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Chris Snow was in the visiting team's suite on the press level in the TD Garden during a Calgary Flames game against the Bruins in 2020.

Chris Snow, NHL executive and ‘beacon of hope’ for those with ALS, dies at 42

“Hope meant outrunning ALS,” his wife, Kelsie Snow, once wrote.

Government shutdown averted with little time to spare as Biden signs funding before midnight
The threat of a federal government shutdown ended late Saturday night after Congress approved a temporary funding bill to keep federal agencies open until Nov. 17.

Biden says it’s ‘good news’ shutdown was averted but blames House GOP for ‘manufactured crisis’ Ukraine aid left out of government funding package, raising questions about future US support

Lexington man charged in shooting of mother and her friend Friday afternoon

Lexington police learned of the shooting from the mother, who called 911 after she was wounded in the attack on Friday, according to officials.

Jimmy Carter turns 99 at home with Rosalynn and other family as tributes come from around the world
Jimmy Carter will put off his usual Sunday practice of watching church services online to instead celebrate his 99th birthday with his wife, Rosalynn, and their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in Plains.

Pilot flying alone crashes small plane into Lake Winnipesaukee near Gilford, N.H.

Dedham man facing multiple charges in string of Cape Cod fires

Ibram X. Kendi is pictured in 2020, the year he launched the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University.

Kendi raised millions with promises to conquer racism. What went wrong?

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi said that the recent turmoil surrounding the Center for Antiracist Research should be understood as the growing pains of a young, fast-moving organization still finding its footing.

What’s lost when a subway ride takes twice as long?
Beyond the threats to public safety and the economy, the delays, slowed trains, and overall poor performance of the MBTA’s subway do a quieter kind of damage.

In some sections of the Green Line extension trolleys must crawl along so slowly that it would be faster to walk.

The Green Line extension wasn’t supposed to be like this

The Green Line extension was supposed to be a glorious respite from the rest of our ancient, messed-up MBTA system. Yeah, nah.

Tara Sullivan

Where have all the Patriots’ playmakers gone?
It’s painful to recall what it used to be like around here, when Tom Brady was the playmaker in charge but had plenty of supercharged threats around him.

Report: Mac Jones will not be fined for actions in win over Jets Taking a deep dive into why the Patriots aren’t hitting on more explosive plays

A new wrinkle to the offense added by Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel (right) has kept the pressure off quarterback Tua Tagovailoa .

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Old buddies Kyle Shanahan and Mike McDaniel may have broken NFL defensive football as we know it

The Dolphins and 49ers are both 3-0, have the hottest offenses in the NFL, and are doing it with similar schemes, and coaches cut from the same cloth.

Garrett Whitlock threw two shutout innings against the Orioles on Friday night.

A season beset by injuries and the death of his brother has given Red Sox pitcher Garrett Whitlock a new perspective

“I’m just grateful to be in the big leagues,” said Whitlock. “Whatever I can do to help get this team to a World Series, that’s what I’m looking forward to.”

After acclimating to the majors, Masataka Yoshida, and the Red Sox, expect bigger things ahead

U2 made their presence felt at the $2.3 billion Sphere, which stands 366-feet high and 516-feet wide.

U2 concert uses stunning visuals to open massive Sphere venue in Las Vegas

The legendary rock band, which has won 22 Grammys, performed for two hours inside the massive, state-of-the-art spherical venue with crystal-clear audio.

Alison Ekizian comforted her daughter Eve Edwards during a rally to support of ethnic Armenians in Artsakh, at the Armenian Heritage Park in Boston on Saturday.

Boston area Armenians rally to support refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh

The most recent round of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh erupted on Sept. 19 when Azerbaijan launched heavy artillery fire against ethnic Armenian forces there. The strike followed a 10-month blockade on the only road linking the area to Armenia.

Opinion

Melissa Gomes watched her 6-year-old daughter, Melyahni, bounce on the trampoline outside her home in Malden. Many suburbs have erected barriers to the kind of income-restricted, multibedroom housing that families with kids need.

The Boston suburbs’ cynical ploy to keep poor families out: Use seniors as a shield

Leafy communities have steered subsidized housing away from parents with kids and toward elders for decades. It’s time for a rebalancing.

Reina Carolina Morales Rojas and the pain of not knowing

Rupert Murdoch was good for Boston

Ms. magazine, ’73: show and tell in a Catholic high school classroom

The complicity that enables sexual predators

Hispanic Heritage Month

Jose Masso stands next to "The Embrace" monument on Boston Common. His name is one of 69 inscribed on the 1965 Freedom Plaza that encircles the sculpture.

