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One shot, one arrested at Newton pro-Israel demonstration

Scott Hayes, 47, of Framingham, is due to be arraigned Friday in Newton District Court on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, law enforcement officials said.

Recount drama comes to a close in Cambridge: Decker ends with narrow win over challenger MacKay

The Democratic primary recount came after graduate student Evan MacKay declared victory over incumbent state Representative Marjorie Decker.

Boston city councilors ask state to intervene in late school bus crisis

The city councilors called on the state education office to conduct a detailed probe of BPS' transportation department.

Former senator Dean Tran ‘devastated’ by COVID unemployment fraud conviction

Tran, who took the stand in his own defense during a six-day trial in US District Court in Boston, insisted he was innocent of the charges and said he plans to appeal his conviction.

Forecast | Ken Mahan

Summer keeps hanging on as Friday boasts the warmest day of the week
Here's also a closer look at how the weekend forecast breaks down.

Trump campaigns in Western states as Harris focuses on critical Pennsylvania

Former president Donald Trump will campaign Friday in Western states as his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris keeps her focus on one of the biggest battleground prizes in the East, Pennsylvania.

More updates from the 2024 campaign trail

BU’s Black first-year student enrollment falls to 3 percent, Northeastern to 5 percent

The university's president called the drop “concerning and disappointing.”

Harvard enrolls fewer Black first-year students after affirmative action ban

Treasurer indicates allegations that O’Brien made racially ‘inappropriate’ comments helped prompt her firing

Boeing factory workers go on strike after rejecting contract offer

A spokesperson for Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey (shown in 2023) pointed to several examples where the district attorney’s office prosecuted charges against local officers.

‘Police can’t investigate themselves’: Sandra Birchmore case is the latest to fuel call for outside probes

Since Matthew Farwell’s indictment, advocates have raised several questions about the initial police investigation, including whether State Police detectives assigned to district attorneys’ offices should be investigating police-involved incidents.

Robert Kraft (left) was on hand in Canton, Ohio, when former Patriot Randy Moss was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018.

dan shaughnessy

Bob Kraft seems to be hurting his own cause with the Hall of Fame, and other thoughts

Kraft has been a good owner for the Patriots, but the push over the last decade to get himself inducted apparently is backfiring.

FALL ARTS GUIDE

Fall forward with these 39 fall movies
From "Moana 2" to "Joker: Folie à Deux," this fall’s movie lineup has something for everyone.

See the complete Fall Arts Guide

FALL ARTS GUIDE

20 new and returning TV shows to watch as the leaves turn this fall

A fresh crop of mysteries, dramas, comedies, and reality shows air this fall.

While more than 60 million children and adolescents participate in organized sports, 70 percent of youth athletes drop out of these sports by age 13.

PARENTING UNFILTERED

So your kid was cut from the team. What now?

There’s the heartbreak of seeing your kid upset and embarrassed. Then there’s the difficulty of explaining to your child that sometimes, you can try your hardest, and it really just doesn’t matter. We talked to some local athletes who still feel the sting.

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Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We didn’t have loads in common, but the conversation was flowing regardless’

Will these two travel-loving daters hit the trail?

Busing at 50

Listen to the full episode

‘You tried to break us, and you didn’t’: One family relives busing in new audio documentary

Earline Pruitt, and her daughter Denise, describe the start of school desegregation in this Globe audio documentary.

Your memories of Boston's busing era Perspective: The busing crisis divided Boston. But playgrounds brought kids like me together.

The chair intended for Steward Health Care System chief executive Ralph de la Torre was empty for the hearing.

‘Put him in jail’: Steward CEO de la Torre skips hearing, and Congress is poised to hold him in contempt

Senators hoped to grill Steward chief executive Ralph de la Torre but had to make do verbally attacking an empty chair.

More coverage of the Steward Health Care crisis

Jarren Duran is batting .191 in September with more strikeouts (12) than hits (9).

