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I only recently noticed that the advice column of Dr. Robert Wallace is no longer in the paper. It last appeared on Nov. 30. I assume it was discontinued either due to lack of reader interest or to cut costs. While I understand both motivations, please, I beg you: reconsider! Dr. Wallaces was a voice of reason in a world gone mad.

Dr. Wallaces column is or was vital to promoting understanding between generations. Young readers may apply his advice to their own lives, and their elders may gain otherwise unobtainable insight into the inner thoughts of young people without trying to promote a rap session that only embarrasses everyone involved. His zero-tolerance policy toward underage drinking is extremely valuable, especially in a world where such a simple point seems hard to understand, judging from the number of ways children find to ask him about it. He is very patient in reiterating that and other kinds of good advice.

Without Dr. Wallace, I truly believe, as W.B. Yeats wrote, Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world ...

Think Im exaggerating? Check the Dec. 11 edition of The Star and think again. In the Dear Abby column on that date, Abby advises a septuagenarian woman to give in to her husbands wish to cavort in the buff at a nudist colony. Im no spring chicken myself, but let me just say, Ew. I know the current Dear Abby is a second-generation advice columnist and is more with it than her mother was, but I dont recall this kind of advice appearing before Dr. Wallace disappeared from the page.

Need more? In the same edition, Dennis the Menace pokes his head out of his dads home office and gleefully tattles to his mom about his dad talking to his buddies about some magazine swimsuit stuff online. Lest we not get the mental picture, in the background we actually see his dad at his desk, his one visible hand holding a phone to his grinning face, and a picture of a swimsuit gal on his computer screen. We see the mom in profile, receiving this news and taking in this tableau with a stony expression. With Dr. Wallace on hand, Dennis generally ran his mouth and bugged dear old Mr. Wilson; within two weeks of Dr. Wallaces departure, the column is covering a subject I hesitate to name in a family paper, but it starts with a p and it rhymes with cornography.

Whats next? Family Circus covering polyamory, or Dolly and Jeffy getting into a switchblade fight while wearing Pepe the Frog tee shirts? Good luck trying to blame ol I Dont Know and Not Me when youre in front of a juvie judge, kids.

Only a few weeks with no Dr. Wallace, and the centre has not held. Its anarchy in the pages of The Star. God help us all.

Chris Jones

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The neighbors got together for drinks and carols at the weekend. As an English Jew, I love the carols all those old-time bangers from the time when midwinter really was bleak, all those Zionist lyrics about royal Davids city and kings in Israel. I consider it a mitzvah, a religious obligation, to spread the joy, because theres not enough joy to the world these days, so I play the piano, this year in an impromptu trio with an Irish American fiddler and an English literary critic who, it transpires, toots a mean descant on the trumpet. We spread the joy as a farmer spreads muck, but its the spirit that counts. Without rehearsal or premeditation, we turned Silent Night into a Dean Martin drunk song.

Two nights later, it was the first night of Chanukah. My three daughters lit three menorahs and we sangMaoz Tzur (Rock of Ages):

Furiously they assailed usBut Thine arm availed usAnd Thy word broke their swordWhen our strength failed us

The song has become associated with the Maccabean Revolt of 167 BC the first nationalist movement in history but it was written, like many of the carols, in the Middle Ages. Its impossible not to read those words without thinking of those who fought for their religious freedom against the Syrian tyrant Antiochus IV and those who died for it in medieval and modern Europe as in a kosher market in Jersey City.

It may come as a surprise, but Jews dont spend most of their time thinking about anti-Semitism. Or rather, we spend as little time as safely possible thinking about it. We are obliged to choose life, and life and the making of joy and children mean we must refuse to be defined by a morbid shadow-play of other peoples projections. The tide of hate and violence is rising, however.

