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Mass. House, Senate rush to send health care bills addressing Steward collapse, drug costs to Healey before end of year

The late scramble provided another example of state lawmakers struggling to reach consensus on significant policy matters, a challenge that has increasingly plagued one of the least-transparent legislative bodies in the country in recent years.

Is Charlie Baker eyeing a political comeback in the near future?
Former governor Charlie Baker's camp tried to shut down rumors that he could be eyeing a Senate run in 2026.

‘Something we were up against’: Efforts to ban competitive suppliers fizzled. A key lawmaker was dating their lobbyist.
A top negotiator on the bill to regulate third-party electric suppliers is state Representative Jeff Roy, who is dating a lobbyist who represents one of these companies.

‘Probably the worst night of my life’: Saint Vincent Hospital nurses allege two patient deaths are related to understaffing
The assertions come nearly three years after nurses at the Worcester hospital settled a strike with the hospital’s for-profit owner, Tenet Healthcare, a battle waged in part over staffing levels.

Two teens reported missing were last seen at Saugus mall, police say

Brenden Bruckler, 14, and Chloe Murphy, 15, were last seen at the Square One Mall on Sunday afternoon, officials say.

Restaurant employee robbed at gunpoint in downtown Boston, police say

The victim told police that he had been robbed at gunpoint Sunday while closing the Summer Street restaurant for the night.

Appeals court upholds $5 million award in sexual abuse verdict against President-elect Donald Trump

Trump endorses Mike Johnson to stay on as House speaker after government funding turmoil

RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Oregon shows what’s coming.

Inside the twelve months that shattered Jimmy Carter’s presidency

What happened from November 1979 to November 1980 reverberated long after Carter left office.
From the grave, Walter Mondale to eulogize the man who made him vice presidentHow American presidents have planned their own funeralsJimmy Carter, my mom, and me: a visit to church in Plains, Georgia

Carter’s outspokenness left him isolated from his successors

Video: Remembering Jimmy Carter and his legacy

As tributes pour in for Jimmy Carter, craft brewers credit him with being a ‘hero’ to the industry

Forecast | Ken Mahan
New Year’s Eve forecast: The weather could spoil some nighttime festivities
Here's the latest forecast for Tuesday, which will continue the springlike temperatures.

A look back at a year full of turbulent weather
Weather across New England this year has been interesting from a science lens — full of extremes, new records.

Forecast: As we enter the New Year, does January look to deliver more snow?

The Northern Lights are making a comeback tonight. Here’s where you can catch them in New England.

This is the strongest geomagnetic storm watch since the Northern Lights were spotted dancing over New England back in early October.

Norovirus is back in full force with US cases of the stomach virus surging

The number of cases of a wretched stomach bug are up in parts of the US this winter, according to government data. Here's what to know.
Ben Volin I On football

For the good of the franchise, the Patriots need to sit Drake Maye on Sunday

It would be coaching malpractice to send him out there in a meaningless game.
Jerod Mayo insists Patriots are ‘100 percent focused on beating the Buffalo Bills,’ not on the No. 1 pick in the draftGiants’ win over Colts vaults New England into top spot in the NFL Draft

Looking for New Year’s Eve plans in Boston? Here are 11 ideas.

From a Kowloon throwdown to skating shows, early family parties to late-night dancing, we found epic ways to kick 2024 to the curb.
Tips to help make your New Year's resolutions stickWhat’s open and closed on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in Mass.
FOOD

Buffets are back! Here are 7 reasons to celebrate.

In an isolated world, these communal smorgasbords are life-affirming throwbacks to simpler times. Go ahead, wedge one more pancake onto your platter. There are no rules. Excess is the goal.
Sabrina Carpenter teams with Dunkin’ for a new espresso drink
Globe Magazine

Dave Barry’s year in review, from Olympic breakdancing to Target fights over Stanley cups

The humorist looks back on the last 12 weird and wild months as only he can.
Making any New Year’s resolutions? Here are some tips to help make them stick.

When it comes to affording housing in Greater Boston, renters struggle more than owners, new data shows

Far more renters than owners in the Boston metro area spent 30 percent or more of their income on housing between 2019 and 2023.
Explore the data: What’s the median income in your Mass. community?
Opinion
JOAN VENNOCHI

With the Patriots, we are watching bad football and the rule of Robert Kraft over the family business

Patriots fans who grew used to winning are not patient about losing and the growing pressure to fire Mayo could be hard to resist.
Ashish K. Jha

Five ways your health and health care should get better in 2025

Alex Murillo and Edwin Salgado

Here’s one immigrant group that deserves protection from deportation

GLOBE OPINION

Words of the year

IDEAS | OLIVER EGGER

The lasting of the Mohegans

The best (and worst) of 2024

The 75 best books of 2024

The top 10 TV shows of 2024, according to Globe critics

Odie Henderson’s 10 best movies of 2024 (and 10 runners-up)

Odie Henderson’s 10 worst movies of the year

More recent News

your tv gps
This week’s TV: A new Denis Leary sitcom, the Golden Globes, and more
The Mass. native returns to a starring role on TV in "Going Dutch."

