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Second wave of device explosions hits Lebanon a day after pager attack, killing at least 9, officials say

The explosions came a day after an apparent Israeli attack targeting pagers used by Hezbollah killed at least 12 and wounded nearly 3,000.

What to know about the deadly pager explosions

For months at a time, Mass. failed to notify motorists whose vision impairments disqualified them from driving
Months passed during which the state could not ensure people diagnosed with legal blindness stayed off the roads.

‘Freak offs,’ 1,000 bottles of baby oil, and more allegations in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs indictment

The indictment accuses Combs of orchestrating a widespread criminal conspiracy, operated through his various businesses with the aid of his employees and business associates.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ indictment alleges he used power to build empire of sexual crime

Officials will decide ‘very soon’ which agency will investigate death of State Police recruit, attorney general says

ADRIAN WALKER

The feds must step in to investigate the latest State Police scandal
The death of recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia during training is the latest setback for the Massachusetts State Police.

State Police recruit who died spoke of hazing-like conditions, but persisted

Money, Power, Inequality

Boston’s Black, Latino, Asian families are making more money, but income gaps remain, census data show
White households have seen the most long-term income growth in Boston.

As Lexington, Medford propose generational nicotine sale bans, leaders weigh business, public health impacts

Justice Department sues over Baltimore bridge collapse and seeks $100m in cleanup costs

Weekend Forecast | Dave Epstein

More fall-like temperatures on tap this weekend as rain chances linger

Cold Case Files

What happened to Simone Ridinger?

Ridinger was 17 when she disappeared in September 1977. She was living in Framingham and working at a restaurant in Natick.

Taylor Swift fans are ready for it. After post-debate endorsement, voter registration numbers spike in Mass.

Swift endorsed Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, shortly after the Sept. 10 presidential debate.

Joe Rogan praises Harris’s messaging and debate performance, saying she’s ‘nailing it’ FBI, USPS intercept suspicious envelope sent to Mass. elections division

An Ohio state trooper stood guard as children arrived at Snowhill Elementary School in Springfield, Ohio, Tuesday morning.

Ohio governor deploys state troopers to schools after Trump, Vance push migrant conspiracy. How did we get here?

“We cannot let the bad guys win,” Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said Monday about the decision to have state police conduct daily sweeps of schools in Springfield, Ohio.

Campaign updates: Trump to campaign in N.Y.; Harris to speak at Hispanic leadership conference

‘No simple solution’: Rise of pickleball courts puts some local tennis players in a pickle
Data show a third of Boston's tennis courts now have pickleball courts drawn over them, provoking beef between tennis and pickleball players who must compete for court space.

Starting Point

Pickleball vs. tennis

Today we’re writing about pickleball versus tennis, a cut in interest rates, emotional eating, and how the Michelada became a side hustle.

Adrian Wojnarowski, right, pictured with Oklahoma City Thunder GM Sam Presti at an event at Emerson College in 2019, is retiring from ESPN.

sports media

NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN to become men’s basketball GM at St. Bonaventure

Wojnarowski, also known as "Woj," has worked at ESPN since 2017 and previously worked at Yahoo! Sports.

Food

DEVRA FIRST & CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Turkey legs, things on sticks, cream puffs. Two reporters try to eat it all at the Big E.

With empty stomachs, open minds, and elasticized waistbands, we arrived in West Springfield and began our culinary safari. Here's what it was like.

The Patriots showed safety Jabrill Peppers the money with a lucrative contract extension in the offseason.

Tara Sullivan

Jabrill Peppers was dominating the competition long before he came to the Patriots

As the do-everything safety heads into the season’s third game Thursday against the Jets, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the Peppers that New England never knew.

The turn of the century Newport, R.I., home known as “The Playhouse” sold Monday for $9,935,000, according to Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty.

Once a boathouse, this historic Newport home just sold for nearly $10 million

The early 1900′s boathouse-turned-residence was designed by famed architect Irving Gill

This massive Beacon Hill townhouse is on the market for nearly $20 million. Take a look inside.

(Rendering) The living room will offer an electric fireplace and expansive windows.

ADDRESS | NEW DESIGNS/WAYS OF LIFE

Home of the Week: A new condo with European stylings off bustling Washington Street in Brookline

The property, slated for completion in fall 2025, will have two bedrooms, two full baths, and a terrace all its own.