It has become acceptable to say appalling things about Jews some of them calumnies carrying the stale flavor of the Middle Ages, some of them more recent and carrying the Germanic taste of blood and iron things that remain unsayable about any other people. Especially online, which for reasons that elude me is considered to be a Casablancaof the media, where anything goes and no one is accountable.

It also appears to have become acceptable, in New York City in particular, for Orthodox Jews to be assaulted without the police or mayor doing much about it. And it appears that the strength of many Jewish organizations, the Anti-Defamation League among them, is more devoted to sustaining the Democratic partys coalition than to doing their job of defending Jews. The same goes for many assimilated Jews, who keep their own heads down and complain that religious Jews make it hard for themselves and everyone else. But there are also many, including many people who are not Jewish, who do stand up for what is right and fair, and who fight against lies and incitement.

Furiously they assail us. This year was the first year I received anti-Semitic tweets, anonymous physical threats, notifications that my name was on a list for future punishment, Holocaust denial (on one impressively sick occasion in rhyming couplets) and, in an unneeded further proof of the collapse of our public discourse, images of the alt-right fetish object Pepe the Frog. This year, while the dimwitted online world argued about tropes, my younger daughters learnt to read trope, the ancient cantillation that they will perform when the elder of them has herbat mitzvahin May. Rock of Ages, let our song / Praise thy saving power.

So I refuse to give up hope, and I know that we will be here, and there too, for as long as we have the faith to do so. In many ways, we are living in an age of miracles. The United States, despite its balkanized society and demented politics, remains an island of tolerance between religions, despite the perverse hostility of the Democratic left, street thugs and a few college professors. The state of Israel, which did not exist when my grandparents families were murdered, is thriving and has never had such good diplomatic relations with some many states and peoples. This year, work began on the Abrahamic Family House, in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi, a development whose centerpiece is a common religious space, with a mosque, a church and a synagogue.

The year ended with what, for an English Jew living in the United States, was an almost overwhelming double gift. On December 11, President Trump extended the protections of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (1964) to Jews, as the George W. Bush administrations Department of Education had decreed in 2004 for Sikhs, Muslims and Jews, and the Obama administrations Department of Justice had confirmed in 2010.

On December 12, Jeremy Corbyn and a hard-left Labour party were demolished in Britains general elections. The elections were about many things Brexit, the National Health Service, the prospect of punitive taxation but a crucial factor was Corbyns foul politics, including his defense of the murderers of the IRA, Hamas and Hezbollah, and his seeking out of the company of Holocaust deniers and those who rationalize a selective and obsessive hatred as anti-Zionism.

On the first night of Chanukah, Britains prime minister Boris Johnson sent amessage to Britains Jews: When the Maccabees drove the forces of darkness out of Jerusalem, they had to do so on their own. Today, as Britains Jews seek to drive back the darkness of resurgent anti-Semitism, you have every decent person in this country fighting by your side.

From darkness to light: from the prospect of a Labour government that promised to drive Zionists almost all Jews, in fact from public life, to a Conservative government whose leader sends a clear and moral message, albeit one in which Johnson, an Oxford-educated Classicist, mixed Antiochus III with Antiochus IV.

President Trumps Executive Order and the British publics rejection of Corbyn show that the Jews are not alone in these difficult times. They show that, for all the experts who complain about populism, decency is not inimical to democracy. They show that, despite everything, we should look forward in hope.

I pray that the coming year will be a better one for all of us, including the Kurds of Syria, the Muslims of China and thepeople of Iran, hundreds of whom have beenkilled in recent weeks for demanding their freedom. The Abrahamic family house has many mansions.I wish all my friends and readers a Happy Christmas and aChag Chanukah Sameach.

Dominic Green is Life & Arts editor of Spectator USA.

