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MIT professor among three scientists awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on tiny quantum dots

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots, including Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Trump’s lead holds in poll and Haley overtakes DeSantis for second place among N.H. voters
Donald Trump holds a 30 percentage-point lead over the pool of Republican rivals churning below him in New Hampshire, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe/USA TODAY poll.

Explore the results of the Suffolk/Globe/USA TODAY poll of New Hampshire Republican voters

With Democrats holding together, McCarthy was doomed

Democrats who voted along with eight Republicans to strip McCarthy of the job said the seeds for his undoing were planted in January.

With McCarthy ouster, Congress is entering uncharted territory, experts say

No one is certain what a temporary speaker's duties are, or how long the person can carry them out, said Catholic University professor Matthew Green, author of “The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership.”

Representatives Tim Burchett (center-left) and Eli Crane (center-right) were two of the eight Republicans who voted to unseat Kevin McCarthy as House speaker.

Who are the 8 Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy?

Medfield man, 19, indicted in Dennis boat crash that killed 17-year-old Sherborn girl

A 19-year-old Medfield man is charged with operating a boat while under the influence during a July crash in Dennis that killed a 17-year-old Sherborn girl, authorities said Tuesday.

Judge issues limited gag order in Trump case after disparaging post about court clerk

‘This is only a test’: Nationwide emergency alert system to be tested today

Dramatic showdown in Braintree kills housing project

WATCH: A proposed housing complex in Braintree dies after intense community debate. Reporter Andrew Brinker explains the controversy.

How a housing development died in Braintree

A plan to put nearly 500 apartments on the parking lots of the South Shore Plaza ran into a buzzsaw of neighborhood opposition.

A greyhound racing magnate needed to sell the old Brockton Fairgrounds. The city made an offer.
After several failed attempts at a revival, the family who has controlled the Brockton Fairgrounds since the 1950s, the Carneys, put the 66 acres up for sale. They didn’t have to look far to find a buyer.

Weeks later, T chief still reviewing how Green Line extension got so bad, so quickly
“It’d be premature for me to say what I’ve seen and what I haven’t seen,” MBTA general manager Phillip Eng said Tuesday.

christopher l. gasper

The Belichick system doesn’t seem to work without top-notch quarterback play
The latest demoralizing loss has folks legitimately questioning whether the Patriots have the right men for the job at coach and quarterback.

Joe Mazzulla, on the first day of the Celtics' first day of training camp, sounded like a coach who was willing to learn from the mistakes.

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

Joe Mazzulla, in his second season as Celtics coach, is prepared to grow along with his team

Last year the longtime assistant was thrust into a difficult situation and still guided Boston into the Eastern Conference finals.

Boston's Liberty Hotel was named the 19th best hotel in the world in the 2023 Condé Nast Traveler Reader's Choice poll.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Condé Nast Traveler readers picked their favorite hotels, airports, and resorts. Here’s how New England fared.

T.F. Green lands in a sweet spot, but where does Boston rank on the list of best big cities?

Quinn Mitchell, of Walpole, N.H. asked a question to former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Republican presidential candidate, during a campaign event at V.F.W. Post 1631 on July 24 in Concord, N.H.

At 15, he’s made Ron DeSantis squirm, drawn national attention, and started a presidential podcast. Meet Quinn Mitchell.

An exchange with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in June circulated widely online and elevated Quinn Mitchell, already a familiar face on the Granite State campaign trail for the past four years, to a national platform.

Larry Bird (left) and Dan Shaughnessy.

dan shaughnessy

Unpacking 50 years worth of memories from covering the sports scene

The first byline appeared on Oct. 4, 1973, and some moments stay with you more than others through more than 9,000 stories.

Opinion

Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy

Right-wingers plunge House into chaos with ouster of Kevin McCarthy as speaker

In politics, you tend to reap what you show and sow. McCarthy showed weakness and sowed distrust.

