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BU Center for Antiracist Research lays off staff members

Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research has laid off an undisclosed number of staff members, just over three years after its promising launch to reshape the national discourse on racial and ethnic disparities.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Dana-Farber blindsided Brigham and Women’s. The blowback will be strong.

Brigham leaders were sure they had a deal to extend their partnership with the famed cancer institute. Then Dana-Farber bolted.

Dana-Farber deal highlights a surprising trend: New cancer centers are in vogue

Harvard graduate gets nod to be Nigeria’s next Central Bank head

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu nominated Olayemi Michael Cardoso, a Harvard graduate and former Citibank executive, to be the next governor of the nation’s central bank.

Lindsay Clancy indicted for allegedly killing her three children in Duxbury

A Plymouth County grand jury on Friday indicted Lindsay Marie Clancy for allegedly killing her three young children in the family’s Duxbury home in January

Shannon O’Brien, the state’s top cannabis regulator, suspended from role a year into her appointment
State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg has suspended Shannon O’Brien as the state’s top cannabis regulator, removing the former treasurer and one-time gubernatorial nominee only a year after she tapped O’Brien for the position.

At least one person shot by police in Providence after car chase

Biden sending aides to Detroit to address autoworkers strike, says ‘record profits’ should be shared

“No one wants to strike,” President Biden said. “But I respect workers’ right to use their options under the collective bargaining system and I understand the workers’ frustration.”

UAW strike hits 3 plants as it seeks big raises and other gains

Lawyers for Karen Read, charged in death of Boston police officer boyfriend, ask that her bail be dropped

Read's lawyer, David Yannetti, described Read as “one of the most recognizable criminal defendants in America.”

Now that a popular cold medicine has been found ineffective, what should sick people do?
After an FDA advisory panel found that an ingredient in many cold medicines does not work, some doctors say that steam, rest, and hydration are the best remedies anyway.

Special counsel seeking limited gag order on Trump in elections case

A man braces himself as he walk into the wind and Chapin Memorial Beach in Dennis on Saturday.

Weakening storm Lee bears down on New England and Canada with still-dangerous winds, heavy rains

Lee is hurtling toward coastal New England and eastern Canada as a storm still capable of producing hurricane-force winds and dangerous surf and dropping torrential rains on millions of people.

Follow live updates on Hurricane Lee Storm off to a mild start in Massachusetts Saturday morning

The sun sets behind the city skyline in advance of Hurricane Lee, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Boston.

Photos: Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee causes flooding, colorful sunset

Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee has already started to cause flooding along the New England coast.

LIVE UPDATES

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Coastal Maine faces tropical storm conditions; more rain expected
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Power outages across the region

These maps show how Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee is affecting New England
Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee Friday churned over the western Atlantic on Saturday with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour toward southern New England and Atlantic Canada.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Breaking down all of the fallout from Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers’s injury
It’s hard to overstate the devastation of this injury. The Jets’ Super Bowl hopes have probably vanished. The NFL loses one of its most recognizable stars for an entire season.

Chad Finn: Cris Collinsworth has passed Howard Cosell for the longest continuous prime-time run for an NFL analyst, but he knows the game isn’t about him

Jasson Dominguez, a 20-year-old outfielder and the most exciting of the group of young players called up by the Yankees this season, hit four home runs in eight games before tearing an elbow ligament.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Why the Yankees are feeling encouraged even though they’re not going to make the playoffs

The Yankees took three of four from the Red Sox this past week, giving them 12 victories over 17 games.

Blue Jays 3, Red Sox 0 | Red Sox not up to spoilers role in shutout loss to the Blue Jays, all alone in last place in AL East Peter Abraham: Simply hiring a new baseball boss may not be enough to fix the Red Sox

New rules will discourage NBA teams from sitting stars, such as Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, for no reason.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

The NBA is stepping in to make sure star players aren’t missing games for no reason

The days of rampant load management and widespread shutting down veteran players are over.

Canadian hockey players, from left, Marie-Philip Poulin, Laura Stacey and Ann-Renee Desbiens, are introduced by the Professional Women's Hockey League as the first three players to sign free agent contracts with the league's Montreal franchise in Montreal, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023.

With stars signed and coaches hired, newly founded women’s pro hockey league looks ahead to draft

Hilary Knight is in her familiar stomping grounds of Boston, Marie-Philip Poulin is home in Quebec and Kelly Pannek landed in her native Minnesota after becoming the league’s first player to sign a contract.

Kevin Paul Dupont: Carey Price looks good, but his balky knee won’t allow for a comeback attempt with Canadiens

Veronica Robles (center), a Boston-based Mariachi singer, with Cassandra McDonald (left) and Nicole Edgecomb (right), is slated to perform at the City of Boston’s Fiesta en la Plaza.