On the air and off, Jose Masso has been heard

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

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, a long-time public health advocate and Latino radio host who has launched Rhode Island’s first Spanish-language health website, nuestrasalud.com.

During Hispanic Heritage Month, doctor says R.I. can do better: ‘Taco Tuesday is not progress. It is appeasement.’

Owner Edner Ttrente Et Un at Viva Mi Arepa, a Venezuelan restaurant in West Roxbury.

10 restaurants that capture the spirit of Hispanic Heritage Month

More recent News

Powerball jackpot rises to $1.04 billion after another drawing without a big winner
The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.04 billion after no one beat the immense odds and won the giant prize.

State trooper’s use of lethal force in Hancock shooting was justified, DA says

District Attorney Timothy Shugrue said Trooper William Munch “employed and exhausted multiple attempts to de-escalate the situation” before firing his weapon on Philip Henault, who was armed with two knives and was advancing on Munch.

N.H. Democrats look ahead to 2024 with pro-Biden pep rally
Speaker after speaker pledged support to aid Biden’s reelection, even if that means casting a write-in ballot during the primary in January, when the incumbent could keep his distance to avoid competing in a rogue contest.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Celtics president Brad Stevens reveals his thinking behind offseason decisions
Stevens this past week answered questions from fans, going into detail about a couple of team issues and the future of Blake Griffin.

Man arrested after he allegedly shoots, kills man, woman in Nashua, N.H.

Victor Rivera, 47, of Nashua, N.H., was arrested Saturday morning on second-degree murder charges for fatally shooting a man and a woman, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.

JetBlue plane returns to Logan Airport after possible engine issue
The flight was on its way to the Dominican Republic but returned to Boston shortly after takeoff because of possible issue with one of the plane’s engines, according to the airline.

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Recommended reads

Senator Dianne Feinstein greets Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in her hideaway office at the Capitol on March 16, 2022, in Washington.

I was the reporter who wrote about Dianne Feinstein’s decline. But that’s not what I remember most.

California Senator Dianne Feinstein will be remembered as a trailblazing woman politician, a master legislator — and an artist.

James Pindell | Analysis: Who will replace Dianne Feinstein in the Senate? Here’s what’s next.

BOSTON GLOBE SPOTLIGHT TEAM

There are no words
They are among society’s most vulnerable — children with severe autism — and yet many endure abuse or neglect in the state-licensed residential schools that care for them. With not enough accountability and scant public disclosure, it is an invisible crisis.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Two Berkshires motor inns have been reinvented as chic hotels, but are they worth the chic price?
Only one of these recently refreshed hotels delivered. The other, sadly, didn’t live up to the hype or even promised services.

Wet weekends put a damper on events and plans across region
After experiencing its second wettest summer on record, the Boston area has entered a similarly damp fall, with showers last weekend causing a slew of cancellations.

Culture & Lifestyle

Lynn Mabry and David Byrne in "Stop Making Sense."

‘Stop Making Sense’ in IMAX: Same as it ever was, but bigger and even better

Karol G closes out the concert season at Gillette Stadium Thursday night.

Latin pop star Karol G lights up Gillette Stadium

Heather Cox Richardson (”Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America”) is in conversation with Meghna Chakrabarti at 6:30 p.m. Thursday virtually via Brookline Booksmith.

Author readings around Boston Oct. 1-7

Leslie Odom Jr. (center) with (from left) Kara Young, Heather Alicia Simms, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Billy Eugene Jones, and Noah Robbins in Ossie Davis's play “Purlie Victorious” at the Music Box Theatre in New York.

On Broadway, a season of first impressions and second chances

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

The tax bill now on the governor’s desk increases the child and dependent care deduction, eventually raising the deduction to $440 per dependent, and eliminates the cap on eligible dependents.

A tax relief bill — at last

Footage of New York City Ballet dancers from outside the David H. Koch Theater in New York, Sept. 18.

Joan Wickersham

Body-shaming isn’t limited to the world of ballet

An employee trims flower while working in CommCan’s processing facility in Medway.

CCC needs to get its act together

A jet landed on the runway at Hanscom Field in Bedford.

Massport’s plan to expand private jet space at Hanscom is a climate debacle

Trump supporters rallied before the second Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on Sept. 27.

