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Senate confirms Rachael Rollins to be US attorney for Massachusetts, making her the first Black woman to hold the office in state history

Vice President Kamala Harris had to break a tie vote in the face of united Republican opposition to a prosecutor they labeled as radical.
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COVID-19 Vaccines


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Parties? Concerts? Big family meals? Experts share what they’re comfortable doing this holiday season

In general, they all agree it’s a time to remain cautious.
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Hundreds of nursing home deaths might have been prevented with more COVID shots, study finds

Researchers found that staff were the primary drivers of cases and fatalities.
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Biden wants to buttress democracy abroad. Advocates want him to do more at home

The Biden administration on Thursday will convene a two-day Summit for Democracy, but voting rights advocates and democracy experts say the event is taking place at a perilous moment for democracy in the host nation itself.
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Biogen’s reckoning: How the Aduhelm debacle pushed a troubled company and its fractured leadership to the brink

Aduhelm was the tipping point for Biogen’s turmoil, but STAT’s reporting reveals much deeper problems at the company.
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Two years into this pandemic, the world is dangerously unprepared for the next one, report says

Every country, including the US, remains dangerously unprepared to respond to future epidemic and pandemic threats, researchers found.
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Biden wants to make federal government carbon neutral by 2050

The Biden administration announced Wednesday it aims to buy its way to a cleaner, cooler planet, spending billions to create a federal fleet of electric vehicles, upgrade federal buildings, and change how the government buys electricity.
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Meadows sues Pelosi in bid to block Jan. 6 committee subpoena

The panel did not immediately announce a date to vote on a contempt referral, which is all but certain to be approved and sent to the full House, where lawmakers are likely to pass it, formally recommending that the Justice Department prosecute Meadows.
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Wrong man arrested over Khashoggi killing, France says

French officials have freed a Saudi man a day after he was arrested on suspicion of links to the murder of the dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, saying Wednesday that it was a case of mistaken identity.
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Scholz sworn in as German chancellor

For the first time in nearly 16 years, Angela Merkel is not the chancellor of Germany. Her Social Democrat successor, Olaf Scholz, was sworn in on Wednesday after the Bundestag, the German parliament, voted him into office.
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India’s top military general dies in helicopter crash

General Bipin Rawat, India’s highest-ranking military official, leading efforts to modernize the country’s armed forces, died in a helicopter crash Wednesday along with his wife and 11 others, officials said.
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Lydia Edwards for state Senate

Making her second run for the district representing Revere, Winthrop, and parts of Cambridge and Boston, the Boston City Councilor is, by a long shot, the more experienced and compelling candidate.
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This year, the war on Christmas is over arson, ammo, and guns

This Christmas season, there’s something for everyone to be outraged about.
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LETTERS


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Wu’s plan for Mass. and Cass is a good first step on a long path toward care, healing

We have spent decades speaking with women who live unsheltered, facing sexual harassment and assault, illnesses and substance use disorder, and barriers to contact with their families and children.
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Eric Lesser, a state senator and Obama alum, is considering campaign for lieutenant governor

“He’s had eight good years in the state Senate, and I think he’s eager to look for, or at least consider, leveraging more influence on the issues he cares about,” said David Axelrod, a former senior adviser and strategist for Barack Obama.
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Four-alarm blaze rips through metal recycling yard in Everett, sending black plume of smoke over Boston area

The fire broke out shortly after 8 a.m. at a scrap metal processing facility used to shred cars, refrigerators, and other heavy pieces of metal.
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A mother’s plea to help her family

Every letter to Globe Santa is unique, but there are many common threads.
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BRUINS NOTEBOOK


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Home again, Curtis Lazar ready to show how much he’s grown

On his fourth NHL organization at 26, the native of British Columbia and childhood Canucks fan is back playing at his comfortable center position and picking up critical experience.
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With Patriots on a seven-game win streak, Bill Belichick has changed the narrative and won over some skeptics

His franchise quarterback is gone, along with some of his long-trusted staff, but Belichick’s recent success has proven he still is at the top of his game.
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Bruins fight back in Vancouver, but fall in shootout to the Canucks

The Canucks have won four of five since losing in Boston last month, with Patrice Bergeron’s tying goal in the third period enough to secure a point in the first of three straight in Canada.
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Local tech firms try to find a balance between WFH and the office

Some companies are encouraging in-person collaboration while maintaining flexibility.
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Small businesses in Mass. are more worried about Omicron than in any other state

A new survey found that 64 percent of owners in Massachusetts fear that the emerging coronavirus variant will hurt their financial recovery, compared to 44 percent nationally.
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More life science companies are heading to Watertown

Five drug startups have signed leases to fill a building still under construction at the site of the old Arsenal Mall.
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Julius S. Scott, author of ‘The Common Wind,’ dies at 66

Julius S. Scott, a groundbreaking scholar of slavery and Atlantic history who wove together stories of Black rebellion for a doctoral thesis once likened to “an underground mix-tape” and for the acclaimed 2018 book “The Common Wind,” has died. He was 66.
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Julius S. Scott, author of ‘The Common Wind,’ dies at 66

Julius S. Scott, a groundbreaking scholar of slavery and Atlantic history who wove together stories of Black rebellion for a doctoral thesis once likened to “an underground mix-tape” and for the acclaimed 2018 book “The Common Wind,” has died. He was 66.
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Dispatches from ‘Boston Strangler’ set: Filming continues in the South End

The 20th Century Studios film focuses on the 1960s murders, and the reporters who pieced together the story. It stars Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Alessandro Nivola, and Oscar winner Chris Cooper.
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Music


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With a live show at City Winery, Fenway organist Josh Kantor is stretching out for the holidays

On Friday, Kantor will perform a stage version of the show he's been livestreaming from his Cambridge home since the start of the pandemic.
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A strong showing from New England Philharmonic’s first music director hopeful, Adam Kerry Boyles

The orchestra and guest conductor revived the orchestral version of Amy Beach’s "Jephthah’s Daughter."
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