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Supplies run low in Gaza as Israeli offensive looms

Smoke from an Israeli airstrike seen in the Gaza Strip from Sderot, Israel, on Oct. 15.

Biden considering trip to Israel in the coming days, but travel isn’t final, according to AP source

President Joe Biden is considering a trip to Israel in the coming days, but nothing has been finalized

Help for Gaza refugees creates a flashpoint for DeSantis and Haley Egypt’s leader criticizes Israel’s Gaza operation as Blinken extends his Mideast mission

‘We’re kicking into survival mode:’ Medway family among Americans trapped in Gaza Sunday amid Hamas-Israel war

Man killed Muslim boy and wounded woman in hate crime motivated by Israeli-Hamas war, police say

Harvard students rally in support of Palestinians ‘under siege in Gaza’

Salem church members describe flight from Israel after Hamas’s attack

Raiders 21, Patriots 17

Bill Belichick's Patriots had no answers, again, in losing to the Raiders.

Christopher L. Gasper

Pay attention to that man behind the curtain, because these are Bill Belichick’s Patriots, too

Unlike during the Patriots' glory years, now Belichick is just a man pulling levers that don’t work anymore.

Former Patriots running back Damien Harris leaves Bills game in ambulance after suffering injury Former Patriots defensive lineman Adam Butler felt ‘disrespected’ by lack of acknowledgment from Bill Belichick after Raiders game

Mac Jones had to take a safety on the final Patriots drive of their 21-17 loss to the Raiders on Sunday.

Mac Jones wants to stay positive, but acknowledges frustration after another Patriots loss

Winning quarterback Brian Hoyer met up with Mac Jones after the Raiders beat the Patriots.

Between the hashmarks

Brian Hoyer, Jakobi Meyers highlight Raiders’ productive ex-Patriots turned loose by Bill Belichick

Bill Belichick was less than pleased after Ezekiel Elliott’s long touchdown in the second quarter was called back due to a Hunter Henry holding penalty.

Penalties were how Patriots helped derail themselves in Las Vegas

In Cambridge, a battle over affordable housing revives longstanding political tensions
The Cambridge City Council is considering an expansion of its landmark affordable housing law, putting the city’s left-leaning ideals to the test.

Deputy Sealer of Weights and Measures Brian Oliver used weights from a test kit to check the accuracy of a scale at a Whole Foods Market location.

Boston’s referees of retail make sure a pound is a pound, a gallon is a gallon, and mile is a mile

Meet the city's Division of Weights and Measures, "the nerds of a certain world.”

Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Coming soon: Beyond the Gilded Gate, a Boston Globe Spotlight report into Massachusetts’ housing crisis

People from in and around Boston are being challenged by the region's housing crisis in ways never before seen.

Local neo-Nazi group demonstrates outside Governor Maura Healey’s home

The protesters, who wore masks and were identified as members of the New England-based NSC-131.

How Jeff Van Gundy landed with the Celtics, and seven other training camp nuggets

Even though the Celtics recently hired the former coach and television commentator as a senior consultant, this role will not be entirely new for him.

Surrounded by reporters, Representative Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, departed a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday. Jordan and his allies have begun a right-wing pressure campaign against Republicans opposed to electing him speaker, working to unleash the rage of the party's base voters against moderate Republicans who might decline to support him.

‘Get it together’: Voters in early GOP primary states express frustration and consternation with Republican House speaker meltdown

‘Informal’ House speaker talks underway with GOP, Jeffries says Jordan activates right-wing pressure campaign in push to win speakership

Lesley University students, professors protest mass layoff of liberal arts faculty
The protest was in response to the elimination of four programs and about 20 percent of the core faculty union members, they said.

ATF is well aware Littleton gun dealers use loophole to sell off-limits guns as parts, records show

The well-known loophole relies on the state’s definition of a “firearm,” which hasn’t been changed since it was enshrined into law in 1998.

Fitchburg man arrested following Roxbury stabbing

Suzanne Somers, actor who played Chrissy Snow on sitcom ‘Three’s Company,’ dead at 76

7-year-old girl struck by SUV in Gloucester, flown to Boston hospital

Used solar panels at Earthworm, Inc. This company picks up solar panels and sends them to a recycling company, GoodPoint Recycling.

Solar panel waste could become a problem. A nascent recycling industry has some solutions.

As nations move to keep solar panels out of landfills, the solar panel recycling business is expected to be a $1.72 billion industry by 2028, according to a market research report.

Iowa Methodist nurse manager Megan Carter picked up her youngest son, Oliver, from his last day at the child-care center in August. The hospital parent company, UnityPoint Health, recently received $2 million in grant funding to build a similar facility at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo.