GOP presidential hopefuls fail to address the (orange) elephant in the room

"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

Connecticut enacts its most sweeping gun control law since the Sandy Hook shooting

Connecticut’s most wide-ranging gun control measure since the 2013 law enacted after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is taking effect.

Chris Snow, NHL executive and ‘beacon of hope’ for those with ALS, dies at 42

“Hope meant outrunning ALS,” his wife, Kelsie Snow, once wrote.

Here are five highlights from Harvard President Claudine Gay’s rainy inauguration

Harvard Yard, an area of campus, was decked out with various tents, tables and chairs, food trucks, and thousands of people — all to honor Gay, the daughter of Haitian immigrants.

JetBlue plane returns to Logan Airport after possible engine issue

The flight was on its way to the Dominican Republic but returned to Boston shortly after takeoff because of possible issue with one of the plane’s engines, according to the airline.

Sports

Jonah Heim (left) and Jose Leclerc celebrated closing out a Rangers win over the Mariners that locked up their postseason berth and got the Blue Jays into the playoffs.

Mariners’ loss sends Blue Jays into American League playoffs as a wild card

Toronto will be making a second straight postseason appearance. The Rangers, Astros, Marlins, and Diamondbacks all clinched, too, but the seedings remain unsettled in both the AL and NL.

New England Revolution defender Dave Romney was one of the stars of the game against Charlotte FC.

Revolution 2, Charlotte FC 1

Defender Dave Romney scores first goal of the season as Revolution hold off Charlotte FC

The Revolution snapped a four-game winless streak and improved their home mark to 11-0-4 with four games left in the season.

Harvard players gathered in an end zone at Polar Park to celebrate the win with their fans who came out to the ballpark.

HARVARD 38, HOLY CROSS 28

Harvard rankles No. 5 Holy Cross into five turnovers, scores nonconference win at Polar Park

Charles Deprima's two touchdown passes highlighted the offense for the No. 24 Crimson, but this victory was about the defense. "We played really good team defense," Harvard coach Tim Murphy said.

LPGA Tour rookie Hae Ran Ryu leads NW Arkansas Championship

red sox notebook

After acclimating to the majors, Masataka Yoshida, and the Red Sox, expect bigger things ahead

ARKANSAS STATE 52, UMASS 28

UMass falls behind by three scores early, unable to mount comeback in loss to Arkansas State

Business

Government shutdown averted with little time to spare as Biden signs funding before midnight

The threat of a federal government shutdown ended late Saturday night after Congress approved a temporary funding bill to keep federal agencies open until Nov. 17.

A government shutdown is averted for now with a temporary funding bill. What happens in a shutdown?

A US government shutdown would have disrupted many services that Americans rely on and squeezed federal workers.

California governor rejects bill to give unemployment checks to striking workers

Borrowers are reassessing their budgets as student loan payments resume after pandemic pause

magazine

A social studies classroom at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro.

The ‘anti woke’ legislation making K-12 teachers in New Hampshire nervous

The Education Issue

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

This week's daters: Maddie M. and Ally C.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We chatted like we were old friends and laughed a lot’

The writer and his girlfriend (now wife), Katie, in Rome, where she was studying art in the summer of 1999.

Why I owe my marriage to bad spelling

metro

Alison Ekizian comforted her daughter Eve Edwards during a rally to support of ethnic Armenians in Artsakh, at the Armenian Heritage Park in Boston on Saturday.

Boston area Armenians rally to support refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh

Lexington man charged in shooting of mother and her friend Friday afternoon

What’s lost when a subway ride takes twice as long?

sports

Garrett Whitlock threw two shutout innings against the Orioles on Friday night.

A season beset by injuries and the death of his brother has given Red Sox pitcher Garrett Whitlock a new perspective

From losing 110 games to winning 101, Orioles complete impressive rebuild under manager Brandon Hyde

No. 1 Georgia survives scare, beats Auburn on road

business

A training event with the White Eagle Brigade, which offers drone pilot courses exclusively for civilian and military women, in Kyiv, in September.

Ukraine’s war of drones runs into an obstacle: China

Government is moving toward a shutdown as Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans search for a last-minute deal

Biden says shutdown isn’t his fault. Will Americans agree?

politics

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy celebrates with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, at right, after the House approved a stopgap plan to avert a government shutdown that was less than 12 hours away, at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 30.

Congress narrowly averts shutdown as House Democrats help pass stopgap bill

A government shutdown is averted for now with a temporary funding bill. What happens in a shutdown?

