fb-pixel Skip to main content
The Boston Globe
TRENDING:

Watch the Globe's new TV show

Boston Globe Today, a half-hour show in collaboration with NESN, airs Monday through Friday at 5 p.m. ET on NESN, the NESN 360 app, the Globe’s app, and on Globe.com.
Sign up for the newsletter At Barbara Lynch’s restaurants, growing concern over a toxic culture
Acclaimed Boston restaurateur, Barbara Lynch under fire for allegedly creating toxic work culture
Business enterprise reporter Janelle Nanos reveals details of toxic work culture in some of Boston’s top restaurants.
More from Globe today

Primary care shortage leading to longer wait times

A look at the unique design of Boston University’s Data Science Building

“Things to Do” in Boston: Earth Day

‘You people are evil’: Voicemails aired at MBTA board meeting show rider’s rage against slow subway service

A pair of residents poured out their rage against the T in voicemails played at a Wednesday 4/19 meeting of the MBTA Board of Directors, following months of reduced service, delays, and surprise closures on the nation’s oldest subway system.

BAA says it ‘did not deliver’ on promise of inclusive Marathon after police interaction with racially diverse run clubs

Members were cheering near Heartbreak Hill when a large group of Newton police officers blocked the spectators from interacting with runners.

Chief Justice Roberts asked to testify on Supreme Court ethics amid Clarence Thomas reports

The Senate Judiciary chairman has invited Chief Justice John Roberts to testify next month on ethical standards at the court, a hearing that would undoubtedly focus on business transactions and travel involving Justice Clarence Thomas.

Coast Guard confirms three of four missing New Hampshire fishermen found off Mass.

The US Coast Guard was searching for four boaters who departed Hampton, N.H., for a fishing trip Wednesday morning and failed to return, and an overturned vessel was spotted early Thursday afternoon near Cape Ann, officials said.

Who will run for New Hampshire governor if Chris Sununu runs for president?

Involuntary manslaughter charge to be dropped in Alec Baldwin movie set shooting

Biden preparing to announce reelection campaign as early as next week

1,242 confirmed cases and 15 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

Matt Patricia moves on from Patriots, reportedly joins Eagles as defensive assistant

Patricia's potential role with the Patriots moving forward was unclear after New England hired Bill O'Brien as offensive coordinator.
TABLES

Mahaniyom team plans a new restaurant; Soleil comes to Boston Public Market

Plus, tacos near Fenway Park, a barbecue expansion, and deliciousness for a good cause.
At Central Square’s Shōjō, Chinatown favorites and bold new flavors

Charlie McAvoy and Dmitry Orlov? Derek Forbort or Matt Grzelcyk? The Bruins have some decisions to make on the blue line.

After a loss to the Panthers in Game 2 that evened the playoff series, coach Jim Montgomery has to weigh his options for shoring up the Bruins defense.
Opinion
SCOT LEHIGH

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vax 2024 presidential campaign

His clown train rolls into Boston.
Renée Loth

Oppression is on the march, but young people are pushing back
EDITORIAL

Fox News pays the price for its election lies
IDEAS | MICHAEL LEVIN

On coming in (almost) last in the Boston Marathon
Jake Auchincloss

Too many young men are failing online

Introducing Boston Globe Today

A new show offering in-depth perspective from the Globe’s award-winning newsrooms.
Mass. coronavirus at a glance
High Med. Low
.
Select a county:
COVID 19 community level from CDC:
.
Case Rate per 100,000 population:
.
New COVID-19 admissions per 100,000:
.
Cases and deaths
.
Total cases:
Total deaths:
Other resources:
NOTE: Data updated once per week. SOURCES: CDC, Mass. Dept. of Public Health

Special Reports

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

More recent News

KEVIN CULLEN
Clearing the path that leads to the light
The pain of their loss is acute but from grief comes an opportunity to build a new friendship.

Maine man arraigned in shooting deaths of parents, family friends
As authorities released details of the mass shooting on Thursday, Joseph Eaton was arraigned in Sagadahoc County Superior Court on four counts of murder for allegedly killing his parents and their friends.

Climate activists deflate tires of dozens of cars on Beacon Hill
Police said they responded to a report of vandalism shortly before 7 a.m., according to a department spokesman. The spokesman confirmed that several vehicles were vandalized but did not provide additional information.

One person killed, 4 hospitalized after crash on Mass. Pike in West Stockbridge

One person was killed and four others were hospitalized after an SUV crashed on the Massachusetts Turnpike in West Stockbridge Thursday morning, State Police said.

