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Hamas attacks Israel; ‘We are at war’, Netanyahu says
Militants fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of fighters into Israeli towns in an unprecedented surprise attack. Israel said it is at war with Hamas and launched airstrikes in Gaza, vowing to inflict an “unprecedented price.”

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The Republican field is blaming Joe Biden for dealing with Iran after Hamas’ attack on Israel

Hamas attack prompts blame around Israeli intelligence

Jewish diaspora mourns attack on Israel, but carries on by celebrating holidays

What’s behind the violence in Israel and Gaza? Here’s what to know.

Biden decries the ‘unconscionable’ Hamas attack and warns Israel’s enemies not to exploit the crisis

Gunfire, rockets and carnage: Israelis are stunned and shaken by unprecedented Hamas attack

Lost in a world of words

Students at Donovan Elementary improve their reading skills by using phonemic awareness exercises
Kids at Donovan Elementary learn to read using phonemic awareness exercises. (Randy Vazquez/ Globe Staff) ( Randy Vazquez )

More than half of Mass. third-graders can’t read proficiently. The state is failing its neediest learners.

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet here, in the birthplace of public education, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.
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YVONNE ABRAHAM

‘Making that decision just changes you forever’: For parents of kids with severe autism, impossible choices

A Spotlight investigation showing abuse and neglect at residential schools has only made them harder.
Spotlight: There are no words

Chad Finn | Sports Media
Taylor Swift bigger than the NFL? The numbers don’t lie.
The gains in female viewership for last Sunday's Chiefs-Jets game were staggering, and let’s just say it wasn’t because Andy Reid all of a sudden has a new fan base.

Tara Sullivan
If Bill Belichick is truly on the hot seat in New England, could he find another act elsewhere?
If Belichick built part of his legacy on releasing or trading popular players just before their shelf life expired, it’s only fair he faces the same stringent standard.

Ben Volin | On football
Mac Jones needs to stop trying to be a hero and start executing Bill O’Brien’s play calls
Decision-making was a point of emphasis in practice this week, and Jones acknowledged that he has to improve his pocket awareness.

Around New England with Kevin Cullen

From the ashes, a small Maine village rises

“People around here look out for each other,” Andy Barstow said. “That’s just how it is.”

Expo looks at how to grow Black wealth in Massachusetts
Mayor Michelle Wu and members of the state's congressional delegation addressed the conference on Saturday.

Obituary

‘Celtic Sojourn’ host Brian O’Donovan, who championed Irish music, dies at 66

"I try to lure people not just to my program, but into the art of the music,” he once said. “And to do that I have to play something alluring."

House speaker race pits Trump-backed Jordan against Scalise
The bitter battle between Representatives Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan for the US House speakership culminates a long-simmering personal rivalry that grew along with the fractures in the Republican party.

Analysis: Despite Trump’s endorsement, the House speaker race is up for grabs Will the motion to vacate be vacated?

What Marty Baron learned from Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Taylor Swift

The former editor of the Boston Globe and Washington Post has penned a new book, “Collision of Power,” on covering the news during a tumultuous time in politics and journalism.
BOSTON COLLEGE 27, ARMY 24

Thomas Castellanos’s fourth touchdown run, in the final minute, pushes Boston College past Army

With an off week on the horizon, the 3-3 Eagles have tangible momentum for the first time since the 2021 season.

Feeling terrible after your COVID shot? Then it’s probably working.

A new study has an encouraging message for Americans who shy away from COVID shots because of worries about side effects.

Under pressure, Biden administration to send team to assess migrant situation in Massachusetts

As places like Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois struggle to provide housing and services to an increasing number of arriving migrants, some officials in those blue states are going public with their frustration with the White House.

A grown-up’s guide to teenage social media

Meet Nell West, aspiring journalist and senior at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, here to kindly offer intel for the Facebook generation.

Walking Cape Cod in Thoreau’s shoes

A public reading of Henry David Thoreau's "Cape Cod" was held in Marstons Mills from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and is expected to be finished during the same hours Sunday.

Boston’s Jamaica Pond closed due to harmful algae bloom

Mass. state trooper critically hurt in Utah crash returned home Saturday
Orlando City 3, Revolution 2

Orlando City SC holds off Revolution despite two goals from Carles Gil

These are the wealthiest Mass. residents, according to the 2023 Forbes 400 list
TONY'S TIPS

A late frost and tons of rain have been hard on apple farmers. But things are looking up.

(Literally. There are more apples at the top of the trees.)
‘The picking won’t be as good’: Apple orchards struggle with this fall’s harvest
Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

How Damian Lillard’s trade request led to Jrue Holiday becoming a Celtic

The Celtics have coveted Holiday for years, but the opportunity to acquire him never arose.
Jaylen Brown determined to have his presence felt on defense for the Celtics this season

Waiting for a heart transplant, he finally got a life-saving call — but had no ride. A stranger stepped in to help.

