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Midterm Elections

Dave Manly (left) spoke with Rahsaan Hall at the Duxbury Senior Center. Hall is running for district attorney of Plymouth County and was visiting the senior center.

As a statewide Democratic sweep looms, can Republicans hold on to their last two district attorneys?

A pair of Democrats are pursuing starkly different strategies to break Republican control over two of the last redoubts of GOP power in Democrat-dominated state.

Election officials say efforts to intimidate voters are widening Americans flock to vote early as hints emerge of Republican strength Read more election coverage

The chamber of the House of Representatives

As midterms draw near, the ‘balance of power’ takes center stage. So why does it matter?

pick a winner

Choose a scenario: How the battle for the Senate could play out

Signs of support for abortion rights outside the Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Oct. 4.

At campaign’s end, Democrats see limits of focus on abortion

Abrupt resignations leave one man running the Halifax Select Board on his own
Since August, when a day of resignations rendered him the only administrative official in Halifax, Jonathan Selig has been running the Select Board’s weekly meetings solo. He moves a motion, seconds that motion, and approves it all by himself with a unanimous vote.

When the Clippers sought Doc Rivers (left) in 2015, Danny Ainge (right) acquired a first-round draft pick in return.

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Celtics are breaking their own precedent on Ime Udoka compensation, and other thoughts

Red Auerbach would never give up an asset without getting something in return, and even Danny Ainge followed that template with Doc Rivers.

Tufts Medical Center fires doctor charged with attempted sex trafficking

Dr. Sadeq A. Quraishi was accused Thursday by federal prosecutors of agreeing to pay an undercover federal agent who was posing as the mother of a teenage girl. Tufts said Thursday that it had placed Quraishi on administrative leave and revoked his medical privileges. On Friday the hospital said it had fired him.

Musk’s Twitter layoffs include some in Boston office

A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed Twitter’s Boston office, at 2 Center Plaza, was closed to employees on Friday (as were all company offices).

Ch. 5 reporter Janet Wu announces retirement
The legendary television news reporter will retire from her job at WCVB-TV at the end of the year, capping a nearly five-decade run at the heart of the station’s political coverage that vexed corrupt lawmakers and captivated audiences.

Bruins sign Mitchell Miller, who admitted to bullying, racial abuse of a developmentally disabled peer

Miller, 20, was a 2020 fourth-round pick by the Coyotes, but a newspaper report detailed his admitted assault, bullying, and racial abuse of a Black classmate in Ohio, prompting them to renounce his rights.

N.H. school officials push back after Bolduc repeats hoax about kids using litter boxes

Officials at a New Hampshire high school are pushing back after Republican Senate nominee Don Bolduc perpetuated a widely debunked conspiracy theory that litter boxes are being made available for students who identify as cats.

Former state official wins $820,000 in lawsuit against Deval Patrick, state government

Saundra Edwards won damages of more than $820,000 Wednesday in her lawsuit filed against Patrick and the Commonwealth in Essex Superior Court. The jury awarded Edwards $443,512 in back pay, $327,030 in retirement benefits, and $50,000 for emotional distress, according to court documents.

Carolyn Rafaelian poses for a photo at her home, wearing some of her own jewelry designs.

After hard lessons learned from Alex and Ani, Carolyn Rafaelian comes back with Metal Alchemist

Two years after she was pushed out of the jewelry company she founded, the business woman is back in control, creating American-made products and sticking firmly to her Rhode Island roots.

Claire Cheney believes that her North Cambridge-based company, Curio Spice Co., is doing its part to bring a sense of wonder back into the world of spices.

Claire Cheney is reinventing the spice trade with Curio Spice Co.

The owner of the North Cambridge-based company wants to support small growers by keeping a short supply chain, putting more money in the pockets of the farmers.

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Mysterious signs mandating ‘no eye contact’ and ‘no running with sticks’ pop up on Belmont trails

From a distance, the signage greeting visitors to conservation land in Belmont looked official. Up close, the bizarre messages left hikers scratching their heads.

Best TV Shows bracket

Readers voted over two weeks for the best TV show of the last 50 years.

As the credits roll, 5 closing thoughts on our Best TV Show bracket

Only one show out of 64 made it to the end, but the choices voters made through all six rounds offered some interesting revelations along the way.

‘All in the Family,’ a sitcom that has stood the test of time, is our readers’ choice for TV’s best See the complete bracket

Opinion

A man walked past a burning barricade during a protest over the death of journalist Romelson Vilsaint, in Port-au-Prince on Oct. 30. Vilsaint died Sunday while protesting the release of a colleague in police custody.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Biden’s purported plan to send Haitian asylum seekers to Guantánamo is racist history repeating itself

Haiti is “on the verge of an abyss.”

