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Late Globe writer Nick Cafardo wins baseball’s J.G. Spink Award
The honor recognizes meritorious contributions to baseball writing. Cafardo will be celebrated in July in Cooperstown, N.Y. an hour ago

Man charged in South Boston slayings threatens to sexually assault prosecutor’s wife
The suspect, Bampumim Teixeira, issued his threat to Assistant Suffolk District Attorney John Pappas before jurors filed in to Suffolk Superior Court to begin their second day of deliberations. 10:09 a.m.

Pelosi announces agreement on North American trade pact
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced an agreement on a modified North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a major Capitol Hill win on the very same day that Democrats announced their impeachment charges against him. 2 hours ago

St. Guillen concedes City Council election that ended in a one-vote difference

St. Guillen had been weighing whether to appeal contested ballots to the state courts, but said Tuesday she will accept the outcome. 2 hours ago

opinion

EDITORIAL

How can Boston get trucks to stop blocking traffic?

OPINION | Tom Keane

A Nobel love story

OPINION | JOAN VENNOCHI

Who’s the boss? Nancy Pelosi

Editorial

What should our Editorial Board ask the 2020 presidential candidates?

Bill Belichick says he had ‘no knowledge’ of Patriots filming Bengals’ sidelines
The head coach said the matter only involved the Patriots’ content team, not the football operations side. 52 minutes ago

Patriots acknowledge video crew taped Bengals’ sideline, unknowingly breaking NFL rule

Boston College running back AJ Dillon declares for NFL Draft
Dillon, who leaves Chestnut Hill as the Eagles’ all-time rushing leader, will forgo playing in the Birmingham Bowl. 41 minutes ago

Power problem halts service on the Green Line

Green Line service is halted between the Park Street and Haymarket stations because of a power problem, the MBTA says.

Maps: Snowfall levels and arrival times for Wednesday's storm
These maps outline the exact timing of the storm for various communities across Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island and highlight how many inches of snowfall towns can expect when all is said and done Wednesday.

NAMES

Megan Rapinoe talks activism, pay equity, and sports longevity ahead of speech at Boston women’s conference

The soccer icon will be a keynote speaker at the Massachusetts Conference for Women in Boston on Thursday, Dec. 12.
More recent headlines

Tree worker fatally injured in Wakefield

Man, 18, arrested after confronting, shooting at man in Chelmsford during argument

Warren releases ‘Blue New Deal,’ a plan to address ailing oceans

Ask the Globe

What do you wonder about Boston or Massachusetts?

Ask the Globe is a series where curious readers pose questions they'd like us to probe. We track down an answer and share the story of what we find.

THOMAS FARRAGHER
Dan Snow: An artist who works in stone
He’s a master craftsman who builds walls that are sturdy works of art. Simply put: Snow is a stone whisperer.

Report: Colleges aren’t doing enough to prepare students for Mass. life-sciences jobs
The Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation says job growth is far outstripping the number of qualified candidates for positions.

Innovation Economy: Biotech companies scramble to fill open jobs

dan shaughnessy
As a ballplayer and a person, Pete Frates hit it out of the park
Before he was famous, Frates was just a baseball player from Boston College who hit a home run at Fenway Park. But after being diagnosed with ALS, Pete would go on to global fame as an inspirational figure, kick-starting the Ice Bucket Challenge fund-raising campaign that may yet lead to a cure for the disease.

Timeline: Looking back at Pete Frates’s life

Globe Santa
It’s not the reindeer and elves, it’s people like Linda, Tammy, and Sue
For 11 years, Tammy McFarland has been a family advocate, leading the Globe Santa team in Taunton that processes requests. She deals with the struggles of families trying to provide a joyous Christmas against the odds.

Donate to Globe Santa

Recommended Reads

Sean P. Murphy | The Fine Print

A plea from a friend, via a hacked e-mail account, is a cautionary tale about scams

Judy Murphy didn’t think it would happen to her. “I’m a capable person,” she said. And she still fell for a gift-cards scheme.

