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Safety ‘is not the priority’ at the MBTA, panel finds

The MBTA’s intense focus on tightening its budget while speeding the pace of capital projects has been “detrimental” to the operations of the agency, and it’s helped foster a culture where safety is not the priority, a panel of experts found.

Impeachment hearings
Partisan fireworks as House panel readies Trump impeachment
A House impeachment hearing quickly fell into partisan fighting Monday as lawmakers formally received the investigative findings against President Donald Trump to lay out the case for the charges against him.

Watch live: House Judiciary Committee holds impeachment hearing

Paul Volcker, inflation tamer who set bank risk rule, dies at 92
Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who broke the back of U.S. inflation in the 1980s and three decades later led President Barack Obama’s bid to rein in the investment risk-taking of commercial banks, has died. He was 92. 2 hours ago

Hundreds of scholars protest Harvard’s decision to deny tenure to Latinx studies professor

The decision to deny Lorgia García Peña tenure demonstrates a “refusal to recognize the invaluable contributions of [work in her field] to the larger academic community,” the scholars said in a letter. 3 hours ago

opinion

EDITORIAL

Police body cam rollout hits a snag

Ideas | Loretta Waldman

We’re all shark researchers now

OPINION | Conrad Crawford and Jim Stergios

Dynamic pricing for the Expressway

Editorial

What should our Editorial Board ask the 2020 presidential candidates?

Dave Epstein
It will feel briefly spring-like this week, but the threat of more snow looms
Warm temperatures and rain showers are on tap for Monday, with the potential for highs nearing 60 degrees, but the mild weather won't last. A cold front is on its way, and with it, a chance of snow Wednesday morning.

NAMES
'Marriage Story’ leads Golden Globe nominations with 6
The 77th annual Golden Globe Award nominations were announced Monday morning. 2 hours ago

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

Zozibini Tunzi of South Africa capped off her win at the annual competition with a passionate defense of women and girls, who should be taught that their leadership is valuable, she said.

In warming winters, a new method of preserving snow for skiing

Led by professors at the University of Vermont, a first-time experiment in the US is seeking to preserve more of the Nordic ski season and turn bare trails into ribbons of snow.

Elizabeth Warren says she earned about $1.9 million over 24 years for legal work

Warren then was one of the nation’s foremost experts in bankruptcy law, and her campaign has said her work involved balancing various competing interests in as fair a way as possible.
Elizabeth Warren has ‘a plan for that’ — more than 50 expensive ones
More recent headlines

Fallen Worcester Firefighter Christopher Roy memorial to be unveiled

Massachusetts man scrawls ‘Epstien Didn’t Kill Himself’ in Miami Beach art fair

Red Sox’ Glenn ‘Goose’ Gregson honored for career in baseball

Opinion: Choosing, using, losing your health care: A policy first-aid kit

Part 2: Using

So you have health insurance, but do you know if that test your doctor ordered is covered? Or perhaps you received an unexpected bill following an unexpected surgery. If you think twice before visiting the doctor, you’re not alone. In a four-part weekly series, Globe Opinion offers a baseline assessment of health care as well as prescriptions for fixing the industry.

Now that you have insurance, how do you use it?

Ending surprise billing: A moral test for physicians

Cutting through the clutter on surprise billing

On the frontline of the Health Care For All HelpLine

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.

Red Sox great Dwight Evans falls short in bid for Hall of Fame
Ted Simmons and pioneering union leader Marvin Miller were elected in voting announced Sunday night at the Winter Meetings. Evans was third in the balloting.

‘60 Minutes’ takes a tour through Adam Sandler’s childhood
Reporter Sharyn Alfonsi spoke with the comedian about his family and growing up in New Hampshire.

obituary
Caroll Spinney, who played Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch on ‘Sesame Street,’ dies at 85
For half a century, Spinney portrayed two of the most beloved characters on “Sesame Street,” Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch. A native of Waltham who lived in Connecticut, Spinney transformed Big Bird into a shy first-grader, turning the character into a worldwide icon.

Globe Santa
Cancer diagnosis leaves family reeling
A single mother with two healthy sons living in southeastern Massachusetts remembers beaming with joy as she welcomed a third baby boy into the world in 2017. Then last summer doctors told her that the little boy had cancer.

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The Great Divide

Boston’s school bathrooms are a big mess

Filthy, unsanitary, and often lacking basics like toilet paper and hot water, the bathrooms of the city’s public schools are, far too frequently, in appalling condition.
Read more from The Great Divide project

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.

THOMAS FARRAGHER
A Christmas wish come true
Nine years ago, a little girl asked Santa for an unusual gift: a new pancreas. And he came through.

Rhode Island

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

If you think you know how Rhode Island’s two members of the US House of Representatives feel about impeaching President Trump, think again.