Nine ways to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in Boston

The celebrations begin Sept. 15 and continue through Oct. 15, with music, film, dancing, and more

She was my first date after a long marriage

It seems unbelievable that she’s the next love of my life.

Hispanic Heritage Month

My life was in danger trying to help children in Guatemala. I had to choose exile.

Mónica Solares, owner of Rincón Guatemalteco in Waltham.

Ahead of Central American Independence Day in Boston, I went searching for a taste of home

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

From left: Constanza Cabello, Elias Torres, Amanda M. Fernández, Jay Calderín, Silvia López Chavez, and Dr. Daniela RamÍrez Schrempp

Meet six Massachusetts leaders from Amplify LatinX’s ALX100

Opinion

Hyannis area residents and business owners who rely on the Cape Cod Gateway Airport are at odds over the $22 million proposed expansion of one of the airport’s runways.

Hyannis airport plan hits turbulence

Expanding the Cape Cod Gateway Airport could be a good idea, but backers need to show it’ll help address the region’s transportation needs.

MARCELA GARCÍA

The scourge of Mexican drug cartels

‘What did you learn in school today?’ (asking for a political stakeholder)

Utah after Mitt Romney

La maldición de los carteles del narcotráfico en México

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Who was Peter Faneuil? A Bostonian, merchant, philanthropist — and slave trader.
Most Bostonians know little about the man for whom Faneuil Hall is named, who enriched himself by trafficking in human beings. Should knowing that history change the way the city remembers him?

Share your thoughts on Peter Faneuil: Merchant prince, philanthropist, slave trader

Peter Faneuil was an active trafficker who financed voyages from Boston to West Africa to purchase hundreds of slaves. And he kept at least five slaves to serve his own household.

Watch | Boston Globe Today: How and why we compiled the history of Peter Faneuil

More recent News

Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial is on the brink of a verdict as senators end deliberations
The ongoing talks behind closed doors fed a rare lack of assurance about how a vote might go in the Texas Capitol, where a dominant Republican majority typically means that outcomes are seldom in doubt.

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un inspects Russian bombers and a warship on a visit to Russia’s Far East
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers and a warship in its Pacific fleet on Saturday as he continued a trip in Russia’s Far East that has sparked Western concerns about an arms alliance that could fuel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.

Former Boston police officer indicted on Jan. 6 charges
A former Boston police officer was recently indicted on federal charges stemming from his alleged assault of an officer during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol.

Dan Shaughnessy | Dolphins at Patriots, Sun., 8:20 p.m.

Staying optimistic that the Patriots will beat the Dolphins, and other thoughts
The Patriots lost their opener at home last week, yet somehow, almost everyone walked out of Gillette Stadium feeling good about them.

Jet skier rescued amid big waves off Crane Beach in Ipswich

The man called 911 after falling off the jet ski amid high winds and big waves around 6 p.m. Friday, public safety officials said.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘She grew up in the next town over from me’
These daters share a love for books and breweries. Will they end up on the same page?

Recommended reads

A Planned Parenthood sign is displayed on the outside of a clinic in Indianapolis.

Planned Parenthood hoped to meet the post-Roe moment, but layoffs shake its staff

A Globe review of documents and interviews with more than a dozen staffers painted a picture of Planned Parenthood in the year since the Dobbs decision as an entity that appears to have made decisions at odds with its stated goals.

These maps show when foliage will peak in New England — and across the country
Not all foliage is created equal, and each region is expected to peak at different times.

‘Pornographic films’ allegedly shot on yacht in Nantucket Harbor where retired doctor was arrested, man told police
The owner of the 80-foot yacht was arrested on drug and gun charges last week while the vessel was docked in Nantucket Harbor.

With flashier floods and stronger hurricanes, ‘I don’t think we know what normal is anymore’
Climate scientists say the extreme rainfall and flash floods in Leominster are now expected on a warming planet — and there’s much more to come.

Culture & Lifestyle

It’s back-to-school month — time for a pop quiz! Test yourself to see how well you know your New England campus novels.

From left: Carly Zien, Amy Resnick, Will Lyman, and Joshua Chessin-Yudin in "Prayer for the French Republic" at the Huntington.

In the Huntington’s ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ antisemitism hits home, again

Carol Sloane at the Newport Jazz Festival, as seen in the film "Sloane: A Jazz Singer."

In a documentary of her life, singer Carol Sloane receives her overdue applause

The spreadsheet, I told myself, was the key to optimizing my reading life, my version of a pro athlete’s high speed camera.

I tracked my reading with the obsessiveness of a pro athlete. It did not go well.

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

Taniqua Mayhew dances with daughter Briel Hurst, an incoming BPS kindergartner, at the Boston Children’s Museum during the annual Countdown To Kindergarten Celebration on Aug. 29. Massachusetts taxpayers are still waiting for a major package that offers tax breaks to parents of young children, among other things.

