State braces for nor’easter
The cold rain falling this afternoon will give way to a potentially record-breaking storm that could deliver 1 to 3 inches of snow in Boston.
Suicide bomber kills 12 Americans in Kabul
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide bomber who rammed a van into an armored NATO bus today in Kabul, killing a total of 17 people.
Despite concerns, party buses rock on
Party buses have become a popular means of pub crawling without walking and partying without driving, but to police and neighborhood leaders they are also a nuisance.
Tom Keane
Swimming in lies
More than 100 years after the horrific description of the meatpacking industry in the 1906 novel, “The Jungle,’’ ultimately led to the creation of the FDA, do we need the same kind of regulation of seafood?
Exclusive Sunday Preview
A sampling of stories from this Sunday's Globe.
PATRICIA BORNS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
Exclusive Sunday Preview | Travel | Sarasota
The circus inheritance
In 1927, John Ringling’s circus empire made Sarasota, Fla., its winter home. Today, while headquarters have moved to Virginia, Ringling’s legacy is all over Sarasota.
Exclusive Sunday Preview | music
Beach Boys finally ready to ‘SMiLE’
“SMiLE’’ - the album that the Beach Boys abandoned 44 years ago - is The Holy Grail of bootlegs. Tuesday, “SMiLE’’ goes legit.
Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas
How long will America last?
Cliodynamics, a new field of study that uses a quantitative approach to understand history, can tell us about the future of America.
“We want to encourage designated drivers, [but] it bothers me that we have this floating barroom going down the street.”
Boston Police Department Superintendent William B. Evans
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Officials say two ship deaths not suspicious
The deaths of two people aboard a cruise ship that docked yesterday at Boston’s Black Falcon Terminal were unrelated and not the result of foul play, authorities said.
Business
Consumers spending more, saving less
Americans’ incomes have stagnated for three straight months. Yet they boosted their spending in September 0.6 percent - three times the increase in August.
Politics
Political notebook
Global warming stance another battleground
The world’s climate is changing, Mitt Romney acknowledges. So too, critics say, is his view on the reasons.
Nation & World
Gunman opens fire on US Embassy in Bosnia
Witnesses told Bosnian television that the man urged pedestrians to move away, saying he was targeting only the embassy.
Sports
Marcus Cannon a return man for Patriots
The rookie offensive lineman, who has been undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma since he was diagnosed prior to the April draft, practiced with the team this week.
Arts
Combining his influences
As the the hip-hop producer-turned-singer Mayer Hawthorne has proven, it doesn’t take an old soul to understand soul music.
Opinion
“Yet another World Series epic was the proverbial tree falling in the schoolnight silence.”
Globe editorial, on the late start of baseball games
Ideas
“Warren has spent her career trying to coax more legal scholars to conduct the kind of hands-on research that has driven her own work, which remains relatively rare in the field.”
Leon Neyfakh, on the career of Elizabeth Warren