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Patriots vs. Jets

Patriots quarterback Jacoby Brissett picked up 14 yards on this scramble in the fourth quarter.

Ben Volin | Instant analysis

Patriots respond to Jerod Mayo’s challenge, and there was nothing soft about their big comeback win over the Jets

You have to be impressed with the Patriots’ ability to hang tough and come through in the fourth quarter.

Follow live updates from Sunday's game

Drake Maye was injured on this play, a hit from the Jets' Jamien Sherwood in the first half.

Patriots QB Drake Maye leaves game vs. Jets with a concussion

His status for next week’s game against Tennessee is now in jeopardy.

Jacoby Brissett threw for 132 yards on 15-of-24 passing and rushed for 11 yards.

Jerod Mayo lauds the Patriots’ ‘next man up’ mentality after win over Jets

That mind-set was on full display when Jacoby Brissett stepped in after Drake Maye left the game with a concussion.

Little has gone right for Aaron Rodgers and the Jets this season.

‘This a moment of darkness’: Amid a Patriots high point, it’s the flagging Jets who hit a new low on Sunday

A New York team that had Super Bowl aspirations ahead of the season fell to 2-6 after a loss in New England.

2024 ELECTION

Speakers at Trump’s Madison Square Garden event crudely denounce Harris and Democrats
With just over a week to go before Election Day, the former president will take the stage Sunday at one of the country's most well-known venues, hosting a hometown rally to deliver his campaign's closing message against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris is counting on her strength with college-educated voters How Trump talks: Abrupt shifts, profane insults, confusing sentences

Democratic US Senator Bob Casey, left, shakes hands with his Republican opponent, former hedge fund chief executive Dave McCormick, before their second debate in Philadelphia on Oct. 15.

To keep hope alive for the Democrat Senate majority, a battleground incumbent must win his toughest race

Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey is locked in a neck-and-neck race that Democrats need him to win to have any chance at holding their two-seat Senate majority.

Donald Trump has vowed to "reclaim" universities from “Marxist maniacs and lunatics."

Trump says universities are controlled by ‘Marxist maniacs.’ He has a plan to ‘reclaim’ them.

Opinion | Steve Koczela

Polls suggest a close race. These maps show it might not be.

Former first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledge an enthusiastic crowd in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday.

‘Take our lives seriously,’ Michelle Obama pleads as she rallies for Kamala Harris in Michigan

Jeff Bezos

COMMENTARY | BRIAN MCGRORY

Washington Post’s pathetic lack of endorsement shows Bezos willing to bow to Trump

Billionaire Jeff Bezos is practicing what has become the gloomy watchword of an anxiety-ridden month: anticipatory obedience.

Former Washington Post editor Marty Baron slams newspaper Inside the Washington Post’s decision to stop presidential endorsements

Three Kings

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Watch ‘Three Kings’: The story of Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, and the 2004 Red Sox

Baseball is part of the fabric of the Dominican Republic. But for the hundreds of thousands of Dominicans who call Massachusetts home, their adopted team didn’t always seem like a natural fit. The 2004 Red Sox changed everything.

Dan Shaughnessy: 2004 Red Sox are New England’s greatest sports story

Iconic Cape Cod mansion adjacent to Kennedy compound goes on the market for $19.8m

The lavish 8-bedroom, 8-bathroom waterfront estate borders the six-acre Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port.

NOAA closes investigation into claim that RFK Jr. sawed off a whale’s head and drove it home

Authorities began investigating former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in August for allegedly sawing off the head of a whale and driving it home to New York in 1994.

Several brush fires reported across Mass, leaving one woman dead
The fires come as the state is under a Red Flag warning — meaning any outdoor fire could spread quickly and be difficult to extinguish — and continues to experience an elevated fire risk.

Most states have extensive graduation requirements. In Massachusetts, it’s just the MCAS.
Experts said that if the test requirement is repealed, the state should consider alternate graduation requirements to ensure continued minimum standards.

Boston school bus ridership plummets, but the costs keep rising
The ridership drop largely reflects a more than decade-long decline in student enrollment in Boston Public Schools and offers another window into the financial strain it is causing.

The Menendez brothers built a green space in prison. It’s modeled on this Norwegian idea.

Their project was inspired by the Norwegian approach to incarceration that believes rehabilitation in humane prisons surrounded by nature leads to successful reintegration into society, even for those who have committed terrible crimes.

