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The exterior of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is pictured where Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is being treated in San Francisco, on Friday.

Attack on Paul Pelosi was ‘intentional,’ SFPD Chief says

Investigators believe the intruder gained entry to the home in the upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood by breaking through glass-paneled doors, according to the Associated Press.

Suspect in assault at Pelosi home had posted about QAnon Paul Pelosi undergoes surgery to repair skull fracture, will make ‘full recovery,’ House speaker’s office says

In key New Hampshire congressional race, Trump casts long shadow

It’s a race where each candidate has labeled the other as extreme, where Trump-era arguments such as border security and support for the police are being rehashed, and where the outcome could help determine which party gains control of the House of Representatives.

What drives someone to buy a 12-foot skeleton? Or several?
In a world of technological marvels, the tall decorations spark joy just by being tall.

This Marblehead resident’s ‘colossal’ Halloween displays would make Hollywood jealous. Here’s what’s in store this year.

Billions in state tax refunds to start flowing to taxpayers on Tuesday, officials say

47 dead, dozens feared missing as storm lashes Philippines

This Vermilion Flycatcher was recently spotted in Brewster.

Bird watchers atwitter over rare bird sighting on Cape Cod

This combination of photos shows Gisele Bundchen (left) and Tom Brady. The couple announced Friday they have finalized their divorce, ending their 13-year marriage.

Brady and Bundchen say their divorce is already ‘finalized.’ Legal experts say a solid prenuptial agreement could be why.

Legal experts told the Globe Friday that Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen most likely had a well-drafted prenuptial agreement, which could make their multimillion dollar divorce fairly straightforward.

Timeline: Look back at their relationship

Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen in 2019.

Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen announce divorce after 13 years of marriage

“In recent days, my wife and I finalized our divorce from one another after 13 years of marriage,” Brady wrote on Instagram Friday.

The Phillies won Game 1 because Rob Thomson managed like it was the World Series
That Dusty Baker stayed with Justin Verlander was a surprise as the entire Astros bullpen was at his disposal.

Dave Dombrowski clarifies his feelings about the Red Sox, declaring he wants Boston ‘in the past’

50 years of TV

Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," which prevailed over "The Wire" in the Globe's Best TV bracket.

MATTHEW GILBERT

Our Best TV bracket is down to eight, and older series are getting some love

After Round 3, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "All in the Family" are moving on in the competition, while "Succession," "The Wire," and "The Office" are all taking a seat.

Vote in Round 4 of our Best TV Shows bracket Here's how you voted in Rounds 1-3

Donovan Mitchell got what he wanted on offense, whether it was going downhill toward the rim or draining open jumpers.

gary washburn | on basketball

It’s official: There’s something wrong with the Celtics’ defense

They yielded 120 points last weekend in Orlando, another 120 in Chicago and 114 in regulation Friday.

Celtics can’t put away Cavaliers, who get 82 points from their backcourt in overtime win Twice an interim coach himself, Cavaliers’ J.B. Bickerstaff understands the pressure on Celtics’ Joe Mazzulla

Bruin defenseman Matt Grzelcyk (second from right) celebrates his first goal of the season in the first period against the Blue Jackets.

Bruins 4, Blue Jackets 0

Second-period surge carries Bruins to shutout victory over Blue Jackets

Linus Ullmark made 29 saves to earn the shuto, his second as a Bruin.

Anthony Monteiro Pires (4) and Quentyn Dulin (6) celebrated a Brighton touchdown in the team's 40-26 victory over Latin Academy for the Boston City League title Friday night at Daly Field.

High school football

It’s the final weekend of high school football before the playoffs. Here’s how things played out.

Milford delivered a statement win, Bridgewater-Raynham made its point in D2, Swampscott may survive in D5, but 6-2 Hopkinton is out of the race.

High school football scores and schedules

Women & Power 2022 | Globe Magazine

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts 2022

The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine celebrate the state’s leading companies and nonprofits run by women.

Shirley Leung: ‘Write the damn check’: How female funders can help women entrepreneurs grow Despite its progressive reputation, Massachusetts has lagged in women’s representation See the full Women & Power issue from Globe Magazine

Opinion

"No hostels. No backpacking. No drunken one-night stands with tousled buskers or bearded bartenders. Not yet anyway."

IDEAS | SHANTI L. NELSON

Hot-flashing towards Bethlehem

(Actually, it was Europe.) On the indignities and joys of solo travel at menopausal midlife.

