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A State Police trooper had a history of misconduct. State law let him rise through the ranks.

He was but one member of a more than 2,300-person police force. But his story is a snapshot of the shortcomings of the State Police accountability system.

Trump names loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director

“I am proud to announce that Kashyap “Kash” Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Trump posted Saturday night on Truth Social.

What to know about Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to lead the FBI

Trump wants pardoned real estate developer Charles Kushner to become US ambassador to France

Three-alarm blaze tears through Brockton building, leaving fears of collapse
A three-alarm blaze tore through an unoccupied four-story building in Brockton on Saturday evening, leaving concerns that the building could collapse, fire officials said

UN halts aid shipments through Gaza’s main crossing after looting. It blames the crisis on Israel
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least six people overnight, including two young children who died in the tent where their family was sheltering, medical officials said Sunday.

An Israeli strike in Gaza kills World Central Kitchen workers. Israel says 1 was an Oct. 7 attacker

Upcoming rail connection to New Bedford to happen as the city sees a significant economic shift

By next spring, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority expects a rail connection between New Bedford and Boston to open, for the first time in more than half a century.

Addiction and trauma shaped RFK Jr. in his father’s shadow

Recalled cucumbers may be linked to salmonella outbreak, health officials say

Russia Forges ahead in eastern Ukraine, capturing more villages in recent days

Jay Christensen's drone got between Bobby Orr and his statue Saturday afternoon outside TD Garden, part of a production to celebrate the Bruins' centennial game against Montreal on Sunday.

How eight drones, Bobby Orr, and 100 years came together in an iconic video celebration of the Bruins centennial

Shot via drone with several Bruins legends, including Bobby Orr, the film was created over the weekend and "is a first of its kind from a historical perspective," according to the team behind it.

Bruins unveil bronze bear statue to mark 100th anniversary in Boston

Boston offers its employees paid parental leave, but some say it’s not long enough
While Boston employees applaud the city for adopting and expanding the benefit, many argue it isn’t long enough, and Boston should offer more help to parents who work for the city.

With Trump, clean energy projects in low-income communities could be ‘dead in the water’
Environmental justice nonprofits could be in financial jeopardy if grants don’t come through under Trump.

Rodney W. Phillips, a retired software engineer who runs "Grandpa's Farm" in Loudon, N.H., walked the farm with family members, including grandchildren Reid Phillips, 2, and Reagan Phillips, 7. Grandpa's Farm sells blueberries in the summer and Christmas trees in the winter.

Christmas tree farms are open throughout New England, and business is expected to be brisk

After Thanksgiving, nostalgia and the holiday spirit send people into the fields and forests of northern New England in search of the perfect Christmas tree. Growers are expecting strong sales this year, in spite of drought.

Boston Ballet will perform "Mikko Nissinen's The Nutcracker" at the Opera House from Nov. 29-Dec. 29 this year.

Fun things to do this holiday season: 53 family-friendly events, festive shows and concerts, cheery festivals and markets, and more

From "The Nutcracker" to a brand new "A Christmas Carol" and plenty of menorah and tree lightings, here are 53 fun things to do in and around the city this season.

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If he returns from injured reserve, rookie Caedan Wallace could see time at right tackle.

Patriots coach Jerod Mayo looks to a youth movement late in season

Offensive line and wide receiver are areas where Mayo and his Patriots coaching staff will be looking to the future as the 2024 season winds down.

BC quarterback Grayson James (No. 14) celebrates after running back Kye Robichaux (No. 5) plows into the end zone for a second-quarter touchdown in the Eagles' 34-23 triumph over Pittsburgh at Alumni Stadium.

BC 34, PITTSBURGH 23

BC football finishes on winning note in regular-season finale vs. Pittsburgh

The bowl-bound Eagles clinched their first seven-win regular season since 2018 with a 34-23 triumph over the Panthers.

This BC superfan has an attendance streak of almost seven decades

The Orioles made the playoffs the last two seasons, but once they got there were 0-5, scoring only 12 runs.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

The Orioles have won a lot over the last two regular seasons. Now it’s time for them to win in the playoffs

The Orioles were sold to a partnership headed by David Rubenstein in March. That increased the pressure to win.

Last season's NBA championship team is just one part of the Celtics' history touched on in an upcoming documentary series.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

Upcoming documentary ‘Celtics City’ a labor of love for executive producer Bill Simmons

The project, which will debut on HBO in the first quarter of 2025, is something that Simmons and the production team have been working on for almost four years.

