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Gas prices have continued to drop after topping out at more than $5 a gallon in June.

What will happen to gas prices this fall? The answer could shape the midterms.

The Democratic Party’s political outlook has improved significantly in recent weeks in part because prices at the pump have steadily eased from their record highs of more than $5 a gallon in June.

SPOTLIGHT INVESTIGATION

Doctors tried to stop a surgeon from operating. Hospital leaders resisted.
Alarmed doctors at Manchester's Catholic Medical Center tried to get a troubled colleague barred from surgery. But hospital leaders resisted. Then came the "summer of death."

Read part 1: A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Here are the most overhyped and underrated teams heading into the NFL season
The Super Bowl picks have been submitted and MVP predictions are in; who's getting too much credit, and who isn't getting enough?

Dan Shaughnessy

Belichick voices support for Patricia and Judge as Patriots get set to open their season
The Patriots coach talked about his new staff, his new habits, the new season, and the constant turnover in the game.

Charles III is proclaimed king at tradition-steeped royal ceremony

King Charles III has been officially announced as Britain’s monarch Saturday, in a ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism — and, for the first time, broadcast live.

PHOTO GALLERY

In a centuries-old ritual, King Charles III is publicly proclaimed Britain’s new monarch

The middle school boys thought their teacher was a ‘creep.’ So they tracked how he treated the girls.

A “pedo database” where some Davisville Middle School students documented how their teacher harassed girls in their class is now part of an investigation into the North Kingstown teacher.

Russia announces troop pullback after Ukrainian offensive in Kharkiv area
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Saturday that it’s pulling back troops from two areas in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region where a Ukrainian counteroffensive has made significant advances in the past week.

Dave Epstein | Forecast

Warm, sunny weekend might also be a bit smoky
The smoke will be with us throughout Saturday and is likely going to lead to some pretty vivid sunsets and sunrises the next couple of days.

Dr. Gregory Goodman, MD, and patient Virginia Fitzgerald conducting a home hospital virtual visit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

How technology made the pandemic more bearable — and how it didn’t

With the worst of the pandemic behind us, it’s time to hand out report cards, and decide which tech innovations of the pandemic era deserve a passing grade and have brought about change for the better.

Former president Barack Obama was the final speaker at Inbound, the annual conference for Cambridge marketing software company HubSpot.

‘Democracy is not self-executed’: Obama talks political divides, tech’s impact, and the queen at Boston conference

The former president told attendees the nation is “more divided than we were” when he made waves in 2004 with his stirring speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Yankees Aaron Judge has a wide lead in the major league home-run race, and possibly the inside track to win the AL MVP award.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Taking a look at the races for baseball’s major awards as the regular season winds down

Most of the attention will be on the American League Most Valuable Player competition between Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani. But the other categories hold some intrigue, too.

Opinion

A page from the order granting a request by former President Donald Trump's legal team to appoint a special master to review documents seized by the FBI during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Special master does not spell doom for DOJ’s investigation of Trump

While the Department of Justice is right to appeal the nonsensical decision to appoint an independent arbiter to review classified documents in the criminal investigation of the former president, it must proceed with the utmost caution.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

The queen we couldn’t stop watching is dead. The monarchy should be next.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

The skies, and TSA, still aren’t friendly to those with Black hairstyles

MARCELA GARCÍA

Latino political power grows at the Massachusetts State House

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Education | Kimi Waite

The great resisters of Japanese American history have a powerful story to tell
History shows us Asian Americans have consistently engaged in resistance against injustices by challenging systemic racism as far back as 1879, but ongoing anti-critical race theory campaigns and backlash from the far right demonstrate the struggle for an antiracist education continues.

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Judge tosses Trump’s lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, calls it a ‘manifesto’
Former president Donald Trump’s lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic rival and former top FBI officials claimed they and others acted in concert to concoct the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his administration.

