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‘We Found Love’ with men behind bars

WATCH: Criminal justice reporter Ivy Scott introduces women who are in relationships with men serving life sentences for murder.

What drives people to actively choose a prisoner as a life partner?

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What WeWork’s bankruptcy means for Boston’s struggling office market

Not long ago, the co-working giant was Boston’s largest occupier of office space.

‘A cloud hanging over everybody’s head’: New construction in Greater Boston faces a slowdown

Here is a list of the 69 WeWork locations that will close as part of bankruptcy filings

innovation economy

Like a cruise, WeWork was fun, while it lasted

Retired Norwell pediatrician charged with sexually assaulting two patients
Dr. Richard Kauff, who had practiced at South Shore Medical Center, is charged with four counts of child rape and a dozen counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, filings show.

‘One way to heal’: In Lewiston, a memorial to honor shooting victims grows
A local museum director and an artist in Lewiston, Maine, are creating a display at a Lewiston museum to honor the victims of the Oct. 25 shooting.

Maine governor working to have state pay for funerals of Lewiston victims

Internal Boston University audit finds no financial mismanagement at Ibram Kendi’s antiracist center, BU says
The results of the audit represented a partial vindication for Ibram Kendi, who faced criticism of his management as well as unfounded accusations of financial malfeasance in the weeks after he laid off more than half of his center’s staff.

‘The joy of our lives:’ Northeastern University graduate killed in plane crash in Australia

Vice President Kamala Harris to visit Boston on Thursday

Worker dies after being electrocuted at AT&T facility in Cambridge

Palestinians searched through destroyed buildings after Israeli air airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 7 in Khan Yunis, Gaza.

Israel fights Hamas in ‘depths’ of Gaza City, foresees control of enclave’s security after war

The comments signaled a new stage by the Israeli military as it moves in toward what it says is the headquarters and stronghold of the Hamas militant group.

Jewish man dies after confrontation during pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations Report of hit-and-run of Muslim student at Stanford prompts hate crime inquiry

UMass student describes alleged assault by another student during Israel solidarity demonstration

Plymouth family to return to Mass. after a month trapped in Gaza

House advances effort to censure Rashida Tlaib over her rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas war

Globe Magazine

Boston’s best everything bagel was real. I ate it. Then it vanished.
A decade on, there’s so much I still needed to know: How did it start? Where did it go? Who in the world was “Mike the Baker”?

Boston City Council Election Day is today. Here’s what to know before you vote.
Eligible Bostonians will be able to cast their ballots to elect the city’s next district councilors and at-large city councilors.

Key decisions, but low turnout, expected Voters head to the polls for Boston election

Kassandra Sweeney, 25, and her two sons, 4-year-old Benjamin and 1-year-old Mason, were found shot to death in their Northfield, N.H. home on Aug. 3, 2022, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General's office. They are survived by husband and father Sean M. Sweeney, who wasn't home at the time.

Young mom’s final words to her husband among new details in Northfield, N.H., triple murder case

The mother and her two young sons were gunned down in August 2022, allegedly by their teenage brother-in-law and uncle.

Diane Sawyer's 'Chip Chop,' a sprawling estate on Martha's Vineyard, hit the market in August.

Diane Sawyer’s Martha’s Vineyard estate sells for $23.9 million

The sprawling "Chip Chop" compound was sold to investor David Malm, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Bill Murray and Michael Serpa in front "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zassou" painting at Select Oyster Bar in Boston Nov. 3.

Life imitates art when Bill Murray dines in Boston

A Back Bay restaurant had a special table ready for the "Life Aquatic" actor.

Romeo Santos performs at TD Garden Monday night.

Seduction and showmanship from Romeo Santos at TD Garden

As a solo artist and as the lead singer of Aventura, Santos’s career spans more than two decades, and on Monday he whirled through his discography with charm and verve.

Opinion

IDEAS | JENNIFER BLOCK

Youth gender medicine has become a hall of mirrors

Despite the certainty projected by medical institutions about the affirming model of care, some pioneering practitioners worry it may have gone too far.

A public outing, a mayor’s suicide, and the toll of anti-trans hate in a small Southern city

Nikki Haley outshines Ron DeSantis on the N.H. campaign trail

MARCELA GARCÍA

Bilingual education is the foundation for Boston’s next generation

Kawashima-Ginsberg, Levine, and Lieberman

Massachusetts should move local elections to even-numbered years

The Prudential Building, left, and One Dalton in the setting sun.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

Reckoning with Boston’s towers of wealth

Luxury high-rises are sprouting across the skyline. Why is Boston, amid a grave housing crisis, so much better at building homes for the wealthy than those in need?