Giving Haiti a fighting chance

The real reason an ‘America First’ mindset dominates the Republican base

IDEAS | Mary Ziegler

In the conservative crackdown on sex, ‘parental rights’ could be a smokescreen

IDEAS | ANNE ZINK

Syphilis, the Great Pretender, is back

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

Five people were wounded in a shooting after a homecoming event at Morgan State University in Baltimore
Police Commissioner Richard Worley said the five victims, four males and one female, are between the ages of 18 and 22. Their injuries are non-life-threatening, he told reporters at a late night news conference.

Prosecutors say Logan Clegg ‘was the only person responsible’ for the slaying of a retired couple in Concord, N.H., defense says he is wrongly accused
Clegg has pleaded not guilty to two counts of second degree murder and other charges.

Roche Bros. agrees to pay $40,000, change security policies at downtown Boston store following racial profiling complaints
The Roche Bros. supermarket chain has agreed to pay the penalty and make changes to its security protocols at its store in Downtown Crossing, legal filings show.

Four-alarm fire destroys auto body shop at downtown strip mall in Wayland
Officials believe the fire started at International Auto Body located at 118 Main St., a Wayland official said Tuesday evening.

Controversial Springfield police officer Gregg Bigda charged with drunken driving, suspended without pay
Springfield Police Detective Gregg A. Bigda, who has been suspended from the force since 2018 after repeated accusations that he abused his authority, was arrested in Palmer Sunday and charged with drunk driving, according to court records.

Record breaking temperatures recorded Tuesday in northern New England
Concord, N.H., and Augusta and Portland, Maine, all posted high temperatures in the 80s on Tuesday, beating records set decades ago.

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Recommended reads

Principal Nia Berry stood in the lobby at Fort Worthington Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore. The new school features modern science labs, a video room, and classrooms built around central spaces allowing for small group instruction or combined classes. Over the last decade, a new school construction program and finance mechanism have led to 29 schools being built or renovated in Baltimore, including Fort Worthington.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Baltimore’s school building program could offer model to close gaps in Massachusetts

With state assistance, Baltimore has built or renovated 29 schools in a decade, while Boston and other urban districts in Massachusetts have struggled to get their share of state aid.

Billionaires are responsible for large amounts of climate pollution from Hanscom, a new report finds
About half the flights were probably for recreational or luxury purposes, based on their resort destinations and weekend flight dates, the authors said.

Are environmental toxins causing the rise in early-onset cancers? You asked, we researched.
There’s no question that we are exposed to chemicals — many of them known carcinogens — that are found in air, water, and food.

DEVRA FIRST | WHAT SHE'S HAVING

A taquería heritage, imported from Mexico
Pátzcuaro chef Avelina Saavedra learned to cook at her father’s side. Now her family runs a restaurant here.

Culture & Lifestyle

Solomon Hughes as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Quincy Isaiah as Magic Johnson in HBO's "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty."

Lakers legend Magic Johnson pans ‘Winning Time’

Justine Covault, 59, died in June.

Friends of rocker Justine Covault offer a fitting farewell

SZA onstage at TD Garden on Saturday night.

SZA sets sail across familiar waters with an ever-loyal crew

AWR Music's "A New World: intimate music from 'Final Fantasy'" concert program was performed at Jordan Hall under the direction of Eric Roth at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall on Sept. 29, 2023.

‘A New World’ doesn’t make the most compelling case for ‘Final Fantasy’ music

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

In this April 1978 file photo, San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, left, and Mayor George Moscone are shown in the mayor's office during the signing of the city's gay rights bill.

In two-decades-old assassinations, a prediction of today’s white domestic terrorism

eyes by Hirotoshi Iwasaki

Abuse at residential schools for autistic children calls out for accountability, transparency

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in a 1922 decision that Major League Baseball doesn't constitute “interstate commerce.” It's on that basis that the sport is largely exempt from antitrust laws.

