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Signing of Mitchell Miller difficult for many Bruins to comprehend

"He’s got a lot of work to do,'' said veteran Brad Marchand.

Tara Sullivan: Bruins’ justifications for signing Mitchell Miller are not convincing Bruins informed that Mitchell Miller has not been granted the right to play in the NHL

Midterm Elections

Question 1 supporters make final push before Election Day
Question 1 targets the state’s flat 5 percent state income by adding an additional 4 percent tax on every dollar of taxable income earned over $1 million.

Biden, Trump, and Obama converge on Pennsylvania on last weekend before election

President Joe Biden, and former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump are all campaigning in Pennsylvania, a state that has a tight race for US Senate.

Analysis: As midterms draw near, the ‘balance of power’ takes center stage. So why does it matter? In Arizona, the guardrails of democracy may be about to fall

Unseasonably warm temps in Mass., but not yet a record breaker, meteorologist says
“it almost feels like early September weather,” said Bill Simpson, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Norton said late Saturday afternoon. “It’s pretty warm and humid, but that will start declining slowly on Sunday.”

Singer-rapper Aaron Carter dies in California at age 34
Singer-rapper Aaron Carter was found dead Saturday at his home in Southern California. He was 34.

For Massachusetts, a giant step forward, and an effort to drag us back

Come January, five of our six constitutional officers could be women. We’re finally making progress, despite those who still want to hold us back.

Genevieve Bien-Aime, 36, a Cambridge native, on the rooftop space of her favorite Houston dining and entertainment spot, POST Houston.

Why some young Black Bostonians are choosing to move to the South

Some are returning to the states their ancestors were itching to leave. Others, without Southern roots, are planting their own seeds.

Eight-hour waiting times. Patients leaving before being seen. Mass. hospital emergency departments are beyond the brink.
Hospital emergency departments across Massachusetts and the nation are teetering under unprecedented forces. Patients, often in pain, are waiting ever longer for care. And many are just leaving without being seen.

Jeneé Osterheldt

Twitter and what it means when violence has a megaphone
From Ye and Kyrie to Elon Musk and David DePape, we have to denounce hate and recognize truth.

Musk’s Twitter layoffs include some in Boston office

Kyrie Irving was suspended for at least five games by the Nets.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Kyrie Irving appears to be his own worst enemy, and the mess in Brooklyn continues to spiral

His stubbornness has only gotten him suspended, and honestly, on the verge of being out of the NBA.

Nike splits with Kyrie Irving amid antisemitism fallout

Halifax has been operating with a one-man Select Board since August, with Jonathan Selig running the show.

Abrupt resignations leave one man running the Halifax Select Board on his own

Since August, when a day of resignations rendered him the only administrative official in Halifax, Jonathan Selig has been running the Select Board’s weekly meetings solo. He moves a motion, seconds that motion, and approves it all by himself with a unanimous vote.

The oldest coach in the NFL, Seattle's Pete Carroll is proving that his methods aren’t getting stale.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Counted out by many, the Seahawks are flying high with Geno Smith and Pete Carroll

The Seahawks finished 7-10 in 2021, their first losing season in a decade, and their offseason was highlighted by major subtractions.

Bono onstage Friday night at the Orpheum Theatre, the second stop on book tour marking the publication of his new memoir, “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.”

With tales to tell and songs to sing, Bono brings his book tour to the Orpheum

“Stories of Surrender” featured the Irish singer in a theatrical setting, alternating between recitations from the book and spare versions of selected U2 classics.

Best TV Shows bracket

Readers voted over two weeks for the best TV show of the last 50 years.

As the credits roll, 5 closing thoughts on our Best TV Show bracket

Only one show out of 64 made it to the end, but the choices voters made through all six rounds offered some interesting revelations along the way.

‘All in the Family,’ a sitcom that has stood the test of time, is our readers’ choice for TV’s best See the complete bracket

Opinion

Lawmakers’ dereliction of duty on the issue of tax reform has at least caused a small flurry of promises to correct the omission next year.

Tax relief gets short shrift on Beacon Hill

Lawmakers dropped the ball on a $3.8 billion spending bill. Better believe they’ll be held to promises to do better next year.

IDEAS | TOM SHEEHAN

Salutes of a special kind

A chorus of concerns ahead of Nov. 8

MARCELA GARCÍA

Biden’s purported plan to send Haitian asylum seekers to Guantánamo is racist history repeating itself

Sarah A. Font and Naomi Schaefer Riley

Massachusetts’ policies failed Harmony Montgomery

Emancipator road trip. Photo Illustration by Alex LaSalvia.

