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Tornado touched down along Foxborough-Easton town line Saturday night

The tornado reached a peak speed of 105 miles per hour, and it traveled a length of about 400 yards and a width of about 100 yards, the National Weather Service confirmed Sunday.

See photos of Saturday's storms

Nurse from N.H. kidnapped with her child in Haiti, nonprofit says
Alix Dorsainvil, 31, is a nurse who had been living in Haiti for “some time now” and is married to Sandro Dorsainvil, director of El Roi Haiti Outreach International, the organization said. She was kidnapped with her child near Port au Prince on Thursday.

In Boston on Saturday, Kamala Harris warns of ‘full-on attempt to attack’ hard-won rights and freedoms

”We know every day we must be vigilant in protecting that which we have achieved, and keeping our eyes on ... our collective vision of how we continue to strengthen our nation,” Vice President Harris said.

‘We cannot rest on our laurels’: NAACP president urges unity and mobilization in face of threats to racial equity

Former Patriots running back and two-time Super Bowl champion Sony Michel retires from football
Michel played just five total NFL seasons but helped the Patriots win Super Bowl LIII.

Small plane lands in ocean off crowded Hampton Beach in New Hampshire; pilot unhurt

The single-engine Piper PA-18 plane landed off Hampton Beach about noon Saturday, witnesses said.

Four found clinging to hull of overturned boat off New Jersey rescued, taken to hospital

Search continues for suspect who fled deadly crash on I-95 in Topsfield

Mattapan man charged after hit-and-run crash involving Randolph police cruiser

Police identify woman fatally stabbed near Boston Common

Kiamesha Quarles of Mattapan has amassed a collection of Beyoncé jackets, magazines, DVDs, candles, and tickets, along with a hard-to-find cardboard cutout.

Meet the Beyoncé superfans who’ll be cheering their queen at Gillette Stadium

Beyoncé's BeyHive is alive and well in the Boston area.

Beyoncé, and the making of a ‘Renaissance’ woman Heading to Gillette Stadium to see Beyoncé? Here’s what you need to know.

How to prepare for Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance World Tour’ at Gillette

At long last, Beyoncé comes to Gillette Stadium Tuesday. Get ready.

‘Feelings I hadn’t ever processed’: Families mark 50th anniversary of Logan crash with memorial service at airport chapel
The Rev. Christopher O’Connor, chaplain of Our Lady of the Airways Catholic chapel, began the morning by reading out the names of each victim, just before 9 a.m. Sunday.

Fifty years later, families reflect on Logan plane crash that killed 89 people

Culture of fear and control ‘ruining’ services at the state court’s language interpreters office, staff say
The beleaguered office of court interpreters has a history of bad management, but employees say current leadership is directly responsible for an inability to properly serve some of the state’s most vulnerable.

“The United States is one of the greatest powers in the world,” said midfielder Kika Nazareth. “But we believe and we’re going to do it.”

John Powers | On Soccer

While Portugal has nothing to lose, the United States women’s soccer team faces danger at every turn

Not only have the Portuguese never beaten the United States women's team in 10 meetings, they’ve never scored, while allowing 39 goals.

NAACP Convention in Boston

A group of young people, who attended the convention through funding from the NAACP New England Area Conference, posed for a photo Saturday.

Young NAACP convention attendees want to help, to make a difference

Set up for The NAACP National Convention began at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on Wednesday. Materials were being unpacked in the lobby.

NAACP festivities kick off at The Hub, with a block party, career fair, and more

Lavonta Williams, of Wichita, Kansas NAACP Chapter, arrives at the "community activation" event for NAACP convention held at the Freedom House in Dorchester.

NAACP leaders tour Boston’s majority-Black neighborhoods, talk civic engagement

Clockwise from top left: Jasmine Guy, Jabari Banks, Marcus Scribner, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Rome Flynn

Who will be in Boston for the NAACP Convention?

I want a year off from the relationship

“I find myself unable to want to love him again.”

