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‘Something has to be done’: Police response to weekend brawls reflects progress in a reform era with no easy answers

Police Commissioner Michael Cox praised the officers for their “restraint” and “professional behavior” in the face of several attacks, but criminal justice analysts and community leaders said the incidents also show the balancing act officers must strike.

Worcester police chief abruptly retires

The city announced Deputy Chief Paul B. Saucier would serve as the interim chief effective immediately.

Kim Jong Un and Putin plan to meet in Russia to discuss weapons

Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, plans to travel to Russia this month to meet with President Vladimir Putin to discuss the possibility of supplying Russia with more weaponry for its war in Ukraine and other military cooperation, according to American and allied officials.
Putin says there will be no new grain deal until the West meets his demands

City, firefighters reach tentative contract agreement, Wu says
Details were not immediately available on the specifics of the tentative contract, which Mayor Michelle Wu said the two sides had reached on Sunday.

Worcester high school student dies following spicy chip challenge

Harris Wolobah, 14, died after participating in a social media challenge involving eating an extremely spicy chip, according to a GoFundMe page created by family. The family said the teen had complications following the “One Chip Challenge.”

Blistering late-season heat wave baking eastern US

THE FINE PRINT

They never asked for a private hospital room. But now they’re being charged $5,000 for one.

Cheryl and Joe Farrell had already paid hundreds of dollars in copayments for Joe’s five-day stay at the hospital when they received a new demand for payment.

Into the Red: Climate and the fight of our lives
Climate change and poverty are complex problems. These solutions aim to address both.
To try to address climate change and poverty, Boston and Massachusetts officials are funding programs that will recruit people who aren’t in the workforce and, in many cases, pay them to learn green energy trades.

Bill Belichick talks quarterbacks: Bailey Zappe, Matt Corral, and Tom Brady

The Patriots coach would not indicate whether Zappe or Corral would serve as Mac Jones's backup for Sunday's opener.
Tara Sullivan: New-look AFC East is stronger than ever, and the Patriots face stiff competition to stay out of the basement Patriots place lineman Riley Reiff on injured reserve, ruling him out at least four games
ben volin | on football

The Eagles are aiming for redemption in a season that will start in Foxborough

The loss to Kansas City in last year's Super Bowl still stings, and it is quietly fueling a team that has plenty of star power coming back.
APPRECIATION

RIP Steve Harwell, lead singer of Smash Mouth and meme king extraordinaire

In my own life, Smash Mouth is shorthand for childlike joy. Their music is an invitation to see life through Harwell’s boxy, rose-colored sunglasses — the Capri-Sun-in-hand anthems of suburbia.
Steve Harwell, former Smash Mouth lead singer, has died

Burning Man attendees have begun to leave festival site in Nevada

Thousands of people who were stranded in a stew of mud at the Burning Man festival were able to begin to get away on Monday.

Union leaders take a confident tone as Labor Day arrives amid high-profile strikes

“Everything we stand for is under attack by greedy CEOs, app-based companies, artificial intelligence, and anything else they can do to increase their profits and screw the workers,” said one union leader.

Manhattan DA seizes ancient Roman bust from Worcester Art Museum

The Worcester Art Museum purchased the statue in 1966, when the museum was “provided with little information about the object’s history,” museum officials said.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

On the front lines with a charity responding to the migrant crisis

Faced with a housing crisis and an influx of migrants, the state is only able to meet its right-to-shelter requirements thanks to its partnership with dedicated shelter operators.
Jonathan Runstadler and Anice Lowen

Find viruses before they find us
IDEAS | FREDRIK DEBOER

Identity politics is a game the left can’t win
Lauren Baker and Jill Shah

For children in foster care, physical spaces matter

Vicki Shabo

On abortion, America is a nation of haves and have-nots

News you can use

COVID-19 levels are on the rise again in Mass. Here’s what to know.
As summer slides into fall and children around the state return to school, the uptick in COVID-19 that began in July is continuing, with hospitalizations now at a five-month high.

The Sumner Tunnel has finally reopened. Here’s what you need to know.
After a two-month closure that shut down a main route from Logan International Airport for critical repairs, the Sumner Tunnel reopened Friday.

Fun things to do Labor Day weekend in and around Boston
Classic suggestions for soaking up the last bits of summer in style.

Travelers hoping to enjoy one last summer fling over Labor Day weekend should expect lots of company

More recent News

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS
This week’s TV: ‘Dreaming Whilst Black,’ a ‘Walking Dead’ spinoff, and uncovering gay murders
A new British comedy series arrives on these shores. Also premiering this week: Hulu's powerful four-part docuseries “Never Let Him Go,” and LaKeith Stanfield in the Apple TV+ drama "The Changeling."

