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Venezuelan migrants gather to board busses outside of St. Andrew's Parish House in Martha’s Vineyard on Friday.

Perla, the woman migrants say enticed them onto planes, reflects an ugliness we must contend with

The woman who enticed desperate Venezuelan migrants onto the planes that dropped them on Martha’s Vineyard without notice last week is straight out of a Dickens story.

Voices of migrants, from a New England island in a new land Migrants head to temporary shelter at Joint Base Cape Cod

Civil rights lawyers ask Healey, Rollins to open criminal investigation into migrants’ plight
Venezuelan migrants whose surprise journey to Martha’s Vineyard unwittingly thrust them into the nation’s divisive immigration debate met Saturday with pro bono attorneys at their temporary quarters on Cape Cod as a prominent civil rights group asked Massachusetts prosecutors to launch criminal investigations.

Migrants detail ruse as lawyers, advocates explore possible criminal violations
The undocumented migrants consistently report they were induced to board the planes in San Antonio with false promises of work in Boston, educational opportunities, and help with immigration paperwork.

See more coverage of the migrant crisis

Putting together the pieces of ‘The Embrace’
Boston’s long-awaited memorial to the Kings is headed to the Common in January. Our art critic traveled to the Walla Walla Foundry in Washington state, and visited the Brooklyn studio of artist Hank Willis Thomas, to trace its journey.

DEVRA FIRST

For her first new restaurant in more than a decade, chef Barbara Lynch looks homeward
The award-winning chef — whose heart isn't in Boston the way it once was — is opening The Rudder in Gloucester, another step in a colorful journey.

spotlight follow-up

New Hampshire keeps patients in the dark about their doctors’ malpractice, disciplinary records

Patients and families in New Hampshire have no reliable way to learn crucial information about a doctor because the state’s medical board is one of the least transparent in the nation.

Spotlight: A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death

Trump’s former accounting firm begins turning over documents to Congress

Mazars USA, the longtime accounting firm for former president Donald Trump that cut ties with him and his family business this year, has begun turning over documents related to his financial dealings to Congress.

Here’s how much money you could get back through the new Mass. tax refund

Everything you need to know about how to get your tax refund under a little-known law triggered by the state’s record windfall of tax collections.

Millions of Mass. taxpayers will get money back starting in November, officials say. Here are the details.

World leaders head to London for Queen Elizabeth II funeral
US President Joe Biden and other dignitaries are arriving in London for the funeral, to which around 500 royals, heads of state and heads of government from around the globe have been invited.

Long lines were part of Franklin Park vaccination clinic aimed at getting kids shots

A vaccination clinic held in Franklin Park Saturday and timed with the return to school drew hundreds to the city’s White Stadium, but it was an hours-long wait before many people could get a shot.

royals 9, red sox 0

Another listless loss, this one to the Royals, as the Red Sox shift their sights toward the future

It’s clear the Sox have weaponized the biggest boot by punting on the scraps of a season not even a hyena would devour and pivoting toward the immediate future.

Juveniles arrested on armed robbery charges in Jamaica Plain

Kevin Plawecki played in 149 games over three seasons with the Red Sox before getting designated for assignment Friday night.

After three seasons as the Red Sox’ backup catcher, Kevin Plawecki was sent off with a beer

With Reese McGuire and Connor Wong set to return, Plawecki, 31 and due to hit free agency at the end of the year, wasn’t in the Sox’ long term plans.

Peter Abraham: Will the turmoil the Yankees have endured this season help them in the playoffs?

A banner for the Danvers High School Hockey team hung inside Endicott College’s Raymond J. Bourque Arena, where the team had played before it became embroiled in accusations of racial and homophobic hazing assaults on a hockey player.

As school sports kick off, a test for new protocols to spot, report abuses

The state's initiative, developed last spring, largely relies on aspiration and education rather than tougher policies to better hold schools, staff, and students accountable for misconduct.

