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Mass. voters head to the polls on Tuesday, and the results may mean big changes

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Donald Trump lashes out from the witness stand at judge, N.Y. attorney general as he testifies in fraud trial

The former president's testimony about property valuations and financial statements was punctuated by personal jabs at the judge. He proudly boasted of his real estate business and disputed claims that he had deceived banks and insurers.

Former president Donald Trump waited to take the witness stand during his civil fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in New York.

‘Can you control your client?’ 11 key moments from Donald Trump’s testimony at his civil fraud trial.

Israeli forces cut off north Gaza to isolate Hamas as advance on urban center looms
Israeli forces have severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with intense airstrikes, setting the stage for a push into the dense confines of the city and an even bloodier phase of the war.

In letter to congressional delegation, 88 Rhode Island Jews and Israelis urge ceasefire in Gaza As Gaza hospitals collapse, medical workers face the hardest choices

Despite push by Biden and Blinken, US appears no closer to securing ‘humanitarian pause’ in Gaza

UMass Amherst student arraigned on assault charges in attack on Jewish student

Months after request, Mass. lawmakers to vote on funding for emergency shelters. But they won’t say how much they’ll authorize.
On Monday, a key House leader repeatedly declined to specify just how much money legislative leaders are willing to give, saying it’s “still to be determined.”

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

It’s still a good time to jump on those 5 percent savings rates
The Federal Reserve may well be done hiking rates, forecasters say, but it won’t begin lowering them for a while.

Shuttle buses replace Green Line trolleys after electrical connection issue reported at Kenmore

The Clover Food Lab is shown inside the Prudential Center.

Vegetarian restaurant chain Clover Food Lab files for bankruptcy

The fast casual chain said it could no longer the pay the leases on its new commissary and two restaurants.

Beth Teitell

How bad is Boston traffic? It’s on the sidewalk now.
As the micro-mobility movement gains popularity, the sidewalks have become a free-for-all with powered bikes, electric scooters, and those one-wheeled things. But where are people supposed to go?

Lewiston shootings

Regan Thibodeau with Joshua Seal, who was killed in the Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston. They were among the few deaf certified American Sign Language interpreters in Maine.

Maine’s deaf community embraces solidarity, and faces old frustrations, as it grieves four of its own

The deaths of four deaf people in the Lewiston shootings have brought to light the profound connections within Maine’s deaf community and renewed a familiar frustration: exclusion.

Maine’s senators ask US Army to investigate response to Lewiston gunman’s mental health decline

Commanders 20, Patriots 17

Head coach Bill Belichick looks on in the game against the Washington Commanders during the second half at Gillette Stadium on November 05, 2023 in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Christopher L. Gasper

The Patriots are a bad team, and even worse, Bill Belichick has them stuck in the past

Reality bites if you’re a Patriots fan, and reality has bitten Belichick in the backside.

Is Bill Belichick coaching for his job? He was asked about it Monday. Send us your burning questions about the Patriots to be answered in Tuesday’s mailbag

Forecast | Dave Epstein

The days are getting shorter, but that brings opportunity
Solar winter arrived Sunday as most of the country returned to standard time. While the pace of light loss is actually slowing down, when we move sunsets an hour, many feel as if the darkness is accelerating.

Daylight saving time has ended. Here’s how to keep the winter blues at bay.
After clocks fell back this weekend, days feel shorter, darker, and colder. Experts say it’s possible to manage mood changes with these activities.

A woolly bear caterpillar.

These ‘poofy’ caterpillars can predict winter’s severity, according to New England folklore

Unbeknownst to most, the woolly bear caterpillar has a reputation for being able to predict coming winter weather patterns.

Henry Santana, Benjamin Weber, and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu posed for a photo at a canvassing event in West Roxbury on Saturday.

Key decisions, but low turnout, expected in Boston and elsewhere on Election Day, top state official says

Secretary of State William F. Galvin said he expects turnout for Tuesday's election in Boston to fall below that of the 2021 mayoral race, when just 32 percent of registered voters cast a ballot.

