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Saturday, December 21, 2024


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Globe Santa: One last chance to help deliver books and toys to nearly 30,000 children in need.
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Politics


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As Trump causes drama in Congress, Biden stays silent and on the sidelines

Is this a calculated move to let the Republicans stew in their own chaos, or the fading last moments of a presidency?
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Massachusetts


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It’s last-minute at Toys for Tots. That’s when the Christmas miracles tend to come.

As crunch time arrives, so too do the holes in donations, as the organization scrambles to provide the 74,000 toys that local parents have requested through 460 community organizations.
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Crime & Courts


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Karen Read’s first trial cost the state — and taxpayers — an unusual sum. Her second trial could cost even more.

From trial security to court and prosecution salaries, here's how the public costs break down.
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State’s police oversight board suspends Boston police captain for five days

The Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission on Friday announced its ruling against Captain John Danilecki, who has faced numerous internal affairs complaints over his 38-year career with the Boston Police Department.
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Nation


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Official says Wisconsin shooter was new student at Christian school where her victims had deep ties

An official at the Wisconsin school where a student shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student says the 15-year-old was in her first semester there.
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Drake Maye vs. Josh Allen: A glimpse into the future?

Columnist Dan Shaughnessy says it’s unfair to compare the two QBs when the Patriots go against the Bills on Sunday. Plus, does coach Jerod Mayo need to go?
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Bruins rollercoaster road trip

The B’s are improving, but still have some ways to go. Is new coach Joe Sacco making a difference? Senior staff writer Kevin Paul DuPont is still waiting
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The gifts on the Patriots’, Celtics’, Red Sox’, Bruins’ lists

Columnist Dan Shaughnessy and senior staff writer Kevin Paul DuPont play Santa.
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Nation


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How drug overdose deaths have plagued one generation of Black men for decades

An investigation of millions of death records — in a partnership between The New York Times, The Baltimore Banner, Big Local News, and nine other newsrooms across the country — reveals the extent to which drug overdose deaths have affected one group of Black men in dozens of cities across America at nearly every stage of their adult lives.
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A homeless woman said she was in labor. Police cited her anyway.

The incident — made public Thursday by Kentucky Public Radio, which first obtained the body-cam footage — sparked outrage from homeless advocates who criticized the officer’s actions as an inappropriate response during a medical emergency.
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Russia launches massive missile strike on Kyiv following Putin’s ‘duel’ threat

Russia unleashed a barrage of ballistic missiles on Kyiv early Friday, killing at least one person and injuring 12, city officials said.
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Senior US diplomats in Syria to meet with governing militias

US officials traveled through Damascus on Friday to meet with militias controlling the country, and to look for signs of journalist Austin Tice and other missing U.S. citizens.
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Musk expresses support for far-right party in Germany’s election

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a close adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, on Friday endorsed Germany’s far-right party, a group with ties to neo-Nazis whose youth wing has been classified as “confirmed extremist” by German domestic intelligence.
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Editorial & Opinion






OPINION


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After Assad: What’s next for Syria?

Syria is in chaos. The danger to Israel and the West is that the next Syrian regime will be no friendlier than Assad was. After all, the enemy of your enemy isn’t always your friend.
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Opinion


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Jewish authors confront growing backlash in literary world

Calling Jewish writers Zionists as an epithet and the reason to be excluded from the annals of publishing unless we denounce our attachment to our identities is frightening.
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LETTERS


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Readers respond to revelations about state oversight of Steward Health Care

Name any state agencies that haven't been accused of corruption or incompetence, declares one letter writer. Another argues that it's only because of Healey's administration that patients still have care at several of the troubled hospitals.
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Crime & Courts


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Judge rules in favor of city in effort to restrict outdoor dining in the North End

Judge Leo T. Sorokin ruled that restaurateurs failed to make their case that the restrictions, particularly a $7,500 fee assessed only to restaurant owners in that neighborhood, was unconstitutional.
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US Department of Justice settles with Rhode Island over ‘warehousing’ of children at psychiatric hospital

Governor McKee has agreed to make sweeping changes to address accusations that Rhode Island was violating the law by keeping children in state care at Bradley Hospital for months or years after they were ready to be discharged.
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A WWII veteran from North Adams is finally laid to rest, with his baseball mitt

The airman’s funeral Mass was held at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish in North Adams.
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Sports






Red Sox


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Red Sox sign veteran lefthander Patrick Sandoval to two-year, $18.25 million deal

Sandoval, who underwent Tommy John surgery in June, isn’t expected to pitch until late 2025, if at all in the coming season.
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Celtics beat writer's notebook


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Where the sale of the team stands, how Jayson Tatum stacks up early in the MVP race, and other thoughts on the Celtics

According to a league source familiar with the sale process, official bidding has yet to commence.
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The Watch List: Players, stats, and story lines to know as the Patriots travel to face the Bills

Slowing Bills quarterback Josh Allen will take a team effort for a Patriots defense that has struggled for much of the season.
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Energy


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Greentown Labs gets $4 million in new funding for climate tech as it prepares for growth

The Somerville-based clean-tech incubator has landed some much-needed financing.
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Connecticut bails on offshore wind bid with Mass., leaving second Vineyard Wind project in limbo

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has officially opted out of a three-state bid for offshore wind power.
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Party City to wind down operations, fire employees, CEO says

The company has about 700 stores, according to its website, including 20 locations in Massachusetts.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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Lorraine O’Grady, trailblazing conceptual artist who critiqued the arts establishment, dies at 90

Born and raised in Boston, Lorraine O'Grady cast a critical eye on both Black culture and the white art establishment at once, in work spanning a range of media.
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The Rev. James Callan, renegade Catholic priest, dies at 77

Excommunicated in 1999 after he allowed women to celebrate Mass and blessed same-sex unions, he helped establish an independent church that is thriving today.
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Arts & Lifestyle






Books


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Boston Public Library shares its top 10 checked out books of 2024

Bostonians hit the books in 2024, with the library lending out 6.6 million physical and digital items combined. Here are the titles locals checked out the most this year.
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MUSIC REVIEW


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In his Handel and Haydn Society debut, Ruben Valenzuela conducts a festive trans-Atlantic journey

The California-based conductor brought a few rare flavors to the table for "Baroque Christmas."
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Portland may be getting a big new concert venue

The concert hall, tentatively called Portland Music Hall, would seat 3,300 people.
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