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George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted of killing unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin in 2012, filed a lawsuit in early December against the boys family, their attorneys and the prosecutors for damages in excess of $100 million. Our Facebook post with the story had by far the most angry reaction emojis of any of our posts in 2019, a sign that people were not on board with Zimmermans legal action. His lawsuit alleges malicious prosecution by prosecutors, defamation by both Martins defense attorney and a book publishing company, and a civil conspiracy by Martins family and lawyer to put on a false witness with a made-to-order false storyline to try to fraudulently create probable cause to get a conviction. The Martin familys defense attorney responded by saying, I have every confidence that this unfounded and reckless lawsuit will be revealed for what it is another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others.

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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, an unparalleled decade comes to a close: one that saw everything from NASA's first all-female spacewalk to the aftermath of natural disasters and the death of Osama bin Laden.

There were times of real change and hope. The White House was lit up in rainbow colors when the Supreme Court struck down same-sex marriage bans. The world watched in awe as a Thai soccer team and their coach were rescued one-by-one by a group of brave diving experts after being trapped for more than three weeks.

And there were moments so shocking we were left feeling helpless. Twenty-six people were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and eight parishioners and their pastor were gunned down during Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Revolutionary moments made history in real time as anger and passion turned into movements -- like the one made up of thousands of students who skipped classes worldwide to demand action from their leaders on the climate crisis.

Here's a look back at some of the news stories that defined the past 10 years.

The decade produced scandals that upended institutions from the Catholic Church to elite universities.

The controversies began less than a year into 2010, when the US State Department was pushed into damage control mode after WikiLeaks released thousands of classified documents on July 25. WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is now facing charges related to the leak. Chelsea Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst who helped the site get access to the classified documents, is currently jailed for refusing to testify before the grand jury investigating Assange.

A year later, another release -- this time, a grand jury report made public in November 2011 -- marked the beginning of a scandal that would ripple through Penn State University and lead to the termination of the school's beloved football coach. The report contained testimony that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused eight young boys, a number that would eventually increase to 10, over a period of at least 15 years. University officials purportedly failed to notify law enforcement after learning about some of these incidents. Sandusky was found guilty in 2012. Football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier lost their jobs in the scandal.

Sexual abuse within the Catholic Church was similarly far-reaching. In 2017 and 2018, the church in the US spent more than $300 million -- including $200 million in legal settlements -- on costs related to clergy sexual abuse. The payouts were only part of the fallout of the massive worldwide scandal in which the church was accused of repeatedly covering up sexual abuse.

USA Gymnastics was likewise disgraced after Larry Nassar, a former USAG and Michigan State University doctor, was sentenced in 2018 to up to 175 years in prison after more than 150 women and girls testified he sexually abused them over two decades.

Earlier this year, about 50 people were accused in a college admissions scandal of either cheating on standardized tests or bribing college coaches and school officials to accept students as college athletes -- even if they weren't. Among those named by federal prosecutors were actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman.

From #MeToo to Black Lives Matter, the 2010s were shaped by activism, beginning in 2011 with the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. The demonstrations against income inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of money in politics began in New York but spread to cities across the United States.

Anger over the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the police shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in 2014 gave rise to the Black Lives Matter. What started as a social media hashtag quickly grew into an international movement protesting against police brutality and inequality.

Another social media hashtag went offline when survivors of sexual abuse shared their stories with #MeToo. Although the hashtag was created years earlier by activist Tarana Burke, it caught fire after people in Hollywood used it to take down Harvey Weinstein. Not only did it spark a conversation about consent and harassment, but the global movement also contributed to powerful men like producers, actors, anchors and executives and politicians being called to account on harassment accusations.

The decade also brought catastrophic natural and environmental disasters to points across the world.

Haiti and Japan both were hit with the largest earthquakes ever to strike those countries. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and 9.1-magnitude quake -- followed by a tsunami -- the following year in Japan left hundreds of thousands of people dead and thousands more displaced.

The first year of the decade also saw an explosion on board the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 people and released 168 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

The strongest hurricane to strike the Bahamas made landfall in 2019. Hurricane Dorian slammed the island over Labor Day weekend and stalled there for more than 48 hours. It was one of five Category 5 hurricanes to form this decade. The others: Matthew, Irma, Maria, Michael and Lorenzo.