In modern homes, classic features like hallways are now obsolete

LOVE LETTERS

Help! I cannot stand my partner’s dog.

I want to give this relationship a chance, but I will never, ever like their pet.

Harris vs. Trump on key issues

Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Harris and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on top issues in presidential race

Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris are seen on a screen during a presidential debate as people watched in Portland, Maine.

Harris might be gaining ground in Maine’s key electoral district, threatening Trump’s path to White House

A waiter delivers food to patrons at a restaurant, in Miami Beach, Fla.

Why Trump’s and Harris’s proposals to end federal taxes on tips would be difficult to enact

Donald Trump spoke to reporters in the spin room following the debate Tuesday in Philadelphia.

Trump’s struggle to deliver a clear message on abortion at the debate leaves him vulnerable on a key issue

Hispanic Heritage Month

Xiomara Pérez (a la izquierda) con su abuela Elicenia Puerta en Everett.

El mito del voto latino

Luis Pérez, sobreviviente de cáncer, en su hogar en Chelsea.

El cáncer es la primera causa de muerte entre los latinos. No tiene por qué serlo.

To Latinx or not to Latinx

My grandmother taught me many things. How to cook, however, was not one of them.

Opinion

An Ohio state trooper stood guard at Snowhill Elementary School in Springfield, Ohio, on Sept. 17. Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio announced Monday that he was deploying state troopers to the city of Springfield to reassure the community that schools are safe despite a wave of bomb threats.

RENÉE GRAHAM

Donald Trump and the damage being done

Springfield, Ohio, is only the latest casualty of the former president’s lies and hateful pursuit of power.

Alex Rappaport

The world must start addressing water scarcity now

EDITORIAL

A rally, a shooting, and a community on edge

SCOT LEHIGH

What a novel experience to lose yourself in fiction

LETTERS

Heightened concerns over keeping candidates safe

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.

More recent News

Former mail carrier to plead guilty to stealing rare coins from parcels; prosecutors recommend probation

Federal prosecutors are recommending that a former US Postal Service employee in Whitinsville receive probation after he pleads guilty Thursday to stealing rare coins and other items from parcels he’d been tasked with delivering, records show.

Atlantic City mayor, wife indicted for allegedly beating and abusing their teenage daughter
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. and his wife, La’Quetta, the city’s superintendent of schools, have been indicted on child endangerment and other charges for allegedly beating their teenage daughter on numerous occasions.

Tupperware files for bankruptcy as sales slump
Tupperware will seek court approval to start a sale process for the business to protect its brand and advance its “transformation into a digital-first, technology-led company,” the company said.

WNBA awards Portland an expansion franchise that will begin play in 2026
The team will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. They paid $125 million for the franchise.

Migrant families return to Logan, raising questions about state shelter restrictions
Some families who were at the airport said they were offered a five-day stay in overflow shelters, but declined because of the limitation on applying for longer-term placements.

In Karen Read case, State Police investigation was tied to Proctor text messages
An internal investigation into State Police detectives was directly related to crude and misogynistic text messages that Michael Proctor sent about Karen Read, according to a report.

MASS Design’s traveling gun violence memorial is now on view in Boston. It’s asking you to imagine the lives of victims.

"I hope people take away peace, love, and understanding," said Linda Smith, a Roslindale mother who lost her son to gun violence in 2022.

‘A step backward, to take two steps forward’: Boston leaders on disruptive transition to new yellow bus tracking app
The district still falls short of the 95 percent on-time arrival rate that is required under a state improvement plan.

Want to find the Dunkin’ locations that charge $2.99 for an iced coffee instead of $4.15? This tool is for you.
Prices of Dunkin’ items, from cold brew to glazed doughnuts, can vary by location — sometimes by a dollar or more. A new software program zeroes in on the lowest prices.

Who is leaving Massachusetts? And why? Here’s what a report reveals.
Working-age adults are the Massachusetts residents leaving in the highest numbers, according to a new analysis.

Culture & Lifestyle

Pretty hurts: Demi Moore returns to her horror-genre roots in ‘The Substance’

Boston native selected for Issa Rae + Snapchat’s creator program

The crowd at the Firehouse Center for the Arts during a 2023 Newburyport Documentary Film Festival screening.