Last Sunday's Patriots-Dolphins game got a 23.9 rating on Ch. 4, down considerably from last year’s 33.1 rating for the Patriots’ opener, which was also against the Dolphins.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

If the Patriots are mediocre this season, can we expect mediocre broadcast teams, too?

Getting the best national broadcast teams to call so many of their games was a perk of the Patriots’ excellence for all those years.

How Jakobi Meyers and Gunner Olszewski persevered after being afterthoughts with the Patriots in 2019

Hispanic Heritage Month

My NFL dream didn’t pan out. But now that I’m a teacher and coach, I know I’ve ‘made it.’

My true success? Crushing social barriers and stereotypes society has built for young men of color.

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third Documenting Chelsea’s indefatigable heart Read more Hispanic Heritage Month stories

Leaving East Boston, and Coming Back Home

After dreaming of a career in football Tyrone Figueroa’s career took an unexpected turn: he became a public school teacher and returned home to East Boston. ( By Randy Vazquez/Globe Staff, By Andrea Patiño Contreras/Globe Staff )

Opinion

Dr. Yvon Baribeau works the controls of a surgical robot working inside an artificial chest cavity at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H., on April 3, 2002.

EDITORIAL

Patients’ rights in the Live Free or Die state

Spotlight’s exposure of Dr. Yvon Baribeau’s record shows need for transparency in malpractice cases.

LETTERS

Getting out from under the weight of student loan debt

LETTERS

A path to Massachusetts, paved with political intentions

Colin Diver

My old college boycotted the US News ratings. I wish more schools would do the same.

JEFF JACOBY

A powerful new account of how Washington abandoned Hitler’s victims

Culture | V. Jo Hsu

The irony of the trans ‘villain’
When Boston Children's Hospital gets violent threats for providing gender-affirming care, and drag queen story hours are attacked as “sites of sexual predation,” it’s time to confront the rising tide of anti-trans propaganda seeking to divide us.

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150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.

Spotlight investigation

Part 1

A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau Video: What the Spotlight Team’s investigation discovered about Dr. Baribeau N.H. hospital promises review after revelations about doctor with 21 malpractice settlements

Part 2

A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

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."

‘It’s terrible to get their funeral mixed up in this:’ Horse slips and dies outside funeral at Roslindale’s church
A horse struck its head and died in a fall outside of Sacred Heart Church in Roslindale Saturday while waiting to transport a carriage-drawn hearse to a local cemetery.

FDA approves Bluebird Bio gene therapy for lethal brain disease in children
Skysona, now the firm’s second commercial gene therapy, will cost $3 million, making it the most expensive drug in the country.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

A Q&A with Ricky Williams, who found his sweet spot in life with the marijuana industry
Williams was vilified for smoking weed during his career, but few listened to his concerns about his mental health. “I feel a sense of pride that my sacrifice wasn’t in vain,” Williams said.

MUSIC REVIEW

A Samara Joy-ride at Scullers
The 22-year-old singer has been on a trajectory since winning the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2019, and the performance at Scullers showed why.

OBITUARY

Heidelise Als, whose research revolutionized the care of premature babies, dies at 81
"She wanted to be the voice of the newborn," a colleague said of Dr. Als.

These little piggies are finding their way home
Kim Smothermon’s Guinea Pig Sanctuary in Salisbury, one of just a handful of rescue services in the country dedicated to the chubby rodents, is currently housing more than 400 of them.

Four secrets from the world’s longest happiness study

A Harvard study traced people into old age, asking them about their proudest moments and regrets. The results can help us reframe our parenting priorities.

An illustrated guide to people seen on the T
The Orange Line is set to come back online on Monday, and people around Boston are getting ready to resume their regularly scheduled commutes. And by extension — headaches. To mark the occasion, we’ve created a guide to the archetypes you’ll likely brush shoulders with while riding the MBTA.

Incoming Boston schools leader discusses her vision for the district and its challenges at Globe Summit
Mary Skipper says she's been trying to understand people’s perspectives and experiences about what’s working in the district, as well as the priorities of the community.