Money, Power, Inequality

Boston is investing more in Black and brown businesses. But the work is far from over.
Despite the progress the city is making, Wu acknowledged many inequity gaps remain markedly pronounced today.

Ken Mahan

Weather mailbag: We’re talking hurricanes, first frost and wildfires
You have questions about the weather and we have the answers.

Satellite images show damage from Israeli attack at 2 secretive Iranian military bases

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 22, officials say, as truck ramming near Tel Aviv hurts dozens

Two men dead after being found unresponsive at Cape Cod beach

Reading officer hit by passing truck during traffic stop, police say

It was far from a perfect Game 2 for Freddie Freeman (5) and the Dodgers, but they're halfway to their first full-season World Series championship since 1988 after winning on back-to-back nights at home.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Despite Shohei Ohtani injury, Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers have the Bronx in a panic

Have no fear, Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani reportedly will play in Game 3 despite shoulder injury

He wants to wait to have sex

I’m ready now.

Jaylen Brown is determined to do whatever the Celtics need.

Jaylen Brown adapting to role as Celtics experiment with lineups

His first-quarter minutes have dipped from 9.6 a year ago to 7.2, and he has more frequently been tasked with guiding the second unit.

Harris Vs. Trump on Key Issues

Former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Gas South Arena in Duluth, Ga., on Oct 23, 2024.

Trump flirts with the ultimate tax cut: No taxes at all

Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign event at Washington Crossing Historic Park in Washington Crossing, Penn. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024.

Harris plans new ad on economy to counter Trump’s edge on issue

A sign announcing a home for sale is posted outside a home Feb. 1, 2024, in Kennesaw, Ga., near Atlanta.

Housing on the ballot: Harris, Trump push different plans for tackling housing affordability crisis

Vice President Kamala Harris, left, on Aug. 7, and Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump on July 31.

Harris owns a gun? Trump wants to cap credit card rates? Party lines blur in campaign’s last stretch.

Opinion

Patrick Soon-Shiong.

I quit after LA Times owner killed the endorsement of Kamala Harris. I fear he blocked it because of money.

If there’s any bright side to this shameful moment, it’s that the owners of The Times and The Washington Post inadvertently illustrated the perils of a second Trump term.

IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

I’m rooting for a billionaire from Boston to buy TikTok

Too many students whose first language isn’t English are struggling. Here’s a plan to help them.

IDEAS | KEITH O'BRIEN

This is the World Series baseball needs right now

Seeing the value, not the cost, of immigration

Globe Santa

A caring teacher and a loving aunt both request help for resettled Haitian children
This year, Globe Santa has received hundreds of letters on behalf of Haitian migrant families.

Halloween

A family poses for a photo at last year's Nightmare on Nixon St. event.

Free (spooky) things to do in Boston, plus a bad movie night, and classical music

Dylan Hall, 7, of Louisville, Ky., tried to decide between two different wands inside Wynott’s Wands in Salem.

What makes a piece of wood a wand? Salem witches question their sacred instruments being sold as toys.

After performing as The Ramones for a Halloween cover show last year, Boston band Today Junior continue the seasonal tradition with a Misfits cover set at Deep Cuts on Tuesday.

Halloween means spooks, scares ... and cool cover shows

Images from “Deadpool & Wolverine” featuring Deadpool, “Despicable Me 4” featuring a Minion, and “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” character Lydia Deetz, played by Winona Ryder.

These are the most popular Halloween costumes in Boston, according to Google ‘Frightgeist’

More recent News

Peter Shelley, environmental lawyer who led effort to clean up Boston Harbor’s ‘dirty water,’ dies at 77
Peter Shelley was a night law school student when he interned at the Conservation Law Foundation and joined its battle to prevent oil and gas drilling off the Georges Bank fishing grounds.

Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy brings Misneach Festival to Boston
A two-day celebration of Irish culture and music will take over Brighton Music Hall and the Garden in March.

Northeastern University adds locks to some restrooms after prostitution allegations
The University confirmed the bathrooms are locked due to security issues, but did not respond to questions about the alleged prostitution activity.

Trump’s deportation plans worry families with relatives in US illegally
Donald Trump has promised to stage the largest mass deportation in US history if elected.

See photos from the Jamaica Plain Canine Costume Parade
Dogs and their people dressed up Saturday as everything from sharks to a bucking bronco to a tiny taco truck for a Halloween costume parade on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain.

