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N.H. medical examiner estimates Brown University shooter died Tuesday. Here's how Friday unfolded. -- The suspect is believed to have died by suicide the day after authorities say he shot his former classmate, MIT Professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro.

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See photos from Epstein's estate released by House Democrats this week

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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 Friday to charges he arranged a fake job at his sister's company to collect pandemic unemployment benefits.

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Brown campus shooter harbored resentment from time as a PhD student in the early 2000s, friend says

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Commentary: What did the shooting at Brown University mean?

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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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Reddit's help in finding Brown shooter a far cry from its role in Boston Marathon bombing manhunt

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MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, Brown shooting victim, dreamed of helping others as a doctor

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Politicians turned Ella Cook into a political symbol. Her friends say there is more to the story.

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RFK Jr. vows campaign to fight Lyme disease, claiming officials in past administrations felt it 'did not exist'

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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 medical malpractice? -- Look up your doctor's license details, malpractice history, and any disciplinary action in the Globe's database.

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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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State lines up contracts to build big battery farms, led by one in Everett -- 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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Dedham celebrates Hanukkah with car parade, menorah lighting -- Five cars with electric menorahs mounted their top of hoods traveled along main streets Thursday night.

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High winds batter region Friday, with gusts reaching over 60 miles an hour in Boston -- Tens of thousands of New England residents were without power by mid-afternoon Friday.

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See where power is out in Mass., R.I., N.H.

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Fenway Sports Group enters 'definitive agreement' to sell Pittsburgh Penguins -- The Hoffmann Family of Companies agreed to purchase a controlling interest in the Penguins, marking their first venture into professional sports.

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Boston Public Schools' bus insurer refused to renew coverage before fatal crash

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Wrentham police issue warning after 2 dogs killed by coyotes in one week: 'Do not let them out unattended'

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GLOBE MAGAZINE -- When Globe Santa stepped inside the world of comic strips -- Discovering a trove of vintage Globe Santa comic strips by readers' favorite 20th-century cartoonists.

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Patriots, Ravens each facing their own red-zone struggles heading into their critical Sunday night showdown

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Dan Shaughnessy: Note to Boston front-office: Draft the player with many older siblings

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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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Jill Abramson - Rob Reiner and the fading clout of Hollywood liberalism - There was no greater promoter of progressive candidates and causes than Reiner.

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Roland Merullo -- The heroes we live with and the assumptions we make

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EDITORIAL -- What happened to Boston's golden goose?

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- Will the Supreme Court add gun cases to its already high-capacity docket?

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LETTERS -- A thick mortar of building codes, disability access, and inequity

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Job insecurity means added strain at holiday time

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Olympian Casey Murphy begins a new chapter of her decorated career with Boston Legacy FC -- Murphy, 29, signed with the Legacy as a free agent from the NWSL's North Carolina Courage.

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Arthur T. Demoulas spars with board lawyer in final day of Market Basket trial -- The trial over whether Demoulas should regain his job as Market Basket CEO turned contentious on Thursday.

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Electioneering accusation against high-ranking N.H. Democrat cleared -- Republicans questioned a Democrat's use of her official inbox to help the Elias Law Group connect with voters impacted by a new state law.

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Supreme Court sides with immigration judges in speech case for now, rebuffing Trump administration -- The justices let stand a ruling that raised questions about the Trump administration's handling of the federal workforce, though they also signaled that lower courts should move cautiously.

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Coast Guard abruptly deletes swastika, noose entry from policy manual -- The document now shows a large black bar obscuring the relevant chapter in its table of contents and a message directing readers to a separate manual outlining the Coast Guard's civil rights policies.

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US military to stop shooting pigs and goats as a way to train medics for the battlefield

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CHRISTOPHER MUTHER -- The biggest bargain in Boston? A cleaned-up, odor-free Midtown Hotel returns to its no-frills roots. -- In the decade since I last stayed there, the Midtown has seen a lot of changes. And that's a good thing.

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The Big Day -- When the voice of the T officiates your wedding, you're a transit superfan -- Somerville couple Grace Atherton and Alex Cox married Nov. 1, 2025, at Mount Auburn Cemetery with a wedding inspired by "Wuthering Heights" and the MBTA.

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

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IDEAS | ALYSSA ROSENBERG -- Hollywood rediscovers dads

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EDITORIAL -- State aid to municipalities should be distributed rationally

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Boyah J. Farah -- Fear, hope, and a Boston Kreme donut

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- How the Trump administration is stealing Christmas

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IDEAS -- Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

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Ex-Patriots receiver Jakobi Meyers inks $60m extension with Jaguars, praises team for its 'belief' in him -- "I probably haven't had this much belief behind me in a long time," said the 29-year-old, who played four seasons with the Patriots after signing as an undrafted rookie in 2019.

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Los Angeles Angels settle lawsuit with family of late pitcher Tyler Skaggs over fatal overdose -- Skaggs's widow and his parents alleged the MLB team knew or should have known the team's communications director was dealing painkillers to players.

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PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK -- Robert Spillane ruled out for Sunday's Ravens game, dealing backsliding Patriots' defense another blow

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Kennedy likely to swap US childhood vaccine schedule for Denmark's

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Trump suspended the green card lottery after the Brown shooting. What does that mean?

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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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Trump administration formally says it will appeal Harvard funding case

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Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl delivered their dynamic-duo show in Oilers' victorious visit to Bruins, TD Garden

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Houston Rockets ownership in talks to purchase Connecticut Sun, move team to Texas

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NWSL's Boston Legacy FC will play some 2026 games in Rhode Island due to Gillette Stadium conflicts

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Authorities used license plate readers to find the Brown suspect's car. Some want them removed.

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Ben & Jerry's Foundation joins escalating legal fight against ice cream brand's corporate owners

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Justice Department begins releasing case files on Jeffrey Epstein. Follow live updates.

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Representative Elise Stefanik ends her campaign for New York governor and won't seek reelection to House

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US military launches strikes in Syria targeting Islamic State fighters after American deaths

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Cannabis downgraded to lower classification of drugs

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Judge in Wisconsin convicted of helping immigrant avoid arrest by ICE

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Investigation starts into North Carolina plane crash that killed NASCAR driver Biffle and 6 others

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Putin says Kremlin will achieve military goals in Ukraine if peace conditions are not met

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H-1B workers stranded in India after renewing US visas

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Putin tells his annual news conference that the Kremlin's military goals will be achieved in Ukraine

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Don't take advice from AI. Use it to brainstorm instead.

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The affordability 'hoax' meets the heating bill

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A case can be made that Jeffrey Epstein's money is morally neutral

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In the middle of a friend breakup

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A study linked cheese to lower dementia risk. Is that too good to be true?

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Michael Keaton named Hasty Pudding's 2026 Man of the Year

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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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Late night reacts to president's prime-time address, Harris calls out Trump's Reiner remarks

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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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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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'Buck Rogers' star Gil Gerard has died

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