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Israel says it is ready for its offensive as Palestinians flee

Palestinian Americans watch with dread as family members in Gaza struggle to stay alive

For Palestinian Americans, there’s a sense of helplessness and hopelessness as many struggle to hear from their families in Gaza
Medway family remains stranded in Gaza In first call with Palestinian president Abbas, Biden discusses support for humanitarian aid to Gaza Attleboro synagogue holds services Saturday, undeterred by bomb threat

General Mark Milley voices support for Israel, denounces Hamas as a ‘terrorist’ group in speech at Belmont Hill School

‘It’s hard to conceive of this as anything other than like a death march’: Local experts decry forced displacement of Gazans

Harvard students rally in support of Palestinians ‘under siege in Gaza’

Salem church group that arrived in Israel just before Hamas attacks has safely returned to Mass.

‘It’s hard to believe he’s Al Capone’: Republicans portray Biden as both incompetent and a criminal mastermind

This tale of two Bidens comes as the party’s long-running narrative about the oldest sitting president in history clashes with a growing line of attack highlighted by a House Republican impeachment inquiry.
BRUINS 3, PREDATORS 2

Bruins overcome penalties to overpower Predators on strength of James van Riemsdyk’s second goal

The go-ahead goal scored by van Riemsdyk early in the third period was his second on the power play. David Pastrnak scored the Bruins' other goal on penalty shot and Jeremy Swayman made 33 saves.

Celtics notebook
Celtics hire Jeff Van Gundy as senior consultant in Boston and G League Maine
The club is excited about Van Gundy's addition to a franchise that’s focused on winning a championship.

Mark Goddard, a star of the ’60s series ‘Lost in Space’ who was from Mass., dies

Mark Goddard, the actor best known for playing Major Don West on the science-fiction series “Lost in Space,” died Tuesday at a hospice center in Hingham. He was 87.
PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Bruce Bochy, Dusty Baker offer a touch of the old days in baseball’s new age

Houston manager Dusty Baker (74) and Texas manager Bruce Bochy (68) are the oldest active managers in baseball. The fourth oldest is 60-year-old Rob Thomson of the Phillies, who are back in the NLCS against Arizona.

Quinn Mitchell, teen who made Ron DeSantis squirm, escorted by police from N.H. GOP event

The 15-year-old from Walpole, N.H., was walked out of the Sheraton Nashua by multiple Nashua police officers just before 4 p.m.
Meet Quinn Mitchell

7-year-old girl struck by SUV in Gloucester, flown to Boston hospital

Victim taken to hospital following Roxbury stabbing

State of the Patriots

Soon will be the time for the Patriots to give youngsters a longer look

As the Patriots (1-4) navigate the remainder of the season, playing and evaluating their young talent will have its benefits.
Malik Cunningham joining Patriots’ active roster
TELEVISION REVIEW

A creature so wondrous, a brutality so immense

On PBS, Ken Burns’s two-part ‘The American Buffalo’ is both elegy and dirge.
YVONNE ABRAHAM

A place of love and success

It’s all there in Nativity’s four pillars: Strength, Scholarship, Character, Service.
Opinion
Katherine Clark

To my House GOP colleagues: Choose bipartisanship, not extremism, with next speaker

Since they took the majority in January, House Republicans haven’t been guided by the duties of public service but by a desperate, obsessive desire to out-MAGA one another.
EDITORIAL

The world is watching the US Senate’s dysfunction and delay on ambassadors and military officials
MARCELA GARCÍA

Immigration reform: Yes, we can?
JEFF JACOBY

Redeeming captives is a high Israeli priority. Destroying Hamas must be a higher one.

ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The cycle of violence starts with the Israeli occupation
Hispanic Heritage Month

Local dancer connects to his Mexican culture, subverts gender norms with baile folklórico

Latinx horror authors are a new force in the genre. Here are 5 books to get you into the spooky season.

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston
DEVRA FIRST

10 restaurants that capture the spirit of Hispanic Heritage Month

More recent News

Crowds cheer as ‘ring of fire’ eclipse moves across the Americas, stretching from Oregon to Brazil
It was a spectacular show for some parts of the western United States as the moon moved into place and the ring formed.

Dorchester Food Co-op opens its doors to bring fresh, affordable produce to the community
After more than a decade of planning and organizing, the co-op at 195 Bowdoin St. was bustling Saturday with neighborhood residents, both working the registers and crossing items off their grocery lists.

2023 Shattuck Awards honor city’s ‘everyday heroes’
The Henry L. Shattuck Public Service Awards were presented to 10 city employees and two civic leaders during an Oct. 5 celebration at the Seaport Hotel.