Ukraine aid left out of government funding package, raising questions about future US support

Nation

Workers work on a wooden cake display on the North Lawn of the White House, Sept. 30, in honor of former president Jimmy Carter's 99th birthday this weekend.

Jimmy Carter turns 99 at home with Rosalynn and other family as tributes come from around the world

Powerball jackpot rises to $1.04 billion after another drawing without a big winner

Borrowers are reassessing their budgets as student loan payments resume after pandemic pause

World

Turkish policemen and security forces cordon off an area next to a car after an explosion in Ankara, on Oct. 1.

Suicide bomber detonates a device in the Turkish capital. A second assailant is killed in a shootout.

Maldives opposition candidate Mohamed Muiz wins the presidential runoff, local media say

A populist, pro-Russia ex-premier leads a leftist party to win in Slovakia’s parliamentary elections

opinion

A jet landed on the runway at Hanscom Field in Bedford.

Massport’s plan to expand private jet space at Hanscom is a climate debacle

Policy training wheels to advance the next generation of bicyclists

Mass. can help residents grapple with ‘crisis pregnancy centers’

lifestyle

Players Angie Santomauro and Kevin O'Leary are pictured during the 100-inning charity baseball game for ALS research. The annual event is the subject of a new documentary, "The 100th Inning," that will have its premiere at Cinema Salem on Oct. 4.

New documentary celebrates 100-inning charity baseball game for ALS research

We built this relationship in pandemic mode

Here’s what bothers parents about kids’ fashion

food & dining

Vegetable Bean Soup.

Soup recipes for a cozy fall weekend

Your view: What’s the best dessert you’ve had from a Boston-area restaurant?

Pigs in a blanket and other nostalgia on the menu at Sloane’s

travel

The Tanglewood grounds remain open to the public all year.

Didn’t make it to Tanglewood this summer? A fall stroll sounds just as good.

We’re going to Lenox this fall. (Again.) Here’s why you should, too.

Two Berkshires motor inns have been reinvented as chic hotels, but are they worth the chic price?

Arts

"Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child," by Lavinia Fontana (Italian (Bolognese), 1552–1614)

In Renaissance Italy, women artists quietly persisted

When seeing is believing meets believing as seeing

A date with rare books and historical records at the Boston Public Library

Books

1001Baron

Marty Baron, author of the new book ‘Collision of Power,’ tells the stories behind the stories

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

Rebecca Clarren’s Jewish ancestors fled a pogrom in Odesa for the US. They started over in South Dakota — on stolen land

Movies

The deal struck earlier this week between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will protect television and movie screenwriters from losing their jobs to computers that could use artificial intelligence to generate screenplays.

Hollywood writers have won the AI battle. What about the rest of us?

‘Stop Making Sense’ in IMAX: Same as it ever was, but bigger and even better

Michael Gambon, actor who played Professor Dumbledore in 6 ‘Harry Potter’ movies, dies

Television

Tina Fey as Liz Lemon in "30 Rock," one of the series in which TV scriptwriters have found subject matter in their own workplace: the writers room.

Strike by writers underscored the vital role they play

Hollywood writers have won the AI battle. What about the rest of us?

Life after ‘Mad Men’ is a varied path for Jon Hamm

music

U2 made their presence felt at the $2.3 billion Sphere, which stands 366-feet high and 516-feet wide.

U2 concert uses stunning visuals to open massive Sphere venue in Las Vegas

Last living suspect in 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur indicted in Las Vegas on murder charge

Latin pop star Karol G lights up Gillette Stadium

Theater/Dance

Leslie Odom Jr. (center) with (from left) Kara Young, Heather Alicia Simms, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Billy Eugene Jones, and Noah Robbins in Ossie Davis's play “Purlie Victorious” at the Music Box Theatre in New York.

On Broadway, a season of first impressions and second chances

A father reckons with his grief by getting onstage and holding back nothing

Jad Abumrad talks teaming up with Ira Glass, the future of podcasting, and the dearth of ‘deep-dive journalism’

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

Chris Snow was in the visiting team's suite on the press level in the TD Garden during a Calgary Flames game against the Bruins in 2020.

Chris Snow, NHL executive and ‘beacon of hope’ for those with ALS, dies at 42

Tom Conway, Steelworkers President and Biden Ally, Dies at 71

M.S. Swaminathan, agricultural scientist who helped feed India, dies at 98