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Over concerns, Boston council approves $3.4 million in controversial BRIC grants

All councilors who voted in favor of the grants were white, while all those who voted against them were people of color.

Pregnant woman shot on bus, baby dies, in Holyoke shooting
The woman, who was not identified, was not the intended target of the shooting that occurred at 12:38 p.m. in the 100 block of Sargeant Street, prosecutors said in a press release.

Boston College buys Mount Alvernia High School campus in Newton for $40.5 million

The sale was completed Tuesday, fewer than four months after the Catholic girls school for grades seventh through 12th closed its doors for lack of enrollment.

DeSantis blasts Massachusetts on migrants in Foxborough hotels

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis responded harshly to a report that veterans and service academy graduates are without lodging for December’s Army-Navy game at Gillette Stadium because their hotel reservations were canceled to provide rooms to migrant families.

School Committee member pushes for changes to exam school admissions
Brandon Cardet-Hernandez is pushing the district to award applicants bonus points to low-income students individually rather than awarding points to students who attend high-poverty schools.

Healey signs $1 billion tax package into law. Here’s what it means for your wallet.

It’s been more than two decades since the last significant tax cut, when voters — not legislators — approved a measure to slice the state’s income tax to 5 percent.

Chesto Means Business: Will $1 billion tax bill make Mass. more competitive? Don’t count on it.

Three Philadelphia officers injured in shooting after dispute about video game, police say. Suspect dead

Authorities say three Philadelphia police officers responding to a home where people were arguing about a video game were wounded in a shootout Wednesday evening.

Congress in chaos

WATCH: In a historic move, Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker of the House. Washington Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich explains Congress' uncharted territory.

McCarthy’s ouster leaves the House adrift as divided Republicans seek to unite behind a new leader

Republicans struggled to bring order to their fractured majority and begin the difficult and potentially prolonged process of selecting a new leader.

Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as House speaker could cost GOP its best fundraiser heading into 2024

Stephen Bannon during a record of his podcast “War Room” in a studio in the basement of his house in Washington, on Oct. 4, 2023. For weeks, Bannon has been strategizing with Matt Gaetz for the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

From a Capitol Hill basement, Steven Bannon stokes the Republican Party meltdown

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana.

Steve Scalise, No. 2 House Republican, and Jim Jordan join race to succeed McCarthy as speaker

Patriots players live in fear of the dreaded Bill Belichick pop quiz
Throughout the week, the coach will pepper players with questions — usually but not always about the next opponent — and you'd better be prepared.

Patriots are trading for cornerback J.C. Jackson in New England reunion

YVONNE ABRAHAM

At the Shattuck, good intentions collide
Turning the old hospital at the edge of Franklin Park into a desperately needed refuge for those battling addiction and homelessness is no simple proposition.

There is a job opening on Jersey Street, for someone who can help the Red Sox hang another banner.

A closer look at the questions hovering over the Red Sox’ search for a new baseball boss

Many potential candidates outside the organization see the job as a well-positioned opportunity to win, yet one that comes with unavoidable questions and reservations.

The 2023 MacArthur fellows include Massachusetts residents (clockwise from top left): Imani Perry, Lester Mackey, Jason D. Buenrostro, and Lucy Hutyra.

Four Mass. residents awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants

Among those who received 2023 “genius” grants from the MacArthur Foundation were a local biologist, ecologist, computer scientist, and interdisciplinary scholar, along with two other fellows who have educational ties to Massachusetts.

These are the 2023 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ fellows

With Celtics owners Steve Pagliuca (left) and Wyc Grousbeck by his side, guard Jrue Holiday displayed his new jersey.

With memorable first practice under his belt, new Celtic Jrue Holiday sets sights on helping teammates reach their potential

“I’m really just here to serve,” Holiday said. “I’m here to do really well next to everybody on the court. But I think for the most part, it’s about winning and helping my teammates be as good as they can.”

NBC Sports Boston names Drew Carter to be Mike Gorman’s successor on Celtics broadcasts

ZOM Living has proposed two five-story residential buildings on nearly nine acres between South Shore Plaza Road and Lakeside Drive at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree.

A developer proposed nearly 500 apartments on South Shore Plaza. Then residents killed it.

A plan for what would have been Braintree’s largest apartment project ran into a buzz saw of neighborhood opposition.