PBS to re-air 2002 Jimmy Carter documentary

Pro-Palestinian activist shot in clash with Israel backer at Newton demonstration pleads not guilty to assault charge

Caleb Gannon was hospitalized after being shot at a demonstration in September. He was released on personal recognizance.

Treasury says Chinese hackers remotely accessed workstations, documents in ‘major’ cyber incident
Chinese hackers remotely accessed several U.S. Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider, the agency said Monday.

The world population will be 8.09 billion on New Year’s Day after a 71 million increase in 2024
The United States grew by 2.6 million people in 2024.

N.H. bills would bar teachers from transporting minor students to nonemergency medical care, including abortions

The bills were inspired by a story of a teacher who was fired for lying about driving a student to an appointment for abortion services. The teacher says the student was an adult.

In Rutland, an outpouring of grief and support for firefighter after death of his wife and newborn twins

Patrick Sullivan's wife, Ciara, suffered a medical emergency and the couple's twins were born on Dec. 16. The three died after being taken off life support, Rutland fire said Saturday.

Recommended reads

year in review

‘Hang it in the Louvre’: Boston’s most memorable sports quotes of 2024

Take a look back at the best lines of 2024, from Jaylen Brown, Craig Breslow, Jerod Mayo, and more.

Spotlight team follow-up
‘You are the people who are stealing from you.’ The circular blame game between Steward Health and its insurer.
At stake are tens of millions of dollars for former patients and people who were injured or wronged by the company.

How one Haitian migrant family defied the odds and secured a home of their own in Boston
For Sernio Ceus and his family, the journey to Boston and a home was lengthy and difficult — and then it was uplifting.

LOVE LETTERS
Love Letters: Top 10 of 2024
One of Meredith’s favorites is No. 6.

Culture & Lifestyle

At Rockwell Museum, ‘Original Sisters’ offers a delightful pantheon of pioneering women

‘Paris and Nicole: The Encore’ is an operatically campy treat

Free things to do for New Year’s Eve and beyond: Ice sculptures, meditation, and more

Bob Dilworth weaves childhood memories and more into his art

Special Projects

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

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

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.

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.

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

How one Boston public school defied the odds

RENÉE GRAHAM

For trans people, the horrors of 2024 may pale compared with what may await them in 2025

IDEAS | MEGAN GILLER

Why do disability stories have only two endings?

Renée Loth

Celebrating small wins: Positive news from Greater Boston

EDITORIAL

Deferring the dream of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

Metro

CYBERSECURITY

R.I.’s public pension agency seeks to shore up IT systems after the state’s benefits system was hacked

The Employee Retirement System of Rhode Island wants to conduct an assessment of its information technology systems, and review and update its security policies and procedures.

Mass. House, Senate rush to send health care bills addressing Steward collapse, drug costs to Healey before end of year

The late scramble provided another example of state lawmakers struggling to reach consensus on significant policy matters, a challenge that has increasingly plagued one of the least-transparent legislative bodies in the country in recent years.
Forecast | Ken Mahan

New Year’s Eve forecast: The weather could spoil some nighttime festivities

Here's the latest forecast for Tuesday, which will continue the springlike temperatures.

A look back at a year full of turbulent weather

Weather across New England this year has been interesting from a science lens — full of extremes, new records.

Sports

Red Sox notebook

Red Sox have fortified their rotation, but what about the lineup?

The Red Sox’ quest for righthanded thump to complement the lefty-leaning group of Jarren Duran, Rafael Devers, Triston Casas, Wilyer Abreu, and Masataka Yoshida remains unsatisfied.
Patriots

Jerod Mayo insists Patriots are ‘100 percent focused on beating the Buffalo Bills,’ not on the No. 1 pick in the draft

The Patriots are one of four teams (Giants, Titans, and Browns) at 3-13 with one game remaining.
Bruins

Slumping Bruin Trent Frederic is keeping his mind off contract status, trade deadline

Joe Sacco said he communicates regularly with Frederic but doesn’t feel the need to address contract matters with his seventh-year player.
Ben Volin I On football

For the good of the franchise, the Patriots need to sit Drake Maye on Sunday

patriots

Patriots Monday: Jerod Mayo won’t say if chance at No. 1 pick could affect game plan vs. Bills

college sports

Is Charlie Baker eyeing a political comeback in the near future?

Business

Health insurance premiums in Massachusetts are among the most expensive in the country. Why?