Hurricane Maria, which made landfall on the island nation of Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane and hit Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm in 2017, caused about $90 billion in damage and resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths.

The same year introduced a yearslong spate of wildfires in California, including the deadliest in the state's history.

Mass shootings in the United States shook the country's sense of safety as targeted places included an elementary school, nightclubs, colleges, a music festival and places of worship. More than half of the 10 deadliest US mass shootings took place in this decade, including when a gunman opened fire inside Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June 2016. At least 49 people were killed. In October 2017, 58 people were gunned down at an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas.

The shootings raised a debate across the nation about access to firearms.

Violent attacks weren't limited to the United States. ISIS showed its global reach in 2015 with a terror attack in Paris and a series of attacks in Tunisia, including at a hotel where 38 people were killed.

At Garissa University College in Kenya, four gunmen killed 147 people and wounded scores more during morning prayer in April 2015, making it the deadliest attack in Kenya since the 1998 United States embassy bombings. The Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militant group claimed responsibility for the terror attack.

An act of terrorism also devastated the city of Boston in 2013. Two bombs exploded 12 seconds apart near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring at least 264.

But bloodshed this past decade didn't only come in isolated attacks. The decade was scarred by humanitarian crises and devastating conflicts -- like the yearslong civil war in Yemen, which has taken the lives of more than 100,000 people.

In 2012, the American government came under fire after four Americans were killed in Benghazi, Libya. Critics said the State Department may not have done enough to protect its employees.

Back home, Americans faced a rise in extremism. A 2017 government report found far-right-wing violent extremist groups were to blame for the majority of deadly extremist incidents in the country since 2001. The total number of fatalities from far-right wing violent extremists and radical Islamist violent extremists was about the same. The words "white nationalism" began leaking into headlines after the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, who was killed as a car plowed through a crowd protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. James Alex Fields Jr., the man accused of driving into the crowd has been sentenced to life in prison on hate crime charges.

Across the ocean, Europe was fighting its own battle against racism. A CNN poll in 2018 recorded frightening anti-Semitic attitudes across the continent while many blamed a substantial amount of Brexit votes on a rise in racism.

With millions fleeing from violence in the Middle East and Africa, Europeans began taking measures against the influx of immigrants. A heartbreaking image of 3-year-old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi shook the world and offered a glimpse into just how badly the European migrant crisis was handled.

Four years later a similar photo surfaced: a father and daughter from El Salvador lay face down in murky waters. The devastating picture offered a glimpse into the dangers and challenges migrants face trying to cross from Mexico into the US. The crisis at the border was center stage during the 2016 elections, with then-candidate Donald Trump vowing to build a wall to curb illegal migration.

Trump's administration would later draw worldwide condemnation for its practices of separating children from their parents at the border and holding migrants in overcrowded cage-like units.

The past decade's politics have been marked by polarization and division.

In a bitterly fought referendum, the United Kingdom voted in June 2016 to leave the European Union. The deal, called Brexit, eventually led to the resignation of British Prime Minister Theresa May and the election of hardline Brexit supporter Boris Johnson.

In another divisive decision, the United States elected businessman Donald Trump, a Republican, as president over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Democrat in November 2016. Three years into his term -- and following dozens of controversial decisions and tweets -- Trump, this month, became the third US president to be impeached. The House of Representatives voted to charge him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Meanwhile, citizens of countries took on their leadership and protested for change. Thousands took to the streets in Venezuela in 2019 in failed effort to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from office.

In Hong Kong, protests began in June 2019 in response to a bill that would have allowed citizens of Hong Kong to be extradited to China. The protests have continued for months nonstop and resulted in violent clashes with police. The focus of the protests also has shifted to demand greater democracy and an inquiry into allegations of police brutality.

But among division and disasters, the world took major strides toward change.