Opinion

Former president Donald Trump on the third day of his civil fraud trial in New York on Oct. 4. On Tuesday, Judge Arthur Engoron imposed a gag order on Trump after the former president used his social media platform to lash out at a courthouse clerk.

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Judges should meet Trump’s contempt with contempt orders

A contempt order against Trump will swiftly be held up by him and his supporters as proof of this false narrative. So what? It would be worse if judges let him get away with it.

EDITORIAL

Giving Haiti a fighting chance

JEFF JACOBY

The real reason an ‘America First’ mindset dominates the Republican base

IDEAS | Mary Ziegler

In the conservative crackdown on sex, ‘parental rights’ could be a smokescreen

IDEAS | ANNE ZINK

Syphilis, the ‘Great Pretender,’ is back

Hispanic Heritage Month

Jose Masso stands next to "The Embrace" monument on Boston Common. His name is one of 69 inscribed on the 1965 Freedom Plaza that encircles the sculpture.

On the air and off, Jose Masso has been heard

Host of WBUR's “¡Con Salsa!” for nearly 50 years, Masso's impact in Boston — as an educator, mentor, and cultural liaison — goes well beyond broadcasting.

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

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, a long-time public health advocate and Latino radio host who has launched Rhode Island’s first Spanish-language health website, nuestrasalud.com.

During Hispanic Heritage Month, doctor says R.I. can do better: ‘Taco Tuesday is not progress. It is appeasement.’

Owner Edner Ttrente Et Un at Viva Mi Arepa, a Venezuelan restaurant in West Roxbury.

DEVRA FIRST

10 restaurants that capture the spirit of Hispanic Heritage Month

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In historic pick, Boston University names Dr. Melissa Gilliam to be next president
Dr. Gilliam will be the first woman and first Black person to lead Boston's largest university.

‘It is going to be more challenging this year.’ CDC director addresses vaccination hiccups on visit to Boston
CDC Director Mandy Cohen kicked off a fall vaccination campaign in Roxbury Wednesday.

Healey makes first judicial nominations as governor, tapping commercial litigator and defense attorney
Governor Maura Healey tapped Adam L. Sisitsky, a Framingham resident and securities attorney at Mintz, and Tracy E. Duncan, a Springfield-based defense attorney, for two openings on the Superior Court.

Longtime Boston fixture, Jacob Wirth restaurant is on the way back
After closing more than five years ago, the German restaurant is planning to reopen in its former spot in the Theater District by St. Patrick’s Day.

In summer radio ratings, The Sports Hub remains in top spot; WEEI’s morning show makes gain
The Sports Hub finished first overall from the period of June 22 to September 13 in the men 25-54 demographic with a 12.6 share. WEEI was fourth (6.2). Last summer, The Sports Hub was first (17.3), while WEEI was tied for fifth (4.9).

Teenager indicted on first-degree murder charges in August 2022 killing of sister-in-law, her two kids in Northfield, N.H.
Eric Sweeney will now be prosecuted as an adult for allegedly killing three relatives, including a toddler and a 4-year-old, in the victims’ Northfield, N.H., home last year.

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A greyhound racing magnate needed to sell the old Brockton Fairgrounds. The city made an offer.

After several failed attempts at a revival, the family who has controlled the Brockton Fairgrounds since the 1950s, the Carneys, put the 66 acres up for sale.

MIT professor Moungi Bawendi, Nobel Prize co-recipient in chemistry, overcame a tough start at Harvard
Moungi Bawendi, the newest Nobel Prize recipient from MIT, is a chemistry professor whose work has made television screens brighter and the treatment and diagnosis of liver disease more effective.

Trump’s lead holds in poll and Haley overtakes DeSantis for second place among N.H. voters
Donald Trump holds a 30 percentage-point lead over the pool of Republican rivals churning below him in New Hampshire, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe/USA TODAY poll.

Explore the results of the Suffolk/Globe/USA TODAY poll of New Hampshire Republican voters

Are environmental toxins causing the rise in early-onset cancers? You asked, we researched.
There’s no question that we are exposed to chemicals — many of them known carcinogens — that are found in air, water, and food.

Culture & Lifestyle

Jazz Along the Charles to honor Boston’s legacy of women composers and musicians

Marshall W. Mabry IV in "Fat Ham" at the Huntington Theatre.

