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A federal government shutdown would have wide-ranging impacts in New England

More than 60,000 federal employees work in the region, and they could be facing halted paychecks.

With a government shutdown just days away, Congress is moving into crisis mode

chesto means business

Lawsuit raises a complex question: How many pot shops is too many in downtown Boston?

The city has repeatedly waived a half-mile buffer rule between marijuana dispensaries. Now, one shop owner is pushing back.

BC swimmers and divers push back on suspension for alleged hazing

Nearly 30 team members have requested that the university immediately lift the program’s indefinite suspension.

Ibram X. Kendi, head of Center for Antiracist Research at BU, defends layoffs and restructuring
The embattled head of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research said Friday that he did not lay off half his staff and restructure the organization “out of financial distress” but to support the center’s long-term mission.

As progressives split on rent control tactics, ballot campaign pushes ahead
A progressive state lawmaker is forging ahead with a bid to bring rent control back to Massachusetts — despite opposition from within his own movement.

From police to public works, Boston ponies up $2.1 million in discrimination payouts this year

The City of Boston paid out more than $2.1 million to settle civil rights and discrimination claims this year.

Compromise bill could move pay equity closer and help attract workers to Mass.

Dighton police chief to resign after being charged with insider trading

Former MBTA employee pleads guilty to stealing from T, taking kickbacks

Elementary students at the Paul Revere Innovation School in Revere arrived on their first day of school in August.

Should Mass. consider a ‘nuclear option’ for catching kids up in school? Here are 7 big ideas.

Parents, experts, and educators told — well, shouted, at — the Globe. It’s time, they said, for the state to dream big and organize a massive push to catch kids up.

Globe Magazine | The Education Issue

Massachusetts schools are among the best. Except for financial literacy.

In one of the most expensive states in the country, we owe our schoolkids lessons about money.

Around New England with Kevin Cullen

In Portland’s version of Mass. and Cass, efforts to sweep away homelessness are being challenged
Officials in Maine’s largest city are being urged to end the policy of sweeping homeless encampments.

Buildings housing former wholesale food markets occupy the bulk of Widett Circle just off the Expressway and the MBTA rail yards.

Mayor, governor question feasibility of Widett Circle plan pitched as fix for Mass. and Cass

“It’s not something that, for me, seems feasible within the city’s purview,” Mayor Michelle Wu said during her monthly appearance on WBUR’s “Radio Boston.”

patriots mailbag

Patriots mailbag: Even after a victory, there is concern about the play-calling
Some readers were troubled by the way the Patriots couldn't finish off the Jets more efficiently late in the fourth quarter.

Lavender Darcangelo is one of 11 finalists in Tuesday night's "America's Got Talent" competition.

Fitchburg woman has sung her way to ‘America’s Got Talent’ finale

Lavender Darcangelo, who is blind and autistic, traces the life-changing moments that formed a path leading to Tuesday night's finale.

Hispanic Heritage Month

From left: Constanza Cabello, Elias Torres, Amanda M. Fernández, Jay Calderín, Silvia López Chavez, and Dr. Daniela RamÍrez Schrempp

Meet six Massachusetts leaders from Amplify LatinX’s ALX100

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Conexión Latina Newport staff and volunteers have created Festival Latino to celebrate the Hispanic community on Aquidneck Island and beyond.

First-ever Festival Latino to highlight the Hispanic community’s traditions and culture

Gael García Bernal in "Cassandro."

Gael García Bernal delivers a knockout performance in ‘Cassandro’

Tanner Houck has two more starts as he tries to prove he deserves a rotation spot next season.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Three things to watch for as the Red Sox play out the string

For guys like Tanner Houck, Brayan Bello, and Alex Verdugo, the next week could provide some insight into their futures with the club.

Jacqui Pierce in her Somersworth, N.H., yard with a wildflower in the foreground.

Effort underway to change Somersworth, N.H., lawn mowing ordinance

The chair of the conservation commission sees the measure, which prohibits lawns higher than 10 inches, as a barrier to protecting habitat in the city.

Tomatoes at SpringDell Farm in Littleton.

SHERYL JULIAN | WHAT SHE’S HAVING

Send native tomatoes off in style

If the author could have only one vegetable year-round that tastes of summer sunshine, it would be beautiful, juicy, red rounds.

Opinion

Ibram X. Kendi spoke during a Stamped From The Beginning panel on Aug. 4, 2023, in Martha's Vineyard.

