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Union officials sue MBTA after arbitrator proposes slashing pensions of those who retire before the age of 65

The president of Carmen’s Union president and MBTA officials said Monday that the two sides are still in negotiations over a final pension agreement.

Wu set to overhaul powerful city zoning board
Mayor Michelle Wu Monday wiped out most of the Zoning Board of Appeals members on Monday, nominating a slate of community developers, neighborhood organizers, and construction union representatives as replacements.

Baker declines to criticize DeSantis over migrant flights, saying he has no interest in ‘presidential debate’

“I’m not running for president, so why engage in what is obviously a presidential debate?” Baker said during an appearance on GBH’s “Boston Public Radio.”

Biogen pays $900m to settle whistle-blower suit over kickbacks

Under the terms of the settlement, the Cambridge-based drug firm will pay more than $843 million to the US government and more than $56 million to 15 states for overbilling Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs.

Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cuba en route to Florida
Hurricane Ian made landfall early Tuesday in western Cuba, lashing the island with rain and winds as it barreled north toward the Florida coast.

Map: Storm tracker shows Ian's projected path

Aaron Berdofe, Annie Springfield, and their son Calvin Berdofe, 4, in their Swampscott home. The family has been exploring a renovation, but local zoning rules have prevented them from doing so, and rising prices and mortgage rates make moving to a larger house unappealing.

Greater Boston’s housing market is cooling, but don’t think it’s going to get any easier to buy a house

Rising mortgage rates, inflation, and a stark supply shortage have pushed housing even farther out of reach for many, with some measures of affordability hitting their lowest point in over 30 years.

Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of employees working from home
Cambridge had the state’s highest percentage of people working from home in 2021 at 44.4 percent, with Boston trailing not far behind at 30.3 percent.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Orthodontist vs. insurer: How Question 2 could bring sweeping changes to dental industry
If Question 2 passes, it could affect not just the insurers that do business here, but also dentists and orthodontists — not to mention anyone with dental insurance.

Rigatoni With Tomato, Butternut, and Red Pepper Puree.

Three favorite pasta recipes

Fans of Milk Street share their own dishes, including a pureed red pepper sauce with rigatoni, tomatoes, and butternut squash and an elegant saffron-scented sauce.

Like his teammates, Celtic Jaylen Brown is confused about the sudden suspension of his coach Ime Udoka.

On Basketball | Gary Washburn

Celtics players still confused about what caused coach Ime Udoka’s yearlong suspension

“My initial reaction? I was a little confused but nobody has any of the information,” Brown said. “There’s a lot of speculation going on, which makes it difficult for the guys who have been here.”

King Richard XI (enacted by Kirk Simpson) presides at King Richard's Faire, the Renaissance fair entertainment in Carver.

Heavy lies the head that wears the crown? Not for this king.

Kirk Simpson portrays the title character at King Richard’s Faire in Carver, Mass. — a Renaissance festival of handsome knights, wandering minstrels, and frolicking fairies.

Hispanic Heritage Month

A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt

The Hispanic history I carry with me: Rixy
A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and Latino joy, as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

Documentando el corazón infatigable de Chelsea Ideas | Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston Read more Hispanic Heritage Month stories

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.

Opinion

Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka and Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora.

With the Celtics and Udoka, it’s about brand

The integrity of the game is not as important as the integrity of the corporate interests that run the game.

A deteriorated water system erodes public trust in Jackson, Miss.

Rosalyn Negrón, Rebecca Herst, and Antonio Raciti

Greater Boston’s climate adaptation field is divided by race

MARCELA GARCÍA

How I learned to stop worrying and love Hispanic Heritage Month

How remote work withers our social networks

Culture

Banned Books Week Quiz
Banned Books Week is now underway! Put your knowledge of banned and challenged works to the test with our quiz.

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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

Dr. Yvon Baribeau

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."

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Alex Speier | On baseball

After a blowout loss to Orioles, 2022 has shown the Red Sox they can never have too much pitching
The Red Sox lost, 14-8, in a game delayed for 100 minutes by a deluge.