Andy Bean, 11-time PGA Tour winner, dies from complications of lung surgery
Andy Bean had lung replacement surgery in September. A friend posted on Facebook at the time that Mr. Bean’s lungs had been damaged from COVID-19.

Family says US Olympic gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton progressing in battle with pneumonia
Retton's family recently disclosed the all-around champion at the 1984 Los Angeles Games was hospitalized and unable to breath on her own.

Photographer Bruce Weaver, who captured horrifying images of Challenger breaking apart after launch, has died
Bruce Weaver, a Florida-based photographer, took a definitive image of space shuttle Challenger breaking apart into plumes of smoke and fire after liftoff.

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Alzheimer’s eroded my grandpa’s brain. Now I’m the keeper of our memories.

“Wait for me,” I told my grandfather on our last video call. Would he last until I could return to see him in China?

Blind date: ‘There was just so much to like about her’
Will this teacher and his date sail off into the sunset?

Racist abuse in Concord just latest in wave at Massachusetts schools
Incidents in Concord follow a series of similar incidents in districts around Massachusetts in recent years.

‘Like playing the lottery’: Laid-off life sciences workers give a snapshot of a cooling-down sector
Thousands of Massachusetts biopharmaceutical workers have been laid off in the past two years in what experts describe as one of the industry’s biggest shakeouts in decades.

Culture & Lifestyle

What’s a favorite show of yours that nobody is talking about? Tell us and we’ll share it.

Priscilla’s story, ‘Janet Planet,’ and French food draw attention at the New York Film Festival

After years of hip-hop stardom, Medford’s BIA returns home as a tour headliner

The State’s skewed sketch comedy was panned by critics, but then a funny thing happened

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

Katherine Clark

To my House GOP colleagues: Choose bipartisanship, not extremism, with next speaker

ABDALLAH FAYYAD

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The return of an old scourge reveals a deep sickness in the global fishing industry
JEFF JACOBY

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Metro

Harvard students rally in support of Palestinians ‘under siege in Gaza’

Demonstrators called for the university to support a ceasefire in Gaza, where officials say more than 2,200 people have been killed since Israeli forces began continuous airstrikes on the territory in response to Hamas's attack.
YVONNE ABRAHAM

A place of love and success

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‘It’s hard to conceive of this as anything other than like a death march’: Local experts decry forced displacement of Gazans

After massive bombings in northern Gaza that destroyed whole neighborhoods, people should call on members of Congress to urge the government to take measures “to ensure that innocent Gazans do not bear the punishment for Hamas’ terrible crimes,” said Zinaida Miller, a professor of law and international affairs at Northeastern University.

Dorchester Food Co-op opens its doors to bring fresh, affordable produce to the community

After more than a decade of planning and organizing, the co-op at 195 Bowdoin St. was bustling Saturday with neighborhood residents, both working the registers and crossing items off their grocery lists.

Sports

HS CROSS-COUNTRY

Westford’s Jack Graffeo goes sub-15 minutes, recording the state’s fastest 5k time this season to win the Bob Glennon Twilight Invitational

The meet lived up to its reputation for shattering personal bests — the top 16 boys’ finishers all set new high marks, including Graffeo, who broke his PR by 19 seconds.
BRUINS 3, PREDATORS 2

Bruins overcome penalties to overpower Predators on strength of James van Riemsdyk’s second goal

The go-ahead goal scored by van Riemsdyk early in the third period was his second on the power play. David Pastrnak scored the Bruins' other goal on penalty shot and Jeremy Swayman made 33 saves.
PGA

Tom Kim eyes rare double: Winning the Shriners Children’s Open twice in the same season

Kim enters the final round in a three-way tie with Adam Hadwin, who played bogey-free for a 63 and Lanto Griffin, who was tied for the 36-hole lead but didn't make a birdie until the 13th hole.
BASEBALL

Throw out the regular season in a Rangers/Astros Lone Star showdown for the World Series
PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Bruce Bochy, Dusty Baker offer a touch of the old days in baseball’s new age

gymnastics

Family says US Olympic gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton progressing in battle with pneumonia

Business

Dana-Farber’s divorce from Brigham is the culmination of decades of change

According to several people involved in conversations around the deal, the divorce follows decades of tensions between the organizations.

Amid a mental health crisis, toy industry takes on a new role: building resilience

While still in its early phase, a growing number of toy marketers are embracing MESH — or mental, emotional and social health — as a designation for toys that teach kids skills like how to adjust to new challenges, resolve conflict, advocate for themselves, or solve problems.