Yanique Redwood

I headed the BU Center for Antiracist Research. Here’s what I learned.

Antiracism work is not one-human-being work. It is collective work.

Sports rivalry, or how I learned to accept my Sox-loving son

Is there only one way to think, talk, teach, and write about racism?

It’s Kevin McCarthy’s government shutdown

Now arriving: post-pandemic Boston

Who was Peter Faneuil? A Bostonian, merchant, philanthropist — and slave trader.
Most Bostonians know little about the man for whom Faneuil Hall is named, who enriched himself by trafficking in human beings. Should knowing that history change the way the city remembers him?

Share your thoughts on Peter Faneuil: Merchant prince, philanthropist, slave trader

Peter Faneuil was an active trafficker who financed voyages from Boston to West Africa to purchase hundreds of slaves. And he kept at least five slaves to serve his own household.

Watch | Boston Globe Today: How and why we compiled the history of Peter Faneuil

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David McCallum, star of hit TV series ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ and ‘NCIS,’ dies at 90
"The Man from U.N.C.L.E." made Mr. McCallum a reluctant teen idol.

At least 20 dead in gas station explosion as Nagorno-Karabakh residents flee to Armenia
Separatist authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh said Tuesday that at least 20 people were killed and nearly 300 others injured by an explosion at a crowded gas station as thousands of people rushed to cross into Armenia.

Report: Toronto Raptors emerging as front-runner for Damian Lillard trade, Celtics have shown interest
Lillard's preferred trade destination has long been reported to be the Miami Heat, though they have not been close in talks.

Driver pleads not guilty in Vermont crash that killed actor Treat Williams

Ryan Koss could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison if he's convicted of gross negligent operation with death resulting.

First human case of Jamestown Canyon virus found in New Hampshire this year, officials say

New Hampshire public health officials also said they have discovered two cases of Powassan Virus, both of which are spread by bites from insects.

Authorities request 21 days in prison for Rhode Island man charged in Jan. 6 attack

William B. Cotton, 53, of Hopkinton, R.I., pleaded guilty in June to one count of “parading, demonstrating, and picketing in a Capitol building.”

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Prince Harry at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, on May 6, 2019, after his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex gave birth to a baby boy.

It’s the rich guy’s way to look approachable and the approachable guy’s way to look rich

Men have a new uniform. It’s the quarter-zip sweater, and it’s gone fancy.

He starred in ‘The Good Place’ and ‘Parks and Recreation.’ Now you can sail with him on his windjammer in Maine.
Marc Evan Jackson is known for his witty, deadpan — and in his words, “very memeable” — characters on television shows such as “The Good Place.”

In Arlington, an AI news site takes root
In the Boston suburb, there's a new local news site powered by artificial intelligence. It’s an uneasy thought for human journalists who’ve already seen digital technology ravage the industry.

New designs on office life: Companies hope the workplace can be ‘a magnet, not a mandate’
Assigned cubicles and offices are out. “Touch-down spaces,” “coffee bars,” and “neighborhoods” are in. And video screens? They’re seemingly everywhere.

Culture & Lifestyle

Stevie Nicks performs at Gillette Stadium Saturday night.

Stevie Nicks and Billy Joel a powerhouse pop tandem at rainy Gillette

A collection of items from the Ms. magazine records in the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History in Neilson Library at Smith College in Northampton. The Ms. papers offer a wealth of history and inspiration for feminists old, young, and yet-to-be.

‘Everything Ms. stood for we’ve lost or are in danger of losing: abortion, child care, equal pay’

Taylor Mac performs “24-Decade History of Popular Music” at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York in 2016.

At Raising Voices fest, Taylor Mac will dig into ‘24-Decade History of Popular Music’

Pat Flynn (left) and his Fiddlehead bandmates.

Fiddlehead frontman (and schoolteacher) Pat Flynn claims the space where hardcore and history meet

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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Teens Speak

Teens Speak

Venezuelan migrants on an inflatable raft near Brownsville, Texas, on May 6.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A respite for tens of thousands of Venezuelan arrivals

Plastics and other trash littered a salt marsh in Chelsea in April.

Joan Fitzgerald

Massachusetts lags on banning plastics

A wave crashed over the new seawall at Brant Rock in Marshfield, Sept. 16. The remnants of Hurricane Lee put on a show at high tide as hundreds came out see the powerful surf crashing.