Seth Magaziner for Congress

Save me from our robot overlords

IDEAS | LETICIA DUARTE & CHARLES M. SENNOTT

Authoritarianism’s rise and journalism’s fall are intersecting

A WIN-win tool worth trying again to curb inflation

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University on March 8, 2016, in New York City. His book, "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011. Photo illustration by Alex LaSalvia.

The Emancipator

‘Originalism is intellectually indefensible,’ says noted historian about right-leaning Supreme Court

In a Q&A with The Emancipator, Eric Foner, a leading authority on the post-Civil War era, said he wants to see liberal justices develop a vision of the Constitution that doesn’t build on conservative legal ideology.

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Special reports

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.

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Part 2: A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau

America’s election workers are leaving in droves

Experts worry the loss of top county election officials drains the system of experience and institutional knowledge at the moment election deniers are looking to seize on mistakes to erode the public’s faith in elections.

America’s election workers are leaving their jobs in droves

Under Siege: Democracy’s front lines in crisis. See the full project.

Celebrating 150 years of The Boston Globe

We’re marking the Globe’s 150th year with a look back through 15 decades of coverage. Explore 150 of the most significant front pages, revisit classic sports moments, try a crossword from 1917, and more.

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Jerry Lee Lewis, groundbreaking, troubled rock ‘n’ roll star, dies at 87

An untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer known for records like "Great Balls of Fire" and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” Jerry Lee Lewis's talent, energy and ego sustained a career otherwise upended by significant personal scandals.

The Orange Line is finally faster than it was before the shutdown. There’s more work to do to get to full speed

A roundtrip on the line, which runs between Malden and Jamaica Plain, was just over five minutes slower than it would be if trains were running at full speed on Thursday, compared to about seven minutes slower when the MBTA closed the line for a host of critical repairs.

Acton man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting two children
Daniel Napier, 60, was charged with five counts of rape of a child and seven counts of indecent assault and battery on a child. He was sentenced to 15 to 18 years on the rape charges plus an additional three years on and after probation on the the indecent assault and battery charges, officials said Friday.

Musk took over Twitter. Then some users began testing chaos

Soon after the takeover, users began cheering — or criticizing — what they expected to be a quick embrace of Musk’s pledges to cut back on moderation in what he has said is an effort to promote free speech.

In ruling, judge finds Mass. police sergeant promotional exams to be discriminatory

“The best test-takers are not necessarily the best police sergeants,” said Judge Douglas H. Wilkins,

So far, this flu season is more severe than it has been in 13 years

Influenza is hitting the US unusually early and hard, already hospitalizing a record number of people at this point in the season in more than a decade and underscoring the potential for a perilous winter of respiratory viruses, according to federal health data released Friday.

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A home for sale in Framingham, one of 29 Massachusetts communities where a new state program will offer lower- and middle-income first time homebuyers up to $50,000 in down payment assistance.

Buying a house in Mass. is expensive. Now the state is offering some people $50,000 to help.

A new state program will direct $65 million to help first-time home buyers cover down payments, closing costs, and other expenses.

Plastic recycling is a ‘myth,’ study says
Of the 51 million tons of plastic waste US households generated in 2021, just 2.4 million tons — or 5 percent — was recycled, new research shows.

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The invisible girl
In life, Harmony Montgomery was missing for two years before anyone noticed. In death, she remains a little girl lost.

‘I don’t need hair to have a crown’: Ayanna Pressley unpacks hair journey in Hulu series ‘The Hair Tales’
Pressley spoke with the Globe about her experience participating in ‘The Hair Tales,’ the troubles and triumphs of living with Black hair, and how losing hair to alopecia has shifted her self-expression.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Jennifer Coolidge in "The White Lotus."

Jennifer Coolidge is making this up as she goes

Andrew Levitt (foreground left) and Niki Metcalf (foreground right) star in "Hairspray," which runs through Oct. 30 at Citizens Bank Opera House.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

The Crayton Singers' 1966 single “Master on High” is part of new 15-track compilation, out Friday, called “The Skippy White Story: Boston Soul 1961-1967.”

Soul searching yields ‘The Skippy White Story,’ rare nuggets from Black Boston artists of the ‘60s

Bill Irwin in his one-man show, "On Beckett."

Untangling the riddle of Samuel Beckett

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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

"If horror is the scream, terror is the whisper, the disembodied laughter and song."

IDEAS | REGINA M. HANSEN

No wonder you’re afraid, pumpkin

Children play at the Cooper Community Center in Roxbury in 2021.

Hubie Jones and James Jennings

Breaking down silos to help Boston’s children of color

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestured while speaking Oct. 27.