Massachusetts tax relief can’t wait

Catherine “Kitty” Burke and Michael Burke, a couple in Southampton who sought to adopt a child.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Does Mass. give religious people a fair shot at adoption?

Mitt Romney's two campaigns for the GOP presidential nomination put on display a man torn between his honest evaluation of facts or situations and his instinct for expedience.

So long, Mitt Romney, man of many masks

Yale University.

IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

How to get the most out of college — and save liberal democracy

Walk down any street in Boston and visual cues will tell you a lot about it. The potholes and the storefronts, the models of cars and the makeup of crowds all contribute critical insights about our city.

Carlo Ratti and Antoine Picon

AI is coming to our neighborhoods and will show us the future of cities

"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

Biden approves federal aid for Massachusetts

“Everyone is sitting here with a cup of coffee asking where did the storm go?” said Harwich Fire Captain Joseph Mayo on Saturday morning.

Live updates: Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee triggers weather hazards, coastal flooding in New England

Lee, classified as a post-tropical cyclone Saturday morning, was churning in the Atlantic, bringing tropical-storm-like conditions to parts of coastal New England while moving north. Follow live updates.

Photos: Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee causes flooding, colorful sunset

Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee has already started to cause flooding along the New England coast.

These maps show how Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee is affecting New England

Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee Friday churned over the western Atlantic on Saturday with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour toward southern New England and Atlantic Canada.

Sports

Billie Jean King, 29, defeated Bobby Riggs, 55, in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, in the "Battle of the Sexes" on Sept. 20, 1973, inside the Houston Astrodome.

What would have happened if Billie Jean King had lost to Bobby Riggs 50 years ago?

“I thought if we lost we could lose all the steam we had going in women’s tennis and women’s sports," King said this past week.

In Chris Sale’s most recent outing, he allowed seven runs, six earned, in four innings on Sept. 9 against the Baltimore Orioles.

red sox at blue jays | 3:07 p.m. (nesn)

Game 149: Red Sox at Blue Jays lineups and notes

Lefthander Chris Sale will take the mound for the Sox Saturday, while righthander Chris Bassitt will pitch for the Blue Jays.

Paul LaCerda, who is coaching golf for the first time at age 70, with two of his players, Ryan Fossella (center) and Ryan O’Leary (right).

High school golf notebook

Paul LaCerda now knows he made the right decision to coach the Foxborough golf team

For the past nine years, the Needham resident has worked as a volunteer rules official for the Massachusetts Golf Association.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

Cris Collinsworth has passed Howard Cosell for the longest continuous prime-time run for an NFL analyst, but he knows the game isn’t about him

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

The NBA is stepping in to make sure star players aren’t missing games for no reason

With stars signed and coaches hired, newly founded women’s pro hockey league looks ahead to draft

Business

Harvard graduate gets nod to be Nigeria’s next Central Bank head

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu nominated Olayemi Michael Cardoso, a Harvard graduate and former Citibank executive, to be the next governor of the nation’s central bank.

UAW strike hits 3 plants as it seeks big raises and other gains

Autoworkers walked off the job Friday at three factories that produce some of the Detroit carmakers’ most popular vehicles, the opening salvos in what could become a protracted strike that hurts the US economy and has an impact on the 2024 presidential election.

Biden sending aides to Detroit to address autoworkers strike, says ‘record profits’ should be shared

Workers strike at all 3 Detroit automakers, a new tactic to squeeze companies for better pay

magazine

Hispanic Heritage Month

Honoring 100 change-making leaders across Massachusetts

Mónica Solares, owner of Rincón Guatemalteco in Waltham.

My Boston History

Searching for a taste of home in and around the city

In 2016, El Oriental owner Nobel Garcia poured cider at the news of Fidel Castro’s death.

Marcela García

What does it mean to lose special places where Latinos gather in Boston?

Troops leaving Camp Myles Standish in Taunton for the Boston Port of Embarkation.

My dad never forgot Rosh Hashana at Camp Myles Standish in 1944

metro

Ibram X. Kendi, center, moderated a discussion last Sept. 24 at the Somerville Theater with from left, Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib.

BU Center for Antiracist Research lays off staff members

Norwegian Cruise Line change New England itineraries due to Hurricane Lee

Healey declares state of emergency as Hurricane Lee churns north

sports

Carey Price last played for the Canadiens in Game 5 of the 2021 Stanley Cup Final.

Carey Price looks good, but his balky knee won’t allow for a comeback attempt with Canadiens

Why the Yankees are feeling encouraged even though they’re not going to make the playoffs

Breaking down all of the fallout from Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers’s injury

business

The WHOOP sign in Kenmore Square (top left). The Wayfair office location on Boylston Street (top center). The lobby of the DraftKings Back Bay offices (top right). DataRobot's office in downtown Boston (bottom left). Cambridge software company HubSpot at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (bottom center). A 3-D printer at the Desktop Metal headquarters in Burlington (bottom right). All of these Boston-area tech companies have conducted layoffs in the last six months.

