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As death toll from Maui fire reaches 93, authorities say effort to count the losses is just starting

As the death toll from a wildfire that razed a historic Maui town reached 93, authorities warned that the effort to find and identify the dead was still in its early stages.

Pittsfield nurse to volunteer in Maui on family vacation Maui before and after wildfires: Photos and videos capture the devastating destruction

Kamala Harris visits Martha’s Vineyard for two fund-raisers

During one of the events, the vice president said Democrats “must be clear-eyed about what is afoot,” and reminded them of how they organized voters to turn out amid a global COVID-19 pandemic.

Republicans wanted a special counsel investigation of Hunter Biden. Now many oppose it.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, the president’s son, over his business dealings. Republicans had a range of reactions.

Hunter Biden special counsel pulls the Justice Department even more deeply into the 2024 election

At the Iowa state fair, DeSantis can’t seem to catch a break

Five injured in Braintree boat fire
Five people on board were taken to area hospitals with minor burns, smoke inhalation, and cuts. A retired Braintree police officer and his daughter who were at Metropolitan Yacht Club at the time jumped in to help, the city's mayor said.

Haverhill sinkhole causes $1 million in damage to sewer pipe; mayor declares state of emergency

City leaders are seeking state and federal financial aid for residents and local businesses affected by the flooding.

Kayaker taken to hospital after rescue from Boston Harbor

Crews responded around 2:30 p.m. Saturday for a water rescue in the area of 25 Dorchester Ave., Boston police said.

A view of the MBTA Operations Control Center.

More than a year after T cut service because of overworked dispatchers, MBTA remains short of hiring goals in Operations Control Center

Growing pains inside the Operations Control Center hit an inflection point during an overnight shift in April, when dispatcher errors caused three safety incidents on the tracks.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: The Supreme Court scandal is going to get worse
The shocking revelations surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas come as no surprise to the Rhode Island senator.

TIGERS 6, RED SOX 2

Red Sox take a step back, lose to Tigers to snap burgeoning win streak
With runners in scoring position, the Red Sox were 0 for 11. “Offensively, I’m not concerned,” manager Alex Cora said. “But we’re better than this.” Starter Brayan Bello struggled again, too, allowing four runs in 4⅔ innings.

Brayan Bello departed Saturday's 6-2 loss to the Tigers after going 4⅔ innings during which he allowed four runs on nine hits, including a pair of solo home runs by Kerry Carpenter in the second inning and Eric Haase in the fifth.

Brayan Bello may represent an exciting glimpse into the future, but the Red Sox are trying to keep him well rested for future availability

With every outing, the 24-year-old righthander has inched closer to a new career-high in innings with 119⅓, leaving him 34 shy of the 153⅓ he threw in 2022 between stints in the minors and majors.

Chris Sale is back in pitching mix, with Tanner Houck and Garrett Whitlock soon to follow

Lauren Folino helped her husband Luke Blaeser carry their new television while shopping in Saugus during the annual tax free weekend in Massachusetts.

Sales tax holiday gives Mass. shoppers a break at the register

Buying power has taken a hit this year due to economic factors, and the sales tax holiday allows people to catch a break on expenses like back-to-school purchases, or household items they have been waiting to buy, said Jon Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts.

Tony Parker called Dirk Nowitzki, his fellow 2023 Hall of Fame inductee, the godfather of international basketball.

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

The 2023 Basketball Hall of Fame class exemplifies the global growth of the NBA

Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, and Pau Gasol reflect a change in the NBA in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the league fully opened its door to players who were not American and did not attend college.

Dalton Sousa looked over to his mother, Toni, who is fighting cancer, as he talked to the crowd at a charity swim organized by Swim Across America Saturday at Castle Island.

Law student from Carver swims off Castle Island to raise cancer research money in honor of his mother

Dalton Sousa organized a team to participate in Swim Across America's annual charity event to honor his mother, Toni, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January.

Mac Jones (center) sat out the Patriots' preseason opener Thursday night.

Of all the questions facing the Patriots, there is none bigger than the fate and performance of Mac Jones

The Patriots have to figure out if Jones is worth the long-term commitment of a fifth-year option, with that decision looming next May.

Opinion

Surgeons performed a kidney transplant.

The organ transplant system needs fixing

A single nonprofit has held the contract for managing the country’s organ transplant system for decades. Breaking up its monopoly would be a good start to reforming the system.