How a series of air traffic control lapses in Texas nearly killed a planeload of people

Kaiser Permanente reaches tentative deal with health care workers
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Older people rarely want hearing aids. A dementia study could change that.
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A fraught question for the children of Alzheimer’s: Is it coming for us?
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘There was just so much to like about her’

metro

General Mark Milley voices support for Israel, denounces Hamas as a ‘terrorist’ group in speech at Belmont Hill School

2023 Shattuck Awards honor city’s ‘everyday heroes’

Medway family remains stranded in Gaza

sports

Celtics hire Jeff Van Gundy as senior consultant in Boston and G League Maine

Strong net-front presence tips chances in favor of the Bruins’ James van Riemsdyk, Trent Frederic

Drew Allar throws 3 TD passes, Daequan Hardy returns 2 punts for scores as No. 6 Penn State routs UMass

business

Microsoft closes $69 billion Activision deal, overcoming regulators’ objections

American Airlines adds Hyannis routes in long-awaited win for Cape Cod

Israel’s Iron Dome system doesn’t work, says missile defense critic

politics

A teen’s death in a small Michigan town led the FBI and police to an online sexual extortion scheme

Republicans pick Jim Jordan as nominee for House speaker, putting job within the Trump ally’s reach

Republicans nominate Jim Jordan for House speaker. Here’s how Friday’s vote unfolded.

Nation

Republican Jeff Landry wins the Louisiana governor’s race, reclaims office for GOP

Palestinian Americans watch with dread as family members in Gaza struggle to stay alive

Crowds cheer as ‘ring of fire’ eclipse moves across the Americas, stretching from Oregon to Brazil

World

Families trudge through Gaza streets, trying to flee the north before Israel’s invasion

In first call with Palestinian president Abbas, Biden discusses support for humanitarian aid to Gaza

Israel says it is ready for its offensive as Palestinians flee

opinion

The future of work has arrived — and the CEO of Slack isn’t looking back

The return of an old scourge reveals a deep sickness in the global fishing industry

Stepping back from a housing showdown in Braintree

lifestyle

She gaslights me all the time

So your parents have outgrown their home. What now?

Why was a dating app on his phone?

food & dining

At Midnight Morning, it’s always a good time to gather

Globe readers share their favorite restaurant desserts in honor of National Dessert Day Saturday

H+L Market brings clam shack vibes to the Seaport; Rebelle’s bagels fill a hole in the Kendall Square dining scene

travel

A new role for tourism agencies: getting vacationers to stay permanently

Boston tops list of cities with the most expensive hotels in the country

With new gates, Massport makes an $800 million bet on international travel at Logan

Arts

🖌️ You have to get down to Newport to check out this art gallery this fall

At sea with ‘Forecast Form’ at the ICA

At the Addison, a Maine painter takes on the age-old conventions of maritime art

Books

Louise Glück, Nobel-winning poet of terse and candid lyricism, dies at 80

Latinx horror authors are a new force in the genre. Here are 5 books to get you into the spooky season.

Jhumpa Lahiri, writing in Italian, finds freedom from personal identity but distance from true engagement

Movies

‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ gives fans the best seat in the stadium

Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ movie: Four takeaways from the premiere.

Welcome back, Carter: Legendary costumer Ruth E. Carter honored with Coolidge Award

Television

Watch for expansion of ‘Suits’ franchise

What’s a favorite show of yours that nobody is talking about? Tell us and we’ll share it.

A creature so wondrous, a brutality so immense

music

Yo-Yo Ma makes Shostakovich concertos the main event with BSO

‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ gives fans the best seat in the stadium

Rudolph Isley, founding member of Isley Brothers and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, dies at 84

Theater/Dance

The State’s skewed sketch comedy was panned by critics, but then a funny thing happened

Moonbox’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ offers theatergoers an early peek at Arrow Street Arts in Cambridge

British comic Russell Howard brings his mix of wonder and silliness to the Shubert stage

Health

Neil Steinberg, former CEO of Rhode Island Foundation, to chair R.I.’s new life sciences agency

R.I. life sciences agency inches closer to becoming reality

Latest COVID vaccine rollout facing canceled appointments, pricey insurance bills

Obituaries

Andy Bean, 11-time PGA Tour winner, dies from complications of lung surgery

Khaled Khalifa, lauded Syrian novelist who was ‘exiled at home,’ dies

Photographer Bruce Weaver, who captured horrifying images of Challenger breaking apart after launch, has died