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Sunday, December 14, 2025


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Rhode Island Crime


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Two dead, nine injured in shooting at Brown University

A single gunman dressed in black was seen leaving the Barus & Holley Engineering building, and is still at large
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Immigration


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Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk did nothing wrong. The Trump administration went after her anyway.

In March, masked agents swarmed her on a Somerville street. The crackdown on foreign scholars was just beginning.
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Larry Summers’ wife — a powerful Harvard professor — tapped Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen to boost her poetry project

Elisa New, the spouse of former university president Larry Summers, sought to downplay her relationship to the disgraced financier.
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Can Trump’s grand plans for Gaza get off the drawing board?

The Trump administration's 20-point plan for the Gaza Strip includes several internationally backed bodies that would create the conditions for lasting peace. It’s been two months since a ceasefire, and those grand plans have yet to materialize.
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Gaza amputees struggle to rebuild lives as the enclave faces shortages of prosthetic limbs

The World Health Organization says Israel’s bombardment in Gaza for the past two years has left tens of thousands of Palestinians with life-changing injuries, including at least 6,000 people with amputations.
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Bostonians of the Year 2025: First responders, university presidents, and others who exemplified courage

Speaking up with the world’s eyes upon them. Rushing into a burning building. Standing firm when others folded. In choosing the difficult path, they showed us what strength looks like.
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Remembering Kitty Dukakis, Fletcher ‘Flash’ Wiley, Alvin F. Poussaint, and others we lost in 2025

Tributes to seven luminaries who made their mark on Boston and beyond.

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Rifling through the kitchen trash for a used vape, I knew I had a cannabis problem

I’ve known many cannabis users who get high every day. It's easier to hide compared with alcohol or other drugs.

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Affable comedy acting legend Dick Van Dyke turns 100 years old

Comedy icon Dick Van Dyke is celebrating his 100th birthday
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This squid is playing peekaboo at the bottom of the ocean

Like a scarf out of a magician’s sleeve, the squid appeared. Seconds before, there had been nothing.
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A measles outbreak in South Carolina brings with it echoes of the pandemic

A trickle of measles infections in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has grown into an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
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3 Americans killed in ISIS attack in Syria, Trump says, vowing to retaliate

President Trump vowed on Saturday to retaliate against the Islamic State militant group after an attack in central Syria killed two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian U.S. interpreter, the first American casualties in the country since the fall of dictator Bashar Assad last year.
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With dreadlocks and yoga, Oslo’s bishop practices an atypical evangelism

Since she became the bishop of Norway’s largest diocese less than a year ago, her calling has been to swing open the doors of the Church of Norway as wide as possible.
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Russian bombs plunge Odesa into darkness amid peace talks

Russian drones and missiles pummeled Odesa, Ukraine, overnight Friday into Saturday in one of the biggest attacks of the war on the southern port, causing major power outages that plunged parts of the city into darkness.
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Editorials


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Building accessibility codes shouldn’t apply differently in Newton and Pittsfield

Current regulation stymies repairs in low-value neighborhoods.
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A voice from the other end of the doctor-insurer conversation

I work with an open mind, hoping to find the information necessary to either satisfy the protocols that health insurers employ or identify a reason to override them.
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When hate conquers all, it’s hard to feel the love in politics

I’ve never succeeded in getting anyone to listen to reason or embrace love if hate is one of their main modes of being.
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‘Somebody just wake me up.’ After the catastrophe, punishment finds them all.

It has been almost eight years since Latarsha Sanders' family learned she had killed her two youngest children. How do they recover?
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Money, Power, Inequality


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A student loan forgiveness ‘tax bomb’ is coming. Thousands could face hefty bills in 2026.

The Trump administration has not extended an exemption from taxable income for some cancelled student debt.
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One thing Mass. Democrats and Republicans agree on? Raising campaign contribution limits.

Steve Kerrigan and Amy Carnevale have discussed a rare cross-party collaboration in a bid to raise limits on their parties' fundraising.
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Sports






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Roy Kramer, transformational executive in college sports, dies at 96

Roy Kramer, a former commissioner of the Southeastern Conference who turned it into a lucrative national power and, from that perch, transformed college football more broadly, helping to devise the Bowl Championship Series, a much-debated system for determining the national champion that endured for 16 years, died on Dec. 4 in Maryville, Tennessee. He was 96.
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Patriots


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Years later, the dynasty Patriots continue to win, this time with the Chiefs’ demise

In fairness to the Chiefs, their division is light years more competitive now than the AFC East was for the Patriots’ reign.
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Would the Red Sox consider trading Marcelo Mayer? To acquire a talent like Ketel Marte, that could well be the cost.

On paper, the Red Sox and Diamondbacks represent a promising match for making a trade.
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I’m a ‘designer beard’ Santa. The purists aren’t happy.

A great debate about facial hair divides Santas, but it doesn’t have to.
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Almost everything you’ve heard about inequality is wrong

Narrowing the gap between rich and poor won’t cure all our ills.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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Phil Upchurch, jazz guitarist and sideman to stars, dies at 84

Phil Upchurch, a prolific jazz guitarist who showcased his chops on enduring pop songs like Chaka Khan's 1978 disco staple "I'm Every Woman" and Michael Jackson's percolating "Workin' Day and Night," died Nov. 23 in Los Angeles. He was 84.
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Obituaries


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Peter Greene, ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘The Mask’ actor, dies at 60

Greene’s death was confirmed Saturday by his manager, who said the actor had been found dead in his apartment in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
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Movies


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10 great performances to rave about in 2025

Globe movie critic Odie Henderson honors the movie performances that stuck with him this year.
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Music


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From Patti Smith’s latest memoir, tender snapshots of gratitude, spread across eight decades

“Bread of Angels” is Smith's newest memoir and her most layered work yet.
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Food & Dining


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Gato Exotico to open; Ten Tables in Jamaica Plain to close

Plus, Daddy Jones says goodbye in Magoun Square.
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Finding the comfort of a ‘local’ in London

The Queen’s Head and other pubs make up for a small hotel room.
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Travel


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For bucket list vacations, rent the perfect camera

Renting a camera or lens to bring on a safari, an Alaskan cruise, or to a national park is cheap and easy, and the photos and videos you’ll capture will surpass anything your phone delivers.
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Real Estate






Real Estate


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Home of the Week: For $1.29m, a Boxborough Colonial with a sweet suite

Property comes with four bedrooms, 4.5 baths, a lower level with its own entrance, and a koi pond.
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For New Englanders, backyard ice skating rinks are like the swimming pools of winter — and often more sought-after

Boston-area suburbanites (often with kids in youth hockey) search for flat yards to accommodate a seasonal backyard amenity: a private ice skating rink.
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