Suddenly, Mike Pence is acting ‘brand new’

IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN

America needs more politicians like John Gilbert Winant

It’s time to end US military aid to Israel — for both countries’ sakes

IDEAS | BOB REGAN

Notes from the burn scar

More recent News

Boston celebrates 50 years of hip-hop in style
“Hip-hop is at the epicenter of everything. Its impact is unmatched,” said Billy Dean Thomas,cq 32, Boston’s City Hall Plaza engagement manager.

Frank Dell'Apa | On Soccer

Australia, on the brink of elimination in group play, has gotten physical en route to the Women’s World Cup semifinals, and other observations
France was the third European foe the Aussies have gone through, and they will face another when they meet England Tuesday.

John Heiss, composer and legendary New England Conservatory teacher, dies at 83
Mr. Heiss was on the faculty for 54 years at NEC, where his classes “were a joyous illumination of music.”

Two-alarm fire breaks out at salvage yard in Hyde Park
A two-alarm fire Saturday at Grants Salvage Yard sent plumes of smoke so thick they at one point obscured a Boston Fire Department truck, officials said.

Manchester, N.H. police seek suspects in two separate bank robberies
A Bangor Bank branch was robbed on Friday afternoon, while a TD Bank branch was robbed Saturday morning. It is unknown if the incidents are related. Anyone with information is asked to call Manchester police.

Pennsylvania man, 21, dies after medical emergency while hiking in N.H. White Mountains

Jason Apreku of Stroudsburg, Pa., was on the Osgood Trail to Mount Madison with friends when he collapsed around 4:30 p.m. Friday, New Hampshire Fish and Game said in a statement on Facebook.

Recommended reads

The interior of a lykke-category cabin at Lumen Nature Retreat in Woodstock, N.H.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

How an East Boston couple created a Nordic oasis in the White Mountains

Lumen Nature Retreat, an upscale campground on 20 acres, offers nature with panache.

Teacher of the Year was supposed to be an honor. Then politics intervened.
As the culture wars have come for public education in the United States, the Teacher of the Year contest has become yet another battlefield.

The $1.4-billion-plus redevelopment of Boston’s largest public housing complex is finally underway
Even by the standards of large-scale real-estate development, the overhaul of Charlestown’s Bunker Hill public housing complex has been an epic saga.

Why shrinking Catholic schools are partnering with a youth hockey business to bolster the bottom line
Boston Hockey Academy had partnered with Cambridge Matignon to enroll dozens of hockey recruits. With the closure of the school, BHA has found a new partner — and it appears it is a win-win for both sides.

Culture & Lifestyle

Christopher Innvar in Barrington Stage Company's "The Faith Healer."

In Barrington Stage’s gripping ‘Faith Healer,’ truth is a slippery thing

Javier Botet (left) and Corey Hawkins in a scene from "The Last Voyage of the Demeter."

‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: The crime of the ancient mariner

How not to ruin a concert in 13 easy steps

From left: Ayo Edebiri, Abby Elliot, and Jeremy Allen White in "The Bear," which is up for Emmy nominations in the comedy categories.

Is it a drama? A comedy? That question may be as dated as those labels.

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

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action, former Harvard University president Lawrence H. Summers has called for elite universities to eliminate legacy preferences.

Josh Grossman, Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay Page, and Sharad Goel

Harvard isn’t Hogwarts. Merit, not parentage, should be key to admission.

Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during Representative Zach Nunn's annual BBQ in Ankeny, Iowa, on July 15.

Advice for culture warrior Ron DeSantis: A satire

It is said that in crisis there is opportunity — and the opportunity has never been better for Governor Maura Healey to truly put her stamp on the Parole Board, set it on a path that would keep it out of further legal trouble, and make it function as the gatekeeper it was designed to be.

Healey’s big chance to reshape Parole Board to her values

The young woman blocked the open door and yelled to the conductor to hold the train so the woman could safely leave. But she also noticed that the older woman, who didn’t speak English, seemed confused about whether she was at the right station.

The old woman and the kindness of a stranger

It is said that in crisis there is opportunity — and the opportunity has never been better for Governor Maura Healey to truly put her stamp on the Parole Board, set it on a path that would keep it out of further legal trouble, and make it function as the gatekeeper it was designed to be.

Healey’s big chance to reshape Parole Board to her values

"This city is special," the author writes, "and Boston, so restrained in emotion, deserves to hear this more often."

IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

My farewell love letter to Boston

Metro

IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN

America needs more politicians like John Gilbert Winant

The three-term Republican governor of NH, FDR appointee, and ambassador to the UK put country ahead of party and was the soul of integrity. Let’s hope his kind hasn’t been consigned to history.

