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At least four tornadoes reported as storm wreaks havoc across Southern New England
A wet and windy weather system tore a wild path through southern New England on Friday, unleashing at least four tornadoes that brought nickel-size hail and winds that lifted and flipped cars, uprooted massive trees, and generated a waterspout in the ocean off Boston.

See photos and videos of the severe weather that swept through New England

Parents of Brandeis student killed in bus crash last fall sue driver, bus company
The civil action comes after federal records released earlier this summer found the bus driver traveled at nearly twice the speed limit before crashing off South Street and had worked too many hours while also holding a second job as a school bus driver in Boston.

Trump reportedly plans to skip GOP debate for interview with Tucker Carlson

Former president Donald Trump plans to upstage the first Republican primary debate Wednesday by sitting for an online interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, according to The New York Times.

Who’s in, who might be out: Eight candidates have qualified for the first Republican debate

Hurricane Hilary threatens ‘catastrophic and life-threatening’ flooding in Mexico and California
Hurricane Hilary headed for Mexico’s Baja California Saturday as the U.S. National Hurricane Center predicted “catastrophic and life-threatening flooding” for the peninsula and for the southwestern United States, where it is forecast to make land as a tropical storm on Sunday.

Business leaders, some officials support plan to clear Mass and Cass, open recovery campus at Widett Circle

If built, the recovery campus would operate for three or four years until the city reopens its addiction treatment center on Long Island in Boston Harbor.

Move Mass. and Cass crisis to Widett Circle? South End coalition says yes. Your view: Is moving the problem to another area the solution?

Officials to consider removing N.H. sheriff accused of stealing $19k, lying about romantic encounters

The commissioners in Strafford County, N.H., have booked a meeting to discuss their options pertaining to Sheriff Mark Brave, who was arrested on Thursday

P-Town carnival

Photos: Meet the attendees of the Provincetown Carnival

Since 1978, the weeklong festivities have been a celebration of Provincetown’s queer community as well as an opportunity to welcome new members and allies

Pollution is threatening Cape Cod’s famous waters. Its towns are spending hundreds of millions to head off an environmental disaster.
“It may be worse before it gets better,” said Richard Delaney, CEO of the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown. “But the correction, the solution, is underway.”

Coming to a live venue near you: As Hollywood strikes rage on, Bay State brings in some big (and not-so-big) names
As Hollywood writers approach the four-month mark of their strike, live performance venues are scrambling to make room for a growing number of them who are hitting the road.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Red Sox have been frustrating, but they’re sure not as maddening as the Yankees
The endlessly discussed playoff odds are not on his team’s side, but Alex Cora has kept the Red Sox engaged. That’s more than can be said for Aaron Boone’s Yankees, who have lost six in a row.

Alex Speier | Minor Details: Breaking down the Red Sox’ rise in prospect rankings Julian McWilliams | Triston Casas proves he’s capable of handling plenty on his plate

Masataka Yoshida (left) is greeted at home plate by Red Sox teammates Justin Turner (center) and Rafael Devers (right) after his decisive three-run home run in the first inning gave the Sox a 4-0 lead over the host Yankees Friday night in New York.

Red Sox 8, Yankees 3

Masataka Yoshida, Red Sox do damage early in resounding road win in opener of set vs. Yankees

The Red Sox erupted for seven runs in first two innings, including four in the first, to seal the verdict in an 8-3 win vs. the reeling Yankees in New York.

Democrats livid over Biden’s N.H. primary snub are banking on a write-in win
If the president’s name isn’t on their ballot, party leaders say, voters will add it themselves: “The DNC created a mess, and New Hampshire Democrats are going to have to clean it up.”

Chip Chop, a sprawling compound on Martha's Vineyard, has hit the market for $24 million.

Chip Chop, Diane Sawyer’s historic home on Martha’s Vineyard, hits market for $24m

A 20-acre waterfront compound on Martha’s Vineyard known as “Chip Chop,” the longtime home of television news anchor Diane Sawyer, hit the market on Thursday for $24 million.

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2023.

The affirmative action ruling is a disaster for college students. This is the path forward.

Colleges can only serve their students and society when they bring together people from varied backgrounds to share and learn from differing ideas.

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

After serial monogamy, I want to be single for a full year

But ... what if I meet someone sooner?

Opinion

A pediatrician holds a dose of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.

