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Putin sets partial military call-up, won’t ‘bluff’ on nukes

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists in Russia, in a measure that appeared to be an admission that Moscow’s war against Ukraine isn’t going according to plan after nearly seven months of fighting.
Russia signals annexation of parts of Ukraine Biden at UN to call Russian war an affront to the body

More than 800,000 Mass. student loan borrowers eligible for debt relief, White House says

The data shed new light on what has become a point of contention surrounding President Biden’s plan to forgive up to $10,000 per person in student debt: Exactly who will, and who won’t, benefit from the relief.

Analysis
Inside GOP politics, Trump is increasingly on defense, while DeSantis is on offense
What happened Saturday evening spoke volumes about the prospects of the two men, who could end up clashing in a Republican primary.

Providers are watching for the resurgence of a rare paralytic virus in children

The virus, known as enterovirus D68, typically causes cold and respiratory symptoms but has been linked with the rare paralytic condition known as acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM.

Mayor Wu makes some temporary street changes permanent after Orange Line shutdown
The changes remaining in place include a new Chinatown bus stop; bus lanes in the Copley Square area; loading and drop off zones in the South End; pavement marking and signage in Jamaica Plain; and a bus and bike priority lane on Huntington Avenue.

LOVE LETTERS

I have a crush on a fictional character. I’m not sure how to find real love.

I’m 23 and so far I’ve only felt drawn to characters in simulation games and anime. What’s real love like?
Peter Abraham | On Baseball

The Red Sox’ handling of Kevin Plawecki is the latest front office decision to ruffle some clubhouse feathers

Plawecki was far from a star, but he deserved better than the news leaking out on Twitter at just before midnight after a win against the Rangers.
Ever-improving Brayan Bello remains a reason to keep watching the Red Sox as they slug past the Reds
Ben Volin I On football

Here are five additional observations after rewatching the Patriots-Steelers game

The Patriots have scored just three touchdowns and rank 29th in points (12 per game). One reason may be the lack of creativity on offense.

Hispanic Heritage Month

CONNECTIONS
Visiting Guatemala, my parents’ homeland, transported me to my childhood memories
A family outing to Jamaica Plain’s old Hi-Lo Foods market was always a taste of home.

Talent and education aren’t always enough. So I work to ensure opportunities for all. Ideas | Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston Read more Hispanic Heritage Month stories
My Boston History

I’m a multilingual singer-songwriter who grew up among wanderers. Here’s why I call Boston home.

It’s here that I stopped caring about other people’s labels and honed my 'Boston Boricua Chicana emotional crybaby funky jazzy folk.'
Opinion
EDITORIAL

A safer MBTA requires a new watchdog

An understaffed utilities regulator, lacking independence, is ill-equipped for the job.
JEFF JACOBY

An all-Democratic government needs a Republican watchdog
SCOT LEHIGH

Why do some citizens let themselves be duped by election deniers?
RENÉE GRAHAM

Trump and QAnon: A marriage made in Hell
LETTERS

‘As if I wasn’t there’: one disabled rider’s experience with the T

CULTURE | KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR
Books have power; it’s no surprise the powerful want to control them
The Emancipator looks at the history of book banning, from the burning of the nation’s first Black bookstore in 1800's New York City, to author Toni Morrison's books being taken off school shelves, to kick off this year's Banned Books Week.

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150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.
Spotlight investigation

Part 1
A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau Video: What the Spotlight Team’s investigation discovered about Dr. Baribeau N.H. hospital promises review after revelations about doctor with 21 malpractice settlements
Part 2

A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

Alarmed doctors at Manchester's Catholic Medical Center tried to get a troubled colleague barred from surgery. But hospital leaders resisted. Then came the "summer of death."

More recent stories

GETTING SALTY
From a small New Jersey town to a busy downtown restaurant, pastry chef Alyx Abreu rises to the occasion
Using her favorite Puerto Rican recipes is icing on the cake.

N.H. Paralympian aims to be the first amputee to win ‘Survivor’
Former UMass Lowell lacrosse star Noelle Lambert, 25, lost a leg in moped accident, then reinvented herself as a sprinter and snowboarder. Now she's one of 18 castaways on Season 43 of "Survivor," which premieres Wednesday.

State education board approves literacy screening mandate to detect learning disabilities
The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on Tuesday unanimously approved the mandatory literacy screenings from kindergarten through at least third grade. The mandate goes into effect next July.