Explore the project

More recent News

Mass. lawmakers propose $250 million for strained shelter system, push Healey to create overflow site for homeless families

Massachusetts House leaders on Tuesday unveiled a proposal that would delay Governor Maura Healey’s plan to limit the number of families in the state’s emergency shelter system if officials don’t quickly stand up an overflow site.

Turkey Trots and other Thanksgiving races happening in the Boston area
Grab your best turkey-inspired outfit and lace up your running shoes. It's turkey trot season.

Trump’s rivals battle one another, and his aura of inevitability, as next debate approaches
Trump’s fractured opposition and the persistent focus on one of them emerging as the leading “Trump alternative” echo the dynamics of his first run in 2016, when his rivals spent millions of dollars on ads attacking one another while he marched to the nomination.

How to watch the third GOP debate

Mass General Brigham announces first moves toward integrated cancer program
Dr. Daphne Haas-Kogan, chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital since 2015, will take on a system-wide role.

Cape Cod surfers say they narrowly escaped 10-foot shark
“I’ve seen a hundred white sharks while surfing, but this takes the top of all my shark interactions,” Ray Trautz wrote on Facebook.

Syphilis cases in US newborns skyrocketed in 2022. Health officials suggest more testing.
More than 3,700 babies were born with congenital syphilis in 2022 — 10 times more than a decade ago and a 32% increase from 2021, the CDC said.

Recommended reads

Supplies for drug users were seen at an overdose prevention center, OnPoint NYC, in 2022.

To combat the overdose crisis, momentum builds for safe consumption sites in Massachusetts

A growing number of local and state officials are embracing the harm reduction strategy, though major legal barriers remain.

innovation beat

ESPN vs. DraftKings. Which sports gambling app are you betting on?
Boston-based DraftKings is gambling that its full-featured app will keep rivals at bay.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

It’s still a good time to jump on those 5 percent savings rates
The Federal Reserve may well be done hiking rates, forecasters say, but it won’t begin lowering them for a while.

Beth Teitell

How bad is Boston traffic? It’s on the sidewalk now.
As the micro-mobility movement gains popularity, the sidewalks have become a free-for-all with powered bikes, electric scooters, and those one-wheeled things. But where are people supposed to go?

Culture & Lifestyle

Singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy of Wilco poses for a portrait in Los Angeles ahead of the release of "World Within a Song."

Jeff Tweedy on the 49 songs and one band that inspired his new book

Former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez attends a pretrial court hearing in superior court in Fall River, Mass. Oct. 9, 2013.

FX series ‘American Sports Story’ casts its Aaron Hernandez

Schuyler Bailar (”He/She/They”) is in conversation with Kimm Topping at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at All She Wrote Books.

Author readings around Boston through Nov. 11

The wedding invitations designed by artist Orfeo Tagiuri that became a viral sensation.

How Brookline-born artist Orfeo Tagiuri created a ‘cool girl’ wedding invitation that became a viral sensation

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

Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, has joined with Democrats in seeking to undo the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision that allowed corporations to make independent political expenditures.

A GOP senator joins the anti-Citizens United chorus

Hobbs, N.M., an oil town near the Texas border, was one of the early sites for Ready4Routines, an eight-week course aimed at helping families build time for reflection into their lives.

IDEAS | MAGGIE JACKSON

For struggling families, classes in resilience can be lifelines

Former governor Mike Dukakis attended Governor Maura Healey’s inauguration, Jan. 5.

Mike Dukakis, an exemplar of civic engagement

Caution tape near the location in Lisbon, Maine, where officials found the body of the gunman in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Oct. 27.

How Maine can start fixing its gun laws

Missing poster and photos of Helen Medina.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A family’s nightmare quest to find their missing loved one

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

Two killed in separate fires in Maine

Payson Viles, 25, died Tuesday when a camper caught fire in Windsor. In Carroll Plantation, the remains of Jeffrey Macy, 57, were removed from a house fire on Monday, the Maine Department of Public Safety said.

