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Election countdown: 3 days

This combination of photos shows Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, speaking during a rally in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 12, and Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump, right, speaking during a rally in Warren, Mich., on Nov. 1.

What to watch over the final weekend of the 2024 presidential campaign

The 2024 presidential contest speeds into its final weekend with Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump locked in a razor-thin contest.

Election Day is almost here — but this campaign won’t leave us for a while

Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots, rejecting Republican plea
The justices left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected.

Amid burning ballot boxes and other threats, vigilant elections officials say they’re better prepared than in 2020 Libertarian Party leaders back MAGA movement and Trump — against their own nominee

Trump and Harris host dueling rallies in the Milwaukee area in a final push to win Wisconsin
The dueling rallies — Trump is in downtown Milwaukee and Harris is in a suburb — may be the candidates’ last appearances in Wisconsin before Election Day.

Question 5 has put tipping culture in the spotlight. But few know its history is linked to slavery.
Tipping was used to help employers cut on labor costs and forgo paying newly freed people, scholars say.

Question 2: What do educators think of repealing the MCAS graduation requirement?

What’s at stake: 5 policy differences between Kelly Ayotte and Joyce Craig in N.H. governor’s race
While public polling suggests Republican nominee Kelly Ayotte has a slight edge over Democratic nominee Joyce Craig , analysts rate the showdown as this year’s only gubernatorial toss-up.

Xenophobia and hate speech are spiking heading into the election
Trump’s campaign, filled with anti-immigrant rhetoric, is playing out in a country where researchers report seeing particularly high levels of hate speech against minority groups.

Harris assails Trump for saying Liz Cheney should have rifles ‘shooting at her’

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A recent report by the House Education and the Workforce Committee shows how Harvard University leaders debated via email how best to respond to the Oct. 7 attack and the war in Gaza it sparked.

Harvard leadership debated how to respond publicly after Oct. 7 attack. Read the emails.

Even at the country’s oldest university, the response to the Hamas attack on Israel was fraught as Harvard brass wrestled with how best to address the violence.

Harvard professors bash congressional report on antisemitism as ‘political hit job’

‘Some were not happy’: At Boston Children’s Hospital, a dispute over how to screen children for gender transition
The testimony provides an extraordinary window into the inner workings of what is perhaps the most influential pediatric gender clinic in the US.

Jaylen Brown gets hacked by the Hornets' Nick Richards during Friday night's physical affair in Charlotte.

CELTICS 124, HORNETS 109

Temps rise as Celtics pull away late to dispatch pesky Hornets

An 11-2 run in the fourth quarter finally put away Charlotte, and then the bodies started flying and two Hornets were ejected.

Quiz: What are the best ways to prevent a cold? The science may surprise you.

From bundling up to popping zinc lozenges, we asked the experts what really works.

Marine Biologist Jarrett Byrnes toured the Condor Street Urban Wild park in East Boston.

Protective sea walls recently installed in East Boston already have tenants

Marine organisms are slowly moving into new hexagon-shaped panels in East Boston designed to bring life to a harsh and barren seawall.

Officials: Massachusetts sees ‘unprecedented spike’ in wildfires for October. Here’s where active fires are now.
Here's where the active wildfire are now in Mass.

Crowds flock to tiny Massachusetts town to send off New York’s Rockefeller Christmas tree

This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree comes with a strong New England accent, and locals could not be more excited.

Biden increases federal disaster aid for Vermont’s historic flooding in 2023
Funding was increased to 90 percent, from 75 percent, for public assistance to rebuild after the July 2023 flooding, the White House said Friday.

Jury convicts former Kentucky officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during deadly raid
The 12-member jury returned the late night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used excessive force on Taylor's neighbors.

Boston Police Academy salutes 123 new graduates
The 123 new officers sworn in Friday at the South Boston convention center represent all city neighborhoods.

Israel’s path of destruction in southern Lebanon raises fears of an attempt to create a buffer zone
Satellite imagery and data collected by mapping experts show extensive destruction in 11 villages in southern Lebanon located immediately next to the border with Israel.

Owner of spas in Easton and Randolph charged with allegedly giving fake Botox injections, feds say

The owner of Skin Beaute Med Spa was charged Friday in federal court in Worcester, prosecutors said.

Fourteen from Lawrence-based drug ring indicted in N.H., feds say

The defendants are 12 men and two women and range in age from 21 to 55, the US Attorney's office for New Hampshire said Friday.

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts in 2024

The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine celebrate the state’s leading companies and nonprofit organizations led by women.

Former Celtics-announcer-turned-actor Mike Gorman with playwright Nassim Soleimanpour at the Huntington Theatre Company.

