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TSA says it no longer tracks regular travelers as if they may be terrorists

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TSA officials said that the Quiet Skies surveillance program, which documented minor movements and behavior of some passengers, was scaled back after a Globe investigation.

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Fallen firefighter eulogized as ?a Worcester martyr?

A funeral Mass was said Saturday for Christopher Roy, 36, who died Dec. 9 while battling a five-alarm blaze in Worcester.

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More ambitious action to fight global warming and on regulating the market for international carbon emissions trading was postponed, though.

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 09: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Economics professor Jonathan Gruber testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about his work on the Affordable Care Act in the Rayburn House Office building on Capitol Hill December 9, 2014 in Washington, DC. Gruber, who was a consultant paid by the authors of the Affordable Care Act and the Massachusetts universal health care program, called voters stupid and said that Obamacare would not have passed if lawmakers had really known what was inside the legislation during an academic conference earlier this year. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

OPINION | JONATHAN GRUBER

Affordable Care Act ruling puts health of Americans ? and our democracy ? at risk

The ruling is ridiculous, but the case will likely head to the US Supreme Court, which does not represent anything close to the mainstream legal view on matters such as this.

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Friday?s ruling has thrust the volatile debate over health care onto center stage in a newly divided capital.

Newly empowered House Democrats are preparing to challenge President Trump?s authority in 2019.

News Analysis

As Trump prepares for his holiday respite, he?s more isolated than ever

At a time when he will need all the strength, wisdom, firepower, and support around him, Donald Trump presides over a White House that is thinning out, not beefing up.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/12/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryanbikelane1met.jpg Longfellow Bridge?s biker-safety posts to remain in place for now

Officials said that ?given that there are no winter weather events in the immediate forecast,? they would delay the removal schedule.

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Every year two runners take on Heartbreak Hill and the rest of the marathon to raise money for Globe Santa.

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EDITORIAL

First Amendment scores a win in federal court

Massachusetts? attorney general should let stand this ruling that allows the recording of police and other government officials.

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Ideas | Beth Wolfensberger Singer

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The First Family?s home now features 57 Christmas trees celebrating ?America?s Treasure.? Why not a few extra with an environmental theme?

Salem MA: 12-15-2018: Salem City Councilor Josh Turiel (cq) made the first ceremonial purchase, at the ATG Marijuana dispensary in Salem.Photo/Jonathan Wiggs Boston Globe staff

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Salem shop is 3rd in Mass. to sell recreational pot

Alternative Therapies Group started selling recreational marijuana Saturday morning, using a reservation system to manage potential crowds of customers.

Dan Shaughnessy

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Despite their pedigree, Pittsburgh is just another team that loses it at the sight of Brady and Belichick.

Edgar Mejia, lit candle in hand, at Thursday?s vigil for his daughters, who were killed Dec. 9.

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Yvonne Abraham

At Revere road side, solace laced with fears

A freak accident killed two children. For many, the tragedy is too close to home.

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A mammoth report on the future of transportation in the state was released Friday. At the heart of it: fixing public transit and putting it on sound financial footing.

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MICHELLE SINGLETARY | THE COLOR OF MONEY

Trump is bad at regifting. You don?t have to be.

?Well, I?m the namesake, so I got regifted all the things that were monogrammed for him at times,? Donald Trump Jr. said.

Dinner with Cupid

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Will these sports enthusiasts team up for a knockout or a strikeout?

KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | SUNDAY HOCKEY NOTES

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Although the NHL has made great strides in player safety, second-year coach Bruce Cassidy has seen at least seven Bruins exit with concussions during his tenure.

BEN VOLIN | SUNDAY FOOTBALL NOTES

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Average NFL quarterbacks are getting paid $15 million-$20 million per year.

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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?

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The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Globe staff photos of the month: November 2018

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: a colorful sunrise, Christmas tree lightings, and high school sports.

