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Inside a frantic 125-hour manhunt: From Brown University to a New Hampshire storage unit -- To understand what happened on Brown's campus and beyond this week, we pieced together a timeline of events using audio, video, and real-time social media posts.

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Photos: See how the Brown University shooting investigation unfolded -- Tragedy and violence came to three New England communities this week. Here's how it looked.

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Patriots, Ravens each facing their own red-zone struggles heading into their critical Sunday night showdown -- The Patriots are last in the league in red-zone defense, allowing touchdowns 75 percent of the time, but Baltimore is next-to-last in converting trips to touchdowns.

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Payton Pritchard leads Celtics to victory over Raptors as Jaylen Brown sits out

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Tearful Bowen Yang departs 'SNL' after emotional Christmas episode

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When was Christmas first celebrated? And when did Santa come into the picture?

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Universities are in the spotlight. So what is it like in a UMass politics class right now? -- Race and gender classes have been canceled, professors fired, and university presidents sacked. We spent a day in a UMass classroom to see how the consequences have trickled down.

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Six takeaways from the latest batch of Epstein files

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Boston's Chinatown is changing. Residents fear they are being priced out. -- Buffeted by a relentless tide of gentrification, working class and poor residents in Chinatown are expressing alarm that the world they know seems on the precipice of being swept away.

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Brockton man arrested after police chase and crash in Stoughton that killed another driver -- Jason Ortiz, 26, was charged with motor vehicle homicide.

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9 killed, 10 wounded in South African pub shooting

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Dave Epstein -- The winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, arrives Sunday -- Astronomical winter officially begins, kicking off the coldest months of the year.

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The year in arts

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The 20 biggest Boston pop culture moments of 2025

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Odie Henderson's 10 best movies of 2025

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The top 10 (ish) television shows of the year

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10 MEMORABLE MUSICIANS, MOMENTS, AND MISCELLANEOUS MARVELS IN 2025

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IDEAS | JACOB SMAGULA AND ZOE YU - Young people can't afford a home. So they're day trading and investing in crypto. The risk-reward calculation is different if you think you can't get ahead through hard work and careful saving.

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EDITORIAL -- Fewer meetings, more housing

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- When daytime TV used rape as a precursor to a romance

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Noah Rothman -- What we really learned from Suzie Wiles

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Katherine Clark -- Mike Johnson's war on women

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A Marine's gift reverberates more than half a century later

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Donate to Globe Santa

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Massachusetts wants to build big battery farms to store energy -- The 700-megawatt Trimount project from Jupiter Power would be the largest such lithium-ion battery farm in New England, if it opened today.

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Walmart and other US companies want to build a pipeline of skilled tradespeople -- The nation's largest retailer and private employer revamped its training program last year to increase the pipeline of maintenance technicians.

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Steamship Authority's website project a 'cascade of failures' that wasted millions in public funds, report finds -- The website project that began in 2022 "was doomed from the start," Inspector General Jeffrey S. Shapiro said.

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Imprisoned ex-state senator Dean Tran pleads guilty in federal court to obstruction, lying to obtain pandemic unemployment pay -- Dean Tran, a former Republican state senator from Fitchburg, pleaded guilty to charges he arranged a fake job at his sister's company to collect pandemic unemployment benefits.

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Boston Public Schools' bus insurer refused to renew coverage before fatal crash -- National Interstate cited an "increased frequency of liability losses" that exceeded $3.5 million over 18 months.

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Spotlight - The Mass. board of medicine is meant to protect the public. Instead, it has increasingly protected neglectful doctors. The Massachusetts medical board should be the ultimate protector of patients. But a Boston Globe Spotlight Team investigation found it is slow to act on physician lapses and regularly fails to protect patients.

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Does your doctor have a history of malpractice? Check the Globe's database.

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Folk songs about climate change? Yup, people in Maine are listening. Singing about climate change can be a tough sell. But it seems to be working with the group GoldenOak gaining a following.

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'Does he even have enough money?' Bill Chisholm closed the deal of his life when he bought the Celtics. -- Chisholm grew up a tortured Boston sports fan. As a billionaire in his 50s, he achieved every child's dream: He bought his favorite team.

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Same old 'Avatar', this time with 'Fire and Ash'

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'Heated Rivalry' is a love story, but often a sad one

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'Fallout' is still all about the retro-cool tunes. Here's what to know about five songs that open the season

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Boston Music Awards 2025: Dropkick Murphys, ISHA!, and more win big. See the full list.

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Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope -- The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston's busing era.

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A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care -- A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

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Explore the project: Snitch City -- In a nation addicted to drugs, local police are addicted to informants.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill -- The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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IDEAS | Andrea Fleck Clardy -- What I learned by taking care of my husband

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John Yoo -- Trump blurs the line between crime and war

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IDEAS | ALYSSA ROSENBERG -- Hollywood rediscovers dads

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IDEAS -- Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

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Sunday's Child - Lovely, 16, is kind and creative - Sunday's Child is a weekly column featuring a child or teen currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

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Brown shooting updates: Guns found with suspect linked to campus shooting and killing of MIT professor -- The body of the suspected shooter in the Brown University attack and the death of an MIT professor was found Thursday night.

