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Lewiston shootings

Maine mass shooter was likely alive for most of massive 2-day search, autopsy suggests
Robert Card II died from a self-inflicted gunshot that “likely” happened eight to 12 hours before the discovery of his body, based on a time-of-death analysis, officials said.

For Lewiston High boys soccer team, a goal that counts

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

US and Arab partners disagree on the need for a cease-fire as Israeli airstrikes kill more civilians

The United States and Arab partners are disagreeing on the need for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military says the besieged enclave’s Hamas rulers are “encountering the full force” of its troops

Plymouth family in Gaza affected by mistake in Israeli customs list, Congressman Keating says Protesters calling for Gaza cease-fire arrested at Senate offices

Jonathan Diller, who survived the Hamas attack on an Israeli music festival, spoke at Harvard Hillel on Thursday.

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

Gas explosion at Needham home leaves Eversource contract worker injured
No one was home when the fire broke out, according to Eversource.

Quincy’s longest-serving mayor faces off with repeat challenger Tuesday

Quincy voters will decide Tuesday who will be the next mayor of the state’s seventh-largest city.

Manhattan jury clears ex-Boston prosecutor of rape and assault charges

The verdict followed a two-week trial and several days of deliberations by the jury focused on what happened the night of Adam Foss’ encounter with the woman in 2017.

Ken Mattingly, a NASA astronaut.

Ken Mattingly, astronaut who helped Apollo 13 crew return safely home, dies at age 87

Aida DiPace Donald, writer and former Harvard University Press editor in chief, dies at 93

Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, and Sheryl Crow join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Barbara Lee plans to wind down her foundation and political office by the end of 2024 and step back from the role that suited her so well: queenmaker.

Barbara Lee, the political queenmaker, will wind down foundation and work in 2024

By her count, Lee has helped elect more than 200 women in 37 states — including 8 sitting governors, 13 sitting US Senators, 29 sitting House members, and one vice president.

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.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Can anyone stay healthy? NFL backup and rookie quarterbacks are playing way too much in 2023.
This season, 42 quarterbacks already have started through the first eight weeks, and three more are likely to get their first start this weekend.

Bill Belichick-coached teams have feasted on young quarterback, so is the Commanders’ Sam Howell next? Ben Volin: As Bill Belichick’s seat gets hotter, the battle for control of the Patriots begins

Women & power 2023

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

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

The economist draws a spotlight on the gender gap — and offers a few words of advice to the “Kens.”

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts in 2023 See the full Women & Power issue

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.

Opinion

Voters cast ballots in Waltham last year.

Waltham legal opinion chills political debate

Election speech by city councilors is being curtailed.

Marcela García

The truth behind fentanyl smuggling at the border

IDEAS | DOUG SMITH

The last thing my father told me

Mike Dukakis, an exemplar of civic engagement

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

Patrice Bergeron, in his fourth season with the Bruins, was stretchered off the ice after a hit by the Flyers' Randy Jones in October 2007.

Patrice Bergeron’s latest honor is a reminder of how much concussion could have altered his path

In receiving the Concussion Legacy Foundation’s Impact Award, Bergeron opened a window into the person who, at the age of 22, showed a wisdom and willingness to do what was hard but what was right.

Hockey death in England renews conversations regarding NHL player safety

Nate Eovaldi celebrated after his 5-0 record in the postseason helped the Rangers win the first World Series title in franchise history.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Nate Eovaldi’s dominance was just one thing on display during Major League Baseball’s postseason

A few items picked up from covering the playoffs.

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

Many despise the end of daylight saving time. Some can’t wait.

“The measurement of time,” said Alex Reifsnyder, “is something that doesn’t really get altered any time throughout the year except for these two days.”

How daylight saving time can affect your health

A woman carries her numerous purchases in a mall in Arlington, VA, 22 December 2002 as people crammed into shopping centers across the country for last-minute holiday gift-buying.

Tell us: What’s the best, or worst, gift you’ve ever received?

These should be stories about the gift you didn’t know you needed, the gift that has become family lore, or the gift that backfired spectacularly.

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

Harvard 38, Columbia 24

Harvard remains atop the Ivy League behind two TDs apiece from Jaden Craig and Shane McLaughlin
Craig, a sophomore, shined in his first start at quarterback, while McLaughlin continues to lead the team's rushing attack.

Nepal rushes aid and rescue operations after strong quake shakes its northwest, killing at least 157
Most of those killed were crushed by debris when their houses — usually made by stacking rocks and logs — crumbled under the force of the tremblor midnight Friday, local media reported.

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.

Globe Santa

Inflation is the scourge of the holidays: ‘There is nothing cheap anymore’
This year, many letters To Globe Santa tell how families have been walloped by inflation. It’s hardly surprising: Census data show the typical household income in Greater Boston grew at only half the rate of inflation last year.

The Trump-DeSantis rivalry grows more personal and crude as the GOP candidates head to Florida
Former president Donald Trump is expanding his support in Florida as he seeks to bury the presidential ambitions of Governor Ron DeSantis in their shared home state.

