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After Mike Capuano?s defeat, is Ed Markey a primary target for 2020?

Senator Ed Markey. — Keith Bedford/Globe Staff

Markey?s biggest liability: He is a white male incumbent who?s been in Congress since 1976.

New pot shop puts strain on traffic in Leicester

Dozens of angry residents excoriated elected officials and executives from the local marijuana store for failing to adequately control the hordes of cannabis consumers traveling to the shop.

Gross stands his ground in flap with ACLU, winning praise from Walsh

Commissioner William Gross?s pledge to improve relations between the community and police is being tested after he denounced the ACLU on his personal Facebook page.

N.H. skydiving instructor committed suicide in mid-air, investigators say

Brett Bickford was sharing a parachute with a student at Skydive New England in Maine when he apparently loosened his harness in the air, leaving the student with the parachute.

Property damage at the farm in connection with the extortion attempt. — FBI

Family farm in Hollis, N.H., endured extortion, property damage, and animal cruelty

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 to anyone with information leading to the identification and arrest of those responsible for terrorizing the farm.

In Boston, James Comey says Acting AG Whitaker ?may not be the sharpest knife?

The former FBI director made the comments during an interview with WGBH News at the Boston Public Library.

Trump defends tear gas use on migrants, including children

Critics denounced the border agents? use of tear gas against a crowd of migrants as overkill, but President Donald Trump kept to a hard line.

President Trump accuses special counsel Robert Mueller of ?ruining lives?

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump tweeted that he thinks the media ?builds Bob Mueller up as a Saint.?

Trump says he doesn?t believe government?s dire climate report

President Trump on Monday rejected a central conclusion of a dire report on climate change that was released Friday by his own administration.

Eminent domain fight looms in Hopedale over former mill site

Hopedale was established as a utopian community, built to honor Christian ideals. But there?s nothing particularly utopian about how efforts to revive its downtown are playing out.

Talking Points Live/Larry Edelman

Berkshire Bank CEO quits with no explanation and a $7.5 million payout

Plus: Vertex?s positive trial results, the CRISPR controversy, and why H.G. Wells and Orson Welles would be amazed.

Darrell Griffin (top), a staff sergeant in the US Army, shared with journalist Alex Kingsbury a trove of photos from his time in Iraq. Weeks later, Darrell was killed in combat. Alex flew to his funeral and gave copies of the photos to Darrell?s father. — Darrell Griffin

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The soldier and his terrible photos of war

He wanted people to know what happened in Baghdad, and so I agreed to carry his terrible pictures home.

Historical society ?truly sorry? for ?white Dorchester? holiday card

An awkwardly worded holiday greeting card has prompted the Dorchester Historical Society to issue a public apology.

Veteran WCVB news reporter Jorge Quiroga to retire after nearly 45 years

Channel 5 reporter Jorge Quiroga, a towering figure in local television news, will retire at the end of the year.

Red Sox spring training tickets go on sale Saturday

Pitchers and catchers are scheduled to hold their first workouts on Feb. 13, with position players to follow on Feb. 18.

Need help getting your child to listen and do things in a timely manner? You aren?t alone. — stock.adobe.com

HELP DESK

How to get your toddler to listen to you. (No, really.)

The stalling. The helplessness. The sneaking out of bed multiple times a night. The crying. The whining. It was time to call in the experts for help with my 3-year-old.

?Fortnite? addiction prompts parents to turn to video game rehab

About 60 percent of the 120 campers at Reset Summer Camp for kids with addictions were playing ?Fortnite? excessively. Treatment involves a technology detox and group therapy.

Can the Balsams, in all its nostalgic splendor, be saved?

The Balsams Grand Resort, a New England institution since 1875, has been shuttered since 2011 and parts of it are starting to crumble. Les Otten has been trying since 2014 to orchestrate a rebirth.

GIVING TUESDAY

Getting food to those who need it, with heaping portions of dignity

Finances are particularly stretched during New England winters, when heating costs spike. Something has to give. Often, it?s the groceries.

Ty Burr

Bernardo Bertolucci, ?Tango,? and #MeToo

The director?s death raises ugly memories of his most famous film.

Boston-area scientists criticize Chinese researcher who edited twin babies? genes

A Chinese scientist who used a powerful gene-editing technique to change the embryonic DNA of twins drew fire from ethicists and doctors in Massachusetts and from a professor at MIT who helped invent the tool.

