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Attorneys say ICE is struggling to carry out deportations

As ICE officials intensify efforts to remove unauthorized immigrants, those deportations are taking months ? often beyond the legal limit of six months set by the Supreme Court.

Peter DeMarco

My wife?s death was senseless. Using it to save other lives is the only thing that makes sense to me

My quest to understand what happened to my wife, who died in 2016 after suffering an asthma attack, led to hard questions at Somerville Hospital.

Family sought help for man tasered by police while he allegedly stabbed woman

The family of Erich Stelzer expressed sympathy for the victim in a statement released Saturday and said they had tried to get Stelzer help over the past days.

Jets at Patriots | 1 p.m. (CBS)

Here?s what the Patriots need to do to beat the Jets

The regular season wraps up with an AFC East clash that has major playoffs implications.

dave epstein

New year will start with mild temperatures. So where is winter?

New Year?s Eve may be rainy. Then, on the first day of 2019, the Boston area will see high temperatures in the 50s and sunshine.

Bob Richardson prayed Saturday at St. George Catholic Church during a Mass honoring teens killed in a cabin fire in 1968. — Michael Swensen for The Boston Globe

50 years later, Worcester remembers 5 teenagers killed in Indian Hill fire

Warren Briggs, Timothy Donohue Jr., and Ronald Vysniauskas, all 17, died on that cold night, along with Michael Foley and John Quinlivan, both 16.

CELTICS 112, GRIZZLIES 103

Down 19, Celtics come back to beat Grizzlies

Kyrie Irving had 26 points and 13 assists and Al Horford hit five 3-pointers in the comeback win.

BRUINS 3, SABRES 2

Bruins rally to stun Sabres in overtime

Sean Kuraly potted the game-winner with 1:16 left in overtime after Jake DeBrusk tied the game for the Bruins with 2:29 remaining in regulation.

WEST OF BOSTON

Why did the coffee shop cross the road?

Shocked by the closing of Peet?s in Newton Centre, a barista found a new home for its devoted customers.

British design for D-Day stamp gets address wrong by 8,000 miles

The beach shown was in Dutch New Guinea, not in Normandy. And the stamp used an image of the wrong craft.

After her cancer diagnoses, Marie Cajuste?s life unraveled. She was unable to work during the most intense part of her treatment.

Unhealthy Divide

Battling a double diagnosis ? cancer and poverty

Cancer is a tremendous burden for anyone, but for a growing number of lower-income and even middle-class patients, an illness means an avalanche of trouble.

Pair of popular Boston bars to reopen on New Year?s Eve

The Tam on Tremont Street and Sullivan?s Tap on Canal Street will reopen Monday at 5 p.m., a company spokesman said.

Remember ?Cat Person?? The author of the viral short story has written a book

A viral sensation, Kristen Roupenian?s ?Cat Person? has led to a hotly awaited collection, ?You Know You Want This,? due out Jan. 15.

Warren among 4 high-profile Democratic senators poised to run in 2020

The others, according to advisers and people briefed by their associates: Kamala Harris of California, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.

Sarah Rapaport made the decision to euthanize PJ, a daschund, this month before heading to LA for Christmas on Dec. 19, for fear he would otherwise need to be put down while the family was away. — Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

?Get ready for an influx of sadness?: Why veterinarians dread the holidays

Come this time of year, veterinarians see a spike in pet euthanasia.

Globe Magazine

Dave Barry?s year in review: Good riddance, 2018!

Who?s got the bigger nuclear button? And other highlights of another ridiculous year.

Oh, the places he went!

A look back at some of travel writer Christopher Muther?s favorite, previously unpublished, photos of 2018.

Mr. Culver spoke at the memorial service for Senator Edward Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. — Globe Staff/File 2009

Obituary

John C. Culver, Kennedy confidant and Harvard football star, dies at 86

The friendship formed in Cambridge lasted for almost six decades, through their time together on Capitol Hill and through some of Kennedy?s lowest moments.

Ideas | Kory Stamper

Language nerds worked really hard on that ?Words of the Year? list

Crunch the data on the most looked-up words and hope for something meaningful. Ignore the reality that, by mid-January, all this crunching and consideration will be forgotten.