Is it time to wear a mask again?
As new COVID variants gain traction, reinfections become more common and cases climb in certain areas, a few schools and businesses are reinstating mask requirements. Experts say it makes sense to increase precautions, including turning back to masks.

Brockton superintendent said he ‘overspent’ schools budget, but defends handling of finances
Superintendent Michael P. Thomas said soaring costs in areas like out-of-district student placements, transportation, and staffing forced him to overspend this year’s $229 million schools budget.

Biden says he went to his house in Rehoboth Beach, Del., because he can’t go ‘home home’

“I have no home to go to,” said President Biden, who lives at the White House on weekdays and spends most weekends in Delaware, where he has two homes.

LOVE LETTERS
He made me think we had a future together
And now I’m just ... single and 40.

Pope wants to keep big Vatican meeting on the church’s future behind closed doors, ideology-free

Pope Francis defended the decision to keep the discussions of a big Vatican meeting on the future of the Catholic Church behind closed doors, saying Monday the three-week conference was a religious moment for the church and “not a television program” that was open to scrutiny.

Recommended reads

Six months after a fire shuttered Brockton Hospital, its absence disrupts life in the city

Residents face long wait times for emergency and primary care, and nearby businesses are suffering.

At the Crane Estate in Ipswich, a dancing ban by the stage leaves revelers divided
When the Trustees of Reservations announced the dance ban in late July, just after a Beatles cover band performance, they pointed to rowdy behavior as part of the decision.

A nation stares down a Trump-Biden rematch: Uninspired, undecided, and anxious
Between Trump fatigue, Biden ambivalence, and strong distaste for the candidate on the other side, there is a stalemate, one that's exemplified by a bellwether county in Wisconsin.

A threatened auto workers strike poses trouble for Biden’s reelection
A strike is looking increasingly probable, and a lengthy walkout in such a major manufacturing sector would be a hit to a vulnerable US economy.

Culture & Lifestyle

‘A New Brain’ with plenty of heart at Barrington Stage

Reliable rockers from Arctic Monkeys at TD Garden

Less swiping, more face time: Niche speed-dating offers a specialized alternative to online romance

Author readings around Boston Sept. 3-9

Special Projects

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 doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | CAREY GOLDBERG

My heartening summer school class on the new science of aging
JEFF JACOBY

Of course it’s not racist to criticize Kamala Harris
EDITORIAL

Massachusetts needs a new tool against scammers who target elders
RENÉE GRAHAM

Republicans keep talking about ‘riots’ and ‘civil war.’ Believe them.
IDEAS | Jacqueline Grennon Brooks

Saying goodbye to ideas that no longer work
IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

My farewell love letter to Boston

Metro

Worcester police chief abruptly retires

The city announced Deputy Chief Paul B. Saucier would serve as the interim chief effective immediately.

A boy lost his father to gun violence. His mother is throwing birthday parties for kids who share similar grief.

McIntosh is currently a one-woman operation, handmaking decorations out of her Dorchester home and shouldering much of the cost herself

‘Something has to be done’: Police response to weekend brawls reflects progress in a reform era with no easy answers

Police Commissioner Michael Cox praised the officers for their “restraint” and “professional behavior” in the face of several attacks, but criminal justice analysts and community leaders said the incidents also show the balancing act officers must strike.

Union leaders take a confident tone as Labor Day arrives amid high-profile strikes

“Everything we stand for is under attack by greedy CEOs, app-based companies, artificial intelligence, and anything else they can do to increase their profits and screw the workers,” said one union leader.

Sports

soccer

Spain’s men’s team pans soccer president Luis Rubiales’s actions at Women’s World Cup

It was the first public statement by Spain's top players against Rubiales since he kissed Jenni Hermoso on the lips without consent after the World Cup final.
NFL Notebook

Browns top cornerback Denzel Ward still in concussion protocol; status for opener unclear

Ward has been sidelined since suffering a head injury — the fourth reported concussion of his NFL career — in Cleveland’s exhibition game at Kansas City on Aug. 25.
MLB

Dodgers starter Julio Urías faces charges in Los Angeles, reportedly for domestic violence

Urías was arrested late Sunday night near BMO Stadium, where Lionel Messi was playing in a Major League Soccer game. He did not travel with the Dodgers to Miami for a series against the Marlins.
soccer

Stuck as a backup, ex-Revolution goalie Matt Turner knew it was time to move on from Arsenal
US OPEN

Carlos Alcaraz rolls over unseeded Italian and into Open quarterfinals
Patriots

Patriots place lineman Riley Reiff on injured reserve, ruling him out at least four games

Business

bold types

New leader starts up at Hack.Diversity nonprofit

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

UAW’s clash with Big 3 automakers shows off a more confrontational union as strike deadline looms

The demands that a more combative United Auto Workers union has pressed on General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford — demands that even the UAW's own president calls “audacious” — are edging it closer to a strike when its contract ends Sept. 14.

