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Hurricane Hilary dropped a record 13 inches of rain in 24 hours on the Mexican state of Baja California Sur before turning into a tropical storm, barreling up the bathwater-hot Gulf of California and bringing record rainfall to Southern California.

As climate warming drives more extreme weather, ‘Everything we care about is on the line’

Even for climate scientists who have long warned that climate-fueled extreme weather was coming, the onslaught of recent crises has been nothing short of shocking.

Sheriff provides the first details of how a white man fatally shot three Black people at a Florida store

A 21-year-old white man fatally shot three Black people in Florida with guns bought legally despite his once being involuntarily committed for a mental health exam, the local sheriff said Sunday.

What we know about the Jacksonville killings

THE GREAT DIVIDE

In Marblehead, furor and speculation reign over an ousted school superintendent

Just as school boards have become the center of culture wars across the country, so too have superintendents, caught up in clashes among political factions around issues such as book bans, critical race theory, sex education, and gender identity.

Carlson drops out of R.I. congressional race amid controversy over conduct with student
The Jamestown Democrat says he will support Senator Sandra Cano in the Sept. 5 primary for the 1st Congressional District race.

Tropical Storm Idalia forms in the Gulf of Mexico on a possible track toward the US, forecasters say

Forecasters said they expected Idalia to become a hurricane on Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico and then curve northeast toward the west coast of Florida.

Kali Moulton waved her hand to summon the correct card while performing a magic trick during a Witch City Assembly magic club meeting to recruit new members in Salem. The club started in 1973 but has been hurting for members due to its aging base and a trend by younger magicians to turn to online resources.

You used to see them, now you don’t: In Salem, there’s a magician shortage

For a half-century, the Witch City Assembly has been a booming collective of area magicians. But their numbers have dwindled, and they're seeking recruits.

After summer away, college students bring the bustle back to Boston
Home to around 30 colleges and universities, Boston hosts more than 150,000 students - around a fifth of the city's total population.

Mookie Betts was a big headache for the Sox on Sunday.

Dodgers 7, Red Sox 4

Red Sox can’t hang with explosive Dodgers, drop series as Houston comes to town

The Red Sox (69-62) fell 4½ games behind Houston for the third wild-card spot after the Astros blew out Detroit, with a two-run home run by Mookie Betts helping the Dodgers push Boston closer to the postseason brink.

Cambridge doesn’t allow chickens. This couple are fighting to keep theirs.
Susan and Robert Filene hired a lawyer to appeal the city's fines and have been inviting Cambridge officials over to meet their chickens — six city councilors and the mayor have visited so far.

They just want to be friends

What am I doing wrong?

Tyrone Wheatley Jr. joined the Browns practice squad last fall.

Patriots add to offensive line depth, trade RB Pierre Strong to Browns for tackle Tyrone Wheatley Jr.

Wheatley is a depth piece as New England manages multiple injuries on the offensive line.

Patriots start early, cut defensive tackle Carl Davis Will these Patriot hopefuls have their roster bubble burst?

Siblings Sadaf and Maryam serve a customer during an Afghan pop-up dinner at Fiore’s Bakery in July. The event was a fund-raiser for the food business their family hopes to start in Boston.

Through pop-ups, an Afghan family forges a path forward

It is a story repeating itself elsewhere in Massachusetts, and it's clear why: Food has always provided a natural path to entrepreneurship for immigrants.

Alice Alberts, an IRONMAN Lake Placid champion, dominated the women's division at Sunday's Boston Triathlon.

Boston Triathlon celebrates 15th anniversary; Breno Melo and Alice Alberts claim winner’s medals

Melo won the Olympic triathlon's men’s division in 1 hour, 53 minutes, and 29 seconds, with Alberts finishing just 18 seconds back to win the women’s crown.

Opinion

Washington Street near Temple Place, 1900. The author argues that at its best, Boston has used density and diversity to cultivate innovation.

IDEAS | DANIEL P. DAIN

Boston’s future depends on whether we remember lessons from the past

In the 19th century, this was a fast-growing Athens of America. But vital attributes of that era were soon forgotten.

Victory, not détente, is the right American strategy toward Beijing

Graying of Massachusetts prisons cries out for a dose of compassion

Doctors shouldn’t be overcharged for electronic payments

Two views on Councilor Kendra Lara

News you can use

Bright planets and a blue moon: A fall stargazing guide for beginners
Saturn will be at opposition this weekend, meaning the ringed planet will be at its closest approach to the Earth and fully illuminated by the sun.

Are we actually experiencing a COVID spike? Take a look at the data.
Plenty of data remain publicly accessible to determine whether COVID is actually on the upswing.