Editorials

How gas demand from Boston changed a faraway island

Images and Photographs of the Meigs Elevated Railway All images are in the public domain.

Ideas

The Cambridge monorail that wasn?t

Portrait Of Businessman Predicting Future With Crystal Ball

Opinion

Predicting the unpredictable for 2019

Big Data: How much ice is melting from Arctic glaciers into the ocean every year?

A double diagnosis ? cancer when poor

Marie Cajuste couldn?t ignore it any more. She had noticed a hard lump in her left breast about a year before, but kept the discovery to herself. She literally could not afford to be sick.

After suicides in Acton and Boxborough, a communion of sorrow

The unthinkable has been an all-too-common companion in two small neighboring towns, where six young people took their lives in the short span of 30 months. The questions keep coming: What is happening? Why? When will it stop?

Podcasts

Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

The story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America?s most popular sport.

The Help Desk

HELP DESK

Yes, you can argue online without going crazy. Here?s how.

Those bunny slippers are dangerously close to the space heater. They should be at least 3 feet away.

HELP DESK

How to safely use a space heater

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Globe must-reads

Angels star Mike Trout is scheduled to become a free agent after the 2020 season.

NICK CAFARDO I SUNDAY BASEBALL NOTES

MLB?s top free agents, this year and beyond

BOSTON, MA - 4/03/2014: With St John's Seminary in the upper top of photo Gerald Road area in Brighton near the Boston College Campus the campus housing spotlight (David L Ryan/Globe Staff Photo) SECTION: SPOTLIGHTOPIC

Seminary rector reassigned after investigation

Dinner with Cupid

?I was getting nervous that I was getting stood up?

Ulysses High School senior Braxton Moral sat for a portrait in his school in Ulysses, Kansas.

Kansas teen set to get high school, Harvard diplomas in the same month

Connections | Magazine

Making one last toast to Mom

Governor Chris Sununu staunchly opposes marijuana legalization, declaring it ?the next major battle.?

?Live free or die, but don?t touch that plant?

Deerfield Academy has about 650 students in grades 9 through 12 and a $590 million endowment.

?Better dead than coed?: Deerfield confronts male-only past

Joe Cocker took the stage during the original Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, N.Y., in 1969.

Original Woodstock site to host 50th anniversary concert

New Orange Line cars are set to enter service early in 2019.

Starts & Stops

New year will bring new cars to T lines

Baker signs long-awaited short-term rental law

Regie Gibson has been nominated for a Boston Emmy and just concluded as the poet-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts.

ON THE JOB

Earning a living as a poet? You know it.

Spacey seeks to avoid appearing at arraignment

Sports

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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) takes the snap from center David Andrews (60) as lineman Shaq Mason (69) blocks during the first half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Young trio keeps Patriots offense in line

Guards Joe Thuney and Shaq Mason and center David Andrews should keep the unit performing well long into the future.

Metro

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A ceremony was held aboard the USS Constitution to commemorate the 206th anniversary of a War of 1812 battle and victory over the HMS Java.

Constitution marks anniversary of War of 1812 victory

It?s been 206 years since the historic warship defeated the British HMS Java.

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Newton, MA - 11/12/2018- ] Faye Goldman passes out freshly baked blueberry muffins to patrons of Central Cafe and Restaurant in Newton on Monday, November 12, 2018. (Michael Swensen for The Boston Globe) Topic: (Metro)

WEST OF BOSTON

Why did the coffee shop cross the road?

Shocked by the closing of Peet?s in Newton Centre, a barista found a new home for its devoted customers.

Politics

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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2015, file photo, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Goodlatte is subpoenaing the Justice Department as part of the panel?s ongoing probe into Democrat Hillary Clinton. Goodlatte has demanded more than a million documents from the department as it examines Justice?s 2016 investigation into Clinton?s private email server. He is also demanding documents related to the firing of former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

House GOP quietly ends probe into FBI?s 2016 decisions

House Republicans brought an end to their yearlong look at the department?s handling of probes into Democrat Hillary Clinton?s emails and Donald Trump?s ties to Russia.