Opera star lands in Boston after opposing ‘Europe’s last dictator’
Ilya Silchukou, who publicly sided with protesters following the disputed 2020 election in Belarus, is starting over in the US with his wife and their three children. He performs in Boston on Saturday.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Rosalía with her dancers in concert at MGM Music Hall at Fenway, the first date on her US tour.

Pop powerhouse Rosalía in full command at MGM Music Hall

David Koechner plays Laugh Boston September 16-17, with a special “Office” trivia show as Todd Packer Saturday afternoon.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Museum of Fine Arts’ Latinx Heritage Night

16 ways to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month in Boston

A German policeman checks the identification papers of Jewish people in Poland, circa 1941, as seen in "The U.S. and the Holocaust."

‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ examines a question that haunts us still: Why didn’t we do more?

Special Projects

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

King Charles III walks behind the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, adorned with a Royal Standard and the Imperial State Crown and pulled by a Gun Carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, during a procession from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster, in London on Sept. 14.

Alex Beam

Charles — be still my heart

A Boston Police bomb squad officer, left, and a K-9 unit officer, right, on the campus of Northeastern University on Wednesday.

RENÉE GRAHAM

A city in a state of dread and unease

The author hikes with his son and daughter in the Berkshires in 2020.

IDEAS | CRAIG THOMAS

Hollywood and the ‘R-word’

Members of the Martha's Vineyard community and migrants gather at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Edgartown on Sept. 15. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has claimed responsibility for the stunt that sent two unexpected planes of migrants from Venezuela to the island.

EDITORIAL

Trafficking in human lives should have consequences for its Republican perpetrators

Just after winning his Republican primary on Tuesday, New Hampshire Senate candidate Don Bolduc said he no longer believed that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Trump and conceded that Joe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States.

EDITORIAL

This Republican’s pivot should fool no one

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

Seal pops up in Shoe Pond in Beverly

The seal may have been chasing fish up the Bass River and ended up in nearby Shoe Pond, next to the Cummings Center, officials said Friday.

Civil rights lawyers ask Healey, Rollins to open criminal investigation into migrants’ plight

Venezuelan migrants whose surprise journey to Martha’s Vineyard unwittingly thrust them into the nation’s divisive immigration debate met Saturday with pro bono attorneys at their temporary quarters on Cape Cod as a prominent civil rights group asked Massachusetts prosecutors to launch criminal investigations.

Long lines were part of Franklin Park vaccination clinic aimed at getting kids shots

A vaccination clinic held in Franklin Park Saturday and timed with the return to school drew hundreds to the city’s White Stadium, but it was an hours-long wait before many people could get a shot.

OBITUARY

Heidelise Als, whose research revolutionized the care of premature babies, dies at 81

"She wanted to be the voice of the newborn," a colleague said of Dr. Als.

Sports

Tight end George Takacs caught a first-quarter touchdown in Boston College's win over Maine.

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It wasn’t a thing of beauty, but Boston College football breaks through to beat Maine

The Eagles (1-2), who haven’t dropped a game to the Black Bears (0-3) since 1915, avoided what would have been a calamitous loss.

NASCAR

Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch eliminated from playoffs as Chris Buescher wins at Bristol

Buescher won for RFK Racing to give the organization its first win in a points-paying Cup race in over five years.

Phillips Academy's KJ Edwards evades the reach of Kent's Henry Peterson on his way to a touchdown in Saturday's 24-19 victory in Andover.

Saturday's HS football roundup

Joe Carrara, Phillips Andover off to the races in season-opening win over Kent

The junior captain returned a late kickoff 80 yards to lift Big Blue to a 24-19 victory in Saturday's NEPSAC Class A opener in Andover.

FC Montreal 1, Revolution 0

Revolution’s playoff hopes flag after loss to FC Montreal

Golf roundup

Cameron Smith overtakes Dustin Johnson at LIV-Chicago

Bruins notebook

Rookie camp invitee Ryan Humphrey scores twice in Bruins’ 6-4 loss to Penguins

Business

EU recommends suspending billions in funding to Hungary

The European Union’s executive branch recommended Sunday that the bloc suspend around 7.5 billion euros in funding to Hungary over concerns about democratic backsliding and the possible mismanagement of EU money.

