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Steve Poftak to step down as MBTA general manager on Jan. 3

Steve Poftak, general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, will step down on Jan. 3, he said in an email to staff Tuesday afternoon.

Nets reportedly are moving to hire Ime Udoka after letting head coach Steve Nash go
According to league sources, the Celtics would allow the suspended Udoka to coach another team and are unlikely to seek compensation from the Nets if a deal is finalized.

Geoff Diehl is kind of running for governor. Has a haphazard campaign strategy hurt his chances?
Embracing Donald Trump in a state that loathes the former president was never going to be the easiest path to victory. But Geoff Diehl has further diminished his chances, many observers argue, with a head-scratching and haphazard campaign strategy.

Here's our voter guide for the Mass. election

Tom Brady speaks out about divorce from Gisele Bündchen: ‘It’s a very amicable situation’
“I’m really focused on two things: taking care of my family and certainly my children, and secondly, doing the best job I can to win football games.”

No billion dollar jackpot Monday, but nine $50K Powerball tickets sold in Mass.

No one in the US pocketed the $1 billion Powerball jackpot Monday night, and now the prize has climbed to an estimated $1.2 billion for Wednesday’s scheduled drawing.

‘How about $8?’: Elon Musk and Stephen King spar over paying for Twitter verification

‘Treasure Hill,’ a coastal estate at 2 Kidd’s Way in Westerly, Rhode Island closed on Oct. 31, 2022 for $17.7 million, marking the highest sale in Rhode Island so far this year.

R.I.’s highest home sale so far this year is a $17.7m coastal estate in Watch Hill

People sift through used clothes that are sold at a Goodwill Outlet Center on July 27, 2022 in Hackensack, N.J. Goodwill and other stores help keep millions of pounds of clothing out of landfills annually.

Mass. has banned the disposal of mattresses and textiles. Here’s how to get rid of them.

A new state ban on the disposal of mattresses, clothes, and shoes has lots of people asking a simple question: How do we get rid of all that stuff?

AG’s office offered $200,000 to man who spent 36 years in prison for a wrongful conviction. A jury awarded him $33 million.
Maura Healey’s last-minute offer to Fred Weichel underscores the pivotal role her office plays in compensation cases.

The cost of building in Boston keeps going up. That’s making real estate more expensive, too.
Residential and commercial developers alike are grappling with costly shipping and production delays.

These beavers don’t get along — that’s for dam sure. But their antics have made them social media stars.
“Everyone’s losing their minds over Nibi. It’s hilarious,” said Jane Newhouse, who runs Newhouse Wildlife Rescue in Chelmsford. “And Nibi’s only care in the world is getting Ziibi away from her.”

Coach Bill Belichick will stick with the roster he has as the Patriots head into Week 9 of the season.

Patriots make no moves as the NFL trade deadline passes

Plenty of calls were made and fielded but nothing materialized, and the club will head into the final nine games of the season with the core of its roster intact.

Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, schools Clarence Thomas, its longest-serving member

In recusing herself from the Harvard admissions case, the newest member of the Supreme Court offered an object lesson in judicial ethics to someone who should know better.

Todd English.

As Charlestown’s Figs turns 30, Todd English reflects on highs, lows, and weed-infused macaroni and cheese

"I feel like I have a master’s degree in food, but I’m always studying for my PhD."

Best TV Shows bracket

"All in the Family" (left) and "Seinfeld" will face each other in the final round of the Globe's bracket for best TV series of the last 50 years.

And then there were two: It’s ‘All in the Family’ vs. ‘Seinfeld’ in the Best TV finals

"The Sopranos" was eliminated in a tight contest versus the Bunkers, while "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" lost to its sitcom opposite, "Seinfeld."

Vote in the finals of our Best TV Shows bracket Here’s how you voted in Rounds 1-5 What’s the best TV show of the last 50 years? You decide.

Opinion

If Question 1 passes, and promises are kept, we should expect to see combined spending on education and transportation shoot up by up to $2 billion almost overnight.

Yes on Question 1

The proposed constitutional amendment would make the state’s income tax fairer than it is now.

The ‘civility’ party could use some humanity

Laurence H. Tribe, Jeffrey Abramson, and Dennis Aftergut

Americans can stop political violence — if we choose

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

The economic dominance of the US and Europe gets more challengers

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

The end of affirmative action is just the beginning for this Supreme Court

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

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.