In 2011, American troops pulled out of Iraq after nearly nine years in the country -- fighting a war over which many high-ranking officials were criticized for not putting an end to earlier.

In a landmark opinion, the US Supreme Court ruled in June 2015 that same-sex couples can marry nationwide. The divided court's decision established a new civil right and gave a historic victory to gay rights advocates.

Later that year, in December, about 195 nations agreed to begin tackling the climate crisis head-on by reducing greenhouse gas emissions -- the primary driver of climate change -- and entering into other agreements. The agreement became known as the 2015 Paris Climate accord. In 2019, the Trump administration announced that the US would pull out of the agreement following the President's claims that it would punish American workers and benefit foreign countries.

And this year, the most diverse class of lawmakers to date took office in the US Congress, bringing greater gender, racial, religious and sexuality representation.

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113011 Boston, MA - Protesters from Occupy Boston step off on their two month anniversary march. Boston Herald staff photo by John Wilcox.

(063011, Boston, MA) Whitey Bulger is taken from a Coast Guard helicopter to an awaiting Sherif vehicle after attending federal court in Boston. Thursday, June 30, 2011. (Staff photo by Stuart Cahill)

Members of the Rutter family of Sandy Hook, Conn., embrace early Christmas morning as they stand near memorials by the Sandy Hook firehouse in Newtown, Conn.,Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. People continue to visit memorials after gunman Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

(Boston, MA - 1/6/14) Mayor Thomas Menino and his wife, Angela, arrive at Boston City Hall, Monday, January 06, 2014. Staff photo by Angela Rowlings. THIS PHOTO WON AN HONORABLE MENTION AS PART OF A NEWS PICTURE STORY ENTRY ON MENINO'S LAST DAY IN OFFICE.

BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN - DECEMBER 18: President Donald Trump speaks at a Merry Christmas Rally at the Kellogg Arena on December 18, 2019 in Battle Creek, Michigan. While Trump spoke, the House of Representatives was voting on two articles of impeachment, deciding if he will become the third president in U.S. history to be impeached. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

(Boston, Ma 013018) Ayanna Pressley. January 30, 2018 Staff photo by Chris Christo

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump reacts before speaking at a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix. The Trump administration is preparing to restore the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

BOSTON MA. - DECEMBER 12: Mayor Marty Walsh and Gov. Charlie Baker share a laugh during the announcement on December 12, 2019 in Boston, MA that the NAACP convention will be held in Boston next July. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)

The Teens have been a whirlwind of bitter divisiveness and violence, with changes of the political guard on both sides of the aisle that were welcomed by some but feared by others, and also dramatic innovation and prosperity.

Then-President Barack Obamas controversial signature achievement, Obamacare, kicked off the Teens as the big story of 2010 and fueled Republican Scott Browns U.S. Senate win in blue Massachusetts. But the even more controversial and divisive election of President Trump in 2016 stands as the single most transformative event of these last 10 years cutting a sharp line in American politics between liberals and conservatives, coastal elites and those in the heartland who felt they were ignored, with a power struggle between sharply different visions of Americas future that remains unresolved.

Donald Trump redefined the American political order with his stunning defeat of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a polarizing victory and hes now under a highly disputed partisan impeachment.

A businessman and real estate mogul with no prior political office, Trump capitalized on discontent with the political establishment to power his way to the White House.

Trump has passed broad tax cuts, began a dramatic rollback of regulations and appointed dozens of constitutionalist judges. Despite predictions the stock market would crash, the economy has boomed. He brought North Koreas Kim Jong Un to the negotiating table after dire warnings he was provoking a war. He forced the renegotiation of trade relations with Mexico and Canada, and launched a trade war with China ignoring the threats of consequences. He was vilified for his crackdown on illegal immigration and a freeze on visas for several Muslim nations, though his supporters say his tactics matched those of the Obama administration. He faced a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election but wasnt charged, though special prosecutor Robert Mueller stopped short of exonerating him.