Get kids vaccinated in time for school

Parents, school, and health officials all play a role.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Even liberals like Maura Healey are souring on Biden’s immigration bungling

Imagine fewer cars on the road. It’s tricky, but we’ll try.

MARCELA GARCÍA

How to go viral on TikTok

An old Coast Guard scandal emerges and casts a harsh light on the service’s sexual assault policies

More recent News

Maui town ravaged by fire will ‘rise again,’ Hawaii governor says of long recovery ahead
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Friday that what’s rebuilt from the ashes of the devastating wildfires on Maui will be determined by the people.

New abortion data for Massachusetts show the impact of recent court rulings
More people from out of state are coming to Massachusetts to end their pregnancies.

Amherst-Pelham superintendent resigns amid middle school investigation
Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools Superintendent Michael Morris's departure at the end of the month coincides as students return to school Aug. 30.

US, Japan, and South Korea agree to expand security ties at summit amid China, North Korea worries

President Biden and the leaders of Japan and South Korea have agreed to expand security and economic ties at a historic summit Friday at the US presidential retreat of Camp David.

Chinese military launches drills around Taiwan as a ‘warning’ after a top island official went to US

Two Boston men arrested in connection to fatal shooting in Roxbury in July

A Boston man was arrested in connection to a fatal July 30 shooting in Roxbury.

MBTA investigating surfing on Red Line seen in video
In a video posted on social media, a woman can be heard saying “young man, get down from there” in a concerned tone.

Recommended reads

The main bar in Delta's new Sky Lounge in Terminal E at Logan.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Delta adds a touch of luster to otherwise quiet opening week at Logan’s expanded Terminal E

A more festive official launch will occur this fall. We got a glimpse via Delta’s posh new Sky Club, which hugs one side of the curvaceous building. Here's what we saw.

Kevin Paul Dupont | On Second Thought

Sports fans blindsided by yet another feel-good story, the Michael Oher saga, being taken away
Oher, the central figure of the inspiring 2009 movie “The Blind Side,” believes he’s owed an eight-figure slice from the movie’s $300 million in sales.

Pentagon watchdog finds lax oversight and screening of military recruits with extremist ties
Screening lapses can have dire consequences. A recent Globe investigation revealed that at least 82 current and former military service members with far-right, antigovernment, or neo-Nazi views were arrested in the last five years.

PARENTING UNFILTERED

With Sober in the Suburbs, a judgment-free social club for anyone tired of hangovers, headaches, and morning-after regret
Needham’s Kimberly Kearns had three kids, a supportive husband, and a seemingly idyllic life. But she couldn’t stop drinking.

Culture & Lifestyle

Alison Cook-Beatty Dance Company (pictured in 2022) returns to Windhover Center for the Performing Arts Aug. 23-24.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Virgil Ortiz, "The Translator," from the artist’s "Revolt 1680/2180" project, 2015.

Three ways of looking at Pueblo art

Ming Min Hui is Boston Ballet's new executive director.

Boston Ballet announces Ming Min Hui as new executive director

Some New Bedford residents want to remove artist Donna Dodson's sculpture "Seagull Cinderella," which returned this year for the city's 10th anniversary Seaport Art Walk.

In New Bedford, the ‘sexy seagull’ is ruffling feathers once again

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

IDEAS | Hollie Russon Gilman and Amy Eisenstein

It’s like jury duty, but for getting things done

The official US government Medicare handbook for 2020.

IDEAS | Andrew Ryan and David Meyers

How Medicare can save $500 billion

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

Prosecutors contest release of N.H. woman charged with taking explicit photos of children at Tyngsborough day care

Lindsay Groves, 39, of Hudson, N.H., was arraigned in US District Court in Boston on Friday and pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual exploitation of children and distribution of child pornography.

At least four tornadoes reported as storm wreaks havoc across Southern New England

A wet and windy weather system tore a wild path through southern New England on Friday, unleashing at least four tornadoes that brought nickel-size hail and winds that lifted and flipped cars, uprooted massive trees, and generated a waterspout in the ocean off Boston.

Two Boston men arrested in connection to fatal shooting in Roxbury in July

A Boston man was arrested in connection to a fatal July 30 shooting in Roxbury.

Business leaders, some officials support plan to clear Mass and Cass, open recovery campus at Widett Circle

If built, the recovery campus would operate for three or four years until the city reopens its addiction treatment center on Long Island in Boston Harbor.

