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Biden, in 11th hour action, bans new offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters

Biden said he is using authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea from future oil and natural gas leasing.
Biden signs bill to increase Social Security benefits for millions of people

The planet passed a dangerous threshold for warming last year. Why is nobody talking about it?

Biden says Americans shouldn’t forget Capitol attack — but that there won’t be a repeat this time

President Biden is decrying what he calls an “unrelenting effort” to downplay a mob of Donald Trump supporters overrunning the US Capitol in an attempt to block certification of the election in 2020.
Congress is ready to certify Trump’s election win, but his Jan. 6 legacy hangs over the day

Lawmakers brace for Trump’s promised Jan. 6 pardons. Some are urging restraint.

Forecast | Dave Epstein
Cold snap with single-digit wind chills to grip New England this week
Temperatures will be about 10 degrees below average for the day.

After eight years, Northborough has no purpose for historic White Cliffs estate
Northborough has poured millions into the White Cliffs estate. It still is unused.

Shelters low on cash, an escalating audit fight, and more: Beacon Hill is about to get busy, again.

“It’s going to be a really important first month," one expert said. And several of the issues rearing their heads so early in the Legislature’s two-year session are “going to have long tails.”

Boston Family Days program kicks off at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
On Boston Family Days, students in grades K-12 who live in the city, plus two guests, will be able to visit nine institutions free of charge on the first two Sundays of each month.

Man behind New Year’s attack visited New Orleans before, recorded video with smart glasses, FBI says

Patriots 23, Bills 16
Dan Shaughnessy

In Jerod Mayo’s case, nice guys really do finish last

Robert Kraft loves Mayo like a son, and Mayo’s disastrous one-year reign was an ownership blunder. He simply did not have the credentials for this job, and he never had a chance.
Looking ahead: Key dates for the Patriots as they enter the offseason Here is a look at the 2025 Patriots’ opponents
Chad Finn | Unconventional review

Jerod Mayo should have been fired for playing to win, which really stuck it to the Patriots

Mike Vrabel and friends: Meet some of the potential candidates to be the next Patriots head coach

Tara Sullivan

Robert Kraft went against his gut instinct, but he had no choice in firing coach Jerod Mayo

live updates

NFL Black Monday started early. See which coaches have been fired so far.

Jerod Mayo lost his job after a disappointing first season as head coach of the Patriots.
Jerod Mayo fired as Patriots head coach after tumultuous rookie season

Golden Globes 2025: ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Shogun,’ and more winners. See the full list.
Check out the full list of winners and other highlights from Sunday's Golden Globes.

Photos: See ‘Wicked’ cast, Zendaya, Mindy Kaling, and more stars hit the Golden Globes red carpet

Awards season kicks off as Hollywood’s top film and TV stars hit the red carpet for the 82nd annual Golden Globes.
Jeremy Strong makes Golden Globes fashion statement with velvet suit and bucket hat
your tv gps

This week’s TV: ‘Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action,’ ‘Hollywood Squares,’ and more

Plus, a new show from "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf.
Gary Washburn | THUNDER 105, CELTICS 92

Loss to Thunder was a good time for Celtics to learn a hard lesson

The Celtics attributed their second-half collapse to lack of offensive fundamentals, but they also succumbed to Oklahoma City's physicality.
Celtics go ice cold in loss to Thunder
ISLANDERS 5, BRUINS 4 (OT)

David Pastrnak erases third-period deficit, but Islanders win in OT to end Bruins’ six-game home ice run

Bo Horvat scored on a breakaway 3:10 into the extra session to hand Boston its fourth straight defeat.

Boston College’s Teddy Stiga pots overtime winner as United States surges past Finland for gold at World Juniors

BC's Stiga, Ryan Leonard, Gabe Perreault, James Hagens, and Aram Minnetian combined for 14 goals and 34 points across seven games, the last avenging a group-stage loss to the Finns.
Opinion
Janie Nitze

Why FDR might have supported DOGE

Roosevelt expanded government to help the nation climb out of the Great Depression. But he also recognized that too much bureaucracy was a big problem.
IDEAS | MICHELINE MAYNARD

Now carmakers want Trump to make them sell EVs after all

Leslie Epstein

From hope to despair: A writer’s lament for a nation

EDITORIAL

Auditor should review shelter meal contracts

LETTERS

Sore winner: It’s been one victory slap after another from Trump

More recent News

Trudeau is likely to resign this week, Globe and Mail says
Liberal lawmakers are scheduled to hold a caucus meeting on Wednesday.

