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Biden calls for ‘reasonable’ safety measures after Maine visit

See our complete coverage of the Maine shootings

President Biden meets with families in Lewiston

President Biden meets with families in Lewiston, calls for ‘reasonable, responsible measures’ around safety.

Hundreds of mourners honor the lives of victims in Lewiston mass shootings

Friday's funerals were the first in a somber succession of memorial services and burials throughout Maine this week and next.

Eighteen people killed in shootings in Lewiston, Maine. Here’s how the following days unfolded. Maine authorities could have moved to seize gunman’s firearms before shootings, experts say

Maine shooter died of gunshot wound to head, but time of death remains unknown

New records show police scrambling to protect Lewiston gunman’s ex-girlfriend and others

‘The biggest gap in health care’: For patients who are involuntarily committed, a steep drop-off follows

After mass shooting in Maine, will N.H. consider a ‘red flag’ law?

Humanitarian crisis in Gaza grows as Blinken seeks support for a temporary cease-fire

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Arab foreign ministers Saturday to find ways to ease Gaza’s growing humanitarian crisis.

In Brighton, Jewish community sets an empty Shabbat table for Israeli hostages Protesters calling for Gaza cease-fire arrested at Senate offices Plymouth family in Gaza affected by mistake in Israeli customs list, Congressman Keating says

At Harvard, survivor recounts terror at Israeli music festival during Hamas attack

Four people hospitalized after home explosion in Orland, Maine
Four people were hospitalized Friday after a propane leak caused an house explosion in Orland, Maine, according to a press release from the fire marshal’s office.

Saugus School Committee fires superintendent

McMahon’s firing is the latest in a series of superintendent ousters in districts across the state, including Everett and Marblehead, that critics have described as politically or personally motivated.

Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler accused of sexually assaulting teen model in 1975

A second woman has filed suit against Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, accusing him of sexually assaulted her in New York City in the 1970s when she was 17 years old.

This photo, released by the Connecticut State Police, shows bags of psychedelic mushrooms removed from a home in Burlington, CT, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (Connecticut State Police)

Millions of dollars of psychedelic mushrooms seized in a Connecticut bust

Bus driver charged in fatal crash that killed Brandeis student last year

Jean Fenelon, 58, of Boston, was arraigned Friday in Waltham District Court on charges of motor vehicle homicide and speeding in connection with a bus crash last year that killed a Brandeis student in November 2022.

Park Eun-bin in the South Korean series "Extraordinary Attorney Woo."

Thrillers, comedies, foreign imports, and British mysteries: The under-the-radar TV shows our readers love

Many of you responded to our call-out for TV shows that aren’t getting the appreciation or attention they deserve. Here’s what you said.

Bill Belichick's team rests at the bottom of the AFC at 2-6.

dan shaughnessy

It’s getting tough to watch Bill Belichick go through this, and other thoughts

I’m beginning to worry that Bill has stayed too long. And I’m thinking that Red Auerbach had it right when he retired from the bench at 48.

Like most teams, Patriots don’t have a traditional third-down back to bail them out Ben Volin: As Bill Belichick’s seat gets hotter, the battle for control of the Patriots begins

Women & power 2023

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts in 2023
The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine celebrate the state’s leading companies and nonprofits run by women.

Advice from the Nobel Prize winner who’s seen the ‘Barbie’ movie multiple times See the full Women & Power issue

Jon Dickerman, a general service technician at Sullivan Tire in Braintree, rolls a snow tire along the floor of a storage area on Nov. 15, 2006.

The family behind the Sullivan Tire empire reaches a deal to sell the company to its employees

The deal will make the ubiquitous auto shop chain one of New England’s largest employee-owned companies.

Opinion

Voters cast ballots in Waltham last year.

Waltham legal opinion chills political debate

Election speech by city councilors curtailed.

The truth behind fentanyl smuggling at the border

IDEAS | DOUG SMITH

The last thing my father told me

The computer scientist who became an AI skeptic

Night owls, early birds, and — here we go again — daylight saving

Canton's Owen McGowan reels in a 2-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter Friday at Syracuse, putting Boston College ahead at the half.

BOSTON COLLEGE 17, SYRACUSE 10

Boston College becomes bowl eligible by grinding out a victory at Syracuse

The Eagles ran the ball 57 times in their fifth straight victory, with quarterback Thomas Castellanos racing in for the winning points inside the final three minutes.

Jaciara Nunes, 7, picked a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch at the Revere Beach Partnership Pumpkin Dash 5k on Oct. 22.

Photos of the month: October 2023

Some of the best Boston Globe staff photos from ...

Red Sox president and CEO Sam Kennedy, chairman Tom Werner, Craig Breslow, and principal owner John Henry posed for photos after Breslow's introduction on Thursday.