‘One way to heal’: In Lewiston, a memorial to honor shooting victims grows

A local museum director and an artist in Lewiston, Maine, are creating a display at a Lewiston museum to honor the victims of the Oct. 25 shooting.

Maine governor working to have state pay for funerals of Lewiston mass shooting victims

Maine Governor Janet Mills is working to ensure that the state pays for the funerals of 18 people killed last month at a bowling alley and a restaurant in Lewiston, to ease some of the burden on families grieving after the worst mass shooting in the state’s history, officials said Tuesday.

Voters in Lewiston are overcoming fear and sadness to do their civic duty after mass shooting

Less than two weeks after 18 people were killed by a gunman, Lewiston residents turned out to vote in several high-profile referendums and local races.

Sports

Kai Wagner, 26, was accused of saying an anti-Asian slur to New England forward Bobby Wood.

Union’s Kai Wagner suspended three games for use of racial slur against Revolution’s Bobby Wood

Wagner will be out for the remainder of the first-round playoff series between New England and Philadelphia.

Jack Jones played 30 snaps Sunday against the Commanders, his lowest total in the three games he has played this season.

patriots notebook

Patriots’ usage of cornerbacks is raising questions that are getting few answers

Jack Jones and J.C. Jackson were not in Sunday's starting lineup. Jones wound up playing 30 snaps, Jackson 53.

The Revolution's Noel Buck (left) tangled with Philadelphia's Mikael Uhre in the opener of the best-of-three playoff series, which the Union won, 3-1.

union at revolution | wednesday, 7 p.m. (FS1, apple tv)

With their season on the line, Revolution look for a home-field edge vs. Union

Carles Gil was injured in the opening playoff loss, but he has been practicing at full speed for Wednesday's must-win game.

women's college basketball

Ranking the Division 1 women’s college basketball teams in Massachusetts

Breaking the ice was twice as nice for Bruins rookies Mason Lohrei and Johnny Beecher

Report: Former Celtics big man Robert Williams facing potentially season-ending knee surgery

Business

Treasury’s Yellen calls Republican effort to cut IRS funding for Israel ‘damaging and irresponsible’

“Playing politics with IRS funding is unacceptable,” Yellen said, referring to an aid bill that passed the House last week that would cut $14 billion from the nation’s tax collector in exchange for providing assistance to Israel.

A Meta engineer saw his own child face harassment on Instagram. Now, he’s testifying before Congress.

In the 2021 note, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Béjar outlined a “critical gap” between how the company approached harm and how the people who use its products — most notably young people — experience it.

Atlanta, Boston budgets most sensitive to office-market stress

innovation economy

Like a cruise, WeWork was fun, while it lasted

magazine

Congress is weighing a social media ban for kids under 13. Here’s what you can do at home.

On Thursday, explore what it means to fail at WBUR CitySpace’s Freakonomics Radio Live.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Nov. 6- Nov. 12

Orecchiette With Broccolini

Recipes: Skip the tomatoes for these boldly-flavored pastas

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Mass.

metro

William Joseph Jennings.

‘The joy of our lives:’ Northeastern University graduate killed in plane crash in Australia

Mass. lawmakers propose $250 million for strained shelter system, push Healey to create overflow site for homeless families

Man convicted of attempted murder for shooting inside N.H. church during wedding that left pastor and bride wounded

sports

JuJu Smith-Schuster's fourth-quarter drop sealed the Patriots' seventh loss of the season Sunday.

‘We’re good.’ Here’s what Mac Jones told JuJu Smith-Schuster after costly drop against Commanders

Celtics’ Derrick White, wife Hannah welcome second child

The Cubs’ hiring of Craig Counsell shows this MLB offseason is sure to be chaos. What does that mean for the Red Sox?

business

A WeWork location in lower Manhattan on Oct. 20, 2021.

Here is a list of the 69 WeWork locations that will close as part of bankruptcy filings

ESPN vs. DraftKings. Which sports gambling app are you betting on?

It’s still a good time to jump on those 5 percent savings rates

politics

Representative Rashida Tlaib spoke during a demonstration calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on Oct. 18 near the Capitol in Washington.

House advances effort to censure Rashida Tlaib over her rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas war

Special counsel rebuts claims of favoritism toward Hunter Biden

Mississippi voters are choosing between a first-term GOP governor and a Democrat related to Elvis

Nation

The stage was prepared for the third Republican presidential primary debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Florida.

