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Jher Ortiz, a resident of the Bunker Hill public housing complex in Charlestown, held his 4-month-old daughter, Jhersi.

Building a new home in Charlestown

After nearly a decade of planning, work is finally underway to redevelop the huge Bunker Hill public housing complex. Meet the people who helped make it happen.

Maui residents had little warning before flames overtook town. At least 55 people died.
Maui residents who made desperate escapes from flames, some on foot, asked why Hawaii’s famous emergency warning system didn’t alert them as fires raced toward their homes, in interviews at evacuation centers Thursday.

See photos and videos of the wildfires that have devastated parts of Maui BU student from Maui volunteers at shelter that used to be her high school

Texans 20, Patriots 9

Keion White shows off his physicality by anchoring Patriots’ pass rush and other observations
White, drafted in the second round out of Georgia Tech, finished with a quarterback hit and three tackles and came close to registering a sack.

Patriots quarterback Bailey Zappe starts preseason opener and gets a long look

Malik Cunningham during Patriots training camp earlier in August.

Malik Cunningham looked impressive in the Patriots’ preseason opener. Here are 5 things to know about the rookie.

Whether he lines up at quarterback or wide receiver, Cunningham is one of the more intriguing players to feature for New England during the preseason.

The interior of a lykke-category cabin at Lumen Nature Retreat in Woodstock, N.H.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

How an East Boston couple created a Nordic oasis in the White Mountains

Lumen Nature Retreat, an upscale campground on 20 acres, offers nature with panache.

This tech founder built one of Boston’s biggest AI companies. But he says the West Coast approach is the future.

If you want to understand the changing landscape of artificial intelligence — and Boston’s place in it — talk to Jeremy Wertheimer, the former Google exec and cofounder of ITA Software.

Worcester Art Museum sued for discrimination by former curator

A former curator alleges she was “mocked and ridiculed because she is a brown-skinned woman of South Asian” descent.

For whom the jingle bell tolls: Christmas Tree Shops welcomes its final bargain hunters
The much-loved (but apparently not loved enough) discount store chain will shutter for good on Saturday.

After latest attacks on liberal arts education, New England college presidents double down
College enrollment in the humanities has been falling for years, as families and prospective students opt for majors that lead to higher starting salaries.

Salem homicide suspect has a history of domestic abuse and dodging accountability, records show

Two months before Pablo Vicente was arrested for strangling his girlfriend to death in Salem, he was released from jail on assault and battery charges in connection to a four-year-old domestic violence case against the same woman.

Merrimack Valley residents, businesses assess damage from powerful storm as flood warnings continue

Among the properties severely damaged by the flooding Tuesday was the Davis & Furber Mills space on High Street in North Andover, which houses more than 90 businesses.

Supreme Court pauses Purdue settlement, delaying payments to states

The court agreed to review a provision that shielded the Sackler family from lawsuits. But other opioid settlements are unaffected.

How not to ruin a concert in 13 easy steps

Here’s an etiquette refresher to help you behave at your favorite shows, because a lot of you don’t.

It turns out BC was a canary in the mine shaft when it came to scrambling traditional conference makeups, but the problems in college sports go beyond that.

College sports keep getting less and less recognizable, but can we look away?

Conference realignment is just the latest insanity, along with NIL and the transfer portal. The concept of the “student-athlete,” if it ever existed, is long gone.

Artist and homeowner Nick Paciorek speaks with Carla O’Rourke of Mann Avenue Glass. Four of the six new stained glass windows on the main stairway landing at the Pitcher-Goff House in Pawtucket have been installed.

Stained glass windows were sold from a historic Pawtucket home. Now new ones are going in.

“When you walk out in the morning and see them, it’s the opera,” artist Nick Paciorek said about the new windows at the Pitcher-Goff House.

Opinion

Nguyen Thi Thanh, a survivor of a massacre carried out by South Korean troops who fought alongside Americans, pointed out the names of relatives at a memorial in the Quang Nam Province of Vietnam in 2021.

IDEAS | JOHN SUMMERS

The biggest Vietnam War story that Americans don’t talk about

South Korea is finally being held to account for the carnage its mercenary troops inflicted on Vietnamese civilians. But no one seems to be reckoning with our complicity in the atrocities.

Baby bonds don’t help enough lower-income families save for college

The crackdown on disinformation research is not about free speech

Advice for culture warrior Ron DeSantis: A satire

‘Lazy Girl Jobs’ are anything but lazy

More recent News

Prosecutors seek Jan. 2 trial date for Donald Trump in his 2020 election conspiracy case
The date is just under two weeks before the first votes are set to be cast in the Republican presidential race, with Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses scheduled for Jan. 15.