Sarah A. Font and Naomi Schaefer Riley

Massachusetts’ policies failed Harmony Montgomery

Saving the Amazon requires change in Brazil but also in the US and Europe

IDEAS | MARCELA GARCÍA

A 6,000-mile trek to limbo

An interactive guide to the Boston Globe’s 2022 endorsements

Emancipator road trip. Photo Illustration by Alex LaSalvia.

The Emancipator

The Great Election Road Trip

Join us in a tour across the country highlighting activists, issues, and races ahead of next week’s midterm elections.

High Med. Low

Select a county:

Special reports

Photo illustration

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.

Part 2: A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts 2022

The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine celebrate the state’s leading companies and nonprofits run by women.

See the full Women & Power issue from Globe Magazine

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Celebrating 150 years of The Boston Globe

We’re marking the Globe’s 150th year with a look back through 15 decades of coverage. Explore 150 of the most significant front pages, revisit classic sports moments, try a crossword from 1917, and more.

Play this Boston Globe crossword puzzle from 1917 150 years, 150 front pages

More recent stories

Photos: Harvest time in the cranberry bogs is a Mass. tradition
The cranberry harvest is a scene that has played out in Massachusetts bogs for generations.

Wu, Cox, celebrate graduation of police cadet class ‘unlike any other’
Claps and cheers echoed off the high ceiling as family and friends from across the state and country joined to mark the culmination of 28 weeks of training at the police academy that included a combination of classes and fieldwork, as well as written and physical exams.

PARENTING UNFILTERED

How much should we really worry about MCAS scores?
Education leaders from Harvard and Lesley universities level with us.

RICAS scores: Rhode Island students struggle in latest math, English exams

Acton business offers $5,000 reward for help identifying hit and run driver that critically injured 13-year-old boy

“The driver hasn’t been identified yet so I want to try to rustle the leaves up a little bit,” Jeff Bursaw, fourth generation owner of Bursaw Oil and Gas on Great Road. “Somebody out there has to know something and hopefully this will help prompt them to come forward.”

A note to my realtor: My front door may be dated, but my home is full of family memories.

If a buyer objects, tell her the beveled glass casts rainbows on the stairs that her toddler will follow as the sun rises.

Trump weighs announcing 2024 run in week after midterms, multiple outlets report

Former president Donald Trump has been discussing the week of Nov. 14 to make the announcement, multiple news outlets reported on Friday.

Recommended reads

This week's daters: Sarah and Jillian.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I was nervous when I saw her! She was beautiful and stylish.’

Will this grad student and improv comedian say yes to another date?

Confused by all the ‘millionaires tax’ ads? So were we. So we fact-checked a whole bunch of them.
Sorting half true from mostly false on both sides of the hottest race on next week’s ballot.

2022 voter guide: Massachusetts general election

Husband of ‘Lady of the Dunes’ killed in Provincetown in 1974 was also suspected of Seattle double slaying in 1960
The former husband of Ruth Marie Terry, the woman authorities identified as the “Lady of the Dunes” whose mutilated remains were discovered in Provincetown in 1974, was suspected of murdering a previous wife and her daughter in 1960 in Seattle.

What’s it like to be on ‘Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions’? A Cambridge resident calls it an ‘amazing experience.’
Maureen O’Neil is one push of the buzzer closer to becoming the ultimate “Jeopardy!” champion.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Mikhail Baryshnikov in "The Orchard," sharing the stage with a robotic arm.

Mikhail Baryshnikov explores ‘The Orchard’ anew, with robot in tow

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in a scene from the 1944 movie "Double Indemnity" (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Getty Images)

‘It’s a bitter little world’: Noirvember in Boston

Andre Strongbearheart. Gaines Cultural Steward of the Nipmuc Tribe, took a minute to rest while burning a traditional mishoon (canoe) at the Charlestown Little Mystic Boat Slip. Organized by leaders in in the Nipmuc and Massachusett tribes, it is the first burn and launch of a traditional mishoon in the city limits of Boston in countless generations.

Indigenous tribes hold Boston’s first mishoon burning in more than 300 years

A crowd turns out for a performance by rapper Entellekt at the Drake in Amherst. The town’s first-ever dedicated music venue, with a capacity of 250, opened in May.

In Western Mass., a vibrant music scene gets a makeover

Special Projects

Back to Boston

Welcome Back to Boston

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

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

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell spoke at the Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2. The Federal Reserve delivered another steep interest rate increase on Wednesday, with its move to cool red-hot inflation taking on more weight amid the political maelstrom ahead of key US midterm elections.

Democrats’ flailing hunt for a midterm message

Chris Pappas is clearly the more thoughtful choice.

Chris Pappas for New Hampshire’s First District

A new Boston Common master plan lays out how the park can become a better version of itself.

On Boston Common, dreams and responsibilities

Right before Congress broke for August recess, many Republicans joined forces with Democrats to pass the Respect for Marriage Act.

