Hurricane Michael strengthens to Category 3 storm

Michael has winds of 120 mph and a potential storm surge of 13 feet as it heads toward the Florida panhandle, with an expected landfall around midday Wednesday.

A satellite image taken at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday shows Hurricane Michael off the US Gulf Coast.

These maps shed light on when and where Hurricane Michael will hit

A fast-strengthening Hurricane Michael on Tuesday afternoon was poised to bear down on the Florida panhandle.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/27958499c5e64bdaa450e872542171e9-27958499c5e64bdaa450e872542171e9-0.jpg Nikki Haley to resign as UN ambassador at year?s end

President Trump said Tuesday afternoon that former aide Dina Powell is under consideration to replace Haley, who is leaving in the latest shake-up in the turbulent administration.

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The one-hour forum, which takes place at 8 p.m. tonight, will be the highest-profile event of the so-far-sleepy governor?s race.

Replacement crews worked on a natural gas line on Wyman Street in Woburn on Tuesday.

National Grid hopes to restore gas to 300 customers in Woburn by Thursday

The gas supply to the affected Woburn customers was cut off as a safety measure after a National Grid employee mistakenly sent excess gas into the system.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/06/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/IMG_0103.jpg Methuen man cited in fatal Cambridge crash that killed 27-year-old

The driver allegedly struck a pedestrian while he was backing up a dump truck in Cambridge on Friday. The victim has been identified as Jie Zhao.

Jaleesa Jackson and Chiedozie Uwandu were looking forward to their out-of-town sojourn, but it turned into a nightmare.

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Sean P. Murphy | The Fine Print

An Airbnb guesthouse of horrors

One Los Angeles rental had excellent reviews and a host who had so impressed Airbnb that he was ranked as a ?super host.? Then the nightmare began.

After sexual misconduct allegations, Harvard diving coach resigns

Harvard University had placed Chris Heaton on leave following sexual misconduct allegations made against him in a federal lawsuit.

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/little%20women%20boston%203.jpg Emma Watson filmed scenes for ?Little Women? in Boston this weekend

Filmmakers rolled back the clock to the 1800s in the Back Bay on Sunday.

Woman describes Brookline sexual assault, robbery; suspect held without bail

A 20-year-old Allston man allegedly pulled a woman into a Brookline alley around 2:30 a.m. Saturday and began to sexually assault her.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_roxdig1_met.jpg Roxbury archeological dig underway at one of few remaining colonial governors? mansions in US

The Shirley-Eustis House dates to the 1740s. It was originally built as a summer home for William Shirley, the royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Clockwise from bottom left: squid ink fusilli, puffed rice crackers, crab gratin, chocolate semifreddo, scallops, and fried cauliflower at Chickadee.

Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe

Dining Out

Chickadee is off to a flying start in the Seaport

As a neighborhood rises up, we?ve got the most-polished opening Boston has seen in some time.

Boston Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello walks on the field before an American League Division Series baseball game against the New York Yankees, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

ALDS Game 4: Red Sox at Yankees live updates and analysis

Boston holds a 2-1 edge in this best-of-five American League Division Series.

Andrew Mahoney

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/b8a5ad5d50784c56a05246343e1e6cb3-b8a5ad5d50784c56a05246343e1e6cb3-0.jpg All eyes will be on umpire Angel Hernandez in ALDS Game 4 tonight

After a rough Game 3, Hernandez, who has a reputation as one of baseball?s worst umpires, will be behind the plate.

 
Red Cross workers removing bundles of masks for American soldiers from table where other women are busily engaged in making them, Boston, Massachusetts, 1918. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

Globe Magazine

The Boston outbreak that turned into the deadliest pandemic in modern history

The city?s new health commissioner had to get the public to take the flu crisis seriously, without setting off a panic.

Perspective | Magazine

Why is Boston?s most important literary site a food court?

Visitors to the Old Corner Bookstore, which has four eateries on its ground floor, would never guess that it nurtured American literature.

Renée Graham

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The GOP is having fun at women?s expense.

Boston, MA - October 08, 2018: Anne Douglass director at the Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation at the University of Massachusetts Boston, leads

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

HUBweek hackathon: Changing mindsets about early childhood education

The quality of childcare won?t improve if the experts, the teachers themselves, continue to be seen merely as babysitters.

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At a HUBweek event, MIT officials outlined an ambitious project they say will transform Kendall Square.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Hubweek_01.jpg After UN report, experts look at how to build a climate-resilient Boston

The discussion, part of the HUBweek ideas festival, was held a day after the release of a stark United Nations report on global warming.

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/09/04/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/suarez_25MOSTSTYLISH_G_Oxman_072.jpg MIT professor Neri Oxman: She?d love to do a project with Brad Pitt, but she isn?t dating him

She admits to having a bit of fun with paparazzi when they began staking out the Media Lab, however.

Opinion & Ideas

JEFF JACOBY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/jacoby-5299.jpg Kavanaugh fallout: Victims may be sincere, but memory is fallible

Psychological research confirms that our most traumatic memories ? the ones that feel especially vivid and indelible ? are often the least reliable.

Special reports

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Globe staff photos of the month, September 2018

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: gas explosions in Lawrence, 9/11 remembrance ceremonies, and primary elections.

Newsletters

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Red Sox reporter Alex Speier writes about everything baseball with an eye for analytics and an insider?s knowledge of the game.

Business

HELP DESK

How to sneak a little fitness into the workday

As working from home becomes increasingly common ? about 43 percent of all workers work remotely at least occasionally ? more people are navigating the perks and downfalls of the zero-minute commute.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Wunderkinds_Story_Card_2.png Meet the 2018 STAT Wunderkinds

Introducing this year?s class of STAT Wunderkinds, a group of unheralded heroes of science and medicine.

Love Letters: The Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/200_love_letters_bonus.jpg Until next year, my sweetheart

In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.

Listen:   Apple Podcasts   |   Stitcher   |   RadioPublic

 

Real Estate

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Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.

Globe event

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/08/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/SeattleTimes_10kirsner02_biz.jpg Seattle?s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston

Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.

Crossword

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Puzzled? Keep trying your hand at our interactive crossword and see if you can triumph.