Trump and longtime aide plead not guilty to new charges in documents case

Peter Abraham | On baseball

Chris Sale’s return to the mound Friday will give the Red Sox a needed boost: ‘We’ve been waiting for this day’
It’s impossible to know what to expect of Sale after 10 weeks on the injured list, but it should be better than yet another bullpen game.

Clarence Thomas’s 38 vacations: The other billionaires who have treated the Supreme Court justice to luxury travel
Revealed for the first time from an array of previously unavailable information is the fullest account to date of the generosity that has regularly afforded Thomas a lifestyle far beyond what his income could provide.

little league world seriesMassachusetts team from Canton defeated by Maine in Little League regional final
With a trip to the Little League World Series on the line, Massachusetts (Canton) lost to Maine (Gray) with a final score of 2-1.

Jack Teixeira, Air National Guardsman accused of leaking top secret information, urges judge to set him free pending espionage trial

Teixeira’s lawyers downplayed the government’s concern about messages Teixeira allegedly sent online supporting a terrorist attack at the World Cup, and his search of government databases for reports of mass shootings.

Proposed COVID and flu vaccination rules for health workers allow many exceptions
Hospital leaders say generous exemptions may drive down vaccination rates, but nursing homes, struggling with short staffing, welcome the proposal.

Recommended reads

Treaty Rock Elementary teacher Karen Lauritzen worked with her students at the school in Post Falls. She was just named Idaho Teacher Of The Year.

Teacher of the Year was supposed to be an honor. Then politics intervened.

As the culture wars have come for public education in the United States, the Teacher of the Year contest has become yet another battlefield.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

When it comes to Provincetown, Donal O’Sullivan is the man with all the answers
For close to a quarter of a century, the concierge on the fast ferry has answered travelers' questions about all things Provincetown, from the best place to get a lobster roll to “What is a tea dance?”

Surgeon in MGH double-booking controversy reprimanded for ‘substandard care’ in other, unrelated cases
A former Massachusetts General Hospital surgeon whose back operation on former Red Sox pitcher Bobby Jenks led to a $5.1 million malpractice settlement has been reprimanded by state regulators for care he provided to two other patients.

Contested ‘Wounded Indian’ sculpture heading back to Boston after quarter-century dispute with Norfolk’s Chrysler Museum
“These ragtag guys up in Boston aren’t going away,” said the president of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. “We’re a small organization compared to the Chrysler, but we were dead serious that we wanted this back.”

Culture & Lifestyle

Boston's STL GLD will perform at the GLD FSTVL at City Hall Plaza on Saturday. The band is (from left) Moe Pope, Janos “The Arcitype” Fulop, Christopher Talken, Tim Hall, and Jonathan Ulman.

Free festival at City Hall Plaza will celebrate 50 years of hip-hop

Page-turning middle-grade books to get them reading before school starts up

Annette Miller in her solo performance as Golda Meir in "Golda's Balcony."

An extraordinary view from ‘Golda’s Balcony’

Gazmine Mason.

Documentary about Gazmine Mason, professional Black bowler from Cranston, to premiere at Rhode Island film festival

Special Projects

Photo Illustration

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A damaged saguaro cactus stood with a recently fallen arm resting on the sidewalk on Aug. 2, 2023, in Mesa, Ariz. The cacti, which normally live as long as 150-200 years, are threatened by a number of issues linked to climate change and are under increased stress from extreme heat during Arizona’s brutal summer heat wave.

Your thoughts, please, on climate change

Collage of Elizabeth Amador Instagram posts

MARCELA GARCÍA

Meet the Latina using Instagram to translate bureaucracy for Bostonians

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action, former Harvard University president Lawrence H. Summers has called for elite universities to eliminate legacy preferences.

Josh Grossman, Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay Page, and Sharad Goel

Harvard isn’t Hogwarts. Merit, not parentage, should be key to admission.

A production worker at the the CRRC MA railcar facility in Springfield.

As Springfield factory gets more time to finish subway trains, T riders deserve more information

Elizabeth Gillander, 78, receiveed a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile clinic set up at Fircrest Senior Living in McMinnville, Ore., on Oct. 6, 2021.

Ignoring COVID-19 is still not an option for most Americans

"This city is special," the author writes, "and Boston, so restrained in emotion, deserves to hear this more often."

IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

My farewell love letter to Boston

Metro

Stained glass windows were sold from a historic Pawtucket home. Now new ones are going in.