See the full Women & Power issue from Globe Magazine

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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Play this Boston Globe crossword puzzle from 1917 150 years, 150 front pages

More recent stories

Julie Powell, food writer known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ dies at 49
Julie Powell narrated her struggles in the kitchen in a funny, lacerating voice that struck a nerve with a rising generation of disaffected contemporaries.

Chief Justice John Roberts delays handover of Trump’s tax returns to House committee

Chief Justice John Roberts's order to temporarily hold Donald Trump's tax returns gives the Supreme Court time to weigh the legal issues in Trump’s emergency appeal to the high court, which was filed Monday.

Supreme Court clears way for Senator Lindsey Graham’s testimony in Georgia

Families unleash grief and anger on Parkland school shooter
For hours, parents, wives, siblings, children of the murder victims and some of the 17 also wounded on Valentine’s Day 2018 stood 20 feet from Nikolas Cruz. They looked the shackled killer in the eye and gave vehement, angry, and sometimes tearful statements.

New Abigail Adams statue to be unveiled in Quincy, nearly a decade after original sculpture was removed

A new bronze statue of the celebrated Revolutionary War-era figure will be dedicated Saturday in Quincy, where the former first lady, opponent of slavery, and champion of women lived for part of her life and where she’s now buried.

INNOVATION BEAT

Boston Dynamics is teaching its robots new tricks
Waltham-based robotics company Boston Dynamics, known for its viral YouTube clips, is developing new skills for its robots to show off.

Johnson & Johnson buys Danvers medical device firm Abiomed for $16.6 billion

Word of the deal sent the local company’s stock up by more than 50 percent.

Recommended reads

Mount Hayes in Gorham, N.H. Climate change may shift the colors and the timing of fall foliage in the future.

Is climate change coming for New England’s fall foliage?

Climate change is exacerbating extreme weather events, driving famine, and increasing risk of violent conflict. It could also change our world in subtler ways, like when it comes to New England's beloved fall foliage.

Phillies, Eagles bring a bounce to beleaguered Philadelphia
“If there was one city that needed this, it was us,” said Michael Snock, a full-time teacher and part-time bartender, who lives within cheering distance of Citizens Bank Park.

FBI identifies ‘Lady of the Dunes’ nearly 50 years after woman’s mutilated body was found in Provincetown
Law enforcement officials on Monday identified the victim as Ruth Marie Terry, a Tennessee woman who was 37 at the time of her death. The gruesome and mysterious 1974 case has haunted Cape Cod investigators for decades.

For two years, Natick has kept a secret. A police officer allegedly sexually assaulted a dispatcher.
Police initially dismissed the alleged assault as a “rumor” and the town is still trying to withhold records of the case.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Butter boards designed by Sally Pasley Vargas.

We turned our noses up at the butter board trend taking over social media. Then we tried them.

Artist Anukriti poses for a portrait with “In place of monuments,” left, and “Mother Militant,” in their exhibition "A Temple for Timeless Beasts" at Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts.

Anukriti questions who gets to be godly in ‘A Temple for Timeless Beasts’

Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna and Daniel Radcliffe as "Weird Al" Yankovic in "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story."

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic tells his life’s story . . . sort of

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift announces ‘The Eras Tour’ with two stops at Gillette in May

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

From left to right, China's President Xi Jinping, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro at the BRICS summit in Brasilia, Brazil, on Nov. 14, 2019.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

The economic dominance of the US and Europe gets more challengers

Activists rallied outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Monday, as the justices heard oral arguments in the affirmative action cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr

The end of affirmative action is just the beginning for this Supreme Court

"Americans don’t eat enough already?" one reader quipped.

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Postprandial nibbles

Protesters gathered on Boston Common on Sept. 24 to protest Iran's treatment of Iranian women.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Misinterpreting Iran’s smoldering hijab protests

State Auditor candidate Diana DiZoglio advocated for new teacher contracts and equitable pay for educators in Malden and Haverhill outside of Haverhill City Hall on Oct. 15.

