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Boston University resident assistants strike as thousands move in
After 15 negotiation sessions, the university and the union have yet to agree on a contract.

N.H. man sentenced for conspiracy to harass and intimidate two NHPR journalists

The 2022 conspiracy included the vandalism of the homes of the reporters and one reporter's parents with bricks, large rocks, and red spray paint on five separate occasions.

Boston hotel workers go on strike, call for better wages in face of high cost of living
Nearly 900 workers across four hotels in Boston went on strike on Sunday morning demanding relief from “arduous workloads” and higher pay.

Harris looks to Biden for a boost in Pennsylvania as the two are set to attend a Labor Day parade

The pair will attend Pittsburgh's Labor Day parade and offer some remarks, the first time the two have shared a speaking slot on the political stage together since the surprising election shakeup that provided a fresh jolt of Democratic enthusiasm to the 2024 election.

See live updates from the 2024 campaign trail

In an appearance on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation,’ Healey evaded questions about possibly being Harris’s AG pick

‘Heavy fire’ destroys 19th century carriage house in Groton, officials say
A blaze at the Herb Lyceum was reported to the Groton Fire Department about 4 a.m. Sunday.

Rare donkey dies at Franklin Park Zoo weeks after giving birth

Mass. investigators saw a suicide. Feds saw a murder. Sandra Birchmore’s friends and family made sure no one looked away.

Russia fires a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv as children return to school

Including Social Security numbers on death certificates, which has been standard practice in Massachusetts for decades, gives fraudsters easy access to a key piece of personal information they can use in their scams, officials say.

Why does Massachusetts still put Social Security numbers on death certificates?

The practice gives fraudsters easy access to a key piece of personal information they can use in their scams, officials say.

PERSPECTIVE

Most jobs don’t have mandatory retirement ages. Maybe more should.
After the June presidential debate, I began to wonder: Do we need to be told when to call it quits?

Today is our warmest day of the week with readings approaching 80 degrees along the coastal plain and 70s across Worcester County and points north and west.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

It’s a gorgeous Labor Day with plenty of sunshine, low humidity

The air will feel more like fall as we head into the work week.

Things to do on Labor Day in the Boston area What’s open and closed on Labor Day in Mass.

Ruth Bradley and Gary Oldman in "Slow Horses."

This week’s TV: Gary Oldman brings big trouble as ‘Slow Horses’ returns for a new season

Plus: Nicole Kidman gets involved with family-trauma drama in Netflix's Nantucket-set “The Perfect Couple.”

How much has EV charging improved in New England? We hit the road to find out (and try the best ice cream shops).
The goal was to log a full day on the road in a Tesla Cybertruck and a Rivian SUV — but no road trip is complete without some sugary pit stops.

A pizza featuring SpongeBob made by Eric Palmieri at D. Palmieri’s Bakery in Johnston, R.I.

Creating portraits made of pizza is ‘a pretty unique art form,’ says Rhode Island baker

For Eric Palmieri of D. Palmieri’s Bakery in Johnston R.I., the business of pizza art is a way to experiment with ingredients and add his own touch to his family’s legacy.

I cheated. He won’t forgive me.

But we’re still spending time together.

More than 100 people attended a vigil in Newton center following the killing of Israeli American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin.

More than 100 gather in Newton to mourn killing of Israeli American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin

Hamas killed Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23-year-old man with local family ties, and the other hostages in a tunnel in the city of Rafah as Israeli forces battled militants nearby.

General strike in Israel over hostages leads to uneven closures, reflecting political divisions

Opinion

The author's father, Edward Shanahan, in Detroit, where he was a general assignment reporter at the Free Press, writing feature stories from around the state.

IDEAS | MARK SHANAHAN

Writing my father’s obituary with him revealed a man I never knew

Not all of the details he shared about his life will make it into print after he’s gone, but what I learned about him made me feel even closer to both of my parents.

Dustin Tingley and Ana Martinez

To grow local support, Washington must share renewable energy revenues

A lift for New England skiers

Mary Ann D'Urso

From the Garden State to the Granite State

Michelle Obama wasn’t slinging mud in Chicago, she was speaking truth

Best of the Best

Beacon Hill Books & Cafe on the left and the Fenway Victory Garden at right.

We put together a list of the best things to do in Boston. Readers had their own ideas.

Cambridge, MA. 11/15/22 - Pepperoni pizza at Si Cara restaurant in Central Square. (Lane Turner/Globe Staff) Reporter: (Kara Baskin) Topic:(20qb)

Regina, Si Cara, and 6 more places to find Boston’s best pizza

James Hook

The six best lobster rolls served around Boston

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More recent News

Fail to stop for a school bus this fall? In R.I., you might be on camera.
Buses in Providence and Cumberland are getting tech up-grades to catch drivers who drift past – and violators can face hundreds of dollars in fines.