Michael E. Mann

Climate change and El Niño battle it out this hurricane season

A humpback whale breached in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

NOAA needs to get serious about protecting Stellwagen Bank

"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

Effort underway to change Somersworth, N.H., lawn mowing ordinance

The chair of the conservation commission sees the measure, which prohibits lawns higher than 10 inches, as a barrier to protecting habitat in the city.

Globe Magazine | The Education Issue

Massachusetts schools are among the best. Except for financial literacy.

In one of the most expensive states in the country, we owe our schoolkids lessons about money.

Should Mass. consider a ‘nuclear option’ for catching kids up in school? Here are 7 big ideas.

Parents, experts, and educators told — well, shouted, at — the Globe. It’s time, they said, for the state to dream big and organize a massive push to catch kids up.

Mayor, governor question feasibility of Widett Circle plan pitched as fix for Mass. and Cass

“It’s not something that, for me, seems feasible within the city’s purview,” Mayor Michelle Wu said during her monthly appearance on WBUR’s “Radio Boston.”

Sports

Russian Kamila Valieva competes in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Grand Prix, the Golden Skate of Moscow, at Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 23, 2022.

Olympic doping case involving Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva starts in Switzerland

The doping case involving teenage Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva that marred the 2022 Beijing Olympics returned to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday.

Patriots quarterback Mac Jones was 15 of 29 for 201 yards against the Jets.

patriots mailbag

Patriots mailbag: Even after a victory, there is concern about the play-calling

Some readers were troubled by the way the Patriots couldn't finish off the Jets more efficiently late in the fourth quarter.

Joe Burrow threw for 259 yards as the Bengals got win No. 1 of the season.

Bengals 19, Rams 16

A hobbled Joe Burrow has enough to lead Bengals past Rams and to their first win

It wasn’t clear until just before the game whether Burrow would play because of a calf injury

Report: Toronto Raptors emerging as front-runner for Damian Lillard trade, Celtics have shown interest

Eagles 25, Buccaneers 11

Eagles dispatch Buccaneers to remain unbeaten

Raiders’ Chandler Jones posts cryptic messages on alleged hospital stay

Business

Biden is headed to Michigan to join the UAW picket line. He’s all-in on showing his union bona fides

President Biden’s decision to stand alongside United Auto Workers picketers Tuesday on the 12th day of their strike against major carmakers underscores an allegiance to labor unions that appears to be unparalleled in presidential history.

Writers strike is not over yet with key votes remaining on deal

The deal is made, the pickets have been suspended, and Hollywood’s writers are on the verge of getting back to work after months on strike.

larry edelman | trendlines

Don’t hold your breath for lower interest rates

chesto means business

Lawsuit raises a complex question: How many pot shops is too many in downtown Boston?

magazine

How scary is ‘Jaws,’ really? My second-grader asked to find out.

MIT Museum’s free Cambridge Science Festival runs Monday through Sunday.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Sept. 25 - Oct. 1

The writer and his dad after the writer made a hole-in-one in 2012.

I used to dread being dragged to the golf course by my dad. Then he got sick.

This week's daters: Hannah and Lane.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We both have unique jobs so it was interesting hearing about hers’

metro

Shawn P. Cronin, 43, is among five men charged in an insider trading scheme from 2020 that allegedly brought in more than $2.2 million in illegal profits, according to a statement by the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York.

Dighton police chief to resign after being charged with insider trading

In Portland’s version of Mass. and Cass, efforts to sweep away homelessness are being challenged

A remembrance of home

sports

The Raiders' Jimmy Garoppolo (324 yards, 2 touchdowns, 3 interceptions) took some big hits from the Steelers and hit the turf several times.

Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo in concussion protocol after loss to Steelers

Patriots will bring what scoring-challenged Cowboys are missing, Ezekiel Elliott, back to Dallas

A relentless 80-minute player, Cohasset junior Nathan Askjaer on track for a breakout soccer season

business

Light catches the dome of the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Jan. 6, 2021.

Compromise bill could move pay equity closer and help attract workers to Mass.

The Douglases broaden their ambitions for Urban Grape

Latest COVID vaccine rollout facing canceled appointments, pricey insurance bills

politics

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is surrounded by reporters looking for updates on plans to fund the government and avert a shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, on Sept. 22.

With a government shutdown just days away, Congress is moving into crisis mode

Money for Ukraine at center of Senate bid to avert shutdown

A federal government shutdown would have wide-ranging impacts in New England

Nation

A demonstrator carries an image of Elijah McClain during a rally and march in Aurora, Colo., June 27, 2020.