Newburyport Documentary Film Fest: ‘We’ve definitely beaten the odds’

Rebekah Rae Robles (left) and Luz Lopez in "Laughs in Spanish."

‘Laughs in Spanish,’ at SpeakEasy Stage, offers more than just laughs

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

DJ Bob Sinclar at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California on April 19.

IDEAS | MATTIA FERRARESI

As schools consider whether to ban smartphones, some nightclubs are already there

Cell phones fill the phone hotel in Gerry Padilla's Spanish class at Marlborough High School in Marlborough, Massachusetts on May 1, 2018. Students place their phones in one of the numbered cubby holes at the start of class and can retrieve them at the end of class. Cell phone use is not allowed in the classroom.

WILL AUSTIN

Why cellphones don’t belong in Massachusetts classrooms

MARCELA GARCÍA

To Latinx or not to Latinx

A passenger waits for the train to arrive at Prudential Station late on a Friday night in 2015, when the T experimented with running service until 2 a.m.

ALAN WIRZBICKI

Reading the T leaves on late-night service

A health care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Boston Medical Center on June 17, 2021.

Rich Barlow

Massachusetts should abolish religious exemptions for vaccinations

IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Weekend Forecast | Dave Epstein

This weekend will feel more like fall as temps cool, rain chances linger

The weather hinges on the battle between high pressure from Canada and low pressure to the southeast.

Former mail carrier to plead guilty to stealing rare coins from parcels; prosecutors recommend probation

Officials will decide ‘very soon’ which agency will investigate death of State Police recruit, attorney general says

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said authorities will “very soon” determine which agency will lead the investigation into the 25-year-old’s tragic death.

For months at a time, Mass. failed to notify motorists whose vision impairments disqualified them from driving

Months passed during which the state could not ensure people diagnosed with legal blindness stayed off the roads.

Sports

sports media

NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN to become men’s basketball GM at St. Bonaventure

Wojnarowski, also known as "Woj," has worked at ESPN since 2017 and previously worked at Yahoo! Sports.

wnba

WNBA awards Portland an expansion franchise that will begin play in 2026

The team will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. They paid $125 million for the franchise.

Tara Sullivan

Jabrill Peppers was dominating the competition long before he came to the Patriots

As the do-everything safety heads into the season’s third game Thursday against the Jets, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the Peppers that New England never knew.

Red Sox at Rays | 6:50 p.m. (NESN)

Game 152: Red Sox at Rays lineups, notes, and wild-card standings

Alex Speier | On baseball

The Red Sox bullpen meltdown since the All-Star break has been bad. In fact, it’s the worst in team history.

Salvatore ‘Totò’ Schillaci, the Italy striker who was top scorer at World Cup in 1990, dies

Business

As Lexington, Medford propose generational nicotine sale bans, leaders weigh business, public health impacts

The proposals, which would ban sales of cigarettes and vaping products for anyone born after 2004, have stoked fears among local retailers who depend on selling the products.

Tupperware files for bankruptcy as sales slump

Tupperware will seek court approval to start a sale process for the business to protect its brand and advance its “transformation into a digital-first, technology-led company,” the company said.

wnba

WNBA awards Portland an expansion franchise that will begin play in 2026

ADDRESS | NEW DESIGNS/WAYS OF LIFE

Home of the Week: A new condo with European stylings off bustling Washington Street in Brookline

magazine

PERSPECTIVE

The secret to getting kids off smartphones might be right in our neighborhoods

MISS CONDUCT

My stepchildren ignore their father. Can I help?

Kale Salad With Za’atar, Feta, and Pita Crisps

Cooking

Snacks and sides made with fall carrots, beets, and kale at peak perfection

My Boston History | The Power of Now

Amplify LatinX honors 100 Hispanic and Latino leaders across Mass.

metro

Former president Donald Trump wait for the start of his campaign rally at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Sept. 18, 2024 in Uniondale, New York.

Trump to campaign in New York and Harris will speak at Hispanic leadership conference

What happened to Simone Ridinger?