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Megan Khang didn’t win the FM Championship, but the Rockland native helped secure victory for women’s golf in Massachusetts
Khang finished far down the leaderboard at TPC Boston, but her performance in every other way more than earned another title: Official ambassador of Boston golf.

Three Massachusetts rowers capture silver medals at Paris Paralympics
Ben Washburne, a Williams alumnus; Emelie Eldracher, an MIT graduate student from Andover; and Alex Flynn, a Tufts junior from Wilmington were bart of the US boat that finished behind Great Britain.

Tigers 4, Red Sox 1

Alex Cora’s early hook of Cooper Criswell does not pay off as Red Sox drop finale at Detroit
Cora removed the righthander after four perfect innings in favor of Rich Hill, who allowed a two-run homer in the fifth as the Sox lost the game and the series to the Tigers.

Russian officials recover the bodies of all 22 people killed in a helicopter crash in the Far East

Russian state news agency RIA Novosti said, citing the Emergencies Ministry, that it likely crashed due to poor visibility in bad weather conditions.

TV CRITIC’S CORNER

Tony Shalhoub’s journey from stage to screen and back again
The man is master of many media.

Recommended reads

A woman pushed her belongings along Gardner Street in Allston as a dump truck squeezed behind her between two moving trucks on Aug. 31, 2023.

Rents are high, vacancies are low. Yep, it’s another September in Boston.

Already one of the country’s priciest rental markets, Boston is seeing rents keep climbing even as other cities cool off.

On the front lines of Boston’s Sept. 1 weekend moving chaos

College leaders, faculty try to emphasize dialogue ahead of expected protests this fall
As colleges across New England prepare for the return of students in the coming days, the raucous student protests over the Israel-Hamas war seem likely to resume at full volume.

Kamala Harris holds her family up as quintessentially middle class. It’s a significant shift.
As she fights to win over voters struggling with stubbornly high prices, Harris has been drawing on her own life story to paint herself as a champion of the middle class.

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Are MGM Springfield and Encore Boston casinos up for sale? Don’t bet the house on it.
As online sports betting shakes up the gambling landscape, speculation has swirled about the fate of the two resort casinos.

Culture & Lifestyle

A sampling of hairstyles that make the cut: From left, Keegan Vieira, 14, and Warren Yuen, 17, shown in Boston, and a blowout with taper by barber Jahsief Tucker at Springfield's Final Touch Barber Shop.

From fades to flows, what are the best hairstyles for guys this fall? We asked the experts: barbers and teenage boys.

Bradley Whitford and Cheryl Hines.

In this corner, Bradley Whitford; in that corner, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Troy Kotsur (left) and Marlee Matlin in "CODA."

Marlee Matlin to join the ‘American Masters’ roster

Goose performs at MGM Music Hall at Fenway Sept. 2-4.

New England’s jam band legacy is in good hands with Goose

Special Projects

Illustration of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Derrick White along with other NBA greats for the 2024 Finals preview.

Where do the 2023-24 Celtics stand among the greatest teams in NBA history?

Data show that these Celtics are truly extraordinary, a team of uncommon prowess on both ends of the court

Lauren Friel (left) owner of Rebel Rebel, chatted with customers while working at her wine bar in Bow Market in Somerville. The restrictive Boston liquor license system has pushed throngs of innovative chefs to neighborhood towns with laxer laws, including Brookline, Somerville, and Cambridge.

Priced out: How Boston’s broken liquor license system drives chefs from the city

A stubbornly high price tag for serving alcohol hurts thousands of hospitality workers, aspiring restaurateurs, and the city itself.

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Pothole season is upon us. See which neighborhoods have the most reports

Boston’s 311 data provides a day-by-day look at the condition of the city’s streets and sidewalks, which neighborhoods are hit hardest, and just how fast repairs are made.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

James Garner in 2009.

(Almost) everything I know about life, I learned from ‘The Rockford Files’

A man jumped over a subway turnstile in the Bronx, New York City, in 2022.

The high cost of letting people evade transit fares

Flowers were laid at the site of a June fatal accident at the intersection of Hampshire Street and Portland Street in Cambridge.

A Cambridge peace deal between cyclists and drivers

People held Palestinian flags during a protest outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 21.

IDEAS | Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

The Palestinian story I wish I could have told at the Democratic convention

Market Basket customer Bobbi Dixon, from Rochester, N.H., participated in a rally outside of the Tewksbury store on Aug. 16, 2014.