Shooting attack on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank kills 3
Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service said two women in their 60s and a man in his 40s were killed, and the military said it was looking for the attackers.

talking shop
Goodies galore: New Roslindale market, Dorchester bakery come to town
Plus, good news for Ocean State Job Lot.

4-alarm fire damages several Onset small businesses
Several small businesses are located in the strip mall on Cranberry Highway in Onset, a village of Wareham.

Man found shot to death outside Charlestown 7-Eleven
When police arrived at around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, they found Joseph Donahue, 46, of Charlestown, lying in the parking lot.

LOVE LETTERS
I found out someone has a crush on me
Do I confront them?

Recommended reads

Cambridge tried to get better racial and economic diversity among students. Now it has one of the most segregated schools in the state.

Data show wide disparities in the distribution of low-income students and those of different racial backgrounds among the district’s schools, according to a Globe review.

‘It’s like a rebirth’: At 83, a feminist icon from Jamaica Plain unravels a Holocaust family mystery
Vilunya Diskin has lived in Greater Boston since the '60s, and in her 20s, she was a member of a local 13-member collective that wrote “Our Bodies, Ourselves."

Jack Murray, 12-year-old who died in a skiing accident, remembered as generous and ‘relentlessly optimistic’
Jack hit a tree while skiing on Cranmore’s intermediate Bandit trail on Tuesday morning, police said Thursday.

Community behavioral health centers have helped ease the ER boarding crisis. Now some are struggling financially.
Workers say many beds in these urgent care clinics are still sitting empty.

Culture & Lifestyle

New year, new deals: bingo, Latin dancing, $1 oysters, and more

Boston’s poet laureate opens ‘first of its kind’ independent bookstore in Dorchester

Meghan Markle debuts trailer for upcoming lifestyle series

Sorry Not Sorry: These are the ‘Banished Words’ of 2025

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

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

How the Democrats come back

JEFF JACOBY

A woman died in agony as onlookers pressed ‘Record’

RENÉE GRAHAM

A homeless woman was murdered in New York. The immigration status of her accused killer is getting most of the attention.

EDITORIAL

Massachusetts legislative reform requires more than lip service

Marvin Kalb

After Putin: Could a modern Khrushchev reshape Russia-West relations?

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

Metro

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Cold snap with single-digit wind chills to grip New England this week

Temperatures will be about 10 degrees below average for the day.

Winter blast of snow, ice, and bitter cold grips the US from the Midwest to the East Coast

The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings from Kansas and Missouri all the way to New Jersey.

4-alarm fire damages several Onset small businesses

Several small businesses are located in the strip mall on Cranberry Highway in Onset, a village of Wareham.

Boston Family Days program kicks off at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

On Boston Family Days, students in grades K-12 who live in the city, plus two guests, will be able to visit nine institutions free of charge on the first two Sundays of each month.

Sports

Chad Finn | Unconventional review

Jerod Mayo should have been fired for playing to win, which really stuck it to the Patriots

It was the last and most damaging of his string of often contradictory if not outright inexplicable decisions during his lone season.
patriots

Looking ahead: Key dates for the Patriots as they enter the offseason

While the regular season may be over, the Patriots brass won't be resting. See when free agency and the NFL Combine are scheduled.
PATRIOTS

Mike Vrabel and friends: Meet some of the potential candidates to be the next Patriots head coach

It sure sounds as though the 2021 NFL Coach of the Year is the leading option for owner Robert Kraft, but the owner has other directions he can turn.
Lions 31, Vikings 9

Jahmyr Gibbs scores four TDs in win over Vikings to help Lions gain top seed in NFC

WORLD JUNIORS

Boston College’s Teddy Stiga pots overtime winner as United States surges past Finland for gold at World Juniors

BRUINS NOTEBOOK

With back-to-back two-goal games, David Pastrnak has his swagger back

Business

Biden, in 11th hour action, bans new offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters

Biden said he is using authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea from future oil and natural gas leasing.

Higher Social Security payments coming for millions of people from bill that Biden signed

President Biden signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, affecting nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers, and in other public service jobs.