How the National Parks Service is recognizing WWII contributions from this R.I. town

sports

Coach Stephanie White and the Connecticut Sun lost their chance to grab the No. 2 seed in the coming WNBA Playoffs, and will need to win its regular season finale to lock up the No. 3 seed after their painful, late loss to the Minnesota Lynx Tuesday night in Uncasville, Conn.

Sun rally to take late lead, but Bridget Carlton hits go-ahead 3 with seconds left to lift Lynx, lock up No. 2 playoff seed

Early lead slips, and Red Sox tumble back under .500 with loss to Rays at Tropicana Field

From grass to turf fields, Saint John Paul II field hockey gains traction

business

Under federal law, when there’s a safety recall, the manufacturer must repair the safety defect at no cost, replace the vehicle with an identical or similar one, or refund the purchase or lease.

What do auto dealers owe you when your new car faces a safety recall?

Once a boathouse, this historic Newport home just sold for nearly $10 million

Google wins legal bid to overturn 1.5 billion euro antitrust fine in EU digital ad case

politics

Joe Rogan praises Kamala Harris’s messaging and debate performance, saying she’s ‘nailing it’

Now a Roe advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child tells her story in Harris campaign ad

Violent threats and attacks escalate tensions in Trump-Harris race

Nation

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. spoke to the media in 2020.

Atlantic City mayor, wife indicted for allegedly beating and abusing their teenage daughter

Justice Department sues over Baltimore bridge collapse and seeks $100m in cleanup costs

As Jimmy Carter nears his 100th birthday, a musical gala celebrates the ‘rock-and-roll president’

World

CORRECTS DAY TO TUESDAY WHEN INJURED Lebanese Red Cross ambulance passes next of the families of victims who were injured on Tuesday by their exploding handheld pagers, at the emergency entrance of the American University hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Second wave of device explosions hits Lebanon a day after pager attack, killing at least 9, officials say

What to know about the deadly pager explosions targeting Hezbollah

Ukrainian drones strike a major military depot in a Russian town northwest of Moscow

opinion

Why cellphones don’t belong in Massachusetts classrooms

As schools consider whether to ban smartphones, some nightclubs are already there

50 years after busing, still bridges to cross and battles to wage

lifestyle

Cheated on … again

Free events in Boston this week: A playground for grown-ups, Latin Music & Dance fest returns to Eastie, and more

Dating someone with a chronic medical condition

food & dining

T Lawrence-Simon, center, got his big break on "Great Cooking Showdown."

His first dessert was a flop, but now circus performer T Lawrence-Simon has a new flex with pastry pop-up

Turkey legs, things on sticks, cream puffs. Two reporters try to eat it all at the Big E.

Recipe: Serve sweet and spicy oven-baked carrot fries with yogurt-herb sauce

travel

Inside the historic mansion that houses The Vanderbilt in downtown Newport, R.I.

Four Newport hotels ranked best in the world, according to Michelin Guide

A late-summer, slow sojourn in southern Vermont

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

Arts

Aimee Giles-Scott (facing camera) gets a hug after looking at the Gun Violence Memorial Project in City Hall featuring her son Myles van Frazier. He was shot and killed by police in Chicago. Giles-Scott said he was having a bipolar episode.

MASS Design’s traveling gun violence memorial is now on view in Boston. It’s asking you to imagine the lives of victims.

The room where it happened: Gardner Museum to renovate room that housed works stolen in 1990

The Griffin Museum of Photography takes a look at AI and visual reality

Books

Richard Powers and the cover to “Playground.”

Richard Powers invites readers to join him in a lush ‘Playground’

Local bestsellers for the week ended Sept. 15

Hillary Clinton takes stock of life’s wins and losses in a memoir inspired by a Joni Mitchell lyric

Movies

At the ICA, a shape-shifting film about a shape-shifting artist

Pretty hurts: Demi Moore returns to her horror-genre roots in ‘The Substance’

Boston Film Festival returns for 40th year

Television

"American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez," a new 10-part series, debuts Tuesday on FX.

Recap of ‘American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez’ episodes 1 & 2: Prelude to a crime

HBO is casting extras for ‘The Gilded Age’ in R.I.

Watching often and early: Expect a lot of politics on television over the next seven weeks

music

Dee Stroy and his girlfriend Molly Blom enjoy an event in at The Rat in Kenmore Square.