Jon Batiste led his band in the closing set Saturday at Newport Folk Festival.

It’s sunny side up at Newport Folk Festival

Despite threatening forecasts, rain and lightning never arrived Saturday during the second day of the Newport Folk Festival.

Sandra “Sandy” Sikorski found a pearl in a clam at the the Bridge Restaurant in Westerly, left, and had it made into her engagement ring, right.

R.I. woman turned pearl found in a clam into her engagement ring

Sandra “Sandy” Sikorski found a pearl in a plate of clams she was savoring with her fiance Ken Steinkamp at a Westerly restaurant. The couple made it the centerstone of her engagement ring.

Opinion

Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo listened to colleague Frank Baker last year. During this council term, a number of meetings have devolved into squabbles and several councilors, including Arroyo, have been accused of ethical lapses.

Boston’s City Council is rich in embarrassments. It doesn’t need to be.

If you liked the bad old days of Boston politics, then maybe this crop of city councilors is for you. If not, the election season is a great time to tell them: knock it off.

The biggest problem with Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign? Ron DeSantis.

IDEAS | JOSHUA GLENN

Sci-fi that foreshadowed the genre as we know it

Audit Beacon Hill? Yes, but...

MARCELA GARCÍA

Revere is clueless about home-based day care

More recent News

Biden openly acknowledges 7th grandchild, the daughter of son Hunter and an Arkansas woman
President Biden on Friday for the first time publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild, a 4-year-old girl fathered by his son Hunter with an Arkansas woman, Lunden Roberts, in 2018.

Trump threatens Republicans who don’t help him exact vengeance
Former president Trump lashed out at Republicans in Congress while campaigning in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

CONNECTIONS

Since my sister’s death, I wonder if I should introduce myself as a ‘twinless twin’
Take it from me, it’s always kind to also be mindful of parentless children, partnerless partners, and petless pet owners.

30 days over 110 degrees in Phoenix. But expected monsoon rains could cool historically hot Southwest.
A historic heat wave that has gripped the US Southwest throughout July, blasting residents and baking surfaces like brick, is beginning to abate with the late arrival of monsoon rains.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Jaylen Brown has big plans for the future now that he’s finalized his big contract
With a five-year, $304 million deal in hand, Brown expressed his vision for leaving Boston a better city than when he arrived in the summer of 2016.

Bronny James plays piano, dines out in video, photos emerging days after he suffers cardiac arrest
The 18-year-old plays a brief melody in front of his family, smiled, and got up without speaking in a video posted on his father's Instagram account.

Listen to 'Say More'

The chatbot will see you now
Here are five takeaways from a new book on the AI revolution in medicine by Microsoft’s research head, a Harvard Medical School professor, and a Boston health journalist.

Seven wonders of the sports world

Augusta National

Augusta National

There’s a reason they call it ‘heaven’

Churchill Downs

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

From the Brickyard to the Snake Pit

Lambeau Field

Lambeau Field

The windchill is 7 degrees. Who cares?

Churchill Downs

A weeklong party for a two-minute race

Cameron Indoor

Cameron Indoor Stadium

The Crazies are one of a kind

Michigan Stadium

Michigan Stadium

The fun starts early at The Big House

Fenway Park

Fenway Park

A love affair spawned from the ‘Impossible Dream’

Recommended reads

Retired Boston police detective Joe Leeman conducted a tour of various crime scenes in the city of Boston.

‘I just followed the blood trail’: A look at the grisly market of Boston crime tours

Over the course of an hour-and-half tour, retired Boston Police lieutenant Joe Leeman narrates a mix of revolutionary history you learn in school with chronicles of the city’s underworld.

‘He’s a force’: Teamsters head Sean O’Brien, who just reached UPS deal, has deep Mass. labor roots
O’Brien, who led Local 25 in Charlestown for more than 15 years, vowed to make the Teamsters a more militant organization when he was elected in late 2021. So far, he’s living up to that promise.