The world according to Vlad

Harvard president Abbott Lowell met with US president Theodore Roosevelt, left, on July 22, 1910. Lowell was a notorious racist.

David B. Oppenheimer and James N. Bierman

Harvard president Abbott Lowell is laughing at us again

Pomona College students participated in a TreePeople event caring for trees in Los Angeles.

G. Gabrielle Starr

Widen the college pipeline so that talent everywhere can succeed anywhere

IDEAS | JON ROBERTS AND MATT BIVENS

Who will care for our sickest children? Pediatric hospitals are turning some of them away.

Metro

Oz says abortion decisions should involve women, doctors — and local politicians

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, stunned debate viewers Tuesday night by saying the federal government shouldn’t be involved in abortion decision-making. But local politicians should.

Billions in state tax refunds to start flowing to taxpayers on Tuesday, officials say

State officials said they intend to begin sending taxpayers their share of a $3 billion refund on Tuesday when the calendar flips to November, kicking off a roughly six-week process of doling out checks and direct deposits to millions of taxpayers.

In key New Hampshire congressional race, Trump casts long shadow

It’s a race where each candidate has labeled the other as extreme, where Trump-era arguments such as border security and support for the police are being rehashed, and where the outcome could help determine which party gains control of the House of Representatives.

Missing Raynham girl found safe in New York City, reunited with family

Colleen Weaver, 16, was located with the assistance of the New York Police Department and the FBI, and was reunited with her family, officials said Friday.

Sports

Rays first baseman Ji-man Choi was scheduled to play for the MLB team in an exhibition series in his native South Korea.

Major League Baseball cancels postseason trip to South Korea

The first exhibition tour to the country in 100 years was to include four games being played in two cities.

Manager Rob Thomson (59) made all the right moves with his relievers in Game 1, getting 5⅔ scoreless innings from his bullpen.

The Phillies won Game 1 because Rob Thomson managed like it was the World Series

That Dusty Baker stayed with Justin Verlander was a surprise as the entire Astros bullpen was at his disposal.

J.T. Realmuto tied Game 1 of the World Series in the fifth inning with a two-run double, then gave the Phillies the lead with a leadoff homer in the 10th.

World Series Game 1 | Phillies 6, Astros 5 (10 INNINGS)

J.T. Realmuto homers in the 10th inning as the Phillies come all the way back to beat the Astros

Down 5-0 early against Astros ace Justin Verlander, the Phillies became the first team in 20 years to overcome a five-run deficit to win a World Series game.

High school football

It’s the final weekend of high school football before the playoffs. Here’s how things played out.

gary washburn | on basketball

It’s official: There’s something wrong with the Celtics’ defense

HS CROSS-COUNTRY NOTEBOOK

Cross-country: At Newburyport, longtime coach Don Hennigar sets the tone at the start of the season with a solemn touchstone moment

Business

Inflation and wages continue to climb rapidly, in bad news for the Fed

Prices are still rising quickly. Wages are rising rapidly too. And the strong consumer demand that is helping to fuel the inflationary fire shows little sign of letting up.

Musk took over Twitter. Then some users began testing chaos

Soon after the takeover, users began cheering — or criticizing — what they expected to be a quick embrace of Musk’s pledges to cut back on moderation in what he has said is an effort to promote free speech.

Five things to watch now that Elon Musk is in charge of Twitter

Buying a house in Mass. is expensive. Now the state is offering some people $50,000 to help.

magazine

We often host my child’s friend at our house, but that family never reciprocates

Nine key skills all effective leaders tend to showcase

Globe Magazine.

Can they try again after her desire for a baby ended their relationship?

Malaysian-Style Noodles With Pork and Mushrooms

Recipes: Build bold flavors in 3 pork dishes

metro

Chad White's Melrose yard features so many Halloween decorations that he is running out of room.

What drives someone to buy a 12-foot skeleton? Or several?

A quarter of Rhode Island’s top local election officials have left since 2020

Bird watchers atwitter over rare bird sighting on Cape Cod

sports

Donovan Mitchell scored a season-high 41 points, including this dunk over Luke Kornet, on Friday night.

Celtics can’t put away Cavaliers, who get 82 points from their backcourt in overtime win

Second-period surge carries Bruins to shutout victory over Blue Jackets

Sahmir Morales takes to the air for 5 TD passes as Brighton secures Boston City League crown over Latin Academy

business

Packages sit in stacks organized by zip code at the Amazon AGS5 sort facility on October 27, 2022 in Appling, Georgia.