A back-to-school tech tuneup: Here’s what to know about your devices and software
It’s time to prep your gadgets and programs for the year ahead.

More recent News

More than 600 firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft struggle to control wildfires in Greece

More than 600 firefighters, including reinforcements from several European countries and backed by a fleet of water-dropping planes and helicopters, were tackling the remnants of three major wildfires in Greece Sunday, two of which have been raging for days.

Man dies after falling from Portsmouth, N.H., parking garage following alleged assault, police say

Witnesses told police the victim was fleeing a group of men who had assaulted him after leaving a nightclub early Saturday morning, authorities said.

Child injured in Marlborough hit-and-run; SUV driver sought by police

At around 11:45 a.m., a westbound driver in an SUV hit a child on a bicycle near 300 Boston Post Road East, then fled the scene, taking a right turn into the back entrance of Ghiloni Park, police said.

Trump campaign reports raising more than $7 million after Georgia booking

Donald Trump’s campaign says he’s raised $7.1 million since Thursday when he was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in the state and became the first former president in US history to ever have a mug shot taken.

At massive downtown Boston garage, demolition drags on and on
A fatal accident and negotiations with the MBTA have pushed deconstruction of the Government Center Garage — and the closure of Congress Street — well past the original completion date.

CALIFORNIA 6, CURACAO 5

California’s Louis Lappe finishes dominant Little League World Series run with walkoff homer
The leadoff hitter in the bottom of the sixth inning, Lappe lofted the second pitch he saw just beyond the left-field fence for his fifth longball of the tournament.

Recommended reads

Tiffany Hollis held her granddaughter Amelia while working at her restaurant, the Dashing Diner Uptown, in Johnstown, Ohio. Hollis has mixed feelings about the Intel factories being built near her town.

Biden has presided over a factory boom. But in an Ohio town where two are being built, he doesn’t get much credit.

In this particular sliver of red America — where Donald Trump overwhelmingly won in both his presidential runs — residents aren’t giving Biden much credit for the new Intel factories and the jobs coming with them.

N.C. in N.H.: Rare Wyeth painting found in thrift store to be auctioned off for $250,000
A woman browsing through a Savers thrift store in Manchester, N.H., in August 2017 found the painting, but took years to learn of its value, according to a spokesperson for Bonhams Skinner auction house in Marlborough.

MUSIC REVIEW

At Leader Bank Pavilion, Alex G and Alvvays hold an indie rock summit
With Alex G and Alvvays releasing arguably their best records yet in 2022, the co-headlining tour that stopped in Boston Friday night had the air of a well-earned celebration.

Here are 20 books we’re excited to read this fall
Even for diehard summer fans, the season must change, and a good book is one of the best consolations of fall. Here are 20 books we’re looking forward to digging into as the lazy days draw down.

Culture & Lifestyle

Singer Molly Rankin and lead guitarist Alec O'Hanley perform with Alvvays at Leader Bank Pavilion.

At Leader Bank Pavilion, Alex G and Alvvays hold an indie rock summit

Because of the strikes, few series are returning this fall, but season six of "The Crown," with Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana, is likely to be an exception.

On TV, fall will lack its usual grandeur

“New Growth 2” by Gio Swaby, 2021. Collection of Rasheed Newson.

At Peabody Essex Museum, Gio Swaby’s virtuosic portraits of Black women in thread and fabric

Jeremy Eichler is the author of "Time's Echo." He will be at Brookline Booksmith this Thursday at 7 p.m. .

Author readings around Boston Aug. 27-Sept. 2

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

Boys sold packets of tissue paper to a man along a street in Amritsar, India, on July 28.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Should children be allowed to work?

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy talked to members of the media on Wednesday after the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee.

Why Vivek Ramaswamy is catching on in New Hampshire and beyond

Ayana Parsons, a partner at the Fearless Fund, spoke during a news conference on Aug. 10 in New York. Attorneys for the Atlanta-based venture capital firm being sued over a grant program investing in Black women have vowed to fight back against the lawsuit, calling it misguided and frivolous.

Workplace is the next battleground in affirmative action fight

The area known as Mass. and Cass.

With crisis at Mass. and Cass, officials can’t only plan for tomorrow

Luna, 19 months, her brother Fritz, 17, and their mother Sergeline (not pictured) were placed in a hotel room in Boston, May 2. The migrants from Haiti arrived from the Boston Medical Center’s temporary shelter in a waiting room there.

Timothy Scalona

The myth of right to shelter in Massachusetts

"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

In Massachusetts, anyone 16 and older can pilot a boat without completing a safety course

In Massachusetts, anyone 16 and older can take to the water with no boater education, belying the state’s reputation for regulatory oversight and raising concerns that young boaters are not adequately prepared.