Globe must-reads

Print of Pooh sitting on a branch with honeypots by Ernest Howard Shepard, 1970.

COMMENTARY | JENEé OSTERHELDT

MFA?s Winnie-the-Pooh exhibit wraps visitors in warmth

Health & Wellness | Magazine

Why you shouldn?t be afraid of your aging brain
Newbury College in Brookline has 627 students and a tuition of about $34,000. Above, the school?s Mitton Hall.

Finances behind Newbury College?s planned closure
A truck after it became wedged underneath the East Street Railroad Bridge in Westwood Friday morning.

Westwood bridge claims another ?Storrowing? victim

9 takeaways from sprawling tale of GE?s collapse

Detecting pot use in drivers will be tricky

The Year in Arts

The best in music, dance, TV, art, theater
On Dec. 6 the Freetown Police Department shared a photo of a station wagon with a tree on its roof and a cutout of Chevy Chase in the driver?s-side window.

BLOTTER TALES

A holiday edition movie call-out
Ted Pelkey paid a sculptor $3,000 to create the single-finger salute from a 7-foot-tall chunk of pine. Then Pelkey put it on a pole.

Small-town feud leads to a big middle finger (literally)
Foxborough MA 11/30/18 North Andover team after they defeated King Philip 6-0 capturing the MIAA Division 1 State Championship at Gillette Stadium. (photo by Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) topic: 01schbowl reporter: Nathaniel Weitzer

Here are the Globe?s 2018 fall All-Scholastics
Senator Elizabeth Warren

Where in Boston could Warren HQ land?
Boston won?t get Apple?s new $1 billion campus ? that will be built in Austin, Texas. Once again, we missed out on a big-time corporate site, but online retailer Wayfair plans to add thousands of jobs here.

What Apple?s snub says about Boston as a tech hub

Sports

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Boston, MA - 12/14/2018 - (1st quarter) Boston Celtics forward Daniel Theis (27) enjoys some hang time after a dunk during the first quarter. The Boston Celtics host the Atlanta Hawks at TD Garden. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Sports, Reporter: Adam Himmelsbach, Topic: 15Celtics-Hawks, LOID: 8.4.4109009180.

CELTICS 129, HAWKS 108

?It?s fun out there.? Celtics? winning streak reaches eight

Kyrie Irving led the way with 24 points, taking the entire fourth quarter off in the Celtics? runaway victory over the Hawks.

Metro

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Former State Police lieutenants John T. Giulino (left) and David Keefe during their arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court in October.

Ex-State Police lieutenants face more OT-related charges

David Wilson of Charlton, John Giulino of Lanesborough, and David Keefe of Norfolk already were charged in connection with the scandal.

Real Estate

Before decking the halls with boxwood, be aware of this disease

Decorations made from boxwood are not as simple or unburdened as they used to be. | realestate.boston.

Politics

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Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke speaks after an order withdrawing federal protections for countless waterways and wetland was signed, at EPA headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Ryan Zinke to step down as Interior Secretary

Ongoing federal investigations are reviewing Zinke?s travel, political activity, and potential conflicts of interest.

Nation & World

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FILE - In this July 6, 2018, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen speaks at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Washington. For some time now, President Donald Trump has been encouraging people to think Mexico is a portal for international terrorists who ?pour? into the U.S. Except, he says, for 10 who were recently caught by the U.S.: ?These are very serious people.? These 10 do not exist, except as a federal statistic that Trump and his vice president put through a rhetorical grinder in service of describing emigrants from Mexico as a menace. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

US: 7-year-old who died in custody had not appeared ill

Immigration officials defended their actions in the detention of the young Guatemalan girl, who died two days after she was taken into custody.

Cars

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These 2019 new car models are hitting dealerships now (or arriving soon)

Looking to buy a new car? Take a test drive of one of these 19 new vehicles.

Columnists

Three developers backed by major European energy companies paid a record $405 million to gain access to 390,000 acres of federal waters nearly 20 miles south of Martha?s Vineyard and Nantucket. Above: The wind farm off Block Island, R.I.