Elissa Asch and Laurie Essig

GOP didn’t unite to ban gay marriage like it united on abortion

Voters lined up to put their ballots in the voting machine during the New Hampshire primary on Sept. 13 in Bedford, N.H.

Taking the political pulse of purple New Hampshire

Don Bolduc, center, during a campaign appearance at the American Legion in Laconia, N.H., on Sept. 10.

IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The extremist in New Hampshire who might flip the Senate

Metro

Philip Hiat, rabbi who forged bonds with other faiths, dies at 95

“He taught us how to think,” said Rita Sherman, a chaplain at a New York City hospital. “He taught us how to turn things around and around in our minds in ways we wouldn’t have come up with on our own.”

Globe challenges subpoena of reporter’s work on Harvard admissions scandal

In federal court on Thursday, the Globe challenged a subpoena ordering one of its journalists to testify in a criminal case tied to the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal.

Acton business offers $5,000 reward for help identifying hit and run driver that critically injured 13-year-old boy

“The driver hasn’t been identified yet so I want to try to rustle the leaves up a little bit,” Jeff Bursaw, fourth generation owner of Bursaw Oil and Gas on Great Road. “Somebody out there has to know something and hopefully this will help prompt them to come forward.”

Abrupt resignations leave one man running the Halifax Select Board on his own

Since August, when a day of resignations rendered him the only administrative official in Halifax, Jonathan Selig has been running the Select Board’s weekly meetings solo. He moves a motion, seconds that motion, and approves it all by himself with a unanimous vote.

Sports

Boston Pride players have two more reasons to think they will continue a run to another PHF championship — the additions of Olivia Zafuto and Loren Gabel.

Premier Hockey Federation

The Boston Pride and the PHF were too good to pass up for hockey players Olivia Zafuto and Loren Gabel

Better salaries, better medical benefits, and a weekly playing schedule from November to March lured both players to the women's Premier Hockey Federation.

In order to get a leg up on the competition Sunday, safety Jabril Peppers and the rest of the Patriots defense will need to be ready for the Colts' use of the RPO offense.

PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK

Bill Belichick breaks down what the Patriots are up against when the Colts bring the RPO to Gillette

There are similarities and differences between the wishbone and the run-pass option that the Patriots will face from Sam Ehlinger at quarterback.

The MLS Cup will be on the line when Los Angeles FC and the Philadelphia Union meet at 4 p.m. on Saturday in Los Angeles on Fox.

The two best teams all season — LAFC and the Philadelphia Union — will battle for the MLS Cup on Saturday

Los Angeles and Philadelphia were the top teams in their respective conferences all year long, and they finished the regular season with identical point totals.

Bruins sign Mitchell Miller, who admitted to bullying, racial abuse of a developmentally disabled peer

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Celtics are breaking their own precedent on Ime Udoka compensation, and other thoughts

Nearing a return to Bruins, Charlie McAvoy details recovery from shoulder injury

Business

First participant in test of custom gene editing therapy dies

Terry Horgan, 27, was signed up for an experimental treatment aimed at correcting a genetic mutation that caused his muscular dystrophy.

Musk’s Twitter layoffs include some in Boston office

A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed Twitter’s Boston office, at 2 Center Plaza, was closed to employees on Friday (as were all company offices).

Twitter layoffs begin a week after Elon Musk’s takeover

Claire Cheney is reinventing the spice trade with Curio Spice Co.

magazine

Designer Hannah Guilford reinterpreted the kitchen’s color scheme, adding touches of brass, copper, and wood, and adjusted the layout so it functions smoothly for cooking, eating, and accessing the yard.

Kitchens and Baths

A designer remakes a Maine kitchen in a 1920s-era palette that’s fresh and family ready

I froze my eggs. Now I’m in the middle of the abortion fight.

‘My sister-in-law has mandated that we not exchange Christmas presents this year’

Savory Kale and Two-Cheese Scones

Recipes: Fresh breads and scones for breakfast

metro

Families and friends were ready as the recruits entered the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for the graduation.

Wu, Cox, celebrate graduation of police cadet class ‘unlike any other’

Ch. 5 reporter Janet Wu announces retirement

City inching towards reparations commission

sports

Quarterback Bailey Zappe has six of the Patriots' 16 giveaways, including three fumbles.

The Patriots lead the NFL in takeaways. But they also can’t stop giving the ball away.

The Colts are ripe for a defeat Sunday. Can the Patriots deliver it?

Playing for their fathers, Watertown’s John Cacace IV and Holliston’s TJ Kiley will bring their family’s football passion to bear in playoffs

business

Bold Types | With Curio Spice Co., Claire Cheney is reinventing the spice trade

Boston Fed president signals she’s open to smaller interest rate hikes

US employers are hiring briskly even in face of rate hikes

politics

Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake posed with former president Donald Trump at an Oct. 9 rally in Mesa, Ariz.