ALEX SPEIER | ON BASEBALL

Inside the month-long process the Red Sox undertook to find Craig Breslow

One month and one day after the conclusion of a second straight last-place season, the former lefthanded reliever and director of the Cubs pitching development was introduced at Fenway Park.

Justin Turner declines 2024 option, beginning pressing decision period for Craig Breslow

A fisherman framed by some fall foliage on Round Pond in Nashua, NH, in 2014.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Rain-free weekend promises above-average temperatures

Temperatures will be approaching 60 degrees both days, and there will likely be a little more wind on Sunday.

The Prudential Building, left, and One Dalton in the setting sun.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

Reckoning with Boston’s towers of wealth

Luxury high-rises are sprouting across the skyline. Why is Boston, amid a grave housing crisis, so much better at building homes for the wealthy than those in need?

Explore the project

More recent News

Woman found dead in Logan garage was allegedly stabbed by boyfriend, officials say

The international fugitive charged with killing Margaret Mbitu, whose body was found Wednesday in a car in a parking garage at Logan Airport, allegedly stabbed and slashed her to death before flying to Kenya, according to legal filings.

At least 54 dead as strong quake rocks northwestern Nepal, and officials say toll expected to rise
Nepal’s National Earthquake Monitoring & Research Center measured the earthquake at 6.4 magnitude and said its epicenter was at Jajarkot, which is about 250 miles northwest of the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.

DiZoglio has no legal authority to probe the state Legislature, attorney general tells auditor
In a letter to state Auditor Diana DiZoglio, Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office said that DiZoglio's predecessors “have made the same determination” that it did — that the auditor does not have the legal authority to audit the Legislature without its consent.

‘I made it’: Lexington teacher named first Black male recipient of Massachusetts Teacher of the Year award
De’Shawn Washington, a fourth grade inclusion teacher at Maria Hastings Elementary School in Lexington, was honored on Friday.

Police search for suspects in Dracut home invasion
At approximately 8 p.m. Thursday, police responded to a home on Arkansas Drive where two armed men forced their way inside and restrained a resident, Dracut police said.

Debate rages about MBTA housing law, but all’s quiet in Braintree as deadline nears
Braintree town officials are set to present a state-mandated rezoning plan for the first time in late November, just one month before it must be approved and sent to the state.

Recommended reads

Kai Quinlan, who recently worked as a location manager on Alexander Payne's new movie, "The Holdovers," in the Somerville Theatre.

How do you travel back to 1970s Massachusetts in the movies? Location, location, location.

Location manager Kai Quinlan helped make the Bay State a star in Alexander Payne’s new film, "The Holdovers."

Mayor Wu declares peaceful dismantling of Mass. and Cass a model for tackling homelessness
More than 100 people have moved out of the crime-ridden encampments since Monday.

Stone-carved graves are going extinct. A Somerville artist is bringing them back to life.
A Salem-born artist is working to bring two stolen Salem gravestones back from the dead by carving replicas by hand, and hoping to revive a New England art form in the process.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Fannie Mae doesn’t want to talk about its condo loan blacklist. That makes no sense.
Most condo boards and owners are in the dark about the mortgage giant's secret list of properties where it won’t purchase loans.

Culture & Lifestyle

Jeffrey Mackenzie Jordan (left) and Colman Domingo in "Rustin."

Colman Domingo soars in ‘Rustin,’ a civil rights story you haven’t seen before

Tea leaves in glass bottle, collected on the shore of Dorchester Neck the morning of Dec. 17, 1773.

The Boston Tea Party turns 250

Davron S. Monroe as the title character in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," which runs through Nov. 5 at Arrow Street Arts in Cambridge.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith is the author of a new memoir, “To Free The Captives.”

Harvard’s Tracy K. Smith has never felt more skeptical of freedom — or more free

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

Workers cleared the tents on Atkinson Street in an area known as Mass. and Cass on Oct. 31.

The tents at Mass. and Cass needed to come down. Now what?

Film depictions of Leonard Bernstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Mollie Burkhart are among the many recent examples of historical fiction in our culture. The publishing industry is also a big driver of this trend, as English professor Alexander Manshel explores in a new book called “Writing Backwards.”

IDEAS | CRAIG FEHRMAN

We’re drowning in historical fiction

Former governor Mike Dukakis attended Governor Maura Healey’s inauguration, Jan. 5.

Mike Dukakis, an exemplar of civic engagement

Missing poster and photos of Helen Medina.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A family’s nightmare quest to find their missing loved one

Joy Buolamwini

This week in ‘Say More’: The computer scientist who became an AI skeptic

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

CBS Boston vandalized with red spray paint, ‘Free Palestine’ messages, police say

Police are investigating after CBS Boston’s building was vandalized with red and black paint and messages that read “Free Palestine” in the early hours of Friday morning, the latest in a string of similar vandalism cases in Boston and Cambridge since violence broke out between Israel and Hamas in October.