“When you walk out in the morning and see them, it’s the opera,” artist Nick Paciorek said about the new windows at the Pitcher-Goff House.

COMMENTARY | CARLY NOBLE

Now is the time for Rhode Island to lean into literacy

The Right to Read Act requires teachers to be trained by the start of the 2025-26 school year: All teachers across the state will be trained in evidence-based methods for reading instruction.

Hawaii wildfires

President Biden approves Hawaii disaster declaration. Follow live updates.

Thousands of Hawaii residents raced to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island, killing dozens. Follow along with live updates.

Flood watch canceled for Eastern Mass. and R.I. as powerful storm moves offshore, forecaster say

“We have an entirely new forecast,” Alan Dunham, a meteorologist at the weather service in Norton, said early Thursday evening. “There was a possibility of severe weather but not anymore.”

Sports

It turns out BC was a canary in the mine shaft when it came to scrambling traditional conference makeups, but the problems in college sports go beyond that.

College sports keep getting less and less recognizable, but can we look away?

Conference realignment is just the latest insanity, along with NIL and the transfer portal. The concept of the “student-athlete,” if it ever existed, is long gone.

Keion White and New England's defense caused Texans running back Dare Ogunbowale (No, 33) to fumble the ball and the Patriots recovered it during the second quarter.

Texans 20, Patriots 9

Keion White shows off his physicality by anchoring Patriots’ pass rush and other observations

White, drafted in the second round out of Georgia Tech, finished with a quarterback hit and three tackles and came close to registering a sack.

Malik Cunningham during Patriots training camp earlier in August.

Malik Cunningham looked impressive in the Patriots’ preseason opener. Here are 5 things to know about the rookie.

Whether he lines up at quarterback or wide receiver, Cunningham is one of the more intriguing players to feature for New England during the preseason.

Peter Abraham | On baseball

Chris Sale’s return to the mound Friday will give the Red Sox a needed boost: ‘We’ve been waiting for this day’

Red Sox 2, Royals 0

James Paxton, Red Sox keep Royals quiet to take series

Chris Martin continues to leverage his value as an effective set-up man in the Red Sox bullpen

Business

Building a new home in Charlestown

After nearly a decade of planning, work is finally underway to redevelop the huge Bunker Hill public housing complex. Meet the people who helped make it happen.

For whom the jingle bell tolls: Christmas Tree Shops welcomes its final bargain hunters

The much-loved (but apparently not loved enough) discount store chain will shutter for good on Saturday.

Energy Department announces largest-ever investment in ‘carbon removal’

UBS ends rescue packages from Swiss government that paved way for Credit Suisse takeover

magazine

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades, likely longer than anyone alive.

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?

The Cars in 1979, from left: Benjamin Orr, Greg Hawkes, Ric Ocasek, Elliot Easton, and David Robinson

How a WBCN deejay and a Harvard dining hall concert helped The Cars get their big break

A book sitting in the sand with blue skies and water behind it. The pages are blowing in the wind.

Your Summer Beach Bag

10 great books to read on a New England beach this summer

He was caught trying to defraud a COVID relief fund. Then vanished.

metro

A person waited out the torrential rain and lightning on Cape Cod from inside a van on Tuesday.

Flood watch canceled for Eastern Mass. and R.I. as powerful storm moves offshore, forecaster say

Supreme Court pauses Purdue settlement, delaying payments to states

Salem homicide suspect has a history of domestic abuse and dodging accountability, records show

sports

Bailey Zappe was 12-of-14 passing for 79 yards and was sacked twice.

Patriots quarterback Bailey Zappe starts preseason opener and gets a long look

Red Sox staying patient with Trevor Story as he searches for rhythm after long injury absence

An eventful summer for the Bruins’ Trent Frederic included a new contract and a hole-in-one

business

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker hugs gun control advocate Maria Pike after he signed comprehensive legislation to ban military-style firearms on Jan. 10, at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill.

Illinois Supreme Court plans to rule on semiautomatic weapons ban

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried returns to New York as prosecutors push for his incarceration

Virgin Galactic’s first space tourists finally soar, an Olympian and a mother-daughter duo

politics

Former president Donald Trump.

Judge Chutkan to hear arguments in protective order fight in Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy case

Biden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster border

Prosecutors seek Jan. 2 trial date for Donald Trump in his 2020 election conspiracy case

Nation

Burned-out cars sit after a wildfire raged through Lahaina, Hawaii, on Aug. 9.

Maui residents had little warning before flames overtook town. At least 55 people died.

