scientists

Growing evidence suggests that vaccines delivered by nasal spray or inhaler would block infections.

The union comes to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Vermont

The workers at the Waterbury factory — which is often open to the public for tours and includes a "graveyard" for decommissioned flavors — is the second group of employees of the ice cream brand to organize.
Opinion
KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

What disqualifies each of the GOP presidential candidates

If Donald Trump’s GOP primary opponents are really interested in defeating him, most of them have got an interesting way of showing it. Or rather not showing it.
JEFF JACOBY

No time to go wobbly on Ukraine
Eric Rosenbach

The cost of not funding Ukraine in its war against Russia
IDEAS | KAT ROSENFIELD

Women, liberate yourselves from caring about getting it all done
Michael A. Cohen

Many Jews see Claudine Gay even if she doesn’t see us

Beyond the Gilded Gate

Reimagining an American ideal

California is trying to tackle its housing crisis by rethinking the traditional single-family home. Why isn’t Massachusetts?

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Pope, once a victim of AI-generated imagery, calls for treaty to regulate artificial intelligence
For Francis, the appeal is somewhat personal: Earlier this year, an AI-generated image of him wearing a luxury white puffer jacket went viral, showing just how quickly realistic deepfake imagery can spread online.

Tom Brady to get roasted at 2024 comedy festival for upcoming Netflix special
The former Patriots quarterback will be the guest of honor for the "Greatest Roasts of All Time: GROAT" special.

R.I. will receive more than $56m in opioid settlement with CVS, Walgreens, Walmart
Some branches purchased and dispensed “alarming quantities of prescription opioids given the size of their communities,” the attorney general’s office said.

Six key developments in the R.I. bridge closure
Limited two-way traffic on Interstate 195 could resume Saturday — or sooner.

How the Washington Bridge closure is impacting truck drivers and deliveries

Jurors deciding how much Giuliani must pay for lies in a Georgia election workers’ case
Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, are seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages over Rudy Giuliani’s false claims accusing them of ballot fraud.

US Patent and Trademark Office to open new Strafford County location
The state will receive its first community outreach office after December 2025. Officials said the initiative will drive economic growth and help the “geographically underrepresented” with patent filings.

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Recovering from addiction, parents turn to Globe Santa for a helping hand
Two mothers, at different stages of their recoveries, look to a better future for their children.

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‘Terrible step for the country’: Scholars warn impeachment inquiry into Biden could lead toward a doom loop

With their narrow vote in favor of formalizing their impeachment inquiry into President Biden, House Republicans have steered the country into unprecedented territory.

10 great performances our film critic loved in 2023
From Teyonah Parris’s mystery-loving wiseacre in "They Cloned Tyrone" to Ryan Gosling’s Mojo Dojo Casa House-owning Ken in "Barbie," these star turns stood out.

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At Blackbird Doughnuts, stylized sweets at a new Watertown nest
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MATTHEW GILBERT
With the final episodes capping off ‘The Crown,’ we feel the weight of it
There is no Diana this time. The focus shifts to the star power and media madness handed down to her grieving sons. And, yes, there's more Queen Elizabeth here, too.

Culture & Lifestyle

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David Smith’s ‘Medals for Dishonor’ at Harvard speak to the horrors of war, and our times

Ben Affleck talks first time directing Matt Damon, ‘big brother’ relationship with Michael B. Jordan

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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 doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

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

How the missing become the uncounted

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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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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

By taking up Jan. 6 appeal, Supreme Court deals potential blow to Trump’s criminal prosecution
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Go bless yourself! A message from the better angels of your nature.
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I watched the Oct. 7 video. I don’t know how anyone can say Hamas are freedom fighters.

Metro

Lawyers pitch judge on how Goldberg-O’Brien case should unfold

Lawyers for suspended Cannabis Control Commission Chairwoman Shannon O’Brien and an assistant attorney general representing Treasurer Deborah Goldberg tangled in Suffolk Superior Court on Thursday over what kind of a hearing O’Brien is entitled to before Goldberg decides whether to fire her.

US Patent and Trademark Office to open new Strafford County location

The state will receive its first community outreach office after December 2025. Officials said the initiative will drive economic growth and help the “geographically underrepresented” with patent filings.

R.I. will receive more than $56m in opioid settlement with CVS, Walgreens, Walmart

Some branches purchased and dispensed “alarming quantities of prescription opioids given the size of their communities,” the attorney general’s office said.

Protesters demand cease-fire in Gaza, shut down key Boston intersection

Holding signs reading “Justice”, “Cease Fire,” and “Peace,” the protesters shouted and chanted as they brought traffic to a standstill at State and Congress streets during the evening rush hour commute Thursday.