Activities at Tully Lake Campground in Royalston. If there are red towns and blue towns, Royalston (population: 1,250) is the purplest of purples.

Meet Massachusetts’ most politically balanced town

Tiny Royalston, MA., had virtually equal numbers of Harris and Trump voters this year. Somehow, life goes on just the same.

With school vouchers, Republican leaders are going against their own voters

School vouchers offer mediocre returns on investments

IDEAS | NICOLA TWILLEY

There will be cooler ways of keeping food fresh

Obesity’s stubborn political divide

When a grandparent does the parenting, ‘holidays are a sensitive time of year’
Given the number of Massachusetts grandparents raising their grandchildren, it should come as little surprise that so many letters to Globe Santa are from seniors.

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Trump says Trudeau made a commitment on border security during meeting, but doesn’t back away from tariffs
President-elect Donald Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Florida and did not rescind his threat on tariffs, although he said Trudeau promised action on drugs flowing across the border.

Trudeau says Trump would raise prices on Americans if he follows through on Canada tariff threat

Mass General Brigham doctors demonstrate amid push to unionize
On Nov. 15, primary care doctors in the Mass General Brigham system, which includes MGH and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, filed to form a union.

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Wildlife rescuers save 500-pound sunfish from Nantucket Harbor
Wildlife rescuers raced against the clock to save a 500-pound ocean sunfish trapped in shallow water near Pocomo Point in Nantucket Harbor.

Heavy snow blankets parts of the US during busy holiday travel weekend
The heavy snow has led to a state of emergency declaration in parts of New York and a disaster declaration in Pennsylvania.

Spinning skaters, smiling spectators, and glistening ice. Boston Common Frog Pond ice rink opens for the season.
Smiles radiated from skaters and spectators alike as blades effortlessly glided through The Frog Pond ice for the first time this season.

Hopefully New England skiers and snow boarders won't see a repeat of last season

GoFundMe for Endicott College police sergeant killed in wrong-way crash raises $65,000
Jeremy Cole’s death, which occurred on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, ignited an outpouring of sympathy and support from the Endicott College community and police departments around New England.

Endicott College police sergeant killed in wrong-way crash on I-95 in Newbury mourned as devoted member of Beverly campus

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Amateur genealogist Harry Bulkeley displayed a family Bible from 1715 that his family is donating to the Old North Church. The Bible documents the descendants of Ebenezer Clough, the master bricklayer who built the church and built himself a home on the land behind it that is now part of the Old North historic site.

Colonial-era Bible chronicling family of Old North Church builder to be given to church

The descendants of Ebenezer Clough, the master brick layer who built the Old North Church in 1723, will present the church with a family Bible chronicling multiple generations on Sunday.

He taught city-building at MIT. Now Boston’s once-and-future chief planner is back with some lessons.
Kairos Shen, back at City Hall as Mayor Michelle Wu’s newly named chief of planning, is bringing a fresh perspective from the lecture hall.

From glass-made concrete to North Dakota wind: Boston universities find new ways to slash carbon emissions
Boston universities and local institutions are addressing the climate crisis through new, innovative steps.

Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral is finally restored. Take a look inside.
The transformation is nothing short of breathtaking: light dances across brilliant stone, gilded accents gleam anew, and the Gothic icon’s majesty is reborn.

Culture & Lifestyle

Boston Ballet will perform "Mikko Nissinen's The Nutcracker" at the Opera House from Nov. 29-Dec. 29 this year.

Fun things to do this holiday season: 53 family-friendly events, festive shows and concerts, cheery festivals and markets, and more

Rendering of the new Doris Duke Theatre East entrance.

A new Doris Duke Theatre, doubled in size, rises at Jacob’s Pillow

Audiobooks can change your reading habits.

Audiobooks can change your life; here’s advice for getting started

Daniel Craig in Luca Guadagnino’s "Queer."

From Bond to Burroughs: In ‘Queer,’ Daniel Craig plays an American expat looking for connection in Mexico City

Special Projects

Seventh-graders at the Curley School on the first day of school in 1975. (Ulrike Welsch/Globe staff)

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

An Ambulance passed Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, La.

A Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

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The Boston Globe’s Best of the Best

Our ultimate guide to more than 200 winners for Boston's best food, drinks, and fun things to do.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Why you’ll never convince your Trumpy cousin that he’s wrong

Alice Brock smiles in a framed photo from the 1970s, which hung on a wall in her Provincetown home in 2008.

Excepting Alice

Matt Siegel hosted the "Matty in the Morning" radio show on Kiss 108 for 41 years.