Boston-based health and wellness vending machines deliver personal care in a new way

Robina Verbeek and Susanna Twarog left their careers in finance to launch SOS, a startup that develops smart vending machines that distribute personal-care products.

TV CRITIC'S CORNER
The unvarnished villainy of Logan Roy
As it heads toward the finish line, “Succession" does not soften its portrait of the media mogul.

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Send The Boston Globe a confidential news tip
Do you have a tip about something that needs to be investigated? Do you have documents or data we should dig into? We want to hear from you.

Recommended reads

For injured workers in Mass., care isn’t easy to come by

Lawyers and health care providers who deal with the workers’ compensation system here describe it using words like “ridiculous,” “dysfunctional,” and “tragedy.”

Corean Reynolds is on a mission: Make Boston vibrant after hours
The “nightlife czar,” whose role is to repair Boston’s reputation for being dull after dark, is charged with a lot more than schmoozing all night.

New England researchers use ‘treasure trove’ of historic whaling logbooks to study climate shifts
The largest collection of whaling logbooks can be found at a New Bedford museum and local researchers are taking advantage of that to study the climate's evolution.

Mo Willems and the art of big feelings
On the 20th anniversary of “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!,” Willems reflects on his beleaguered bird, bad ideas, and being part of a community of picture-book authors in Western Massachusetts.

video

Culture & Lifestyle

Ultimately, this ‘My Fair Lady’ is quite ‘loverly’

Writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig discusses adapting Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’

Massachusetts homes are invading HGTV right now

In Medfield, music will fill this empty space

Special Projects

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Welcome Back to Boston

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

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

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

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

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

SCOT LEHIGH

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vax 2024 presidential campaign
Renée Loth

Oppression is on the march, but young people are pushing back
EDITORIAL

Fox News pays the price for its election lies
IDEAS | MICHAEL LEVIN

On coming in (almost) last in the Boston Marathon
Jake Auchincloss

Too many young men are failing online
IDEAS | HILMAR SCHMUNDT

Techno-doping my way through the Boston Marathon

Metro

Richard Riordan, Los Angeles mayor who led rebound after riots, dies at 92

Mr. Riordan’s victory helped carve out the modern entrepreneur-to-politician path.
NH POLITICS

Who will run for New Hampshire governor if Chris Sununu runs for president?

Here’s who political insiders think is most likely to step up if the state’s popular Republican chief executive makes a bid for the White House
RI POLITICS

R.I. House passes bill to prohibit rental application fees

“Eliminating these burdensome fees will help our struggling residents and families during their already frustrating pursuit of housing,” Representative Cherie Cruz says.
RI BUSINESS

R.I. housing department: We are ‘not working to get Amos House back into Memorial as a shelter’

Memorial Real Estate Group, a company founded by R.I. businessman Michael Mota, announced this week that it has renovated part of the former hospital building in Pawtucket for use by Amos House. But the state’s housing department and the homeless services provider both say they are not working with Mota on the project.

Sports

MLB

‘I’m still more saddened than I thought I would be’: Oakland fans cope with A’s formalizing their move to Las Vegas

The news came Wednesday night that the Athletics had signed a binding agreement to buy land on a 49-acre site near the Las Vegas Strip and build the intimate ballpark they couldn’t pull off in the Bay Area.
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL NOTEBOOK

As coach, Mike Connolly has a winning pitch for Bridgewater-Raynham baseball

In his second year at the helm of his alma mater, the 2010 grad has the Trojans off to a 7-1 start, imparting the wisdom of his six-year professional career.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

What an opportunity: Patriots Foundation launches girls’ flag football league for 8 high schools

Ayer-Shirley, Chelsea, Fitchburg, Leominster, St. Mary’s Lynn, Needham, Peabody, and Woburn will participate in inaugural season that will kick off Thursday.
NHL

Boston University product Jake Oettinger heads home to Minnesota as Stars’ go-to playoff goalie
red sox 11, twins 5

Before hitting the road, Red Sox thrash Twins in series finale and benefit from Tanner Houck’s start
patriots

Matt Patricia moves on from Patriots, reportedly joins Eagles as defensive assistant

Business

Boston-based health and wellness vending machines deliver personal care in a new way

Robina Verbeek and Susanna Twarog left their careers in finance to launch SOS, a startup that develops smart vending machines that distribute personal-care products.