The Emancipator

The Great Election Road Trip

Join us in a tour across the country highlighting activists, issues, and races ahead of next week’s midterm elections.

High Med. Low

Select a county:

Special reports

Photo illustration

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.

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

globe 150 magazine cover

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.

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

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A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt

The Hispanic History I Carry With Me: Ayodele Casel
A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Hispanic Heritage and Latino joy, as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

no. 7 holy cross 42, lehigh 14Holy Cross steamrolls Lehigh, rushing for 338 yards and five TDs to clinch fourth straight Patriot League title
Jordan Fuller rushed for three TDs for the Crusaders (9-0, 5-0 Patriot League) while quarterback Matthew Sluka ran for 146 yards and a TD and Peter Oliver ran for 136 yards and a TD.

Suffolk prosecutor suspended as wrongly convicted man alleges misconduct

Robert Foxworth, who was exonerated in 2021, served an additional nine years in prison after prosecutor Mark Lee learned in 2007 from a federal informant that Foxworth was innocent, according to a complaint filed Thursday with the Board of Bar Overseers.

Man killed Friday night in South End shooting
The man was shot and killed near the area of the MBTA Back Bay station. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Boston police.

Israeli army shoots dead Palestinian teenager throwing rocks
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Saturday that Israeli forces shot and killed a young man in the occupied West Bank.

First participant in test of custom gene editing therapy dies
Terry Horgan, 27, was signed up for an experimental treatment aimed at correcting a genetic mutation that caused his muscular dystrophy.

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Connections | Magazine

A note to my realtor: My front door may be dated, but my home is full of family memories.

If a buyer objects, tell her the beveled glass casts rainbows on the stairs that her toddler will follow as the sun rises.

TRENDSPOTTING

A pandemic trend that seems to be sticking around: walking the world
Companies that offer walking tours report big spikes in business compared to before the pandemic. And some destinations are blazing ambitious new walking trails to attract travelers.

Photos: Harvest time in the cranberry bogs is a Mass. tradition
The cranberry harvest is a scene that has played out in Massachusetts bogs for generations.

After hard lessons learned from Alex and Ani, Carolyn Rafaelian comes back with Metal Alchemist
Two years after she was pushed out of the jewelry company she founded, the business woman is back in control, creating American-made products and sticking firmly to her Rhode Island roots.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Mikhail Baryshnikov in "The Orchard," sharing the stage with a robotic arm.

Mikhail Baryshnikov explores ‘The Orchard’ anew, with robot in tow

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in a scene from the 1944 movie "Double Indemnity" (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Getty Images)

‘It’s a bitter little world’: Noirvember in Boston

Andre Strongbearheart. Gaines Cultural Steward of the Nipmuc Tribe, took a minute to rest while burning a traditional mishoon (canoe) at the Charlestown Little Mystic Boat Slip. Organized by leaders in in the Nipmuc and Massachusett tribes, it is the first burn and launch of a traditional mishoon in the city limits of Boston in countless generations.

Indigenous tribes hold Boston’s first mishoon burning in more than 300 years

A crowd turns out for a performance by rapper Entellekt at the Drake in Amherst. The town’s first-ever dedicated music venue, with a capacity of 250, opened in May.

In Western Mass., a vibrant music scene gets a makeover

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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Venezuelan migrants arrive at Canaán Membrillo village, the first border control of the Darién Province in Panama. The perilous journey through the Darién Gap typically takes five or six days and puts migrants at the mercy of many hazards: bad weather, venomous snakes, impassable swamps, and drug traffickers who use the same routes to move cocaine into Central America.

IDEAS | MARCELA GARCÍA

A 6,000-mile trek to limbo

An area of forest on fire near a logging area in Humaita, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Amazonas on Sept. 17. President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised to reverse a surge in deforestation in the Amazon rain forest.

Saving the Amazon requires change in Brazil but also in the US and Europe

Right before Congress broke for August recess, many Republicans joined forces with Democrats to pass the Respect for Marriage Act.

Elissa Asch and Laurie Essig

GOP didn’t unite to ban gay marriage like it united on abortion

Voters lined up to put their ballots in the voting machine during the New Hampshire primary on Sept. 13 in Bedford, N.H.

Taking the political pulse of purple New Hampshire

Don Bolduc, center, during a campaign appearance at the American Legion in Laconia, N.H., on Sept. 10.

IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The extremist in New Hampshire who might flip the Senate

Metro

Question 1 supporters make final push before Election Day

Question 1 targets the state’s flat 5 percent state income by adding an additional 4 percent tax on every dollar of taxable income earned over $1 million.

Why some young Black Bostonians are choosing to move to the South

Some are returning to the states their ancestors were itching to leave. Others, without Southern roots, are planting their own seeds.

Dow Finsterwald, first PGA champion in stroke play, dies at 93

More than a major champion and Ryder Cup player, Dow Finsterwald devoted his life to golf as the longtime professional at The Broadmoor in Colorado.

For Massachusetts, a giant step forward, and an effort to drag us back

Come January, five of our six constitutional officers could be women. We’re finally making progress, despite those who still want to hold us back.

Sports

Marcus Cannon has appeared in five games this season, often playing as a jumbo tight end on the offensive line.

Patriots notebook

Patriots place offensive tackle Marcus Cannon on injured reserve

The team already had ruled Cannon out for Sunday’s game against the Indianapolis Colts.

Kyrie Irving was suspended for at least five games by the Nets.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Kyrie Irving appears to be his own worst enemy, and the mess in Brooklyn continues to spiral

His stubbornness has only gotten him suspended, and honestly, on the verge of being out of the NBA.

Some of the 10-1-0 Bruins worry that the troubled Mitchell Miller could disrupt a team culture they have worked very carefully to build.

Signing of Mitchell Miller difficult for many Bruins to comprehend

"He’s got a lot of work to do,'' said veteran Brad Marchand.

Ross Chastain, an eighth-generation watermelon farmer turned viral sensation, eyes his first NASCAR title

Dow Finsterwald, first PGA champion in stroke play, dies at 93

Commissioner Gary Bettman has informed Bruins that Mitchell Miller has not been granted the right to play in the NHL

Business

Biden, Trump, and Obama converge on Pennsylvania on last weekend before election

President Joe Biden, and former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump are all campaigning in Pennsylvania, a state that has a tight race for US Senate.

French far-right party elects new leader to replace Le Pen

An ambitious 27-year-old is vying against a longtime heavyweight in France’s main far-right party to replace Marine Le Pen as leader of the resurgent National Rally in a contest culminating Saturday at a party congress.

Twitter slashes its staff as Musk era takes hold on platform

Jeneé Osterheldt

Twitter and what it means when violence has a megaphone

magazine

Designer Hannah Guilford reinterpreted the kitchen’s color scheme, adding touches of brass, copper, and wood, and adjusted the layout so it functions smoothly for cooking, eating, and accessing the yard.

Kitchens and Baths

A designer remakes a Maine kitchen in a 1920s-era palette that’s fresh and family ready

I froze my eggs. Now I’m in the middle of the abortion fight.

‘My sister-in-law has mandated that we not exchange Christmas presents this year’

Savory Kale and Two-Cheese Scones

Recipes: Fresh breads and scones for breakfast

metro

Janet Cook, photographed at her home in Norfolk, waited in a wheelchair for nearly eight hours in an emergency department in October before an inpatient bed opened up.

Eight-hour waiting times. Patients leaving before being seen. Mass. hospital emergency departments are beyond the brink.

The letter room

The Hispanic History I Carry With Me: Ayodele Casel

sports

The Bruins improved to 10-1 with Thursday night's win over the Rangers at Madison Square Garden.

Here are some of the biggest bright spots from the Bruins’ red-hot start

A winner in high school and college, Jabrill Peppers knew nothing but losing in the NFL. He signed with the Patriots to change that.

Noel Buck plays for the Revolution but finds time to cheer on his childhood friends at Arlington High

business

Terry Horgan with his dog, Mischief, in 2021.

First participant in test of custom gene editing therapy dies

Musk’s Twitter layoffs include some in Boston office

Claire Cheney is reinventing the spice trade with Curio Spice Co.

politics

Democratic nominee for Senate Mandela Barnes greeted supporters during an Asian American Pacific Islander Caucus meet and greet event at Mai Cafe Breakfast, Bar & Grill on Friday in Madison, Wisc.

For Democrats, anxiety mounts as it’s all on the line. Again.

Obama to Democrats: ‘Sulking and moping is not an option’

Biden, Trump, and Obama converge on Pennsylvania on last weekend before election

Nation

Singer Aaron Carter arrives at a premiere of "Saints & Strangers" at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif., Nov. 9, 2015.