Peter Abraham | YANKEES 2, RED SOX 1

Mix-and-match Red Sox are running on fumes

The Red Sox have scored three or fewer runs in 14 of their previous 20 games.

Red Sox suffer heartbreaking loss to Yankees

PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 06: Jayson Tatum #10 of Team United States reacts on the bench during the Men's Quarterfinal match between Team Brazil and Team USA on day eleven of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 6, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

Four highlights from Jayson Tatum’s appearance on ‘The Tonight Show’

Tatum took on Jimmy Fallon in a rap battle and gave his MVP prediction for the 2024-25 season.

Address | Fall House Hunt

Despite what you may see on social media, sixty-seven percent of residents rate their community association experience as positive, according to the Community Association Institute.

Hate your HOA rules? There may be a way around them.

It can be a bitter awakening when the dream of homeownership becomes a nightmare, and through freak disasters, owners can find themselves cleaning up a huge mess — sometimes literally.

Flushed with anger: When the American dream becomes a stinky nightmare

A lack of candor or outright misinformation can rear its ugly head in real estate listings.

To tell the truth: Some realtors skirt ethical lines on listings

"A lot of realtors and others connected to the business will purchase things in quarter four,” said Annie Bauman of Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty in Needham.

Why realtors say the fall of an election year is the best time to buy a home. It’s when they do it.

Opinion

A person rushed to catch the 57 bus at 2:25 a.m. at Kenmore Station during one of the T's experiments with late-night service.

EDITORIAL

Give us late-night trains, but not yet

General manager Phil Eng was asked recently whether the T could run trains later. He didn’t say no.

IDEAS | JACK SHAFER

The anti-mainstream media election

Eitan Hersh

The continued polarization over Israel on college campuses

Alex Beam

What’s the next big thing?

SCOT LEHIGH

JD Vance fogs up the school safety debate

More recent News

This R.I. school was ranked the best public university in New England
Four other Ocean State colleges and universities also cracked the top 500 nationally ranked schools in The Wall Street Journal’s latest list

A fan’s guide to the Big E: What you need to know about this year’s fair
From food to music and everything in between, here’s what you need to know as the Big E returns this weekend.

Islamic extremist plotted to attack German soldiers during their lunch break, prosecutors say
German authorities say an alleged Islamic extremist has been arrested in connection with plotting an attack on German soldiers during their lunch break in Munich.

North Korea gives a glimpse of a secretive uranium-enrichment facility as Kim pushes for more nukes
It’s unclear if the site is at the North’s main Yongbyon nuclear complex, but it’s the North’s first public disclosure of a uranium-enrichment facility since it showed one at Yongbyon to visiting American scholars in 2010.

What to know about the uranium enrichment facility

Man in custody after officer-involved shooting in Mansfield

Mansfield police chief Ronald Sellon said the man fled the Red Roof Inn in a black BMW and may have dragged an officer for a period of time.

Money, Power, Inequality

50 years after busing, a walking tour makes Boston’s desegregation history ‘come alive’
The walking tour leads people through some of Boston’s key landmarks in the history of desegregating schools.

‘I’m still here’: Before Alzheimer’s, he prided himself on his intellect. Can a new treatment curb his decline?

Tony Downs is one of the first patients in the country to take Leqembi, a newly approved drug. He and his wife are hoping it will help slow his downhill path.

Rappelling from the Green Monster: Massachusetts firefighters train at Fenway Park
More than 100 firefighters from five technical rescue divisions in Boston and across the state and participated in the training on Thursday.

Defense looks to challenge genealogy approach in case of Matthew Nilo, accused of sexually assaulting eight women in Boston
Whether courts agree or disagree, the case could create precedent around the use of forensic genetic genealogy in Massachusetts.

Mass. has the highest incomes of any state in the US, new Census data show
The median household here took home nearly $100,000 last year, yet the gap between the state’s richest and poorest remained pronounced.

Culture & Lifestyle

James McEvoy in a scene from "Speak No Evil."

Notes of genuine menace in remake ‘Speak No Evil’

Kathy Bates in the courtroom

A psychic mid-session in "Look Into My Eyes."

