Big changes in store for Boston school buildings

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West Roxbury, East Boston, and the southern part of the city near the Dorchester-Mattapan line would be among the first neighborhoods to get new school buildings.

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Army Sergeant First Class Eric Michael Emond was killed Tuesday in a blast in Afghanistan.

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US Representative Katherine Clark won a contested race to be the House Democrats? vice chair against a centrist-oriented colleague.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_bustour3_met[1]-22241.jpg Joe Kennedy says Democrats should embrace ?moral capitalism?

US Representative Joe Kennedy is urging fellow Democrats to adopt a new economic ideology as they prepare to take control of the House.

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California Democrat T.J. Cox claimed victory over Republican Congressman David Valadao after an updated vote count increased his lead.

Migrants from Central America yell through a border wall at a U.S. Border Patrol agent after he pulled down a banner Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, in San Diego. Migrants approaching the U.S. border from Mexico were enveloped with tear gas Sunday after a few tried to breach the fence separating the two countries. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

As shutdown looms, Trump and GOP leaders discuss border wall

With a partial government shutdown possible Dec. 7, President Trump has met with Republican leaders to hash out a spending plan.

Transportation Security Administration

Smoking suitcase at Logan caused by e-cigarette battery

The baggage screening room was briefly evacuated on Saturday, after smoke started to rise from the seam of a blue, plastic wheeled bag, according to the TSA.

This photo shows the Ox Ridge Elementary School Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018, in Darien, Conn. The Darien school system said parents are no longer welcome to have lunch with their children at the town's elementary schools. (AP Photo/Michael Melia)

A Connecticut town banned parents from its school lunchrooms ? and many are not happy

One mother shed tears when she read the superintendent?s announcement. Another said it felt like a body blow.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/25/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/c8ef4a764fc24e57a3889703200b19fb-41ee6d1ba8a94163ad13b410dcade85d-0.jpg A primer on shingles

This week, Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone was hospitalized with the shingles virus, an infection often characterized by painful, blistering rashes.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/28/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/bg-c57154ca-eda4-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52.jpg There are signs that the Boston area?s heated housing market is cooling

Data from two real estate groups show that price increases are starting to moderate.

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The Florida-based firm, Affiliated Managers Group, which was headquartered in Beverly for many years, announced the gift in a statement Wednesday.

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It would be neither technically difficult nor too expensive to spray chemicals into the atmosphere to block the sun and curb global warming.

Charlie Hopkins, a former Alcatraz inmate who corresponded with James

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?Whitey? Bulger wished for ?peaceful death,? prison letters say

The ex-South Boston crime boss described a litany of worsening health problems that included several heart attacks and blackouts.

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?I?ve been a little hesitant to change,? he said Wednesday.

Boston, MA--10/9/2018-- David Price shows Nathan Eovaldi some love during the Red Sox World Series victory parade. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: paradephotos Reporter:

David Price: ?Eovaldi better be re-signing?

Nathan Eovaldi was a hot topic on Price?s Twitch livestream on Tuesday.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/28/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Gasper1-24669.jpg Some Celtics need to accept their roles

They don?t know their player pecking order after Kyrie Irving.

Minnesota Vikings free safety Harrison Smith (22) celebrates with teammates after intercepting a pass during the first half of an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

What to expect from the Vikings and how the Patriots can attack them

Their record this year isn?t quite where they want to be (6-4-1), but they still own the No. 5 seed in the NFC playoffs and will give the Patriots a tough challenge.

Stages | Terry Byrne

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The troupe?s annual holiday mash-up may be their last at Machine, the Orphans? theatrical home for two decades.

Movie Review | ? ? ? ½

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/TF_03729_rgb.jpg It?s Emma Stone vs. Rachel Weisz in this tale of palace intrigue

?The Favourite? is set in the early 18th century, and it plays like a posh ?Masterpiece Theatre? period piece with a jolt of Machiavellian wit.

The famed Tropicana show continues to serve up the classic color of pre-Revolution Havana.

SOPHIA SWIDEY FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Getting to Cuba is harder (once again), but the effort is greatly rewarded

In addition to marking the 60th anniversary of the revolution, Cubans will be celebrating the 500th anniversary of Havana?s founding in 2019.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/28/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/Rinaldi25whatsheshaving09-9374.jpg Here are 11 Boston-area noodle shops to try right now

Boston has become a serious noodle town. Start slurping here.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, based in Washington, D.C., paid for two large billboards that went up this week near Logan Airport.

Here?s the story behind these anti-hot-dog billboards in Boston

They may be a childhood mealtime staple, but a national physicians group says that hot dogs have no place on the menu at Boston Children?s Hospital.

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/28/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/vennochi_480-5822.jpg It?s downhill for Mayor Walsh

As Boston morphs into something entirely new, with a shifting power base, Walsh looks more and more old school.

Opinion | Kenneth Rogoff

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Computers haven?t killed chess ? they?ve made it a universal sport.

Globe Live | Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/23/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/cover1202rosa.jpg An immigrant braces for upheaval after two decades in America

I have a lot in common with the woman who cleans our offices, but while I just became a US citizen, her status is precarious.

Love Letters

They?re just friends, but he wants more

I?d like to lay out my feelings for her, but I don?t know how.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/112818WiggsBlue2.jpg MBTA subway ridership is dropping . . . except on the Blue Line

Ridership on the Blue Line keeps growing even as it drops elsewhere in the system.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/Handout_names_01_art-012.jpg Gisele Bundchen is coming to Brookline Booksmith

You can listen to ?Lessons? read by the supermodel herself.

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

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.

STAT

WATCH: A protest over insulin prices is seen as a fight for life

Protesters, a few of whom brought the ashes of their children who died after insulin rationing, gathered outside Sanofi?s Cambridge office.

Love Letters: The Podcast

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In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.

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