Tara Sullivan

A generation of top female athletes are retiring in bittersweet fashion, but they’re headed for exciting second acts
Legends like Serena Williams and Sue Bird are exiting stage right, but they're poised to break ground on the road ahead much the way they did on the one behind.

MUSIC REVIEW

At the Wang, a delightfully off-script Diana Ross
Even when confronted with the unexpected, Ross kept the audience hanging on.

A long-shot GOP candidate for R.I. governor has criminal record under different name
Jonathan Riccitelli, who is on the ballot for Tuesday’s Republican primary, has had dozens of encounters with police -- as Jonathan Tefft. Now, he says, he’s focused on growing his business and helping people.

Tewksbury man killed Friday in single-car crash in Boxborough
A 60 year old Tewksbury man was killed in a car crash Friday afternoon in Boxborough.

A $2 taxi fare dispute in 2013 turns into two days in jail, all due to a government typo
Nine years later, a $2 dispute came crashing back into Angus R. McCoubrey's life in truly bizarre fashion, leaving him bewildered, in swim trunks, T-shirt, and flip flops, handcuffed in a police cruiser on Martha's Vineyard.

Recommended reads

HBO's "The White Lotus" returns for a second season, this time set in Sicily.

FALL ARTS PREVIEW

20 TV shows to watch while chilling out this fall

The season brings notable new series from the likes of David E. Kelley, Guillermo del Toro, and Taylor Sheridan, plus some returning favorites, including “The White Lotus,” “Abbott Elementary,” and “The Crown.”

‘The Next Boston’: Globe Summit returns with a focus on the future
The Boston Globe’s three-day virtual conference starting Sept. 14 will feature some of the country’s most acclaimed and influential minds as well as stars such as Red Sox hall-of-famer David Ortiz and actor Sam Waterston.

Globe Magazine

Six perfect New England towns for a fall getaway
From breathtaking views and foliage to charming seacoasts and Main Streets, these regional gems are great places to have a classic autumn experience.

Maps: Takeaways from the town-by-town results in Tuesday’s primaries
See how your community voted in several key races.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss come to the Leader Bank Pavilion on Friday.

Between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, there’s a whole lotta love for roots music

Courtnee Carter and Adam Bregman lead the cast of "Sing Street" at the Huntington Theatre Company.

A rollicking drive down ‘Sing Street’ at the Huntington

Kathryn Lasky's "Light on Bone" imagines artist Georgia O'Keeffe as an amateur crime solver.

Georgia O’Keeffe, amateur sleuth? In Kathryn Lasky’s latest novel, it works.

The ICA is just one of Boston's museums offering free admission to EBT cardholders.

How an EBT card can help you access the arts

Special Projects

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Welcome Back to Boston

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The state’s highest court will hear arguments Friday in the two cases, which raise the question of whether the correction commissioner is abiding by a 2018 law, designed to provide an exit ramp for terminally ill or permanently incapacitated prisoners, or whether she’s going out of her way to avoid doing so.

Mercy in short supply for frail, incapacitated inmates

The Baker administration has picked Leggat McCall Properties to redevelop the Hurley building off Cambridge Street in Boston.

A redo for the Hurley building

A protester held a "Let's Go Brandon" sign as the motorcade for President Biden passed him on Aug. 30, 2022, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

Democrats are losing on a key battleground — the meme wars

President Biden recently said, “What we’re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”

MAGA and Biden’s charge of semi-fascism

Michael T. "Nuf Ced" McGreevy, in center with megaphone, led the Royal Rooters back to Boston from Pittsburgh during the 1903 World Series. The Boston Americans left Boston trailing the Pittsburgh Pirates but returned with the series lead.

IDEAS | PAUL RINGEL

Red Sox Nation, meet your horn-tooting, rabble-rousing granddaddies, the Royal Rooters

IDEAS | LASHYRA NOLEN

Woke medicine doesn’t mean worse medicine

Metro

Rhode Island political news: September 2022

Regular updates about Rhode Island politics and political leaders.

