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Trump, 18 others indicted in Georgia election investigation

Former president faces racketeering, conspiracy charges over efforts to overturn his 2020 loss in the state

The document describes Trump, Mark Meadows, Trump’s attorneys, and Rudy Giuliani as members of a “criminal organization” who were part of an “enterprise” that operated in Georgia and other states.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis spoke during a news conference at the Fulton County Government building on Monday in Atlanta.

Live Updates

6:02 a.m.
A look at the 19 people charged in Georgia indictment connected to Trump election scheme
5:43 a.m.
Trump has been indicted in a fourth case. Here’s where all the investigations stand.
4:38 a.m.
Who are the lawyers representing Trump in Georgia?

How the Georgia indictment against Donald Trump may be the biggest yet and other case takeaways

James Pindell | ANALYSIS

There may only be one reason Trump is running for president again. And after Georgia, it might not matter.

How RICO, a law associated with mobsters, is central to charges against Trump

Mass. Democrats pressure US Department of Education to curtail legacy admissions

If institutions of higher education can’t consider a student’s race, Democrats argue, they should not be able to consider familial or financial connections, either.

After uproar in Littleton, gun vendors seek new home. Nearby towns are wary of them.

The conflicts reflect tensions between a small but growing contingency of Second Amendment enthusiasts and those who favor strict gun control.

Trying to finally get new Cape bridges built, Healey tries different strategy

Governor Maura Healey believes seeking aid this year for only the Sagamore Bridge will maximize the state’s chances to cover the larger project’s ballooning price tag. “It prolongs the agony for the Bourne Bridge users,” said the chair of the Bourne Select Board. “But you’ve got to start somewhere.”

Home prices in Boston keep going up despite — and because of — interest rates

The median single-family home price of $910,000 in July was the highest on record here.

Dozens of motorcycles, street bikes block Leverett Connector while riders do donuts, spin tires
Drivers on the Leverett Connector near TD Garden were brought to a halt Saturday afternoon as dozens of riders on motorcycles and dirt bikes blocked the highway, according to officials and video of the incident.

Two adults dead, several children hurt in Springfield shooting following violent week in city

Haverhill residents displaced by sinkhole likely to return Wednesday; damage estimates approach $2 million

New England Patriots fans sat in the rain during training camp on the Gillette Stadium practice field.

This summer is officially rained out

Although summer doesn’t officially end for more than a month, it is already one of the rainiest on record since 1872, and forecasters see even more rainy days ahead.

Photos: Lahaina residents return to a paradise lost after wildfires
A week after historic wildfires destroyed Lahaina, Maui, search and rescue efforts continued as the death count rose in the oceanfront town in Hawaii.

Number of dead from Maui wildfires reaches 99, as governor warns there could be scores more

chad finn

Collecting some thoughts about the Patriots, starting with their rediscovered athleticism
The Patriots overall had a plodding team just a couple of years ago. That is not the case any longer.

5 things to know about the Patriots’ reported agreement with running back Ezekiel Elliott

Monday was the local press corps's last opportunity to talk to Bill Belichick at Gillette Stadium for almost two weeks.

dan shaughnessy

Bill Belichick knows how to work the clock, even in a preseason press conference

We hoped the coach might talk at length about whiz kid Malik Cunningham or maybe the farce of joint practices being more important than preseason games, but …

My parents bought our family burial plots years ago. But my plans might change.

I’ve learned the best we can do is have conversations with our loved ones about death rituals and end-of-life planning.

Gwyneth Paltrow arrives at The Daily Front Row's Seventh Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards on April 23.

My plan to win Gwyneth Paltrow’s Airbnb listing

The Hollywood star has put her Montecito guesthouse on the platform for one night. But what do you wear in the presence of Gwyneth Paltrow?

Birmingham City co-owner Tom Brady signs autographs for young fans before the Championship soccer match between Birmingham City and Leeds United at St. Andrew's, Birmingham, England, Saturday Aug. 12, 2023.

Tom Brady building palatial bachelor pad in L.A., reports say

Word from the West Coast is that the former Patriots quarterback, who built a couple of extravagant homes during his playing days, is overseeing construction of yet another opulent residence in Los Angeles.

Opinion

Students on campus at the American University in Washington, D.C.

The Biden administration proposed good new Title IX rules. When will it implement them?

The Biden administration, and college and university officials, must act quickly to ensure new procedures are put in place to give more equal protections for the accusers and the accused.

MARCELA GARCÍA

El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and the art of the perfect dictatorship

A revolution in the making: How self-driving cars might transform the lives of blind and vision-impaired people

Katherine Gergen Barnett

How states can thoughtfully unwind Medicare coverage

Romance novels may help you find your happy place during the 2024 election cycle

More recent News

A Harvard exhibit honors enslaved women’s contributions to reproductive health
On a group outing, Black women physicians reflected on the troubling history of gynecology.