What to know before you vote in Boston

Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone in "The Curse," coming to Paramount+ and Showtime.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS

This week’s TV: Emma Stone’s ‘The Curse,’ an Edith Wharton drama, and a look back at a great sitcom

Premiering this week: Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder as a married couple who may or may not be cursed, the Apple TV+ period drama “The Buccaneers,” and the space-based sci-fi thriller “Beacon 23.”

‘The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror’ special pokes fun at Gronk, NFTs

The parking lot of the now closed Lighthouse Inn of Galilee is used for ferry parking while heading to Block Island.

R.I.’s Lighthouse Inn to be demolished, and the state will foot the bill

The hotel has been at the heart of a nearly two-year dispute over the future of the land on which it’s located, which is across from the port for the Block Island Ferry.

Opinion

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick during an NFL football game against the Washington Commanders on Nov. 5.

Lighten up on Bill Belichick

If Belichick is on his way out, it says as much about the New England psyche as it does about the coach.

Vacant offices to housing: A new reality takes shape for downtown

A GOP senator joins the anti-Citizens United chorus

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

The Ukraine war has no end in sight

If it’s not ‘genocide’ in Gaza, then what should we call it?

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

‘A blow to the face.’ Despite strike, new UAW contract would shutter Mansfield parts warehouse
A tentative agreement reached late last week allows the parent company of Chrysler to consolidate the facility into a new plant in Fishkill, New York, by 2025.

innovation economy

Could climate tech be the next biotech for the Massachusetts economy?
From ship-cleaning robots, to plant-based meat, to paints that better regulate humidity and heat, firms around the state are meeting the challenge of climate change with a range of innovations.

Perspective

Congress is weighing a social media ban for kids under 13. Here’s what you can do at home.
Don’t wait for Congress to restrict how Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms engage with young people. Begin with yourself.

Brockton store worker, 18, ordered held without bail after allegedly shooting knife-wielding man
An Ocean State Job Lot employee who allegedly shot a man wielding a knife at the Brockton store on Sunday was ordered held without bail Monday during his arraignment on gun charges, according to legal filings.

Drug seizure nets 200 pounds of fentanyl, other drugs worth $8 million, US attorney says; three men arrested

Three men are facing federal charges after authorities seized more than 200 pounds of fentanyl and other drugs with a street value of roughly $8 million from a Lynn address in one of the largest single-location narcotic seizures in New England history, authorities said Monday.

MIAA denies Newton North’s request for hearing on protest of field hockey tournament loss to Needham

Newton North officials believe the tying goal was mistakenly disallowed and the game, or a portion of it, should have been replayed.

Recommended reads

Michael Kwong was fatally shot at the New Dragon Chef restaurant in Arlington on Aug. 11, 1989.

Cold Case Files

He was shot in a Chinese restaurant in Arlington in 1989, but no one has ever been charged

The New Dragon Chef restaurant in Arlington was closing down for the night, when suddenly a gunman showed up at the door and began firing.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Is a Business Improvement District coming to the Back Bay?
If enough landlords agree, they would create the state’s biggest business improvement district as measured by assessed property value, taxing commercial properties from Newbury Street brownstones to the Prudential tower.

shirley leung

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.

College Basketball

Kim English knows failure, and has faith. That’s why he’s ready to lead Providence basketball.
English takes over for beloved Ed Cooley, who left in the offseason for Georgetown. How will a 35-year-old with two years of mid-major head coaching experience rise to the occasion?

Culture & Lifestyle

Singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy of Wilco poses for a portrait in Los Angeles ahead of the release of "World Within a Song."

Jeff Tweedy on the 49 songs and one band that inspired his new book

Former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez attends a pretrial court hearing in superior court in Fall River, Mass. Oct. 9, 2013.

FX series ‘American Sports Story’ casts its Aaron Hernandez

Schuyler Bailar (”He/She/They”) is in conversation with Kimm Topping at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at All She Wrote Books.

Author readings around Boston through Nov. 11

The wedding invitations designed by artist Orfeo Tagiuri that became a viral sensation.

