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Why some young Black Bostonians are choosing to move to the South
Some are returning to the states their ancestors were itching to leave. Others, without Southern roots, are planting their own seeds.

Eight-hour waiting times. Patients leaving before being seen. Mass. hospital emergency departments are beyond the brink.

Hospital emergency departments across Massachusetts and the nation are teetering under unprecedented forces. Patients, often in pain, are waiting ever longer for care. And many are just leaving without being seen.

Signing of Mitchell Miller difficult for many Bruins to comprehend

"He’s got a lot of work to do,'' said veteran Brad Marchand.
Tara Sullivan: Bruins’ justifications for signing Mitchell Miller are not convincing

Jeneé Osterheldt
Twitter and what it means when violence has a megaphone
From Ye and Kyrie to Elon Musk and David DePape, we have to denounce hate and recognize truth.

Musk’s Twitter layoffs include some in Boston office
PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Plenty of New England flavor in another Astros championship

Rookie shortstop Jeremy Peña, who grew up in Providence and went to the University of Maine, won MVP. Former Red Sox catcher Christian Vázquez had his fingerprints all over the victory as well.
Astros claim another World Series, with Yordan Alvarez blast sealing Game 6 knockout of Philadelphia

39-year-old man taken to hospital after rollover crash on Route 13 in Townsend

The man was driving south on Fessenden Hill Road around 6:20 p.m. Saturday when the crash occurred. A six-year-old in the vehicle was evaluated at the scene but was not taken to a hospital, police said.

Sweet-shooting Celtics bury Knicks under franchise-record barrage of 3-pointers

Jayson Tatum's step-back dart with 3:34 left both set the team record for made 3-pointers and also put the finishing touches on win.
Six weeks after left knee surgery, Celtics center Robert Williams is dunking again

Kyrie Irving appears to be his own worst enemy, and the mess in Brooklyn continues to spiral

His stubbornness has only gotten him suspended, and honestly, on the verge of being out of the NBA.
Nike splits with Kyrie Irving amid antisemitism fallout
Maple Leafs 2, Bruins 1

Auston Matthews scores twice as the Maple Leafs get the jump on Bruins

Brad Marchand scored his 800th career point in his 878th regular-season game (355-445–800).
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Tax relief gets short shrift on Beacon Hill

Lawmakers dropped the ball on a $3.8 billion spending bill. Better believe they’ll be held to promises to do better next year.
IDEAS | TOM SHEEHAN

Salutes of a special kind
LETTERS

A chorus of concerns ahead of Nov. 8
MARCELA GARCÍA

Biden’s purported plan to send Haitian asylum seekers to Guantánamo is racist history repeating itself
Sarah A. Font and Naomi Schaefer Riley

Massachusetts’ policies failed Harmony Montgomery
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.
Seattle Team

Her marriage was in trouble. Something drew her to the OZ Museum.

Laura Fredrickson needed time to think. So the 34-year-old from St. Paul set out on a road trip. Somewhere on the way, while Googling roadside attractions, she turned up one that made her heart leap — the OZ Museum in Wamego, Kan.
Boston Team

Tailgating with the families of University of Wisconsin football players — and Drew Bledsoe

The crowd includes an octogenarian here to support her grandson, a safety who she proudly notes has already been setting records; a single mom from Wichita whose son would go on to score the Badgers’ first touchdown of the afternoon; and two former New England Patriots.
Los Angeles team

Inside the weird, wonderful world of Las Vegas Elvis impersonators

Elvis drives a temperamental pink Cadillac with no seat belts and unreliable brakes. He is running late for an appearance in a Mexican Independence Day parade. This may be my fault.
Miami Team

A mother’s loss after the Oklahoma City bombing is seared in a photo we can’t forget

The picture from the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 resurfaces from time to time — and I always think about the baby’s parents. What effect has it had on them? Now I know.
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Special reports

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
Globe Magazine

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

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

YVONNE ABRAHAM
For Massachusetts, a giant step forward, and an effort to drag us back
Come January, five of our six constitutional officers could be women. We’re finally making progress, despite those who still want to hold us back.

Suffolk prosecutor suspended as wrongly convicted man alleges misconduct
Robert Foxworth, who was exonerated in 2021, served an additional nine years in prison after prosecutor Mark Lee learned in 2007 from a federal informant that Foxworth was innocent, according to a complaint filed Thursday with the Board of Bar Overseers.

Small earthquake reported off the coast of Nantucket Saturday afternoon

The 2.1 magnitude earthquake happened just before 3 p.m. Saturday about three miles north northwest from the island along the Hyannis to Nantucket ferry route.

Unseasonably warm temps in Mass., but not yet a record breaker, meteorologist says
“it almost feels like early September weather,” said Bill Simpson, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Norton said late Saturday afternoon. “It’s pretty warm and humid, but that will start declining slowly on Sunday.”

Singer-rapper Aaron Carter dies in California at age 34
Singer-rapper Aaron Carter was found dead Saturday at his home in Southern California. He was 34.

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.