‘Fat Ham,’ at the Huntington, updates ‘Hamlet’

Seu Jorge goes back to bossa nova with Antônio Carlos Jobim’s grandson

AWR Music's "A New World: intimate music from 'Final Fantasy'" concert program was performed at Jordan Hall under the direction of Eric Roth at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall on Sept. 29, 2023.

‘A New World’ doesn’t make the most compelling case for ‘Final Fantasy’ music

Special Projects

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

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

In this April 1978 file photo, San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, left, and Mayor George Moscone are shown in the mayor's office during the signing of the city's gay rights bill.

RENÉE GRAHAM

In two decades-old assassinations, a prediction of today’s white domestic terrorism

EDITORIAL

Abuse at residential schools for autistic children calls out for accountability, transparency

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in a 1922 decision that Major League Baseball doesn't constitute “interstate commerce.” It's on that basis that the sport is largely exempt from antitrust laws.

IDEAS | Sandeep Vaheesan

It’s past time to throw out baseball’s antitrust exemption

Alicia Morales de Díaz visited the home of her sister, Reina Carolina Morales Rojas, in the Cantarrana zone in Santa Ana, El Salvador, on Aug. 10, 2023. Morales Rojas went missing in Massachusetts on Nov. 26, 2022.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A heartbreaking visit to the hometown of a missing Boston woman

“The Glass Castle” © 2005 by Jeannette Walls, published by Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

BANNED BOOKS

Banned Books Week: ‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeannette Walls

"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

Columbus statue, removed from a square in Providence, Rhode Island, re-emerges in nearby town

Three years after a Christopher Columbus statue was removed from a square in Providence, Rhode Island, the bronze cast has re-emerged, this time in a park in Johnston, Rhode Island, about 9 miles west of the capital.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Massachusetts called their reading curriculums ‘low quality.’ Here’s what publishers had to say.

The state faulted seven different curricula for lacking structured phonics lessons, complex texts and strategies for building student knowledge — essential components of the "science of reading."

School Committee member pushes for changes to exam school admissions

Brandon Cardet-Hernandez is pushing the district to award applicants bonus points to low-income students individually rather than awarding points to students who attend high-poverty schools.

Boston College buys Mount Alvernia High School campus in Newton for $40.5 million

The sale was completed Tuesday, fewer than four months after the Catholic girls school for grades seventh through 12th closed its doors for lack of enrollment.

Sports

Taylor Swift (second from left) watched the Chiefs from a suite Sunday night with Blake Lively, Lively's husband Ryan Reynolds, and Hugh Jackman (right).

NFL

Can there be too much Taylor Swift on TV? The Chiefs’ Travis Kelce thinks maybe that is the case

Kelce agreed with the idea that NFL TV coverage has been “overdoing it” with the amount of times Swift has been on screen while attending his games.

Revolution interim coach Clint Peay kept an eye on things at a recent practice.

crew 2, revolution 1

Revolution slip in the standings after suffering first loss at home on late goal by Crew

Columbus's Malte Amundsen broke a 1-1 deadlock, finishing a corner kick at the back post in the 86th minute.

Bishop Fenwick players Luke Connolly (from left), Anthony Nichols, and Brayden Clifford are making the most of their sanctioned season.

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | WEEK 5

Banned from the postseason, Bishop Fenwick is taking out its frustration on opponents. Next up? Cardinal Spellman.

After beating St. Mary’s last week, the Crusaders can move one step closer to an outright Catholic Central League championship with a win at Cardinal Spellman (4-0) Friday at 6:30 p.m.

celtics

With memorable first practice under his belt, new Celtic Jrue Holiday sets sights on helping teammates reach their potential

NFL NOTEBOOK

Jonathan Taylor back in running with Colts after injury and contract squabble

NFL

Bills welcome Von Miller back to practice after 10 months away because of knee injury

Business

TALKING POINTS

State gives tax credits to Holyoke cement factory

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

A test case of another kind for the Supreme Court: Who can sue hotels over disability access

The court on Wednesday wrestled with a case that people with disabilities worry could make it harder to learn in advance what accommodations are available that meet their needs.

Italy identifies 20 tourists who perished in fiery crash from overpass on Venetian mainland

Sam Bankman-Fried to meet his jury as criminal trial gets underway

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MISS CONDUCT

My co-workers' jokes about suicide leave me rattled

Jazz Along the Charles, set for October 7, will feature 100 Boston-based musicians.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 2 - Oct. 15

A social studies classroom at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro.

