Boston?s plastic bag ban begins next month. Here?s what you need to know

Mayor Martin Walsh signed an ordinance to reduce single-use plastic bags last year. On Dec. 14, the new law comes into play.

Hemenway Elementary School principal Liz Simon spoke to the media while holding a message of support and love from one of her students.

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Community responds after Muslim girl, 10, receives hateful letters at school

The girl received hateful letters at Framingham?s Hemenway Elementary School, and her family hopes ?this doesn?t happen to any other child at this age,? her uncle said.

Ground Game

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Many thoughtful readers had good questions. Other thoughtful readers did not seem to understand ranked-choice voting. So let?s step back and clear a few things up.

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The group Lawyers for Civil Rights alleges that reality show outtakes contain President Trump using racial and ethnic slurs.

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The proposed legislation would boost rehabilitation efforts for federal prisoners and give judges more discretion when sentencing nonviolent offenders.

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi spoke to journalists before heading into a Democratic caucus meeting.

Seth Moulton, Nancy Pelosi trade zingers as she makes another bid for speaker

As Democrats prepare to take control of the House in January, intra-party tension is spilling out into the open.

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President Trump?s favorite news channel said Wednesday that it supports CNN?s legal effort to get Jim Acosta?s White House press credentials back.

A wildfire burns a structure near Malibu Lake in Malibu, Calif., Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. About two-thirds of the city of Malibu was ordered evacuated early Friday as a ferocious wildfire roared toward the beachside community that is home to about 13,000 residents, some of them Hollywood celebrities. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

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Opinion | Tom Mashberg

Survivor of Malibu fires: ?The wind doesn?t care who you are?

A Malibu resident describes his frightening bolt to safety and punctures the myth that Malibu is only for the rich.

09/07/2018 Foxborough Ma -New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick (cq) at a morning press-conference.. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff Reporter:Topic:

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Bob Ryan

New book shows us a very different, friendlier Bill Belichick

?Fridays With Bill? combs through the coach?s end-of-week press conferences for his most engaging, almost ebullient moments.

A map generated Wednesday afternoon showed that Boston could see about 2 inches of snow by Friday.

These maps show how much snow Mass. could get starting Thursday

Parts of Massachusetts could see up to several inches of snow by Friday as a nor?easter bears down on the region starting Thursday night.

JOAN VENNOCHI

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The culture of denial and cover-up about sexual abuse and sexual harassment has gone on for too long.

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Investigators found a nurse and a nurse?s aide fast asleep during their shifts ? one dozed in a darkened room while the other was wrapped in a blanket in the locked cafeteria.

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Junior guard Kewan Platt was suspended indefinitely from the team and barred from campus.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/bradybunchen.jpg Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen spotted at ?Hamilton? in Boston

?I just turned around ? it was like, ?Oh my god.???

Virgina Newes loved using Zipcar, but then the car-sharing company abruptly dropped her after a minor accident.

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The Fine Print | Sean Murphy

Zipcar ended her membership because of a car dent. But was it really about her age?

An 89-year-old Cambridge woman was terminated from the service after a minor mishap in a parking garage.

WOBURN, MA - 10/25/2018: JB Simon wears a bowtie. After Reveneer relaxed their dress code, a handful of employees started

Top Places to Work

As casual dress takes over Boston offices, could ?Formal Thursday? become a thing?

Work attire is getting more casual. (Sweatpants, really?) But that doesn?t mean you can?t get dressed up once in a while.

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For the first time, Peter DeMarco and officials from Cambridge Health Alliance, the parent company of Somerville Hospital, sat face to face ? more than two years after Laura Levis?s death.

Yoo Ah-in in ?Burning.?

? ? ? ? | Movie Review

?Burning? questions, mysterious answers, from South Korea

It?s the kind of film where you obsess over what it means, the better to avoid thinking about how it makes you feel.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 31: John Mayer performs onstage during

NAMES

Mayer quit drinking after Drake party

In an interview in Complex magazine, Mayer revealed he has gone just over two years without drinking.

IDEAS/THE FOOD ISSUE

The Next Bite

Every step in the way we eat ? from before seeds hit the ground to the moment food hits your plate ? is undergoing massive change. What will the future of food look like?

MARIJUANA MOMENT

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The Drug Enforcement Administration provides about $17 million each year to help its partners get rid of illegal cannabis grows. But it?s not clear if that money is serving its purpose.

Talking Points AM | Larry Edelman

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While there are plenty of smart and reasonable people who will never see it otherwise, let's consider the reasons why New York and the D.C. suburbs beat out more than 200 other bids.

Opinion & Ideas

Editorial

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We can?t help but wonder if Jeff Bezos seriously considered Boston?s bid at all for a second corporate headquarters for Amazon.

Special reports

Globe Magazine

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My wife, Laura Levis, did everything she could to save herself when the asthma attack began. She went to Somerville Hospital and called 911, too. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?

Newsletters

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Witness the birth of the marijuana industry in Massachusetts, and catch up on national pot headlines. Subscribe to ?This Week in Weed? for the latest marijuana news from reporter Dan Adams every Saturday.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Globe staff photos of the month, October 2018

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: fall colors, Halloween, and a World Series victory.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/14/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Keto-diet-photo-1024x576.jpg A startup for diabetes patients will only get paid by insurers if its service works

Virta Health is one of a number of medical companies experimenting with payment structures tied to how well patients fare.