Recommended reads

With tales to tell and songs to sing, Bono brings his book tour to the Orpheum

“Stories of Surrender” featured the Irish singer in a theatrical setting, alternating between recitations from the book and spare versions of selected U2 classics.
CONNECTIONS

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.

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.

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.

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Culture & Lifestyle

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

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

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

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

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.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

An interactive guide to the Boston Globe’s 2022 endorsements
IDEAS | MARCELA GARCÍA

A 6,000-mile trek to limbo
Raoni Rajão

Saving the Amazon requires change in Brazil but also in the US and Europe
Elissa Asch and Laurie Essig

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

Taking the political pulse of purple New Hampshire
IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The extremist in New Hampshire who might flip the Senate

Metro

Small earthquake reported off the coast of Nantucket Saturday afternoon

The 2.1 magnitude earthquake happened just before 3 p.m. Saturday about three miles north northwest from the island along the Hyannis to Nantucket ferry route.

‘A step toward healing:’ Barre museum returns looted Wounded Knee artifacts to Lakota

in an emotional, poignant, and at times joyful two-hour public ceremony Saturday afternoon, the leadership of the Founders Museum symbolically returned more than 130 artifacts to representatives from the Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne River tribes.

Democrats seek to topple Bristol County’s sheriff

Hodgson, a Republican and avid Trump fan, has been sharply criticized for his treatment of inmates. This year he faces his first challenger in 12 years.

Question 1 supporters make final push before Election Day

Question 1 targets the state’s flat 5 percent state income by adding an additional 4 percent tax on every dollar of taxable income earned over $1 million.

Sports

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Plenty of New England flavor in another Astros championship

Rookie shortstop Jeremy Peña, who grew up in Providence and went to the University of Maine, won MVP. Former Red Sox catcher Christian Vázquez had his fingerprints all over the victory as well.
WORLD SERIES | ASTROS 4, PHILLIES 1

Astros claim another World Series, with Yordan Alvarez blast sealing Game 6 knockout of Philadelphia

Houston clinched its second World Series title in six seasons, and got Dusty Baker his first crown as a manager.
Coyotes 3, Capitals 2

Alex Ovechkin of the Capitals scores No. 787, passes the Red Wings’ Gordie Howe for most goals with one team

Ovechkin is now 14 goals away from tying Howe for second on the NHL's all-time goals list and 107 from Wayne Gretzky's all-time record.
celtics 133, knicks 118

Sweet-shooting Celtics bury Knicks under franchise-record barrage of 3-pointers
Maple Leafs 2, Bruins 1

Auston Matthews scores twice as the Maple Leafs get the jump on Bruins
TARA SULLIVAN

On Joe Mazzulla’s watch, the Celtics are running on positive energy

Business

Trump attacks DeSantis as he hints again at presidential run

Donald Trump suggested he plans to make another White House bid and attacked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at a rally in Pennsylvania, a sign the former president is training his ire on a potential chief rival in a 2024 GOP primary.

Biden, Trump, and Obama converge on Pennsylvania on last weekend before election

President Joe Biden, and former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump are all campaigning in Pennsylvania, a state that has a tight race for US Senate.

French far-right party elects new leader to replace Le Pen

Twitter slashes its staff as Musk era takes hold on platform
magazine
Kitchens and Baths

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

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

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

Recipes: Fresh breads and scones for breakfast

metro

Why some young Black Bostonians are choosing to move to the South

For Massachusetts, a giant step forward, and an effort to drag us back

Eight-hour waiting times. Patients leaving before being seen. Mass. hospital emergency departments are beyond the brink.

sports

Top-ranked Georgia too much for No. 2 Tennessee’s usually high-octane offense

In electric MLS Cup, LAFC claims first title with late equalizer, shootout win over Philadelphia

Russell Henley charges to a six-shot lead at World Wide Technology

business

Twitter and what it means when violence has a megaphone

First participant in test of custom gene editing therapy dies

Musk’s Twitter layoffs include some in Boston office

politics

Biden, Trump, and Obama converge on Pennsylvania on last weekend before election

For Democrats, anxiety mounts as it’s all on the line. Again.

Obama to Democrats: ‘Sulking and moping is not an option’

Nation

Oz could be the first Muslim US Senator, but some Muslim Americans are ambivalent

Number of early votes cast surpasses early-vote total in 2018 midterm election

At Fetterman rally, Obama tells crowd to vote for democracy

World

Israeli army shoots dead Palestinian teenager throwing rocks

Republican gains in Congress would pressure Biden on Ukraine and Iran

Pope tells Bahrain youths to seek real advice, not Google

opinion

A 6,000-mile trek to limbo

On Boston Common, dreams and responsibilities

Children in crisis need care, but from where?

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 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

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

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

A pandemic trend that seems to be sticking around: walking the world

Arts

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 doctor examines his profession, and his choices

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

Chuck Wendig finds comfort in horror

Movies

‘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

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

With tales to tell and songs to sing, Bono brings his book tour to the Orpheum

Twitter and what it means when violence has a megaphone

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

Theater/Dance

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

City inching towards reparations commission

Back on the home front

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

Obituaries

Dow Finsterwald, first PGA champion in stroke play, dies at 93

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

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