Joe Biden offers up fire and folksiness on his ‘No Malarkey’ tour in Iowa
The campaign swing showed he was more than willing to deliver some punches — and not just at President Trump.

Kevin Cullen
The White House is tougher on American college professors than on Saudi Arabia
What’s wrong with this picture: Members of a contemptible Saudi regime continue to be welcomed into the US, but an academic from Middlebury College was barred from speaking at a conference of American allies in Denmark because he criticized President Trump.

Rhode Island

Now in control of Providence schools, R.I. education commissioner learns running a district is no easy task

In an exclusive interview with the Globe, Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green said that in the final weeks of 2019, she expects to release an independent financial analysis on the district’s budget, hire up to six high-level employees, and select a new curriculum for students.

Cicilline’s all in on impeachment; Langevin not there yet

R.I. nonprofit has made food for 10 million malnourished children in 55 countries

Newton

Sports

Bill Belichick says he had ‘no knowledge’ of Patriots filming Bengals’ sidelines

Late Globe writer Nick Cafardo wins baseball’s J.G. Spink Award

It’s not time to call Tom Brady finished. It’s time to appreciate what he’s doing even more

Politics / Business

Pelosi announces agreement on North American trade pact

Democrats announce articles of impeachment against Trump

Watch live: House committee announces two articles of impeachment against President Trump

Nation / World

Six dead from New Zealand volcano as helpers describe horror

Finland’s parliament picks world’s youngest sitting premier

Lifestyle

Megan Rapinoe talks activism, pay equity, and sports longevity ahead of speech at Boston women’s conference

As tourism gets complicated, your guide is more likely to have a graduate degree

Pet-friendly package deals, island retreats, and good eats

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.
Sign up for The Great Divide newsletter

(Unsent) Love Letters

Columnist and podcast host Meredith Goldstein and psychotherapist and “Where Should We Begin?” podcast host Esther Perel explore the messages we keep to ourselves.
Podcast: Listen to Love Letters Season 3
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

EDITORIAL

The 2020 election must be a time of reckoning on climate change

Shola Lawal

Exporting the American Dream

OPINION | AYANNA PRESSLEY AND MONIQUE MORRIS

A just society doesn’t criminalize girls

OPINION | MICHAEL A. COHEN

Bill Barr’s troubling view of law enforcement

EDITORIAL

Impeach the president

OPINION | David Ureña

I am a public servant, not a public charge

VISUAL STORIES

Photos: Patriots vs. Chiefs

Globe staff photos of the month, November 2019

At Millbrook Farm in Concord, an early Christmas miracle

Photos of Massachusetts’ first major snowfall of the season

metro

Safety experts applaud Keolis Commuter Services
The MBTA transit system was given failing marks by safety experts on Monday, but the panel gave a passing grade to Keolis Commuter Services, the operator of the T’s commuter rail system since 2014 under a $2.6 billion contract.

Power problem halts service on the Green Line

Green Line service is halted between the Park Street and Haymarket stations because of a power problem, the MBTA says.

Man, 38, arrested after allegedly burglarizing store in Bedford, N.H.

A 38-year-old man was arrested a week after allegedly burglarizing a convenience store in Bedford, N.H., by entering the store through a Dunkin’ drive-through window and then fleeing in a car, police said.

St. Guillen concedes City Council election that ended in a one-vote difference

Salem, N.H., police looking for man who may have robbed two stores in three days

STAT

How a billionaire couple greased the skids for Nancy Pelosi’s drug pricing bill

Why the surge in EEE cases? Rules on samples mean we may never know

Report hints at why vaping illnesses may have sprung up in 2019

With ketamine, researchers rewrite memories in bid to curb drinking

sports

Boston College running back AJ Dillon declares for NFL Draft

Dillon, who leaves Chestnut Hill as the Eagles’ all-time rushing leader, will forgo playing in the Birmingham Bowl.

Bill Belichick says he had ‘no knowledge’ of Patriots filming Bengals’ sidelines

The head coach said the matter only involved the Patriots’ content team, not the football operations side.