Trump’s rivals battle one another, and his aura of inevitability, as next debate approaches

Nearing her 109th birthday, and still waiting for her day in court

Jewish man dies after confrontation during pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations

World

King Charles III and Queen Camilla attended the state opening of Parliament at the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday, where he delivered a speech written by lawmakers.

King Charles III, climate advocate, delivers speech at odds with his beliefs

NATO freezes a Cold War-era security pact after Russia pulls out, raising questions on arms control

Portugal’s prime minister resigns unexpectedly

opinion

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick during an NFL football game against the Washington Commanders on Nov. 5.

Lighten up on Bill Belichick

Vacant offices to housing: A new reality takes shape for downtown

Universities should stop commenting on world events

lifestyle

Diane Sawyer's 'Chip Chop,' a sprawling estate on Martha's Vineyard, hit the market in August.

Diane Sawyer’s Martha’s Vineyard estate sells for $23.9 million

How Brookline-born artist Orfeo Tagiuri created a ‘cool girl’ wedding invitation that became a viral sensation

She stayed over ... in the spare room

food & dining

Bill Murray and Michael Serpa in front "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zassou" painting at Select Oyster Bar in Boston Nov. 3.

Life imitates art when Bill Murray dines in Boston

It’s busy season at Bongi’s Turkey Roost

Yolélé spice blends add West African flare to your meals

travel

The family's guide, Matt, showed the author's daughter how to use her wand to conjure up some magic in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

My kids unwrapped packed suitcases on Christmas morning, and we took a surprise trip. Would I do it again?

A guide to navigating holiday travel with less stress and a minimum of catastrophes

What’s new and coming up at Disneyland resort parks

Arts

Eva Papamargariti, "Soft Touch," 2015/2022, HD video.

A fertile ground for artists in Fall River

In Collecting 101, UMass Amherst students learn inner workings of museum acquisition

The Boston Tea Party turns 250

Books

Scot Lehigh, author of "Just East of Nowhere.”

In Scot Lehigh’s debut novel, small-town Maine is both a comfort and an obstacle

Alice McDermott, in ‘Absolution,’ examines the lives of the wives in Vietnam War-era Saigon

Local poet offers wisdom and transcendence in ninth collection; Maine anthology draws power from youth perspectives; New bookstore opens in Turners Falls

Movies

Although Affleck been spotted with Starbucks on a few occasions over the years, his affection for Dunkin’ is well known.

Ben Affleck with a Starbucks cup is the Internet’s new favorite ‘sad Affleck’ meme

‘You don’t need a multimillion dollar budget’: R.I. director, writer on breaking into TV industry

7 stream-worthy movies to get in the sweater weather spirit

Television

A bicyclist pedals past the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County ahead of the third Republican presidential primary debate on Nov. 6, 2023 in Miami, Fla. The debate is scheduled to air on Wednesday from 8-10 p.m. ET on NBC and a variety of streaming platforms.

How to watch the third Republican presidential debate Wednesday night

There’s good, bad, but little in between in ‘All the Light We Cannot See’

Ben Affleck with a Starbucks cup is the Internet’s new favorite ‘sad Affleck’ meme

music

Romeo Santos performs at TD Garden Monday night.

Seduction and showmanship from Romeo Santos at TD Garden

Ex-gang leader gets June date for Vegas murder trial stemming from 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur

Jeff Tweedy on the 49 songs and one band that inspired his new book

Theater/Dance

Jennifer Rohn and Dennis Trainor Jr. in "How I Learned to Drive" at Actors' Shakespeare Project.

A troubling journey into the past in ‘How I Learned to Drive’

Orlando Baxter doesn’t have to come home for Comics Come Home — he’s already here

On her ‘Woo Woo’ podcast, Rachel Dratch’s guests give her the creeps

Health

A person walks into a CVS Health store on Aug. 1, 2023, in Miami, Fla.

Pharmacy workers at CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid start 3-day walkout

Eyedrops from CVS, Rite Aid and others carry possible infection risk, FDA says

Lifespan, largest hospital owner in R.I., could change name in expanded partnership with Brown University

Obituaries

Zdenek Macal with the New Jersey Symphony at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark in 1999.

Zdenek Macal, conductor with an international reach, dies at 87

Walter Davis, basketball star with a velvet touch, dies at 69

Cody Dorman, who watched namesake horse win Breeders’ Cup race, dies on trip home