Global economy weakening amid inflation fight, war and lingering pandemic

Stubbornly high inflation has Wall Street worried that the Federal Reserve will respond by raising interest rates until the United States tumbles into recession, taking the weakening global economy with it.

FDA approves Bluebird Bio gene therapy for lethal brain disease in children

Court rules in favor of Texas law on social media regulation

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My Boston History

Why humor is the best bridge between cultures

My Boston History

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third

CONNECTIONS

A taste of home at the Hi-Lo Supermarket

PERSPECTIVE

Perla, the woman migrants say enticed them onto planes, reflects an ugliness we must contend with

Migrants detail ruse as lawyers, advocates explore possible criminal violations The undocumented migrants consistently report they were induced to board the planes in San Antonio with false promises of work in Boston, educational opportunities, and help with immigration paperwork.

See more coverage of the migrant crisis

Putting together the pieces of ‘The Embrace’ Boston’s long-awaited memorial to the Kings is headed to the Common in January. Our art critic traveled to the Walla Walla Foundry in Washington state, and visited the Brooklyn studio of artist Hank Willis Thomas, to trace its journey.

DEVRA FIRST For her first new restaurant in more than a decade, chef Barbara Lynch looks homeward The award-winning chef — whose heart isn't in Boston the way it once was — is opening The Rudder in Gloucester, another step in a colorful journey.

New Hampshire keeps patients in the dark about their doctors’ malpractice, disciplinary records

Trump’s former accounting firm begins turning over documents to Congress

Here’s how much money you could get back through the new Mass. tax refund

World leaders head to London for Queen Elizabeth II funeral US President Joe Biden and other dignitaries are arriving in London for the funeral, to which around 500 royals, heads of state and heads of government from around the globe have been invited.

Long lines were part of Franklin Park vaccination clinic aimed at getting kids shots

Another listless loss, this one to the Royals, as the Red Sox shift their sights toward the future

Juveniles arrested on armed robbery charges in Jamaica Plain

After three seasons as the Red Sox’ backup catcher, Kevin Plawecki was sent off with a beer

As school sports kick off, a test for new protocols to spot, report abuses

If the Patriots are mediocre this season, can we expect mediocre broadcast teams, too?

Hispanic Heritage Month

My NFL dream didn’t pan out. But now that I’m a teacher and coach, I know I’ve ‘made it.’

Patients’ rights in the Live Free or Die state

Getting out from under the weight of student loan debt

A path to Massachusetts, paved with political intentions

My old college boycotted the US News ratings. I wish more schools would do the same.

A powerful new account of how Washington abandoned Hitler’s victims

Mass. coronavirus at a glance

Cases and deaths

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150 years of The Boston Globe

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A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

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‘It’s terrible to get their funeral mixed up in this:’ Horse slips and dies outside funeral at Roslindale’s church A horse struck its head and died in a fall outside of Sacred Heart Church in Roslindale Saturday while waiting to transport a carriage-drawn hearse to a local cemetery.

FDA approves Bluebird Bio gene therapy for lethal brain disease in children Skysona, now the firm’s second commercial gene therapy, will cost $3 million, making it the most expensive drug in the country.

MUSIC REVIEW A Samara Joy-ride at Scullers The 22-year-old singer has been on a trajectory since winning the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2019, and the performance at Scullers showed why.

OBITUARY Heidelise Als, whose research revolutionized the care of premature babies, dies at 81 "She wanted to be the voice of the newborn," a colleague said of Dr. Als.

These little piggies are finding their way home Kim Smothermon’s Guinea Pig Sanctuary in Salisbury, one of just a handful of rescue services in the country dedicated to the chubby rodents, is currently housing more than 400 of them.

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Incoming Boston schools leader discusses her vision for the district and its challenges at Globe Summit Mary Skipper says she's been trying to understand people’s perspectives and experiences about what’s working in the district, as well as the priorities of the community.