US Navy apologizes for the 1882 obliteration of a Tlingit village in Alaska
In 1882 the US Navy shelled a southwest Alaska Tlingit village and then burned what was left of the homes, food caches and canoes.

Recommended reads

Kathy Lebel and Leroy Walker reminisced about loved ones at Station Grill restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, while Walker's daughter-in-law Tracey Walker, background, answered the phone. Tracey began working at Station Grill, which Lebel owns, after cutting down hours at her job working as bartender due to anxiety following the Oct. 25, 2023, mass shooting that claimed her husband Joseph's life. Joseph Walker was working at Schemengees Bar & Grille, then owned by Lebel, when he became one of 18 victims in the tragedy.

In Maine, ‘Lewiston is forever changed.’ One year later, the community forges a new path.

Some weep. Some rage. Others retreat quietly into themselves, struggling to accept that it really happened.

One year after Lewiston mass shootings, 10 people describe how their lives have been redefined

Can logging in New Hampshire help fight climate change?
Trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere when they perform photosynthesis. Does logging in national forests release too much carbon dioxide at a critical time for climate change?

‘The candidate that nobody wants, but the candidate that everybody needs’: Meet John Deaton, the Republican taking on Warren
A precious few voters are enthusiastic about the Republican candidate trying to unseat Senator Elizabeth Warren; some are just eager to see a Democrat lose.

In the wake of cuts, Emerson president’s $5 million Ritz-Carlton condo draws criticism
The purchase, which came weeks after college President Jay Bernhardt began his tenure, has frustrated some at Emerson who say the college’s leaders could have done more to cut costs before resorting to layoffs.

Culture & Lifestyle

The Rain Vortex, the world’s tallest indoor waterfall, is seven stories high. It's part of the Jewel at Singapore Changi Airport.

It’s a magical place where you hope your flight will be delayed or canceled. Welcome to the happiest airport on earth.

Lynne Drexler (1928-99). "Cismont," 1962. Gift from the estate of the artist.

How the canvases hidden in Lynne Drexler’s Monhegan home are changing the game for Maine artists

Boston couple David Klein and Amanda Pelczynski said their vows in a backyard wedding on Aug. 25 on Long Island, N.Y.

She said ‘don’t look,’ but he couldn’t look away

John Akomfrah, "Vertigo Sea," 2015 (film still). Part of "Four Artists and the Sea" at the MFA.

Ten museum shows to see in every New England state

Special Projects

Illustration of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Derrick White along with other NBA greats for the 2024 Finals preview.

Where do the 2023-24 Celtics stand among the greatest teams in NBA history?

Data show that these Celtics are truly extraordinary, a team of uncommon prowess on both ends of the court

Lauren Friel (left) owner of Rebel Rebel, chatted with customers while working at her wine bar in Bow Market in Somerville. The restrictive Boston liquor license system has pushed throngs of innovative chefs to neighborhood towns with laxer laws, including Brookline, Somerville, and Cambridge.

Priced out: How Boston’s broken liquor license system drives chefs from the city

A stubbornly high price tag for serving alcohol hurts thousands of hospitality workers, aspiring restaurateurs, and the city itself.

Interactive map

Pothole season is upon us. See which neighborhoods have the most reports

Boston’s 311 data provides a day-by-day look at the condition of the city’s streets and sidewalks, which neighborhoods are hit hardest, and just how fast repairs are made.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A server brought a beer to a table at Little Whale Oyster Bar in Back Bay on Oct. 6, 2022.

Raise the minimum wage for tipped workers: Vote ‘yes’ on 5

General John Kelly, former chief of staff to Donald Trump, said that in his opinion Trump meets the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law.

Thank you, General John Kelly, for speaking the truth about Trump

Sidney High School in Montana, left, and the Winsor School in Boston.

IDEAS | Julian K. Braxton & Brad Faulhaber

Our students in Boston and Montana speak to one another and learn how to disagree

A 2016 file photo of Leo Sarkissian at the construction site of the new Arc offices.

The legacy of retiring Arc head Leo Sarkissian: He sees people with disabilities for what they can do

Jason Walker, left, and Mike Deslauriers in Rangeley, Maine, in 2022.

IDEAS | LEWIS ROBINSON

They lived together. They died together. One year after Lewiston, those left behind recall a steadfast friendship.

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Iconic Cape Cod mansion adjacent to Kennedy compound goes on the market for $19.8m

The lavish 8-bedroom, 8-bathroom waterfront estate borders the six-acre Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port.