Matty in the Morning, in his own words

IDEAS | Courtney Bourcy

An open letter to parents, from a teacher

Migrant families head into a T station to head back to Logan Airport to look for a place to sleep.

Healey seeks middle ground in $1 billion shelter crisis

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Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Sunday’s Child

Twins hope to join a family together

Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring children or teens currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

Boston offers its employees paid parental leave, but some say it’s not long enough

While Boston employees applaud the city for adopting and expanding the benefit, many argue it isn’t long enough, and Boston should offer more help to parents who work for the city.

With Trump, clean energy projects in low-income communities could be ‘dead in the water’

Environmental justice nonprofits could be in financial jeopardy if grants don’t come through under Trump.

A State Police trooper had a history of misconduct. State law let him rise through the ranks.

He was but one member of a more than 2,300-person police force. But his story is a snapshot of the shortcomings of the State Police accountability system.

Sports

Coach Joe Sacco and the Bruins are in fourth place in the Eastern Conference Atlantic Division.

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Canadiens at Bruins preview: Happy 100th birthday, Boston

The Bruins will host an hour-long ceremony to commemorate their centennial before puck drop at the Garden on Sunday.

Jay Christensen's drone got between Bobby Orr and his statue Saturday afternoon outside TD Garden, part of a production to celebrate the Bruins' centennial game against Montreal on Sunday.

How eight drones, Bobby Orr, and 100 years came together in an iconic video celebration of the Bruins centennial

Shot via drone with several Bruins legends, including Bobby Orr, the film was created over the weekend and "is a first of its kind from a historical perspective," according to the team behind it.

St. John's coach Lou Carnesecca is carried by his team after the Redmen beat Boston College in the Big East championship at Madison Square Garden, on March 12, 1983.

Lou Carnesecca, legendary St. John’s men’s basketball coach, dies at 99

Carnesecca coached St. John’s for 24 seasons over two stretches, with 18 20-win seasons, 18 NCAA Tournament appearances, and a Final Four trip in 1985.

Red Bulls remain road warriors, will meet fellow original Galaxy for MLS Cup

BC 34, PITTSBURGH 23

BC football finishes on winning note in regular-season finale vs. Pittsburgh

UCONN 99, MD. EASTERN SHORE 45

Even without Alex Karaban, reeling UConn men’s basketball gets right against Maryland Eastern Shore

Business

Putin signs off record Russian defense spending as top EU officials visit Kyiv

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved budget plans, raising 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine.

A landmark climate change case will open at the top UN court as island nations fear rising seas

The top United Nations court will take up the largest case in its history on Monday, when it opens two weeks of hearings into what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate change and help vulnerable nations fight its devastating impact.

Boston offers its employees paid parental leave, but some say it’s not long enough

Mass General Brigham doctors demonstrate amid push to unionize

Betsy Ehrenberg holds up the letter Tyler wrote to introduce himself to her. (For privacy, the Globe obscured his contact information.)

A woman with cancer needed a miracle from a stranger. A veteran in pain needed one, too.

Built in the early 1900s, Mount Washington Hotel is a great winter escape.

The seven wonders of winter in New England

Festive cocktails, and a mocktail, for any holiday celebration.

Who could use a drink? Six festive cocktails for holiday parties.

Gifts under $125.

Unique gift ideas from around New England that cost $5 to $125

metro

SunFed Produce is recalling cucumbers sold in the US and Canada after learning they may be linked to a salmonella outbreak.

Recalled cucumbers may be linked to salmonella outbreak, health officials say

Wildlife rescuers save 500-pound sunfish from Nantucket Harbor

Mass General Brigham doctors demonstrate amid push to unionize

sports

A determined Virginia Kraus paced the girls' race at the Foot Locker Cross-Country Northeast Regional at Franklin Park.

Virginia Kraus conquers Franklin Park’s Bear Cage Hill to win Foot Locker Cross-Country Northeast Regional

St. John's latest to use size to sink Harvard men's basketball

Bruins unveil bronze bear statue to mark 100th anniversary in Hub

business

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks through the lobby of the Delta Hotel by Marriott, on Nov. 29, in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Trump says Trudeau made a commitment on border security during meeting, but doesn’t back away from tariffs

Donald Trump’s call for ‘energy dominance’ is likely to run into real-world limits

Santa’s annual train visit delivers hope and magic to one corner of coal country

politics

Charles Kushner arrives for the funeral of Ivana Trump, July 20, 2022, in New York.

