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Democratic presidential debate

Elizabeth Warren turns feud with Bernie Sanders into debate argument for a woman president

The seventh presidential debate comes less than three weeks before Iowa Democrats make their choices in the state's first-in-the-nation vote.
Here's what Warren and Sanders said Tuesday about their disputed exchange over a woman's chances to win the presidency Catch up with our reporters' discussion of the debate
Sanders, Warren address gender and the election
Elizabeth Warren turns feud with Bernie Sanders into debate argument for a woman president.

Scorecard: Grading the debate performance of the Democratic candidates

Never before in this cycle has a debate featured such intensity. Never before have candidates been given so much time to speak. Never before have the stakes been this high.
Fact-checking claims from the Democratic debate, President Trump's rally

Senate resolution to limit Trump?s military authority on Iran has enough GOP votes to pass, key Democrats say

Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine will join three other members of the GOP who had previously announced their support for the measure to invoke Congress? war powers.
Trump uses rally to defend Iran policy as Democrats decry it

Ex-Trump aide Michael Flynn seeks to withdraw guilty plea

Former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn filed court papers Tuesday to withdraw his guilty plea, saying federal prosecutors had acted in ?bad faith?? and breached their deal with him. 2 hours ago

Boston police officer allegedly mailed threatening note, fake ticket after road rage incident

A Boston police officer is accused of mailing a fake $790 State Police citation, accompanied by a crude handwritten note, to the home of a driver he accused of cutting him off.

Former BC star and Carolina Panthers Pro Bowler Luke Kuechly announces his retirement

He joins a list of several NFL stars who have retired prior to the age of 30. 2 hours ago
Dave Epstein

Last weekend, it was 74 degrees. This weekend, it might snow

Friday night will be quite cold, setting up a situation Saturday for some snow.

Blue Jackets 3, Bruins 0
Tuukka Rask concussed, Bruins floored in Columbus, and other observations
Rask was downed by a blindside punch to the head from Columbus rookie Emil Bemstrom, and he was ruled out the rest of the night. 2 hours ago

opinion

OPINION | Andrew Grainger

Pelosi restricts McConnell to a narrow impeachment path
OPINION | RENÉE GRAHAM

It?s not up to black people to cure white racism
OPINION | Laurence H. Tribe

Why Mitch McConnell must allow Senate to call witnesses in Trump?s impeachment trial
OPINION | MICHAEL A. COHEN

Democratic presidential candidates don?t have a plan for Mitch McConnell ? or 2020

King Tut?s treasures coming to Boston for the first time in almost 60 years
The exhibition will include 150 artifacts, the largest collection ever to be displayed worldwide, with 60 traveling out of Egypt for the first time.

Heavy marijuana users who started young drive differently ? even while not stoned, study says

Researchers at McLean Hospital found that heavy cannabis consumers who weren?t acutely impaired drove as well as non-cannabis users ? unless they had started using the drug frequently before age 16.

Rhode Island
Bryant, JWU top list of highest-paid college presidents
It pays to be a private college president in Rhode Island.

HELP DESK
Nervous about your aging parents? eating habits? How not to get frozen out
Dozens of chickens. Questionable milk. Sometimes it?s funny; sometimes it?s serious. Here?s how to tell.

Globe Magazine

My teenager brought an ?infant simulator? home from school, and I think I?m a grandma now

Parenting classes used to send students home with eggs to care for. Now, some get a sophisticated robot that can cost up to $1,000 to replace.

WHAT SHE'S HAVING
Brighton Bodega: When it?s cold and dark, there?s nothing like a friendly neighborhood place
Brighton Bodega is warm and welcoming, even if you?re not a regular.

More recent headlines

Elizabeth Banks named 2020 Woman of the Year by Harvard?s Hasty Pudding

Lynnfield father charged with tax fraud in ?Varsity Blues? college admissions scandal

Carly Copley, Fairmont Copley?s beloved lab, has died

Get more out of your Globe subscription during the NFL playoffs by texting with Ben Volin

Louis C.K. announces Boston tour date in an attempt to revive his career

The announcement comes a little more than two years after multiple women accused the comedian of sexual misconduct and harassment.

Security guards at Apple Store in Back Bay hit with pepper spray by teen shoplifting suspect

Shoplifters twice hit the Apple Store in the Back Bay on Monday, and during the second incident one of the suspects, a teenage girl, sprayed three loss prevention officers with pepper spray, sending one of them to the hospital.

New State Police contract calls for raises, GPS tracking of police cruisers

The union?s adoption of the GPS tracking ends a lengthy battle over a reform pushed by the department and Governor Charlie Baker in the wake of the agency?s payroll fraud scandal. Still, the two sides are poised to square off again over plans to deploy cruiser dash cameras and body cameras.