‘Look Into My Eyes’: A skeptic makes a documentary about psychics

Replica of "Balsamo, the Living Skull," after Joseph P. Freud and John Gaughan, on display in "Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums," a new exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem.

In Salem, a new exhibit summons the spirits at Peabody Essex Museum

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.

HIGH & DRY

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.

Interactive map

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.

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

This AI-generated image was created in Adobe Firefly with the prompt "computer, smashed on sidewalk in city, science fiction style."

IDEAS | PETER COHAN

Generative AI is looking like a big dud

James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll in a publicity shot from the 1974 film, “Claudine.”

RENÉE GRAHAM

James Earl Jones was more than just a singular voice

Shannon O'Brien, center, was in Suffolk Superior Court with her attorneys, William Gildea, left, and Max D. Stern on Dec. 4, 2023. On Monday, Treasurer Deb Goldberg fired O’Brien after a process that dragged out for a year.

EDITORIAL

Was Shannon O’Brien really guilty of ‘gross misconduct’?

GLOBE OPINION

‘All he had to do was not look crazy’: 6 writers weigh in on the Harris-Trump debate

Jalda, the Filipov family's 16-foot sailboat, docked at Hough's Neck, in Quincy, circa 1969. From left, the author, his brother Jeff, mother Loretta, and brother Allan.

IDEAS | DAVID FILIPOV

Sailing Boston Harbor with — and without — my father

IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

‘Police can’t investigate themselves’: Sandra Birchmore case is the latest to fuel call for outside probes

Forecast | Ken Mahan

Summer keeps hanging on as Friday boasts the warmest day of the week

Here's also a closer look at how the weekend forecast breaks down.

Former NHL enforcer Stephen Peat dies 2 weeks after being hit by a car while crossing street

The 6-foot-2, 230-pound Peat had eight goals, two assists, and 234 penalty minutes in 130 NHL games.

One shot, one arrested at Newton pro-Israel demonstration

Scott Hayes, 47, of Framingham, is due to be arraigned Friday in Newton District Court on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, law enforcement officials said.

Sports

Hunnewell Field has hosted football games since 1932. It now has state-of-the-art lights for the first time.

HIGH SCHOOLS

Wellesley turns on the lights for a new era at Hunnewell Field

After two decades of passionate discussion and debate, the town’s multipurpose track and turf field complex now has state-of-the-art lights for athletics usage.

dan shaughnessy

Bob Kraft seems to be hurting his own cause with the Hall of Fame, and other thoughts

Kraft has been a good owner for the Patriots, but the push over the last decade to get himself inducted apparently is backfiring.

Washington Capitals' Stephen Peat punches Pittsburgh Penguins' Krzysztof Oliwa as linesman Dan McCourt attempts to break it up, Dec. 21, 2001.

Former NHL enforcer Stephen Peat dies 2 weeks after being hit by a car while crossing street

The 6-foot-2, 230-pound Peat had eight goals, two assists, and 234 penalty minutes in 130 NHL games.

NFL

Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, no stranger to head injuries, suffers concussion in third quarter vs. Bills

Yankees 2, Red Sox 1

Red Sox suffer heartbreaking loss to Yankees in 10 innings

BILLS 31, DOLPHINS 10

James Cook scores three touchdowns but Bills rout of Dolphins overshadowed by Tua Tagovailoa concussion

Business

China hands PwC a 6-month ban and fine over audit of the collapsed developer Evergrande

The punishment is the heaviest yet for international accounting firms operating in China. PwC will be banned from signing off on any financial results in the country for six months. Already, it has been losing clients.

Boeing factory workers go on strike after rejecting contract offer

Aircraft assembly workers have walked off the job at a Boeing factory near Seattle after union members voted overwhelmingly to reject a tentative contract that would have increased wages by 25 percent over four years.

North Korea gives a glimpse of a secretive uranium-enrichment facility as Kim pushes for more nukes

China is raising its retirement age, now among the youngest in the world’s major economies

magazine

Xiomara Perez (left) and her grandmother Elicenia Puerta in Everett.

