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Trump says officials should be jailed as they oppose his use of National Guard troops. Follow live updates.

President Trump's comment about the governor of Illinois and mayor of Chicago is the latest example of his brazen calls for his opponents to be prosecuted or locked up.
James Comey pleads not guilty as lawyers signal intent to argue Trump foe’s case is politically motivated

Women’s colleges reaffirm their support of trans women in face of Trump’s DEI attacks

With the White House confronting universities over DEI policies, some women’s colleges are using the moment to reassert their core values.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse takes on Attorney General Pam BondiProfessor who teaches about anti-fascism at Rutgers moves to Europe after death threats

Minority Whip Katherine Clark on midterm elections: ‘I feel very good about winning the House’

Clark, speaking at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, sees reason for hope in the elections next fall.
Pressure points ahead could bring a quicker end to the shutdownWhat to do if your flight is delayed or canceled during the shutdown

Judge orders release of Pittsfield man after court rules he was unlawfully detained by ICE

Carlos De Andrade, a car mechanic, was forced to postpone his wedding after being held by ICE for over a month.

Take a look at an architect’s renderings of a ‘more modern’ Kowloon
The new restaurant will feature a "clean aesthetic," an architect behind the project said.

The legacy of Kowloon: A restaurant, a family, and the remarkable perseverance of Chinese cuisine in America

Boston is experimenting with ‘zebra’ barriers in its latest effort to protect bike lanes

The change is the among the latest experiments in city hall’s contested campaign to expand and protect bike infrastructure across Boston.

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.
Dan Shaughnessy

Maybe we shouldn’t be thinking playoffs for the Patriots just yet, but their softer-than-soft schedule says otherwise

Not enough has been made of the clear path the Patriots have been handed. Welcome to the March of the Tomato Cans, 2025.
The downfield passing attack is back with Drake Maye and Josh McDaniels

Joan Bennett Kennedy, mental health advocate and former wife of Senator Ted Kennedy, dies

“I will always admire my mother for the way that she faced up to her challenges with grace, courage, humility, and honesty,” her son, Ted Kennedy Jr., said in a statement.
Photos: Joan Kennedy through the years
Forecast | Ken Mahan

After a rainy day, it’s bright skies ahead for a chilly Thursday

New Englanders will feel a lingering breeze as chilly autumn air settles in.

Possible nor’easter threatens New England coast this holiday weekend
Our region could see its first nor’easter of the fall and winter season, with up to 50 mph gusty winds but minimal rain.

Governor Healey’s pick for state Superior Court judge works for her partner, Joanna Lydgate

Gillian Feiner, who was recommended by Healey for an appointment to the high court on Wednesday, served as an assistant attorney general for 15 years.

Could Boston get city-owned grocery stores? Some city councilors want to explore the idea.

The idea has recently attracted attention as a key policy proposal pushed by New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Arab mediators believe Hamas could be open to partially disarming

Hamas could agree to hand over some of its weapons, as long as President Trump can guarantee Israel will not resume fighting, mediators said.

Mayor Wu condemns attacks on police at pro-Palestinian protest on Boston Common

Harvard mathematician among New Englanders awarded $800,000, no-strings-attached MacArthur ‘genius’ grants

Professor Lauren Williams was joined by a cultural anthropologist in Providence and a cartographer and basketmaker from Maine as the New Englanders named to this year's class of MacArthur fellows.
See the full 2025 MacArthur grant list

Three teenagers killed in crash in Francestown, N.H., police say

The car went off the side of the road and crashed into a telephone pole, police said.

Boston’s police commissioner says street takeovers are ‘getting out of control’

“They’re well aware of what they’re doing and where they’re going,” Michael Cox said Wednesday of the crowds that descend on intersections.
Healey ‘disgusted’ by chaotic ‘street takeovers’

Report: Bill Belichick’s UNC football is an ‘unstructured mess’ with a divided locker room

Just five games into the season, things are looking bleak in Chapel Hill.
odie henderson review | ★★

‘A House of Dynamite’ is defused by an unnecessary screenplay gimmick

Director Kathryn Bigelow's latest loses all of its tension with its repetitive storytelling.

Bill Burr is not sorry about performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

The comedian talked about his performance at a live taping of Conan O'Brien's podcast.
Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Nearly 250 patients at top Mass. hospitals say they were abused by a renowned doctor. Why wasn’t he stopped sooner?
Hundreds of women allege Dr. Derrick Todd sexually abused them over a decade. A Globe Spotlight investigation found the state’s medical establishment missed key warning signs.

Larry Nassar and Derrick Todd are two doctors accused of sexual assault under the guise of pelvic floor therapy. What is it?