When an Oxford resident in need of a heart transplant needed a ride to Boston, he got one from a person — a heart transplant survivor — he barely knew. The act of kindness transpired with help from HeartBrothers, a Marlborough-based nonprofit.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Boston goes begging on Beacon Hill for more liquor licenses

Key economic generator held captive to an ancient system with a sad history.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Anti-migrant fringe group NSC-131 not so fringe
LETTERS

Private jets, public interest: Clash over bid to expand Hanscom space
MARCELA GARCÍA

El ascenso peligroso de un grupo neonazi antiinmigrante
Ron Currie

Will Donald Trump go the way of Paul LePage?
Hispanic Heritage Month

On the air and off, Jose Masso has been heard

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

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

DEVRA FIRST

10 restaurants that capture the spirit of Hispanic Heritage Month

More recent News

At 4th trial, woman convicted in connection with 2010 strangulation death of wife in Granby home
A Hampshire Superior Court jury on Thursday convicted Cara Rintala of voluntary manslaughter in the 2010 strangulation death of her wife, Annamarie Cochrane Rintala, authorities said.

The Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty will settle their season-long dispute of dominance in a historic WNBA Finals
Here's what to watch for as the two superteams meet in a highly-anticipated series.

With regular season days away, former first-round pick Jakub Zboril one of three waived by Bruins
The defenseman selected by Boston in 2015 was joined on waivers by forwards Jesper Boqvist, an offseason free agent signing, and Oskar Steen.

Bradley Cooper plays Bernstein, Almodóvar unveils a queer cowboy movie, and more from the New York Film Festival
This year’s NYFF slate is "unnervingly obsessed with adults in illicit, illegal sexual relationships," our film critic writes.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes
Updating the baseball teams looking to make key offseason hires
Four teams are searching for new managers and the Red Sox are seeking a new president of baseball operations.

Lexington native Dr. Drew Weissman tells parents he won Nobel Prize in heartwarming video
“I don’t know what to say, I’m ready to fall on the floor,” his mother says in a video shared by the University of Pennsylvania, where Weissman works as a physician and vaccine researcher.

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A developer proposed nearly 500 apartments on South Shore Plaza. Then residents killed it.

A plan for what would have been Braintree’s largest apartment project ran into a buzz saw of neighborhood opposition.

Thirty-five years ago, Karen Allen fell in love with the Berkshires. Today, it’s her creative haven.
Starring now in Shakespeare & Company's “Lunar Eclipse” in Lenox, the actress also teaches, directs, knits, and owns a store.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines
The job market caught fire in September. Will it burn the economy?
Employers added 336,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, blowing past even the rosiest forecasts.

Former Brigham and Women’s doctor faces allegations of inappropriate pelvic and breast exams
Brigham and Women’s Hospital said it began an investigation of Dr. Derrick Todd, a rheumatologist. He left the hospital in July and has since agreed to stop practicing medicine.

Culture & Lifestyle

It’s Banned Books Week. Now what?

Jazz Along the Charles to honor Boston’s legacy of women composers and musicians

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

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

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

EDITORIAL

Democrats won’t miss Kevin McCarthy. Probably.
IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?
JEFF JACOBY

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

IDEAS | ANNE ZINK

Syphilis, the ‘Great Pretender,’ is back
EDITORIAL

Giving Haiti a fighting chance
IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Metro

Sports journalist Jackie MacMullan to ‘talk smack’ at Huntington’s Disease fundraiser

"Anything goes," the newly retired ESPN journalist and former Globe columnist, said of the Oct. 13 virtual fundraiser. "They can ask me anything they want. And they do. Trust me, they do."

Boston’s Jamaica Pond closed due to harmful algae bloom

On Friday, officials closed the pond to water activities including swimming, fishing, and letting pets play in the water, due to the blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria, according to a statement from the Boston Public Health Commission.

Expo looks at how to grow Black wealth in Massachusetts

Mayor Michelle Wu and members of the state's congressional delegation addressed the conference on Saturday.

Some patients relocated from Brockton’s Good Samaritan Medical Center following major power outage Saturday

City officials on Saturday encouraged people who need assistance for a non-life threatening issue to call their medical provider or use one of the area’s urgent care centers.

Sports

Sports journalist Jackie MacMullan to ‘talk smack’ at Huntington’s Disease fundraiser

"Anything goes," the newly retired ESPN journalist and former Globe columnist, said of the Oct. 13 virtual fundraiser. "They can ask me anything they want. And they do. Trust me, they do."
MLS

D.C. United and coach Wayne Rooney part ways after just one season

D.C. United missed the playoffs for a fourth straight season, matching a club mark from 2008-2011.
BASEBALL

Clayton Kershaw’s possible last Dodgers start a disaster as he allows six runs, gets just one out against Diamondbacks

Kershaw, 35, had two strikes on five of his eight batters while allowing the most runs in any first inning in the franchise’s postseason history. It was the shortest outing as a starter in his 16-year career.
Orlando City 3, Revolution 2

Orlando City SC holds off Revolution despite two goals from Carles Gil
PHILLIES 3, BRAVES 0

Phillies shut out big-swinging Braves, again put division champs in Division Series hole
PGA

Ben Griffin is one round away from his first PGA Tour victory and a spot in the Masters

Business

Hamas attack prompts blame around Israeli intelligence

Saturday’s surprise attack on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas may represent one of the biggest failures by Israeli intelligence since the Yom Kippur war of 1973.

