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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.

Midterm Elections

For Democrats, anxiety mounts as it’s all on the line. Again.
Two years ago, Democrats thought they had banished Donald Trump for good. But a chilling concern for the party has set in that Republicans could take control of Congress in Tuesday's elections.

Democrats seek to topple Bristol County’s sheriff Will voters stick with Biden outlook or take US another way? Question 1 supporters make final push before Election Day

Everyone thought this Republican would be easier to beat. He may win anyway.
Democrats find themselves in trouble, in a race that will test both New Hampshire’s appetite for hard-right candidates and the nation’s disappointment with the party in power.

Boston breaks high temperature record on a balmy November day
Temperatures in the region soared past 70 for the third day running on Sunday.

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.

$1 million Powerball ticket sold in Boxborough, six $50,000 winners sold across Mass.
The $1 million ticket was sold at an Energy North gas station at 1425 Massachusetts Ave. in Boxborough, the Massachusetts Lottery said in a statement. Two of the six $50,000 winning tickets were sold in Marshfield, and the others were bought in Buzzards Bay, Marlborough, Mashpee, and Pembroke,

‘A step toward healing:’ Barre museum returns looted Wounded Knee artifacts to Lakota

In an emotional, poignant, and at times joyful two-hour public ceremony Saturday afternoon, the leadership of the Founders Museum symbolically returned more than 130 artifacts to representatives from the Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne River tribes.

Colts owner Jim Irsay has been on a crusade against Commanders owner Daniel Snyder

Irsay said last month he believes there is merit to remove Snyder as owner.
Red Sox

With massive financial flexibility, how will the Red Sox approach a crucial offseason?

“We’re entering an offseason where we will have more options in front of us,” said Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

The GOP does not deserve control of Congress

Voters must make clear that extremism and election denial will not be tolerated at the ballot box.
JEFF JACOBY

What the Yes on Question 1 and No on Question 4 campaigns have in common
RENÉE GRAHAM

The most important election of our lifetime, part 4
EDITORIAL

Tax relief gets short shrift on Beacon Hill
IDEAS | TOM SHEEHAN

Salutes of a special kind
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.
Seattle Team

Her marriage was in trouble. Something drew her to the OZ Museum.

Laura Fredrickson needed time to think. So the 34-year-old from St. Paul set out on a road trip. Somewhere on the way, while Googling roadside attractions, she turned up one that made her heart leap — the OZ Museum in Wamego, Kan.
Boston Team

Tailgating with the families of University of Wisconsin football players — and Drew Bledsoe

The crowd includes an octogenarian here to support her grandson, a safety who she proudly notes has already been setting records; a single mom from Wichita whose son would go on to score the Badgers’ first touchdown of the afternoon; and two former New England Patriots.
Los Angeles team

Inside the weird, wonderful world of Las Vegas Elvis impersonators

Elvis drives a temperamental pink Cadillac with no seat belts and unreliable brakes. He is running late for an appearance in a Mexican Independence Day parade. This may be my fault.
Miami Team

A mother’s loss after the Oklahoma City bombing is seared in a photo we can’t forget

The picture from the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 resurfaces from time to time — and I always think about the baby’s parents. What effect has it had on them? Now I know.
Mass. coronavirus at a glance
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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.
Part 2: A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau
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.
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.
Play this Boston Globe crossword puzzle from 1917 150 years, 150 front pages

More recent stories

North Adams woman is arrested and charged with allegedly killing her grandmother

Kelsie Cote, 26, of North Adams, allegedly murdered 74-year-old Doris Cote at the woman's home on Church Street on Halloween night, officials said Saturday.

Former state official wins $820,000 in lawsuit against state

A nearly eight-year legal battle has ended in victory for a former chairwoman of the state’s Sex Offender Registry Board who had alleged that former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick wrongfully terminated her in 2014.

Meta to start laying off thousands of staff this week, Wall Street Journal says

Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to begin layoffs that will affect thousands of workers from this week, Wall Street Journal reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

LOVE LETTERS
He slept with me the night he broke up with me
“... acting coldly after.”

Lawmakers lift cap on new building at Devens
State set to lift cap on commercial development at former Fort Devens, which is now Massachusetts' largest industrial park.

Five juveniles arrested after a multiple-community pursuit in connection with gunfire
Five juveniles face charges in connection with firearms recovered in the vehicle, according to Worcester police.

Recommended reads

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.

APPRECIATION | DEVRA FIRST
Gael Greene and Julie Powell changed food writing forever
The restaurant critic and the blogger struck very different tones, but both women challenged their medium by ignoring its conventions and deploying their own authentic voices.

Soccer Mommy’s Sophie Allison is making herself heard, quietly
Touring off her recent album, “Sometimes, Forever,” the singer-songwriter comes to House of Blues Sunday.