Late Globe writer Nick Cafardo wins baseball’s J.G. Spink Award

Chad Finn

It’s not time to call Tom Brady finished. It’s time to appreciate what he’s doing even more

Politics

Read the articles of impeachment against Donald Trump

Business

Report: Colleges aren’t doing enough to prepare students for Mass. life-sciences jobs

Marijuana

Turns out Green Wednesday is real: Cannabis sales spiked just before Thanksgiving

magazine
Globe Magazine

The forgotten story of ‘America’s most famous tool’

Perspective

The gangly LGBTQ+ acronym came from a good place. But we can do better.

Connections

My boyhood friend was forced to join the Taliban. He deserved better

Miss Conduct

My husband hates that our neighbors Airbnb their spare bedroom

sports

A suitor will soon come looking for Kevin Love

Kemba Walker shows how it’s done as Celtics roll over Cavaliers

Bruins unable to overcome flawed start in setback at Ottawa

metro

Safety experts applaud Keolis Commuter Services

Power problem halts service on the Green Line

Man, 38, arrested after allegedly burglarizing store in Bedford, N.H.

Nation

FBI showed no political bias in Russia probe, Justice Department report says

California church shows Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as a separated refugee family

US wildlife officials agree to Lower 48 grizzly bear review

World

Pension strikes cripple Paris, more travel woes ahead

Documents reveal misleading public statements on war in Afghanistan

Orban targets theaters, prompting protest against censorship

politics

Democrats announce articles of impeachment against Trump

Watch live: House committee announces two articles of impeachment against President Trump

‘With that kind of attitude,’ Wray ‘will never be able to fix the FBI,’ Trump says

business

Report: Colleges aren’t doing enough to prepare students for Mass. life-sciences jobs

PG&E stock jumps on report of settlement in wildfire cases

Business agenda

lifestyle

Megan Rapinoe talks activism, pay equity, and sports longevity ahead of speech at Boston women’s conference

As tourism gets complicated, your guide is more likely to have a graduate degree

Pet-friendly package deals, island retreats, and good eats

marijuana

Turns out Green Wednesday is real: Cannabis sales spiked just before Thanksgiving

Michigan sales top $1.6M in first week of recreational pot

Virginia legal landscape shifts as cannabis support grows

opinion

End the ‘Global Gag Rule’

Trumping truth: The president and his defenders are sticking with their absurd story

The welfare state ‘Brezhnev Doctrine'

food & dining

Milkadamia may make milk moot

Recipe: Key Lime juice gives these loaf cakes a delightful, bright taste

Where you can learn to finesse a pastry bag

travel

As tourism gets complicated, your guide is more likely to have a graduate degree

Pet-friendly package deals, island retreats, and good eats

Carnaval winter festival comes to Maine

Books

‘The German House’ an underwhelming tale of overcoming history

Local bestsellers for the week ending 12/1

“Disappearing Earth” author Julia Phillips always has something good on hold

Movies

HBO’s ‘Finding the Way Home’ shows children betrayed — and rescued

Beethoven as inspiration; dogs as art; babies as burdens

A different sort of papal conclave in ‘The Two Popes’

Television

‘The Morning Show’ offers an eye-opening take on a TV anchor’s bad behavior

Miss Universe winner: We should be teaching young girls to ‘take up space’

In Netflix special ‘Joke Show,' Michelle Wolf takes no prisoners

music

Composer Matthew Aucoin is ‘uncomplicatedly excited’ for his new opera

‘Hallelujah’ for Amanda Forsythe and Ann McMahon Quintero in Boston Baroque’s ‘Messiah’

Bringing Schoenberg to the shadow of a five-story steam engine

Theater/Dance

More valleys than peaks in ‘Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol’

A spirited ‘Oliver!’ at New Rep

Boston Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ keeps the faith

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

Pete Frates, who raised millions for ALS research by championing the Ice Bucket Challenge, dies at 34

Rapper Juice WRLD dies after medical emergency in Chicago

Caroll Spinney, who played Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch on ‘Sesame Street,’ dies at 85