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  ❤️  Donate Friday, November 14, 2025 🐢  Partly cloudy, with a high around 45. Good Morning Boston, Happy Friday! The Patriots looked good and played good in  their new "Nor'easter" jerseys  last night against the New York Jets. The 27-14 win puts the revamped Pats at 9-2 for the season, which is currently the best record in all of the NFL. (We even saw the second coming of Tom Brady's  comically oversized coat !) Now to the news: Shell shocked:   Now that  the Charles River alligator has been saved,  local wildlife advocates can focus on rescuing another reptile: sea turtles. We're currently in the midst of  cold-stunned turtle season  in Massachusetts. That's the roughly six-week period (starting in November through mid January) that sea turtles from the Gulf of Mexico which came north for the summer get stuck in the chilly waters of Cape Cod Bay. And as WBUR's Dan Guzman reports, it's a worsening problem due to climate change. ...

  New from  CommonWealth Beacon MUST READ! IT'S NOT TIME TO STEP BACK! TOGETHER WE CAN REDUCE ENERGY COSTS! CLIMATE:  A major bill that would weaken the state’s 2030 climate mandates is  officially on the move in the House  after seven House Democrats on the energy committee voted to advance it. It’s a sign of the political muscle being exerted on Beacon Hill to soften the state’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and is throwing Gov. Maura Healey’s energy affordability legislation into disarray. Jordan Wolman has more.  CHECKUP:   Massachusetts’s long-running health care challenges  are only set to grow more dire  due to federal cuts and changes to Medicaid eligibility, Chris Lisinski reports.   HOSPITAL:   State officials  voted to approve the sale  of a Leicester hospital and nursing home to an out-of-state, for-profit regional health care operator. Sam Drysdale at the State House News Service has the det...