My Boston History | The Power of Now

The underestimated, misunderstood, enormous voting power of Latino Americans

MISS CONDUCT

I am constantly asked to justify being an atheist

Thaddeus Miles, founder of the Black Joy Project.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Sept. 9-15

The writer playing her “new” second-hand piano.

CONNECTIONS

How a stranger’s piano brought me solace in dark moments of my illness

metro

Lewis Finfer lead the tour that was taken to some sites on a school bus.

50 years after busing, a walking tour makes Boston’s desegregation history ‘come alive’

Boston city councilors ask state to intervene in late school bus crisis

Recount drama comes to a close in Cambridge: Decker ends with narrow win over challenger MacKay

sports

Four highlights from Jayson Tatum’s appearance on ‘The Tonight Show’

Mix-and-match Red Sox are running on fumes

David Lipsky goes 7 under to take first-round lead in FedEx Cup Fall opener

business

Former drilling foe Harris now says she supports it. ‘Sprint to the middle’ or climate betrayal?

Boeing machinists vote to strike after rejecting pay increases of 25 percent over 4 years

Too much? Many Americans feel the need to limit their political news, new poll finds.

politics

US and British leaders meet as Ukraine pushes to ease weapons restrictions

Trump says there will be no future debate; Harris’s campaign says it raised $47m in 24 hours after debate

Trump campaigns in Western states as Harris focuses on critical Pennsylvania

Nation

No deaths have been reported, but at least a dozen people, mainly firefighters, have been treated for injuries, mostly heat-related, authorities said.

A scenic California mountain town walloped by a blizzard is now threatened by wildfire

Gulf Coast residents still reeling from Hurricane Ida clean up mess left by Francine

Longtime Mexican drug cartel leader set to be arraigned in New York

World

A staff member with a print of "Girl with Balloon, 2004" by British street artist Banksy, at Bonhams auction house in London, Nov. 8, 2021.

Two men charged with stealing a famous Banksy image from a London art gallery

What to know about North Korea’s unveiling of its uranium enrichment facility

North Korea gives a glimpse of a secretive uranium-enrichment facility as Kim pushes for more nukes

opinion

James Earl Jones was more than just a singular voice

Was Shannon O’Brien really guilty of ‘gross misconduct’?

Generative AI is looking like a big dud

lifestyle

So your kid was cut from the team. What now?

A fan’s guide to the Big E: What you need to know about this year’s fair

How do empty nesters keep the marriage going?

food & dining

The Jahunger noodles, hand-pulled and tossed with beef, onions, chiles, and chives.

Jahunger brings hand-pulled noodles, spicy lamb, and other Uyghur specialties to Cambridge

A Southern supper parlor comes to the Porter Square Hotel; Mr. H brings Shanghainese specialties to the Seaport

Brews, bites, and big screens: Here’s what’s on tap at the Great American Beer Hall in Medford

travel

What if you paid for an extra seat, and then the airline resold your seat and kept your money?

When reserving an extra seat on United, don’t forget to do this

Jason Bowen on playing a prince, finding fun on vacation, and weighing his luggage

A Newport hotel shines again, a new inn in New Orleans, and laundry free clothes

Arts

Édouard Manet, "Madame Auguste Manet," about 1866.

At the Gardner this fall, Manet and family

In Salem, a new exhibit summons the spirits at Peabody Essex Museum

Mayor Michelle Wu says city working to extend free Sunday museum program to all school-aged children in 2025

Books

Cleyvis Natera is part of this year's Provincetown Book Festival.

Provincetown Book Fest, a new novel of Maine, and celebrating trees in verse

Arlie Russell Hochschild’s ‘Stolen Pride’ mines white rural shame

Amanda Becker’s profile of America after the fall of Roe

Movies

Moana (center), voiced by Auli‘i Cravalho, in "Moana 2."

