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Patriots 26, Colts 3

Christopher L. Gasper

It wasn’t pretty, and the Patriots are above .500, but why do we still have that sinking feeling?

More than halfway through the year it’s tough to know what to make of the Patriots.
Ben Volin | Instant Analysis

A win over the Colts is all that matters, but performance by Mac Jones and Patriots’ offense isn’t sustainable

Jim McBride | Between the hash marks

Jonathan Jones changed the game with a blocked punt, then sealed Patriots’ win over Colts with a pick-6

Entering their bye week, a closer look at what’s gone right and what’s gone wrong for the Patriots
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK | Don Aucoin

To this drama critic, Bill Belichick’s postgame act is a performance for the ages

From his I’d-rather-be-having-a-root-canal body language to his (mostly unspoken) words, the coach wants us to know how unimpressed he is by the spotlight others crave.

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.

Beyond Mass Save: Legislators and advocates say it’s time for a change
Legislators and advocates are renewing calls to overhaul the state’s Mass Save energy efficiency program after revelations that an offer of rebates for climate-friendly construction came with a condition that gas lines also be installed.

Bruins part ways with Mitchell Miller, citing ‘new information’, and apologize to Isaiah Meyer-Crothers
The team's decision late Sunday ended a startling, controversial, and revealing episode in club history.

Mitchell Miller’s agent releases statement after Bruins’ controversial signing

Read Cam Neely’s statement on the Bruins’ decision to cut ties with Mitchell Miller
Here is the full text of the statement the Bruins released Sunday night on behalf of team president Cam Neely regarding controversial player Mitchell Miller.

Peter McNab, former Bruin who turned to broadcasting after playing career, dies at 70
Midterm Elections

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.

Will voters stick with Biden outlook or take US another way? For Democrats, anxiety mounts as it’s all on the line. Again. Question 1 supporters make final push before Election Day

In weekend push to Election Day, all-but-sure Democrats make last appeal to voters
With hours left until Tuesday, the air of political apathy is hard to ignore in Massachusetts.

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

Five people injured, one killed in shootings in Mattapan, Dorchester, Hyde Park

These were the third, fourth and fifth shooting incidents reported in Boston since Wednesday, following a fatal shooting that night in Dorchester and another in the South End on Friday.

Elon Musk threatens to boot Twitter account impersonators

Comedian Kathy Griffin had her account suspended Sunday after she switched her screen name to Elon Musk. She told a Bloomberg reporter that she had also used his profile photo.

‘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.

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.
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

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.

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.

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

Stand-up comedian and actress Amy Schumer took the 'SNL' stage for the third time, while Steve Lacy was the night's musical guest.

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

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

Peter Abraham | On baseball
Like the Celtics and Yankees before them, the Astros know that winning makes them special
The Astros have played in four of the last six World Series. They have the lowest ERA and the most runs scored in the American League in that time.

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

In weekend push to Election Day, all-but-sure Democrats make last appeal to voters

With hours left until Tuesday, the air of political apathy is hard to ignore in Massachusetts.

Boston breaks high-temperature record on a balmy November day

Temperatures in the region soared past 70 for the third day running on Sunday.

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.

Sports

Christopher L. Gasper

It wasn’t pretty, and the Patriots are above .500, but why do we still have that sinking feeling?

More than halfway through the year it’s tough to know what to make of the Patriots.
Jim McBride | Between the hash marks

Jonathan Jones changed the game with a blocked punt, then sealed Patriots’ win over Colts with a pick-6

Jones had the signature play of the Patriots’ 26-3 pounding of the Colts.
bruins

Peter McNab, former Bruin who turned to broadcasting after playing career, dies at 70

McNab, the longtime forward who became a familiar voice of the Avalanche, released in late summer of 2021 that he was battling cancer, but in February said it was in remission.
Bruins

Read Cam Neely’s statement on the Bruins’ decision to cut ties with Mitchell Miller
BRUINS

The Bruins signed a player with a history of bullying and racial abuse, and have now parted ways with him. Here’s what we know.
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON HOCKEY

At this point, Don Sweeney, Cam Neely and the Bruins have to be questioning the team’s decision to sign Mitchell Miller

Business

China trade down on weak global demand, virus curbs

hina’s trade shrank in October as global demand weakened and anti-virus controls weighed on domestic consumer spending.

Elon Musk threatens to boot Twitter account impersonators

Comedian Kathy Griffin had her account suspended Sunday after she switched her screen name to Elon Musk. She told a Bloomberg reporter that she had also used his profile photo.

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

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

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

Newton church holds community meal-packing event

Bacari enjoys arts and crafts and basketball

sports

Bruins part ways with Mitchell Miller, citing ‘new information’, and apologize to Isaiah Meyer-Crothers

Entering their bye week, a closer look at what’s gone right and what’s gone wrong for the Patriots

Russell Henley coasts to PGA win, ties tournament record in Mexico

business

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

Lawmakers lift cap on new building at Devens

Philadelphia Home Depot workers vote to reject unionization

politics

Biden, Trump to make final appeals ahead of crucial midterms

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.

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

North Korea: Missile tests were practice to attack South Korea, US

Dubai fire races up high-rise near world’s tallest building

Hong Kong court upholds veteran journalist’s conviction

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

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

A pandemic trend that seems to be sticking around: walking the world

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

To this drama critic, Bill Belichick’s postgame act is a performance for the ages

Boston Ballet rises to the challenge of Forsythe

Dancing to the good vibrations of Carol Kaye, trailblazer

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