What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the criminal trial of two officers

New book alleges Trump’s ex-chief of staff’s suits smelled ‘like a bonfire’ from burning papers

First of thousands of Lahaina residents return to homes destroyed by deadly wildfire

World

Judge Leona Nemeth, center, reads the verdict in the deadly collision of the Hableany sightseeing boat in Pest Central District Court in Budapest, Hungary, on Sept. 26.

Ukrainian boat captain found guilty in Hungary for the 2019 Danube collision that killed at least 27

At least 20 dead in gas station explosion as Nagorno-Karabakh residents flee to Armenia

First Abrams tanks arrive in Ukraine, Zelensky says

opinion

Intricate stone work adorns the facade of the Star Store building at 715 Purchase St. in New Bedford. The building was home to the UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Why did New Bedford lose a popular UMass art program?

There’s no shame in being a Luddite

Massachusetts lags on banning plastics

lifestyle

Marc Evan Jackson, actor and part-owner of the Grace Bailey, sailed the Maine windjammer.

He starred in ‘The Good Place’ and ‘Parks and Recreation.’ Now you can sail with him on his windjammer in Maine.

My ex says we should stay roommates

The 11th annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival unites poets at the altar of Emily Dickinson

food & dining

Tomato Crostata

Recipe: Send native tomatoes off in style with this pretty open-faced crostata

Send native tomatoes off in style

Lesbian bars are disappearing nationwide, but there are signs of life in Mass.

travel

Aftermath of fire at the Harborside Inn on Block Island, Rhode Island.

Historic Block Island inn destroyed in fire had not been inspected by state since 2019

This Maine stout ranks among the country’s best seasonal beers, according to USA Today

There’s a travel secret to overcoming the frustration of being locked out of the region’s most scenic races

Arts

"Olympia" by Édouard Manet, 1863-65.

Manet, Degas, and the nude that changed everything

Two photo shows capture the shapes of water

Rare Wyeth painting bought for $4 at N.H. thrift store sells for $150,000 at auction

Books

Emily Wilson and the cover to her translated edition of 'The Iliad' by Homer.

Emily Wilson’s new translation of ‘The Iliad’ brings a Zoomer-generation vibe to the classical war epic

Author readings around Boston Sept. 24-30

Arrowsmith Press organizes memorial reading for Ukrainian novelist killed in bombing; annual Provincetown Book Festival opens Sept. 29; celebrating the art of indie comics and graphic novels

Movies

How scary is ‘Jaws,’ really? My second-grader asked to find out.

Writers Guild and Hollywood studios reach tentative agreement to end strike

Hollywood’s writers strike is on the verge of ending. What happens next?

Television

Lavender Darcangelo is one of 11 finalists in Tuesday night's "America's Got Talent" competition.

Fitchburg woman has sung her way to ‘America’s Got Talent’ finale

This week’s TV: Not your usual ‘Premiere Week,’ Jesse L. Martin gets a starring role, and a ‘Boys’ spinoff debuts

Writers Guild and Hollywood studios reach tentative agreement to end strike

music

Singer/guitarist Kim Deal performs with the Breeders at House of Blues Sunday night.

It’s a ‘Last Splash’ anniversary, and the Breeders dive right in

A Pops salute to John Williams conjures movie magic

White Snake Projects delivers a striking take on a 16th-century Chinese mythological tale

Theater/Dance

Taylor Mac performs “24-Decade History of Popular Music” at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York in 2016.

At Raising Voices fest, Taylor Mac will dig into ‘24-Decade History of Popular Music’

A murder, a marriage, a ghost, and some barbecue. ‘Fat Ham’ adds new flavors to ‘Hamlet.’

In ‘POTUS,’ seven stressed women and one clown for a president

Health

A CVS pharmacist administers vaccinations for COVID-19 and seasonal flu to Angie Chandler at a store in Orlando, Fla. on Friday, Sept. 15.

Latest COVID vaccine rollout facing canceled appointments, pricey insurance bills

In its first year, calls to 988 Lifeline increase 50 percent in Rhode Island

Dana-Farber deal highlights a surprising trend: New cancer centers are in vogue

Obituaries

William Pounds, a former MIT Sloan School dean.

William Pounds, MIT Sloan School dean who chaired a key Vietnam War-era panel, dies at 95

Erwin Olaf, photographer with an eye for the theatrical, dies at 64

Stephen Gould, tenor best known for tackling Wagner, dies at 61