President Biden meets with families in Lewiston, calls for ‘reasonable, responsible measures’ around safety

To the families of victims and survivors, Biden said he intended to share a message of mourning, and also of hope.

Four people hospitalized after home explosion in Orland, Maine

Four people were hospitalized Friday after a propane leak caused an house explosion in Orland, Maine, according to a press release from the fire marshal’s office.

Lewiston shootings

Eighteen people killed in shootings in Lewiston, Maine. Here’s how the following days unfolded.

In Lewiston on Friday afternoon, President Biden honored the victims of the mass shootings and called for “reasonable, responsible measures" to protect Americans from gun violence.

Sports

Bilerica’s Sara MacLeod (27) looks to get a leg up on a corner kick during the second half of Friday's Division 2 preliminary-round win over Somerville in which the senior netted a pair of goals.

MIAA GIRLS' SOCCER TOURNAMENT

Sara MacLeod’s goals power second-half surge for No. 30 Billerica in Division 2 girls’ soccer prelim victory

The junior striker scored twice, fueling a four-goal second half that paced Billerica to a 4-0 victory over No. 35 Somerville.

Canton's Owen McGowan reels in a 2-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter Friday at Syracuse, putting Boston College ahead at the half.

BOSTON COLLEGE 17, SYRACUSE 10

Boston College becomes bowl eligible by grinding out a victory at Syracuse

The Eagles ran the ball 57 times in their fifth straight victory, with quarterback Thomas Castellanos racing in for the winning points inside the final three minutes.

Billerica's Cole Dillon (7) and Matheson MacLeod celebrate after stopping a 2-point conversion try by Plymouth South in overtime to secure a 29-27 first-round win in Division 3.

HS FOOTBALL: BILLERICA 29, PLYMOUTH SOUTH 27 (OT)

A score and a stuff on 2-point conversions in overtime gave Billerica a Division 3 first-round win over Plymouth South

Billerica junior Steven Gentile rushed for three touchdowns and the winning 2-point conversion before the Indians stymied Plymouth South on the game's final play.

HS FOOTBALL: DEDHAM 30, APPONEQUET 6

Dedham delivers early knockout against Apponequet in Division 5 opener

Rangers celebrate World Series title with parade, and MVP Corey Seager takes swipe at Astros

Justin Turner declines 2024 option, beginning pressing decision period for new Red Sox boss Craig Breslow

Business

Fall back: How daylight saving time can affect your health

Brunch dates and flag football games might be a little easier to get to this Sunday, when phones grace early-risers with an extra hour of rest before alarm clocks go off.

Experts speak out against proposed solar field in rural Rhode Island town

Green Development LLC has been pushing to install a massive solar array on the historic farmland and forests of tiny Johnston, R.I. One land-use lawyer noted it would “cause unfathomable disturbance.”

The family behind the Sullivan Tire empire reaches a deal to sell the company to its employees

Supreme Court will rule on ban on rapid-fire gun bump stocks

magazine

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Mass.

Just after learning October 9 that she’d won a Nobel Prize, Claudia Goldin, at home, speaks with a reporter.

Women & Power 2023

Advice from the Nobel Prize winner who’s seen the ‘Barbie’ movie multiple times

This week's daters: Tharun and Ria.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I was not on time. My Uber took a wrong turn.’

My neighbor has a hoarding problem and I'd like to help

metro

A casket was carried down the stairs of the The Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul after the funeral of Ron Morin, who was killed last week in Lewiston’s mass shooting. He left behind a wife and two children.

Hundreds of mourners honor the lives of victims in Lewiston mass shootings

Woman found dead in Logan garage was allegedly stabbed by boyfriend, officials say

In Brighton, Jewish community sets an empty Shabbat table for Israeli hostages

sports

Mike McDaniel has scored a touchdown while speaking on behalf of the Dolphins in Germany.

Dolphins coach does the math to downplay importance of matchup with Chiefs in Frankfurt

Inside the month-long process the Red Sox undertook to find Craig Breslow

Even as they compete in the MLS playoffs, it’s not too early to look ahead to 2024 for Revolution

business

In Chapter One of BoZton, we’ll touch on the burdens of soaring rent, the scramble to find an apartment, and the elusive dream of homeownership as it pertains to young people of the city.