‘We’re just praying for the world to lift up this beautiful island.’ Pittsfield nurse to volunteer in Maui on family vacation

Nicole Nagata, her husband and three children, who live in Pittsfield, planned a three week vacation to Maui to visit family. Now she plans to volunteer as a nurse to aid the injured there. She hopes people donate in support of the devastated island.

Five injured in Braintree boat fire

Five people on board were taken to area hospitals with minor burns, smoke inhalation, and cuts. A retired Braintree police officer and his daughter who were at Metropolitan Yacht Club at the time jumped in to help, the city's mayor said.

Manchester, N.H. police seek suspects in two separate bank robberies

A Bangor Bank branch was robbed on Friday afternoon, while a TD Bank branch was robbed Saturday morning. It is unknown if the incidents are related. Anyone with information is asked to call Manchester police.

Sports

Connecticut Sun forward Alyssa Thomas rained buckets on the Dallas Wings, who still managed to win the game.

WNBA | Wings 91, Sun 81

Dallas Wings snap a three-game skid with win over Connecticut Sun

Alyssa Thomas led Connecticut (21-9) with 26 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists.

Brayan Bello departed Saturday's 6-2 loss to the Tigers after going 4⅔ innings during which he allowed four runs on nine hits, including a pair of solo home runs by Kerry Carpenter in the second inning and Eric Haase in the fifth.

Brayan Bello may represent an exciting glimpse into the future, but the Red Sox are trying to keep him well rested for future availability

With every outing, the 24-year-old righthander has inched closer to a new career-high in innings with 119⅓, leaving him 34 shy of the 153⅓ he threw in 2022 between stints in the minors and majors.

Alex Verdugo was 0 for 5 out of the leadoff spot in the loss to the Tigers.

TIGERS 6, RED SOX 2

Red Sox take a step back, lose to Tigers to snap burgeoning win streak

With runners in scoring position, the Red Sox were 0 for 11. “Offensively, I’m not concerned,” manager Alex Cora said. “But we’re better than this.” Starter Brayan Bello struggled again, too, allowing four runs in 4⅔ innings.

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

The 2023 Basketball Hall of Fame class exemplifies the global growth of the NBA

American player Julian Green racially abused in German Cup soccer game

Guardians’ star José Ramírez has MLB suspension for fighting reduced to two games

Business

For whom the jingle bell tolls: Remaining Christmas Tree Shops shutter for good today

The much-loved (but apparently not loved enough) discount store chain will close for good on Saturday.

Massachusetts needs wicked more EV chargers

A new report estimates that the state will need 10,000 of the fastest DC charging connections, up from just 651 today, and 35,000 medium-speed ports known as “Level 2,” up from 5,468 today.

As Cape Cod aims to expand its underused airport, some residents wonder why

DiCaprio-backed film says key beef supplier to the US has a dirty secret

magazine

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades, likely longer than anyone alive.

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?

The Cars in 1979, from left: Benjamin Orr, Greg Hawkes, Ric Ocasek, Elliot Easton, and David Robinson

How a WBCN deejay and a Harvard dining hall concert helped The Cars get their big break

A book sitting in the sand with blue skies and water behind it. The pages are blowing in the wind.

Your Summer Beach Bag

10 great books to read on a New England beach this summer

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

metro

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a grass-roots fund-raiser at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and at a separate fund-raising event at a private home on Saturday.

Kamala Harris visits Martha’s Vineyard for two fund-raisers

Two-alarm fire breaks out at salvage yard in Hyde Park

Boston celebrates 50 years of hip-hop in style

sports

Chris Sale gave the Red Sox' starting rotation a boost in his return Friday.

Chris Sale is back in pitching mix for Red Sox, with Tanner Houck and Garrett Whitlock soon to follow

Tom Brady touches down in England for first home match as minority owner of Birmingham City soccer team

Australia, on the brink of elimination in group play, has gotten physical en route to the Women’s World Cup semifinals, and other observations

business

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried jailed in New York; judge says crypto mogul tampered with witnesses

UPS pay hikes for package handlers raise pressure on FedEx

So long, sneakermakers: Footwear firm Wolverine plans to close its Waltham offices

politics

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a grass-roots fund-raiser at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and at a separate fund-raising event at a private home on Saturday.

Kamala Harris visits Martha’s Vineyard for two fund-raisers

For Biden, a political liability that may not go away after all

Republicans wanted a special counsel investigation of Hunter Biden. Now many oppose it.