Pelvic floor therapy is rarely, if ever, done by a physician. Doctors almost always refer patients to a specialist.
Opinion
JOAN VENNOCHI

Pope Leo and Zach Bryan are singing the same song against Trump immigration policies

Could that strange and unexpected pairing of voices encourage others to speak out against the roundup of immigrants across this country?
Carine Hajjar

A new era for conservative students at Harvard

IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA

US veterans are standing up for Afghan asylum seekers

L. Rafael Reif

An impossible choice: How Trump’s ‘compact’ threatens our universities

EDITORIAL

Trump troop deployments persist in the face of a judicial smackdown

More recent News

Woman arraigned in connection with 2-year-old’s death on Martha’s Vineyard

Police said the woman left two children she was babysitting alone in her car for about three hours.

It looks increasingly likely that the WNBA will not arrive in Boston any time soon

Because the league controls team relocation, the Sun’s ownership group no longer sees a path where it can sell with the expectation the team will move to Boston, according to a source familiar with the franchise’s thinking.

Mass. House overrides budget cuts made by Governor Healey amid ‘devastating’ Trump federal funding cuts

Massachusetts House members will vote Wednesday to override “several” vetoes Governor Maura Healey snipped from the budget she signed in July.

Boston nonprofit distributes 80,000 diapers to help families struggling with rising costs

Diapers alone can cost $1,000 per child per year. Nonprofits are organizing diaper drives and other initiatives to help struggling families.

Manchester synagogue attacker pledged allegiance to Islamic State group, police say

The attacker was shot dead by police after he rammed a car into pedestrians, attacked them with a knife, and tried to force his way into the building.

Harvard students skip class and still get high grades, faculty members say

A group of seven Harvard faculty members produced a report on the school’s classroom culture that has fueled debate since it was released in January.

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Drake Maye, Red Sox, and the Big E: Here are the September 2025 photos of the month

See some of the best Boston Globe staff photos from September, 2025.

How do you create a new ice cream flavor? You need an ice cream scientist, of course.
The scion of a long-standing ice cream family is crafting wild, award-winning, and popular treats at her dairy in East Bridgewater.

TRAVEL
Three Boston hotels rank best in the world in Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards
Delta is named the best airline, and T.F. Green is listed as one of the best airports.

The Big Day
For their wedding at youth-run bookstore More Than Words, two BPS librarians defined ‘love’ together
Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah and Siri Carr met while tutoring middle school students in English as part of AmeriCorps.

Culture & Lifestyle

Bill Burr is not sorry about performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

‘Bridgerton’ author Julia Quinn to chat about the allure of Regency romance at Boston Book Festival event this month

Matt Damon praises Patriots, shows off his cooking skills at Boston culinary benefit with Ming Tsai

Concord in a time of discord

Special Projects

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

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.

Explore the project: Snitch City

In a nation addicted to drugs, local police are addicted to informants.

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | JAMES DAO

Israel’s fractured soul

Shira Schoenberg

Nova massacre survivor: Music festivals should be about celebrating ‘life and love and freedom’

Mariel Garza

Is California’s secession from the US no longer unthinkable?

David Shribman

Trump’s shadow looms over Blue Jays-Yankees ALDS showdown

RENÉE GRAHAM

Hollywood’s newest supervillain: an AI-generated ‘actress’

IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Harvard mathematician among New Englanders awarded $800,000, no-strings-attached MacArthur ‘genius’ grants

Professor Lauren Williams was joined by a cultural anthropologist in Providence and a cartographer and basketmaker from Maine as the New Englanders named to this year's class of MacArthur fellows.
STATE OF THE TROPICS | KEN MAHAN

Jerry expected to steadily strengthen into a hurricane soon

Jerry had maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour and was closing in on the eastern Caribbean.

Norfolk County sheriff, accused of misusing campaign money, resigns as head of statewide sheriffs’ association

Sheriff Patrick McDermott was accused last month of unlawfully using campaign money

Norfolk County’s sheriff charged a business course to his office. Then he started his own money-making venture.

Sheriff Patrick McDermott said there was no correlation between his outside interest in real estate and the taxpayer-funded charges.

Sports

Bruins

Bruins name Hampus Lindholm their third alternate captain, joining David Pastrnak and Charlie McAvoy

The Bruins will start the season without a captain for the first time since 2001.
Patriots

A matter of trust: Devin McCourty impressed by early gains of Patriots rookie safety Craig Woodson

McCourty likes what he's seen so far from Woodson, a rookie safety who has played a team-high 97.4 percent of the defensive snaps.
College Football

Report: Bill Belichick’s UNC football is an ‘unstructured mess’ with a divided locker room

Just five games into the season, things are looking bleak in Chapel Hill.
NHL

In day of big NHL signings, Jack Eichel sticks in Vegas with reported eight-year, $108 million extension

wnba

It looks increasingly likely that the WNBA will not arrive in Boston any time soon

Ben Volin | On football

The biggest revelation for the 2025 Patriots: The downfield passing attack is back with Drake Maye and Josh McDaniels

Business

TALKING POINTS

Broadway could face a strike this fall. Here’s what to know.