Twitter begins removing blue checks from users who don’t pay

Many of Twitter's high-profile users are losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.

Acclaimed Boston restaurateur, Barbara Lynch under fire for allegedly creating toxic work culture

Twitter is having fun with SpaceX rocket’s ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’
magazine
Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston 2023
Perspective

The brutal calculus of life expectancy and where you can afford to live
LOVE LETTERS

Every man I date is still involved with his wife
COOKING

Recipes: Upgrade your next meal with one of these buttery rolls

metro

‘Coyotes’ frolicking around Warwick were actually dog hybrids named Bella and Libby

Climate activists deflate tires of dozens of cars on Beacon Hill

R.I. progressives assail Regunberg as he runs for Congress

sports

Oakland Athletics purchase land for new stadium in Las Vegas

When No. 1 isn’t all it’s cracked up to be: How do the top playoff seeds fare in the postseason?

BAA says it ‘did not deliver’ on promise of inclusive Marathon after police interaction with racially diverse run clubs

business

BuzzFeed to close its news division, cut 15 percent of all staff

SimpliSafe settles into much bigger downtown digs, a rare office expansion in COVID era

Recreational cannabis sales in R.I. top $16m in four months

politics

Mike Lindell loses arbitration case and must pay $5 million

Who will run for New Hampshire governor if Chris Sununu runs for president?

Super PAC targets Greene, Gaetz, Boebert, and others on the far right

Nation

Biden preparing to announce reelection campaign as early as next week

Town-by-town COVID-19 data in Massachusetts

Six-year-old girl and parents shot and wounded over stray ball, neighbor says

World

Stampede in Yemen kills 78 people gathering to receive holiday donations

NATO chief: Ukraine’s ‘rightful place’ is in the alliance

Sudan army demands rivals’ surrender as cease-fire runs out

opinion

On coming in (almost) last in the Boston Marathon

Why Dominion’s settlement with Fox News is good for journalism

There aren’t Obama judges or Bush judges, but there are Trump-era judges

lifestyle

He won’t introduce me to family and friends

The Silver Unicorn Bookstore hosts its first children’s graphic novel festival

Yoga Reaches Out hopes to raise $825,000 for Boston Children’s Hospital Every Child Fund

food & dining

Mahaniyom team plans a new restaurant; Soleil comes to Boston Public Market

At Central Square’s Shōjō, Chinatown favorites and bold new flavors

At Barbara Lynch’s restaurants, growing concern over a toxic culture

travel

Can Norman Rockwell and fly fishing revive tourism in this tiny Vermont town?

David Rubenstein is thinking about Fenway Park (but not the fun snacks you find there). And he’s always working.

In search of good pinot noir, truffles, and friend time in Oregon’s Willamette Valley

Arts

When in Rome . . .

Galleries: Making magic at Fountain Street Gallery

After decades in the dark, Paul Goesch’s architectural fancies are finally seeing the light of day

Books

In Dennis Lehane’s latest novel, ‘Small Mercies,’ a Southie woman searches for her missing daughter in a Boston on the brink of change

Teacher and student, both grieving, forge a bond across limitations of sight and speech in Han Kang’s ‘Greek Lessons’

Peter Orner on the book he brings on flights in case the plane goes down

Movies

Phoenix still rising

In ‘Chevalier,’ a forgotten classical composer gets his due

Writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig discusses adapting Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’

Television

The unvarnished villainy of Logan Roy

PBS sends a love letter to a certain lyric little bandbox of a ballpark

Massachusetts homes are invading HGTV right now

music

Despite his name, Louis Prima Jr. wasn’t always a hep cat, and that’s no jive

In Medfield, music will fill this empty space

60 years ago, Bob Dylan’s Boston debut was a freewheelin’ good time

Theater/Dance

Ultimately, this ‘My Fair Lady’ is quite ‘loverly’

Taylor Mac on ‘Joy and Pandemic,’ the play he’s been thinking about his whole life

In ‘And So We Walked,’ DeLanna Studi follows the footsteps of her ancestors along the Trail of Tears

globe local

Worrell brothers, one a councilor and one a state representative, open joint Dorchester office for ‘top-notch constituent services’

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

Reading harpist returns to hometown for performance with the US Air Force Concert Band

Obituaries

Richard Riordan, Los Angeles mayor who led rebound after riots, dies at 92

Todd Haimes, who rebuilt powerful NYC nonprofit theater company, dies at 66

Freddie Scappaticci, who may have been British spy ‘Stakeknife,’ is dead