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

Climate change activists marching to R.I. State House to press Raimondo

Newton

Sports

Bruins take wait-and-see approach with Patrice Bergeron

What Patriots, Chiefs had to say about of the drama of Sunday’s game

Russian team, flag, anthem banned from international sports for next four years amid doping scandal

Politics / Business

Partisan fireworks as House panel readies Trump impeachment

Joe Biden offers up fire and folksiness on his ‘No Malarkey’ tour in Iowa

Former congresswoman Katie Hill says, ‘I’m in the fight’

Nation / World

5 dead, many more missing in eruption of New Zealand volcano

Barr dives into the culture wars, and social conservatives rejoice

FBI investigating base shooting as act of terror

Lifestyle

'Marriage Story’ leads Golden Globe nominations with 6

‘60 Minutes’ takes a tour through Adam Sandler’s childhood

In ‘Free Guy’ trailer, Ryan Reynolds turns Boston into open-world video game

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.

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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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(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

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RHODE MAP
Cicilline’s all in on impeachment; Langevin not there yet
If you think you know how Rhode Island’s two members of the US House of Representatives feel about impeaching President Trump, think again.

Safety ‘is not the priority’ at the MBTA, panel finds

The MBTA’s intense focus on tightening its budget while speeding the pace of capital projects has been “detrimental” to the operations of the agency, and it’s helped foster a culture where safety is not the priority, a panel of experts found.

Boston will test new curbside rules in 2020 to deal with congestion

There aren’t a lot of details about what the test will entail, but Boston has been selected for a national program focused on precious curbside space.
Dave Epstein

It will feel briefly spring-like this week, but the threat of more snow looms

OCEAN STATE INNOVATORS

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

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

Massachusetts senators join the fight to save minor league baseball

Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey shared their concerns in a letter to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.
Bruins at Senators | 7:30 p.m. (NESN)

Bruins take wait-and-see approach with Patrice Bergeron

The Bruins’ No. 1 center has missed the last seven games and nine of the last 11 with a groin/core injury.

What Patriots, Chiefs had to say about of the drama of Sunday’s game

Russian team, flag, anthem banned from international sports for next four years amid doping scandal

Politics

Watch live: House Judiciary Committee holds impeachment hearing

Business

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

Marijuana

Vaping 101: A crash course on how it works

magazine
Miss Conduct

Advice: Are you sure you want to give your wife an exercise bike?

Cover Story

Raising a black son in America

Dinner With Cupid

Blind date: ‘I was a pool lifeguard; pool lifeguards are inferior to ocean lifeguards’

Cooking

Recipes: Three traditional holiday cookies updated

sports

Nick Folk, post appendectomy, fits back in his place

Patriots aren’t the favorites in the AFC anymore

Tom Brady tried to keep Patriots in the running

metro

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

Hundreds of scholars protest Harvard’s decision to deny tenure to Latinx studies professor

Safety ‘is not the priority’ at the MBTA, panel finds

Nation

A recent boot camp grad and former midshipman were among Pensacola victims

Pensacola shooting being investigated as terror attack, FBI says

Former congresswoman Katie Hill says, ‘I’m in the fight’

World

Hundreds of thousands march as Hong Kong protests near half-year mark

North Korea conducts ‘important test’ at once-dismantled site

‘We are fleeing the law’: Hong Kong protesters escape to Taiwan

politics

Joe Biden offers up fire and folksiness on his ‘No Malarkey’ tour in Iowa

Former congresswoman Katie Hill says, ‘I’m in the fight’

Nadler says House judiciary panel is expected to bring articles of impeachment against Trump later this week

business

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

Serious as a surgeon, but less so as a collector

Not so fast: Bostonians may want to wait a bit longer on 5G service

lifestyle

'Marriage Story’ leads Golden Globe nominations with 6

‘60 Minutes’ takes a tour through Adam Sandler’s childhood

In ‘Free Guy’ trailer, Ryan Reynolds turns Boston into open-world video game

marijuana

Vaping 101: A crash course on how it works

Mass. health officials concede lung patients may have used illicit vapes, too

Six with lung illness linked to regulated marijuana vapes, state says

opinion

Deadlocked democracies

Cutting through the clutter on surprise billing

Now that you have insurance, how do you use it?

food & dining

Restaurant guide: Where to eat in Providence, R.I.

Recipe: When cozy food is in order, clean out the fridge and turn it into vegetable ragu

Recipe: Lightly charred, crispy-skinned roasted sweet potatoes get a head start in the microwave

travel

An amateur and his bike take on the Alps

By car, train, plane, and ferry: 4 long weekend winter getaways

Fly by night: Exploring the secretive world of owls

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

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

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

‘SNL’ makes fun of impeachment, Peloton, and the NATO ‘cool kids’

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

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

Victor Sheymov, KGB officer who defected from Soviet Union, dies at 73