‘Barbie’ tops ‘Super Mario’ as highest grossing 2023 film

Biden celebrates unions and job creation during a Philadelphia Labor Day appearance
magazine
Globe Magazine

He's the youngest soccer player ever signed by the Revolution
MISS CONDUCT

How do you get people to leash their dogs in places where it’s required?
Globe Magazine

Smugglers dumped drugs off the coast. Struggling Maine fishermen saw a jackpot.
Globe Magazine

He was caught trying to scam a COVID fund. Then he vanished.

metro

City, firefighters reach tentative contract agreement, Wu says

Former Beverly pizza shop owner gets prison time for defrauding COVID-19 relief program to buy alpaca farm

Worcester high school student dies following spicy chip challenge

sports

As his rookie season winds down, Triston Casas continues to put up numbers for the Red Sox

Revolution midfielder Noel Buck is called up to play for England’s Under-19 team

St. John’s Prep kicks off the regular season No. 1 in the Globe’s boys’ soccer poll

business

Russia’s Putin says there will be no new grain deal until the West meets his demands

At home, 5G starts to make sense for broadband service

Seeing to hear better

politics

A Georgia trial arguing redistricting harmed Black voters could decide control of a US House seat

In the pivotal South Carolina primary, Republican candidates search for a path against Donald Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris to face doubts and dysfunction at Southeast Asia summit

Nation

Urban animals can’t take the heat, study finds

Burning Man attendees have begun to leave festival site in Nevada

Invasive species are costing the global economy billions, study finds

World

Sunak, behind in UK polls, embraces divisive politics

EU official from Sweden is imprisoned in Iran for more than 500 days

Kim Jong Un and Putin plan to meet in Russia to discuss weapons

opinion

Of course it’s not racist to criticize Kamala Harris

To guide AI rules, take a page from nuclear weapon safety standards

US will be clashing with Russia and China for a long time

lifestyle

He made me think we had a future together

Less swiping, more face time: Niche speed-dating offers a specialized alternative to online romance

PEM turns cultural perceptions of bats upside down

food & dining

Beach culture is on the menu at Brookline’s new bartaco location

Somerville’s Cantina La Mexicana is closing; Blue Ribbon Brasserie prepares for a fall opening

‘Our love letter to Mexico’: New restaurant on Providence’s Federal Hill pays homage to traditional cuisine

travel

It was a very rainy summer on Cape Cod. How have businesses (and crowds) fared?

Giant ‘stuffies’ are part of a new R.I. tourism campaign. Locals aren’t the biggest fans.

This Maine inn ranked 4th-best bed and breakfast in the US, according to USA Today

Arts

At Mystic Seaport Museum, Alexis Rockman’s massive ‘Oceanus’ is a monument to the sea

Cartoonist Barbara Shermund makes a comeback

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

Books

Butcher or baronet?

Author readings around Boston Sept. 3-9

Did Orwell’s wife write herself out of history?

Movies

‘Barbie’ tops ‘Super Mario’ as highest grossing 2023 film

True-crime docuseries ‘Never Let Him Go’ chronicles Cambridge man’s quest for justice

Summer movies postmortem: Our critic on 4-star favorites, forgettable flops, and films he wished he’d reviewed

Television

This week’s TV: ‘Dreaming Whilst Black,’ a ‘Walking Dead’ spinoff, and uncovering gay murders

‘Blue Bloods’ mines the past to ride out the present

If you like ‘Suits,’ then try these shows on for size

music

RIP Steve Harwell, lead singer of Smash Mouth and meme king extraordinaire

Reliable rockers from Arctic Monkeys at TD Garden

Steve Harwell, former Smash Mouth lead singer, has died

Theater/Dance

‘A New Brain’ with plenty of heart at Barrington Stage

Squint and you’ll see Quint: Ian Shaw channels his dad in the ‘Jaws’-inspired ‘The Shark Is Broken’

In the Huntington’s ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ antisemitism strikes at a Jewish family’s idea of home

Health

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

Nathan Louis Jackson, writer for the theater and TV, dies at 44

Steve Harwell, former Smash Mouth lead singer, has died

Right Rev. Bud Cederholm, ‘Green Bishop’ of Episcopal Diocese, dies at 79