To deliver medical care in space, doctors are training in the most remote, austere places on Earth
A new Space Medicine Fellowship by Mass General and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston is preparing for the need for medical care on the verge of a boom in space travel.

TRENDSPOTTING

The future of travel is on the industry’s mind today. And the ‘Hotel of Tomorrow’ is closer than you’d think.
At think tanks across the globe, they’ve imagined vertical resorts, hotels in which the furniture retracts into the floors and ceilings, robot bartenders and butlers, and guest suites that can sense and respond to their occupants’ needs.

Culture & Lifestyle

Alice Cooper and guitarist Joe Perry perform with their band Hollywood Vampires in Landgraaf, Netherlands, in June.

A monster set from Hollywood Vampires at the Wang

Oona Doherty / OD Works in "Navy Blue" at the 2023 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

Oona Doherty brings US premiere of a searching, existential ‘Navy Blue’ to Jacob’s Pillow

Sophie Wilde plays Mia in the Philippou brothers' new horror-drama "Talk to Me."

In ‘Talk To Me,’ RackaRacka YouTubers and first-time directors Danny and Michael Philippou conjure the terrors of teenhood

Tunes from DJ Jazzy Jeff will be among the highlights Friday at the NAACP National Convention's Hub Block Party.

Weekend brings free music and entertainment to Seaport during the 114th NAACP National Convention

Special Projects

Photo Illustration

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

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

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

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

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The ruined potato field at the Smiarowski Farm in Hatfield on July 19.

Flooding ravaged Massachusetts farms. The state should help farmers recover.

A cellphone photo showed the extensive damage after Wellspring Health Access in Casper, Wyo., was set on fire in May 2022. Legislation pending in Massachusetts would ban the sale of cellphone location data to ensure that bounty hunters and other extremists can’t purchase cellphone location data to target people seeking or providing lawful reproductive care in our state.

Carol Rose, Rebecca Hart Holder, and Nate Horwitz-Willis

Legislature needs to ban the sale of cellphone location data

Carrie Mays, a Boston reparations task force member, at a ceremony announcing the reparations task force at the Museum of African American History.

Andre M. Perry and Jordan Fields

Boston Task Force on Reparations is setting a precedent for other states to follow

In May, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared loneliness an American epidemic. “Millions of people in America are struggling in the shadows," he said, “and that’s not right.”

IDEAS | ELAN BABCHUCK AND WENDY CADGE

America has a loneliness epidemic. How about religious groups as part of the solution?

People transported bananas along a street in Havana on July 18.

IDEAS | JOHN R. BAWDEN

Ten years of watching Cuba change — and stay the same

IDEAS | Fredrik deBoer

The hubris of AI hype

Metro

‘Feelings I hadn’t ever processed’: Families mark 50th anniversary of Logan crash with memorial service at airport chapel

The Rev. Christopher O’Connor, chaplain of Our Lady of the Airways Catholic chapel, began the morning by reading out the names of each victim, just before 9 a.m. Sunday.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Academic recovery has stalled, but Massachusetts schools still have over $1 billion to spend in federal funds. What’s going on?

But with a year to go to spend the $2.6 billion in total relief funds that went to Massachusetts schools across three rounds of aid, it’s unclear how far those dollars have gone, and what they have achieved.

William H. Dilday Jr., history-making Black executive in TV, dies at 85

William H. Dilday Jr., history-making Black executive in TV, dies at 85

Nurse from N.H. kidnapped with her child in Haiti, nonprofit says

Alix Dorsainvil, 31, is a nurse who had been living in Haiti for “some time now” and is married to Sandro Dorsainvil, director of El Roi Haiti Outreach International, the organization said. She was kidnapped with her child near Port au Prince on Thursday.

Sports

Max Scherzer is returning to the American League for the first time since he pitched for the Tigers in 2014.

With trade from Mets official, Max Scherzer slated to debut with Rangers Thursday

Manager Bruce Bochy said the three-time Cy Young Award winner will start Thursday when Texas hosts the Chicago White Sox.