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 22, 2018 United Nations Secretary-general envoy for climate action, Michael Bloomberg delivers a speech during the green finance conference at the European commission headquarters in Brussels. - Michael Bloomberg's record $1.8 billion donation for financial aid to Johns Hopkins University highlights the problem of student debt in America, which can still be a burden even years after graduation. According to the Department of Education, 42.2 million Americans were repaying a federal student loan at the end of June 2018 for a total sum of nearly $1.5 trillion, the largest volume of debt after home loans. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images — LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images

Q&A

Michael Bloomberg gave his alma mater $1.8 billion. Does he deserve a tax break?

A political scientist asks whether we should really be subsidizing charitable giving by billionaires.

EDITORIAL

If we want to fight hate, we need to do a better job tracking it

One of the first steps to combating hate incidents will be for the government to get a better handle on when, where, and to whom the are occurring.

JOAN VENNOCHI

In ?The Front Runner,? the press is the enemy

The Front Runner? should get a big thumb?s up from President Trump.

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

Aaron Rodgers deserves plenty of criticism for Packers? struggles, and other Week 12 thoughts

Mike McCarthy may be on the hot seat, but this season has become a microcosm of Rodgers?s career.

STAT

Vertex shows strong results in pivotal cystic fibrosis trials

The company said treatment with a combination of three drugs resulted in a statistically significant improvement in lung function for patients.

Special reports

Globe Magazine

Help was a few feet away. Why didn?t they save her?

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?

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The Big Picture

The Big Picture

What happened at the border this weekend

A peaceful march devolved into unrest when US agents fired tear gas to stop migrants attempting to storm a border fence separating Mexico and the United States.

Globe must-reads

?Scary Terry? shirts result in a lawsuit for Celtics? Terry Rozier

Some of the items adorning the halls of the Massachusetts Historical Society include modern nautical prints, a painting of Brook Farm in West Roxbury, a collection of gifts, and books. The society?s trove of historical papers is unsurpassed outside the Library of Congress.

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An office where history comes alive

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2018 file photo, Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley speaks at a rally at City Hall in Boston. On Nov. 6, Pressley became Massachusetts' first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

Ayanna Pressley says she supports Pelosi

Romaine lettuce was removed from the shelves a grocery store in Pittsburgh last week.

It?s OK to eat some romaine lettuce again, FDA says

Shaquille Brown enters court room for a hearing at Suffolk Superior Court.

?I been in hell all my life?

Repairer Jeff Parolisi descended stairs to a maintenance bay underneath an Orange Line car.

Old Orange Line cars gear up for their final rides

Tristan Squeri, a former Mount Ida College student, is one of three plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the now-shuttered school.

Former Mount Ida students sue, accusing college of fraud

Alan Dershowitz on Robert Mueller?s upcoming report: ?When you lay it out and see it all in one document, I think it will be on its face very critical of the president.??

Mueller report will be ?devastating? for Trump, Dershowitz says

A trio of Route 111 buses formed a convey down Broadway Street in Chelsea as they headed toward Boston.

MBTA wrestles with bus ?bunching?

Boston?s Beacon Health Options has opened a small clinic focused on mental health treatment at a Walmart store in Texas. Above: A Walmart store in Secaucus, N.J.

Mental health therapy at Walmart? It?s a thing

?I hope I have the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to comment on my private FB page where you have to be invited into as friends only,? wrote Police Commissioner William B. Gross.

ACLU hits back at Gross for Facebook post

Dictionary.com?s word of the year: ?misinformation?

Sports

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TORONTO, ON - NOVEMBER 26: Jake DeBrusk #74 of the Boston Bruins skates away from a checking Tyler Ennis #63 of the Toronto Maple Leafs during an NHL game at Scotiabank Arena on November 26, 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Maple Leafs defeated the Bruins 4-2. (Photo by Claus Andersen/Getty Images)

KEVIN PAUL DUPONT

Taking stock of the Bruins after injuries to Kevan Miller and Jake DeBrusk

The Bruins, given the day off skates Tuesday, are back on the ice Wednesday to prep for Thursday?s visit by the Islanders.

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Lucianny Rondon (right), sister of the late 18-year-old Leonel Rondon, was overcome with emotion while speaking about her brother during a Senate committee hearing in Lawrence Monday.

Sister of teen killed in gas explosions wants justice for her brother

Leonel Rondon died during the Merrimack Valley gas explosions after a chimney from a house that blew up toppled onto the vehicle he was sitting in.

Politics

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Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith answered a question while Mike Espy (left) listened during a debate.

Run-off election between Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy set to be decided in Mississippi

Mississippi voters are choosing between a white Republican Senate appointee backed by President Trump and a black Democrat who was agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration.

Nation & World

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Northern California fire recovery costs likely in billions

US Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke visited the area scorched by the Camp Fire on Monday, and local authorities raised the death toll from the fire to 88.