A long-shot GOP candidate for R.I. governor has criminal record under different name

Jonathan Riccitelli, who is on the ballot for Tuesday’s Republican primary, has had dozens of encounters with police -- as Jonathan Tefft. Now, he says, he’s focused on growing his business and helping people.

What’s at stake in Rhode Island’s upcoming political primaries?

With several incumbents battling to keep their seats, the results of Tuesday’s primary could reshape the General Assembly.

Attack ad aimed at boosting Gorbea draws fresh fire

Common Cause Rhode Island says the ad should have listed the top 5 donors, but the Latino Victory Fund says it was not required to do so as a federal political action committee.

Sports

At the US Open, Frances Tiafoe came within four set victories of his first Grand Slam title.

Kevin Paul Dupont | On Second Thought

Frances Tiafoe may have lost in the US Open semifinals, but for two weeks he resurrected American men’s tennis

Until Friday, an American male had not been in the US Open semifinals since Andy Roddick in 2006.

Michael Wacha is on the mound for the Sox Saturday.

RED SOX AT ORIOLES | 5:05 P.M. (NESN)

Game 140: Red Sox at Orioles lineups and notes

Michael Wacha has been Boston's best and most consistent starter this season, and he'll be tasked with halting a four-game skid Saturday.

Joe Buck (left) and Troy Aikman will still share a broadcast booth, but it will be for ESPN after both jumped ship from Fox.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

It might take time to figure out where NFL broadcasters landed in offseason network changes

The NFL offseason was marked by superstar broadcasters changing teams, often for jaw-dropping amounts of money.

Voters don’t have it easy when deciding on baseball’s most valuable players

A generation of top female athletes are retiring in bittersweet fashion, but they’re headed for exciting second acts

Kevin Paul Dupont | Sunday hockey notes

What will it take for a youngster to crack the Bruins lineup this season?

Business

Advocates make push for Montreal-to-Boston passenger rail

Hundreds of travelers would ride a privately operated, overnight train each day if obstacles can be overcome to make the service a reality in coming years, according to a ridership study.

How technology made the pandemic more bearable — and how it didn’t

With the worst of the pandemic behind us, it’s time to hand out report cards, and decide which tech innovations of the pandemic era deserve a passing grade and have brought about change for the better.

Climate change could worsen supply chain turmoil

Condé Nast workers win recognition of companywide union

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Ogunquit, Maine.

Six perfect New England towns for a fall getaway

I’m leaving for college; he’s starting work. Can our love endure?

However you become a parent, caring for a baby dramatically changes your brain

Chocolate Biscotti With Pistachios, Almonds, and Dried Cherries

Recipes: Chocolate and cocoa powder combine for intensely rich desserts

metro

This booking photo provided by the Manchester Police Department shows Kayla Montgomery, on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, in Manchester, N.H. Montgomery, the stepmother of a New Hampshire girl who vanished in 2019 at age 5, was arrested Friday after she failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing. (Manchester Police Department via AP)

Stepmother of Harmony Montgomery arrested in N.H. after missing court hearing

Eleanor Slater Hospital fixed many issues, but one key problem remains

The middle school boys thought their teacher was a ‘creep.’ So they tracked how he treated the girls.

sports

Jalen Green was drafted No. 2 overall in 2021 after playing for the Ignite, and averaged 17.3 point per game for the Rockets.

NBA hopefuls are taking a new path to the big stage with G League Ignite

Taking a look at the races for baseball’s major awards as the regular season winds down

Here are the most overhyped and underrated teams heading into the NFL season

business

Statues adorn the facade of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, July 14, 2022, in New York.

Stocks end broadly higher, breaking a 3-week losing streak

McKinsey signs lease in Winthrop Center

Burger King investing $400m in US revamp to boost sales

politics

President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen in Palm Beach, Fla., April 18, 2018.

US, Trump team propose names for arbiter in Mar-a-Lago probe

What will happen to gas prices this fall? The answer could shape the midterms.