From play-by-play announcer to actor? Mike Gorman turns the page at the Huntington Theatre Company.

A lone actor materializes onstage with instructions to open a sealed box, inside of which is a script he is about to see for the very first time. There are no rehearsals.

Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has been working his way through the NFL's concussion protocol this week.

Patriots are not ruling out Drake Maye for Sunday’s game vs. the Titans

The rookie quarterback again was limited in practice Friday, but his status for the game officially is "questionable."

Harris Vs. Trump on Key Issues

Trump during a speech at the 2024 bitcoin Conference in Nashville.

From Israel to crypto, Trump takes a transactional approach to issues

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke after President Biden signed an executive order on gun violence prevention at the White House in Washington on Sept. 26.

In talking about ‘freedom,’ Harris hopes she has a winning message on guns

Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump and Harris both support a bigger child tax credit. But which families should get it?

New construction for affordable housing in Kalamazoo, Mich., on July 26, 2024.

Trump and Harris embody a stark partisan divide on fighting poverty

Opinion

Matt Muratore in a 2021 video still.

Someone needs to shake up Beacon Hill

The extreme dysfunction of the Legislature, though, is giving GOP candidates an opening to use the same playbook that Democrats have often used against them in national races.

David Scharfenberg

Voters should choose Dylan Fernandes for state Senate

MARCELA GARCÍA

The untold story of Boston’s Dominican pride and the 2004 Red Sox

Anita Hill and Daniel Thomas Kryder

Voters can show their commitment to ending gender-based violence

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Election forecasts are sophisticated — and possibly meaningless

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South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite broadly supported plea to cut sentence to life
South Carolina has put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a store clerk in Spartanburg.

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A fundamental question hangs over Healey’s transportation task force
Maura Healey's administration has sent mixed signals about the end goal for the group studying transportation financing. Is it a menu of options or a prioritized list?

For 1,400 lucky fans, a surprise Tyler, The Creator performance was a rare treat
The rapper announced a same-day show at Converse Lovejoy Wharf.

Movie starring Robert Pattinson, Zendaya draws crowd of fans while filming in Downtown Boston

Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they’re in the US legally

Critics fear the change could scare people away from hospitals in Texas, even though patients are not required to answer the questions to receive medical care.

The Roche family is selling Roche Bros.
The supermarket chain’s Connecticut-based food distributor is taking a majority ownership stake.

Prosecutor says veteran’s subway chokehold ‘went too far.’ Defense says his ‘courage’ helped others

Prosecutors and defense lawyers agree on this about Marine veteran Daniel Penny’s encounter last year with a distressed, angry man making ominous remarks on a New York subway: Penny didn’t mean to kill him.

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Poor People's Campaign volunteer Savina Martin (left) talked to Michelle Vargas in Mattapan Square in early October as part of an effort to mobilize low-income voters.

Money, Power, Inequality

Poor People’s Campaign seeks to increase voting among low-income residents — an often ignored but sizable bloc

People in low-income households are much less likely to vote, but efforts to get them to the polls are ramping up.

RI ARTS

In Rhode Island, community theaters showcase resilience
Finding devoted volunteers and committed audiences have rarely been an issue, but keeping an affordable venue is a constant concern.

Henning installed as Boston’s seventh archbishop
The installation ritual and Mass marked the end of Cardinal Seán O’Malley’s 21 challenging years as archbishop, a tenure dominated by fallout from the clergy sexual-abuse scandal.

Agency that owns Pink House plans to move forward on demolition
The house has been abandoned for years, and US Fish and Wildlife purchased the structure and 11 acres of adjacent salt marsh in 2011 to protect the area from development.

Culture & Lifestyle

Cillian Murphy in "Small Things Like These."

‘The reckoning is still ongoing’: Cillian Murphy on the Catholic Church, complicity, and his new Irish drama

Charlestown residents Cassy Cortez and Scott Marr were married Sept. 1, 2024, in Indiana on the groom’s family farm.

Their love story begins at the Arthur Fiedler Footbridge

Chris Evans attended the Vanity Fair Oscars Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 10. The Massachusetts native assembled with his "Avengers" costars for a new video in support of the Harris campaign.

Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., and other ‘Avengers’ stars assemble for Kamala Harris endorsement video

Jimmy Kimmel on the red carpet for the film "Saturday Night."

Jimmy Kimmel let Trump make the argument against himself in his own words

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.

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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

This image of Nicole Brown Simpson, taken after her 911 call reporting spousal abuse, was used during the 1995 trial of her husband, O.J. Simpson. At Donald Trump's rally last weekend, comic Tony Hinchcliffe said, "Travis Kelce might be the next O.J. Simpson."