KEVIN CULLEN
Can dogs help people stay sober?
Going to 12-step meetings helps. Having a sponsor helps. Spirituality helps. Why wouldn’t a lovable dog?

‘I accidentally fell in love.’ Lil Nas X sends pizza to religious protesters outside his Boston show.
The “Old Town Road” singer performed Sunday at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway, and when a small group of religious protesters gathered outside the venue, the Grammy winner sent them pizza.

TOM FARRAGHER
A former dispatcher, now he’s the chief of police
“I always wanted to be a police officer,’’ he told me when I sat with him in his office here the other day. “That’s all I ever wanted to do.’’

Recommended reads

What downturn? Tech job listings are way up. So are salaries.

Many of the 2,000-odd people who were laid off this summer by Boston-area tech companies are already back at work — and many have higher salaries than they did before.
Tech insiders have a lot to say about the local startup scene. Most of it is good.

Matt Porter | On hockey
An imposing figure on and off the ice, former Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara was ‘one in a million’
Chara was the largest player in NHL history — 6 feet 9 inches and at his Stanley Cup-hoisting peak, a chiseled 260 pounds — and certainly one of the strongest, with piercing green eyes and a voice of a subterranean register.

Air passengers could see sweeping reforms and easier refunds. Consumer advocates and lawmakers say that’s still not enough.
Under a new proposal, the US could soon clearly spell out the circumstances under which passengers are entitled to compensation from airlines.

Amid historic drought, more are turning to an ancient practice in their quest for water.
Those in need of a consistent water source appear to be shelving skepticism about dowsing — or water divining as it’s sometimes called — turning increasingly to the centuries-old practice to fill the void.

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Culture & Lifestyle

N.H. Paralympian aims to be the first amputee to win ‘Survivor’

It’s Banned Books Week — and these bookstores are hiding challenged books for their readers to find

Lil Nas X, a pop star in three acts, at MGM Music Hall

With food as comfort, Michelle Zauner is crying a little less intensely in H Mart

Special Projects

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.
Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | BILL EVILLE

Showing up for migrants who were pawns in a cruel gambit
MARCELA GARCÍA

The immigrants who were already on Martha’s Vineyard
IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: The oft-repeated jokes that make us roll our eyes
Tyler Goodspeed

It’s time to stop believing in immaculate disinflation
Joan Vennochi

Marty Walsh in 2024?
IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

Providers are watching for the resurgence of a rare paralytic virus in children

The virus, known as enterovirus D68, typically causes cold and respiratory symptoms but has been linked with the rare paralytic condition known as acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM.

Martha’s Vineyard immigration attorney says she is assisting Texas sheriff’s investigation

Rachel Self, who lives on the island and has a Boston-based law practice, said she received a phone call from Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar on Monday morning. Later that day, Salazar said he would look into whether the migrants were lured to Martha's Vineyard under false pretenses.

Immigrant-rights advocates file suit against Florida officials for sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard

A Boston legal group on Tuesday sued Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and others involved in the relocation of almost 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard last week, alleging the officials ran an illegal scheme that exploited vulnerable immigrants with false promises of cash payments and job opportunities.
NEWTON

Indigenous Peoples Day to be held at Newton’s Albemarle Field Oct. 10

Newton’s Indigenous Peoples Day celebration will return to Albemarle Field for its second year next month to honor the region’s Native residents.

Sports

Ben Volin I On football

Here are five additional observations after rewatching the Patriots-Steelers game

The Patriots have scored just three touchdowns and rank 29th in points (12 per game). One reason may be the lack of creativity on offense.
Dan Shaughnessy

Aaron Judge’s record quest reminds us of what the home run chase used to mean

Judge might have a chance to break Roger Maris’s American League record against the last-place Boston Red Sox. In Yankee Stadium.
MLB

Aaron Judge hits 60th homer to tie Babe Ruth, inches closer to Roger Maris

Judge stepped to the plate in the bottom of the ninth at Yankee Stadium and connected on a 3-1 pitch, driving the ball into the left field stands.
Red Sox 5, Reds 3

Ever-improving Brayan Bello remains a reason to keep watching the Red Sox as they slug past the Reds
Peter Abraham | On Baseball

The Red Sox’ handling of Kevin Plawecki is the latest front office decision to ruffle some clubhouse feathers
NFL notebook

Bills lineman Bobby Hart suspended for punching Titans coach

Business

Germany nationalizes country’s biggest gas importer Uniper

The deal with Uniper builds on a rescue package agreed in July and features a capital increase of 8 billion euros that the government will finance.