‘We could start to move the needle’: Iowa offers model for fixing Mass. child-care crisis

Iowa's incentive program matched whatever a business was willing to spend funding new slots for their employees at local child-care centers or building on-site child-care facilities.

A humpback whale breaches off White Horse Beach in Plymouth.

After back and forth, humpback whales to remain on state’s endangered species list

The Healey administration withdrew its proposal to remove humpback whales from the Massachusetts list of endangered species. Conservationists are cheering the decision.

Opinion

The apple, grape, and tart cherry collections at the US Department of Agriculture's Plant Genetic Resources Unit in Geneva, N.Y.

IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

Apples of the future take root in the nation’s strategic fruit repository

Climate change will require breeders to develop apples that can withstand harsher conditions. But can they do that while keeping the fruit crisp and sweet?

Everyone deserves safe drinking water

How well are we grappling with Mass. and Cass?

Who needs the circus when there are House Republicans?

Redeeming captives is a high Israeli priority. Destroying Hamas must be a higher one.

More recent News

Dorchester Food Co-op opens its doors to bring fresh, affordable produce to the community
After more than a decade of planning and organizing, the co-op at 195 Bowdoin St. was bustling Saturday with neighborhood residents, both working the registers and crossing items off their grocery lists.

David Pastrnak’s penalty shot wizardry was all about creativity, preparation
On a masterful move that he came up with during the offseason, Bruins sniper came up big in Saturday's 3-2 win over Nashville.

LOVE LETTERS

A year later, it’s the same problem
We still haven’t met in person.

Readers are invited to fall in love with romance at Marlborough book conference
Fall in Love New England will bring 57 romance authors to mingle, celebrate, and trick-or-treat with fans.

Iowa women’s basketball draws record 55,646 to outdoor exhibition game
The Hawkeyes’ 94-72 exhibition win over DePaul at Kinnick Stadium drew 55,646 fans, almost doubling the previous record of 29,619 set by Connecticut and Oklahoma in the 2002 NCAA championship game at San Antonio’s Alamodome.

peter abraham | on baseball

Despite World Series title with Red Sox, Nate Eovaldi is eager to make new postseason memories with Rangers
Eovaldi is scheduled to start Game 2 of the ALCS against the Astros on Monday afternoon at Minute Maid Park.

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The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

Dana-Farber’s divorce from Brigham is the culmination of decades of change

According to several people involved in conversations around the deal, the divorce follows decades of tensions between the organizations.

Blind date: ‘There was just so much to like about her’
Will this teacher and his date sail off into the sunset?

CONNECTIONS

Alzheimer’s eroded my grandpa’s brain. Now I’m the keeper of our memories.
“Wait for me,” I told my grandfather on our last video call. Would he last until I could return to see him in China?

‘It’s hard to believe he’s Al Capone’: Republicans portray Biden as both incompetent and a criminal mastermind
This tale of two Bidens comes as the party’s long-running narrative about the oldest sitting president in history clashes with a growing line of attack highlighted by a House Republican impeachment inquiry.

Culture & Lifestyle

Horror fiction has seen an explosion in the number of Latinx authors joining the field in recent years.

Latinx horror authors are a new force in the genre. Here are 5 books to get you into the spooky season.

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing a Shostakovich cello concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023.

Yo-Yo Ma makes Shostakovich concertos the main event with BSO

What’s a favorite show of yours that nobody is talking about? Tell us and we’ll share it.

Juliette Binoche is "radiant" in "The Taste of Things."

Priscilla’s story, ‘Janet Planet,’ and French food draw attention at the New York 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

Former president Donald Trump endorsed Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio in the GOP race for speaker of the House. Jordan supported Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election, defied a congressional subpoena to testify before the Jan. 6 committee, and denies any knowledge of allegations of sexual abuse by an Ohio State University team doctor while Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach there.

Katherine Clark

To my House GOP colleagues: Choose bipartisanship, not extremism, with next speaker

A child in Gaza looked at the destroyed buildings in the aftermath of a bombing by Israel on Oct. 8.

ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The cycle of violence starts with the Israeli occupation

A Chinese squid ship in the Pacific.

IDEAS | IAN URBINA

The return of an old scourge reveals a deep sickness in the global fishing industry

Israeli soldiers prepared for a mission Thursday outside Be’eri, a kibbutz that was overrun by Hamas militants last week.

Redeeming captives is a high Israeli priority. Destroying Hamas must be a higher one.

Senator Tommy Tuberville looked on as US Air Force General David W. Allvin, nominee to be chief of staff of the Air Force at the Department of Defense, not pictured, spoke during a Senate Armed Services Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 12.