Thomas A. Kochan

Lessons from Market Basket’s summer of 2014 shape the future of work

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Forecast | Dave Epstein

It’s a gorgeous Labor Day with plenty of sunshine, low humidity

The air will feel more like fall as we head into the work week.

Creating portraits made of pizza is ‘a pretty unique art form,’ says Rhode Island baker

For Eric Palmieri of D. Palmieri’s Bakery in Johnston R.I., the business of pizza art is a way to experiment with ingredients and add his own touch to his family’s legacy.

Fail to stop for a school bus this fall? In R.I., you might be on camera.

Buses in Providence and Cumberland are getting tech up-grades to catch drivers who drift past – and violators can face hundreds of dollars in fines.

Linda Deutsch, AP trial writer who had front row to courtroom history, dies

Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history for many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials died Sunday.

Sports

New England looked out of sync early in Saturday's match against Real Salt Lake, and paid for it in the waning minutes of the first half.

FRANK DELL'APA | ON SOCCER

Revolution, racing uphill for a playoff berth, can’t afford to revert the way they did at Real Salt Lake

The Revolution needed time to acclimate to near mile-high elevation, but they displayed resilience until just the type of “negative” action that cost them earlier in the season appeared again.

Coco Gauff was emotional after being eliminated at the US Open.

Defending champion Coco Gauff bounced from US Open in fourth round by Emma Navarro

The No. 3-seeded Gauff had won 10 matches in a row at Flushing Meadows, including the run to her first Grand Slam title a year ago.

Chase Briscoe was stoked to reach the NASCAR Cup playoffs.

Chase Briscoe holds off Kyle Busch to win Southern 500 and qualify for NASCAR Cup playoffs

Ty Gibbs and Martin Truex Jr. got the final two postseason spots on points, while Bubba Wallace and Ross Chastain fell short.

Three Massachusetts rowers capture silver medals at Paris Paralympics

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Allisen Corpuz kept her cool but fell short of playoff at FM Championship

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

Worcester Academy’s Danny Flynn powers way to A Shot For Life Home Run Derby title

Business

Why does Massachusetts still put Social Security numbers on death certificates?

The practice gives fraudsters easy access to a key piece of personal information they can use in their scams, officials say.

AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient.

Artificial intelligence is beginning to allow many employers to automate functions long performed by human workers.

Federal workers around nation’s capital worry over Trump’s plans to send some of them elsewhere

How a leading chain of psychiatric hospitals traps patients

magazine

Beacon Hill Books & Cafe on the left and the Fenway Victory Garden at right.

Best of the Best

We put together a list of the best things to do in Boston. Readers had their own ideas.

From coffee milk to cheese-less pizza, why are Rhode Island’s iconic foods so weird?

The Kancamagus Highway in peak foliage season.

Your guide to navigating the Kancamagus Highway during peak foliage season

STOW, MA - 9/5/2020 - Conrad Gees (cq) with his bag of Akane applesat Honey Pot Hill Orchards, Apple picking . Pick-your-own apple orchards are a great destination for families. during the Pandemic. (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)

10 of the best orchards for apple picking in New England this fall

metro

Last week, BU graduate student workers marched past Boston University's new Center for Computing and Data Sciences during bargaining for their first union contract.

Boston University resident assistants strike as thousands move in

N.H. man sentenced for conspiracy to harass and intimidate two NHPR journalists

When should you get your flu shot? Soon.

sports

Haeran Ryu posed with the FM Championship trophy after winning in a playoff at TPC Boston.

Haeran Ryu outlasts weather delay — and Jin Young Ko in a playoff — to win FM Championship

Unexpectedly, Red Sox-Mets series in Queens crucial for both teams

Megan Khang didn’t win the FM Championship, but the Rockland native helped secure victory for women’s golf in Massachusetts

business

Richie Aliferis, who is vice president of Local 26 and has worked at Omni Parker House for more than 47 years, was at a press conference after a strike authorization vote in City Hall Plaza on Aug. 8.

Strikes start at top hotel chains as housekeepers seek higher wages and daily room cleaning work

Are MGM Springfield and Encore Boston casinos up for sale? Don’t bet the house on it.

Rents are high, vacancies are low. Yep, it’s another September in Boston.

politics

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at an event, Aug. 15, 2024, in Bedminster, N.J., left, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign event in Raleigh, N.C., Aug. 16, 2024.