Sports

Stina Lennartsson (R) and Amanda Ilestedt of Sweden celebrate the team’s victory following the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 third place match between Sweden and Australia at Brisbane Stadium on Aug. 19 in Brisbane, Australia.

Sweden beats Australia 2-0 to win another bronze medal at the Women’s World Cup

Sweden won yet another bronze medal at the Women’s World Cup, with Fridolina Rolfo and Kosovare Asllani scoring Saturday in a clinical 2-0 win over tournament co-host Australia.

Brayan Bello once again delivered against the Yankees, tossing six innings of one-run ball to help the Red Sox to an 8-3 win over their archrivals Friday night in the Bronx.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Red Sox have been frustrating, but they’re sure not as maddening as the Yankees

The endlessly discussed playoff odds are not on his team’s side, but Alex Cora has kept the Red Sox engaged. That’s more than can be said for Aaron Boone’s Yankees, who have lost six in a row.

Arike Ogunbowale (24) couldn't miss early on, hitting six of her first 7 3-point attempts.

WINGS 95, SUN 75

Connecticut Sun have no solution for Arike Ogunbowale, who scores 30 in Dallas Wings victory

The Sun (21-10) have lost three straight for the first time since the 2021 season.

Red Sox 8, Yankees 3

Masataka Yoshida, Red Sox do damage early in resounding road win in opener of set vs. Yankees

ALEX SPEIER | MINOR DETAILS

Breaking down the Red Sox’ rise in prospect rankings

Chelsea FC offers up to $15 million for Revolution goalkeeper Djordje Petrović

Business

San Francisco launches driverless bus service following robotaxi expansion

San Francisco has launched an autonomous shuttle service less than a week after regulators approved the expansion of robotaxis despite traffic and safety concerns.

Trump cancels press conference on election fraud claims, citing attorneys’ advice

Former president Donald Trump canceled a news conference he planned to hold on Monday in response to his latest indictment, because, he said, of advice from his lawyers.

CVS to lay off 1,000 assigned to R.I., Conn. offices

California insurer to drop CVS caremark

magazine

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2023.

The affirmative action ruling is a disaster for college students. This is the path forward.

Fifteen-year-old Peyton Miller controls the ball during practice with the New England Revolution’s B-team, known as Revolution II.

At 15, he’s the youngest soccer player ever signed by the Revolution. Next up, homework.

We broke up but still hang out. Should we get back together?

This week's daters: Bhushan and Janice

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I thought, “Oh no, she is going to hate me”’

metro

Homeowner Jessica Gormley surveyed a huge oak tree in her backyard on Pasco Drive in Johnston, R.I.

At least three tornadoes touch down in Southern New England as summer of wild weather continues

Parents of Brandeis student killed in bus crash last fall sue driver, bus company

The latest political news in Rhode Island

sports

Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas (center) is all smiles as he celebrates a three-run home run in a win at Fenway Park Aug. 11 vs. the Tigers.

Triston Casas proves he’s capable of handling plenty on his plate

With record-breaking round at Olympia Fields, Max Homa builds two-stroke lead at BMW Championship

The big men in front of Aaron Rodgers have become the center of attention and concern for the Jets

business

A billboard showed the Evergrande Group's developments and achievements outside the company's Royal Mansion residential development under construction in Beijing, China. The Evergrande Group filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday in New York.

Chinese property giant Evergrande files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy

Is the endangered liberal arts major worth saving?

BPDA board OK’s nearly 900 new apartments and condos around the city

politics

Former President Donald Trump, 2024 Republican presidential candidate, speaks at the Steer N' Stein bar while attending the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, US, on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023.

Trump cancels press conference on election fraud claims, citing attorneys’ advice

How many of Trump’s trials will happen before the election?

Trump reportedly plans to skip GOP debate for interview with Tucker Carlson

Nation

Community organizer Tiare Lawrence, second from right, is comforted by Archie Kalepa as they sing a song during a news conference with Lahaina, Hawaii, residents affected by a deadly wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023.

Maui town ravaged by fire will ‘rise again,’ Hawaii governor says of long recovery ahead

Local governments are spending billions of pandemic relief funds, but some report few specifics

James Buckley, conservative politician and US senator, dies at 100

World

Lifeguards at the 72nd Place Lifeguard Station in Long Beach, Calif., on Aug. 18, help residents and community members by filling up sandbags and distributing them ahead of Hurricane Hilary's arrival to Southern California.