Patriots backup quarterback Bailey Zappe gets ready for another rep during Day 4 of training camp on Sunday at the Gillette Stadium practice fields.

PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK

Bailey Zappe looks good in first real action of training camp

While Mac Jones took the bulk of the reps over the first three days of Patriots training camp, backup quarterback Zappe had his turn in the spotlight Sunday — looking sharp in his first sustained 11-on-11 action of the summer.

“The United States is one of the greatest powers in the world,” said midfielder Kika Nazareth. “But we believe and we’re going to do it.”

John Powers | On Soccer

While Portugal has nothing to lose, the United States women’s soccer team faces danger at every turn

Not only have the Portuguese never beaten the United States women's team in 10 meetings, they’ve never scored, while allowing 39 goals.

mets 5, nationals 2

With future in doubt as trade deadline looms, Justin Verlander hits 250-win mark in Mets’ victory over Nationals

Rookie wideout Demario Douglas continues to catch the eye at Patriots training camp

WNBA | LYNX 87, SUN 83

Sun drop home game to Lynx despite another triple-double from Alyssa Thomas

Business

Inflation may be cooling off, but don’t expect the stuff you buy to get cheaper any time soon

Retailers face widespread economic uncertainty, and despite inflation and worries of recession, consumers still have money and are willing to spend it.

New ownership brought Table Talk back from the brink. Now, it’s in expansion mode.

The Worcester-based piemaker is a beloved brand in New England, but few people knew how close the century-old company came to baking its last serving.

To wrap, or not to wrap? Hungarian bookstores face fines over closed packaging for LGBTQ+ books

Wall Street returns to rallying following reports on profits and inflation

magazine

He was caught trying to defraud a COVID relief fund. Then he vanished.

Clothes call: What’s appropriate wedding attire?

The writer leads a rally for student debt cancellation held near the White House on June 20.

Why I know the NAACP’s next generation is going to accomplish great things

At a time when women’s sports are ready to soar, a lack of science is holding them back

metro

Arlene Kelly, a former staff interpreter, said she retired in 2021 when she couldn’t take the office’s “micro-managing” any longer.

Culture of fear and control ‘ruining’ services at the state court’s language interpreters office, staff say

The summer splendor of the outdoor shower on the Cape

‘We cannot rest on our laurels’: NAACP president urges unity and mobilization in face of threats to racial equity

sports

Brennan Bernardino will start for the Red Sox on Sunday.

Game 105: Red Sox at Giants lineups and notes

Former Patriots running back and two-time Super Bowl champion Sony Michel retires from football

Trent Frederic, Bruins exchange arbitration numbers, reportedly $1.5 million apart in talks

business

An Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 shoe.

Adidas to release second batch of Yeezy sneakers after breakup with Ye

US proposes 18 percent fuel economy increase for new vehicle fleet from 2027 through 2032

Mattel is considering ‘Barbie’ sequel as it plans more Hollywood franchises

politics

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell embraces Vice President Kamala Harris at the NAACP convention in Boston Saturday.

In Boston on Saturday, Kamala Harris warns of ‘full-on attempt to attack’ hard-won rights and freedoms

Vice President Kamala Harris makes surprise visit to Roxbury Community College

Reluctant to retire, leaders raise a tough question: How old is too old?

Nation

Arlene Wolf buckles her seat belt as she prepares to leave the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., on Thursday, July 27, 2023. North Dakota's new primary enforcement seat belt law takes effect Tuesday, Aug. 1, requiring all occupants of a vehicle to buckle up. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

From seat belts to library books, many new laws take effect in North Dakota

Judge blocks Ark. law banning librarians from giving minors ‘harmful’ books

Three killed when small plane hits hangar, catches fire at Southern California airport

World

Rescue workers were at the site of a bomb explosion in Pakistan on Sunday.

A bomb at a political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 40 people and wounds more than 150

Supporters of Niger’s coup march through the capital waving Russian flags and denouncing France

African leaders leave Russia summit without grain deal or a path to end the war in Ukraine

opinion

Books, toys and educational materials line the walls of Brown Bear Excel Early Learning Center, a home-based day-care center in Boston.

