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Gaza hospitals say thousands could die as Israeli offensive looms

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.

Patients react after Dana-Farber breaks from the Brigham

WATCH: Medical Reporter Jessica Bartlett describes the fallout for patients and doctors after Dana-Farber cuts ties with Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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.

opinion | Laurie H. Glimcher and Kevin Tabb

Boston needs its own cancer center. Dana-Farber, BIDMC will create it.

Opinion | Anne Klibanski

The only thing Mass General Brigham is competing with is cancer itself

Patriots at Raiders | 4:05 p.m. | cbs

Patriots at Raiders | 4:05 p.m. (CBS)

With the playoffs looking unlikely, how should the Patriots approach the rest of the season?
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.

‘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.

As ‘SNL’ returns, Pete Davidson opens the show on a somber note
"SNL" is back after the ending of the writers strike, and Pete Davidson was host of last night's episode.

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.

Gen Z’s formative years were disrupted by national issues. Now they’re ready to vote.
Interviews with two dozen students from historically Black colleges and universities in Atlanta show they recognize their powerful role in the electorate.

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 a hotel by multiple Nashua police officers on Friday.

Meet Quinn Mitchell

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

Victim taken to hospital following Roxbury stabbing

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?

EDITORIAL

Everyone deserves safe drinking water

LETTERS

How well are we grappling with Mass. and Cass?

RENÉE GRAHAM

Who needs the circus when there are House Republicans?

JEFF JACOBY

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.

DEVRA FIRST

10 restaurants that capture the spirit of Hispanic Heritage Month

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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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‘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

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

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

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.

JEFF JACOBY

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.

EDITORIAL

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

SUNDAY'S CHILD

Izzy loves to explore nature

Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

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

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.

Sports

Patriots rookie Malik Cunningham (16) opened some eyes during preseason.

Patriots notebook

Malik Cunningham, Tyquan Thornton joining Patriots’ active roster for Raiders game

Cunningham, who impressed in the preseason opener against the Texans, lined up at quarterback and wide receiver over the course of the summer.

Tomas Chancalay, shown playing for Argentina's Racing Club, has six goals in 10 games for the Revolution.

Nashville SC 3, Revolution 2

Tomas Chancalay remains a bright spot, but the Revolution aren’t exactly peaking ahead of the playoffs

Chancalay converted twice, but the Revolution still fell short and must win their regular-season finale to have a shot at home field advantage in the playoffs.

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.

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

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

BRUINS 3, PREDATORS 2

A third-period power surge helped the Bruins flip the script on the Predators

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

Globe Magazine

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

Globe Magazine

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.

Globe Magazine

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

Dinner with Cupid

Gaza hospitals say thousands could die as Israeli offensive looms

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

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.

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

opinion | Laurie H. Glimcher and Kevin Tabb Boston needs its own cancer center. Dana-Farber, BIDMC will create it.

Opinion | Anne Klibanski The only thing Mass General Brigham is competing with is cancer itself

Patriots at Raiders | 4:05 p.m. | cbs

Patriots at Raiders | 4:05 p.m. (CBS) With the playoffs looking unlikely, how should the Patriots approach the rest of the season? As the Patriots (1-4) navigate the remainder of the season, playing and evaluating their young talent will have its benefits.

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

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.

‘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.

As ‘SNL’ returns, Pete Davidson opens the show on a somber note "SNL" is back after the ending of the writers strike, and Pete Davidson was host of last night's episode.

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

Gen Z’s formative years were disrupted by national issues. Now they’re ready to vote. Interviews with two dozen students from historically Black colleges and universities in Atlanta show they recognize their powerful role in the electorate.

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 a hotel by multiple Nashua police officers on Friday.

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

Victim taken to hospital following Roxbury stabbing

A creature so wondrous, a brutality so immense

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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Culture & Lifestyle

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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?

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

How the missing become the uncounted

Two Weeks in America

FROM OUR PARTNERS

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

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

The cycle of violence starts with the Israeli occupation

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

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

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

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

Metro

Izzy loves to explore nature

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

A place of love and success

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

Sports

Malik Cunningham, Tyquan Thornton joining Patriots’ active roster for Raiders game

Tomas Chancalay remains a bright spot, but the Revolution aren’t exactly peaking ahead of the playoffs

Angel Yin wins LPGA Shanghai tournament for maiden tour title

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

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

A third-period power surge helped the Bruins flip the script on the Predators

Business

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

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

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

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

opinion | Laurie H. Glimcher and Kevin Tabb

Boston needs its own cancer center. Dana-Farber, BIDMC will create it.

Opinion | Anne Klibanski

The only thing Mass General Brigham is competing with is cancer itself

Patriots at Raiders | 4:05 p.m. (CBS)

With the playoffs looking unlikely, how should the Patriots approach the rest of the season?
As the Patriots (1-4) navigate the remainder of the season, playing and evaluating their young talent will have its benefits.

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.

‘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.

As ‘SNL’ returns, Pete Davidson opens the show on a somber note
"SNL" is back after the ending of the writers strike, and Pete Davidson was host of last night's episode.

Gen Z’s formative years were disrupted by national issues. Now they’re ready to vote.
Interviews with two dozen students from historically Black colleges and universities in Atlanta show they recognize their powerful role in the electorate.

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 a hotel by multiple Nashua police officers on Friday.

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.

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?