Anita Hill and Daniel Thomas Kryder

Voters can show their commitment to ending gender-based violence

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Election forecasts are sophisticated — and possibly meaningless

A mural in Roslindale titled “Reversed the Curse” depicts Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, and Pedro Martinez with other Red Sox players in the background.

MARCELA GARCÍA

The untold story of Boston’s Dominican pride and the 2004 Red Sox

Dr. Helen Shih, medical director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Proton Therapy Centers, showed the proton therapy treatment room, which houses the only such equipment in New England. Mass General Brigham held a media tour of its cancer treatment facilities Monday as the system touted its own integrated cancer institute ahead of the 2028 departure of Dana-Farber from Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Dana-Farber, Brigham split creates new opportunities for cancer care

There is a post-pandemic learning crisis in our schools. MCAS can help fix it.

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Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

COMMENTARY | J.H. SNIDER

The disinformation campaign against a R.I. constitutional convention

The coalition opposing a constitutional convention has promoted bogus arguments to the public, writes the editor of the Rhode Island State Constitutional Convention Clearinghouse.

What’s at stake: 5 policy differences between Kelly Ayotte and Joyce Craig in N.H. governor’s race

While public polling suggests Republican nominee Kelly Ayotte has a slight edge over Democratic nominee Joyce Craig , analysts rate the showdown as this year’s only gubernatorial toss-up.

Readers see red over Sununu’s support of Trump

Nowhere in his op-ed does he mention that his candidate of choice attempted, for the first time in our history, to violently disrupt the transfer of presidential power.

Boston Police Academy salutes 123 new graduates

The 123 new officers sworn in Friday at the South Boston convention center represent all city neighborhoods.

Sports

Former Celtics-announcer-turned-actor Mike Gorman with playwright Nassim Soleimanpour at the Huntington Theatre Company.

From play-by-play announcer to actor? Mike Gorman turns the page at the Huntington Theatre Company.

A lone actor materializes onstage with instructions to open a sealed box, inside of which is a script he is about to see for the very first time. There are no rehearsals.

Mookie Betts (center) and the Dodgers defeated the Yankees 4 games to 1 in the World Series.

Christopher L. Gasper

The Dodgers’ game plan for a championship is the one the Red Sox should follow

Boston Globe Today Sports host and columnist Christopher L. Gasper argues that Mookie Betts' third World Series title should be a signal to the Red Sox front office.

Wayland seniors Braden Leichliter (No. 2) and Jamie Buffum (No. 17) celebrate after a play during a 62-20 win against visiting Newton South on Friday night.

FRIDAY'S HS FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

Geo Woodard sparks Revere in stunning Greater Boston League triumph over Everett

Woodard ran for 201 yards on 19 carries, had 60 receiving yards, and hauled in touchdown catches of 20, 17, and 24 yards in the Patriots' stunning 42-18 victory.

CELTICS 124, HORNETS 109

Temps rise as Celtics pull away late to dispatch pesky Hornets

CELTICS NOTEBOOK

Former Celtics assistant Charles Lee grateful for his title-winning year in Boston

HS FOOTBALL: ST. JOHN'S PREP 28, BC HIGH 0

With resolve and a determined D, No. 3 St. John’s Prep bounces back to blank No. 4 BC High

Business

Owner of spas in Easton and Randolph charged with allegedly giving fake Botox injections, feds say

The owner of Skin Beaute Med Spa was charged Friday in federal court in Worcester, prosecutors said.

Providence Place mall placed in receivership over alleged $259 million debt

The move raises questions about the future of the mall, which first opened in the heart of the city in 1999.

The Roche family is selling Roche Bros.

Harris team warns CEOs that Trump is a threat to economy, while Trump promises them historic growth

magazine

Singer-songwriter Rachel Platten in Washington Square Park in New York City in September.

‘Fight Song’ was Rachel Platten’s breakout song. Then, she broke down.

In just over a decade, Katherine Clark has risen from state senator to House minority whip — the chamber’s second most powerful Democrat.

‘You can be nice and polite, and tough as nails’: How Katherine Clark wields power in Congress

A workaholic’s guide to building a sense of self outside of professional achievement

This week's daters: Chris and Lola

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I had accidentally gotten off at the wrong T stop’

metro

People entered Harvard Yard.

Harvard professors bash congressional report on antisemitism as ‘political hit job’

Election Day is almost here — but this campaign won’t leave us for a while

Owner of spas in Easton and Randolph charged with allegedly giving fake Botox injections, feds say

sports

Winchester's Hazel Lovins (16) hammers home a spike between Andover's Jessie Wang (9) and Leah Satlow (21) in Friday's Division 1 first-round win.