$The Boylston Street entrance to Eataly. A New Hampshire woman filed a lawsuit against the eatery, claiming she fractured her ankle after slipping on a piece of prosciutto at the location.$

N.H. woman sues Eataly Boston after she allegedly slipped on piece of prosciutto
The Gilford, N.H., couple is seeking upwards of $50,000 in damages, according to the complaint filed on Friday in Suffolk Superior Court.

Quincy man charged with assault, attempted rape in ‘nightmarish’ attack on woman in South End

Amos Sykes appeared Monday before a Boston Municipal Court Judge, who ordered him detained pending a dangerousness hearing now set for Wednesday.

Why scientists are hooking oysters up to biosensors
The data will help researchers at University of New Hampshire understand what’s going on in the water when oysters are doing poorly.

Man sentenced for abandoning baby after Dennis Eckersley’s daughter gave birth in woods
George Theberge, referred to as the boyfriend of the baby's mother in a police affidavit, was sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to the misdemeanor child endangerment charge, having reached a deal with prosecutors.

David Krejci, brilliant playmaker and clutch playoff performer, retires after 16 seasons with Bruins
“David was a special player and has been a big part of this team’s success,” said Bruins president Cam Neely.

Recommended reads

Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass., June 23, 2023.

Harvard, UMass, Tufts update college applications after Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action

Because the Supreme Court left the door open for prospective students to talk about how race has affected their life experiences through essay questions and interviews, colleges are tweaking what they ask applicants.

shirley leung

Jaylen Brown wants to create a ‘Black Wall Street in Boston.’ What would that look like?
Local Black business leaders have some ideas for the Celtics star.

In a ‘work-from-anywhere’ world, where are people working?
People are parking their laptops at rock climbing gyms, breweries, and arcades, rethinking what can constitute an office in a hybrid work landscape.

BETH TEITELL

Pickleball has left the court. Now, it’s the subject of real drama.
In its brief and loud life, pickleball has triggered more than its share of drama. There’s a play in Wellfleet. A pilot for a mockumentary. A casting call for a reality show.

Culture & Lifestyle

The rap duo Earthgang performs at the GLD FSTVL at City Hall Plaza in Boston. The festival on Saturday was put on to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop.

GLD FSTVL threw hip-hop a 50th birthday celebration on Boston’s new ‘front yard’

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

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

Former Vice President Mike Pence greeted people at a campaign event at American Legion Hall Post 27 in Londonderry, N.H., on Aug. 4.

Suddenly, Mike Pence is acting ‘brand new’

F-15 Eagle fighter jets flew over a beach in Tel Aviv in April to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Israel's creation.

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

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

A helicopter dropped water on the Caldor fire in the Lake Tahoe area in September 2021.

IDEAS | BOB REGAN

Notes from the burn scar

Surgeons performed a kidney transplant.

The organ transplant system needs fixing

"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

Why scientists are hooking oysters up to biosensors

The data will help researchers at University of New Hampshire understand what’s going on in the water when oysters are doing poorly.

This summer is officially rained out

Although summer doesn’t officially end for more than a month, it is already one of the rainiest on record since 1872, and forecasters see even more rainy days ahead.

Photos: Lahaina residents return to a paradise lost after wildfires

A week after historic wildfires destroyed Lahaina, Maui, search and rescue efforts continued as the death count rose in the oceanfront town in Hawaii.

Georgia indictment

Donald Trump and his allies are facing RICO charges. Follow live updates.

Donald Trump was indicted in Georgia over 2020 election meddling, the fourth criminal case against him. Follow live updates.

Sports

The quickness of Demario Douglas (shown at the NFL Combine) has stood out at Patriots training camp.

Collecting some thoughts about the Patriots, starting with their rediscovered athleticism

The Patriots overall had a plodding team just a couple of years ago. That is not the case any longer.

Nicky Lopez had three hits and three RBIs against the Yankees while subbing for second baseman Ozzie Albies.

BRAVES 11, YANKEES 3

Yankees prove to be no match for Braves in lopsided series opener in Atlanta

Max Fried allowed two runs in six-plus innings for Atlanta in his first home start since May 5. Fill-in Nicky Lopez and Eddie Rosario paced the offensive attack against New York starter Clarke Schmidt.

Dalvin Cook visited with the Jets in July, then chose New York over Miami.

Former Vikings running back Dalvin Cook reportedly joining the Jets

Cook, 28, has run for at least 1,000 yards in each of the past four seasons but was released by the Vikings on June 8 for salary cap savings.

Mary Mulcahy, Allison Paik, and Mekhala Costello take charge after first day of Mass. Women’s Amateur Championship

5 things to know about the Patriots’ reported agreement with running back Ezekiel Elliott

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Trevor Story plays from position of strength when manning shortstop for Red Sox

Business

Jaylen Brown wants to create a ‘Black Wall Street in Boston.’ What would that look like?

Local Black business leaders have some ideas for the Celtics star.

For Forbush, a mission to move fast in new role at Mass Audubon

Bold Types is our weekly roundup of the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene.