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector

Dana-Farber deal highlights a surprising trend: New cancer centers are in vogue

The Mass. housing market: How it went. How it’s going.

politics

President Biden spoke about the auto workers strike from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Friday.

Biden sending aides to Detroit to address autoworkers strike, says ‘record profits’ should be shared

Special counsel seeking limited gag order on Trump in elections case

US military to interview witnesses wounded at chaotic airport bombing in Afghanistan

Nation

A man braces himself as he walk into the wind and Chapin Memorial Beach in Dennis on Saturday.

Weakening storm Lee bears down on New England and Canada with still-dangerous winds, heavy rains

Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial is on the brink of a verdict as senators end deliberations

Climate change could bring more monster storms like Hurricane Lee to New England

World

In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, center, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, arrive to inspect Russian warplanes at the Vladivostok International airport in Vladivostok, Russian Far East on Sept. 16.

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un inspects Russian bombers and a warship on a visit to Russia’s Far East

Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed

Son of El Chapo extradited to Chicago to face federal drug charges

opinion

A check for 2 cents to Robert Skole from the law firm of Dewey, Cheetham & Howe.

A memorable missive from the ‘legal department’ at ‘Car Talk’

By all means, bring on the reform of primary care

Surveying Leominster’s damage, with faith in city’s resilience

lifestyle

She was my first date after a long marriage

A parent’s coping guide for back-to-school teen anxiety

Dating in Boston has been rough

food & dining

Server Selena Teletina delivers food at Block Island's Airport Diner.

Restaurants in R.I., Maine, still struggle to find workers

Citing sustainability, Starbucks wants to overhaul its iconic cup. Will customers go along?

These two Boston-area restaurants made Bon Appétit’s ‘Best New Restaurants’ list

travel

Edward Tufte’s Rocket Science 3, is a full-size, fully-equipped airstream with operating lights.

Falling for Woodbury, ‘the most charming small town in Connecticut’

These maps show when foliage will peak in New England — and across the country

Where to find foliage trackers for each New England state

Arts

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, "Charting Your Course Through Life," 1940.

At this Harvard exhibition, the maps are real but the places on them aren’t

Harvard museum director stepping down

At Abakus Projects, a show that asks: How compatible are efficiency and humanity?

Books

A lament for a vanishing paradise, through the 300-year history of one plot of land

It’s back-to-school month — time for a pop quiz! Test yourself to see how well you know your New England campus novels.

Local bestsellers for the week ended Sept. 10

Movies

Sylvester Stallone in "Sly"

After seeing 20-plus films in six days, our critic shares some final highlights from this year’s TIFF

Drew Barrymore stalking suspect trespasses at fashion show looking for Emma Watson, police say

‘Scrapper’: A tender tale about a kid with serious mettle

Television

Fabrice Morvan, left, and Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli, pictured performing in 1992.

Milli Vanilli documentary revisits a sad scandal

A so-so thriller is lurking in this ‘Wilderness’

Helena Bonham Carter, ‘Nolly’ coming to ‘Masterpiece’

music

Peter Gabriel onstage at TD Garden Thursday night.

At TD Garden, Peter Gabriel puts on a show like no other

Death Cab for Cutie and Postal Service reach back 20 years

In a documentary of her life, singer Carol Sloane receives her overdue applause

Theater/Dance

From left: Carly Zien, Amy Resnick, Will Lyman, and Joshua Chessin-Yudin in "Prayer for the French Republic" at the Huntington.

In the Huntington’s ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ antisemitism hits home, again

In ART’s ‘Half-God of Rainfall,’ a storm is brewing

In ‘POTUS,’ the West Wing is nothing like ‘The West Wing’

Health

Boston, MA 10/7/2021: Exterior of Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA on October 07, 2021. (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) ( Exteriors of Dana Farber Cancer Institute for story about: Boston’s top cancer hospital had stood out nationally for encouraging its trustees to invest in its start-up companies, including even running them.) COVID-19 coronavirus

Dana-Farber deal highlights a surprising trend: New cancer centers are in vogue

Your health insurance costs are likely going up in R.I. next year. Here’s by how much.

CVS, Walgreens illegally marketed ‘unapproved’ eye drops, FDA says

Obituaries

Colombian artist Fernado Botero posed next to one of his sculptures in Santo Augustino's Church in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, prior to the opening of an exhibition there in 2012.

Fernando Botero, artist of whimsical rotundity, is dead at 91

Tony Award-winner Michael McGrath, mourned as ‘adorable, mischievous, brilliant,’ dies at 65

Robert S. Bennett, Washington lawyer at home in a crisis, dies at 84