Suspect is charged in connection with Framingham slaying of father and son

A Framingham man has been arrested in connection with the slaying of a father and son at a known drug spot in the MetroWest community, authorities said Tuesday.

Recommended Reads

This pianist lost three fingers in a snow blower accident. But thanks to doctors, he?s able to play again

Murray Daniels, 65, wants to use his experience to help warn others ? and offer them a glimmer of hope.

Jeneé Osterheldt
The Academy could benefit from Big Jo March Energy and value Hollywood?s little women
Would it be too much for the Academy to recognize Greta Gerwig and a woman?s mind?

Kevin Cullen
The abdication of stiff upper lips
So it turns out Queen Elizabeth has a heart to go along with that crown, after all.

Rhode Island

As Raimondo enters sixth year, unemployment down but budget deficits persist

Six years after taking office, Governor Gina M. Raimondo is highlighting a lower state unemployment rate but still grappling with big budget deficits.

Bryant, JWU top list of highest-paid college presidents

Outside of Providence?s newest building, birds keep dying
Newton

Development community watches as Newton referendum could upend Northland project

?People will have great pause about doing business in Newton,? said Greg Vasil, chief executive and president of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board.

Newton artist?s ?universal? menorah is featured at Museum of Fine Arts

Newton takes a step to solve housing crisis

Special Projects

Back to the battleground

What we learned from each of the battleground states we visited ahead of the 2020 election
Who will win in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin next year? The Globe?s D.C. bureau spent time reporting in these crucial battleground states. This is what they found.

Trump?s evangelical support mystifies his critics, but in Wisconsin, it looks stronger than ever
The president?s personal behavior and some of his core political beliefs, including his hostility toward refugees, seem at odds with the major tenets of Christianity. But Trump?s bond with evangelicals has proven to be remarkably resilient.

More from the Battleground project

Trump promised Wisconsin?s farmers his trade wars would pay off. They?re still waiting

A Pennsylvania roofer loved Bill Clinton and voted for Obama. Here?s how Trump lured him from the Democrats
Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Seeing Red: A Globe Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling traffic

We endure some of the nation?s worst rush hour traffic. Our aging transit system is maddeningly unreliable. It is a crisis ? a very slow moving crisis ? that puts our region?s economic prosperity at risk. Who is to blame? Can anything be done? The Globe Spotlight Team investigates.
Education

The Great Divide

A new Globe initiative exploring the deep inequalities in our public education system, examining both the challenges and possible solutions to creating equal opportunity for all students.
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spotlight fellow report

The federal government has one main law to prevent child abuse. No state follows all of it

Hundreds of thousands of children face abuse every year, but there is only one federal law that directly addresses this national tragedy.
At the edge of a warming world

On Cape Cod, climate change is already terrifyingly real

Come with us as we explore the Cape to better understand what climate change is doing here, what it means for the future of this beloved place, and what the cost of inaction might be.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

OPINION | SCOT LEHIGH

Pelosi should message McConnell: If you don?t subpoena John Bolton, we will
OPINION | RENÉE GRAHAM

It?s not up to black people to cure white racism
OPINION | JOAN VENNOCHI

Bernie Sanders can?t win ? right?

OPINION | VIN GUPTA

How Medicare for All would affect the doctor-patient relationship
OPINION | Nancy Gertner

What the Constitution actually says about a Senate impeachment trial

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

A CIA chemist, mind control ? and the return of psychedelic drugs

VISUAL STORIES

Warnings of ?volcanic tsunami? after eruption in the Philippines

Ground Zero?s deadly dust claims another victim

Photos: Patriots vs. Titans in AFC wild-card playoffs

Globe staff photos of the month, December 2019

metro

Scorecard: Grading the debate performance of the Democratic candidates
Never before in this cycle has a debate featured such intensity. Never before have candidates been given so much time to speak. Never before have the stakes been this high.

Psi Omega members to create learning tools for immigrants on MLK Day

Psi Omega, Boston?s chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation?s oldest sorority for African-American women, will take part in Boston Care?s MLK Day of Service, the sorority announced.

Teen killed blocks from where his father died 10 years earlier

Through tragedy and loss, Treshawn Boyd and his mother were always a team. Now, Boyd is gone, shot to death blocks from where his father died by stabbing 10 years ago.

Read statements from Red Sox, Alex Cora

Heavy marijuana users who started young drive differently ? even while not stoned, study says

STAT

A spate of new class-action lawsuits threaten the CBD industry

Despite Trump?s pressure, only 15 veterans have received new antidepressant esketamine

Pregnant women and providers grapple with how to talk about marijuana

Watch: What is vitamin E acetate, and why does it seem to make some vapers so sick?

sports

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox only had only choice with Alex Cora

This was simply not survivable for the Red Sox manager.
Bruins notebook

Bruins not getting free passes from coach on shootouts

The Bruins fell to 0-7 in the shootout Monday, by far the NHL?s worst mark, with the team 4 for 30 on shootout attempts.

