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A pedestrian passed dormitories in Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge.

Criminals on campus: Student sexual assault survivors seeking justice face murky process under Title IX amid political shifts

Colleges have struggled for decades with a pervasive culture of assault and harassment. But experts say a once imperfect process for holding perpetrators accountable is now broken and in desperate need of repair — and politicians are partly to blame.

What’s being fixed in the Sumner Tunnel? These are the key upgrades.
The Globe spoke to officials at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to learn about the biggest changes to the nearly 90-year-old Sumner Tunnel.

Share your thoughts on this story: What’s being fixed in the Sumner Tunnel? These are the key upgrades.

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.

Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump.

ANALYSIS | JAMES PINDELL

What the Obama-Clinton 2008 primary has to do with the 2024 Trump-DeSantis contest

Political consultants and campaign advisors are looking back at the protracted fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for strategic insight into the current Republican campaign, and the lessons suggest that Donald Trump’s lead in the polls could fade.

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

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.

Mass. House, Senate negotiators reach compromise on $56.2 billion budget

The compromise budget includes top priorities of both House and Senate leaders, and “represents a major step forward for our Commonwealth,” Senate President Karen E. Spilka said.

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.

Report of threats forces New Jersey-bound flight to return to Logan Airport in Boston

Delta Airlines Flight 5770 was scheduled to depart at 5:30 p.m. but was soon forced to return to the airport after an anonymous caller reported the passenger’s alleged threats to a New Jersey police agency.

Small plane lands in ocean off crowded Hampton Beach in New Hampshire; pilot unhurt
Emergency responders arrived to find the plane 30 yards offshore. The pilot was rescued from the water by New Hampshire state lifeguards and was medically evaluated at the scene but decline a ride to the hospital, officials said.

Malden man charged with smashing car windows, injuring baby, in apparent road rage incident in South End, Suffolk DA says

One man dead, five people injured in three shootings, one stabbing incident in Dorchester, Roxbury, police say

NAACP Convention in Boston

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft spoke with rapper Meek Mill during a Boston Celtics game in 2018.

Robert Kraft, Meek Mill tell NAACP convention that Jewish, Black communities must combat hate together

NAACP President Derrick Johnson spoke at the national convention on Friday.

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

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

Sara Arman (CQ), director of Health Equity at Policy at Green Roots, Inc., an organization based in Chelsea, spoke to an attendee during a workshop on Saturday called “Black Communities in Climate Crisis” at the NAACP Convention in Boston.

‘Community power and resilience:’ NAACP workshop explores why Black communities must unite around climate

Sigourney Weaver (left) and Alyla Browne in Amazon's "The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart." The seven-part Australian mystery premieres Friday.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: ‘SNL’ rumors, a Sigourney Weaver drama, and six series begin new seasons

Premiering this week: “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,” an Austrailian miniseries starring Sigourney Weaver, and the true-crime docuseries “Demons and Saviors.” Meanwhile, rumors continue to swirl about Lorne Michaels's eventual successor on “Saturday Night Live.”

Patriots rookie wideout Demario Douglas has stood out in the early days of training camp, with his quickness, route-running, and hands.

Rookie wideout Demario Douglas continues to catch the eye, and other takeaways from Day 4 of training camp

Sixth-round draft pick Douglas, who goes by “Pop,” continues to live up to his nickname in the early days of Patriots training camp.

Rafael Devers has his mind set on bringing another World Series title to Boston.

peter abraham | on baseball

The Red Sox invested in Rafael Devers. Now he wants them to invest in the team for playoff push.

Devers believes chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom should add to the roster before the trade deadline on Tuesday afternoon.

Sox lose game and series to Giants in extra innings, 4-3

Opinion

Although two cannabis companies have opened in Malden, the city has among the state’s strictest zoning.

When local cannabis zoning may be too restrictive

A court case debates whether Malden’s zoning unreasonably limits legitimate marijuana companies.

Parenting in what feels like end times

IDEAS | MARK PETERS

X marks a lot of spots: Twitter’s new name has a very long history

One-party rule on Beacon Hill has led to dysfunction

With a few basic steps, most of us can finally ignore COVID

More recent News

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.

‘Life can be an adventure in sobriety’: R.I. ultra swimmer made a film to share his story
A new documentary about Ben Tuff, “Swim Tuff: How I Swam My Way Out of the Bottle,” screens in Newport on Tuesday.

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.

Mar-a-Lago worker charged in Trump’s classified documents case to make first court appearance

An employee of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Carlos De Oliveira, is expected to make his first court appearance Monday on charges accusing him of scheming with the former president to hide security footage from investigators probing Trump’s hoarding of classified documents.

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

Families of those killed on Delta Flight 723 gathered at Logan International Airport’s chapel Sunday morning for a memorial Mass, marking the the 50th anniversary of the worst plane crash in New England’s history.

Fifty years later, families reflect on Logan plane crash

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.

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

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.

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

‘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.

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.

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.

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

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, seen here recently in New Hampshire. Our columnist says the presidential candidate has been waging what seems to be an anti-charm offensive on the campaign trail.

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

IDEAS | JOSHUA GLENN

Sci-fi that foreshadowed the genre as we know it

State Senator Diana DiZoglio said her office has been “stonewalled.”

Audit Beacon Hill? Yes, but...

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.