The world is watching the US Senate’s dysfunction and delay on ambassadors and military officials

A dog named Ducky demonstrated FluentPet's communication buttons during the Pepcom Digital Experience before the CES tech show in January.

IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Metro

Five things to know about the ‘60 Minutes’ report on migrants sent to Martha’s Vineyard last year

On Sunday, the weekly television news magazine “60 Minutes” broadcast a report reviewing the 2022 incident and unveiling new details about the migrants affected by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s decision to send the group to Massachusetts.

Salem church members describe flight from Israel after Hamas’s attack

The group planned to follow Jesus’ footsteps through the Holy Land, but had to flee as Hamas launched a violent attack on Israel.

Lesley University students, professors protest mass layoff of liberal arts faculty

The protest was in response to the elimination of four programs and about 20 percent of the core faculty union members, they said.

Suzanne Somers, actor who played Chrissy Snow on sitcom ‘Three’s Company,’ dead at 76

Suzanne Somers, the effervescent blonde actor known for playing Chrissy Snow on the U.S. television sitcom “Three’s Company” that gained wide popularity in the 1970s and early 80s, has died

Sports

Replays showed Buffalo Bills cornerback Taron Johnson had a handful of Giants tight end Darren Waller's jersey on Sunday night's final play, but no flag was thrown and the Bills held off struggling New York.

BILLS 14, GIANTS 9

Sloppy Bills slip past gritty Giants, who come up one yard shy — twice

New York, the weekend's biggest underdog and starting a backup quarterback, fought to the final play, but lost its fourth straight after it ended each half with a drive stalling at Buffalo’s 1.

Nate Eovaldi pitched seven innings of one-run ball in Game 3 of the AL Division Series to help the Rangers sweep the Orioles.

peter abraham | on baseball

Despite World Series title with Red Sox, Nate Eovaldi is eager to make new postseason memories with Rangers

Eovaldi is scheduled to start Game 2 of the ALCS against the Astros on Monday afternoon at Minute Maid Park.

The Rangers' Leody Taveras circled the bases after hitting a solo home run in the fifth inning against the Astros.

rangers 2, astros 0

Jordan Montgomery, Rangers shut down Astros in Game 1 of AL Championship Series

The lefthander allowed five singles over 6⅓ scoreless innings and Texas's offense did just enough against Houston starter Justin Verlander.

Alyssa Nakken, the first female on-field coach in the majors, interviews for Giants’ manager job

Former Patriots defensive lineman Adam Butler felt ‘disrespected’ by lack of acknowledgment from Bill Belichick after Raiders game

Ben Volin | Instant Analysis

Will the Patriots win another game this season after a disheartening loss to the struggling Raiders?

Business

Daniel Noboa, heir to banana fortune, wins Ecuador’s presidential runoff election

Daniel Noboa, an inexperienced politician and an heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, won Ecuador’s presidential runoff election Sunday held amid unprecedented violence that even claimed the life of a candidate.

Ecuadorians choose a president between a banana empire heir and an attorney

Frightened by unprecedented violence on the streets and within prisons, Ecuadorians have a universal demand for the president they voted for Sunday — safety.

Polish opposition leader Tusk declares win after exit poll shows ruling conservatives lose majority

In Cambridge, a battle over affordable housing revives longstanding political tensions

magazine

Karen and Gale on Oahu, 1963.

My mother’s descent into dementia, in her own words

Older people rarely want hearing aids. A dementia study could change that.

The writer’s father took this picture of his wife, seven kids, and a baby sitter.

A fraught question for the children of Alzheimer’s: Is it coming for us?

This week's daters: Max and Siena.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘There was just so much to like about her’

metro

A humpback whale breaches off White Horse Beach in Plymouth.

After back and forth, humpback whales to remain on state’s endangered species list

Boston’s referees of retail make sure a pound is a pound, a gallon is a gallon, and mile is a mile

Izzy loves to explore nature

sports

Bill Belichick's Patriots had no answers, again, in losing to the Raiders.

Pay attention to that man behind the curtain, because these are Bill Belichick’s Patriots, too

Penalties were how Patriots helped derail themselves in Las Vegas

San Diego Wave secure best record, playoff bye on NWSL’s final day of regular season

business

Charles and Kathleen Moore are about to have their day in the Supreme Court over a $15,000 tax bill they believe is unconstitutional.

A Supreme Court dispute over a $15,000 IRS bill may be aimed at a never-enacted tax on billionaires

Solar panel waste could become a problem. A nascent recycling industry has some solutions.