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.

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.

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.

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

Manhattan jury clears ex-Boston prosecutor of rape and assault charges

The verdict followed a two-week trial and several days of deliberations by the jury focused on what happened the night of Adam Foss’ encounter with the woman in 2017.

Quincy’s longest-serving mayor faces off with repeat challenger Tuesday

Quincy voters will decide Tuesday who will be the next mayor of the state’s seventh-largest city.

Three stabbed at N.H. auto auction center, suspect arrested, police say

Bryon Bloomfield, 25, of Manchester, N.H., was arrested on assault charges when police responded to a report of three people stabbed at an auto auction on Saturday morning, police said.

Ken Mattingly, astronaut bumped from Apollo 13, dies at 87

Astronaut Ken Mattingly orbited the moon and commanded a pair of NASA shuttle missions, but was remembered as well for the flight he didn’t make — the near-disastrous mission of Apollo 13.

Sports

Holy Cross’ Jordan Fuller, seen here running against Harvard on Sept. 30, put Holy Cross ahead for good in their victory against Lehigh.

Holy Cross 28, Lehigh 24

Holy Cross rallies from 14 point deficit to beat Lehigh thanks to big game from Jordan Fuller

Fuller finished with a career high 228 rushing yards and two touchdowns.

Dabo Swinney enjoyed Saturday's upset victory over Notre Dame after vociferously defending his Clemson team during the week against one particularly vocal "fan."

clemson 31, notre dame 23

Take that, Tyler: Dabo Swinney, under-fire Clemson produce an upset of Notre Dame

The longtime Tigers coach emphatically answered his critics as his unranked Tigers upended the No. 12 Fighting Irish

Del DiBona (center) is mobbed by his BC High teammates after advancing the Eagles to the Round of 16 with a walkoff shootout goal.

SATURDAY'S TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP

Senior Del DiBona saved his best for last, lifting BC High past Braintree in a Division 1 boys’ soccer tournament shootout

“That’s why Del’s in the fifth spot,” said BC High coach Billy Ryan after his team prevailed, 5-4, on penalty kicks. “We have a lot of confidence in him."

Christopher Bell and Joe Gibbs Racing reflect on tragedy as team tries to win NASCAR championship

Patriots notebook

Bill Belichick-coached teams have feasted on young quarterback, so is the Commanders’ Sam Howell next?

Harvard 38, Columbia 24

Harvard remains atop the Ivy League behind two TDs apiece from Jaden Craig and Shane McLaughlin

Business

Barbara Lee, the political queenmaker, will wind down foundation and work in 2024

By her count, Lee has helped elect more than 200 women in 37 states — including 8 sitting governors, 13 sitting US Senators, 29 sitting House members, and one vice president.

Ukraine minister says he wants to turn his country into a weapons production hub for the West

Ukraine’s newly appointed head of defense industry says he wants to turn the country into a weapons hub for the West.

Look, up in the sky! It’s a can of soup!

Women & Power 2023

Where are the women in tech and AI?

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

Inflation is the scourge of the holidays: ‘There is nothing cheap anymore’

Gas explosion at Needham home leaves Eversource contract worker injured

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

sports

Bruins rookie Matt Poitras entered Saturday night's matchup with the Red Wings without a point in three straight games.

Bruins coach Jim Montgomery tinkers with lines in attempt to control rookie Matt Poitras’s minutes

Milton's Vincent Osazee, the state’s top 2026 basketball prospect, is flourishing at Reason Prep Academy

Nate Eovaldi’s dominance was just one thing on display during Major League Baseball’s postseason

business

A selection of vintage clocks are displayed at the Electric Time Company, March 9, 2023, in Medfield, Mass.

Fall back: How daylight saving time can affect your health

Job growth slows, sowing a mix of concern and calm

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

politics

Representative Lauren Boebert, Republican of Colorado. was in southwest Colorado near Towaoc, where she spoke at the Montezuma County Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day dinner, on Oct. 28.

Lauren Boebert wants ‘mercy.’ Some Republicans want an alternative.

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?

Nation

Photos of the victims were part of a makeshift memorial outside Schemengees Bar and Grille in Lewiston.

Red-flag law, stronger response to warnings may have stopped Maine massacre, experts say

Her daughter was killed in the Robb Elementary shooting. Now she’s running for mayor of Uvalde

US drafts plan to bring grizzly bears back to Washington’s North Cascades

World

Protesters lighted a smoke flare on the statue of "Le triomphe de la Republique" at the Place de la Nation, during a demonstration "in solidarity with the Palestinian people" in Paris, on Saturday.

Protest marches by thousands in Europe demand halt to Israeli bombing of Gaza, under police watch

US and Arab partners disagree on the need for a cease-fire as Israeli airstrikes kill more civilians

Nepal rushes aid and rescue operations after strong quake shakes its northwest, killing at least 157

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

Astronaut Ken Mattingly is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth.

Ken Mattingly, astronaut bumped from Apollo 13, dies at 87

Aida DiPace Donald, writer and former Harvard University Press editor in chief, dies at 93

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