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‘It’s criminal behavior’: Hundreds involved in a series of violent incidents across Boston

Between two incidents at city movie theaters, police arrested 13 teenagers.

Mass. transportation secretary will step down fewer than eight months after she started. Why?
Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Gina Fiandaca is the first member of Governor Maura Healey’s Cabinet to announce her departure, after one of the shortest tenures for a Cabinet secretary in recent memory. Fiandaca said she will leave Sept. 11.

‘The light in the room’: Friends, family remember hockey player killed in Salem crash
Less than a day after police reported the death of Kory Ouellette, a celebrated high school hockey player from Salem, condolences flooded in from friends, family, and former teammates.

Idalia strengthens to a hurricane, dangerous storm surges are forecast for Florida’s Gulf Coast
Florida residents are evacuating from homes in low-lying areas along the Gulf Coast as forecasters predict that Tropical Storm Idalia will hit the state as a major hurricane by Wednesday.

Husband killed ‘Lady of the Dunes’ found in Provincetown in 1974, DA concludes

Monday’s announcement by Cape and Islands District Attorney Robert Galibois marked the end of a case that took a half-century to close and had only been solved with the help of modern DNA technology.

Bicyclist dies after crash with UPS truck in Newton

Worker dies after being crushed by piece of equipment at Boxborough facility

Madison Pinckney is finishing her final year of law school at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and is currently enrolled in a study on Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome.

‘This is a solvable problem’: New Massachusetts studies aim to unlock the mysteries of chronic Lyme disease

A distinct “antibody signature” could herald a new test to pinpoint who will recover.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

A Newport celebrity gets a multimillion-dollar makeover
A Gilded Age Rhode Island mansion gets a well-deserved touch-up.

Peter Abraham | ASTROS 13, RED SOX 5

Stunningly, the Red Sox raised the white flag against the Astros
They entered an important game without any lefthanded relievers in the bullpen and at least four righthanders who were deemed unavailable.

Tony Romo (left) and Jim Nantz have come a long way from their early days calling games together.

Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, and CBS’s top NFL broadcast is back for another season, starting with the Patriots’ opener at Gillette Stadium

Nantz, Romo, and sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson are entering their seventh season together.

Actor Walt Keller, dressed as Mister Rogers, joined picketers outside Universal Studios in Los Angeles this month.

Even if the strikes drag on, this TV critic won’t be at a loss

A break from the onslaught of new shows could actually be a good thing: I'd be able to guide readers to lesser-known series and unrecognized favorites.

Tyrone Wheatley Jr. is yet to appear in a regular season game.

Five things to know about new Patriots tackle Tyrone Wheatley Jr.

Wheatley has had an unusual path to the NFL (and to New England).

Tracking all the Patriots’ roster cuts ahead of Tuesday’s 4 p.m. deadline

Representative Ayanna Pressley, a Massachusetts Democrat, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington on April 27.

Pressley condemns Ramaswamy over KKK ‘grand wizards’ comparison: ‘It is deeply offensive’

Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley on Sunday denounced inflammatory remarks made by Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy at a campaign appearance last week, where he compared the congresswoman to “grand wizards in the KKK.”

The Boston Pride won the Isobel Cup in 2021 and 2022.

Boston will get a team in the new Professional Women’s Hockey League

The new Boston team will begin play in January alongside squads from Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, New York City, and Minnesota.

Opinion

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, June 21, 2023.

Why is the Fed so obsessed with 2 percent inflation?

Even though inflation has seen a remarkable turnaround in the last year, the Federal Reserve is still willing to risk wrecking the economy all because of an arbitrary number.

Ranked choice voting deserves a place in presidential primaries

Report: Cambridge police fatality leaves the public ‘wondering why’

The march on Washington — then and now

Fixing the red zones on the Red Line

News you can use

New ‘cars only’ sign installed to prevent trucks from getting ‘storrowed’ in Boston
A “cars only” sign was installed Monday at a Storrow Drive entrance, officials said.

Are we actually experiencing a COVID spike? Take a look at the data.
Plenty of data remain publicly accessible to determine whether COVID is actually on the upswing.

A back-to-school tech tuneup: Here’s what to know about your devices and software
It’s time to prep your gadgets and programs for the year ahead.