Trump is now the third president to be impeached, after the Democratic House majority on a party-line vote accused him of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress based on a July phone call in which Trump allegedly pressured the Ukrainian president into investigating Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Trump enters 2020 awaiting trial in the Republican-led U.S. Senate, which is expected to toss the charges.

Boston under attack: The defining event of the past decade in this city was the deadly terrorist blasts that turned the celebratory finish line of the Boston Marathon into a crime scene on April 15, 2013. Islamic extremist brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ethnic Chechens who immigrated from Kazakhstan set off two bombs along crowded Boylston Street, killing Martin Richard, 8, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Lingzi Lu., 23. Three days later, the Tsarnaevs shot and killed MIT police officer Sean Collier, 27. In a Watertown shootout, MBTA officer Richard Donohue, 33, was critically wounded. Boston Police officer Dennis Simmonds, 28, injured in the Watertown shootout, died in April 2014.

Tamerlan was killed in Watertown. The younger Tsarnaev, after a daylong manhunt, was found hiding in a boat. Now on federal death row in Colorado, Tsarnaev is fighting his conviction and death sentence.

Bostons leadership changed hands for the first time in two decades in 2014 when Martin Walsh succeeded the citys longest-serving mayor, Thomas M. Menino, who died of cancer later that year.The governorship, meanwhile, returned to Republican hands with Charlie Bakers victories in 2014 and 2018.

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressleys stunning defeat of incumbent Mike Capuano last year was a rebuke of the partys establishment, which led to this years challenges of sitting U.S. Sen. Edward Markey. Brown lost in 2012 to current U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, now a leading Democratic candidate for president.

Ten years after 9/11, the U.S. military hunted down and killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. It was hailed as a major blow to the terrorist network that drew the United States into war.

But the Islamic State emerged in 2011 in Iraq and Syria after the United States exited the region. In 2015, ISIS-inspired terrorists killed 129 people and wounded 352 in Paris. In 2016, ISIS-inspired terrorists killed 31 people and injured 270 in Brussels. Trump sent U.S. troops into Iraq and Syria, largely destroying the organization. ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself this year while pursued by U.S. soldiers.

Smartphones became ubiquitous in The Teens. Facebook, which had allowed family, friends and businesses to connect with each other, was revealed as having extensively data-mined its users. Twitter became a major means to pushing out information, bypassing traditional media. But it also became notorious for hosting vile personal and political attacks.

Murderous Southie gangster Whitey Bulger and his girlfriend Catherine Greig were captured in 2011 in in Santa Monica after 16 years on the lam. In 2013, Bulger was convicted for his role in 11 murders. In 2018, then 89, he was beaten to death in a West Virginia federal prison.

The 2012 the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., prompted a national debate over gun control. The debate between those who want to ban weapons and 2nd Amendment advocates has resurfaced after mass shootings in San Bernardino, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland and El Paso.

Occupy Wall Street. Black Lives Matter. #MeToo: Occupy Wall Street kicked off a decade of social protests in 2011 with a protest in Manhattan with the rallying cry, We are the 99 Percent.

Black Lives Matter emerged in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, accused of killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, with riots following killings by police in Ferguson, Mo., and other cities, and incidents such as the execution of two police officers in New York City. In Boston, then-BPD Superintendent William Gross faced down protesters after his officers shot and killed a man who had shot a detective in the face.

And the #MeToo movement, combating sexual harassment, started with accusations against Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein, and led to allegations against actor Kevin Spacey, comedian Louis C.K., NBC news anchor Matt Lauer and others. In Massachusetts, the news that casino mogul Steve Wynn had paid out settlements forced an investigation of the license for the Encore casino in Everett.

But Trump, the top story of The Teens, will remain the top story as the new decade starts, as embittered Democrats seek to remove him from office both by impeachment and in the 2020 election.

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