Alex Cora really will be missed in the Red Sox clubhouse
Blue Jackets 3, Bruins 0

Tuukka Rask concussed, Bruins floored in Columbus, and other observations

Politics

Sanders, Warren address gender and the election

Business

Boeing no longer world?s largest planemaker after 737 Max grounding

Marijuana

Heavy marijuana users who started young drive differently ? even while not stoned, study says
magazine
cover story

New Year?s resolutions already wavering? Stick to them with these 8 easy ideas

The heartbreak of Alzheimer's

How could my wife have Alzheimer?s? She was only 56.
Globe Magazine

Signs of early-onset Alzheimer?s: When not to worry, and when to see a doctor
Resolutions you can keep

If you want to read more, you don?t need to start with Shakespeare

sports

Hockey community rallies around injured North Quincy senior Connor Kulig

LSU will celebrate its title, then get right back to work

Injuries are a painful reality for Boston College basketball

metro

Scorecard: Grading the debate performance of the Democratic candidates

Psi Omega members to create learning tools for immigrants on MLK Day

Teen killed blocks from where his father died 10 years earlier

Nation

Ex-Trump aide Michael Flynn seeks to withdraw guilty plea

The explosive question for Democrats: Can a woman defeat Trump in November?

Lawmakers from both parties rap plan to use $7.2b in Pentagon money for Trump?s border wall

World

Deputy prime minister calls Japan a nation with single race

Pope Benedict wants his name removed from book about priestly celibacy

EU powers launch Iran nuclear deal action, paving way for possible sanctions

politics

Fact-checking claims from Trump rally, Democratic debate

Elizabeth Warren turns feud with Bernie Sanders into debate argument for a woman president

Trump uses rally to defend Iran policy as Democrats decry it

business

Boeing no longer world?s largest planemaker after 737 Max grounding

Standoff between Apple, US over Fla. shooter?s iPhone again has consumers? data security in doubt

Rent control supporters step up the pressure on Mass. lawmakers

lifestyle

'For Sama? documentary, co-produced by WGBH?s ?Frontline,? earns Oscar nomination

Louis C.K. announces Boston tour date in an attempt to revive his career

Asians cringe at ?Chinese restaurant syndrome? entry in dictionary

marijuana

Heavy marijuana users who started young drive differently ? even while not stoned, study says

Illinois warns shops against stockpiling pot amid shortages

Search warrants target illegal Southern California pot grows

opinion

Democratic presidential candidates don?t have a plan for Mitch McConnell ? or 2020

Harvard Law students can aim higher than clerking for Trump judges

Babson employee?s Facebook post was not a firing offense

food & dining

Nervous about your aging parents? eating habits? How not to get frozen out

Eating vegan just got easier

Trattoria Il Panino?s David Ledbury is a server to the stars

travel

Veteran pilot offers tips for smooth travel with children

Get a deal during R.I.'s first hotel week, plus a package for fans of ?Little Women?

He sees dead people ? and soon you can see him on TV

Books

#Megxit blows up, Gervais bears down, Prince Charming pops question, and everyone starts crying

Local bestsellers for the week ending Jan. 5

Books a bridge through difficult times for novelist Namwali Serpell

Movies

In ?Les Misérables?: trapped on the outskirts of Paris ? and the outskirts of French society

In Focus: Viva Varda! Agnès encore!

Oscars celebrate the Hollywood boys? club

Television

?Shameless? twofer on the horizon

Felicity Huffman?s daughter moves on from college scandal to ?Twilight Zone?

This week?s TV: Aaron Hernandez still fascinates, Oscar nods, and a new ?Curb?

music

In Jordan Hall, A Far Cry eloquently pairs Shostakovich and Mahler

At BSO, an all-French program with flair

Patricia Kopatchinskaja is tired of classical music?s ?institutional inertia?

Theater/Dance

Humor and humanity are the icing on ?The Cake?

?Cats? live has lost none of its capacity to inflict suffering

Pearl S. Buck?s life takes the stage

globe local

Get crafty with your holiday shopping at local fairs

Hardiest hikers, campers don?t come in from the cold

Should Massachusetts exempt police body camera footage from state public records law?

Obituaries

Sultan Qaboos, quiet peacemaker who built Oman, dies at 79

Harold Burson, considered a giant in public relations, dies at 98

Neil Peart, drummer for Rush, dies at 67