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Just when Mac Jones was making strides, he is dealt this setback
Any significant missed time for Jones will be a blow to his second-year development and the wobbly 1-2 Patriots.

Stonehill seeks greater exposure, and believes Division 1 sports will help it get there
The former Northeast-10 school makes the jump to the Northeast Conference this year, and it sees nothing but good things ahead.

The US government is challenging a big airline alliance, with Boston at the center of the case

The Department of Justice is suing to block a partnership between JetBlue and American Airlines that it worries could reduce competition at Logan and major New York airports.

NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defense test
A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.

Town council questions school department’s new policies following ‘naked fat test’ investigation

The School Committee chairman said the committee had taken several steps to improve training on sexual abuse reporting.

Recommended reads

Donald R. Sadoway of MIT has invented new technology he says will allow his new company, Avanti, to build better, safer, and cheaper batteries to store renewable energy.

Local researchers are aiming to create the perfect battery. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

Researchers and companies around the world are racing to solve the problem of storing clean energy when the sun isn’t shining on solar farms or the wind isn’t turning turbines.

KARA MILLER | THE BIG IDEA

Traffic is so bad, it could hurt our economy. But there’s a way to fix it.
Gridlock reigns during the morning and evening commutes, pretty much no matter where you are. But why is that, and what should we do about it?

Mariangely Solis Cervera wants to embed equity into Boston’s culture
In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, we asked Solis Cervera about her goals for the office and how her life experiences will shape her work as Boston’s new chief of equity and inclusion.

‘Soul-sucking’: Why some Gen Zers are quitting the 9-to-5
The monotonous nature of a typical office job is the subject of an extremely relatable viral TikTok trend.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Elizabeth Strout (“Lucy by the Sea”) is in conversation with Dawn Tripp in person Monday at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre.

Author readings around Boston Sept. 25-Oct. 1

Jesus Garcia as Rodolfo and Lauren Michelle as Mimì in Boston Lyric Opera's "La bohème," directed by Yuval Sharon.

In Boston Lyric Opera’s new ‘La bohème,’ the girl dies at the beginning — and it works

Pavement has reunited for a 30th anniversary tour that arrives at the Wang Theatre Sept. 28.

Slanted, enchanted, and a few years older, Pavement embarks on a reunion tour

Raymond Lee as Dr. Ben Song in NBC's reboot of "Quantum Leap."

With tiresome reboots, TV is stuck in a cycle of watch, rinse, repeat

Special Projects

Back to Boston

Welcome Back to Boston

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

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The Littleton Mill Gun Shop

As law-skirting practices evolve, the state’s gun laws must as well

Students walk on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. According to a Heterodox Academy survey, the primary reason students say they don’t express their authentic views is fear of peers taking offense.

Pamela Paresky and Samuel J. Abrams

An ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ mentality on campuses turns potential friends into allies — or enemies

Michael S. Roth

College mission: Encourage diverse views but protect democracy

Russian Federation Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergey V. Lavrov spoke during the United Nations Security Council meeting. While that meeting provided a forum for discussion of Russia’s crimes in Ukraine, as long as Russia exercises veto power in that body it can be little more than a debating society.

Russians vote with their feet against Putin’s folly

A 2020 protest by Pakistani activists. Half of all victims of modern slavery are in bonded labor arrangements, which are designed to prevent the workers from ever clearing their debt.

Even now, slavery is a worldwide scourge

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

In Rhode Island, a congressional race with national implications

Though New Hampshire and other states opted for more-conservative and pro-Trump candidates in this year’s primaries, in Rhode Island moderate Republican Allan Fung has a better chance chance of turning a blue seat red.

Heavy lies the head that wears the crown? Not for this king.

Kirk Simpson portrays the title character at King Richard’s Faire in Carver, Mass. — a Renaissance festival of handsome knights, wandering minstrels, and frolicking fairies.

Beach gathering will once again show Hull is No Place for Hate

Residents and visitors are invited to meet at Nantasket Beach at low tide on Oct. 16 to use their bodies to “Take a Stand in the Sand” and spell out the message HULL FOR ALL.