NOAA closes investigation into claim that RFK Jr. sawed off a whale’s head and drove it home

Authorities began investigating former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in August for allegedly sawing off the head of a whale and driving it home to New York in 1994.

Sunny but cooler weather to greet Patriots fans at Gillette Sunday

A stiff breeze to 15 miles per hour will welcome fans Sunday afternoon.

Sunday’s Child

John likes playing matching games

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

Sports

Holder Blake Gillikin and kicker Chad Ryland celebrate with their Cardinals' teammates after Ryland's game-winning field goal on Sunday in Miami Gardens, Fla.

CARDINALS 28, DOLPHINS 27

Tua Tagovailoa sharp in return, but Dolphins lose on final kick to Kyler Murray’s Cardinals

Tagovailoa threw for 234 yards, and the Dolphins (2-5) had their highest-scoring game of the season in their quarterback's first start since he was diagnosed with the third known concussion of his career.

After scoring his first goal of the season Saturday in overtime, Brad Marchand denied a report that he was close to signing a three-year contract extension.

BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Brad Marchand denies report of contract extension

Typically an engaging and eager talker, Marchand wanted no part of the contract dialogue, though he made clear he was aware of the three-year term noted in Friedman’s report.

Christie Sides (right) led Caitlin Clark to a Rookie of the Year award and the Fever to a playoff appearance in her second season.

Caitlin Clark will have a new coach as Fever fire Christie Sides, becoming sixth WNBA team to make a change

Sides was a longtime assistant in the league, spending time with Chicago (2011-16), the Fever (2017-19), and Atlanta (2022) before getting her first head coaching job.

‘This a moment of darkness’: Amid a Patriots high point, it’s the flagging Jets who hit a new low on Sunday

Jerod Mayo lauds the Patriots’ ‘next man up’ mentality after win over Jets

Patriots QB Drake Maye leaves game vs. Jets with a concussion

Business

Inside the Washington Post’s decision to stop presidential endorsements

The newspaper's move to end its practice of presidential endorsements yielded criticism inside the newsroom and outside it.

Elon Musk says the real threat to democracy is the people who accuse Trump of endangering it

Tech mogul Elon Musk is playing down the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

Cuba fights to come back from a nationwide blackout, then a storm that killed 7

Chinese hackers targeted phones of Trump, Vance, people associated with Harris campaign, sources tell the AP

magazine

Lee Ann Daigle with her daughters Lauryn (left) and Kristyn (right) at their home in Litchfield, New Hampshire, in an undated photo.

They thought they knew everything about their beloved mother. Then a detective called.

People in their 30s and 40s are facing an unprecedented wave of memory problems

John King, who covers politics for CNN, grew up in Dorchester. For magazine column on Oct. 27, 2024.

Why CNN’s John King will be thinking of Boston on Election Night as he works the ‘Magic Wall’

This week's daters: Caroline and Michael

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We both enjoy wine ... Both love a good Christmas movie. Both have close families.’

metro

Buses stacked up next to Sumner Elementary School in Boston in September.

Boston school bus ridership plummets, but the costs keep rising

Weather mailbag: We’re talking hurricanes, first frost and wildfires

Trump says universities are controlled by ‘Marxist maniacs.’ He has a plan to ‘reclaim’ them.

sports

Rhamondre Stevenson and Austin Hooper celebrate after a 2-point conversion late in the fourth quarter.

New England orchestrated a fourth-quarter comeback to beat the Jets despite Drake Maye’s early departure. Here’s how it happened.

Patriots respond to Jerod Mayo’s challenge, and there was nothing soft about their big comeback win over the Jets

EMass football: A triple threat for Natick, Jack Showstead headlines Players of the Week

business

In this 2020 photo, Eric W. Dickson, CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care, speaks at a press conference during which then-governor Charlie Baker gave an update on the state's response to COVID-19 at the Massachusetts State House.

‘We’re going to see more closures’: UMass Memorial Health CEO warns of hospital problems to come

Pawtucket’s Tidewater soccer stadium faces contruction setback — again

Rhode Island homes to buy if you win the lottery

politics

Ret. 9/11 members of the FDNY and singer Mary Millben sing the National Anthem prior to Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump taking the stage at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 27 in New York City.