‘The Rat Reunion’ reinvigorates Boston rock history at Bellforge Arts Center

After starting out in a Roxbury ‘college house,’ Magdalena Bay is now one of pop music’s rising stars

John Krasinski and Eddie Vedder dined in Boston before rocking Fenway Park with Pearl Jam

Theater/Dance

‘Laughs in Spanish,’ at SpeakEasy Stage, offers more than just laughs

Michaela DePrince died one day before her mother, family says

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

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

Italy's Salvatore "Totò" Schillaci, left, and Argentina's Juan Simon during the Soccer World Cup semi-final, in Naples, Italy, July 3, 1990.

Second wave of device explosions hits Lebanon a day after pager attack, killing at least 9, officials say

For months at a time, Mass. failed to notify motorists whose vision impairments disqualified them from driving Months passed during which the state could not ensure people diagnosed with legal blindness stayed off the roads.

‘Freak offs,’ 1,000 bottles of baby oil, and more allegations in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs indictment

Officials will decide ‘very soon’ which agency will investigate death of State Police recruit, attorney general says

ADRIAN WALKER The feds must step in to investigate the latest State Police scandal The death of recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia during training is the latest setback for the Massachusetts State Police.

Money, Power, Inequality Boston’s Black, Latino, Asian families are making more money, but income gaps remain, census data show White households have seen the most long-term income growth in Boston.

As Lexington, Medford propose generational nicotine sale bans, leaders weigh business, public health impacts

Justice Department sues over Baltimore bridge collapse and seeks $100m in cleanup costs

More fall-like temperatures on tap this weekend as rain chances linger

What happened to Simone Ridinger?

Taylor Swift fans are ready for it. After post-debate endorsement, voter registration numbers spike in Mass.

Ohio governor deploys state troopers to schools after Trump, Vance push migrant conspiracy. How did we get here?

‘No simple solution’: Rise of pickleball courts puts some local tennis players in a pickle Data show a third of Boston's tennis courts now have pickleball courts drawn over them, provoking beef between tennis and pickleball players who must compete for court space.

Pickleball vs. tennis

NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN to become men’s basketball GM at St. Bonaventure

Turkey legs, things on sticks, cream puffs. Two reporters try to eat it all at the Big E.

Jabrill Peppers was dominating the competition long before he came to the Patriots

Once a boathouse, this historic Newport home just sold for nearly $10 million

Home of the Week: A new condo with European stylings off bustling Washington Street in Brookline

Help! I cannot stand my partner’s dog.

Harris vs. Trump on key issues

Harris and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on top issues in presidential race

Harris might be gaining ground in Maine’s key electoral district, threatening Trump’s path to White House

Why Trump’s and Harris’s proposals to end federal taxes on tips would be difficult to enact

Trump’s struggle to deliver a clear message on abortion at the debate leaves him vulnerable on a key issue

Hispanic Heritage Month

El mito del voto latino

El cáncer es la primera causa de muerte entre los latinos. No tiene por qué serlo.

To Latinx or not to Latinx

My grandmother taught me many things. How to cook, however, was not one of them.

Donald Trump and the damage being done

The world must start addressing water scarcity now

A rally, a shooting, and a community on edge

What a novel experience to lose yourself in fiction

Heightened concerns over keeping candidates safe

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

More recent News

Former mail carrier to plead guilty to stealing rare coins from parcels; prosecutors recommend probation

Tupperware files for bankruptcy as sales slump Tupperware will seek court approval to start a sale process for the business to protect its brand and advance its “transformation into a digital-first, technology-led company,” the company said.

WNBA awards Portland an expansion franchise that will begin play in 2026 The team will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. They paid $125 million for the franchise.

Migrant families return to Logan, raising questions about state shelter restrictions Some families who were at the airport said they were offered a five-day stay in overflow shelters, but declined because of the limitation on applying for longer-term placements.

In Karen Read case, State Police investigation was tied to Proctor text messages An internal investigation into State Police detectives was directly related to crude and misogynistic text messages that Michael Proctor sent about Karen Read, according to a report.

Recommended reads

MASS Design’s traveling gun violence memorial is now on view in Boston. It’s asking you to imagine the lives of victims.