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

MARCELA GARCÍA

Revere is clueless about home-based day care

IDEAS | Fredrik deBoer

The hubris of AI hype

Metro

FOOD & DINING NEWSLETTER

Three new-ish cafés where you can get work done in R.I.

Looking for caffeine, air conditioning, and a quiet place to work? These hidden gems are our go-to spots.

‘Life can be an adventure in sobriety’: R.I. ultra swimmer made a film to share his story

A new documentary about Ben Tuff, “Swim Tuff: How I Swam My Way Out of the Bottle,” screens in Newport on Tuesday.

‘Our economy won’t function without us’: R.I. nonprofit leader to direct sector support center

Nancy Wolanski has been tapped as the inaugural director of the new Nonprofit Resource Center, a hub for the nonprofit sector based at the United Way of Rhode Island.

Criminals on campus: Student sexual assault survivors seeking justice face murky process under Title IX amid political shifts

Colleges have struggled for decades with a pervasive culture of assault and harassment. But experts say a once imperfect process for holding perpetrators accountable is now broken and in desperate need of repair — and politicians are partly to blame.

Sports

Justin Turner pulled a two-run homer to left field to give the Red Sox a late lead they were unable to maintain.

GIANTS 4, RED SOX 3 (11 innings)

Red Sox fail to hold late lead, lose game and series to Giants in extra innings

Justin Turner’s two-run homer in the eighth inning put the Red Sox in front — but only briefly — and the outcome was decided in extras. The Red Sox will visit Seattle next for three games, with Monday night's game to be played less than 24 hours ahead of MLB's trade deadline.

Chris Sale pitched to a 5-2 record and 4.58 ERA over 11 starts before landing on the injured list in early June.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Chris Sale set for rehab assignment with Worcester, then to return to opener-reliant Red Sox in starting role

Sale, on the 60-day injured list with a shoulder issue, is scheduled for at least two Triple A appearances. Manager Alex Cora took notice of the Giants' opener strategy over the weekend and is open-minded when it comes to the team's other pitchers.

Stalwarts Gustavo Bou (left) and Carles Gil will be up for the challenge when the Revolution host Atlas FC for the first knockout stage match of the Leagues Cup 2023.

Revolution to host Atlas in Leagues Cup Round of 32

Bruce Arena’s side, which has lost only once in its last 11 matches in all competitions, will welcome the Mexican entry to Gillette Stadium on Thursday.

baseball notebook

Hunter Renfroe hits homer in 10th inning to lift Angels over Blue Jays

MLB Trade Deadline Tracker: Angels add offense, reunite with C.J. Cron, get Randal Grichuk from Rockies

Once the glory position, elite running back is now treated like a leper in the NFL

Business

‘Our economy won’t function without us’: R.I. nonprofit leader to direct sector support center

Nancy Wolanski has been tapped as the inaugural director of the new Nonprofit Resource Center, a hub for the nonprofit sector based at the United Way of Rhode Island.

As work begins on the largest US dam removal project, tribes look to a future of growth

The largest dam removal project in United States history is underway along the California-Oregon border — a process that won’t conclude until the end of next year with the help of heavy machinery and explosives.

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

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

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

Here's why the Sumner Tunnel is closed.

Share your thoughts on this story: What’s being fixed in the Sumner Tunnel? These are the key upgrades.

What’s being fixed in the Sumner Tunnel? These are the key upgrades.

Mass. House, Senate negotiators reach compromise on $56.2 billion budget

sports

Rafael Devers has his mind set on bringing another World Series title to Boston.

The Red Sox invested in Rafael Devers. Now he wants them to invest in the team for playoff push.

Bills co-owner Kim Pegula makes 1st appearance at training camp since going into cardiac arrest

Dalvin Cook visits with the Jets and watches practice as he considers his options

business

An employee of a bookstore wraps a title featuring LGBTQ+ content in closed packaging to comply with a contentious law on homosexuality in media, on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. Booksellers in Hungary must decide whether to comply with a law requiring books that depict homosexuality to be placed in closed packaging on their shelves. Some bookstores have already received hefty fines from the right-wing government for failing to do so, while others have opted to abide by the legislation, despite their opposition to it. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

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

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

politics

Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump.

What the Obama-Clinton 2008 primary has to do with the 2024 Trump-DeSantis contest

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

Nation

A security car blocks the drive at the entrance to former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on March 29.

Mar-a-Lago worker charged in Trump’s classified documents case to make first court appearance

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

World

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry Press Office, emergency services work at a scene after a missile hit a multi-story apartment building in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on July 31.

Ukraine says Russian missiles hit another apartment building and likely trapped people under rubble

Death toll in Pakistan suicide bombing rises to 54 as families hold funerals, police say

Russia says 2 drones hit buildings in Moscow in latest wave of attacks

opinion

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, seen here recently in New Hampshire. Our columnist says the presidential candidate has been waging what seems to be an anti-charm offensive on the campaign trail.

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

We haven’t learned yet how to stop worrying about AI

A great many victims in Brandeis shuttle crash

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

The interior of the Rise 'n Shine Coffee Bar, on the first floor of the 1858 Christopher Dodge Carriage House on Holden Street, in Providence's Smith Hill neighborhood.

Three new-ish cafés where you can get work done in R.I.

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

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

Sigourney Weaver (left) and Alyla Browne in Amazon's "The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart." The seven-part Australian mystery premieres Friday.

This week’s TV: ‘SNL’ rumors, a Sigourney Weaver drama, and six series begin new seasons

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

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