Boston Globe Today | November 21, 2023

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Rhode Islanders are fed up with the news

WATCH: Ocean State residents say they're frustrated with partisan reporting and disinformation. Is this a trend nationwide? Columnist Dan McGowan weighs in. Watch →

New holiday movies to stuff your schedule

WATCH: Boston.com entertainment writer Kevin Slane has what's coming out and where to watch. Watch →

Politics

EPA offers $2b to clean up pollution, develop clean energy in poor and minority communities

Biden administration officials called the grants the largest-ever investment in environmental justice. Continue reading →

Nation

New York City may pay you to build a ‘granny flat’ in your backyard

The new program would give 15 owners of single-family homes up to $400,000 each for such projects. Continue reading →

Nation

Ignore Trump? Democrats now want him plastered all over the news.

Behind the improbable longing for the former president to gobble up political oxygen again is Democrats’ years-long dependence on the Trump outrage machine. Continue reading →

World

North Korea launches rocket with its first spy satellite

With assistance from Russia, North Korea said it had finally succeeded in placing the satellite in orbit after the two failed attempts. Continue reading →

World

As AI-controlled killer drones become reality, nations debate limits

The United States, China, and a handful of other nations have rapidly made progress in deploying new technology that has the potential to reshape the nature of warfare by turning life and death decisions over to autonomous drones equipped with artificial intelligence programs. Continue reading →

World

Electronic warfare confounds civilian pilots, far from any battlefield

Radio frequency interference — intended to disrupt the satellite signals used by rockets, drones, and other weaponry — spiked after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and has become even more intense this fall in the Middle East. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Primary daze

Massachusetts needs spring, rather than a fall, intraparty contests. Continue reading →

LETTERS

About that $24.5b the T needs …

A reader thinks the MBTA faces long odds of coming up with $24.5 billion to fix its infrastructure. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Mass. and Cass has been cleared. They haven’t heard from ‘Gina’ in weeks.

Although Atkinson Street was described as unsustainable and dangerous, it was also a community that kept some people alive and offered access to help on their terms. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Canton police chief says department review over handling of Karen Read case ‘will end wild speculation’

Canton Police Chief Helena Raffery said she “welcomes” an outside audit of her department’s handling of the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, whose girlfriend, Karen Read, allegedly struck him with her SUV and left him for dead in a blizzard. Continue reading →

Metro

Levels of COVID-19 in Boston-area waste water increase ahead of holiday season

Public health officials are giving out free rapid COVID-19 testing kits and urging people to stay up to date on their vaccines. Continue reading →

Politics

DiZoglio’s push to audit Legislature has enough signatures to move toward 2024 ballot, supporters say

A group aligned with state Auditor Diana DiZoglio said Tuesday that it has collected more than 100,000 signatures, far above the threshold needed to push an initiative closer to the 2024 ballot that would expressly grant the Democrat’s office the power to audit the Legislature. Continue reading →

on hockey

The facts as we know them right now will leave Bruins little choice but to cut ties with Milan Lucic

No sports franchise, professional or otherwise, can tolerate domestic violence, so this is looking like an easy call. Continue reading →

on football

How an obsession with ‘value’ has led the Patriots to their lowest point in decades

Other than the spend-happy 2021 offseason — which Robert Kraft has derided — the Patriots have been one of the lowest-spending NFL teams in recent years. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Despite the Red Sox’ struggles this past season, new pitching coach Andrew Bailey sees Boston as the perfect fit

Bailey is a New Jersey native and wanted to get back to the Northeast so he could be closer to his family. Being in Boston will allow him that opportunity. Continue reading →

Business

David Gibbons is out at the Convention Center Authority after board clash and critical audit

After an eight-year tenure as executive director, he is stepping down on Dec. 1 in the wake of a critical audit of the authority's diversity efforts and disputes over a key development project. Continue reading →

NH Business

New Balance factory breaks ground in Londonderry, N.H., projected to add 150 jobs

The Boston-based sneaker company has two factories in Massachusetts and three in Maine. COO Dave Wheeler said the foray into New Hampshire will help create a “broader portfolio.” Continue reading →

innovation beat

Wilmington robotics maker crushes Wall Street estimates

Warehouse automation specialist Symbotic reported stellar growth in its latest quarter, sending its stock price soaring by as much as 40 percent on Tuesday. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Viktor Belenko, who defected to the West in a jet fighter, dies at 76

Among the highest-profile figures to flee the Soviet Union, he brought with him a secret weapon and firsthand experience behind the Iron Curtain. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Willie Hernández, MVP and Cy Young winner for champion 1984 Detroit Tigers, dies at 69

Mr. Hernández had a 9-3 record and 32 saves in 33 chances that year, with a 1.92 ERA over 80 games and 140 1/3 innings. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Radcliffe Bailey, artist who explored Black migration, dies at 54

Radcliffe Bailey, a Georgia-based artist whose collage paintings and sculptural assemblages incorporated family tintypes, African figurines, disassembled piano keys, and other objects in an exploration of both his personal history and the broader sorrows and joys of the Black experience, died Nov. 14 at his home in Atlanta. He was 54. Continue reading →

FOOD

Bakeries, dive bars, and worthy waterfront dining: These were a few of my favorite things

As always, this year there was much to be thankful for on the culinary scene, writes our restaurant critic Devra First. Here are some standouts. Continue reading →

BOTTLES

Liev Schreiber on his work in Ukraine, emotional tie to whiskey, and that time he botched a Southie accent

It took the actor a bit to warm up to the idea of attaching himself to the Sláinte Irish whiskey brand. But when it meant more aid for Ukrainians, he was all in. Here's why. Continue reading →

THANKSGIVING RECIPES

How to cook a perfect turkey for Thanksgiving

That bird is so big and so cumbersome. Even if you’ve cooked one for many years, you still get a nagging feeling of incompetence. And that problem of dry white meat because you have to wait for the legs to cook through? We figured out how to make them both juicy. Continue reading →