All of the headlines from today's paper.
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Today's Headlines
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Investigations

A city asks: How could we not have known?

After Charles Stuart's death, it was like the whole world was looking down into the water where he went under, and seeing themselves in the reflection. Continue reading →

Higher Education

As fallout from explosive antisemitism hearing continues, Harvard president apologizes for her remarks

The presidents of UPenn, Harvard, and MIT have faced denunciations since they offered equivocal answers about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated the schools' policies. Continue reading →

Biotech

‘Monumental’: FDA approves first CRISPR-based gene-editing drug, marking breakthrough for sickle cell disease

Casgevy was developed by Boston-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, which is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, but has most of its workforce in Massachusetts. Continue reading →

Healthcare

Mass General Brigham reports strong year, but headwinds foreboding for the market

While the system is in the black by $95 million — a welcome return following last year’s record-breaking losses — it is treating fewer people than it would like to, largely because it has few places to discharge patients recovering from hospitalization. Continue reading →

Army-Navy

College football is always changing. Why does the Army-Navy game endure?

The commitment between the cadets and the midshipmen has endured since the rivals first met in 1890. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Debunking Deflategate

WATCH: Correspondent Khalin Kapoor argues that the NFL came out of the scandal looking worse than Tom Brady and the Pats. Does sports columnist Bob Ryan agree? Continue reading →

Doc Rivers: Trading Marcus Smart was a ‘great move’

WATCH: The former Celtics coach shares his thoughts on the team’s current roster ahead of being honored at the Sports Museum's 22nd annual event The Tradition. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Michigan teen gets life in prison for Oxford High School attack

Judge Kwame Rowe rejected pleas from defense lawyers for a shorter sentence and ensured that Ethan Crumbley, 17, will not get an opportunity for parole. Continue reading →

Nation

Chronic fatigue syndrome is not rare, says new CDC survey. It affects 3.3 million US adults.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s number is larger than previous studies have suggested, and is likely boosted by some of the patients with long COVID. Continue reading →

Nation

Pregnant woman in Kentucky sues for the right to get an abortion

The suit, filed in state court in Louisville, says Kentucky’s near-total prohibition of abortion violates the plaintiff’s rights to privacy and self-determination under the state constitution. Continue reading →

The World

World

A rocket attack targets the US Embassy in Baghdad, causing minor damage but no casualties

The attack was the first on the embassy located in the heavily fortified Green Zone of Iraq’s capital to be confirmed since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war. Continue reading →

World

At COP28, pageantry is over and negotiations get intense; ‘It’s go time’ to save planet in peril

Teams of veteran negotiators fanned out Friday at the United Nations climate conference with orders to get the strongest, most ambitious agreements possible, especially on the central issue of the fading future of fossil fuels for a dangerously warming planet. Continue reading →

World

Putin, bidding to cement his legacy, will seek reelection as president

President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he would run for reelection in March, seeking a fifth term that would extend his rule to 2030 and, if served to completion, make him Russia’s longest-serving leader since Catherine the Great in the late 18th century. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Does anyone care that kids are still drowning in the Rio Grande?

When it happened under Donald Trump, deaths at the US-Mexico border triggered national outrage. Now they’re met with a shrug. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Teaching, preaching climate action

Readers weigh in on a wide range of topics, from mandating national standards for teaching about climate change to promoting state legislation that would help fund energy retrofits. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts

Utility worker Roderick Jackson, killed in Waltham crash, remembered as ‘heart’ and ‘backbone’ of family

Gathered around the kitchen table, 12-year-old Roderick Jackson sliced up a small pizza for his siblings and proudly sat back as his younger siblings devoured the pizza, his brother Manuel Asprilla-Hassan recalled Friday. Continue reading →

Politics

Healey taps state solicitor, former adviser to fill first open seat on Supreme Judicial Court

Elizabeth "Bessie" Dewar, 43, would be the youngest person to join the Supreme Judicial Court since 1972. Continue reading →

GLOBE SANTA

Neighbor helping neighbor: It’s the spirit of Globe Santa

The unofficial tradition of grassroots community support for Globe Santa continues through the years in pop-up efforts, large and small, by individuals and groups who find creative ways to support Globe Santa. Continue reading →

Sports

CELTICS NOTEBOOK

Technically speaking, Jaylen Brown didn’t expect to get ejected

Boston has been a dominant first-half team before regressing after the break, with the biggest struggles arriving in the third quarter. Continue reading →

CELTICS 133, KNICKS 123

With return of Kristaps Porzingis, Celtics hit full throttle in another win over the Knicks

Derrick White had 30 points to lead the way, while Porzingis added 21 points and Jayson Tatum another 25 Friday at TD Garden. Continue reading →

RED SOX

Red Sox trade for Cardinals outfielder Tyler O’Neill

O’Neill, 28, has only once reached 500 plate appearances. That was in 2021, with the righthanded bat cracked 34 home runs and won his second straight Gold Glove. Continue reading →

Business

Technology

Targeting online gambling, Northeastern lawyer who fought Big Tobacco sues DraftKings

Law professor Richard Daynard, who helped uncover evidence that tobacco companies knew about the cancer risks of smoking, said he sees online gambling as a looming crisis for society. Continue reading →

Business

New Balance adds another $10 million to its pledge to UMass Boston for sports program

The $10 million gift is tied for the second largest at UMass Boston, alongside a $10 million pledge from hospital operator Mass General Brigham announced earlier this year. Continue reading →

Trendlines

A soft landing for the economy looks more likely after new jobs report

Growth is expanding at a moderated pace that should allow the Federal Reserve to cut borrowing costs next year, though probably not as soon as the most optimistic forecasters had predicted. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Ryan O’Neal, actor who starred in ‘Love Story’ and ‘Paper Moon,’ dies at 82

A heartthrob actor, Ryan O'Neal went from a TV soap opera to an Oscar-nominated role in “Love Story” and delivered a wry performance opposite his charismatic 9-year-old daughter Tatum in “Paper Moon." Continue reading →

Obituaries

Patrick J. Kenney Jr., 42, who died in apparent accident in Kowloon parking lot, was devoted father

Mr. Kenney, who had recuperated from a series of strokes, “wanted to live life to the fullest after that because he knew tomorrow wasn’t promised," his wife, Lauren, said. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Museums

‘She’s got it right’: Healey hangs two MFA paintings by Black artists in her State House office

The paintings, “Black Tie” by Robert T. Freeman and “At the Tremont Street Car Barns” by Allan Rohan Crite, depict Black Americans in society in earlier decades. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

Checking in on Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, one year after divorce

As Brady podcasts and Bündchen practices martial arts, Us Weekly reports the pair is going about co-parenting in a “really mature way.” Continue reading →

Visual Arts

Photographic inwardness, photographic outwardness

Torrance York and Neal Rantoul show how a direct approach can go in different directions. Continue reading →