Chesto Means Business

Auction shows offshore wind is now a force
Pittsburgh, PA 12-17-17: Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (left) and Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (right) meet on the field following the New England victory. The New England Patriots visited the Pittsburgh Steelers for an NFL regular season football game. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff)

Tara Sullivan

Checking in with Phil Simms on state of NFL quarterbacks
This image obtained December 11, 2018 courtesy of Time magazine shows the covers for Time magazine

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

Shining a light on the war on truth
Senate minority leader Senator Chuck Schumer and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi left the White House on Tuesday after meeting with President Trump.

SCOT LEHIGH

Nancy Pelosi?s winning performance
12/13/2018 Foxboro Ma- New England Patriots QB #12 Tom Brady (cq) right during a drill at a afternoon practice. Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff Reporter:Topic:

Christopher L. Gasper

Steelers just the ticket for the Patriots
A special gift has remained in Beverly Beckham?s memory over many years.

BEVERLY BECKHAM

Memory of Christmas gift is grand gift itself
Is Kendall Square no longer ?the? place for tech types to meet and greet?

Scott Kirsner | Innovation Economy

Predictions for Boston?s tech scene

HIAWATHA BRAY | TECH LAB

Finding safe tech gifts tougher than it should be
Senator John F. Keenan, Democrat of Quincy, plans to file legislation to end daylight saving time.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Bill on Beacon Hill would eliminate clock-changing
FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2013, file photo, Alan Ashley, chief of sport performance with the U.S. Olympic Committee, speaks with reporters during a news conference in Park City, Utah. The U.S. Olympic Committee has fired chief of sport performance Alan Ashley in the wake of an independent report that said neither he nor former CEO Scott Blackmun elevated concerns about the Larry Nassar sexual abuse allegations when they were first reported to them. The 233-page independent report was released Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. It detailed an overall lack of response when the USOC leaders first heard about the Nassar allegations from the then-president of USA Gymnastics, Steve Penny. Blackmun resigned in February because of health concerns.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

TARA SULLIVAN

USOC failure cries out for action
Boston, MA., 12/05/2018, Jean Moulton on her last day at the Massachusetts Democratic Party offices on Beacon Street. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

THOMAS FARRAGHER

She?ll always be a Democrat to her core
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon visited Boston Wednesday as his bank launches a retail banking expansion in the area ? something that Citi tried but failed to pull off.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

This bank is Chasing a new market

Business

Stephen Spinelli Jr., co-founder of Jiffy Lube International, will replace president Kerry Healey.

Babson names Jiffy Lube cofounder as next president

Stephen Spinelli Jr. worked at Babson from 1993 to 2007. He will replace Kerry Healey, who is stepping down in June.

Arts

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The incarcerated Bill Cosby paid tribute to a contemporary, the late jazz vocalist Nancy Wilson, on his Twitter account.

From prison, Bill Cosby pays tribute to jazz vocalist Nancy Wilson

Cosby, 81, is serving a three- to 10-year state prison sentence for sexually assaulting a woman in his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004.

Travel

The neo-gothic spires of the Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel are the focal point of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER I TRAVEL

Is this small Mexican city the best in the world?

San Miguel de Allende has been named the best city in the world two years in a row. Does it live up to the title?

STAT

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A Kentucky appeals court side with STAT, upholding a ruling ordering the release of Purdue Pharma records about the marketing of the opioid OxyContin.

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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Real Estate

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Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.

Magazine

The cover for the December 9 2018 issue

Recipes: Beans are the star in these quick skillet suppers

The cover for the December 2 2018 issue

Recipes: Nutty for nut oils
The cover for the November 25 2018 issue

Blind date: ?We almost forgot to order because we were talking so much?

The cover for the November 18 2018 issue

My dad lived to 101, and as I grow older, I try to keep learning from him