Trump wants pardoned real estate developer Charles Kushner to become US ambassador to France

Here are the people Donald Trump has picked for key positions

Trump names loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director

Nation

The FBI seal in Omaha, Neb., on Aug. 10, 2022.

What to know about Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to lead the FBI

Heavy snow blankets parts of the US during busy holiday travel weekend

Wildfires used to just be a problem in the American West. Not anymore.

World

Shireen Daifallah, who was displaced with her children from northern Gaza, checks the fire next to their tent at a camp for displaced people in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 30.

UN halts aid shipments through Gaza’s main crossing after looting. It blames the crisis on Israel

Russia Forges ahead in eastern Ukraine, capturing more villages in recent days

An Israeli strike in Gaza kills World Central Kitchen workers. Israel says 1 was an Oct. 7 attacker

opinion

Getting older, with an ache here, a stretch there, maybe a little PT ... maybe a lot ...

What SUNY can teach the Ivy League about curbing antisemitism

Ukraine deserves a chance for peace and stability

lifestyle

Over 100 New England-based wedding professionals and vendors are willing to offer their services at a discounted rate until Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, 2025.

More than 100 New England wedding vendors band together for the LGBTQ community post-election

Ways to volunteer, give back this holiday season in Boston

How do you learn to deal with rejection?

food & dining

Pickle Dust by Knife and Plow, a "chef-driven farm" in Strafford, N.H.

New Hampshire Gifts: 3 unusual and flavorful finds

Overloaded with leftovers? Here’s how you can make that turkey last.

Inside Babes Pie Co.: A new chapter for a culinary vet

travel

To get take an Uber from Los Angeles International Airport, travelers must rely on LAX-it, which requires a bus or a hefty walk. MUST CREDIT: Sean Scheidt for The Washington Post

Getting an airport Uber has become an absolute obstacle course

What’s in store for New England’s skiers and snowboarders? Hopefully not a repeat of last season.

We were winging it in Buffalo, where the quintessential game food was hatched

Arts

Justin Sun ate the banana from the artwork "Comedian" by Maurizio Cattelan, which Sun bought for $6.2 million.

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought banana art for $6.2 million eats the fruit in Hong Kong

An abandoned 19th century Jewish mural finds a new home

A Cherokee artist’s view of the American landscape

Books

Orhan Pamuk (”Memories of Distant Mountains”) is in conversation with Stephen Kinzer Monday at 7 p.m. at First Parish Church.

Author readings around Boston through Dec. 7

Alex Segura’s ‘Alter Ego’ shows what a creator will do for her art

Audiobooks can change your life; here’s advice for getting started

Movies

22gladiator - Denzel Washington plays Macrinus, Pedro Pascal plays General Acacius and Connie Nielsen plays Lucilla in Gladiator II from Paramount Pictures. (Aidan Monaghan)

It’s a good weekend to go to the movies. Eight films to see in theaters right now.

Chris Evans lookalike contest scheduled for Boston Common on Saturday, reports say

How I learned to stop worrying and love Black Friday

Television

John Krasinski attends the premiere of Paramount Pictures' "IF" at the SVA Theatre, May 13, 2024, in New York.

John Krasinski has an eerie new TV project in the works

A genre that was all smooth sailing

Who’s anchoring TV news? More and more often, a woman.

music

Michael McDonald, left, and Christopher Cross, in "Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary."

A genre that was all smooth sailing

Two weeks in the life

Angelina Jolie studied opera for seven months for ‘Maria.’ Real singers know it takes a lifetime

Theater/Dance

"The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show" comes to Boston on Dec. 2.

Jinkx and DeLa want their show to be a home for the holidays

Expect 250 costume changes to tell the story of ‘Rosemary’s Baby Jesus’

Louis C.K. to perform surprise show in Lynn

Health

Dr. Susan Meschwitz, center, a chemistry professor at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I., in her lab with two undergraduate students.

About 30% of women are reinfected with a UTI within a year. This R.I. professor is looking for a way to change that.

Why is Lifespan buying hospitals in Massachusetts instead of saving two in Rhode Island?

R.I. Life Science Hub still in negotiations to develop lab incubator space: ‘In the business world... things moved a lot faster’

Obituaries

A photo provided by Michael Sullivan/Beaune Imports shows Evelyne de Pontbriand in 2022.

Evelyne de Pontbriand, champion of biodynamic winemaking, dies at 73

J. Stanley Pottinger, 84, dies; official figured out identity of ‘Deep Throat’

Morton Abramowitz, diplomat galvanized by war and famine, dies at 91