Two House chairs seek probe into airlines’ use of federal aid

Nation

A pop-up polio vaccination site set up by county health department in Pomona, N.Y., July 22, 2022.

Governor Hochul declares polio state of emergency for New York

Proud Boys who scrawled ‘Murder the Media’ at Capitol plead guilty

Family wants answers after pallbearer killed by officers

World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, after a press conference in Kyiv on Sept. 9.

Russia announces troop pullback after Ukrainian offensive in Kharkiv area

Charles III is proclaimed king at tradition-steeped royal ceremony

In a centuries-old ritual, King Charles III is publicly proclaimed Britain’s new monarch

opinion

The Baker administration has picked Leggat McCall Properties to redevelop the Hurley building off Cambridge Street in Boston.

A redo for the Hurley building

The skies, and TSA, still aren’t friendly to those with Black hairstyles

Boston should provide day care to get BPS staff back to school

lifestyle

How do you get over a bad breakup?

In West Concord, Barefoot Books celebrates 30 years of diversity, inclusion, and fearless reading for kids

My boyfriend or my work crush?

food & dining

Day Boat Sea Scallops at Northern Spy in Canton.

Northern Spy hosts a fermented feast; Urban Hearth pops up in the Fenway

After years of redevelopment rumors, The Middle East in Cambridge may become a hotel

Recipe: Mom’s old-fashioned tuna casserole gets a boost and an update with spicy white beans

Arts

Robert Capa, "Normandy Invasion on D‐Day, Soldier Advancing through Surf," 1944. (The Howard Greenberg Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated by the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust/ Robert Capa © International Center of Photography / Magnum Photos/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

MFA examines Life magazine’s portrait of America with a critical eye

Chelsea, then and now, in black and white

In Provincetown show, Kurt Reynolds sculpts stories out of objects

Books

Merriam-Webster.com is displayed on a computer screen on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, in New York. The Springfield-based company added 370 new words and phrases to its dictionary this week.

ICYMI: Merriam-Webster adds ‘lewk,’ ‘yeet,’ and ‘side hustle’ to the dictionary

An exercise in memory in ‘Lessons’

A mother’s letter to her daughter — and others

Movies

90-plus movies to be pumped about this fall

‘The Story of Film: A New Generation’ looks at 80 films from the past decade

In the new ‘Pinocchio,’ on Disney+, the nose knows

Television

Olivia Colman portrayed Queen Elizabeth II for two seasons in "The Crown." The Netflix series returns in November with Imelda Staunton assuming the role of the queen in her later years.

For many of us, ‘The Crown’ is how we got to know the queen

What the future holds: ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ to end, yet go on

20 TV shows to watch while chilling out this fall

music

Diana Ross, shown in July at the NN North Sea Jazz Festival at Rotterdam.

At the Wang, a delightfully off-script Diana Ross

A fiery 50th for Aerosmith at Fenway

With ‘Dance Fever’ and a new tour, Florence + The Machine’s moving parts are finally in sync

Theater/Dance

From left: Elise Piliponis, Jesse Hinson, and Dayna Cousins rehearse a scene from "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" at SpeakEasy Stage Company.

Catholic conservatives who grapple with culture, faith, and politics are people ‘Heroes’ playwright Will Arbery knows well

A rollicking drive down ‘Sing Street’ at the Huntington

In a riveting ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,′ a disparate community speaks its truths

globe local

The hall of flags at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.

‘The jewel of our city’

The Argument: Should the state expand the potential use of dangerousness hearings?

Creating gardens for pollinators — and people

Obituaries

Don Gehrmann (left) caught Fred Wilt from behind in the last stride to win the featured Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden. Gehrmann's winning time was 4:09.3, in a race so close that the officials disagreed among themselves over the winner.

Don Gehrmann, whose victory in a mile took 314 days, dies at 94

Bernard Shaw, CNN’s 1st chief anchor, dies at 82

Anne Garrels, fearless NPR correspondent, dies at 71