Diana DiZoglio is a fearless lawmaker who would be a fearless auditor

IDEAS | JON ROBERTS AND MATT BIVENS

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

Metro

Former assistant majority leader Garrett Bradley fighting to keep his law license

Bradley, once a rising political star, faces the loss of his law license for up to two years for filing error-filled documents under oath in a class action lawsuit.

Ashley Kalus at center of dispute with Illinois contractor

The contractor says Kalus ridiculed and threatened him amid a billing dispute four years ago. Her campaign says the disparaging messages show the GOP gubernatorial candidate is “a fighter” who “stood up for herself.”

Mass. has banned the disposal of mattresses and textiles. Here’s how to get rid of them.

A new state ban on the disposal of mattresses, clothes, and shoes has lots of people asking a simple question: How do we get rid of all that stuff?

Tori's Story: Tori Lynn Andreozzi

Tori Lynn Andreozzi, who was struck and nearly killed by a drunk driver in 2003 when she was 12, died on Nov. 1, 2022.

Sports

With the return of senior Emma Reilly, defending Division 1 champion Andover has the depth and talent to make a run at a repeat.

MIAA FIELD HOCKEY TOURNAMENT

MIAA field hockey tournament: Favorites, best first-round matchups for Divisions 1-4

Walpole (17-1), Masconomet (15-0-3), Watertown (17-0), and Uxbridge (18-0) earn the top seeds in 137-team field.

Bradley Chubb had 5½ sacks in eight games with Denver this season,

NFL trade tracker

What went down at the NFL trade deadline

The Patriots did not make any moves, but the Dolphins landed linebacker Bradley Chubb from Denver.

Coach Bill Belichick will stick with the roster he has as the Patriots head into Week 9 of the season.

Patriots make no moves as the NFL trade deadline passes

Plenty of calls were made and fielded but nothing materialized, and the club will head into the final nine games of the season with the core of its roster intact.

bruins notebook

Brad Marchand says facing Penguins doesn’t stir any bad memories for him

Nets reportedly are moving to hire Ime Udoka after letting head coach Steve Nash go

Chris Sale will not opt out, so he’s under contract with Red Sox for two more seasons

Business

Elon Musk’s Twitter faces exodus of advertisers and executives

Twitter has been in disarray as the company adjusts to a new reality under Musk, who closed his $44 billion buyout of the firm last week.

‘How about $8?’: Elon Musk and Stephen King spar over paying for Twitter verification

Billionaire and new Twitter owner Elon Musk is reportedly calling for paid verification on the platform, charging users $20 a month for the coveted blue checkmark.

Ex-Klaviyo engineer launches startup to personalize retail, events

Johnson & Johnson buys Danvers medical device firm Abiomed for $16.6 billion

magazine

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts 2022

Barbara Clarke began investing in women-owned companies in 2013.

Women & Power 2022

‘Write the damn check’: How female funders can help women entrepreneurs grow

Election campaign badge button with the word "Her" written on it

Women & Power 2022

Despite its progressive reputation, Massachusetts has lagged in women’s representation

MIT student Elizabeth E. Brennan (left) and Boston University student Victoria Gonzalez-Canalle work on signs for the Sept. 14 Stand Up and Be Counted rally held at MIT, which Gonzalez-Canalle helped organize.

Women & Power 2022

‘FemTech’ and a moonshot for menstruation science

metro

While a spike in the respiratory virus called RSV — respiratory syncytial virus — is already filling children’s hospitals, new research shows vaccinating pregnant women helped protect their newborns from the infection.

Strong RSV vaccine data lifts hopes after years of futility

AG’s office offered $200,000 to man who spent 36 years in prison for a wrongful conviction. A jury awarded him $33 million.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, schools Clarence Thomas, its longest-serving member

sports

Marcus Brady (above) was hired by Colts coach Frank Reich in 2018 as quarterbacks coach and was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2021.

Ahead of Week 9 game with Patriots, Colts fire offensive coordinator Marcus Brady

With the trade deadline closing in, the Patriots have a few pieces they could move in a deal

Tom Brady speaks out about divorce from Gisele Bündchen: ‘It’s a very amicable situation’

business

‘Treasure Hill,’ a coastal estate at 2 Kidd’s Way in Westerly, Rhode Island closed on Oct. 31, 2022 for $17.7 million, marking the highest sale in Rhode Island so far this year.