Halloween season begins in Salem with launch of shuttle

The free shuttle takes residents and visitors between three satellite parking lots and Riley Plaza in the downtown.

Sports

Stonehill athletic director Dean O'Keefe believes the school has seized a growth opportunity at the perfect time.

Stonehill seeks greater exposure, and believes Division 1 sports will help it get there

The former Northeast-10 school makes the jump to the Northeast Conference this year, and it sees nothing but good things ahead.

Red Sox starter Connor Seabold gave up a home run to Cedric Mullins, the first Orioles batter he faced Monday.

Alex Speier | On baseball

After a blowout loss to Orioles, 2022 has shown the Red Sox they can never have too much pitching

The Red Sox lost, 14-8, in a game delayed for 100 minutes by a deluge.

Cooper Rush of the Dallas Cowboys, who threw for 210 yards, throws a pass against the Giants during the third quarter at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

Cowboys 23, Giants 16

CeeDee Lamb’s one-handed touchdown catch sends Cowboys past Giants

Cooper Rush threw for 210 yards, including the 1-yarder touchdown to Lamb, in winning his second straight game filling in for the injured Dak Prescott (thumb).

Baseball notebook

Blue Jays in no mood to watch Aaron Judge or Yankees party, take 3-2 decision in 10 innings

Browns star Myles Garrett suffers minor injuries after his Porsche involved in rollover accident

Red Sox-Orioles resume at Fenway after a 100-minute rain delay

Business

As antitrust threat looms, iRobot keeps rolling with new Roomba

As the Bedford company launches its new Roomba Combo j7+ on Tuesday, it’s also looking over its shoulder toward Washington, where federal regulators may try to block its pending $1.7 billion acquisition by Amazon.

Greater Boston’s housing market is cooling, but don’t think it’s going to get any easier to buy a house

Rising mortgage rates, inflation, and a stark supply shortage have pushed housing even farther out of reach for many, with some measures of affordability hitting their lowest point in over 30 years.

Wu set to overhaul powerful city zoning board

Russia gives citizenship to ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden

magazine

Alisa Amador

My Boston History

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

The Acostas in Havana — parents Antonio and Rosa Acosta, 2-year-old Rosalin in her mother’s arms, and brother Anthony.

My Boston History

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

Sabrina Avilés

My Boston History

Documenting Chelsea’s indefatigable heart

My Boston History

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third

metro

Former North Kingstown High School basketball coach Aaron Thomas is shown during his arraignment at Washington County Superior Court House in August.

Town council questions school department’s new policies following ‘naked fat test’ investigation

Union officials sue MBTA after arbitrator proposes slashing pensions of those who retire before the age of 65

Candy corn recalled by Auburn company over allergy concerns

sports

Bishop Feehan's Jimmy Fasy splits a pair of Archbishop Williams defenders, EJ Vieira (6) and Luca Greco, as the Shamrocks secured a 1-0 win over the Bishops.

Boys’ soccer roundup: Hugo Texiero’s PK save with no time left preserves draw for Randolph

Celtics players still confused about what caused coach Ime Udoka’s yearlong suspension

A new generation of highly skilled goalkeepers are taking the game by storm

business

Biogen to pay $900m to settle whistle-blower suit over kickbacks

Biogen pays $900m to settle whistle-blower suit over kickbacks

Starbucks says it wants union bargaining to begin

politics

Republican Allan W. Fung, left, is running for Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District seat, while Republican Don Bolduc is running for a New Hampshire US Senate seat.

In Rhode Island, a congressional race with national implications

Biden’s strategy to end hunger in US includes more benefits

Jury to be picked for Oath Keeper boss’ Jan. 6 sedition case

Nation

Opponents of a total ban on abortion gather in the lobby of the South Carolina Statehouse on Aug. 30, in Columbia, S.C.

Major abortion law changes unlikely in S. Carolina after Roe

Patrol spots Chinese, Russian naval ships off Alaska island

NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defense test

World

A satellite image released by NASA shows Hurricane Ian growing stronger as it barreled toward Cuba on Sept. 26.

Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cuba en route to Florida

Preordained vote to wrap up in Russia-held areas of Ukraine

Japan’s former leader Abe honored at divisive state funeral

opinion

College mission: Encourage diverse views but protect democracy

Getting to know N.H.’s Free Staters, getting to know all about them

Grateful to be within range of ‘Eric in the Evening’

lifestyle

Steve Carell at the AMC Boston Common for a screening of his film "Beautiful Boy" in 2018.

Steve Carell spotted out shopping in Chestnut Hill: ‘Dude loves malls’

I’m not meeting high-caliber men

Nia Long issues statement following Ime Udoka suspension, asks for privacy ‘to process recent events’

food & dining

Rigatoni With Tomato, Butternut, and Red Pepper Puree.

Three favorite pasta recipes

Rhode Island ‘has all the ingredients to be a leading food state;’ Food innovation platform expands into Providence

Want a late-night bite? You have a few options in Providence

travel

Frederik Mayet leans on a cross before heading to the stage for his impending crucifixion scene. Under his loincloth he wears a climbing belt, which will be used to attach him to the cross. Mayet is the first Jesus in his family, and it’s a big deal.

‘We must do this’: German village fulfills promise to God by staging Passion Play every 10 years

Robots, runs, and King Tut

Preacher Lawson is ready to catch some Z’s

Arts

The Town of Warren, in partnership with the Warren Arts & Cultural Commission and The Avenue Concept, has commissioned Josie Morway to paint a mural on the storefront at 24 Child Street, as the town continues efforts to raise awareness on the impacts of sea level rise and climate change.

‘How could a piece of art possibly help the world?’ Warren commissions mural to further awareness of climate change.

The Hispanic history I carry with me: Rixy

Subversive strips at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art

Books

Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents in recent weeks on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021.

Libraries face increased attempts to ban books

Joshua Bennett on reading ‘to pursue astonishment’

Two books on pandemic parenting

Movies

Steve Carell at the AMC Boston Common for a screening of his film "Beautiful Boy" in 2018.

Steve Carell spotted out shopping in Chestnut Hill: ‘Dude loves malls’

Just Jaeckin, whose ‘Emmanuelle’ was a scandalous success, dies at 82

‘Blonde’ is a rare movie with a NC-17 rating. What set it over the edge?

Television

Steve Carell at the AMC Boston Common for a screening of his film "Beautiful Boy" in 2018.

Steve Carell spotted out shopping in Chestnut Hill: ‘Dude loves malls’

This week’s TV: ‘SNL’ cast shrinks, Jan. 6 hearings resume, and a new ‘Interview with the Vampire’

‘Breaking Bad’ creator teams up with Rhea Seehorn for a new series

music

Father John Misty performs at the Bourbon and Beyond Music Festival in Louisville earlier this month.

Father John Misty re-energizes old favorites at Leader Bank Pavilion

Odyssey Opera soars in Rachmaninoff’s ‘Troika’

In Boston Lyric Opera’s new ‘La bohème,’ the girl dies at the beginning — and it works

Theater/Dance

Mishy Jacobson in "Ada and the Engine" at Central Square Theater.

With a few clanks, ‘Ada and the Engine’ offers an eye-opening ride through computer history

For ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ a not-so-little shot of hurrahs

‘Tina’ reaches for a star but falls short

globe local

The Hull No Place for Hate committee is inviting people to stand in the sand Oct. 16 to create the message "Hull for All." A similar event in 2001 drew 600 people.

Beach gathering will once again show Hull is No Place for Hate

Halloween season begins in Salem with launch of shuttle

Torah Sisters bond to piece together Jewish history

Obituaries

FILE - President Bill Clinton talks with New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio, left, prior to making an address on his national service plan at the Lewis Brown Athletic Center on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J., on Monday, March 1, 1993. Florio, who narrowly lost his re-election bid in 1993 died Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. He was 85. His law partner Doug Steinhardt and current Gov. Phil Murphy confirmed Florio died in statements on Monday. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)

Former NJ governor James Florio dies at 85

Egyptian cleric revered by Muslim Brotherhood dies at 96

Just Jaeckin, whose ‘Emmanuelle’ was a scandalous success, dies at 82