The Boston Globe

A new wave of scrutiny for simultaneous surgeries

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has told surgeons that ?plans for overlapping surgery should be disclosed to the patient prior to the surgery.? — Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff

Hospitals across the country have faced controversies over doctors double-booking surgeries, but the issue is getting national attention only now.

Warm weather leaves stores in the cold

The balmy weather hasn?t done anything to entice Americans to shop, which has hurt sales at stores that depend on the holiday season.

Yvonne Abraham

Come back, New Hampshire

What happened, New Hampshire? Why are you so enamored with Donald Trump?

Proposal seeks to name Medway school sports fields for student athlete

The petition would name one of the high school?s three sports fields after Madeline Lamson, a beloved senior and varsity athlete who died in a car crash.

Coast Guard, Gloucester police search for missing woman

Susan Nilsson may have been walking near the Gloucester Marine Railways on Rocky Neck late Friday night or early Saturday morning.

Worker stiched a zipper pocket for men?s hooded sweatshirt at 99degrees Custom in Lawrence. — Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff

New threads invigorate Mass. textile industry

Young entrepreneurs, agile veterans, and transformative technologies are injecting new life into the industry.

Teen who was shot and killed Friday is mourned

D?Andre King-Settles, 17, was killed Friday in a playground behind Boston Police headquarters.

Obama begins Hawaii vacation after meeting with families of victims

President Obama met with families of the San Bernardino shooting victims and then flew to Hawaii with his family.

Family of Lawrence man grateful for commutation

Carlos Lopez, one of the 95 offenders who received commutations from President Obama, will be reunited with his daughters by spring.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (left) celebrated with Alex Guerrero after the Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL Super Bowl XLIX football game. — Kathy Willens/AP

The health guru and Tom Brady

Some have wondered why Brady and the Patriots would want to forge financial relationships with an entrepreneur who has a history of legal trouble.

Checking In

Once fit for a President, the Merchant is now fit again

The first POTUS stayed here, at what is now The Merchant hotel, on Oct. 29, 1789, a few months after his inauguration.

KEVIN CULLEN

Unmindful of veterans? needs

All two yoga instructors and the veterans they serve at a local VA hospital want for Christmas is a room to call their own.

Chronicling women?s history, writers celebrate their own

Over 30 years and 33 books, the biographers have met monthly to support each other on the long, slow slog to publication.

Need a little time away? Try a tiny home

With its rustic cabins in the woods of southern New Hampshire, Cambridge-based Getaway joins the tiny-house movement.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

The college football bowl game is the participation trophy of sports

Sixty-three percent of FBS teams will play in a bowl game.

Hillary Clinton looked on as Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke at the outset of the Democratic presidential primary debate. — Richard Perry/The New York Times

Bernie Sanders apologizes to Hillary Clinton for data breach

Within the first 10 minutes of their third debate, the three Democratic candidates put the nastiest controversy of their campaign so far behind them.

For Patriots, teamwork is key in piling up the sacks

With 42 sacks through 13 games, New England?s defense is on pace for 52 this regular season.

When ?home for the holidays? doesn?t mean going home

The idea of spending the holidays in an unfamiliar setting can be jarring, but there are ways to add homey touches.

Game on

Book offers smart, engaging videogame commentary

?How to Talk About Videogames? by Ian Bogost is engaging, enjoyable tour of video game commentary.

Season?s greetings from the north

We visited four of the many local places where people gather to share and celebrate Christmas.

Opinion & Ideas

Michael A. Cohen

When doing your Trump primary math, look beyond N.H.

The establishment?s hope that Donald Trump can be stopped when the primary elections move to less politically conservative states may not actually be true.