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Oregon 51, James Madison 34 -- Dante Moore, No. 5 Oregon knock off No. 19 James Madison in College Football Playoffs -- Dante Moore threw for four touchdown passes as the Ducks took care of business in their College Football Playoff opener.

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Bears 22, Packers 16 (OT) -- DJ Moore scores game-winning touchdown, Bears stun Packers with overtime win after a late rally -- Caleb Williams threw a 46-yard touchdown pass to Moore in overtime to seal the Bears' win.

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HIGH SCHOOLS -- A historic Bossi win, a 300th hockey victory, and more takeaways from Saturday's high school action -- Shawsheen wrestler James Tildsley is in a category of his own, Xaverian boys' hockey coach Dave Spinale joins an exclusive club, and we highlight all the overtime winners, buzzer-beaters, and stars of the night.

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Texas Tech 82, Duke 81 -- No. 19 Texas Tech men's basketball rallies from 17-point deficit to stun No. 3 Duke

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Canucks 5, Bruins 4 (so) -- Seesaw battle swings in wrong direction with Bruins' shootout loss to Canucks

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Eagles 29, Commanders 18 -- Jalen Hurts and the Eagles win second straight NFC East title by beating the Commanders

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Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space

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Trump's 'A+++++' economy collides with reality in a Pennsylvania city critical to the midterms

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- First responders, university presidents, and others who exemplified courage

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- How my father escaped Nazi Germany and later rescued his own parents

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DINNER WITH CUPID -- Blind date: 'It turned out we both went to Harvard (albeit some years apart)'

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PERSPECTIVE -- Prop bets in sports are dangerous. Officials in Massachusetts were warned of the risks.

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A nightmare on Hope Street, a frantic manhunt, and the tip that broke open the case

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How a Redditor named John helped Providence police track down the Brown University shooter

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Shawsheen's James Tildsley stands alone as the only five-time winner of the George Bossi Lowell Holiday Tournament

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Without Lane Kiffin, No. 6 Ole Miss crushes No. 17 Tulane in College Football Playoff

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US tech enabled China's surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price.

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MGB bolstered its bottom line this year. Other state hospital groups have reported multi-million losses.

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Russia says talks on US peace plan for Ukraine 'are proceeding constructively'

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Epstein files include child porn complaint a decade before federal investigation

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US forces stop oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as Trump follows up on promise to seize tankers

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Combat training is a rite of passage for police recruits. It's left a trail of deaths and injuries.

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Government's historic role as trusted information source is under threat

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Hospitals cater to 'transplant tourists' as US patients wait for organs

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With attacks on oil tankers, Ukraine takes aim at Russia's war financing

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Russian strike on Odesa kills 8 as US hosts a Kremlin envoy for talks on peace plan

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Rob Reiner and the fading clout of Hollywood liberalism

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What happened to Boston's golden goose?

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The heroes we live with and the assumptions we make

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Welcome to the O'Leary Cousins party, a Christmas extravaganza since 1970

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In the middle of a friend breakup

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How to toast the holidays, from seafood to latkes

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Two sisters run Luna's, a friendly pastry and coffee shop in Newton Centre

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Sixty people upstairs: How a Providence restaurant owner sheltered dozens during the Brown shooting

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Seals, surf, and solitude: Walking in Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod

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Where travelers can (for now) evade tariffs: at the duty-free store

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Newton native Tess Primack on 'The Sound of Music,' staying hydrated, and staying present

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At a time of masked agents and racist talk from the president, a massive painting of ominous Klan figures at Mass MoCA

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Photographer Lorna Simpson receives the ICA's annual $100,000 Meraki Artist Award

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Frank Gehry, architect behind MIT's Stata Center and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, has died

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Barack Obama's favorite music and books of 2025 lists include a Boston-born singer and a Harvard professor

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Local bestsellers for the week ended Dec. 14

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The best local book events this week

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'One Battle After Another,' 'Ne Zha II,' plus more new films and TV shows to stream this weekend

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'Breakdown: 1975′ has intriguing intentions but a muddled execution

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Ariana Grande hosts 'Saturday Night Live,' Cher performs

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When tragedy strikes, should the show go on?

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She was caught on the Coldplay concert kiss-cam. Then came the public shaming.

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'The Snow Queen,' 'Dead Outlaw,' and more theater to stream

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2025 BROUGHT EXCELLENCE IN DANCE, AND CHANCES FOR AUDIENCES TO JOIN THE PARTY

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On Boston stages this year, infinite variety was found in the simplest of formats: the family drama

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Tufts, UMass hospitals both face significant operating losses. How do they plan to do better with looming federal cuts?

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How the Trump administration's virtual ban on gender-affirming care for minors will affect Mass.

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James B. Hunt Jr., N.C. governor who kept state blue, dies at 88

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Christine Choy, documentarian of Asian American life, dies at 76

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Norman Podhoretz, influential editor and Neoconservative Force, dies at 95

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