Amazon shares plunge after forecast for sluggish holiday sales

Musk in control of Twitter, ousts top executives

Elon Musk completes $44 billion deal to own Twitter

politics

The exterior of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is pictured where Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is being treated in San Francisco, on Friday.

Attack on Paul Pelosi was ‘intentional,’ SFPD Chief says

Ex-Capitol police officer found guilty of obstruction in Jan. 6 case

Oz says abortion decisions should involve women, doctors — and local politicians

Nation

Law enforcement officials gather on the street in front of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco residence, where her husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked by an intruder earlier in the morning on Oct. 28.

Attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband increases fears of political violence

Miami Beach condo building near deadly collapse evacuated

Penn State scraps center touted as ‘just the beginning’ of racial justice

World

Hannah Pick-Goslar, then 69, is interviewed by the Associated Press at her Jerusalem apartment on Feb. 4, 1998.

Anne Frank’s friend Hannah Pick-Goslar dies at age 93

UN: 2022 likely deadliest for Palestinians in West Bank

17 Australian women, children return from Syrian camp

opinion

Communities hit a maddening lag from the DPU in green energy bids

Watchful, hopeful as Gulf of Maine floating wind project advances

We’ve seen downturns before. Boston-area office market will be OK.

lifestyle

Guests pose in costume at an early Halloween party hosted by the queer event organizers LGBTQ Nightlife Events.

Drag balls, masquerades, and spooky bears: queer nightlife this Halloweekend

8 New England-based horror films to haunt your Halloween

His wife texted me, pretending to be him

food & dining

Happy Halloween, and may all the candy bars in your bucket be full-size.

These are the best and worst candies of Halloween

A new bar in Providence makes you feel like you’re in downtown Nashville

Yellow Door Taqueria plans to open in Mission Hill; Dragon Pizza expands in Somerville

travel

Hertz Global Holdings Inc. office in San Francisco.

Hertz demands $658 one year after rear-end crash with rental

Fireplace suites, crafts in Vermont, and guest rooms you can swim up to

Tom Paxton on keeping your cool, the Arizona desert, and all the guilty pleasures

Arts

Yael Bartana, "Mary Koszmary," 2007. One channel video and sound installation 16mm film transferred to DVD color/sound.

At Tufts, dark visions cloud ‘The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East’

At the MFA, ‘Frank Bowling’s Americas’ is a pivotal show for an artist who’s impossible to peg

At UMass Dartmouth, the clitoris gets its close-up

Books

Two men locked in a long battle In ‘The Last Campaign’

Siddhartha Mukherjee on reading essays to relax, novels to escape

Three new books look at the roots of today’s conservatism — and its future

Movies

Wendell, left, voiced by Keegan-Michael Key, and Wild, voiced by Jordan Peele, in a scene from "Wendell & Wild."

Lovers of gross stuff, rejoice — ‘Wendell & Wild’ is plum nasty

‘Aftersun’ is a father-daughter memory play that will stay with you

‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ celebrates the Sun King of American music

Television

Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," which prevailed over "The Wire" in the Globe's Best TV bracket.

Our Best TV bracket is down to eight, and older series are getting some love

Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen announce divorce after 13 years of marriage

Best TV Show bracket: Here’s how you voted in Rounds 1-3

music

Pianist Mitsuko Uchida was the featured soloist in Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, presented on Thursday by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons's baton.

Preparing for Japan, BSO unveils second tour program

Soul searching yields ‘The Skippy White Story,’ rare nuggets from Black Boston artists of the ‘60s

The wiseguy wisdom of Too Much Joy

Theater/Dance

Julian Malone as Lola and the cast of "Kinky Boots" at North Shore Music Theatre.

‘Kinky Boots’ has a hitch in its stride at North Shore Music Theatre

Boston Ballet gears up for ‘As Anticipated,’ an all Forsythe program, next week

Untangling the riddle of Samuel Beckett

globe local

Larry and Morgan Rugg are led by Erik Rodenhiser (right) through the dark rooms of The Lost Museum in Salem.

Some Salem residents haunted by Halloween

The Argument: Should Massachusetts divest its pension fund from fossil fuel companies?

Catalytic converter theft on the rise in Newton

Obituaries

The Rev. Calvin Butts, center, addresses the congregation gathered to hear the speech by Cuban President Fidel Castro, right, while Juanita Vera, at far right, interprets for Castro inside Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, Sunday evening , Oct. 22, 1995 in New York.

The Rev. Calvin Butts, influential pillar of Harlem, dies at 73

Jerry Lee Lewis, groundbreaking, troubled rock ‘n’ roll star, dies at 87

Lucianne Goldberg, key figure in Clinton impeachement, dies