R.I.’s highest home sale so far this year is a $17.7m coastal estate in Watch Hill

The cost of building in Boston keeps going up. That’s making real estate more expensive, too.

Boston Dynamics is teaching its robots new tricks

politics

Senator Lindsey Graham.

Supreme Court clears way for Senator Lindsey Graham’s testimony in Georgia

Man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi is held without bail

Biden aims to drive GOP contrast in Florida 1 week out

Nation

Takeoff of the group Migos performed during the 2019 BET Experience in Los Angeles in June 2019.

Migos rapper Takeoff dead after Houston shooting, representative says

Families unleash grief and anger on Parkland school shooter

‘Bluey,’ ‘Funny Girl’ set for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

World

This August 2019 photo provided by The University Of Western Australia shows part of the Posidonia australis seagrass meadow in Australia's Shark Bay. If protected, these seagrasses can play a crucial role in slowing the climate emergency, as the world moves to deploy a diverse range of strategies to capture carbon from the atmosphere,” said Austin Gallagher, lead scientist of the study and the chief executive of nonprofit Beneath the Waves. “This discovery should give us hope for the future of our oceans.”

Shark-human alliance uncovers world’s largest sea prairie

Russia broadens push to relocate civilians as battle for Kherson looms

Israelis vote again, as political crisis grinds on

opinion

Police tape blocks a street outside the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi in San Francisco on Oct. 28.

The violence next time

Misinterpreting Iran’s smoldering hijab protests

Mexico to daylight saving time: ¡Adiós!

lifestyle

Love Letters Podcast 11/1/22

Ana in Paris

Literary greats buried throughout New England

We’ve never taken a vacation together

food & dining

White Bean and Quinoa "Falafel" Sandwiches.

Recipe: Like falafel, but not fried, these white bean and quinoa balls are perfect in pita

Recipe: Golden sausages cooked in apple cider are served with delicious pan juices on mashed potatoes

N.H. couple finding joy in mushrooms

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

Artist Anukriti poses for a portrait with “In place of monuments,” left, and “Mother Militant,” in their exhibition "A Temple for Timeless Beasts" at Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts.

Anukriti questions who gets to be godly in ‘A Temple for Timeless Beasts’

Interested in exploring original Salem witch trials manuscripts? A new project makes it easier.

New Abigail Adams statue to be unveiled in Quincy, nearly a decade after original sculpture was removed

Books

Jerry and Elaine talk at the coffee shop, a familiar scene featured in "Seinfeld: The Official Cookbook."

Yes, soup for you! ‘Seinfeld: The Official Cookbook’ serves up references and recipes

Gerald Stern, poet of wistfulness, anger, and humor, dies at 97

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

Movies

Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna and Daniel Radcliffe as "Weird Al" Yankovic in "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story."

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic tells his life’s story . . . sort of

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

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

Television

"All in the Family" (left) and "Seinfeld" will face each other in the final round of the Globe's bracket for best TV series of the last 50 years.

And then there were two: It’s ‘All in the Family’ vs. ‘Seinfeld’ in the Best TV finals

Best TV Show bracket: Here’s how you voted in Rounds 1-5

Vote in the finals of our Best TV Shows bracket

music

Chris Anzalone is the new owner of Stereo Jack's, which has moved from its longtime location on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge to Ball Square in Somerville.

Jack has left the building, but Stereo Jack’s goes on

Taylor Swift announces ‘The Eras Tour’ with two stops at Gillette in May

Philippe Jaroussky and Artaserse share camaraderie in opera seria

Theater/Dance

Leah Hohauser in Actors' Shakespeare Project's "Let the Right One In."

In a chilling ‘Let the Right One In,’ there will be blood

BoSoma and City Ballet of Boston dance ‘Side by Side’

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

globe local

A rendering of the new public safety building in Quincy.

Costs soar for city’s new public safety building

Newton superintendent search committee adds four members —but no designated teachers union representative

Some Salem residents haunted by Halloween

Obituaries

Ms. Powell (fourth from left) watched her guests dig into her catfish steamed in banana leaves in New York in 2004.

Julie Powell, food writer known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ dies at 49

Sy Presten, press agent so old-fashioned he was news, dies at 98

Roz Wyman, who helped bring the Dodgers to Los Angeles, dies at 92