Revere is clueless about home-based day care

Legislature needs to ban the sale of cellphone location data

Flooding ravaged Massachusetts farms. The state should help farmers recover.

lifestyle

I want a year off from the relationship

Water is refreshing in the heat, right? In parts of Florida this past week, not so much.

After $304 million supermax extension, Jaylen Brown’s personal life gets supermax attention from the tabloids

food & dining

Workers at Table Talk Pies moved cooled pies into containers on July 6, 2023.

New ownership brought Table Talk back from the brink. Now, it’s in expansion mode.

Sullivan’s Castle Island outdoor seating closed because of aggressive — and hungry — seagulls

Watching the boats glide past at ReelHouse Oyster Bar in the Seaport, it’s easy to get hooked

travel

Author Karen White

Author Karen White on her Tuscan villa dreams, unplugged vacations, and why she’d like to travel with Ryan Reynolds

Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard camp on floor at Logan airport during delay: ‘We made quite a home here’

Transfixing moments under, in, and above the clouds at Olympic National Park

Arts

Maria Molteni and collaborators Vin Caponigro, Laura Campagna, Ash Capachione, and Laura Ganci stand on Molteni's mural "Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument)."

Putting monumentality underfoot on the Greenway

An atelier of her own

Before they went full Hollywood, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles broke the mold in Northampton

Books

The hero of Peter Heller’s ‘The Last Ranger’ stalks the boundary between solitude and society

Susan Casey, veteran journalist of the life aquatic, explores the history and wonder of the subterranean ocean world in ‘The Underworld’

Donovan X. Ramsey, author of ‘When Crack Was King,’ on the lasting influence of poetry and books in childhood

Movies

Sophie Wilde plays Mia in the Philippou brothers' new horror-drama "Talk to Me."

In ‘Talk To Me,’ RackaRacka YouTubers and first-time directors Danny and Michael Philippou conjure the terrors of teenhood

‘More than just film screenings’: Woods Hole Film Festival returns to Cape Cod for its 32nd year

Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard camp on floor at Logan airport during delay: ‘We made quite a home here’

Television

Musician Brad Paisley and actors Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield, from left, posed together at the 10th Annual PingPong4Purpose celebrity ping pong tournament hosted by Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw and his wife, Ellen, Thursday, July 27, 2023, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Actor Max Greenfield urges studio CEOs to ‘be the heroes’ and make a deal in Hollywood strikes

Boots and dog tags Alan Alda wore on ‘M-A-S-H’ sell at auction for $125,000 that will go to charity

Hollywood strikes reportedly force postponement of the Emmys

music

Kiamesha Quarles of Mattapan has amassed a collection of Beyoncé jackets, magazines, DVDs, candles, and tickets, along with a hard-to-find cardboard cutout.

Meet the Beyoncé superfans who’ll be cheering their queen at Gillette Stadium

It’s sunny side up at Newport Folk Festival

A monster set from Hollywood Vampires at the Wang

Theater/Dance

Oona Doherty / OD Works in "Navy Blue" at the 2023 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

Oona Doherty brings US premiere of a searching, existential ‘Navy Blue’ to Jacob’s Pillow

On the Common, a ‘Macbeth’ steeped in misery and madness

Huntington Theatre Company names Christopher Mannelli executive director

globe local

Brothers Brian Worrell (left), District 4 Councilor, and state Representative Chris Worrell just opened a district office on Erie Street.

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

William H. Dilday Jr. was the personnel director at WHDH-TV and part of an organization dedicated to increasing diversity in Boston media when he was offered the chance to make history at a different TV station in the early 1970s. Photo courtesy of the Dilday family.

William H. Dilday Jr., history-making Black executive in TV, dies at 85

Jean Fagan Yellin, who uncovered a slavery tale’s true author, dies at 92

Pamela Blair, original performer of comedic ‘Chorus Line’ gem, dies at 73