More recent News

Remembering the people who made the Boston Tea Party happen, 250 years later
On Sunday a special ceremony was held in honor of John Dickman, a Hopkinton resident who took part in the Boston Tea Party on Dec. 16, 1773, and a commemorative plaque was placed at his gravesite in Evergreen Cemetery.

March 4 trial date set for Trump in federal case charging him with plotting to overturn election
The judge denied a defense request to push the trial back until April 2026, but also set it later than the January date proposed by special counsel Jack Smith’s team.

Trump chief of staff Meadows says actions laid out in Georgia indictment were part of his job

Suspect’s motive unclear in campus shooting that killed one at UNC Chapel Hill, police say
Police are searching for both the weapon and the motive in a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that left one faculty member dead and prompted an hours-long lockdown.

Man, 19, charged in Marlborough hit-and-run crash that injured child on bicycle

Andy Lopez, of Marlborough, was arraigned Monday in Marlborough District Court on charges of leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident causing personal injury, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and filing a false motor vehicle insurance claim, officials said.

‘We know him to be a fighter’: Mass. state trooper remains in ICU following crash in Utah

State Trooper Matthew McRae remains in critical condition at the University of Utah Hospital, but “his health is slowly improving,” State Police Association of Massachusetts President Patrick McNamara said in a statement Monday.

New Boston FBI head will be first woman to lead office

FBI Director Christopher Wray has named Jodi Cohen, who has been with the FBI since 2005, to the position of special agent in charge in Boston, according to a statement released by the bureau.

Recommended reads

Auction website restaurantequipment.bid is taking bids for hundreds of fixtures and pieces of equipment that were housed inside the mammoth Natick Mall Wegmans store until it shut its doors last month.

Want to take a piece of Wegmans home? Here’s your chance.

You can stock up on fixtures and equipment from the grocery chain — including neon signs, deli slicers, and a pizza oven — for as low as a buck.

In the absence of any proven treatment, can people with long COVID recover?
Some people with long COVID get at least partially better, while many continue to suffer.

How an offer by Dr. Rochelle Walensky to donate blood sparked an eight-year mission to change the nation’s antiquated rules
New rules announced earlier this summer that open blood donation to millions of gay and bisexual men recently went into effect.

As climate warming drives more extreme weather, ‘everything we care about is on the line’
Even for climate scientists who have long warned that climate-fueled extreme weather was coming, the onslaught of recent crises has been nothing short of shocking.

Culture & Lifestyle

Billy McFarland, the promoter of the failed Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, leaves a New York federal court in 2018 after pleading guilty to fraud charges. He served four years in prison until his release in March 2022.

Founder of failed Fyre Festival is attempting a sequel

Singer Molly Rankin and lead guitarist Alec O'Hanley perform with Alvvays at Leader Bank Pavilion.

At Leader Bank Pavilion, Alex G and Alvvays hold an indie rock summit

Because of the strikes, few series are returning this fall, but season six of "The Crown," with Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana, is likely to be an exception.

On TV, fall will lack its usual grandeur

“New Growth 2” by Gio Swaby, 2021. Collection of Rasheed Newson.

At Peabody Essex Museum, Gio Swaby’s virtuosic portraits of Black women in thread and fabric

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

Boys sold packets of tissue paper to a man along a street in Amritsar, India, on July 28.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Should children be allowed to work?

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy talked to members of the media on Wednesday after the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee.

Why Vivek Ramaswamy is catching on in New Hampshire and beyond

Ayana Parsons, a partner at the Fearless Fund, spoke during a news conference on Aug. 10 in New York. Attorneys for the Atlanta-based venture capital firm being sued over a grant program investing in Black women have vowed to fight back against the lawsuit, calling it misguided and frivolous.

Workplace is the next battleground in affirmative action fight

The area known as Mass. and Cass.

With crisis at Mass. and Cass, officials can’t only plan for tomorrow

Luna, 19 months, her brother Fritz, 17, and their mother Sergeline (not pictured) were placed in a hotel room in Boston, May 2. The migrants from Haiti arrived from the Boston Medical Center’s temporary shelter in a waiting room there.