In the middle of it all, Johanna Melhorn powers Winchester girls’ volleyball to Division 1 first-round win

As the NWSL’s BOS Nation found out, naming a sports team can be tricky business. Experts explain why.

Citizen Bull wins as Bob Baffert’s horses take top two spots in $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile

business

Access’s president of Americas, Jonah Paransky, said: “This is the next step in our exciting US story – doubling our team in North America to over 450 and giving us a broader reach into hospitality and retail businesses."

Newton restaurant-tech firm Paytronix acquired by British company

A fundamental question hangs over Healey’s transportation task force

An alternative to Elon Musk? Meet Allison Byers, head of Founders for Kamala.

politics

Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Macomb Community College Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, in Warren, Mich.

Trump and Harris gear up to host dueling rallies in battleground Wisconsin

Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots, rejecting Republican plea

Trump and Harris host dueling rallies in the Milwaukee area in a final push to win Wisconsin

Nation

This photo provided by Justice 360 shows death row inmate Richard Moore at Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center in Columbia, S.C., on Aug. 17, 2018.

South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite broadly supported plea to cut sentence to life

What to watch over the final weekend of the 2024 presidential campaign

Jury convicts former Kentucky officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during deadly raid

World

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd during a meeting with school and university students, in Tehran, Iran, on Nov. 2.

Iran’s supreme leader threatens Israel and US with ‘a crushing response’ over Israeli attack

Israel’s path of destruction in southern Lebanon raises fears of an attempt to create a buffer zone

Israel pummels Gaza and Lebanon, killing dozens in latest waves of deadly airstrikes

opinion

Could pollsters mess up again this year? Let us count the ways.

Your results may vary: the trouble with polls (again)

Sanctions reverberate after silent protest at Harvard library

Sweeping people from Mass. and Cass doesn’t solve anything

lifestyle

A Norway spruce, this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, is prepared for harvest, on Oct. 30, in West Stockbridge, Mass.

Crowds flock to tiny Massachusetts town to send off New York’s Rockefeller Christmas tree

What’s your take on friendship after this breakup?

Linda Holliday, former girlfriend of Bill Belichick, sets Internet aflame with ‘Kill Bill’ costume

food & dining

A barista pours frothed milk into a drink inside a Starbucks Corp. coffee shop in New York.

Starbucks nixes upcharge for milk substitutes amid disappointing earnings

The Mighty Squirrel plans a Watertown taproom; imbibe Colonial cocktails at the InterContinental

Iggy’s Bread opens a croissant café with no signage, but plenty of good vibes

travel

Can gate lice be shamed into going away?

American Airlines’ new tactic to tackle ‘gate lice’ crowding may miss the mark

Christmas on the Cape: Skip the airport and head over the bridge for some festive fun

Holiday feasts and fanfare: New Orleans is always up for a party

Arts

Shepard Fairey, "Vote!," 2008.

Voting with your eyes: A new exhibition at the MFA looks at art and democracy

In Charles Atlas’s video art, the camera dances too

In the Berkshires, Clark Art Institute receives $45 million donation, 331 works of art from late philanthropist

Books

Best-selling author Jodi Picoult's novel "Nineteen Minutes" was the most banned book for the 2023-24 academic year.

Jodi Picoult’s novel ‘Nineteen Minutes’ was the most banned book in the 2023-24 school year

In Sara Daniele Rivera’s ‘Blue Mimes,’ poetry that moves, in both English and Spanish

Local bestsellers for the week ended Oct. 27

Movies

A still from "Recovery City."

GlobeDocs viewers honor two local filmmakers with Audience Awards

Five things to do around Boston, Nov. 4-10

Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol’s cinematic collaborator, dies at 86

Television

Azul Guaita in "Like Water For Chocolate."

Television loves a triple play

The best ‘SNL’ presidential political impressions in 50 years of shows

Jimmy Kimmel let Trump make the argument against himself in his own words

music

Jakob Dylan of The Wallflowers

Don’t expect Jakob Dylan to start tweeting any time soon

For 1,400 lucky fans, a surprise Tyler, The Creator performance was a rare treat

Five things to do around Boston, Nov. 4-10

Theater/Dance

Jay Wade and Jasimine Bouldin in "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein."

What makes Frankenstein’s Creature so monstrous, anyway?

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou not in ‘& Juliet’?

Zarna Garg is on a mission — to ‘destroy’ at her Comics Come Home debut

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

Mr. Morrisey, outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, near his apartment in Manhattan, in 1995.

Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol’s cinematic collaborator, dies at 86

Barbara Dane, who fought injustice through song, dies at 97

Ron Ely, who played an updated Tarzan in the 1960s, dies at 86