Singer-rapper Aaron Carter dies in California at age 34

Deadly tornadoes hit Texas and Oklahoma, flatten buildings

Nevada secretary of state declines to lift hand-count ban

World

Palestinian protesters hurl rocks during clashes with Israeli security forces at the northern entrance to the city of Ramallah, near the Israeli settlement of Beit El in the occupied West Bank, after a demonstration by students from Birzeit University on November 5, 2022.

Israeli army shoots dead Palestinian teenager throwing rocks

Republican gains in Congress would pressure Biden on Ukraine and Iran

Pope tells Bahrain youths to seek real advice, not Google

opinion

Venezuelan migrants arrive at Canaán Membrillo village, the first border control of the Darién Province in Panama. The perilous journey through the Darién Gap typically takes five or six days and puts migrants at the mercy of many hazards: bad weather, venomous snakes, impassable swamps, and drug traffickers who use the same routes to move cocaine into Central America.

A 6,000-mile trek to limbo

On Boston Common, dreams and responsibilities

Children in crisis need care, but from where?

lifestyle

This breakup has me wondering: Am I a terrible person?

How much should we really worry about MCAS scores?

Indigenous tribes hold Boston’s first mishoon burning in more than 300 years

food & dining

Claire Cheney believes that her North Cambridge-based company, Curio Spice Co., is doing its part to bring a sense of wonder back into the world of spices.

Claire Cheney is reinventing the spice trade with Curio Spice Co.

Gael Greene and Julie Powell changed food writing forever

In Inman Square, Bom Dough is a worthy successor to the East Coast Grill

travel

South Portland-based Brant & Cochran makes two hand-forged portable axes — the Allagash Cruiser and Dirigo Belt camp axes — that are perfect for chopping wood for smokeless fire pits or taking on canoeing and camping adventures.

A power outage party, belly laughs in N.Y., and axes made in Maine

She loves Greece, her parents, and coming back to Boston

Lufthansa canceled my flight a year ago. Where’s the refund?

Arts

Marc Swanson, "A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco," at Mass MoCA, 2022.

At Mass MoCA, dead deer and disco lights elegize a dying world

Jemila MacEwan’s ‘Human Meteorite’ surveys a scarred planet

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

Books

A nurse practitioner talks to a patient and holds her hand while a doctor administers an IV at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago in 2020.

A doctor examines his profession, and his choices

The loss of their mother tests sibling bonds in ‘Flight’

Chuck Wendig finds comfort in horror

Movies

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in a scene from the 1944 movie "Double Indemnity" (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Getty Images)

‘It’s a bitter little world’: Noirvember in Boston

When Opportunity (and Spirit) knocked, NASA knew just what to do

Jennifer Lawrence gives a career-defining performance in ‘Causeway’

Television

David Letterman, pictured interviewing former president Barack Obama on "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction" in 2018, most recently traveled to Ukraine to interview that nation's president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Letterman-Zelensky interview will air by year’s end

As the credits roll, 5 closing thoughts on our Best TV Show bracket

What’s it like to be on ‘Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions’? A Cambridge resident calls it an ‘amazing experience.’

music

Bono onstage Friday night at the Orpheum Theatre, the second stop on book tour marking the publication of his new memoir, “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.”

With tales to tell and songs to sing, Bono brings his book tour to the Orpheum

Twitter and what it means when violence has a megaphone

Strauss’s ‘Alpine Symphony’ keeps the BSO running up that hill

Theater/Dance

Tyson Ali Clark in William Forsythe's "Approximate Sonata," as part of the Boston Ballet's "As Anticipated."

Boston Ballet rises to the challenge of Forsythe

Dancing to the good vibrations of Carol Kaye, trailblazer

In ‘Six,’ the ill-fated wives of Henry VIII are re-imagined as pop divas

globe local

Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia addresses the council.

City inching towards reparations commission

Back on the home front

The Argument: Should Massachusetts eliminate the subminimum wage for restaurant workers?

Obituaries

Dow Finsterwald, the non-playing captain of the American Ryder Cup Team, held up the cup after presentation on the 18th green by Princess Alexandra at the Royal Lytham and St. Anne's Golf Course in Lytham St Annes, England, on Sept. 17, 1977.

Dow Finsterwald, first PGA champion in stroke play, dies at 93

Philip Hiat, rabbi who forged bonds with other faiths, dies at 95

George Booth, New Yorker cartoonist of sublime zaniness, dies at 96