Timothy Scalona

The myth of right to shelter in Massachusetts

"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

MBTA outlines another slew of service disruptions

Parts of the Red Line will shutter for nearly a dozen weeknights and a pair of weekends in September, and a few Orange and Green Line stops will also face more than three weeks of disruptions in downtown Boston, MBTA officials announced Monday.

New England College reworks its plan for arts education in Manchester

Leaders of other art institutions remain skeptical of the college’s commitment to the city after it closed its Manchester campus.

‘This is a solvable problem’: New Massachusetts studies aim to unlock the mysteries of chronic Lyme disease

A distinct “antibody signature” could herald a new test to pinpoint who will recover.

‘The light in the room’: Friends, family remember hockey player killed in Salem crash

Less than a day after police reported the death of Kory Ouellette, a celebrated high school hockey player from Salem, condolences flooded in from friends, family, and former teammates.

Sports

Tony Romo (left) and Jim Nantz have come a long way from their early days calling games together.

Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, and CBS’s top NFL broadcast is back for another season, starting with the Patriots’ opener at Gillette Stadium

Nantz, Romo, and sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson are entering their seventh season together.

Kyle Barraclough was the public culprit on Monday night, but he wasn't the root of the problem.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Stunningly, the Red Sox raised the white flag against the Astros

They entered an important game without any lefthanded relievers in the bullpen and at least four righthanders who were deemed unavailable.

Former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle attend the first round of the US Open, Aug. 28, in New York.

Barack and Michelle Obama saw Coco Gauff’s US Open win and met with her afterward

Former president Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, were in the Arthur Ashe Stadium stands to watch Coco Gauff’s first-round victory at the US Open.

Fans run onto field and one makes contact with Atlanta Braves star Ronald Acuña Jr.

ASTROS 13, RED SOX 5

Astros tune up Red Sox in series opener, and the outcome came down to one fateful frame

‘The light in the room’: Friends, family remember hockey player killed in Salem crash

Business

Top Chinese official tells the US commerce secretary he’s ready to improve cooperation

The top Chinese official in charge of economic relations with Washington has told Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo he’s ready to “make new positive efforts” to improve cooperation following an agreement to reduce trade tension.

Biden administration to target drugs for price negotiations to lower Medicare costs

President Joe Biden’s administration is set to announce the first prescription drugs being targeted by the US government for price negotiations as part of an effort to lower Medicare costs.

Climate activists target jets, yachts, and golf in a string of global protests against luxury

CVS Health corporate layoffs announced in Boston and Wellesley

magazine

Pot prices have tanked. Dispensaries are closing. Is a great crash coming?

Ysabel Garcia at her happy place, The Artist Cafe in Springfield.

Ysabel Garcia knows the danger of a mental health crisis. She has a lifesaving message.

This week's daters: Liz and Jon.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I could definitely spot her smile in the crowd’

Shutting up and listening is a superpower

metro

State Trooper Matthew McRae remains in critical condition at the University of Utah Hospital, but “his health is slowly improving,” State Police Association of Massachusetts President Patrick McNamara said in a statement Monday.

‘We know him to be a fighter’: Mass. state trooper remains in ICU following crash in Utah

Weymouth man charged with breaking into five vehicles in Hull

New Boston FBI head will be first woman to lead office

sports

The Boston Pride won the Isobel Cup in 2021 and 2022.

Boston will get a team in the new Professional Women’s Hockey League

Patriots continue cuts, part ways with backup QB Trace McSorley

Spain’s soccer officials ask president Luis Rubiales to resign for kissing a player

business

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (right) shook hands with US Ambassador to China Nick Burns at a reception with US industry and Chinese government officials in Beijing on Monday. The first meeting of the export control group will take place in Beijing on Tuesday.

US and China agree to broaden talks in bid to ease tensions

Farmers Insurance says it is cutting 2,400 jobs in bid to ensure long-term profitability

Auto union boss wants 46% raise, 32-hour workweek in ‘war’ against Detroit carmakers

politics

Former president Donald Trump.

March 4 trial date set for Trump in federal case charging him with plotting to overturn election

Judge sets trial date in March for Trump’s federal election case

President Biden is hosting Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves at the White House

Nation

Law enforcement and first responders gather on South Street near the Bell Tower on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Aug. 28.