IDEAS | Sandeep Vaheesan

It’s past time to throw out baseball’s antitrust exemption

Alicia Morales de Díaz visited the home of her sister, Reina Carolina Morales Rojas, in the Cantarrana zone in Santa Ana, El Salvador, on Aug. 10, 2023. Morales Rojas went missing in Massachusetts on Nov. 26, 2022.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A heartbreaking visit to the hometown of a missing Boston woman

“The Glass Castle” © 2005 by Jeannette Walls, published by Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Banned Books Week: ‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeannette Walls

"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

A greyhound racing magnate needed to sell the old Brockton Fairgrounds. The city made an offer.

After several failed attempts at a revival, the family who has controlled the Brockton Fairgrounds since the 1950s, the Carneys, put the 66 acres up for sale. They didn’t have to look far to find a buyer.

MIT professor among three scientists awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on tiny quantum dots

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots, including Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Explore the results of the Suffolk/Globe/USA TODAY poll of New Hampshire Republican voters

See the full results from the Suffolk/Globe/USA TODAY poll.

‘This is only a test’: Nationwide emergency alert system to be tested today

Federal officials say test messages will be sent to all cell phones, televisions, and radios at approximately 2:20 p.m. Wednesday.

Sports

Cristiano Ronaldo.

US appeals court to hear arguments over 2010 hush-money settlement of Ronaldo rape case in Vegas

Lawyers for international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo are headed back to court in a legal battle over the hush money he allegedly paid in 2010 to a woman who accused him of raping her in Las Vegas.

The Bill Belichick-Mac Jones combination isn't producing any magic on the gridiron.

christopher l. gasper

The Belichick system doesn’t seem to work without top-notch quarterback play

The latest demoralizing loss has folks legitimately questioning whether the Patriots have the right men for the job at coach and quarterback.

Zak Zinter, from North Andover, has emerged as a standout of the offensive line for No. 2 Michigan.

College football

North Andover’s Zak Zinter leads No. 2 Michigan up front while flying up NFL draft boards

The 6-foot-6-inch, 322-pound guard played high school football at Buckingham, Brown & Nichols.

PHILLIES 4, MARLINS 1

Raucous crowd buoys Phillies, Zack Wheeler to opening win over Marlins

DIAMONDBACKS 6, BREWERS 3

Diamondbacks swing big in Milwaukee, beat up Corbin Burnes to top Brewers

Matthew Poitras, Mason Lohrei continue to impress for the Bruins in preseason loss

Business

How a housing development died in Braintree

A plan to put nearly 500 apartments on the parking lots of the South Shore Plaza ran into a buzzsaw of neighborhood opposition.

MIT professor among three scientists awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on tiny quantum dots

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots, including Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Judge issues limited gag order in Trump case after disparaging post about court clerk

Kaiser Permanente workers poised to strike

magazine

My co-workers' jokes about suicide leave me rattled

Jazz Along the Charles, set for October 7, will feature 100 Boston-based musicians.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 2 - Oct. 15

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

The Education Issue

The 'anti-woke' legislation making N.H. teachers nervous

The Education Issue

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

metro

Democrat Daniel Wall, right, poses with US Senator Jack Reed. Wall won Tuesday's special election for the Cranston City Council Ward 6 seat.

Democrat elected to fill vacant Cranston City Council seat

Weeks later, T chief still reviewing how Green Line extension got so bad, so quickly

‘Volatile compound’ found in Providence high school located on old factory site

sports

“Today’s action by the D1 Council is a great step toward achieving our shared priority at the NCAA,” NCAA president Charlie Baker said.

Charlie Baker, NCAA move toward implementing NIL rules with proposals for agent registry, deal disclosure

Joe Mazzulla, in his second season as Celtics coach, is prepared to grow along with his team

Royce Lewis hits two homers as Twins beat Blue Jays, snap 18-game postseason drought

business

Shuttered shops on Bromfield Street in Downtown Crossing.

City of Boston to provide grants to fill vacant spaces

In Natick, a ‘green hydrogen’ startup steps on the gas

Jury selection to begin in trial of fallen cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried

politics

President Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Delaware State University, Oct. 21, 2022, in Dover, Del.