The Education Issue

The 'anti-woke' legislation making N.H. teachers nervous

The Education Issue

Over concerns, Boston council approves $3.4 million in controversial BRIC grants

Pregnant woman shot on bus, baby dies, in Holyoke shooting The woman, who was not identified, was not the intended target of the shooting that occurred at 12:38 p.m. in the 100 block of Sargeant Street, prosecutors said in a press release.

Boston College buys Mount Alvernia High School campus in Newton for $40.5 million

DeSantis blasts Massachusetts on migrants in Foxborough hotels

School Committee member pushes for changes to exam school admissions Brandon Cardet-Hernandez is pushing the district to award applicants bonus points to low-income students individually rather than awarding points to students who attend high-poverty schools.

Healey signs $1 billion tax package into law. Here’s what it means for your wallet.

Three Philadelphia officers injured in shooting after dispute about video game, police say. Suspect dead

McCarthy’s ouster leaves the House adrift as divided Republicans seek to unite behind a new leader

From a Capitol Hill basement, Steven Bannon stokes the Republican Party meltdown

Steve Scalise, No. 2 House Republican, and Jim Jordan join race to succeed McCarthy as speaker

Patriots players live in fear of the dreaded Bill Belichick pop quiz Throughout the week, the coach will pepper players with questions — usually but not always about the next opponent — and you'd better be prepared.

YVONNE ABRAHAM At the Shattuck, good intentions collide Turning the old hospital at the edge of Franklin Park into a desperately needed refuge for those battling addiction and homelessness is no simple proposition.

A closer look at the questions hovering over the Red Sox’ search for a new baseball boss

Four Mass. residents awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants

With memorable first practice under his belt, new Celtic Jrue Holiday sets sights on helping teammates reach their potential

A developer proposed nearly 500 apartments on South Shore Plaza. Then residents killed it.

Judges should meet Trump’s contempt with contempt orders

Giving Haiti a fighting chance

The real reason an ‘America First’ mindset dominates the Republican base

In the conservative crackdown on sex, ‘parental rights’ could be a smokescreen

Syphilis, the ‘Great Pretender,’ is back

On the air and off, Jose Masso has been heard

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

During Hispanic Heritage Month, doctor says R.I. can do better: ‘Taco Tuesday is not progress. It is appeasement.’

10 restaurants that capture the spirit of Hispanic Heritage Month

More recent News

In historic pick, Boston University names Dr. Melissa Gilliam to be next president Dr. Gilliam will be the first woman and first Black person to lead Boston's largest university.

‘It is going to be more challenging this year.’ CDC director addresses vaccination hiccups on visit to Boston CDC Director Mandy Cohen kicked off a fall vaccination campaign in Roxbury Wednesday.

Longtime Boston fixture, Jacob Wirth restaurant is on the way back After closing more than five years ago, the German restaurant is planning to reopen in its former spot in the Theater District by St. Patrick’s Day.

Teenager indicted on first-degree murder charges in August 2022 killing of sister-in-law, her two kids in Northfield, N.H. Eric Sweeney will now be prosecuted as an adult for allegedly killing three relatives, including a toddler and a 4-year-old, in the victims’ Northfield, N.H., home last year.

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A greyhound racing magnate needed to sell the old Brockton Fairgrounds. The city made an offer.

MIT professor Moungi Bawendi, Nobel Prize co-recipient in chemistry, overcame a tough start at Harvard Moungi Bawendi, the newest Nobel Prize recipient from MIT, is a chemistry professor whose work has made television screens brighter and the treatment and diagnosis of liver disease more effective.

Trump’s lead holds in poll and Haley overtakes DeSantis for second place among N.H. voters Donald Trump holds a 30 percentage-point lead over the pool of Republican rivals churning below him in New Hampshire, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe/USA TODAY poll.

Are environmental toxins causing the rise in early-onset cancers? You asked, we researched. There’s no question that we are exposed to chemicals — many of them known carcinogens — that are found in air, water, and food.