Sports

HS BOYS' HOCKEY: PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

EMass boys’ hockey: A high 5 to Duxbury senior Chris Gillis, who headlines Players of the Week

Gillis netted a first-period hat trick en route to a five-goal day and a 6-4 Patriot League triumph over Whitman-Hanson.
PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK

Former Patriots WR Deion Branch welcomes Demario Douglas’s pursuit of rookie receptions mark

Branch set the standard for receptions as a rookie in the Bill Belichick era at 43 in 2002. With four games left in his first season, Douglas has 37 catches.
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No longer a goal-scoring machine, Norwell boys’ hockey team’s title defense rests on finding a new identity

Two games into the 2023-24 season, the new-look Clippers have embraced more of a grit-and-grind mentality than last year’s offensive juggernaut.

Tom Brady to get roasted at 2024 comedy festival for upcoming Netflix special

Two-time ABA champion and Indiana Mr. Basketball winner George McGinnis dies at 73
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Bruins place Charlie McAvoy and Pavel Zacha on injured reserve

Business

Is Jerome Powell’s Fed pulling off a soft landing?

The Federal Reserve appears to be creeping closer to an outcome that its own staff economists viewed as unlikely just six months ago: lowering inflation back to a normal range without plunging the economy into a recession.

Older workers are a growing share of the workforce

The share of older Americans who are working, by choice or necessity, has doubled in the past 35 years, according to a report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

Merck-Moderna vaccine cuts return of skin cancer by half

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Bostonians of the Year 2023

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MISS CONDUCT

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metro

Six key developments in the R.I. bridge closure

Despite hard times, these parents are determined to prevail

Best things to do in Rhode Island this week: Dec. 15-22

sports

The Salem Bruins? The Hartford Patriots? Remembering when Boston teams almost left the city.

Checking in on the seven Bruins draft picks playing college hockey in New England this season

Cavaliers at Celtics: Boston hopes for same story, different page in a second straight head-to-head matchup

business

Convention Center board taps former chair Gloria Larson as interim executive director

Roche subsidiary Foundation Medicine gets new head

State Department’s fight against disinformation comes under attack

politics

Jurors deciding how much Giuliani must pay for lies in a Georgia election workers’ case

Israeli military veteran Mazi Pilip tapped as GOP candidate in special election to replace George Santos

Trump’s first criminal trial is scheduled to begin in March but legal appeals threaten that date

Nation

Giuliani’s words used against him in poll worker defamation trial

Ohio boy, 13, charged after allegedly planning mass shooting in a synagogue

The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden has his own shell company and complicated friends

World

Confident Putin suggests he has winning hand in Ukraine

An emboldened, confident Putin says there will be no peace in Ukraine until Russia’s goals are met

Against the odds, European Union agrees to open membership negotiations with Ukraine

opinion

Mass General’s ‘capacity disaster’

A patient called me a racial slur. Unfortunately, my experience is universal.

The cost of not funding Ukraine in its war against Russia

lifestyle

We don’t get time alone

How do people who resemble Santa feel about their jolly burden?

2023 in other words: AI might be the term of the year, but consider these far-flung contenders.

food & dining

The union comes to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Vermont

Dorchester Brewing to merge with Aeronaut, forming ‘Tasty Liquid Alliance’

At Blackbird Doughnuts, stylized sweets at a new Watertown nest

travel

Does Logan really need a fifth Legal Sea Foods? What we like and don’t like about the airport’s Terminal E expansion.

At Pittsburgh’s Moonshot Museum, a window into the future of aerospace

What’s on your skiing and riding bucket list this year?

Arts

David Smith’s ‘Medals for Dishonor’ at Harvard speak to the horrors of war, and our times

A photographer sizes up her subjects

Photographic inwardness, photographic outwardness

Books

‘A born-again Boricua’ revisits a turbulent time in Puerto Rico in ‘A Delicate Marriage’

Penguin Random House reaches for underrepresented audiences with The Reader Lounge

Here are 6 of our favorite poetry collections in 2023

Movies

In ‘Monster,’ a mother seeks answers after discovering her son’s bully is his teacher

10 great performances our film critic loved in 2023

With ‘American Fiction,’ writer-director Cord Jefferson flips the script on stereotypes

Television

How ‘The Crown’ turned an epic about the dullest heroine ever into must-watch TV

A couple of very good reasons to pull for ‘Colin From Accounts’

With the final episodes capping off ‘The Crown,’ we feel the weight of it

music

A Jewish writer’s favorite Christmas music

Boston brewery to host Taylor Swift themed watch party for Patriots-Chiefs game

The doctor will be in the house

Theater/Dance

‘The Rocky Menorah Christmas Show’ has the Gold Dust Orphans up to their usual mischief and mayhem

Song by song, ‘Legally Blonde’ builds a case for frivolous fun

For 20 years, a Boston theater company has been opening a window into Indian culture

Health

CVS to launch new pharmacy reimbursement model aimed at simplifying drug pricing

Many Americans ration insulin to save money. One nonprofit is trying to make the life-saving drug more affordable.

In R.I., there’s a lack of dentists caring for patients with special needs. This program is trying to change that.

Obituaries

Mort Engelberg, producer of hit films and presidential campaigns, dies at 86

Michael Blakemore, single-season double Tony winner for directing, dies at 95

George Cohon, who brought Big Macs to Moscow, dies at 86