Fall forward with these 39 fall movies

Local theaters are serving up cinematic scares for the season

‘Look Into My Eyes’: A skeptic makes a documentary about psychics

Television

20 new and returning TV shows to watch as the leaves turn this fall

Kathy Bates in the courtroom

The Emmys are Sunday. Who should win? Who will win? A critic’s predictions.

music

Singer Meghan Trainor performed at NBC's Today show at Rockefeller Plaza on June 7 in New York. She returns to the Bay State this month as part of her "Timeless" tour.

After more than seven years, Meghan Trainor is back on tour — and loving every minute of it

For Mary D. Watkins, activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s story is operatic

Frankie Beverly, exuberant singer-songwriter for Maze, dies at 77

Theater/Dance

Rudy Pankow as Romeo and Emilia Suárez as Juliet in ART’s "Romeo and Juliet."

At ART, a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ that’s both moving and in motion

In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard gets personal

Two new productions that poke fun at old stereotypes

Health

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

One shot, one arrested at Newton pro-Israel demonstration

Recount drama comes to a close in Cambridge: Decker ends with narrow win over challenger MacKay

Boston city councilors ask state to intervene in late school bus crisis

Former senator Dean Tran ‘devastated’ by COVID unemployment fraud conviction

Forecast | Ken Mahan Summer keeps hanging on as Friday boasts the warmest day of the week Here's also a closer look at how the weekend forecast breaks down.

Trump campaigns in Western states as Harris focuses on critical Pennsylvania

BU’s Black first-year student enrollment falls to 3 percent, Northeastern to 5 percent

Treasurer indicates allegations that O’Brien made racially ‘inappropriate’ comments helped prompt her firing

Boeing factory workers go on strike after rejecting contract offer

‘Police can’t investigate themselves’: Sandra Birchmore case is the latest to fuel call for outside probes

Bob Kraft seems to be hurting his own cause with the Hall of Fame, and other thoughts

FALL ARTS GUIDE Fall forward with these 39 fall movies From "Moana 2" to "Joker: Folie à Deux," this fall’s movie lineup has something for everyone.

20 new and returning TV shows to watch as the leaves turn this fall

So your kid was cut from the team. What now?

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Blind date: ‘We didn’t have loads in common, but the conversation was flowing regardless’

‘You tried to break us, and you didn’t’: One family relives busing in new audio documentary

‘Put him in jail’: Steward CEO de la Torre skips hearing, and Congress is poised to hold him in contempt

Mix-and-match Red Sox are running on fumes

Four highlights from Jayson Tatum’s appearance on ‘The Tonight Show’

Address | Fall House Hunt

Hate your HOA rules? There may be a way around them.

Flushed with anger: When the American dream becomes a stinky nightmare

To tell the truth: Some realtors skirt ethical lines on listings

Why realtors say the fall of an election year is the best time to buy a home. It’s when they do it.

Give us late-night trains, but not yet

The anti-mainstream media election

The continued polarization over Israel on college campuses

What’s the next big thing?

JD Vance fogs up the school safety debate

More recent News

This R.I. school was ranked the best public university in New England Four other Ocean State colleges and universities also cracked the top 500 nationally ranked schools in The Wall Street Journal’s latest list

A fan’s guide to the Big E: What you need to know about this year’s fair From food to music and everything in between, here’s what you need to know as the Big E returns this weekend.

Islamic extremist plotted to attack German soldiers during their lunch break, prosecutors say German authorities say an alleged Islamic extremist has been arrested in connection with plotting an attack on German soldiers during their lunch break in Munich.

Man in custody after officer-involved shooting in Mansfield

Money, Power, Inequality 50 years after busing, a walking tour makes Boston’s desegregation history ‘come alive’ The walking tour leads people through some of Boston’s key landmarks in the history of desegregating schools.

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‘I’m still here’: Before Alzheimer’s, he prided himself on his intellect. Can a new treatment curb his decline?

Rappelling from the Green Monster: Massachusetts firefighters train at Fenway Park More than 100 firefighters from five technical rescue divisions in Boston and across the state and participated in the training on Thursday.

