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Israel prepares for its offensive as Palestinians flee

Gaza 2 Gif

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.

Iowa Methodist nurse manager Megan Carter picked up her youngest son, Oliver, from his last day at the child-care center in August. The hospital parent company, UnityPoint Health, recently received $2 million in grant funding to build a similar facility at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo.

‘We could start to move the needle’: Iowa offers model for fixing Mass. child-care crisis

Iowa's incentive program matched whatever a business was willing to spend funding new slots for their employees at local child-care centers or building on-site child-care facilities.

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 Ben Volin: The Patriots have betrayed the principles that once made them great

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Coming soon: Beyond the Gilded Gate, a Boston Globe Spotlight report into Massachusetts’ housing crisis

People from in and around Boston are being challenged by the region's housing crisis in ways never before seen.

Around New England with Kevin Cullen

In Vermont, animal welfare advocates want a 21-year-old hunter charged with animal cruelty
Logan Bogie shot a deer last October, but it lived for more than an hour before he finished it off.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Bison in Montana, September 2019.

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.

Texas manager Bruce Bochy speaks Saturday at Minute Maid Park in Houston next to a photo of Dusty Baker, his counterpart with the Houston Astros.

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.

Jakobi Meyers (left) has pulled in 25 passes for 274 yards and three touchdowns in his first year playing for the Raiders.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

This year’s big-ticket NFL free agents are almost all struggling

The Raiders' Jakobi Meyers has proven to be one of the few offseason acquisitions to help his new team.

Opinion

The apple, grape, and tart cherry collections at the US Department of Agriculture's Plant Genetic Resources Unit in Geneva, N.Y.

IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

Apples of the future take root in the nation’s strategic fruit repository

Climate change will require breeders to develop apples that can withstand harsher conditions. But can they do that while keeping the fruit crisp and sweet?

Everyone deserves safe drinking water

How well are we grappling with Mass. and Cass?

Who needs the circus when there are House Republicans?

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

Hispanic Heritage Month

For social use with baile folklórico video

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

Horror fiction has seen an explosion in the number of Latinx authors joining the field in recent years.

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

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

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

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

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.

Republican Jeff Landry wins the Louisiana governor’s race, reclaims office for GOP
Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, has won the Louisiana governor’s race, holding off a crowded field of candidates.

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.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

A place of love and success
It’s all there in Nativity’s four pillars: Strength, Scholarship, Character, Service.

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.

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.

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Recommended reads

Jacques Pépin at his home in Madison, Conn., on Aug. 15, 2022.

‘Cooking for someone is the greatest expression of love’: Jacques Pépin on love, loss, and eating alone

In his latest book, “Jacques Pépin Cooking My Way,” the celebrated French chef focuses on simplicity, economy, and efficiency.

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

CONNECTIONS

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?

‘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.

Culture & Lifestyle

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

Juliette Binoche is "radiant" in "The Taste of Things."

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

BIA returns to Boston for a show at the Paradise Oct. 17.

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

Members of The State who are currently on tour pose for a photo in Denver.

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

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

Former president Donald Trump endorsed Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio in the GOP race for speaker of the House. Jordan supported Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election, defied a congressional subpoena to testify before the Jan. 6 committee, and denies any knowledge of allegations of sexual abuse by an Ohio State University team doctor while Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach there.

Katherine Clark

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

A child in Gaza looked at the destroyed buildings in the aftermath of a bombing by Israel on Oct. 8.

ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The cycle of violence starts with the Israeli occupation

A Chinese squid ship in the Pacific.

IDEAS | IAN URBINA

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

Israeli soldiers prepared for a mission Thursday outside Be’eri, a kibbutz that was overrun by Hamas militants last week.

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

Senator Tommy Tuberville looked on as US Air Force General David W. Allvin, nominee to be chief of staff of the Air Force at the Department of Defense, not pictured, spoke during a Senate Armed Services Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 12.

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

A dog named Ducky demonstrated FluentPet's communication buttons during the Pepcom Digital Experience before the CES tech show in January.

IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

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

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.

A place of love and success

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

‘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

Angel Yin of the United States kisses the Buick LPGA Shanghai Champion Trophy after winning the Buick LPGA Shanghai at Shanghai Qizhong Garden Golf Club on Oct. 15.

Angel Yin wins LPGA Shanghai tournament for maiden tour title

American Solheim Cup player Angel Yin defeated top-ranked Lilia Vu on the first playoff hole to win the LPGA Shanghai tournament on Sunday for her first tour win.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach addresses the first day of the 141st IOC session in Mumbai, India, on Oct. 15.

Olympic president Thomas Bach urged by IOC members to extend term limit and seek 4 more years

IOC president Thomas Bach was urged by several members Sunday to change Olympic statutes on term limits and seek four more years as president through 2029.

Jack Graffeo, shown at the MSTCA Bay State Invitational earlier this month, won by 29 seconds in the large-school race.

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

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

Throw out the regular season in a Rangers/Astros Lone Star showdown for the World Series

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

magazine

Karen and Gale on Oahu, 1963.

My mother’s descent into dementia, in her own words

Older people rarely want hearing aids. A dementia study could change that.

The writer’s father took this picture of his wife, seven kids, and a baby sitter.

A fraught question for the children of Alzheimer’s: Is it coming for us?

This week's daters: Max and Siena.

Dinner with Cupid

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

metro

Outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley inspected the troops during an Armed Forces Farewell Tribute in his honor last month.

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

Texas manager Bruce Bochy speaks Saturday at Minute Maid Park in Houston next to a photo of Dusty Baker, his counterpart with the Houston Astros.

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

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

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

business

A Microsoft store in New York on June 17.

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

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before a House Committee on the Judiciary oversight hearing, July 12, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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

Dallas police block an entrance to the State Fair of Texas after a shooting, Oct. 14, in Dallas.

State Fair of Texas evacuated and 1 man arrested after shooting in Dallas injures 3 victims

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

World

A woman prepares her ballot for parliamentary elections in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 15.

Poles vote in a high-stakes election that will determine whether right-wing party stays in power

Powerful earthquake shakes west Afghanistan a week after devastating quakes hit same region

Israel prepares for its offensive as Palestinians flee

opinion

Israeli soldiers prepared for a mission Thursday outside Be’eri, a kibbutz that was overrun by Hamas militants last week.

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

Who needs the circus when there are House Republicans?

On the presidential trail with N.H. voters

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

Red pepper cavatelli.

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

In Vermont, the median age is the third oldest in the country and the unemployment rate is just 1.8 percent.

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

Art dealer William Vareika in front of a John La Farge stained glass triptych, which he and his wife Alison donated to the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College.

🖌️ 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

Poet Louise Glück appeared at a ceremony honoring her with the National Humanities Medal in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 22, 2016.

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” was shot over three nights at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

‘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

The presence of Meghan Markle in the cast has helped "Suits" break all kinds of viewership records on Netflix.

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

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing a Shostakovich cello concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023.

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

Members of The State who are currently on tour pose for a photo in Denver.

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, the former president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, is expected to be named chairman of the state's new life sciences corporate body.

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 held up the trophy after winning the Champions Tour's Greater Hickory Classic golf tournament at Rock Barn Golf and Spa's Jones Course in Conover N.C., Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006.

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