Follow live presidential campaign updates

Harris looks to Biden for a boost in Pennsylvania as the two are set to attend a Labor Day parade

Federal workers around nation’s capital worry over Trump’s plans to send some of them elsewhere

Nation

A police vehicle is parked outside police headquarters in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 30.

Hard drugs illegal again in Oregon as first-in-nation experiment ends

Linda Deutsch, AP trial writer who had front row to courtroom history, dies

Thousands to parade through Brooklyn in one of world’s largest Caribbean culture celebrations

World

Firefighters extinguish a fire after a rocket hit a building of a higher education institution in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on Sept. 2.

Russia fires a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv as children return to school

Poland holds state burial for over 700 victims of German WWII massacres

Suspected attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels target 2 ships in the Red Sea, officials say

opinion

Maliah Hobbs (left), 5, and her sister Maat Nazir, 3, played at the annual BAMS Fest at Playstead Field in Franklin Park in Dorchester on June 29.

‘Third places’: oases of community in our midst

Schools see dips in enrollment, but there’s an outlier: charters

Lessons from Market Basket’s summer of 2014 shape the future of work

lifestyle

Audiences enjoy a performance at the 2023 Live Music on the Lawn concert at Christian Science Plaza.

Free events in Boston this week: Boston Arts Festival returns, free concert, Seaport movie night

I cheated. He won’t forgive me.

An interior designer shares her tips for scouring Allston Christmas

food & dining

A pallet of beer from Worcester's Wormtown Brewery, which was recently acquired by Jack's Abby in Framingham, on Aug. 22.

In Massachusetts, the once-thriving beer biz is losing its fizz

Chip City Cookies comes to Harvard Square and Newbury Street, plus a Greater Boston Food Bank fund-raiser draws big-name chefs

Fast, fresh, and inviting food at Eat Greek Gyros in Somerville

travel

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is hard to miss in Cleveland — and you shouldn’t miss it.

Checking out one of Cleveland’s greatest hits: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Traveling over Labor Day weekend? Have a back-up plan for cancellations and delays, and be patient.

We picked a Florida vacation spot we’d never heard of. Turned out to be the ideal choice.

Arts

Steve Locke, "Emmett Till Memorial Sign with bullet holes," 2018. Alexander Gray Associates, New York.

At Mass MoCA, Steve Locke’s ‘the fire next time’ chills to the bone

New mural in Providence honors lost Chinatown and historic drag queen

If wind could talk: Dorchester artist’s drawing machine sparks conversation about climate change

Books

Garth Greenwell has said that the narrator of “Small Rain” is identical with the narrators of his previous novels.

Garth Greenwell’s ‘Small Rain’ examines life in a state of sickness

Salem Lit Fest, Renee Gladman Symposium, and local NEH grants

In ‘A House Restored,’ Lee McColgan used old tools to revive an ancient colonial home

Movies

Gary Cole and Ron Livingston in "Office Space."

10 movies about work to stream this Labor Day weekend

When the R is optional: Which actors aced the Boston accent? And who failed?

‘Reagan’ the movie: Just say no

Television

Ruth Bradley and Gary Oldman in "Slow Horses."

This week’s TV: Gary Oldman brings big trouble as ‘Slow Horses’ returns for a new season

Tony Shalhoub’s journey from stage to screen and back again

In this corner, Bradley Whitford; in that corner, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

music

Josh Freese and Dave Grohl of The Foo Fighters perform on stage at London Stadium on June 20, 2024 in London, England.

From Foo Fighters to Beyoncé: These artists have objected to Trump’s use of their music

New England’s jam band legacy is in good hands with Goose

‘Bob’s Burgers’ star H. Jon Benjamin shows off his jazzy side with a devilish new record

Theater/Dance

Rudy Pankow, as Romeo, and Emilia Suárez, as Juliet, in rehearsal for the ART production of "Romeo and Juliet."

Still star-cross’d

The way Romeo and Juliet move

When masks reveal as well as conceal

Health

Lifespan signed a purchase agreement to take over Morton Hospital in Taunton.

Why is Lifespan buying hospitals in Massachusetts instead of saving two in Rhode Island?

R.I. Life Science Hub still in negotiations to develop lab incubator space: ‘In the business world... things moved a lot faster’

What happens when AI picks your medical coverage

Obituaries

Associated Press special correspondent Linda Deutsch holds a copy of her book, "Verdict, The Chronicle of the O.J. Simpson Trial," at her home in Los Angeles, Dec. 11, 2014.

Linda Deutsch, AP trial writer who had front row to courtroom history, dies

Simon Verity, world-renowned stone carver, dies at 79

Claes Dohlman, who restored sight with artificial cornea, dies at 101