Biden presses student debt relief as payments resume after pandemic pause

Trump’s lead holds in poll and Haley overtakes DeSantis for second place among N.H. voters

Kevin McCarthy is out as speaker. What happens now?

Nation

Baltimore police respond to a shooting at Morgan State University, Oct. 3, in Baltimore.

Five people were wounded in a shooting after a homecoming event at Morgan State University in Baltimore

See photos of the police response to the shooting at Morgan State University in Baltimore

Judge issues limited gag order in Trump case after disparaging post about court clerk

World

Emergency services attend the scene of a passenger bus accident near the city of Venice, Italy, that fell from an elevated road, on Oct. 3.

Firefighters work until dawn to remove wreckage of bus carrying tourists in Venice; 21 dead

Russia says it has foiled a major Ukrainian drone attack as concerns grow about weapons supplies

Pope will open a big Vatican meeting as battle lines are drawn on his reform project

opinion

A cropped view of "Laughing Cavalier," 1624, by Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals.

May I have a word: For the laughing cavaliers in our midst

Abuse at residential schools for autistic children calls out for accountability, transparency

Banned Books Week: ‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeannette Walls

lifestyle

Author and "Jeopardy!" champ Amy Schneider will read from her new memoir, "In the Form of a Question," at First Parish Church in Cambridge on Oct. 5.

She wants you to know the real ‘Jeopardy Amy’

She gave my husband a hug goodbye

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

food & dining

Chips with guacamole and a house classic margarita at Pátzcuaro in Newton.

A taquería heritage, imported from Mexico

Fire Dept. Coffee debuts ready-to-drink Nitro Cold Brew line

Three cheers for good kitchen shears

travel

Boston's Liberty Hotel was named the 19th best hotel in the world in the 2023 Condé Nast Traveler Reader's Choice poll.

Condé Nast Traveler readers picked their favorite hotels, airports, and resorts. Here’s how New England fared.

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

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

Matthew Desmond, author of “Poverty, By America."

Matthew Desmond finds that Dickens cuts closer to the truth of how poverty really works than nonfiction

Hummingbird Books ships challenged titles to readers in South Carolina

Novelist Rhonda DeChambeau persisted for many years. Finally, recognition.

Movies

Actor and disability rights advocate Selma Blair introduced President Biden during an event honoring the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Rehabilitation Act (Rehab Act) at the White House on October 02, 2023 in Washington, DC. Biden held the event to celebrate the 33rd anniversary of the ADA and Rehab Act, which he cosponsored as a Senator.

Selma Blair helps White House salute landmark disability legislation

Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour is over. But it’s coming to movie theaters soon.

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

Television

Richard Hatch, the Newport resident who won the first season of "Survivor," on the Rhode Island Report podcast.

‘Survivor’ winner Richard Hatch representing himself in federal court in R.I.

‘Only Murders in the Building’ renewed for another season

Late-night shows return after writers strike as actors resume talks that could end their standoff

music

Seu Jorge.

Seu Jorge goes back to bossa nova with Antônio Carlos Jobim’s grandson

Whenever the Rolling Stones were in town, photographer Ted Gartland was there, too

Taylor Swift watches Travis Kelce’s Chiefs take on the Jets at MetLife Stadium

Theater/Dance

Marshall W. Mabry IV in "Fat Ham" at the Huntington Theatre.

‘Fat Ham,’ at the Huntington, updates ‘Hamlet’

Spiro Veloudos, larger-than-life force in Boston theater, dies at 71

‘The Full Monty’ takes a while to show what it’s got

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

A Green Bay Packers helmet as seen on the sidelines during an NFL football game last year.

John Gordon, artist who helped design Packers’ distinctive ‘G’ team logo, dies at age 83

Spiro Veloudos, larger-than-life force in Boston theater, dies at 71

Russell Sherman, luminous pianist and longtime New England Conservatory teacher, dies at 93