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Supplies run low in Gaza as Israeli offensive looms

Biden considering trip to Israel in the coming days, but travel isn’t final, AP source says

A trip would be a chance for Biden to personally affirm to the Israeli people the US is standing firm behind them. But it would come amid growing fears that a looming Israeli move into Gaza could spark a wider war.

Egypt criticizes Israel’s Gaza operation as Blinken extends Mideast mission

Smoke from an Israeli airstrike seen in the Gaza Strip from Sderot, Israel, on Oct. 15.

‘We’re kicking into survival mode’: Medway family among Americans trapped in Gaza

Abood Okal is sheltering in a rural area about 10 miles from the Egyptian border with his wife, 18-month-old son, his sister and her three young children.

Man killed Muslim boy and wounded woman in hate crime motivated by Israeli-Hamas war, police say

Salem church members describe flight from Israel after Hamas’s attack

Raiders 21, Patriots 17

Bill Belichick's Patriots had no answers, again, in losing to the Raiders.

Christopher L. Gasper

Pay attention to that man behind the curtain, because these are Bill Belichick’s Patriots, too

Unlike during the Patriots' glory years, now Belichick is just a man pulling levers that don’t work anymore.

Ben Volin: Will the Patriots win another game this season after a disheartening loss to the struggling Raiders?

Mac Jones (right) and Kendrick Bourne connected 10 times for 89 yards.

Chad Finn | Unconventional review

Patriots talked about starting over, but loss to Raiders looked eerily similiar

The Patriots did make some changes but mindlesss mistakes and the obligatory Mac Jones interception looked familiar.

Mac Jones wants to stay positive, but acknowledges frustration after another Patriots loss

Bill Belichick was less than pleased after Ezekiel Elliott’s long touchdown in the second quarter was called back due to a Hunter Henry holding penalty.

Penalties were how Patriots helped derail themselves in Las Vegas

DeVante Parker's drop may prove the defining play of the game, but on a day where the offense only gave the ball away once, 10 infractions were how the Patriots got in their own way.

shirley leung

‘Best commute I’ve ever had’: Red Line shutdown gives Fairmount Line a chance to shine
Over the next two weeks, the line is getting its chance to show what public transportation can be.

$2k per night for an Airbnb in Salem? Surging Halloween tourism a boon for short-term rentals.
Crowds have swelled since the pandemic, and residents have capitalized on the demand, with many visitors booking short-term rentals a year in advance. “Some of them can be astronomical,” one woman said of the rental fees.

Migrants in San Antonio boarded a jet bound for Martha's Vineyard in September 2022.

Five things to know about the ‘60 Minutes’ report on migrants sent to Martha’s Vineyard last year

On Sunday, the weekly television news magazine “60 Minutes” broadcast a report reviewing the 2022 incident and unveiling new details about the migrants affected by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s decision to send the group to Massachusetts.

James Pindell | Analysis

Eight people who will shape the 2024 New Hampshire primary

Money and endorsements matter less in 2024, but people still do. Here are eight who are shaping the contours of New Hampshire’s primary.

Illustration by Stanley Chow for the Boston Globe

‘Get it together’: Voters in early GOP primary states express frustration and consternation with Republican House speaker meltdown

In Iowa and New Hampshire, voters and presidential contenders alike urged a quick resolution so lawmakers could begin to address the country’s urgent business currently on hold.

Jim Jordan’s rapid rise has been cheered by Trump and the far right. Could it soon make him speaker?

In Cambridge, a battle over affordable housing revives longstanding political tensions
The Cambridge City Council is considering an expansion of its landmark affordable housing law, putting the city’s left-leaning ideals to the test.

ATF is well aware Littleton gun dealers use loophole to sell off-limits guns as parts, records show

The well-known loophole relies on the state’s definition of a “firearm,” which hasn’t been changed since it was enshrined into law in 1998.

Lesley University students, professors protest mass layoff of liberal arts faculty

The protest was in response to the elimination of four programs and about 20 percent of the core faculty union members, they said.

Suzanne Somers, actor who played Chrissy Snow on sitcom ‘Three’s Company,’ dies
Suzanne Somers, the effervescent blonde actor known for playing Chrissy Snow on the U.S. television sitcom “Three’s Company” that gained wide popularity in the 1970s and early 80s, has died

Major US pharmacy chain Rite Aid files for bankruptcy

Local neo-Nazi group demonstrates outside Governor Maura Healey’s home

Beta Technologies' ALIA aircraft received the inaugural charge from the state's first public electric charging station for aircraft and ground vehicles at Marshfield Municipal Airport.