Defense looks to challenge genealogy approach in case of Matthew Nilo, accused of sexually assaulting eight women in Boston Whether courts agree or disagree, the case could create precedent around the use of forensic genetic genealogy in Massachusetts.

Mass. has the highest incomes of any state in the US, new Census data show The median household here took home nearly $100,000 last year, yet the gap between the state’s richest and poorest remained pronounced.

Culture & Lifestyle

Notes of genuine menace in remake ‘Speak No Evil’

Kathy Bates in the courtroom

‘Look Into My Eyes’: A skeptic makes a documentary about psychics

In Salem, a new exhibit summons the spirits at Peabody Essex Museum

Special Projects

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

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

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

Nightmare in Mission Hill

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Generative AI is looking like a big dud

James Earl Jones was more than just a singular voice

Was Shannon O’Brien really guilty of ‘gross misconduct’?

‘All he had to do was not look crazy’: 6 writers weigh in on the Harris-Trump debate

Sailing Boston Harbor with — and without — my father

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

‘Police can’t investigate themselves’: Sandra Birchmore case is the latest to fuel call for outside probes

Summer keeps hanging on as Friday boasts the warmest day of the week

Former NHL enforcer Stephen Peat dies 2 weeks after being hit by a car while crossing street

One shot, one arrested at Newton pro-Israel demonstration

Sports

Wellesley turns on the lights for a new era at Hunnewell Field

Bob Kraft seems to be hurting his own cause with the Hall of Fame, and other thoughts

Former NHL enforcer Stephen Peat dies 2 weeks after being hit by a car while crossing street

Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, no stranger to head injuries, suffers concussion in third quarter vs. Bills

Red Sox suffer heartbreaking loss to Yankees in 10 innings

James Cook scores three touchdowns but Bills rout of Dolphins overshadowed by Tua Tagovailoa concussion

Business

China hands PwC a 6-month ban and fine over audit of the collapsed developer Evergrande

Boeing factory workers go on strike after rejecting contract offer

North Korea gives a glimpse of a secretive uranium-enrichment facility as Kim pushes for more nukes

China is raising its retirement age, now among the youngest in the world’s major economies

The underestimated, misunderstood, enormous voting power of Latino Americans

I am constantly asked to justify being an atheist

Five things to do around Boston, Sept. 9-15

How a stranger’s piano brought me solace in dark moments of my illness

Forecast | Ken Mahan

Summer keeps hanging on as Friday boasts the warmest day of the week
Here's also a closer look at how the weekend forecast breaks down.

FALL ARTS GUIDE

Fall forward with these 39 fall movies
From "Moana 2" to "Joker: Folie à Deux," this fall’s movie lineup has something for everyone.

This R.I. school was ranked the best public university in New England
Four other Ocean State colleges and universities also cracked the top 500 nationally ranked schools in The Wall Street Journal’s latest list

A fan’s guide to the Big E: What you need to know about this year’s fair
From food to music and everything in between, here’s what you need to know as the Big E returns this weekend.

Islamic extremist plotted to attack German soldiers during their lunch break, prosecutors say
German authorities say an alleged Islamic extremist has been arrested in connection with plotting an attack on German soldiers during their lunch break in Munich.

Money, Power, Inequality

50 years after busing, a walking tour makes Boston’s desegregation history ‘come alive’
The walking tour leads people through some of Boston’s key landmarks in the history of desegregating schools.

Rappelling from the Green Monster: Massachusetts firefighters train at Fenway Park
More than 100 firefighters from five technical rescue divisions in Boston and across the state and participated in the training on Thursday.

Defense looks to challenge genealogy approach in case of Matthew Nilo, accused of sexually assaulting eight women in Boston
Whether courts agree or disagree, the case could create precedent around the use of forensic genetic genealogy in Massachusetts.

Mass. has the highest incomes of any state in the US, new Census data show
The median household here took home nearly $100,000 last year, yet the gap between the state’s richest and poorest remained pronounced.