How Brookline-born artist Orfeo Tagiuri created a ‘cool girl’ wedding invitation that became a viral sensation

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

Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, has joined with Democrats in seeking to undo the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision that allowed corporations to make independent political expenditures.

A GOP senator joins the anti-Citizens United chorus

Hobbs, N.M., an oil town near the Texas border, was one of the early sites for Ready4Routines, an eight-week course aimed at helping families build time for reflection into their lives.

IDEAS | MAGGIE JACKSON

For struggling families, classes in resilience can be lifelines

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

Mike Dukakis, an exemplar of civic engagement

Caution tape near the location in Lisbon, Maine, where officials found the body of the gunman in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Oct. 27.

How Maine can start fixing its gun laws

Missing poster and photos of Helen Medina.

MARCELA GARCÍA

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

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

Federal court considers video or in-person hearings for psychiatric cases in N.H.

A federal judge is deciding whether to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of New Hampshire arguing telephone hearings violate due process for involuntarily holding mental health patients.

AS I SEE IT | STAN GROSSFELD

Eyes on the road

“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize-winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. This week Grossfeld warns drivers to be mindful of deer during breeding season.

Mass. attorney who helped Medway family return from Gaza reflects on their journey ahead of reunion

Mass. attorney Sammy Nabulsi has been working to bring the Okal family of Medway home from Gaza, where they have been trapped since the start of the war.

Sorting recycling is a drag. So these UMass grads are teaching AI to do it.

The Somerville startup rStream is piloting a device that trains an artificial intelligence program to sort discarded materials more efficiently than humans would.

Sports

Mac Jones couldn't believe some of the things he was seeing in Sunday's loss to the Commanders.

Mac Jones strikes the pose of a Patriot whose future does not lie in New England next year

The quarterback continues to behave like a consummate pro in the midst of a trying season, but his days in Foxborough seem to be numbered.

Stephen Vogt was a fan favorite on both sides of the San Francisco Bay, playing for the A’s (2013) and Giants (2017) during a 10-season career.

Cleveland gives Stephen Vogt first managerial job as it begins post-Terry Francona era

A two-time All-Star, the 39-year-old journeyman catcher played for six teams in 10 seasons before retiring with Oakland in 2022. Vogt was Seattle’s bullpen coach last season.

Carlos Mendoza has spent 15 seasons in the Yankees organization, serving as major league quality control and infield coach from 2018-19 before becoming Aaron Boone's bench coach.

Report: Mets choose Yankees bench coach Carlos Mendoza as new manager

Mendoza, who turns 44 this month, has managed in the Venezuelan Winter League the last two years but never above Class A in the minors — and that was in 2012.

BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Movement afoot for Jim Montgomery’s Bruins to work out kinks on power play

In surprise, Cubs fire manager David Ross to clear way for five-year, megabucks deal with Craig Counsell

Walter Davis, basketball star with a velvet touch, dies at 69

Business

Donald Trump lashes out from the witness stand at judge, N.Y. attorney general as he testifies in fraud trial

The former president's testimony about property valuations and financial statements was punctuated by personal jabs at the judge. He proudly boasted of his real estate business and disputed claims that he had deceived banks and insurers.

Vegetarian restaurant chain Clover Food Lab files for bankruptcy

The fast casual chain said it could no longer the pay the leases on its new commissary and two restaurants.

‘Can you control your client?’ 11 key moments from Donald Trump’s testimony at his civil fraud trial.

Sorting recycling is a drag. So these UMass grads are teaching AI to do it.

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

Skyline at Waterplace Park. Photo by: Barry Chin/Globe Staff)

Skyline at Waterplace evicted by city of Providence

Daylight saving time has ended. Here’s how to keep the winter blues at bay.

In letter to congressional delegation, 88 Rhode Island Jews and Israelis urge ceasefire in Gaza

sports

This photo provided by Benoit Photo shows Cody's Wish trainer William I. Mott and the horse's namesake Cody Dorman after Cody's Wish won a race at the Breeders' Cup Saturday at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. The Kentucky teenager died Sunday after suffering what his parents said was a “medical event” on the family's trip home from Southern California.