‘The last election’: In Arizona, the guardrails of democracy may be about to fall

N.H. school officials push back after Bolduc repeats hoax about kids using litter boxes

Trump ally Tom Barrack acquitted of foreign agent charges

Nation

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, spoke during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. When he testified at his trial on Friday, he sought to downplay the Oath Keepers’ desire for violence and asserted his belief — unsupported by courts — that the 2020 presidential election was ‘’unconstitutional,’’ because of pandemic-related changes made to voting procedures in some states.

Oath Keeper Rhodes says he believes election was “unconstitutional,” so he committed no crime

US flu season off to a fast start as other viruses spread

Judge in Pelosi attacker case worked with speaker’s daughter

World

Iranians burn representations of the US and Israeli flags as a man wearing Uncle Sam costume cries during annual demonstration in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022.

Iran marks 1979 US Embassy takeover amid nationwide protests

French lawmaker suspended after shouting, ‘Go back to Africa,’ in Parliament

Pakistan’s ex-PM Khan stable after shooting

opinion

Students left the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science and Madison Park High School on Jan. 4 and headed toward public transit on Tremont Street in Boston.

Urgency over national report card distracts from longstanding challenges

The extremist in New Hampshire who might flip the Senate

Democrats’ flailing hunt for a midterm message

lifestyle

This breakup has me wondering: Am I a terrible person?

How much should we really worry about MCAS scores?

Indigenous tribes hold Boston’s first mishoon burning in more than 300 years

food & dining

Claire Cheney believes that her North Cambridge-based company, Curio Spice Co., is doing its part to bring a sense of wonder back into the world of spices.

Claire Cheney is reinventing the spice trade with Curio Spice Co.

Gael Greene and Julie Powell changed food writing forever

In Inman Square, Bom Dough is a worthy successor to the East Coast Grill

travel

South Portland-based Brant & Cochran makes two hand-forged portable axes — the Allagash Cruiser and Dirigo Belt camp axes — that are perfect for chopping wood for smokeless fire pits or taking on canoeing and camping adventures.

A power outage party, belly laughs in N.Y., and axes made in Maine

She loves Greece, her parents, and coming back to Boston

Lufthansa canceled my flight a year ago. Where’s the refund?

Arts

Marc Swanson, "A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco," at Mass MoCA, 2022.

At Mass MoCA, dead deer and disco lights elegize a dying world

Jemila MacEwan’s ‘Human Meteorite’ surveys a scarred planet

Anukriti questions who gets to be godly in ‘A Temple for Timeless Beasts’

Books

A nurse practitioner talks to a patient and holds her hand while a doctor administers an IV at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago in 2020.

A doctor examines his profession, and his choices

The loss of their mother tests sibling bonds in ‘Flight’

Chuck Wendig finds comfort in horror

Movies

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in a scene from the 1944 movie "Double Indemnity" (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Getty Images)

‘It’s a bitter little world’: Noirvember in Boston

When Opportunity (and Spirit) knocked, NASA knew just what to do

Jennifer Lawrence gives a career-defining performance in ‘Causeway’

Television

David Letterman, pictured interviewing former president Barack Obama on "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction" in 2018, most recently traveled to Ukraine to interview that nation's president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Letterman-Zelensky interview will air by year’s end

As the credits roll, 5 closing thoughts on our Best TV Show bracket

What’s it like to be on ‘Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions’? A Cambridge resident calls it an ‘amazing experience.’

music

Andris Nelsons led the BSO in a performance of Strauss's "An Alpine Symphony" at Symphony Hall Thursday.

Strauss’s ‘Alpine Symphony’ keeps the BSO running up that hill

Taylor Swift adds third show at Gillette Stadium for her new tour

In Western Mass., a vibrant music scene gets a makeover

Theater/Dance

Tyson Ali Clark in William Forsythe's "Approximate Sonata," as part of the Boston Ballet's "As Anticipated."

Boston Ballet rises to the challenge of Forsythe

Dancing to the good vibrations of Carol Kaye, trailblazer

In ‘Six,’ the ill-fated wives of Henry VIII are re-imagined as pop divas

globe local

Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia addresses the council.

City inching towards reparations commission

Back on the home front

The Argument: Should Massachusetts eliminate the subminimum wage for restaurant workers?

Obituaries

Rabbi Philip Hiat, left, and others in New York on April 27, 1981, examined Torah scrolls salvaged from Polish synagogues that were destroyed during the Nazi occupation.

Philip Hiat, rabbi who forged bonds with other faiths, dies at 95

George Booth, New Yorker cartoonist of sublime zaniness, dies at 96

Ray Guy, the only punter elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, dies at 72