House speaker race pits Trump-backed Jordan against Scalise

The bitter battle between Representatives Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan for the US House speakership culminates a long-simmering personal rivalry that grew along with the fractures in the Republican party.

Trump beefs up Iowa campaign as DeSantis goes all in

‘The picking won’t be as good’: Apple orchards struggle with this fall’s harvest
magazine
Globe Magazine

‘Wicked, shocking, dirty’: ‘Peyton Place’ and the inevitable failure of book bans

Fall Travel

10 train trips to experience New England foliage in style
My Boston History

My night at Havana Club, the heart of salsa and bachata dancing in Cambridge
Globe Magazine

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

metro

Walking Cape Cod in Thoreau’s shoes

Mass. state trooper critically hurt in Utah crash returned home Saturday

‘Making that decision just changes you forever’: For parents of kids with severe autism, impossible choices

sports

Two Yordan Alvarez homers back Justin Verlander as Astros open with win over Twins

Penn State’s James Franklin checks out his top recruit, but St. Paul’s spoils day for Dexter Southfield’s VIP visitor

Jordan Fuller runs for four touchdowns, Holy Cross football bounces back with win over Bucknell

business

Here are the key nuclear secrets Trump allegedly leaked

MIT roommate, FTX co-founder testifies against Sam Bankman-Fried

What to know about Caroline Ellison, Newton native and key witness in Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial

politics

Biden decries the ‘unconscionable’ Hamas attack and warns Israel’s enemies not to exploit the crisis

Will the motion to vacate be vacated?

Under pressure, Biden administration to send team to assess migrant situation in Massachusetts

Nation

Jewish diaspora mourns attack on Israel, but carries on by celebrating holidays

The Republican field is blaming Joe Biden for dealing with Iran after Hamas’ attack on Israel

California, land of the car, could soon have speed cameras

World

Hamas attacks Israel; ‘We are at war’, Netanyahu says

Gunfire, rockets and carnage: Israelis are stunned and shaken by unprecedented Hamas attack

‘The children were terrified’: Fear grips Israel and Gaza

opinion

State corrections system cries out for oversight

Give Kendi time to put antiracism center on firm footing

GOP presidential campaign in New Hampshire shows signs of life

lifestyle

I live close to my ex

A grown-up’s guide to teenage social media

Turns out, there’s an age gap

food & dining

At Belmont’s new Hanami, a sprawling menu of sushi and small plates

Eastern Standard to reopen next week in new location

Fall food guide: 12 often overlooked best places to eat and drink in Rhode Island this fall

travel

Passport wait times are getting shorter

Artsy views from Boston to Brattleboro, plus the bottom line on comfortable seating

Author Caroline Kepnes on pillowcases, peppermint patties, and the passenger from hell

Arts

Preserving Portuguese history and culture in ‘Mouros’

In Renaissance Italy, women artists quietly persisted

When seeing is believing meets believing as seeing

Books

Paul Yoon prefers a small canvas but his stories span centuries and continents

James Frankie Thomas writes a queer ‘elegy to a bygone era of the internet’ in ‘Idlewild’

Watertown Zine Fest celebrates marginalized voices through DIY publishing; new poetry anthology commemorates demolition of Salem power plant; Brattleboro Literary Festival opens on Friday

Movies

Bradley Cooper plays Bernstein, Almodóvar unveils a queer cowboy movie, and more from the New York Film Festival

‘The Exorcist: Believer’: No sympathy for the devil

‘Joan Baez I Am a Noise’ is a ‘visual memoir’ of a monumental voice in music

Television

TCM: A treasure worth protecting

On TV, duos are dynamic

‘Tiger King’ animal trainer ‘Doc’ Antle gets suspended sentence for wildlife trafficking in Virginia

music

Handel and Haydn delivers a sublime ‘Israel in Egypt’

Nonprofit buying Iron Horse Music Hall — once the beating heart of Northampton’s live-music scene

Former Globe rock writers Steve Morse and Jim Sullivan inducted into N.E. Music Hall of Fame

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet packs a lot into ‘Fall Experience’

Again taking wing over Cambridge

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

Health

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

‘Celtic Sojourn’ host Brian O’Donovan, who championed Irish music, dies at 66

Dick Butkus, legendary Chicago Bears middle linebacker, has died

Joe Christopher, an original Met who was Amazin’ in ’64, dies at 88