Opera star lands in Boston after opposing ‘Europe’s last dictator’ Ilya Silchukou, who publicly sided with protesters following the disputed 2020 election in Belarus, is starting over in the US with his wife and their three children. He performs in Boston on Saturday.

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Pop powerhouse Rosalía in full command at MGM Music Hall

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Charles — be still my heart

A city in a state of dread and unease

Hollywood and the ‘R-word’

Trafficking in human lives should have consequences for its Republican perpetrators

This Republican’s pivot should fool no one

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

Seal pops up in Shoe Pond in Beverly

Civil rights lawyers ask Healey, Rollins to open criminal investigation into migrants’ plight

Long lines were part of Franklin Park vaccination clinic aimed at getting kids shots

Heidelise Als, whose research revolutionized the care of premature babies, dies at 81

Sports

It wasn’t a thing of beauty, but Boston College football breaks through to beat Maine

Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch eliminated from playoffs as Chris Buescher wins at Bristol

Joe Carrara, Phillips Andover off to the races in season-opening win over Kent

Revolution’s playoff hopes flag after loss to FC Montreal

Cameron Smith overtakes Dustin Johnson at LIV-Chicago

Rookie camp invitee Ryan Humphrey scores twice in Bruins’ 6-4 loss to Penguins

Business

EU recommends suspending billions in funding to Hungary

Global economy weakening amid inflation fight, war and lingering pandemic

FDA approves Bluebird Bio gene therapy for lethal brain disease in children

Court rules in favor of Texas law on social media regulation

Why humor is the best bridge between cultures

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third

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metro

New Hampshire keeps patients in the dark about their doctors’ malpractice, disciplinary records

Migrants detail ruse as lawyers, advocates explore possible criminal violations
The undocumented migrants consistently report they were induced to board the planes in San Antonio with false promises of work in Boston, educational opportunities, and help with immigration paperwork.

Putting together the pieces of ‘The Embrace’
Boston’s long-awaited memorial to the Kings is headed to the Common in January. Our art critic traveled to the Walla Walla Foundry in Washington state, and visited the Brooklyn studio of artist Hank Willis Thomas, to trace its journey.

DEVRA FIRST

For her first new restaurant in more than a decade, chef Barbara Lynch looks homeward
The award-winning chef — whose heart isn't in Boston the way it once was — is opening The Rudder in Gloucester, another step in a colorful journey.

World leaders head to London for Queen Elizabeth II funeral
US President Joe Biden and other dignitaries are arriving in London for the funeral, to which around 500 royals, heads of state and heads of government from around the globe have been invited.

Part 1

A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

‘It’s terrible to get their funeral mixed up in this:’ Horse slips and dies outside funeral at Roslindale’s church
A horse struck its head and died in a fall outside of Sacred Heart Church in Roslindale Saturday while waiting to transport a carriage-drawn hearse to a local cemetery.

FDA approves Bluebird Bio gene therapy for lethal brain disease in children
Skysona, now the firm’s second commercial gene therapy, will cost $3 million, making it the most expensive drug in the country.

MUSIC REVIEW

A Samara Joy-ride at Scullers
The 22-year-old singer has been on a trajectory since winning the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2019, and the performance at Scullers showed why.

OBITUARY

Heidelise Als, whose research revolutionized the care of premature babies, dies at 81
"She wanted to be the voice of the newborn," a colleague said of Dr. Als.

These little piggies are finding their way home
Kim Smothermon’s Guinea Pig Sanctuary in Salisbury, one of just a handful of rescue services in the country dedicated to the chubby rodents, is currently housing more than 400 of them.

Incoming Boston schools leader discusses her vision for the district and its challenges at Globe Summit
Mary Skipper says she's been trying to understand people’s perspectives and experiences about what’s working in the district, as well as the priorities of the community.

Opera star lands in Boston after opposing ‘Europe’s last dictator’
Ilya Silchukou, who publicly sided with protesters following the disputed 2020 election in Belarus, is starting over in the US with his wife and their three children. He performs in Boston on Saturday.