Speakers at Trump’s Madison Square Garden event crudely denounce Harris and Democrats

Campaign enters final days with candidates busy on campaign trail and a tight race

Foreign threats to the US election are on the rise, and officials are moving faster to expose them

Nation

An early voting sign outside a polling station in Detroit.

Voters are deeply skeptical about the health of American democracy

Supreme Court ignites wave of lawsuits against federal regulations

Beyoncé? Springsteen? Trump fans feel both anger and A-list envy

World

Shigeru Ishiba, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party, following the lower house election, at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday.

Japan’s long-governing party loses its majority

For Catholic Jubilee, days of joy and sadness in Rome and Bethlehem

Satellite images show damage from Israeli attack at 2 secretive Iranian military bases

opinion

Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Fernando Valenzuela tips his sombrero at a news conference after he was named National League Rookie of the Year, Dec. 2, 1981, in Los Angeles.

Fernando “Toro” Valenzuela’s far-reaching legacy

El trascendental legado de Fernando “Toro” Valenzuela

Polls suggest a close race. These maps show it might not be.

lifestyle

He wants to wait to have sex

They came to America looking for better lives — and better schools. The results were mixed

Free (spooky) things to do in Boston, plus a bad movie night, and classical music

food & dining

Will Gilson shown in his Cambridge restaurant Puritan Oyster Bar in 2023.

His family’s restaurant went up in flames last month. How does he memorialize a place full of memories?

B.Good closes several Boston-area locations as owner reassesses brand

A new Irish pub comes to the Back Bay; James Beard winner Tony Messina returns to Boston

travel

The Rain Vortex, the world’s tallest indoor waterfall, is seven stories high. It's part of the Jewel at Singapore Changi Airport.

It’s a magical place where you hope your flight will be delayed or canceled. Welcome to the happiest airport on earth.

Give the underdog month a chance. Here’s what to do in November in New England.

Traveling with neurodiverse kids can be complicated. One airline offered a trial run to ease the stress.

Arts

John Akomfrah, "Vertigo Sea," 2015 (film still). Part of "Four Artists and the Sea" at the MFA.

Ten museum shows to see in every New England state

How the canvases hidden in Lynne Drexler’s Monhegan home are changing the game for Maine artists

‘Science isn’t all about certainty,’ says MIT Museum director. ‘It’s about the pleasure of finding things out.’

Books

"The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swan" author Virginia Pye (pictured) will be in conversation with Kerri Maher (”All You Have to Do Is Call”) and Helen Elaine Lee (”Pomegranate”) Oct. 28 at Belmont Books.

Author readings around Boston through Nov. 2

The Derek Walcott Prize, a poet laureate for Salem, and the Cape Cod Book Festival

Greg Epstein wants you to be skeptical about tech’s heavenly promises

Movies

Halloween festivities in downtown Salem earlier this month.

Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 28-Nov. 3

‘Anora’ is a darker, screwball take on princess-based fairy tales

From ‘Us’ to ‘Them!’: This is not your average Halloween movie watch list

Television

Steven Van Zandt, left, and Bruce Springsteen appear in “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.”

A different sort of weekend update

Billy Crystal shines in a rare dramatic role, but ‘Before’ is far too muddled

John Mulaney and Netflix, together again

music

Singer Dermot Kennedy

Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy brings Misneach Festival to Boston

Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 28-Nov. 3

Halloween means spooks, scares ... and cool cover shows

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet in Crystal Pite's "The Seasons' Canon."

‘Fall Experience’ gets Boston Ballet’s 61st season off to a flying start

Some 54 dancers to take the stage for largest work Boston Ballet has presented

‘Sojourners,’ at the Huntington, kicks off Mfoniso Udofia’s Ufot Family Cycle

Health

Dr. Susan Meschwitz, center, a chemistry professor at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I., in her lab with two undergraduate students.

About 30% of women are reinfected with a UTI within a year. This R.I. professor is looking for a way to change that.

Why is Lifespan buying hospitals in Massachusetts instead of saving two in Rhode Island?

R.I. Life Science Hub still in negotiations to develop lab incubator space: ‘In the business world... things moved a lot faster’

Obituaries

Peter Shelley of the Conservation Law Foundation poses for portrait at Fan Pier overlooking Boston Harbor in Boston, MA on May 24, 2017.

Peter Shelley, environmental lawyer who led effort to clean up Boston Harbor’s ‘dirty water,’ dies at 77

Phil Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead and influential bassist, dies

Thelma Mothershed Wair, Little Rock Nine student, dies at 83