Biden signs bill to increase Social Security benefits for millions of people

Man behind New Year’s attack visited New Orleans before, recorded video with smart glasses, FBI says

magazine
year in review

The top 10 Boston Globe Magazine stories of 2024

PERSPECTIVE

In pricey Boston, choosing between your pet and housing is heartbreakingly common

CONNECTIONS

How a three-legged dog taught this old human a new trick

Secrets & Lies | Chapter 2

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

metro

After eight years, Northborough has no purpose for historic White Cliffs estate

Aliyana loves to explore outside

Shelters low on cash, an escalating audit fight, and more: Beacon Hill is about to get busy, again.

sports

Rookie report: Drake Maye plays one series in Patriots’ finale, giving way for Joe Milton to see first action

David Pastrnak erases third-period deficit, but Islanders win in OT to end Bruins’ six-game home ice run

Boys’ basketball roundup: Connor Houle on point as No. 6 Attleboro edges Mansfield in overtime

business

Driving into Manhattan? That’ll cost you, as new congestion toll starts Sunday

Goodies galore: New Roslindale market, Dorchester bakery come to town

Why so many people hate their health insurance — and what can be done about it

politics

Biden, in 11th hour action, bans new offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters

Harris will oversee certification of her defeat to Trump four years after he sparked Capitol attack

Lawmakers brace for Trump’s promised Jan. 6 pardons. Some are urging restraint.

Nation

Winter blast of snow, ice, and bitter cold grips the US from the Midwest to the East Coast

Carter’s heart was in Plains. But his launchpad was in Atlanta.

Potent storm blasts parts of US with sleet, snow, and freezing rain

World

Shooting attack on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank kills 3

Russia claims it has captured another town in eastern Ukraine but Kyiv doesn’t confirm the loss

Death toll from the German Christmas market attack rises to 6

opinion

A homeless woman was murdered in New York. The immigration status of her accused killer is getting most of the attention.

A woman died in agony as onlookers pressed ‘Record’

Traffic cameras alone will not remove dangers of poor road design

lifestyle

Photos: See ‘Wicked’ cast, Zendaya, Mindy Kaling, and more stars hit the Golden Globes red carpet

Jeremy Strong makes Golden Globes fashion statement with velvet suit and bucket hat

I found out someone has a crush on me

food & dining

The Cut in Gloucester is closed, for now

All in the family at Althea

Alcohol is a leading preventable cause of cancer and drinks should carry warning label, surgeon general says

travel

Can’t always travel? There are close-by places that can bring the world to you.

The Boston Wine & Food fest, California dreaming, and travel gear for pets

Hertz mistakenly adds car renter to their Do Not Rent list

Arts

At the MFA, the beauty and terror of the sea

At the Clark, a photographer pays homage to two great painters

Annual First Night event brings Boston families, visitors downtown for New Year’s Eve festivities

Books

Boston’s poet laureate opens ‘first of its kind’ independent bookstore in Dorchester

Local bestsellers for the week ended Dec. 29

Writing a love story that unfolds amid a world in tumult

Movies

Golden Globes 2025: ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Shogun,’ and more winners. See the full list.

Photos: See ‘Wicked’ cast, Zendaya, Mindy Kaling, and more stars hit the Golden Globes red carpet

Jeremy Strong makes Golden Globes fashion statement with velvet suit and bucket hat

Television

This week’s TV: ‘Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action,’ ‘Hollywood Squares,’ and more

Golden Globes 2025: ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Shogun,’ and more winners. See the full list.

Photos: See ‘Wicked’ cast, Zendaya, Mindy Kaling, and more stars hit the Golden Globes red carpet

music

The Cut in Gloucester is closed, for now

Looking to build your vinyl collection? These local services can help.

In the coming classical music season, expect Beethoven from the BSO and much else besides

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

Community behavioral health centers have helped ease the ER boarding crisis. Now some are struggling financially.

State agency failed to monitor hospitals’ financial health over several years, Mass. auditor finds

The surgeon general says that there is a direct link between alcohol and cancer. What does that mean for you?

Obituaries

Tomiko Itooka, Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person, has died at 116

Indie filmmaker Jeff Baena, Aubrey Plaza’s husband, found dead at Los Angeles-area residence

Martin Karplus, Harvard professor who shared 2013 Nobel Prize for chemistry, dies at 94