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Bostonians of the Year

Dedicated prosecutors Andrew Lelling and Rachael Rollins don't agree on much, except this: Justice needs to be for everyone. 2 hours ago

To make a deaf child feel welcome, this neighborhood learned sign language

The Celtics’ Enes Kanter stands tall for human rights

The Harvard and MIT economists finding new ways to fight global poverty

Who would you include on the list?

Mixing the old with the new: Student’s photo project recalls city’s past

A UMass Dartmouth student's photography blends past and present in a single frame.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER
This may not be Spygate all over again, and Patriots may deserve benefit of the doubt
With their “Spygate” history, would Bill Belichick really risk another videotaping controversy?

Bengals are said to be ‘livid’ over Patriots’ illegal videotapingBill Belichick says he had ‘no knowledge’ of Patriots filming Bengals’ sidelines

Snow blows into Greater Boston, threatening commute

Here's the snow: What you can expect from Wednesday's storm

At Massport, new CEO is ready for change

A smooth rollout of new ride-hail rules at Logan Airport is Lisa Wieland’s first big test as the head of Massport.

Tom Brady steps down from local role in Best Buddies charity; will become global ambassador

MBTA’s struggle to address safety at same time it rebuilds system may come down to money

Implementing the recommendations of the scathing safety report will require more money, officials acknowledge.

Safety 'not a priority' at the MBTA, review finds

Fixing the T will take more than just tightening our belts

At Trump rally in Pa., loyalists say ‘the Democrats are helping us’ by pushing impeachment

Hours before the president was scheduled to speak in Hershey, Pa., on Tuesday evening, hundreds of people were already in line for the rally, bringing with ponchos, tents, and red “Make America Great Again” hats.

Democrats formally call for Trump’s removal, citing abuse of power and obstruction of Congress5 things to know about the impeachment announcement by House DemocratsRead the articles of impeachment

opinion

The Trump ‘witch hunt’ that never happened

OPINION | JOAN VENNOCHI

Who’s the boss? Nancy Pelosi

OPINION | RENÉE GRAHAM

Hollywood’s disdain for women journalists

What should our Editorial Board ask the 2020 presidential candidates?

Jeneé Osterheldt

Art Basel bears far better fruit than that $120,000 banana

The beauty of Miami Art Week is that every type of artist gets a place on the wall. You just have to be willing to look. 6 minutes ago

Ground Game
Why this week could be a (sneakily) important week in the Democratic presidential race
No one who has failed to make a debate stage at any point this year is above 1 percent in early state or national polls. 3 hours ago

New poll finds tight race at top of Democratic primary field in New Hampshire
A new poll of New Hampshire voters has found a tight race among three contenders in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary field as Senator Elizabeth Warren’s support slipped. an hour ago

After Ice Bucket campaign, researchers have optimism about insights into ALS puzzle

Five years after Pete Frates, who died Monday of ALS, helped launch the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness and money for research into the disease, a surprising adjective describes the feelings of scientists who are battling the fatal illness. That word? Optimistic.

Pete Frates, who raised millions for ALS research by championing the Ice Bucket Challenge, dies at 34From 2012: The love story of Pete Frates and Julie Kowalik

Ban on vape sales in Massachusetts ends today — what happens next?

New rules could pave the way for some nicotine products to return to stores, though marijuana vapes will remain quarantined.

Mass. banned vape sales more than two months ago. And now business in N.H. and Maine is boomingBaker shortens e-cigarette ban but signs law restricting sales of flavored tobacco, vaping products

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time ‘person of the year’

Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, has become the face of the youth climate movement, drawing large crowds with her appearances at protests and conferences over the past year and a half. 43 minutes ago

More recent headlines

Boston police officer hurt helping motorist during chain reaction crash in Charlestown

Dorothy Brown, state’s oldest resident, dies at 112

Police investigating suspicious death in Sandown, N.H.

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.

Movie review | ★★★
Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’ offers heroes, villains — and smears
The filmmaker's new movie is about a man who himself is slandered and nearly ruined. That man’s crime? Being a hero but failing to look like one.

Renée Graham: Hollywood aims its disdain at female journalists

Devra First
A gift giver’s guide to the best cookbooks of 2019
10 essential volumes cooks will turn to again and again (plus a few runners-up).

WWII veterans head to Belgium to commemorate 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge
Boston Wounded Veterans raised tens of thousands of dollars to send 17 veterans to Europe for the commemoration.

Gerrit Cole agrees to nine-year, $324 million contract with Yankees
The deal also reportedly includes a full no-trade clause.

TV CRITIC'S CORNER
Learning to appreciate ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’
It could be a straight-up story of a woman breaking through in the male comedy world amid the chaos and changing mores of the early 1960s. Instead, it’s about good cheer and escapism.

6 people killed in Jersey City shooting, including officer
A police officer, three bystanders, and two suspects were killed in a furious gunbattle Tuesday that filled the streets of Jersey City with the sound of heavy gunfire for about an hour. The shootout is believed not to be an act of terrorism.

Kim Janey claims votes to be next Boston City Council president
The city councilor who recently spearheaded Boston’s first ordinance to bring racial and economic equity to the burgeoning marijuana industry says her colleagues will vote for her in January.

Globe Santa
Parents stricken by cancer seek Globe Santa’s aid
Medical problems beset many of the families who write to Globe Santa for help, but few diagnoses are as frightening as cancer.

