Nation

Lasik patients should be warned of complications, FDA draft says

Patients considering Lasik surgery should be warned that they may be left with double vision, dry eyes, difficulty driving at night, and, in rare cases, persistent eye pain, according to draft guidance by the Food and Drug Administration. After surgery, patients might still need eyeglasses, the document warns. Continue reading →

Elections

Supreme Court majority questions massive shift of election authority

A majority of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday seemed reluctant to conclude that state legislators have the power to set federal voting rules without any oversight from state courts, after nearly three hours of debate over what would be a fundamental change in the way elections are conducted. Continue reading →

Political Notebook

Doug Emhoff urges all to fight antisemitism

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a US president or vice president, said he would use his historic position to speak out against rising antisemitism in the US and urged Americans to join him. Continue reading →

World

China eases ‘zero-COVID’ restrictions in victory for protesters

The move could very well assuage protesters. But the party is expected to confront a surge of infections as lockdowns lift, schools reopen, and people try to resume normal life. The government must now place much greater urgency on vaccinations, which had been neglected in recent months, experts say. Continue reading →

World

Global partners may end broad COVID vaccination effort in developing countries

The organization that has led the global effort to bring COVID vaccines to poor and middle-income countries will decide this week whether to shut down that project, ending a historic attempt to achieve global health equity with a tacit acknowledgment that the effort fell far short of its goal. Continue reading →

World

Germany arrests 25 suspected of planning to overthrow government

The plan was to storm the German Capitol, arrest lawmakers, and execute the chancellor. A prince descended from German nobility would take over as the new head of state, and a former far-right member of parliament would be put in charge of a national purge. Continue reading →

OPINION

Snubbed by Capitol police family members, McConnell and McCarthy pay the price for loyalty to Trump

Both Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy stood with Donald Trump and the insurrection, not with the Capitol police who put their lives on the line to protect them. Yet there they were on Tuesday, trying to ingratiate themselves with the protectors they abandoned. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Congress should release Trump’s tax returns

But even with an incoming Republican majority in the House, there’s no particular rush to get the former president’s financial documents out — so long as they are eventually made public. Continue reading →

LETTERS

‘We never have closure’: a shooting victim’s trauma

The fun Sully died on that sidewalk, Mother’s Day 1979. I got up, but in a way I didn’t. Continue reading →

Metro

Making heat recovery ventilators sexy

Spend an hour with Julie Klump, and you, too, might be surprised to find yourself getting excited about polyisocyanurate board insulation and heat recovery ventilators. Continue reading →

Investigations

Judge overturns Boston murder conviction for man who served 46 years

The case of Raymond Gaines is one of a growing number of decades-old convictions that have been overturned as law enforcement tactics have come under increased scrutiny. Continue reading →

Health

Experts are hoping for a milder COVID winter in Massachusetts than a year ago

Health professionals and scientists pointed to several factors that give them hope for a less-serious season than a year ago, including increased immunity to the Omicron variant of the COVID virus. Continue reading →

Bruins Notebook

Colorado trip stirs up memories for Bruins defenseman Brandon Carlo

Long car rides to games with his mother provided a chance for long talks. Continue reading →

Red Sox

What closer Kenley Jansen brings to the Red Sox bullpen

Jansen, who is signing on a two-year, $32 million deal, marks the Red Sox' first acquisition of an established closer since the team traded for Craig Kimbrel after the 2015 season. Continue reading →

On Baseball

With promising signings, it was a big day for Chaim Bloom and the Red Sox

Between deals with Masataka Yoshida and Kenley Jensen and momentum on re-signing Bogaerts, Wednesday brought a much-needed upturn for the Sox. Continue reading →

AI/Robotics

AI startup DataRobot sued for alleged discrimination and retaliation

The company has laid off about one-third of its staff this year after disappointing business results and an employee revolt under its former chief executive. Continue reading →

Business

Some Chelsea residents got $400 a month, no strings attached. Here’s what happened next.

During the depths of the pandemic, Chelsea launched the largest experiment in universal basic income the country has ever seen. The results were promising. Continue reading →

Business

Tourism bureau launches new $7 million campaign to market Boston — all of it.

One of the goals is to shake off Boston’s reputation as cold and unwelcoming, and its stereotypes of arrogance and racism. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Don Luce, activist who helped end the Vietnam War, dies at 88

A persistent opponent of the Vietnam War, Don Luce's activism led the last U. ambassador to South Vietnam to call him one of the principal reasons the United States lost the war. Continue reading →

Obituaries

George Newall, a creator of ‘Schoolhouse Rock,’ dies at 88

George R. Newall, an advertising executive who was the last surviving original creator of “Schoolhouse Rock,” the musical, animated snippets that taught juvenile Generation X television viewers grammar, math, civics and science for a few moments during their otherwise vacuous Saturday morning commercial programming, died Nov. 30, in a hospital near his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He was 88. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Joyce Bryant, sensual singer who changed course, dies at 95

Joyce Bryant, a sultry singer of the 1940s and ’50s who broke racial barriers in nightclubs and raised the hackles of radio censors before setting aside her show business career in favor of missionary work, then reinventing herself as a classical and opera singer, died on Nov. 20 in Los Angeles, at the home of her niece and longtime caregiver, Robyn LaBeaud. She was 95. Continue reading →

BOOKS

A South Pole expedition and women’s suffrage intertwine in Henriette Lazaridis’s historical novel ‘Terra Nova’

The Cambridge-based novelist was inspired by British explorer Robert Scott and his 1910 expedition to Antarctica. Continue reading →

Names

Ime Udoka and Nia Long split after 13 years, in wake of Celtics controversy

In September, the Celtics suspended Udoka, 45, for a year for having an improper relationship with a subordinate team employee, league sources told the Globe. Continue reading →

Television

Globe classical music critic A.Z. Madonna to appear on ‘Jeopardy’ Thursday

"I’m not going to dread the opera category. The opera category better dread me." Continue reading →