‘Informal’ House speaker talks underway with GOP, Jeffries says

politics

President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023

Biden considering trip to Israel in the coming days, but travel isn’t final, according to AP source

Jordan activates right-wing pressure campaign in push to win speakership

Federal firefighters face steep pay cuts

Nation

The home where a boy was killed and a woman critically injured after they were stabbed by a man who targeted them because they were Muslim is shown in Plainfield, Ill., Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023.

Man killed Muslim boy and wounded woman in hate crime motivated by Israeli-Hamas war, police say

How megafires are remaking the world

A Supreme Court dispute over a $15,000 IRS bill may be aimed at a never-enacted tax on billionaires

World

Smoke from an Israeli airstrike seen in the Gaza Strip from Sderot, Israel, on Oct. 15.

Supplies run low in Gaza as Israeli offensive looms

Gaza hospitals say thousands could die as Israeli offensive looms

Ecuadorians choose a president between a banana empire heir and an attorney

opinion

Senator Tommy Tuberville looked on as US Air Force General David W. Allvin, nominee to be chief of staff of the Air Force at the Department of Defense, not pictured, spoke during a Senate Armed Services Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 12.

The world is watching the US Senate’s dysfunction and delay on ambassadors and military officials

Which war crimes?

Redeeming captives is a high Israeli priority. Destroying Hamas must be a higher one.

lifestyle

A year later, it’s the same problem

She gaslights me all the time

So your parents have outgrown their home. What now?

food & dining

Red pepper cavatelli.

At Midnight Morning, it’s always a good time to gather

Globe readers share their favorite restaurant desserts in honor of National Dessert Day Saturday

H+L Market brings clam shack vibes to the Seaport; Rebelle’s bagels fill a hole in the Kendall Square dining scene

travel

In Vermont, the median age is the third oldest in the country and the unemployment rate is just 1.8 percent.

A new role for tourism agencies: getting vacationers to stay permanently

Boston tops list of cities with the most expensive hotels in the country

With new gates, Massport makes an $800 million bet on international travel at Logan

Arts

Art dealer William Vareika in front of a John La Farge stained glass triptych, which he and his wife Alison donated to the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College.

🖌️ You have to get down to Newport to check out this art gallery this fall

At sea with ‘Forecast Form’ at the ICA

At the Addison, a Maine painter takes on the age-old conventions of maritime art

Books

Fall in Love New England hosts a Halloween costume contest for readers and authors every year.

Readers are invited to fall in love with romance at Marlborough book conference

Louise Glück, Nobel-winning poet of terse and candid lyricism, dies at 80

Latinx horror authors are a new force in the genre. Here are 5 books to get you into the spooky season.

Movies

“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” was shot over three nights at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ gives fans the best seat in the stadium

Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ movie: Four takeaways from the premiere.

Welcome back, Carter: Legendary costumer Ruth E. Carter honored with Coolidge Award

Television

Suzanne Somers is seen in 2007. Somers, the effervescent blonde actor known for playing Chrissy Snow on the television show “Three’s Company,” as well as her business endeavors, died early Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023.

Suzanne Somers, actor who played Chrissy Snow on sitcom ‘Three’s Company,’ dead at 76

As ‘SNL’ returns, Pete Davidson opens the show on a somber note

Watch for expansion of ‘Suits’ franchise

music

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing a Shostakovich cello concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023.

Yo-Yo Ma makes Shostakovich concertos the main event with BSO

‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ gives fans the best seat in the stadium

Rudolph Isley, founding member of Isley Brothers and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, dies at 84

Theater/Dance

Members of The State who are currently on tour pose for a photo in Denver.

The State’s skewed sketch comedy was panned by critics, but then a funny thing happened

Moonbox’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ offers theatergoers an early peek at Arrow Street Arts in Cambridge

British comic Russell Howard brings his mix of wonder and silliness to the Shubert stage

Health

Neil Steinberg, the former president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, is expected to be named chairman of the state's new life sciences corporate body.

Neil Steinberg, former CEO of Rhode Island Foundation, to chair R.I.’s new life sciences agency

R.I. life sciences agency inches closer to becoming reality

Latest COVID vaccine rollout facing canceled appointments, pricey insurance bills

Obituaries

Suzanne Somers is seen in 2007. Somers, the effervescent blonde actor known for playing Chrissy Snow on the television show “Three’s Company,” as well as her business endeavors, died early Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023.

Suzanne Somers, actor who played Chrissy Snow on sitcom ‘Three’s Company,’ dead at 76

Andy Bean, 11-time PGA Tour winner, dies from complications of lung surgery

Khaled Khalifa, lauded Syrian novelist who was ‘exiled at home,’ dies