Fast-moving Hawaii fires will take a heavy toll on the state’s environment

‘Nothing left’: Future unclear for Hawaii residents who lost it all in fire

World

Lorena Villavicencio, sister of slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, embraces her husband outside the morgue where her brother's body is being held, in Quito, Ecuador, on Aug. 10.

Ecuador arrests 6 Colombians in slaying of presidential candidate as violence weighs on nation

Iran transfers 5 Iranian-Americans from prison to house arrest in step toward deal for full release

Ecuador, reeling from a candidate’s assassination, is forever changed

opinion

Jaime Foxx and Jennifer Aniston.

Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Aniston, and the grace owed across cultures

‘Lazy Girl Jobs’ are anything but lazy

Holden wants to hold the line on housing. It mustn’t win that fight.

lifestyle

A Coach retail shop in Commerce, Calif.

Big fashion is getting bigger. Parent of Coach will buy Versace, Michael Kors owner Capri in $8.5b deal.

Moved to the beach, met a man

Page-turning middle-grade books to get them reading before school starts up

food & dining

Great Scott, the beloved Allston music venue, on October 29, 2016. A Taco Bell Cantina might replace the old venue space, according to reports.

The Great Scott space in Allston might become a Taco Bell Cantina

At Waltham’s Bánh Mì Oi, a spicy surprise in a simple strip mall

Elvis Presley’s Jungle Room pops up in Boston; MIDA East Boston arrives with clam pies

travel

The interior of a lykke-category cabin at Lumen Nature Retreat in Woodstock, N.H.

How an East Boston couple created a Nordic oasis in the White Mountains

Travelers are working out ways to find the best gyms while on the road

When it comes to Provincetown, Donal O’Sullivan is the man with all the answers

Arts

Shelter in Place by Eben Haines.

Big ideas come in small packages in MFA’s ‘Tiny Treasures’

At the Photographic Resource Center: Shanghai, Missouri, and points between

Dominic Killiany’s ‘What I See’ exudes exuberance

Books

James McBride, in ‘The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store,’ builds a rich portrait of a Depression-era Black and immigrant community around the mystery of a skeleton in a well

In Lauren J.A. Bear’s debut novel ‘Medusa’s Sisters,’ Greek mythology’s monstrous sisters tell of the cruelty and capriciousness of the Olympian gods in shaping their fate

Steven Millhauser, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, on the pleasures of being an older reader and writer

Movies

SAG-AFTRA member Cari Ciotti, left, lead as striking SAG-AFTRA members picketed with striking WGA (Writers Guild of America) workers outside Paramount Studios on Monday in Los Angeles.

Striking screenwriters will resume negotiations with studios on Friday

‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: The crime of the ancient mariner

They thought they’d be making a movie right now. Instead, these local film workers are waiting out the strikes.

Television

Armando Iannucci is the creator of "The Franchise," an HBO comedy that will make fun of the making of all the many comic-book movies.

Will satire be a superpower for ‘The Franchise’?

Striking screenwriters will resume negotiations with studios on Friday

Is it a drama? A comedy? That question may be as dated as those labels.

music

How not to ruin a concert in 13 easy steps

Las Vegas police videos show moments before home is raided in Tupac Shakur cold case

The Great Scott space in Allston might become a Taco Bell Cantina

Theater/Dance

Brenda Withers will be appearing onstage in Harbor Stage Company's "The Thin Place" at the same time that "The Ding Dongs," a play she wrote, is being presented at Gloucester Stage Company.

For Brenda Withers, ‘The Ding Dongs’ rang true

August Wilson’s biographer, on illuminating a playwright who illuminated America

Complexions Contemporary Ballet makes debut at Jacob’s Pillow

globe local

Brothers Brian Worrell (left), District 4 Councilor, and state Representative Chris Worrell just opened a district office on Erie Street.

Worrell brothers, one a councilor and one a state representative, open joint Dorchester office for ‘top-notch constituent services’

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

Reading harpist returns to hometown for performance with the US Air Force Concert Band

Obituaries

The Band, featuring Richard Manuel on piano, Levon Helm on drums, lead guitarist Robbie Robertson (smiling), bass guitarist Rick Danko, and organist Garth Hudson (not shown), take the stage for their final live performance before a crowd of 5,000 at Winterland Auditorium in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 1976. Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight” and “Up on Cripple Creek” mined American music and folklore and helped reshape contemporary rock, died Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. He was 80.

Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter of The Band, dies at 80

Rodriguez, a singer and a salve to a nation in turmoil, dies at 81

Paul Brodeur, environmental writer who exposed dangers of asbestos, dies at 92