Culture & Lifestyle

Jazz Along the Charles to honor Boston’s legacy of women composers and musicians

‘Fat Ham,’ at the Huntington, updates ‘Hamlet’

Seu Jorge goes back to bossa nova with Antônio Carlos Jobim’s grandson

‘A New World’ doesn’t make the most compelling case for ‘Final Fantasy’ music

Special Projects

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

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

How the missing become the uncounted

Two Weeks in America

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

In two decades-old assassinations, a prediction of today’s white domestic terrorism

Abuse at residential schools for autistic children calls out for accountability, transparency

It’s past time to throw out baseball’s antitrust exemption

A heartbreaking visit to the hometown of a missing Boston woman

Banned Books Week: ‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeannette Walls

My farewell love letter to Boston

Metro

Columbus statue, removed from a square in Providence, Rhode Island, re-emerges in nearby town

Massachusetts called their reading curriculums ‘low quality.’ Here’s what publishers had to say.

School Committee member pushes for changes to exam school admissions

Boston College buys Mount Alvernia High School campus in Newton for $40.5 million

Sports

Can there be too much Taylor Swift on TV? The Chiefs’ Travis Kelce thinks maybe that is the case

Revolution slip in the standings after suffering first loss at home on late goal by Crew

Banned from the postseason, Bishop Fenwick is taking out its frustration on opponents. Next up? Cardinal Spellman.

With memorable first practice under his belt, new Celtic Jrue Holiday sets sights on helping teammates reach their potential

Jonathan Taylor back in running with Colts after injury and contract squabble

Bills welcome Von Miller back to practice after 10 months away because of knee injury

Business

State gives tax credits to Holyoke cement factory

A test case of another kind for the Supreme Court: Who can sue hotels over disability access

Italy identifies 20 tourists who perished in fiery crash from overpass on Venetian mainland

Sam Bankman-Fried to meet his jury as criminal trial gets underway

My co-workers' jokes about suicide leave me rattled

Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 2 - Oct. 15

The 'anti-woke' legislation making N.H. teachers nervous

Mass. schools are among the best. Except for financial literacy.

metro

DeSantis blasts Massachusetts on migrants in Foxborough hotels

Pregnant woman shot on bus, baby dies, in Holyoke shooting

In historic pick, Boston University names Dr. Melissa Gilliam to be next president

sports

Pregnant woman shot on bus, baby dies, in Holyoke shooting
The woman, who was not identified, was not the intended target of the shooting that occurred at 12:38 p.m. in the 100 block of Sargeant Street, prosecutors said in a press release.

School Committee member pushes for changes to exam school admissions
Brandon Cardet-Hernandez is pushing the district to award applicants bonus points to low-income students individually rather than awarding points to students who attend high-poverty schools.

Patriots players live in fear of the dreaded Bill Belichick pop quiz
Throughout the week, the coach will pepper players with questions — usually but not always about the next opponent — and you'd better be prepared.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

At the Shattuck, good intentions collide
Turning the old hospital at the edge of Franklin Park into a desperately needed refuge for those battling addiction and homelessness is no simple proposition.

In historic pick, Boston University names Dr. Melissa Gilliam to be next president
Dr. Gilliam will be the first woman and first Black person to lead Boston's largest university.

‘It is going to be more challenging this year.’ CDC director addresses vaccination hiccups on visit to Boston
CDC Director Mandy Cohen kicked off a fall vaccination campaign in Roxbury Wednesday.

Longtime Boston fixture, Jacob Wirth restaurant is on the way back
After closing more than five years ago, the German restaurant is planning to reopen in its former spot in the Theater District by St. Patrick’s Day.

Teenager indicted on first-degree murder charges in August 2022 killing of sister-in-law, her two kids in Northfield, N.H.
Eric Sweeney will now be prosecuted as an adult for allegedly killing three relatives, including a toddler and a 4-year-old, in the victims’ Northfield, N.H., home last year.

MIT professor Moungi Bawendi, Nobel Prize co-recipient in chemistry, overcame a tough start at Harvard
Moungi Bawendi, the newest Nobel Prize recipient from MIT, is a chemistry professor whose work has made television screens brighter and the treatment and diagnosis of liver disease more effective.

Trump’s lead holds in poll and Haley overtakes DeSantis for second place among N.H. voters
Donald Trump holds a 30 percentage-point lead over the pool of Republican rivals churning below him in New Hampshire, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe/USA TODAY poll.

Are environmental toxins causing the rise in early-onset cancers? You asked, we researched.
There’s no question that we are exposed to chemicals — many of them known carcinogens — that are found in air, water, and food.