First electric aircraft charging station in Mass. lands on the South Shore

Aviation startup Beta Technologies unveiled the state's first aircraft charging station at Marshfield Municipal Airport.

Shira Haas and Stephen Graham in the new British crime thriller, "Bodies," premiering Thursday on Netflix.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: Ken Burns’s ‘American Buffalo,’ a British crime thriller, and news of a JFK series modeled on ‘The Crown’

Netflix is developing a limited series based on the life and times of President John F. Kennedy that, according to Variety, the streamer sees as a kind of American version of its epic take on the British royal family.

Deputy Sealer of Weights and Measures Brian Oliver used weights from a test kit to check the accuracy of a scale at a Whole Foods Market location.

Boston’s referees of retail make sure a pound is a pound, a gallon is a gallon, and mile is a mile

Meet the city's Division of Weights and Measures, "the nerds of a certain world.”

Opinion

The author took part in a climate protest in Nairobi, Kenya, in September at the start of the the first-ever Africa Climate Summit.

IDEAS | VANESSA NAKATE

Why I became a climate activist in my native Uganda

Global warming is hitting Africa harder than anywhere else on earth, even though the continent’s 1.3 billion people contribute to it the least.

Punishment for revenge porn is back on legislative agenda

Laurie H. Glimcher and Kevin Tabb

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — full of nonsense but good for the presidential race

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

More recent News

beat writer's notebook

How Jeff Van Gundy landed with the Celtics, and seven other training camp nuggets
Even though the Celtics recently hired the former coach and television commentator as a senior consultant, this role will not be entirely new for him.

He’s focused on helping people with addiction. He knows what it’s like because he’s been there himself.
Alastair Huntley didn’t know about harm reduction when he was struggling with opioid addiction in his 20s. Now, it’s a big part of his work as an EMT and future doctor.

INNOVATOR Q&A

A former lawyer focuses on reducing sexual assaults on college campuses
Alex Romano’s app, Student Ally, can help reduce incidents of sexual assault on college campuses by educating students and helping Title IX coordinators streamline reporting.

Solar panel waste could become a problem. A nascent recycling industry has some solutions.
As nations move to keep solar panels out of landfills, the solar panel recycling business is expected to be a $1.72 billion industry by 2028, according to a market research report.

After back and forth, humpback whales to remain on state’s endangered species list
The Healey administration withdrew its proposal to remove humpback whales from the Massachusetts list of endangered species. Conservationists are cheering the decision.

LOVE LETTERS

A year later, it’s the same problem
We still haven’t met in person.

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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.

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.

Mass. Commission for the Blind’s new boss faces long road to rebuild after years of mismanagement
Massachusetts' blind community says new boss John Oliveira is just a first step to repair the state's Commission for the Blind.

‘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

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.

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

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

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

$2k per night for an Airbnb in Salem? Surging Halloween tourism a boon for short-term rentals.

Crowds have swelled since the pandemic, and residents have capitalized on the demand, with many visitors booking short-term rentals a year in advance. “Some of them can be astronomical,” one woman said of the rental fees.

James Pindell | Analysis

Eight people who will shape the 2024 New Hampshire primary

Money and endorsements matter less in 2024, but people still do. Here are eight who are shaping the contours of New Hampshire’s primary.

‘Best commute I’ve ever had’: Red Line shutdown gives Fairmount Line a chance to shine

Over the next two weeks, the line is getting its chance to show what public transportation can be.

First electric aircraft charging station in Mass. lands on the South Shore

Aviation startup Beta Technologies unveiled the state's first aircraft charging station at Marshfield Municipal Airport.

Sports

French finance minister Bruno Le Maire waves the Olympic flag as Tony Estanguet, right, head the organizing committee of the Paris 2024 Games, looks on on Oct. 5 in Paris.

Cricket and flag football among 5 sports given Olympic status for 2028 Los Angeles Games

Five sports were finally added to the 2028 Los Angeles Games by the International Olympic Committee on Monday.

Mac Jones (right) and Kendrick Bourne connected 10 times for 89 yards.

Chad Finn | Unconventional review

Patriots talked about starting over, but loss to Raiders looked eerily similiar

The Patriots did make some changes but mindlesss mistakes and the obligatory Mac Jones interception looked familiar.

Replays showed Buffalo Bills cornerback Taron Johnson had a handful of Giants tight end Darren Waller's jersey on Sunday night's final play, but no flag was thrown and the Bills held off struggling New York.

