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Recent violence involving Boston police could complicate Michelle Wu’s plans to reform the department

On the campaign trail, Wu was a vocal supporter of deep and systemic reform for the police. A burst of violence could make that effort more turbulent.
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Climate


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TikTok activists upended a Trump rally. Can the app help push climate activism mainstream?

With one billion users, TikTok has unparalleled potential to educate people around the world and enlist their help, some climate activists believe.
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A Beautiful Resistance


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Black excellence? When you break a glass ceiling, no one talks about the scars

You can be Black and proud and want to be noted in your craft not by your race, but by your talent and work. Being “the only” isn’t excellence. It forces emotional labor atop your work while you wade in isolation.
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Families struggling to provide home health care would get a boost in the Democrats’ spending bill, but advocates say it’s not enough

Larger reforms, such as funneling more money toward wage increases to combat high turnover rates in the home health care field, are essential, activists say.
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Amid a buzzy tech scene, Kendall Square stalwart Akamai has to reinvent itself

It’s a crucial time of reinvention for Akamai Technologies as the company makes major new moves into cybersecurity and other areas.
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Politics


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Court temporarily delays release of Trump’s Jan. 6 records

A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked the release of White House records sought by a US House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, granting — for now — a request from former president Donald Trump.
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Biden salutes troops as ‘spine of America’ on Veterans Day

President Biden saluted the nation’s military veterans as “the spine of America” on Thursday as he marked his first Veterans Day as president in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Veterans Day legislation targets GI Bill racial inequities

The new legislative effort would benefit surviving spouses and all living descendants of Black WWII veterans whose families were denied the opportunity to build wealth with housing and educational benefits through the GI Bill.
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Climate summit enters its final day

There is just one day left in the international negotiations aimed at stemming catastrophic levels of global warming.
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Cambodia dismisses US sanctions as ‘politically motivated’

Cambodia on Thursday dismissed as “politically motivated” sanctions imposed by the United States on two senior defense officials over allegations of graft, accompanied by a broader warning of systemic corruption in the Southeast Asian nation.
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China passes history resolution to enshrine open-ended rule of Xi Jinping

A high-level meeting of the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday declared President Xi Jinping’s undisputed rule of “decisive significance” for its history, affirming Xi’s iron grip as he prepares for a near-inevitable third term that would extend his rule until at least 2027.
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OPINION


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A plea to voters in Arizona and Georgia

Could you rein in your incendiary members of Congress?
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OPINION


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Should you read this clickbaity column?

Betteridge’s Law, whose enforcement power can be likened to the “Pirate’s Code” (“more like a set of guidelines”) from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, has spurred considerable academic debate.
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EDITORIAL


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Amid a growing refugee crisis, Poland and Belarus must respect human rights

The US and allies should step in to halt a growing humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.
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In Vermont, a dying veteran who climbed mountains for others

Wesley Black, who contracted cancer after being exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, spent the last years of his life fighting for other veterans.
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‘Let’s not just be grateful, but let’s love them back’

More than 50 attendees were honored at the state’s annual Veterans Day Observance, held this year in the Great Room in Boston’s Faneuil Hall.
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‘People are screaming at me, ‘What if it was your kid?’ Well, it was my kid.’

A North Kingstown School Committee member in Rhode Island said her son submitted to former coach Aaron Thomas’ naked “body fat tests” when he was a student-athlete at North Kingstown High School.
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No news isn’t necessarily good news: MLB GM Meetings wrap up amid labor uncertainty

Baseball’s CBA expires at midnight Dec. 1, and for all the “business as usual” happy talk by the executives who gathered, it’s not.
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Allegations of misconduct go beyond Danvers boys’ hockey. New MIAA chief says ‘we need to intervene immediately’

Allegations of racism and homophobia go beyond the Danvers boys’ hockey team, with a number of high-profile incidents occurring among student-athletes in the past year. Bob Baldwin hopes to stem the conduct.
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Despite Ottawa COVID-19 troubles, Bruins come through testing clean

Four Senators who suited up at TD Garden on Tuesday — goalie Matt Murray, forward Alex Formenton, and defensemen Josh Brown and Nikita Zaitsev — were on Ottawa's COVID protocol as of Thursday.
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Moderna defends COVID shot as questions on heart risks mount

Moderna held a brief conference call Thursday to defend the safety of its COVID-19 shot from a barrage of questions about associated heart risks in young people.
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Rivian’s shares rev up, creating a vehicle-making behemoth in two days of trading

The news was not as positive for Beyond Meat or Starbucks in this collection of Talking Points.
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Surge in energy prices saps pandemic recovery in Europe

The European Commission said sporadic pandemic-related lockdowns in some parts of Europe, together with emerging labor shortages, were adding to the disruptions, while inflation has hit a 10-year high.
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Obituaries


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Dr. Harris Berman, HMO pioneer and former Tufts University School of Medicine dean, dies at 83

“He came in and did something that’s, unfortunately, quite rare in a university. He spent a lot of time listening to other people,” said Lawrence Bacow, who was president of Tufts when Dr. Berman was interim dean, and is now president of Harvard University.
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Obituaries


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Dean Stockwell of ‘Quantum Leap,’ ‘Blue Velvet’ dies at 85

Stockwell was a top Hollywood child actor before giving up the profession, only to eventually find new success when he returned and offered a string of indelible performances in film, including David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” and Jonathan Demme’s “Married to the Mob.”
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F.W. de Klerk, South African Nobel Prize winner for opening government, dies at 85

F.W. de Klerk, who as South Africa’s last white president opened the door to Black majority rule in sub-Saharan Africa’s most prosperous nation by releasing Nelson Mandela from prison, died Nov. 11 at his home in Cape Town. He was 85 years old.
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Arts & Lifestyle






Music


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Billy Strings is a ‘skater kid’ who just happens to be a bluegrass star

The guitar whiz discusses his life growing up around drugs, how music saved him from that life, and the thrill of discovering that traditional bluegrass and the jam scene could coexist. Like many of the dates on his current tour, Strings’s Nov. 17 concert at the Boch Center Wang Theatre is sold out.
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Theater


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Wayne Shorter long dreamed of making an opera; esperanza spalding helped bring it to life with ‘… (Iphigenia)’

“… (Iphigenia),” the many-years-in-the-making collaboration between the two virtuosos, receives its world premiere this weekend at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston.
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Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Music, theater, comedy, museum, and family events, and more, selected by Globe critics and writers.
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