Nation

Members of a search and rescue team walk along a street on Aug. 12, in Lahaina, Hawaii.

As death toll from Maui fire reaches 93, authorities say effort to count the losses is just starting

Lahaina residents worry a rebuilt Maui town could slip into the hands of affluent outsiders

Maui before and after wildfires: Photos and videos capture the devastating destruction

World

Lai Ching-te, Taiwan's vice president and leading contender for the presidency, is visiting New York and California.

As a Taiwanese presidential contender visits US, he tries to walk a fine line

Ukraine makes ‘tactically significant’ progress in counteroffensive

Death of porter left behind on K2 sparks debate over high-altitude ethics

opinion

Following a July 30 memorial service at Our Lady of the Airways Chapel at Logan Airport in East Boston, Stephen Fontaine placed his hand on a plaque dedicated to the 89 passengers and crew who were on board Delta Flight 723 when it crashed in 1973.

Reflections on the 1973 Logan plane crash and its victims

Wildfires in Maui must make us more mindful of our environmental responsibilities

The old woman and the kindness of a stranger

lifestyle

A scene from last year's SOulFully Textured, A Natural Hair Festival.

A celebration of natural curls, locs, and braids at SOulFully Textured on Martha’s Vineyard

He dumped me over email

Uncertainty mounts for occupants of Provincetown dune shacks

food & dining

Sunday Band Stand at the Saint Anthony's Feast.

What to eat at the North End’s Italian feasts this month

Dunkin’ may soon offer a new kind of buzz with line of spiked caffeinated beverages

The Great Scott space in Allston might become a Taco Bell Cantina

travel

The interior of a lykke-category cabin at Lumen Nature Retreat in Woodstock, N.H.

How an East Boston couple created a Nordic oasis in the White Mountains

Travelers are working out ways to find the best gyms while on the road

When it comes to Provincetown, Donal O’Sullivan is the man with all the answers

Arts

American artist Brice Marden sat in his studio in Tivoli, N.Y., on Dec. 28, 2018.

Brice Marden, who rejuvenated painting in the 1960s, dies at 84

Big ideas come in small packages in MFA’s ‘Tiny Treasures’

At the Photographic Resource Center: Shanghai, Missouri, and points between

Books

James McBride, in ‘The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store,’ builds a rich portrait of a Depression-era Black and immigrant community around the mystery of a skeleton in a well

In Lauren J.A. Bear’s debut novel ‘Medusa’s Sisters,’ Greek mythology’s monstrous sisters tell of the cruelty and capriciousness of the Olympian gods in shaping their fate

Steven Millhauser, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, on the pleasures of being an older reader and writer

Movies

Land was burned for cattle grazing in the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Brazil, on Sept. 9, 2019. Nicaragua’s beef industry is under fresh scrutiny with a documentary that claims ranchers there are illegally decimating rainforests to raise cattle for meat that ends up in US supermarkets.

DiCaprio-backed film says key beef supplier to the US has a dirty secret

Striking screenwriters will resume negotiations with studios on Friday

‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: The crime of the ancient mariner

Television

Picketers carried signs outside of Netflix on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in New York. The Hollywood writers strike reached the 100-day mark as the U.S. film and television industries remain paralyzed by dual actors and screenwriters strikes.

With Emmy’s bumped, what comes next?

Will satire be a superpower for ‘The Franchise’?

Striking screenwriters will resume negotiations with studios on Friday

music

Jamie Reid was an artist of many interests, including ancient Druid mysticism, runaway consumerism, and the interplay of nature and cities.

Jamie Reid, artist for Sex Pistols who defined punk style, dies at 76

Q-Pop: Peru’s social media phenomenon Lenin Tamayo fuses Quechua and K-pop

Woman goes into labor at Fenway during Pink concert, walks to hospital to give birth to baby boy

Theater/Dance

Christopher Innvar in Barrington Stage Company's "The Faith Healer."

In Barrington Stage’s gripping ‘Faith Healer,’ truth is a slippery thing

For Brenda Withers, ‘The Ding Dongs’ rang true

August Wilson’s biographer, on illuminating a playwright who illuminated America

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

Stylist John Barrett worked for more than two decades at his salon on the penthouse level of Bergdorf Goodman.

John Barrett, hair stylist for the fashionable elite, dies at 66

John Heiss, composer and legendary New England Conservatory teacher, dies at 83

Jamie Reid, artist for Sex Pistols who defined punk style, dies at 76