Will less parking mean more housing in Cambridge?

The City Council is considering an end to so-called minimum parking requirements, a move that would Cambridge on a growing list of US cities that have done away with the rule in order to encourage more housing.

A celebration at South Station as tower marches skyward

Maine paper mill damaged by 2020 blast to close for good
magazine
My Boston History

I'm a multilingual singer-songwriter. Here's why I call Boston home.
My Boston History

Talent and education aren’t always enough. So I work to ensure opportunities for all.

My Boston History

Documenting Chelsea’s indefatigable heart
My Boston History

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third

metro

State education board approves literacy screening mandate to detect learning disabilities

Magaziner criticizes Fung for being on board of group that backed overturning Roe v. Wade

‘Get in the trenches’: Mass. legislators try their hands at firefighting for the day

sports

Bruins release roster ahead of start to training camp

With a memorable 2021 in the rearview mirror, Franklin field hockey looks to take it one step further in 2022

LIV Golf asking world ranking board for retroactive points

business

Broad scales up as Biogen scales back in Kendall Square

Greater Boston housing market cooled off in August

Judge OKs Utah-based company’s $76M bid to buy Jay Peak

politics

Biden at UN to call Russian war an affront to body’s charter

House to vote on election law overhaul in response to Jan. 6

Arbiter in Trump documents investigation signals intent to move quickly

Nation

Opening statements set for trial against close Trump ally

Ex-cop Lane to be sentenced for aiding in George Floyd death

Arbiter in Trump documents probe signals intent to move quickly

World

Putin sets partial military call-up, won’t ‘bluff’ on nukes

Some 230 whales beached in Tasmania; rescue efforts underway

US, UK join Pacific allies in Fijian military exercise

opinion

It’s time to stop believing in immaculate disinflation

Members of Congress shouldn’t play the market

A Florida DeSantis supporter is read loud and clear in Mass.

lifestyle

US adults should get routine anxiety screening, panel says

No roadmap required

It’s Banned Books Week — and these bookstores are hiding challenged books for their readers to find

food & dining

From a small New Jersey town to a busy downtown restaurant, pastry chef Alyx Abreu rises to the occasion

A personalized Portuguese food crawl through Fall River and New Bedford

Ploughgate makes boring butter a thing of the past

travel

Air passengers could see sweeping reforms and easier refunds. Consumer advocates and lawmakers say that’s still not enough.

On both coasts, oyster tours are the new wine tours

A local science festival, a beer week in San Diego, and crafts across Maine

Arts

Jordan Seaberry’s nod to the WPA is a labor of love

The perpetual motion of Alex Katz at Colby College Museum of Art

Piece by piece, Boston’s monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is coming together

Books

It’s Banned Books Week — and these bookstores are hiding challenged books for their readers to find

Getting to the heart of the matter

Can women plus law save us?

Movies

‘Stranger at the Gate’ tells story of ‘shared humanity’

Henry Silva, actor who specialized in menace, dies at 95

Greg Mottola on going by the book for ‘Confess, Fletch’

Television

N.H. Paralympian aims to be the first amputee to win ‘Survivor’

Hulu’s satirical ‘Reboot’ gets it right the first time

Two ancient families unite in episode 5 of ‘House of the Dragon’

music

‘I accidentally fell in love.’ Lil Nas X sends pizza to religious protesters outside his Boston show.

Hip-hop concert culminates Boston Cannabis Week

Lil Nas X, a pop star in three acts, at MGM Music Hall

Theater/Dance

A fallen entrepreneur reconnects with the community she left behind in ‘Fabulation’

Chita Rivera brings Broadway to Worcester

With a pair of premieres, Moonbox showcases local playwrights to start its season

globe local

Indigenous Peoples Day to be held at Newton’s Albemarle Field Oct. 10

MassDOT to hold public meeting on Newton Corner traffic safety Sept. 28

MBTA Green Line D branch work to begin Sept. 24

Obituaries

Maury Wills, base-stealing shortstop for Dodgers, dies at 89

Valery Polyakov dies at 80; took the longest journey in space

Virginia Dwan, behind-the-scenes force in the art world, dies at 90