‘A step backward, to take two steps forward’: Boston leaders on disruptive transition to new yellow bus tracking app The district still falls short of the 95 percent on-time arrival rate that is required under a state improvement plan.

Want to find the Dunkin’ locations that charge $2.99 for an iced coffee instead of $4.15? This tool is for you. Prices of Dunkin’ items, from cold brew to glazed doughnuts, can vary by location — sometimes by a dollar or more. A new software program zeroes in on the lowest prices.

Who is leaving Massachusetts? And why? Here’s what a report reveals. Working-age adults are the Massachusetts residents leaving in the highest numbers, according to a new analysis.

Culture & Lifestyle

Pretty hurts: Demi Moore returns to her horror-genre roots in ‘The Substance’

Boston native selected for Issa Rae + Snapchat’s creator program

Newburyport Documentary Film Fest: ‘We’ve definitely beaten the odds’

‘Laughs in Spanish,’ at SpeakEasy Stage, offers more than just laughs

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

As schools consider whether to ban smartphones, some nightclubs are already there

Why cellphones don’t belong in Massachusetts classrooms

To Latinx or not to Latinx

Reading the T leaves on late-night service

Massachusetts should abolish religious exemptions for vaccinations

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

This weekend will feel more like fall as temps cool, rain chances linger

Former mail carrier to plead guilty to stealing rare coins from parcels; prosecutors recommend probation

Officials will decide ‘very soon’ which agency will investigate death of State Police recruit, attorney general says

For months at a time, Mass. failed to notify motorists whose vision impairments disqualified them from driving

Sports

NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN to become men’s basketball GM at St. Bonaventure

WNBA awards Portland an expansion franchise that will begin play in 2026

Jabrill Peppers was dominating the competition long before he came to the Patriots

Game 152: Red Sox at Rays lineups, notes, and wild-card standings

The Red Sox bullpen meltdown since the All-Star break has been bad. In fact, it’s the worst in team history.

Salvatore ‘Totò’ Schillaci, the Italy striker who was top scorer at World Cup in 1990, dies

Business

As Lexington, Medford propose generational nicotine sale bans, leaders weigh business, public health impacts

Tupperware files for bankruptcy as sales slump

For months at a time, Mass. failed to notify motorists whose vision impairments disqualified them from driving
Months passed during which the state could not ensure people diagnosed with legal blindness stayed off the roads.

ADRIAN WALKER

The feds must step in to investigate the latest State Police scandal
The death of recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia during training is the latest setback for the Massachusetts State Police.

Money, Power, Inequality

Boston’s Black, Latino, Asian families are making more money, but income gaps remain, census data show
White households have seen the most long-term income growth in Boston.

‘No simple solution’: Rise of pickleball courts puts some local tennis players in a pickle
Data show a third of Boston's tennis courts now have pickleball courts drawn over them, provoking beef between tennis and pickleball players who must compete for court space.

Tupperware files for bankruptcy as sales slump
Tupperware will seek court approval to start a sale process for the business to protect its brand and advance its “transformation into a digital-first, technology-led company,” the company said.

WNBA awards Portland an expansion franchise that will begin play in 2026
The team will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. They paid $125 million for the franchise.

Migrant families return to Logan, raising questions about state shelter restrictions
Some families who were at the airport said they were offered a five-day stay in overflow shelters, but declined because of the limitation on applying for longer-term placements.

In Karen Read case, State Police investigation was tied to Proctor text messages
An internal investigation into State Police detectives was directly related to crude and misogynistic text messages that Michael Proctor sent about Karen Read, according to a report.

‘A step backward, to take two steps forward’: Boston leaders on disruptive transition to new yellow bus tracking app
The district still falls short of the 95 percent on-time arrival rate that is required under a state improvement plan.

Want to find the Dunkin’ locations that charge $2.99 for an iced coffee instead of $4.15? This tool is for you.
Prices of Dunkin’ items, from cold brew to glazed doughnuts, can vary by location — sometimes by a dollar or more. A new software program zeroes in on the lowest prices.

Who is leaving Massachusetts? And why? Here’s what a report reveals.
Working-age adults are the Massachusetts residents leaving in the highest numbers, according to a new analysis.