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Lakers roasted for hanging in-season tournament banner

WATCH: Which banners count and which ones are just for show? Reporter Dan Shaughnessy and columnist Kevin Paul Dupont weigh in. Continue reading →

Is there a path for Belichick to stay in Foxborough?

WATCH: We’ve celebrated the good and the bad, but this has gotten plain ugly. Reporter Dan Shaughnessy answers the question: Should this really be the end? Continue reading →

Nation

Ohio’s GOP governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care and transgender athletes in girls’ sports

He simultaneously announced plans to move to administratively ban transgender surgeries until a person is 18, and to position the state to better regulate and track gender-affirming treatments in both children and adults. Continue reading →

Nation

After rise in murders during the pandemic, a sharp decline in 2023

Detroit is on track to record the fewest murders since the 1960s. In Philadelphia, where there were more murders in 2021 than in any year on record, the number of homicides this year has fallen more than 20 percent from last year. And in Los Angeles, the number of shooting victims this year is down more than 200 from two years ago. Continue reading →

Nation

The Air Force said its nuclear missile capsules were safe. But toxic dangers lurked, documents show.

Documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests tell a far different story from what Air Force leadership told the nuclear missile community decades ago. Continue reading →

World

Russia pounds Ukrainian cities in one of largest air attacks of war

Russia targeted Ukrainian cities with more than 150 missiles and drones Friday morning, in what Ukrainian officials said was one of the largest air assaults of the war. Continue reading →

World

Two investigations put renewed scrutiny on Israel’s Gaza offensive

The investigations, announced Thursday, said the shooting by the Israel Defense Forces of three Israeli hostages trying to escape ‘’could have been prevented.’' Continue reading →

World

Palestinians stream into a southern Gaza town as Israel expands its offensive in the center

Israel’s unprecedented air and ground offensive against Hamas has displaced some 85 percent of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million residents, sending swells of people seeking shelter in Israeli-designated safe areas that the military has nevertheless also bombed. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

A manufactured solution to a manufactured problem

Trailer parks have a bad reputation. But they could help the state overcome the housing shortage that has resulted from the Commonwealth’s long history of exclusionary local zoning. Continue reading →

OPINION

Americans must pressure Congress to approve support for Ukraine

Without American aid, Ukraine will be a harbinger of perennial and violent Russian expansion. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Colorado ruling against Trump kicks up commotion in heated race

Readers grapple both with the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling that Donald Trump is disqualified from holding office again and with the Globe's editorial on the court decision. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Credit card skimmers keep popping up in stores in Mass. and N.H. Here’s how to protect yourself.

None of the recent local incidents have led to reports of financial information being stolen, but in other cases, criminals using skimmers have been prosecuted for stealing millions of dollars from unwitting consumers. Continue reading →

Higher Education

Prominent disinformation specialist Joan Donovan speaks out again on separation from Harvard’s Kennedy School

Online disinformation specialist Joan Donovan on Wednesday took to social media to post what she called the “full account” of her separation from Harvard’s Kennedy School. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Officials identify married couple, teenage daughter found dead in Dover home in apparent act of domestic violence

Teena and Rakesh Kamal ran an education technology company, and their 18-year-old daughter, Arianna, attended Middlebury College in Vermont. Officials said police found a gun during a search of the home. Continue reading →

patriots

Which current Patriots would make the best future coaches? We polled the locker room.

Several candidates were mentioned by those we asked, but the same three names kept coming up again and again. Continue reading →

RED SOX

Righthander Lucas Giolito joins Red Sox as they begin to rebuild their starting rotation

The 29-year-old has spent most of his career with the White Sox, earning Cy Young votes three straight seasons from 2019-21, but allowed 41 home runs in 2023. Continue reading →

celtics notebook

The Celtics are atop NBA, but coach Joe Mazzulla said last season was a lesson not to get set in their ways

Boston started last season 21-5, and while it had a strong regular season, there was a sense it never quite recaptured its early form, going 36-20 the rest of the way. Continue reading →

RI DEVELOPMENT

Marathon Development offers to pull R.I.’s Lippitt Mill redevelopment project out of receivership

Lippitt Mill, one of the oldest mills in Rhode Island, was supposed to be redeveloped into housing. But it was never completed due to a series of financial troubles. Continue reading →

Finance

Stocks end 2023 up 24 percent for the year as resilient economy energizes investors

Easing inflation, a resilient economy, and the prospect of lower interest rates buoyed investors, particularly in the last two months of the year. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Alexandria drops South Boston lab project and sells property at deep discount amid biotech’s funk

The real estate investment trust in 2020 bought a self-storage facility and shipping warehouse in South Boston for $168.5 million with plans to develop a life-science campus. The firm this month sold the property again for just $87 million. Continue reading →

Obituaries

South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun of Oscar-winning film ‘Parasite’ is found dead

Police had been searching for Lee after receiving a report that he was missing. He was found dead in a car in Seoul. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Jacques Delors, passionate architect of European unity, dies at 98

A hard-driving French politician, Jacques Delors was the European Union’s executive for a decade and the chief architect of a more unified Europe and the father of Europe’s common currency, the euro. Continue reading →

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Food & Dining

Stoughton pizza shop to close its doors after 68 years

Customers will have their last chance to get a slice at Denneno’s Pizza in Stoughton this weekend. Continue reading →

Television

New Year’s Eve 2024: Your guide to all the countdown TV specials

Televised parties include Ryan Seacrest, Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen, and loads of musical acts from Cardi B to the Jonas Brothers and Morgan Wallen. Continue reading →

Movies

Barack Obama’s 2023 list of favorite films includes two made in Mass.

A Bay State-born author also made the former president’s list of the year’s best books. Continue reading →