State releases spoof video about ‘Storrowing’ set to Sarah McLachlan’s ‘Angel’

“For just zero dollars a day, you can not hit a bridge or an overpass on Storrow Drive and Soldiers Field Road in Boston and Memorial Drive in Cambridge,” Ryan Sutton says as he looks earnestly at the camera.

A joyous blood donation by two leaders who toiled to change the nation’s antiquated rules

New rules announced earlier this summer that open blood donation to millions of gay and bisexual men recently went into effect.

After summer away, college students bring the bustle back to Boston

Home to around 30 colleges and universities, Boston hosts more than 150,000 students — around a fifth of the city's total population.

Sports

Malik Cunningham (center) has been learning the ropes at wide receiver after playing quarterback in college.

Will these Patriot hopefuls have their roster bubble burst?

The Patriots have already started to trim their roster down ahead of Tuesday’s cutdown deadline, but several critical moves are still to come.

Athing Mu, of the United States, celebrates after taking the bronze medal in the final of the Women's 800-meters during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.

WORLD TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS

With Athing Mu’s bronze and men’s 4x400 gold, United States closes out worlds with 29 medals

This wasn’t quite the bountiful haul of last summer, when the United States amassed 33 medals at worlds on home turf in Eugene, Ore.

A day after pitching California to a semifinal win, Louis Lappe finished the job with his bat.

CALIFORNIA 6, CURACAO 5

California’s Louis Lappe finishes dominant Little League World Series run with walkoff homer

The leadoff hitter in the bottom of the sixth inning, Lappe lofted the second pitch he saw just beyond the left-field fence for his fifth longball of the tournament.

GUARDIANS 10, BLUE JAYS 7 (11 INNINGS)

Blue Jays lose game, series to Guardians in extra innings on Kole Calhoun’s tiebreaking double

Frances Tiafoe is well aware it’s been 20 years since an American man won the US Open

Justin Verlander sharp as Astros rout Tigers before heading to Boston for series against the Red Sox

Business

Power returns to most of Kenya after a 14-hour outage, longest in recent memory, shuts down airport

Electricity was being restored in most parts of Kenya on Saturday, 14 hours after the longest outage in recent memory, the majority government-owned power distributor said.

Weight-loss drug Wegovy reduces heart failure symptoms in obese patients

A weekly dose reduced patients’ ills that can include shortness of breath, fatigue, swelling in the legs, and irregular heartbeat, according to findings published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Instacart files for IPO

Boston burrito chain Boloco is closing most of its stores by year’s end

magazine

Pot prices have tanked. Dispensaries are closing. Is a great crash coming?

Ysabel Garcia at her happy place, The Artist Cafe in Springfield.

Ysabel Garcia knows the danger of a mental health crisis. She has a lifesaving message.

This week's daters: Liz and Jon.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I could definitely spot her smile in the crowd’

Shutting up and listening is a superpower

metro

Kali Moulton waved her hand to summon the correct card while performing a magic trick during a Witch City Assembly magic club meeting to recruit new members in Salem. The club started in 1973 but has been hurting for members due to its aging base and a trend by younger magicians to turn to online resources.

You used to see them, now you don’t: In Salem, there’s a magician shortage

Child injured in Marlborough hit-and-run; SUV driver sought by police

The latest political news in Rhode Island

sports

As Yankees catcher Kyle Higashioka stood by, home plate umpire Adam Beck stepped in to attempt to cool down the Rays' Randy Arozarena after a hit by pitch in the eighth inning.

Brandon Lowe, Rays beat Yankees again in tense affair with five HBPs and two bench-clearing incidents

Hunter Goodman, in MLB debut, helps Rockies end six-game slide with a win over the Orioles

DeWanna Bonner moves into sixth on all-time scoring list and Connecticut Sun snap Los Angeles Sparks’ six-game win streak

business

Secretary of State Bill Galvin won a round in his legal battle with online trading platform Robinhood on Friday.

SJC sides with Galvin over Robinhood in legal fight over stockbroker standards

Boston marketing-tech firm Klaviyo files for IPO, discloses profitability

Auto workers vote overwhelmingly to let union leaders call strikes against Detroit companies

politics

First Congressional District Candidate Don Carlson responds to a question during a debate sponsored by the Rhode Island Association of Democratic City and Town Chairs at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island on August 17, 2023. The debate is moderated by Boston Globe reporters Edward Fitzpatrick and Steph Machado. (Matthew Healey for The Boston Globe)

Carlson drops out of R.I. congressional race amid controversy over conduct with student

Trump campaign reports raising more than $7 million after Georgia booking

Thousands converge on National Mall to mark the March on Washington’s 60th anniversary

Nation

Parishioners pray during a service for the victims of a mass shooting at the St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla.