Cody Dorman, who watched namesake horse win Breeders’ Cup race, dies on trip home

Boston’s new team-golf players, including Rory McIlroy, aim to build a connection with the city

NFL Week 9: Ravens are quietly rounding into the NFL’s most dominant team

business

Frank Pace, one of the UAW workers in Mansfield, on strike at the entrance of the parts distribution center in September.

‘A blow to the face.’ Despite strike, new UAW contract would shutter Mansfield parts warehouse

WeWork stock halted as rumors swirl about bankruptcy preparations for the office sharing company

Worst sales beats in years show weakening US consumer trends

politics

Former president Donald Trump during his civil fraud trial at New York Supreme Court on Monday.

Donald Trump lashes out from the witness stand at judge, N.Y. attorney general as he testifies in fraud trial

‘Can you control your client?’ 11 key moments from Donald Trump’s testimony at his civil fraud trial.

Supreme Court’s devotion to gun rights faces a major test

Nation

Shield AI’s V-Bat drones can fly both autonomously and as a swarm with a program called Hivemind. They were recently tested near Devils Lake, N.D. The company is finding ways to apply technology to national security challenges.

Tech startups try to sell a cautious Pentagon on artificial intelligence

Father of July 4th parade shooting suspect pleads guilty to misdemeanors linked to son’s gun license

Biden is off to Delaware give out more money for trains

World

A doctor filled out paperwork on top of a patient on the floor at Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip last month.

As Gaza hospitals collapse, medical workers face the hardest choices

Israeli forces cut off north Gaza to isolate Hamas as advance on urban center looms

Despite push by Biden and Blinken, US appears no closer to securing ‘humanitarian pause’ in Gaza

opinion

Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, has joined with Democrats in seeking to undo the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision that allowed corporations to make independent political expenditures.

A GOP senator joins the anti-Citizens United chorus

Healey lauded for taking clemency in a whole new direction

For Ukraine, for the world order, the stakes couldn’t be higher

lifestyle

The wedding invitations designed by artist Orfeo Tagiuri that became a viral sensation.

How Brookline-born artist Orfeo Tagiuri created a ‘cool girl’ wedding invitation that became a viral sensation

She stayed over ... in the spare room

I think he’s cheap

food & dining

The Clover Food Lab is shown inside the Prudential Center.

Vegetarian restaurant chain Clover Food Lab files for bankruptcy

The Museum of Ice Cream is coming to Boston

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

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

It’s Warren Miller film time, plus a doughnut tour and an app to turn your phone into a rescue locator

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

Scot Lehigh, author of "Just East of Nowhere.”

In Scot Lehigh’s debut novel, small-town Maine is both a comfort and an obstacle

Alice McDermott, in ‘Absolution,’ examines the lives of the wives in Vietnam War-era Saigon

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

Movies

Brianna J. Cox, a professor at the Community College of Rhode Island, at the Media Educators Conference at the Television Academy on Oct. 25 in Los Angeles.

‘You don’t need a multimillion dollar budget’: R.I. director, writer on breaking into TV industry

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

Television

Former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez attends a pretrial court hearing in superior court in Fall River, Mass. Oct. 9, 2013.

FX series ‘American Sports Story’ casts its Aaron Hernandez

‘The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror’ special pokes fun at Gronk, NFTs

‘You don’t need a multimillion dollar budget’: R.I. director, writer on breaking into TV industry

music

Singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy of Wilco poses for a portrait in Los Angeles ahead of the release of "World Within a Song."

Jeff Tweedy on the 49 songs and one band that inspired his new book

At the Orpheum, Bob Dylan does Bob Dylan things

Conductor Joana Mallwitz and soloist Anna Vinnitskaya light up the BSO

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

Mr. Davis, playing for the Phoenix Suns, controlled the ball in a 1978 game against the Golden State Warriors. Mr. Davis was a five-time NBA All-Star.

Walter Davis, basketball star with a velvet touch, dies at 69

Cody Dorman, who watched namesake horse win Breeders’ Cup race, dies on trip home

Hillel Stavis, innovative founder of Harvard Square’s WordsWorth Books, dies