Advocates say that the root cause of frustrations with the cost of health coverage do not lie — at least primarily — with profiteering insurers.
CYBERSECURITY

R.I.’s public pension agency seeks to shore up IT systems after the state’s benefits system was hacked

The Employee Retirement System of Rhode Island wants to conduct an assessment of its information technology systems, and review and update its security policies and procedures.

Treasury says Chinese hackers remotely accessed workstations, documents in ‘major’ cyber incident

‘Probably the worst night of my life’: Saint Vincent Hospital nurses allege two patient deaths are related to understaffing

magazine
Globe Magazine

Dave Barry’s year in review, from Olympic breakdancing to Target fights over Stanley cups

Secrets & Lies | Chapter 1

Sandra Birchmore put her trust in the police. They broke it.

Secrets & Lies | Chapter 2

Investigators assumed Sandra Birchmore took her own life. What did they miss?

Globe Magazine

The 30 best photos of 2024 taken by Boston Globe photographers

metro

What were the top baby names in R.I. in 2024?

What’s open and closed on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in Mass.

The Northern Lights are making a comeback tonight. Here’s where you can catch them in New England.

sports

Air pollution linked to slower marathon finish times, Brown University study finds

How the Red Sox plan to ‘get ahead’ of the future of the pitching market, and other thoughts

Good news for Patriots: Giants’ win over Colts vaults New England into top spot in the NFL Draft

business

Value-seekers drove 2024′s retail trends and dead ends

US stock market to close Jan. 9 on Carter’s day of mourning

Meme stocks had their moment — again — in 2024

politics

Trump endorses Mike Johnson to stay on as House speaker after government funding turmoil

Inside the twelve months that shattered Jimmy Carter’s presidency

From the grave, Walter Mondale to eulogize the man who made him vice president

Nation

Jimmy Carter dead at 100. People share memories of the former president

Appeals court upholds $5 million award in sexual abuse verdict against President-elect Donald Trump

Significant milestones in life and career of Jimmy Carter

World

What we know about the deadly Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea

The Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women

Gisèle Pelicot’s ex-husband won’t appeal his 20-year prison sentence for orchestrating mass rapes

opinion

How one Boston public school defied the odds

Why do disability stories have only two endings?

For trans people, the horrors of 2024 may pale compared with what may await them in 2025

lifestyle

Norovirus is back in full force with US cases of the stomach virus surging

Making any New Year’s resolutions? Here are some tips to help make them stick.

Love Letters: Top 10 of 2024

food & dining

As tributes pour in for Jimmy Carter, craft brewers credit him with being a ‘hero’ to the industry

Is this good Champagne? Here are a few tips for buyers.

Sabrina Carpenter teams with Dunkin’ for a new espresso drink. ‘Is it that sweet? I guess so.’

travel

Beaches, ruins, and very (very) long meals. A visit to Crete, Greece’s largest island.

‘The best job in the world.’ The Globe’s travel writer reflects on a decade of trips — and moments he’d rather forget.

Musician Rodney Marsalis on traveling with his daughter, peanut M&Ms, and booking his own flights

Arts

At Rockwell Museum, ‘Original Sisters’ offers a delightful pantheon of pioneering women

Ruth Butler, who brought artists’ muses to life, dies at 93

Highlights of the Flemish Masterworks exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum

Books

Life at 80. We should all be so lucky.

New poetry, Maine essays, and (always) ‘Moby-Dick’

In Baxter’s ‘Woo Woo,’ making art while falling apart

Movies

Five things to do around Boston, Dec. 30-Jan. 12

‘The Bear,’ ‘Challengers,’ and all of the 2025 Golden Globe nominees with New England ties

Tangled up in Bob (on the big screen)

Television

Jimmy Carter and the small screen

Sabrina Carpenter teams with Dunkin’ for a new espresso drink. ‘Is it that sweet? I guess so.’

‘Paris and Nicole: The Encore’ is an operatically campy treat

music

Argentine judge charges 5 people over death of former One Direction star Liam Payne

Sabrina Carpenter teams with Dunkin’ for a new espresso drink. ‘Is it that sweet? I guess so.’

Five things to do around Boston, Dec. 30-Jan. 12

Theater/Dance

What makes life worth living? ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ is making a list.

What to see on Broadway if you’re heading to New York

Ayodele Casel’s ‘Diary of a Tap Dancer’ at the ART writes forgotten women into the art form’s story

Health

Health insurance premiums in Massachusetts are among the most expensive in the country. Why?

‘Probably the worst night of my life’: Saint Vincent Hospital nurses allege two patient deaths are related to understaffing

Norovirus is back in full force with US cases of the stomach virus surging

Obituaries

Linda Lavin, Tony-winning Broadway actress who starred in the sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies

A look back at Jimmy Carter’s visits to Massachusetts

Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100