Sheriff provides the first details of how a white man fatally shot three Black people at a Florida store

Tropical Storm Idalia forms in the Gulf of Mexico on a possible track toward the US, forecasters say

A House impeachment inquiry of President Biden is a ‘natural step forward,’ McCarthy says

World

On Sunday, over 600 firefighters, including reinforcements from several European countries, tackled the remains of three major wildfires in Greece. Daily outbreaks of dozens of fires have plagued the country over the past week, intensified by strong winds and hot, dry summer conditions.

More than 600 firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft struggle to control wildfires in Greece

A US Marine Osprey crashes during drills in Australia, killing 3 and injuring 20, some critically

US knew Saudis were killing African migrants

opinion

A tagged horseshoe crab spawned at Reeds Beach in Cape May Court House, N.J., on June 13.

Horseshoe crabs have roamed the planet for 450 million years, but they could be running out of time

On the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, ‘where do we go from here?’

The myth of right to shelter in Massachusetts

lifestyle

They just want to be friends

50th Caribbean American Carnival brings ‘all the flavor’ to Franklin Park

He’s given me a year to move

food & dining

Siblings Sadaf and Maryam serve a customer during an Afghan pop-up dinner at Fiore’s Bakery in July. The event was a fund-raiser for the food business their family hopes to start in Boston.

Through pop-ups, an Afghan family forges a path forward

Boston burrito chain Boloco is closing most of its stores by year’s end

Nan Xiang Express brings its soup dumplings to Chinatown, and ‘Christmas in September’ comes to Allston

travel

Most people think of the mountains as a fall color fiesta. Consider the Maine coast — Camden is no slouch, with views like this.

Which coastal Maine town is actually better in the fall? (Hint: It has a fairy-tale castle.)

Provincetown’s Gifford House was on life support. Now the historic inn is making a queer comeback.

Where’s the $10,954 insurance check for my canceled tour?

Arts

“New Growth 2” by Gio Swaby, 2021. Collection of Rasheed Newson.

At Peabody Essex Museum, Gio Swaby’s virtuosic portraits of Black women in thread and fabric

‘Blue Beetle,’ Latino representation, and the danger of a single superhero story

Jewish Arts Collaborative’s ‘Be the Change’ offers mixed-media public art with mixed results

Books

Illustration from "'Slowly, Slowly, Slowly' Said the Sloth" by Eric Carle.

A celebration of gardening in new poetry anthology; new exhibition at Eric Carle Museum highlights wildlife and the natural world; National Endowment for the Humanities announces 2023 grant winners

The making of a poet and musician in Don Paterson’s eloquent memoir

Author readings around Boston Aug. 27-Sept. 2

Movies

Helen Mirren in "Golda."

‘Golda’: When smoke gets in your eyes

Paramount+ releases ‘Good Burger 2′ trailer

Hollywood studios disclose their offer on day 113 of writers strike

Television

Bob Barker in 2004.

Bob Barker, courtly host of ‘The Price Is Right,’ has died

Expect animated Barbie series to toy with viewers

On TV, fall will lack its usual grandeur

music

Singer Molly Rankin and lead guitarist Alec O'Hanley perform with Alvvays at Leader Bank Pavilion.

At Leader Bank Pavilion, Alex G and Alvvays hold an indie rock summit

Brandeis plans to shutter PhD programs in music

A spirited Bruce Springsteen shows Gillette who’s Boss

Theater/Dance

France's Compagnie Käfig performs "Pixel" at Jacob's Pillow in Becket

Dance and digital effects merge in Compagnie Käfig’s imaginative ‘Pixel’ at Jacob’s Pillow

‘The Ding Dongs’: When that doorbell rings, watch out

Old and new at the Pillow

Health

Research nurse Sarah French checks on Rodolfo Almeida of Providence at The Miriam Hospital's new Stephen and Diana Lewinstein Center for Innovative Cancer Research, a clinical area where patients receive investigational cancer treatments.

Changing the landscape of cancer care in R.I.: Lifespan, Brown to seek NCI designation

To better understand alcohol addiction, new research is turning to fruit flies

Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

Obituaries

Woody Kaplan, at home in 2015, was part of a group called Patriotic Millionaires, which calls for the wealthy to pay more in taxes. He also supported civil liberties causes such as marriage equality and LGBTQ+ rights.

Woody Kaplan, an activist ‘unafraid to stand up for the unpopular,’ dies at 80

Bob Barker, courtly host of ‘The Price Is Right,’ has died

Prominent Lebanese journalist Talal Salman dies at age 85 after long illness