Ruble plunges to lowest point since beginning of Ukraine invasion

CNN overhauls programming lineup, aiming to lift ratings

magazine

A man who goes by the alias Zero struts down the runway during a clothing-optional gun show at Body Freedom Village, on the fourth day of the Porcupine Freedom Festival, an annual event held by the Free State Project.

These libertarians want to take over New Hampshire

New Hampshire writer Grace Metalious created a stir in 1956 with the publication of "Peyton Place."

'Peyton Place' and the inevitable failure of book bans

This week's daters: Nathan and Annie

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘There is a TikTok about finding the best cannoli in Boston’

When I worked nights, my grandpa and I bonded over daily calls

metro

Workers with heavy equipment labored in a sink hole behind Ford Street in Haverhill on Monday.

Haverhill residents displaced by sinkhole likely to return Wednesday; damage estimates approach $2 million

Video from MassDOT shows motorcyclists leaving after reportedly blocking the Leverett Connector.

Somerville man wanted on arrest warrant for violating parole in alleged Medford attack

sports

FILE - A flag supporting LGBTQ+ rights decorates a desk on the Democratic side of the Kansas House of Representatives during a debate, March 28, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Children are heading back to classes and fall sports practices, and four more states are expecting their K-12 schools to keep transgender girls off their girls sports teams. Kansas, North Dakota and Wyoming had new laws restricting transgender athletes in place before classes resumed, and a Missouri law takes effect at the end of this month. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

More states expect schools to keep trans girls off girls teams as K-12 classes resume

Patriots finally get to test themselves — against other teams — in joint practices

Vintage Max Scherzer pitching performance sets tone for Rangers in drubbing of Angels

business

Visitors took selfies in Tanah Lot, Bali, Indonesia.

Top vacation spots are now threatening bad tourists with jail

Mass. expands rebate program to include used EV buyers

China looks to attract foreign investment as its economy struggles

politics

Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke during the "Just Majority" Supreme Court Accountability Campaign Launch press conference in Copley Square on April 24.

Mass. Democrats pressure US Department of Education to curtail legacy admissions

Donald Trump and his allies are facing RICO charges. Follow live updates.

How RICO, a law associated with mobsters, is central to charges against Trump

Nation

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during a news conference at the Fulton County Government building on August 14, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who is taking on Trump

Number of dead from Maui wildfires reaches 99, as governor warns there could be scores more

Georgia court’s apparent error in early publishing of charges gives Trump opening to attack case

World

Since withdrawing last month from a deal that allowed ships carrying foodstuffs to leave Ukrainian ports, Russia has heavily bombarded those ports, notably Odesa, destroying more than 200,000 tons of grain.

Russian military fires a warning, then boards a Black Sea freighter

Ethiopian airstrike on a town square in the restive Amhara region kills 26, health official says

China looks to attract foreign investment as its economy struggles

opinion

The East Boston Community Development Corp. bought 36 mostly triple-deckers with 114 units of housing in East Boston last year.

How the private sector can ease housing crisis

The foundation of a liberal arts education is mighty

The state’s duty to shelter its residents

lifestyle

Birmingham City co-owner Tom Brady signs autographs for young fans before the Championship soccer match between Birmingham City and Leeds United at St. Andrew's, Birmingham, England, Saturday Aug. 12, 2023.

Tom Brady building palatial bachelor pad in L.A., reports say

How do I pursue the ‘crush of a lifetime’?

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

food & dining

The Dunkin' Spiked Ice Tea Mix Pack.

Dunkin’ confirms new line of spiked iced tea and coffee

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

What to eat at the North End’s Italian feasts

travel

Visitors took selfies in Tanah Lot, Bali, Indonesia.

Top vacation spots are now threatening bad tourists with jail

My plan to win Gwyneth Paltrow’s Airbnb listing

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

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

Dr. Waldrop, shown in 2010, received the National Book Award for his “Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy.”

Keith Waldrop, professor and heralded poet, dies at 90

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

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

Birmingham City co-owner Tom Brady signs autographs for young fans before the Championship soccer match between Birmingham City and Leeds United at St. Andrew's, Birmingham, England, Saturday Aug. 12, 2023.

Tom Brady building palatial bachelor pad in L.A., reports say

This week’s TV: The ‘Suits’ phenomenon, a new Arthurian drama, and Harlan Coben’s latest

With Emmy’s bumped, what comes next?

music

Renée Fleming and Andris Nelsons with the BSO at Tanglewood.

Strauss in the house: Renée Fleming shines at Tanglewood

Musician Will Dailey invites you to listen, really listen

Clarence Avant, ‘Godfather of Black Music’ and benefactor of athletes and politicians, has died

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

Mr. Avant, in "The Black Godfather" documentary, released in 2019.

Clarence Avant, ‘Black Godfather’ of entertainment, and benefactor of athletes and politicians, dies

Keith Waldrop, professor and heralded poet, dies at 90

Robert Giles, Nieman Foundation curator who oversaw Kent State shootings coverage, dies at 90