Suspect’s motive unclear in campus shooting that killed one at UNC Chapel Hill, police say

Idalia strengthens to a hurricane, dangerous storm surges are forecast for Florida’s Gulf Coast

Denver to pay $4.7 million over claims curfew targeted George Floyd protesters

World

People stand next to an informal street memorial with lit candles for Wagner Group's military group members killed in a plane crash on Wednesday.

The Kremlin says Putin is not planning to attend Wagner chief Prigozhin’s burial

Massive wildfire in northeastern Greece persists for 11th day despite European firefighting efforts

Climate activists target jets, yachts, and golf in a string of global protests against luxury

opinion

A statue of John F. Kennedy by Isabel McIlvain outside the State House in Boston. The memorial was designed in 1988 and dedicated on May 29, 1990, the date that would have been Kennedy's 73d birthday.

They can put a man on the moon, but they can’t find a better State House spot for JFK statue?

The morning I became part of the latest trend: quiet firing

Work isn’t working for a lot of America

lifestyle

Maisie Peters performs at the TRNSMT festival in Glasgow, Scotland, last month.

Touring North America, singer-songwriter Maisie Peters comes of age

They just want to be friends

50th Caribbean American Carnival brings ‘all the flavor’ to Franklin Park

food & dining

Chef Frank McClelland at Frank restaurant in Beverly in 2019.

Frank McClelland presses pause on Beverly’s Frank, styled as an affordable, small-town alternative to his iconic L’Espalier

Through pop-ups, an Afghan family forges a path forward

Boston burrito chain Boloco is closing most of its stores by year’s end

travel

After a $7.4 million renovation, Rosecliff mansion in Newport, R.I., has returned to its Gilded Age glamour.

A Newport celebrity gets a multimillion-dollar makeover

A luxurious new way for Bostonians to fly to Bermuda, with a hefty price tag to match

Which coastal Maine town is actually better in the fall? (Hint: It has a fairy-tale castle.)

Arts

“New Growth 2” by Gio Swaby, 2021. Collection of Rasheed Newson.

At Peabody Essex Museum, Gio Swaby’s virtuosic portraits of Black women in thread and fabric

‘Blue Beetle,’ Latino representation, and the danger of a single superhero story

Jewish Arts Collaborative’s ‘Be the Change’ offers mixed-media public art with mixed results

Books

From left: E. Jean Carroll, Mary L. Trump, and Jennifer Taub wearing silly hats at a gathering from summer 2021.

‘Satisfaction for women is everywhere,’ says E. Jean Carroll, who’s collaborating on a romance novel with Mary Trump

Esmeralda Santiago on drawing courage from books

Who are you? Angie Kim’s riveting new mystery ‘Happiness Falls’ asks more than just whodunit

Movies

Helen Mirren in "Golda."

‘Golda’: When smoke gets in your eyes

Paramount+ releases ‘Good Burger 2′ trailer

Hollywood studios disclose their offer on day 113 of writers strike

Television

Actor Walt Keller, dressed as Mister Rogers, joined picketers outside Universal Studios in Los Angeles this month.

Even if the strikes drag on, this TV critic won’t be at a loss

This week’s TV: Pirates on Netflix, living to 100, and the pleasures of comic whodunits

Bob Barker, courtly host of ‘The Price Is Right,’ has died

music

Billy McFarland, the promoter of the failed Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, leaves a New York federal court in 2018 after pleading guilty to fraud charges. He served four years in prison until his release in March 2022.

Founder of failed Fyre Festival is attempting a sequel

New tech platform helps independent musicians grow their fanbase

At Leader Bank Pavilion, Alex G and Alvvays hold an indie rock summit

Theater/Dance

France's Compagnie Käfig performs "Pixel" at Jacob's Pillow in Becket

Dance and digital effects merge in Compagnie Käfig’s imaginative ‘Pixel’ at Jacob’s Pillow

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

Old and new at the Pillow

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

Barack Obama, then a senator and candidate for president, discussed his economic plan with Mr. Wurzelbacher, also known as "Joe the Plumber," in Holland, Ohio, on Oct. 12, 2008.

Joe the Plumber, who questioned Obama’s tax policies during the 2008 campaign, has died at 49

Yevgeny Prigozhin, renegade mercenary chief who rattled Kremlin

Woody Kaplan, an activist ‘unafraid to stand up for the unpopular,’ dies at 80