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.

video

Culture & Lifestyle

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

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

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

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

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

EDITORIAL

An interactive guide to the Boston Globe’s 2022 endorsements
LETTERS

A chorus of concerns ahead of Nov. 8
Raoni Rajão

Saving the Amazon requires change in Brazil but also in the US and Europe
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
IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The extremist in New Hampshire who might flip the Senate

Metro

City inching toward reparations commission

This is only the second working session convened by city councilors to discuss an appointed reparations commission.

Former state official wins $820,000 in lawsuit against state

Saundra Edwards won damages of more than $820,000 Wednesday in her whistleblower lawsuit filed against Patrick and the Commonwealth in Essex Superior Court. The jury awarded Edwards $443,512 in back pay, $327,030 in retirement benefits, and $50,000 for emotional distress, according to court documents.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Pandemic learning losses could cost Massachusetts students $21 billion in future earnings

With higher-poverty districts showing the most lost learning, the pandemic’s effects, if not remedied, are likely to widen income inequality and generally have worse consequences for high-needs students.

Alan E. Lewis, travel industry executive and philanthropist, dies at 74

A wide-ranging and innovative philanthropist, Mr. Lewis was chairman of the Grand Circle Corp. international travel conglomerate.

Sports

NFL ROUNDUP

Lions break their slump, while Aaron Rodgers, Packers look lost as ever

Detroit ended a five-game losing streak despite being outgained by 135 yards, while Green Bay lost a five straight for the first time since 2008 when Rodgers, their four-time NFL MVP, was a first-year starter.
Patriots 26, Colts 3

Defense and special teams pave the way as Patriots move above .500 with win over Colts

The Colts couldn’t go anywhere against the Patriots, who have a two-game winning streak heading into their bye week.
Colts notebook

Stephon Gilmore’s return to Gillette Stadium wasn’t the homecoming he envisioned

The former Patriots cornerback had four tackles but no impact plays.
NFL

Colts owner Jim Irsay has been on a crusade against Commanders owner Daniel Snyder
John Powers | On Marathon

New York City Marathon a win for return to normalcy — and dominance by the Kenyans
BRUINS

The Bruins signed a player with a history of bullying and racial abuse. Here’s what we know.

Business

Meta to start laying off thousands of staff this week, Wall Street Journal says

Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to begin layoffs that will affect thousands of workers from this week, Wall Street Journal reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

Duke, MIT, and Stanford scientists create RNA technology that could improve genetic therapies

The inventions, independently made by the three groups, could lead to safer mRNA medicines and gene editing therapies.

Twitter is said to postpone any changes to blue checks until after midterms

Lawmakers lift cap on new building at Devens
magazine
Kitchens and Baths

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

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

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

Recipes: Fresh breads and scones for breakfast

metro

Newton church holds community meal-packing event

Bacari enjoys arts and crafts and basketball

Small earthquake reported off the coast of Nantucket Saturday afternoon

sports

Unbeaten Flightline retired a day after winning Breeders’ Cup Classic, will begin breeding career

Brody Malone gets rare gold for United States men, winning first world high-bar title in 43 years

With a hot hand behind the 3-point line, Sam Hauser shoots his way into more minutes with the Celtics

business

Philadelphia Home Depot workers vote to reject unionization

Trump says US ‘in decline’; Biden has his own dire warning

Trump attacks DeSantis as he hints again at presidential run

politics

Here are the many ways abortion is on the ballot around the country on Tuesday

Everyone thought this Republican would be easier to beat. He may win anyway.

Will voters stick with Biden outlook or take US another way?

Nation

Indigenous voters, gaining influence, look to mobilize

Powerball jackpot up to record $1.9 billion after no winner

Oz could be the first Muslim US Senator, but some Muslim Americans are ambivalent

World

Monitors say 9 killed in Syria shelling of tent settlements

World in crisis a grim backdrop for UN climate talks

Italy stops 35 migrants from getting off rescue ship in port

opinion

The fight to end a little-known legacy of slavery is at a tipping point

Massachusetts’ policies failed Harmony Montgomery

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

lifestyle

He slept with me the night he broke up with me

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

How much should we really worry about MCAS scores?

food & dining

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

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

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 doctor examines his profession, and his choices

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

Chuck Wendig finds comfort in horror

Movies

‘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

‘Saturday Night Live’ takes on midterm elections, Twitter moderation as Amy Schumer hosts

Letterman-Zelensky interview will air by year’s end

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

music

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

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

City inching toward reparations commission

Newton church holds community meal-packing event

Back on the home front

Obituaries

Alan E. Lewis, travel industry executive and philanthropist, dies at 74

Romano Mazzoli, who oversaw major immigration reform, dies at 89

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