BILLS 14, GIANTS 9

Sloppy Bills slip past gritty Giants, who come up one yard shy — twice

New York, the weekend's biggest underdog and starting a backup quarterback, fought to the final play, but lost its fourth straight after it ended each half with a drive stalling at Buffalo’s 1.

peter abraham | on baseball

Despite World Series title with Red Sox, Nate Eovaldi is eager to make new postseason memories with Rangers

rangers 2, astros 0

Jordan Montgomery, Rangers shut down Astros in Game 1 of AL Championship Series

Alyssa Nakken, the first female on-field coach in the majors, interviews for Giants’ manager job

Business

$2k per night for an Airbnb in Salem? Surging Halloween tourism a boon for short-term rentals.

Crowds have swelled since the pandemic, and residents have capitalized on the demand, with many visitors booking short-term rentals a year in advance. “Some of them can be astronomical,” one woman said of the rental fees.

‘Best commute I’ve ever had’: Red Line shutdown gives Fairmount Line a chance to shine

Over the next two weeks, the line is getting its chance to show what public transportation can be.

First electric aircraft charging station in Mass. lands on the South Shore

A former lawyer focuses on reducing sexual assaults on college campuses

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

Bathsheba Sherman, a 19th century farmer’s wife can’t rest in peace in a Burrillville, R.I. cemetery thanks to "The Conjuring" movie, which depicted her as a demon witch. Her headstone has been removed, repaired and placed in an undisclosed location due to vandalism by fans of the 2013 horror movie. Betty Mencucci, president of the Burrillville Preservation Society, stands over the Sherman family plot where the base of Bathsheba’s gravestone has been turned by visitors into a makeshift altar.

Restoring the reputation of Bathsheba Sherman after ‘The Conjuring’ made her into a witch

Five things to know about the ‘60 Minutes’ report on migrants sent to Martha’s Vineyard last year

Salem church members describe flight from Israel after Hamas’s attack

sports

Las Vegas Raiders defensive tackle Adam Butler played his first four NFL seasons with the Patriots.

Former Patriots defensive lineman Adam Butler felt ‘disrespected’ by lack of acknowledgment from Bill Belichick after Raiders game

Will the Patriots win another game this season after a disheartening loss to the struggling Raiders?

Pay attention to that man behind the curtain, because these are Bill Belichick’s Patriots, too

business

The leader of Civic Coalition (KO), Donald Tusk, celebrates the exit poll results during Poland's parliamentary elections on Oct. 15 in Warsaw, Poland. P

Poland waits for final election result after ruling party and opposition claim a win

Australian safety watchdog fines social platform X $385,000 for not tackling child abuse content

Major US pharmacy chain Rite Aid files for bankruptcy

politics

Illustration by Stanley Chow for the Boston Globe

Eight people who will shape the 2024 New Hampshire primary

Jim Jordan’s rapid rise has been cheered by Trump and the far right. Could it soon make him speaker?

Biden considering trip to Israel in the coming days, but travel isn’t final, AP source says

Nation

Police officers and rescue workers wait near the Gambetta high school during a bomb alert on Oct. 16, in Arras, northern France.

French authorities say school where teacher was fatally stabbed last week evacuated over bomb alert

Man killed Muslim boy and wounded woman in hate crime motivated by Israeli-Hamas war, police say

Help for Gaza refugees creates a flashpoint for DeSantis and Haley

World

Nobel laureate Martti Ahtisaari, left, gestures, at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Dec. 11, 2008.

Martti Ahtisaari, former Finnish president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 86

Supplies run low in Gaza as Israeli offensive looms

As Israeli invasion looms, diplomats seek to meet Gaza’s dire human needs

opinion

A Westminster homeowner and her daughter walked in their backyard near their water well in 2022. The well water is contaminated with PFAS chemicals.

Everyone deserves safe drinking water

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

N.H. GOP irked as Mass. folks move north: How do you like them apples?

lifestyle

A year later, it’s the same problem

She gaslights me all the time

So your parents have outgrown their home. What now?

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

Fall in Love New England hosts a Halloween costume contest for readers and authors every year.

Readers are invited to fall in love with romance at Marlborough book conference

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.

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

Shira Haas and Stephen Graham in the new British crime thriller, "Bodies," premiering Thursday on Netflix.

This week’s TV: Ken Burns’s ‘American Buffalo,’ a British crime thriller, and news of a JFK series modeled on ‘The Crown’

Suzanne Somers, actor who played Chrissy Snow on sitcom ‘Three’s Company,’ dies

As ‘SNL’ returns, Pete Davidson opens the show on a somber note

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

Suzanne Somers is seen in 2007. Somers, the effervescent blonde actor known for playing Chrissy Snow on the television show “Three’s Company,” as well as her business endeavors, died early Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023.

Suzanne Somers, actor who played Chrissy Snow on sitcom ‘Three’s Company,’ dead at 76

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

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