Hurricane Hilary threatens ‘catastrophic and life-threatening’ flooding in Mexico and California

Zelenskyy visits NATO candidate Sweden for 1st time since full-scale war with Russia

Chinese military launches drills around Taiwan as a ‘warning’ after a top island official went to US

opinion

Haitian migrant Fritz, 17, is reflected in early May in a TV screen in a Boston hotel room where he was staying with his mother, Sergeline, and his baby sister, Luna, 19 months. They had arrived from a temporary shelter at Boston Medical Center.

Holyoke mayor seeks more state support in housing migrant families

For MAGA, Trump’s legal troubles pit harsh realities against easy rationalizations

Another brick in the wall blocking abortion access

lifestyle

P-Town carnival

Photos: Meet the attendees of the Provincetown Carnival

After serial monogamy, I want to be single for a full year

With Sober in the Suburbs, a judgment-free social club for anyone tired of hangovers, headaches, and morning-after regret

food & dining

Chef Andrew Hebert puts the finishing touches on a pepperoni pizza at Gufo Restaurant.

It’s Italian food all day and night at Gufo in Cambridge

The Field & Vine team will open June Bug in Union Square; The Chemist experiments with Downtown Crossing

Here’s why there’s a sign saying ‘I Hate Boston’ in the North End

travel

This shingle-style mansion on Cape Cod Bay was known as Fieldstone Hall, when it was home to three generations of the Nickerson family.

Want to party like it’s 1899 (or need an excuse to wear your croquet costume)? Head to the Cape.

Delta adds a touch of luster to otherwise quiet opening week at Logan’s expanded Terminal E

Patrick Monahan of Train talks about his wife, Italy, and crystals from Sedona

Arts

Virgil Ortiz, "The Translator," from the artist’s "Revolt 1680/2180" project, 2015.

Three ways of looking at Pueblo art

Provincetown Public Art Foundation aims to make town’s ‘artistic soul visible’

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

Books

In William Boyd’s ‘The Romantic,’ an Irish Everyman survives the tumult of global history through luck, wit, and unfettered joy

Laura Trethewey, author of ‘The Deepest Map,’ reveals a literary cult favorite of deep ocean explorers

Jen Soriano traces her fragile nervous system to generational trauma in ‘Nervous’

Movies

Screenshots of Ceara Jane O’Sullivan’s TikTok (@cearajane).

Coming to a live venue near you: As Hollywood strikes rage on, Bay State brings in some big (and not-so-big) names

Leonard Bernstein’s children respond to criticism of Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in ‘Maestro’

A rendezvous for the night: The Boss at the movies

Television

On Sept. 29, Netflix will end its DVD services, and those red envelopes will be a thing of the past.

Netflix bidding farewell to DVD services

Before ‘Fargo’ returns, a fast ranking of the first four seasons

The violence that we see and the violence that we don’t

music

Bruce Springsteen performs during a concert for folk-music legend Pete Seeger at Madison Square Garden in New York on May 3, 2009.

A rendezvous for the night: The Boss at the movies

‘Mary Climbs In’ authors survey the inner landscape of Springsteen’s women fans

Playing ball: Steve Wynn of the Baseball Project steps up to the musical plate

Theater/Dance

From left: Karl Gregory, Erica Steinhagen, and Nael Nacer in "The Ding Dongs" at Gloucester Stage Company.

‘The Ding Dongs’: When that doorbell rings, watch out

Old and new at the Pillow

Boston Ballet announces Ming Min Hui as new executive director

Health

Research nurse Sarah French checks on Rodolfo Almeida of Providence at The Miriam Hospital's new Stephen and Diana Lewinstein Center for Innovative Cancer Research, a clinical area where patients receive investigational cancer treatments.

Changing the landscape of cancer care in R.I.: Lifespan, Brown to seek NCI designation

To better understand alcohol addiction, new research is turning to fruit flies

Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

Obituaries

Australia's John Devitt, center, and Lance Larson, of the United States, left, join third place winner Manuel Dos Santos of Brazil at the medal ceremony for the Rome Olympics on Aug. 27, 1960. Devitt was declared winner over Larson in the finals of the disputed 100-meter freestyle Olympic swim race.

John Devitt, champion swimmer with a tarnished gold medal, dies at 86

Dorothy Casterline, who codified American Sign Language, dies at 95

Jerry Moss, co-founder of A&M Records and Rock Hall of Fame member, dies at 88