Introducing BoZton, a video series for the young people of The Hub

Travelers reaches deal to buy Boston-based insurance tech firm Corvus for $435 million

Jeff Bezos, after founding Amazon in a Seattle garage three decades ago, packs his bags for Miami

politics

Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota, spoke at a local convention center on Sept. 27, 2002 during the first US agricultural trade fair in four decades in La Havana.

Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura’s shocking election 25 years ago previewed Trump’s

After mass shooting in Maine, will N.H. consider a ‘red flag’ law?

Plymouth family in Gaza affected by mistake in Israeli customs list, Congressman Keating says

Nation

President Biden meets with families in Lewiston

Millions of dollars of psychedelic mushrooms seized in a Connecticut bust

Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old can proceed with $40 million lawsuit, judge rules

World

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken disembarks at the airport in Amman, Jordan, on Nov. 3, after arriving from Israel.

Blinken tries to cajole wary Arabs on support for post-conflict Gaza as Israel’s war intensifies

Humanitarian crisis in Gaza grows as Blinken seeks support for a temporary cease-fire

Blinken urges ‘pauses’ in fighting to deliver aid for Gaza civilians

opinion

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy during a debate on the future of America held at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown on Nov. 1.

Vivek Ramaswamy is not ready for prime primary time

This week in ‘Say More’: The computer scientist who became an AI skeptic

The tents at Mass. and Cass needed to come down. Now what?

lifestyle

I think he’s cheap

Hair, periods, porn, mental health: ‘This Is So Awkward’ covers puberty from every angle

Lola Dating app will launch in Boston. It’s designed for people who want to show up on dates — for real.

food & dining

A Rhode Island-style clam chowder from Dune Brothers, a seafood shack in Providence, R.I.

Don’t want to cook? Sick of turkey on Thanksgiving? Here’s some R.I. restaurants to pre-order from.

4 pop-up restaurants worth checking out in Rhode Island in November 2023

Lines out the door for New York slices in Harvard Square, thanks to Joe’s Pizza

travel

The family's guide, Matt, showed the author's daughter how to use her wand to conjure up some magic in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

My kids unwrapped packed suitcases on Christmas morning, and we took a surprise trip. Would I do it again?

A guide to navigating holiday travel with less stress and a minimum of catastrophes

What’s new and coming up at Disneyland resort parks

Arts

University of Massachusetts Amherst students Micah Schmerling and Jade Shum inspect an artwork at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

In Collecting 101, UMass Amherst students learn inner workings of museum acquisition

The Boston Tea Party turns 250

Crystalle Lacouture centers loss and care at Praise Shadows Art Gallery

Books

Unnameable Books recently opened in Turners Falls, Mass.

Local poet offers wisdom and transcendence in ninth collection; Maine anthology draws power from youth perspectives; New bookstore opens in Turners Falls

Author readings around Boston Nov. 5 - Nov. 11

Local bestsellers for the week ended Oct. 29

Movies

7 stream-worthy movies to get in the sweater weather spirit

Colman Domingo soars in ‘Rustin,’ a civil rights story you haven’t seen before

How do you travel back to 1970s Massachusetts in the movies? Location, location, location.

Television

Barbra Streisand, pictured with husband James Brolin in 2014.

Memoir will bring Barbra Streisand to ‘CBS News Sunday Morning,’ ‘Late Show’

We asked readers to recommend their favorite TV shows that no one is talking about, and they delivered — big time

Thrillers, comedies, foreign imports, and British mysteries: The under-the-radar TV shows our readers love

music

Guest conductor Joana Mallwitz led the BSO and guest soloist Anna Vinnitskaya in Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto Thursday.

Conductor Joana Mallwitz and soloist Anna Vinnitskaya light up the BSO

Musical performances from The Word Barn in Exeter, N.H., hitting NHPR airwaves

Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler accused of sexually assaulting teen model in 1975

Theater/Dance

Orlando Baxter plays Comics Come Home Saturday night.

Orlando Baxter doesn’t have to come home for Comics Come Home — he’s already here

On her ‘Woo Woo’ podcast, Rachel Dratch’s guests give her the creeps

‘Frozen’ has the power to enchant, despite some slush

Health

A person walks into a CVS Health store on Aug. 1, 2023, in Miami, Fla.

Pharmacy workers at CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid start 3-day walkout

Eyedrops from CVS, Rite Aid and others carry possible infection risk, FDA says

Lifespan, largest hospital owner in R.I., could change name in expanded partnership with Brown University

Obituaries

David Kirke sets off from Beachy Head in East Sussex, in a giant helium-filled kangaroo, August 1986. Aided by four other balloons, he attempted to cross the English Channel to France.

David Kirke, first bungee jumper and extreme sports patriarch, dies at 78

Yuri Temirkanov, world-renowned conductor, dies at 84

Dwight Twilley, rootsy power-pop hit-maker, dies at 72