1+ hour, 8+ min ago (511+ words) Pauline Hanson, the 71-year-old leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, was accused of performing a disrespectful stunt on Monday when she walked into the Senate shrouded in the head-to-ankle garment to protest fellow senators" refusal to consider her bill that would ban the burqa and other full-face coverings in public places. Senators suspended her for the rest of the day on Monday. In the absence of an apology, they passed a censure motion Tuesday that carried one of the harshest penalties against a senator in recent decades. She was barred from seven consecutive Senate sitting days. The Senate arises for the year on Thursday and Hanson"s suspension will continue when Parliament resumes in February next year. Hanson later told reporters she would be judged by voters at the next election in 2028, not by her Senate colleagues....

1+ hour, 18+ min ago (751+ words) Wherever the games take place, and no matter the stakes, Thanksgiving football has extra significance. Teams that are headed to the Super Bowls at Gillette Stadium next week may choose to rest some starters, but programs have trended towards going all out to beat their rivals. We highlight some of the top games to watch this week and predict winners. Melrose vs. Wakefield, 4 p.m. (Fenway Park) " Wakefield has the better of the rivalry this century, including the past three meetings. But the 115th installment will be played in front of the Green Monster for the first time. Pick: MELROSE. Newton North vs. Brookline, 1:30 p.m. (Fenway Park) " North is seeking its first winning season in nearly a decade and another win in the 130th matchup with Brookline. The Tigers lead the series. 68-55-6. Pick: NEWTON NORTH. Malden Catholic at Saint John's of Shrewsbury, 6 p.m. " Many of the…...

1+ hour, 58+ min ago (252+ words) President Trump reached a new low when he called for the execution of six lawmakers who served in the US military or the intelligence community (Trump calls Democrats "traitors" over video," Page A6, Nov. 21). Their crime was stating the truth that members of the US military do not have to follow illegal orders. Decent Republicans in Congress should focus on the possibility of impeachment. This has been going on for his entire second term. No banner headlines when horrible acts take place. On Thursday, the president railed about certain members of Congress expressing their free speech, with the threat of execution. If this wasn"t cause for a banner headline, nothing is or ever will be. The Globe did have the story, on page 6. CBS News led with it, as did many news services. This is no time for timid journalism....

1+ hour, 58+ min ago (206+ words) Massachusetts needs to apply common sense to fix the ratio problem at the heart of our construction labor shortage. Apprentices are being sidelined by outdated state laws Massachusetts needs to apply common sense to fix the ratio problem at the heart of our construction labor shortage. Massachusetts does indeed face a huge shortage of construction workers (Would you hire an electrician from Harvard Vocational School?" Opinion, Nov. 19) and expanding vocational-technical high school capacity to accommodate the over 10,000 students currently on voc-tech wait lists would be an important step. Unfortunately, that would only be part of the solution. Even with additional vocational school capacity, under Massachusetts apprenticeship laws, construction ratios require up to five experienced journeypersons in a trade for each apprentice on a job site. That's right " unlike in classrooms or hospitals, where a teacher or physician leads a cohort…...

4+ hour, 18+ min ago (116+ words) A residential building in the central Pechersk district and another in Kyiv's eastern district of Dniprovskyi were badly damaged, Mayor Vitalii Kitschko said. Video footage posted to Telegram showed a large fire spread through multiple floors of the nine-story building in Dniprovskyi. At least four people were injured, the head of Kyiv city administration, Tymor Tkachenko, said. Ukraine's energy ministry said that energy infrastructure had been hit, without specifying what type or the extent of the damage. The Russian attack followed talks between U.S. and Ukraine representatives in Geneva on Sunday about a U.S.-Russia brokered peace plan. Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said Monday it had not seen the updated plan....

7+ hour, 16+ min ago (353+ words) A Danvers man is facing a charge of drunken driving and several motor vehicle offenses after he allegedly led police on a wild chase on Interstate 95 that ended with his arrest in Portsmouth, N.H., officials said Monday. Rayshawn T. Patton-Brisbon, 40, allegedly barreled through the Hampton toll plaza and avoided three sets of stop sticks laid down by State Police before the chase ended in a service station parking lot around late Saturday, New Hampshire State Police said in a statement. Patton-Brisbon was due to be arraigned Monday in Portsmouth District Court on two felony counts of reckless conduct and misdemeanor charges of aggravated driving under the influence of liquor, disobeying an officer, and criminal mischief, according to the statement. The chase started late Saturday, when Massachusetts State Troopers saw a 2015 Mercedes GLA allegedly operating erratically on I-95 north near the New Hampshire border,…...

8+ hour, 49+ min ago (749+ words) When the unemployment rate for Black women climbed to 7.5 percent this fall " nearly double the national average " Dr. April Khadijah Inniss was already feeling the impact. After losing her job at a research firm in May, the Boston native submitted more than 250 job applications and received only one interview. Most rejection emails showed up within minutes. "With an MD and a master's, it is incredibly hard to get a job," she said. "It feels virtually impossible. My question is what's going on?" Her struggle mirrors a trend documented in recent federal employment data, which show the unemployment rate for Black women rising for three consecutive months. On Monday, Inniss joined a roundtable and press conference hosted by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley in partnership with YW Boston, bringing together impacted Black women, economists, civil rights leaders, mental-health providers, and community members to…...

9+ hour, 14+ min ago (60+ words) This week's photo gallery features more than 40 pictures, including everything from cheerleading championships to sideline celebrations ... Tasty leftovers from the fall high school sports season In the meantime, if you have questions, please send them to John Vitti of the Globe sports department at [email protected]. John Vitti can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him @GlobeVitti....

9+ hour, 15+ min ago (777+ words) President Trump restricted the AP's access to events in smaller spaces, such as the Oval Office and Air Force One, leading the news outlet to sue. A lower federal court ruled that Trump improperly retaliated against the outlet because it did not follow and refer to the body of water as the Gulf of America. The US District Court of Appeals in Washington prevented the ruling from taking effect " effectively leaving it up to the White House to determine the AP's access " and a three-judge panel from that court heard arguments Monday on an appeal of the lower court's ruling. No immediate ruling was issued. The administration says it is up to the White House to determine the makeup of "pools" that cover the president in places where space is limited. And he can reward or punish reporters with access…...

10+ hour, 9+ min ago (664+ words) U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton cited the Epstein Files Transparency Act " passed by Congress last week and signed into law by President Donald Trump " in court filings asking Manhattan federal Judges Richard M. Berman and Paul A. Engelmayer to reconsider their decisions to keep the material sealed. The Justice Department interprets the transparency act "as requiring it to publish the grand jury and discovery materials in this case," said the eight-page filings, which also bear the names of Attorney General Pam Bondi and her second-in-command, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. The filings are among the first public indications that the Justice Department is working to comply with the transparency act, which requires that it release Epstein-related files in a searchable and downloadable format by Dec. 19. The Justice Department asked Berman and Engelmayer for expedited rulings allowing the release of the grand jury materials, which…...