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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.

Trading Mookie Betts doesn’t seem to be high priority for Red Sox
One executive from a team interested in the player said the Red Sox haven’t given much indication of Betts’s availabilty.

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

Providence schools might be in worse shape than you thought

We’ve heard a lot about the struggles of Providence schools over the last six months, but the Johns Hopkins University professor who led the review of the district is making it clear that Rhode Island’s largest school district is in even worse shape than most state leaders thought.

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

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

Sports

Xander Bogaerts wary of possible Mookie Betts, Jackie Bradley Jr. trades

NHL moves to address conduct issues

Gerrit Cole agrees to nine-year, $324 million contract with Yankees

Politics / Business

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time ‘person of the year’

At Trump rally in Pa., loyalists say ‘the Democrats are helping us’ by pushing impeachment

Trump meets Russian official as impeachment charges unveiled

Nation / World

Pentagon inspector general will examine if southern border operations follow US law

Finland gets world’s youngest prime minister, a woman age 34

Lifestyle

A gift giver’s guide to the best cookbooks of 2019

There’s more to ski vacations than skiing and riding

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

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.

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

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

OPINION | Michael Cohen

The Liars Club

OPINION | Shola Lawal

End the ‘Global Gag Rule’

OPINION | JEFF JACOBY

The welfare state ‘Brezhnev Doctrine'

Impeach the president

OPINION | SCOT LEHIGH

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

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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Snow blows into Greater Boston, threatening commute
Forecasters are warning that the region could get up to 4 inches of snow Wednesday, much of it falling at the worst time for drivers trying to get to work.

Tom Brady steps down from local role in Best Buddies charity; will become global ambassador

Tom Brady is stepping down as honorary co-chair of the local Best Buddies Challenge event and moving into a new role as a global ambassador for Best Buddies International, an organization that works to create opportunities for people with disabilities.

Why this week could be a (sneakily) important week in the Democratic presidential race

No one who has failed to make a debate stage at any point this year is above 1 percent in early state or national polls.

Maps: Here’s how much snow the area could get Wednesday

Mixing the old with the new: Student’s photo project recalls city’s past

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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

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What Gerrit Cole’s record-setting deal with the Yankees means for the Red Sox

It was a bad night for Red Sox fans on Tuesday, but in time, the math will work in their favor.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Xander Bogaerts wary of possible Mookie Betts, Jackie Bradley Jr. trades

“We have a lot of pieces to keep contending for a while,” the All-MLB shortstop said, “but it’s a matter of which way the organization feels is better.”

NHL moves to address conduct issues

Gerrit Cole agrees to nine-year, $324 million contract with Yankees

Politics

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time ‘person of the year’

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Business

Beth Israel Lahey expands orthopedic surgery care, using Baptist Hospital as model

Marijuana

Ban on vape sales in Massachusetts ends Wednesday — what happens next?

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

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

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

My husband hates that our neighbors Airbnb their spare bedroom

sports

Dallas Stars fire Jim Montgomery for unprofessional conduct

When it comes to videotaping of Bengals, Patriots deserve the benefit of the doubt

Bruins players surprised by firing of Dallas coach Jim Montgomery

metro

Snow blows into Greater Boston, threatening commute

Tom Brady steps down from local role in Best Buddies charity; will become global ambassador

Why this week could be a (sneakily) important week in the Democratic presidential race

Nation

Trump considers former chemical industry executive to lead Consumer Product Safety Commission

6 people killed in Jersey City shooting, including officer

FTC reaches $191 million settlement with University of Phoenix in deceptive-advertising probe

World

Greenland’s accelerating ice losses are now in line with highest sea-level scenario, scientists say

Czech hospital shooting leaves at least 6 dead

5 things to know about the impeachment announcement by House Democrats

politics

At Trump rally in Pa., loyalists say ‘the Democrats are helping us’ by pushing impeachment

Trump meets Russian official as impeachment charges unveiled

Trump tweets sharp criticism of FBI head Wray after Russia probe report

business

Beth Israel Lahey expands orthopedic surgery care, using Baptist Hospital as model

Nissan fined $22m for under-reporting former chairman’s compensation

Facebook rebuffs US AG over access to encrypted messages

lifestyle

A gift giver’s guide to the best cookbooks of 2019

There’s more to ski vacations than skiing and riding

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

marijuana

Ban on vape sales in Massachusetts ends Wednesday — what happens next?

MLB plans to remove marijuana from banned substances list for minor leaguers

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

opinion

The Trump ‘witch hunt’ that never happened

Biden’s fiery response to voter could be a turning point — for good or ill

Hollywood’s disdain for women journalists

food & dining

Chocolate overload? On Grenada, it’s entirely possible

Milkadamia may make milk moot

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

travel

There’s more to ski vacations than skiing and riding

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

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

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

‘63 Up’: a film series that shows life, unforgettably, in seven-year slices

Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’ offers heroes, villains — and smears

Gospel documentary ‘Say Amen, Somebody’ gets ‘between the marrow and the bones’

Television

Learning to appreciate ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’

‘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’

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

For Gold Dust Orphans, a journey to outer space — and a new home

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

A spirited ‘Oliver!’ at New Rep

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

Dorothy Brown, state’s oldest resident, dies at 112

Yuri Luzhkov, former Moscow mayor, dies at 83

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