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Is there an AI bubble? Financial institutions sound a warning.

Lingering doubts about the economic promise of artificial intelligence technology are starting to get the attention of financial institutions that raised warning flags this week about an AI investment bubble.

Most Fed officials supported further rate cuts as worries about jobs rose, minutes say

Could Boston get city-owned grocery stores? Some city councilors want to explore the idea.

magazine
The Education issue

New England schools are failing — and ‘nobody seems to care’

CONNECTIONS

We met in college. I learned what ‘friends forever’ means.

Your Week Ahead

Learn about LGBTQ+ youth resources, watch the Head of the Charles Regatta, and more

The Education Issue

School schedules are breaking parents — and hurting kids

metro

Judge orders release of Pittsfield man after court rules he was unlawfully detained by ICE

After a rainy day, it’s bright skies ahead for a chilly Thursday

Could Boston get city-owned grocery stores? Some city councilors want to explore the idea.

sports

Bruins legend Zdeno Chara reflects on getting his No. 33 retired

Game 1 preview: Bruins open 2025-26 season against Capitals

Maybe we shouldn’t be thinking playoffs for the Patriots just yet, but their softer-than-soft schedule says otherwise

business

At R.I.’s ‘Conjuring’ house, a new fear for the paranormal community: Losing it entirely

What to do in the event of a delayed or canceled flight during the US government shutdown

O’Brien expresses concern over Cannabis Control Commission votes taken in her absence

politics

Trump says officials should be jailed as they oppose his use of National Guard troops. Follow live updates.

Voters favor deporting those in US illegally, but say Trump has gone too far

Comey pleads not guilty and will seek to dismiss charges as vindictive

Nation

School offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results.

Trump’s energy cuts punished mostly blue states. Red states might be next.

Professor who teaches about anti-fascism at Rutgers moves to Europe after death threats

World

Arab mediators believe Hamas could be open to partially disarming

Hundreds of Mount Everest hikers rescued from snowstorm, 10 remain

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded for discovery that could trap C02 and bring water to deserts

opinion

Why is Trump so obsessed with Portland, Ore.?

Scapegoating immigrants won’t shorten your ER wait

An impossible choice: How Trump’s ‘compact’ threatens our universities

lifestyle

Ben Affleck joins Jennifer Lopez on ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ red carpet in NYC

The best relationship experts? Movers.

For their wedding at youth-run bookstore More Than Words, two BPS librarians defined ‘love’ together

food & dining

Take a look at an architect’s renderings of a ‘more modern’ Kowloon

Baleia is a bright spot

Matt Damon praises Patriots, shows off his cooking skills at Boston culinary benefit with Ming Tsai

travel

Airport staffing shortages cause flight delays a week into shutdown

Three Boston hotels rank best in the world in Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards

Berkshires bound this fall? Here are five new places ranging from rustic to refined.

Arts

Ilse Bing: What she did, and how she did it, was who she was

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

Concord in a time of discord

Books

Banned Books Week: Anti-censorship advocates plan events in New Hampshire

‘Bridgerton’ author Julia Quinn to chat about the allure of Regency romance at Boston Book Festival event this month

Prolific profile writer Susan Orlean turns a sharp gaze onto her own exhilarating career

Movies

Nine Inch Nails’s dynamite score brings ‘Tron: Ares’ closer to good

‘A House of Dynamite’ is defused by an unnecessary screenplay gimmick

Conan O’Brien on how his Boston Irish roots influenced his dramatic debut in ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’

Television

Ben Affleck joins Jennifer Lopez on ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ red carpet in NYC

‘Send them off’: In Jane Goodall’s parting interview, she said she’d launch Trump, Musk, Putin, others into space

How John Candy inspired a young and impressionable Conan O’Brien

music

Dolly Parton responds to concerns about her health: ‘I’m not dying’

Ben Affleck joins Jennifer Lopez on ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ red carpet in NYC

‘No, no, no’: Taylor Swift addresses Super Bowl halftime show rumors

Theater/Dance

Heavily sanitized and fully repaired, Improv Asylum is set to reopen

American Repertory Theater’s ‘300 Paintings’ unpacks an artistic manic episode

A misguided ‘Macbeth’ strains for relevance

Health

Developer Tom O’Brien will draw up new plans for Carney Hospital site, closed after Steward Health Care bankruptcy

State hospital at Tewksbury gets a security overhaul and it’s showing results after escapes and violence

Costco is selling Ozempic and Wegovy at about half price. Here are 5 things to know.

Obituaries

John B. Gurdon, 92, dies; Nobelist paved way for cloning of animals

Eileen Brown, founding president of Cambridge College, dies at 87

Margaret Markey, who championed victims of sexual abuse, dies at 83