shirley leung

Why it?s so hard to vote yes on Question 2

Who would?ve thought that it would be easier for us to legalize marijuana in Massachusetts than to lift the cap on charter schools?

Harvard cancels men?s soccer season over sexually explicit ?scouting reports?

Officials have canceled the remainder of the season, after finding lewd social media postings that started in 2012 continued into the current semester.

Statements from Harvard?s president, dean, and athletic director

?I was deeply distressed to learn that the appalling actions of the 2012 men?s soccer team were not isolated to one year,? said President Drew Faust.

Officials consider options to ease traffic in South Boston

The South Boston Bypass Road has long seemed like a tempting way around the traffic snarls bedeviling commuters in the area.

Photo illustration by Leslie Becker/Globe staff

scott kirsner | innovation economy

5 tech trends that will shape future elections

It?s not possible to overstate the part that communications technology has played in this presidential race.

Documents reveal true backers of drive for a 2nd slots parlor

The $3.2 million campaign to open a second slots parlor in Massachusetts has been secretly financed by a team of developers.

Mailer targets lawmaker: ?He is allowing boys to shower in girls locker rooms?

The piece attacks state Representative Michael Day?s vote in favor of a measure protecting transgender people from discrimination in public accommodations.

Your local Trader Joe?s workers might not be so happy after all

In recent years, the good cheer associated with the quirky grocery store has masked growing strife and demoralization in some East Coast stores.

Pedestrian fatally struck on Rt. 128 in Waltham

State Police were investigating to determine why the victim was walking on the highway.

Campaign 2016

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. — Win McNamee/Getty Images

Clinton works to shore up her firewall in key states

Democrats, no longer aiming for a blowout win, are working furiously to shore up Hillary Clinton?s firewall in key states.

In N.H., Ivanka Trump ?sounded like a closet Democrat?

Donald Trump?s daughter talked up his plans to make child care more affordable and promised he?ll make ??radical leaps?? on eliminating the wage gap.

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

Clinton or Trump? Either way, Putin wins

For Putin, it?s mission accomplished.

Mass. ballot questions

Know before you go: Your cheat sheet to Mass. ballot questions

Massachusetts voters are deciding on a second slots parlor, charter schools, confinement of farm animals, and marijuana legalization.

Humane Society to close its Cape wildlife center

Supporters are scrambling for a way to keep it open and cover its roughly $650,000 annual shortfall.

Lola, a highly-endangered Kemp?s ridley sea turtle, was outfitted with prosthetic flipper designed and built by three engineering undergrads at WPI. — Rob O?Neal for Worcester Polytechnic Institute

WPI undergrads give sea turtle a ?biomimetic? flipper

The flipper is part of a quiet revolution underway in veterinary orthopedics.

Former Patriot Kevin Turner died from CTE, not ALS

Turner?s father cited the findings as evidence that the NFL needs to do more to protect its players from brain damage.

BRUINS 4, LIGHTNING 3

Bruins beat Lightning in shootout

Jimmy Hayes scored the winning shootout goal for Boston.

CAVALIERS 128, CELTICS 122

Cavaliers knock off Celtics

LeBron James leads the way for Cleveland with 30 points.

Book Review

If ?Twilight? and the Bourne books had a baby. . .

Stephenie Meyer dedicates her new book, ?The Chemist,? to Jason Bourne and Aaron Cross, the fictional heroes of Robert Ludlum?s espionage thrillers.

THINGS TO DO

The Weekender: Beautiful ?Moonlight,? deadpan Newhart, and raw power

Everything fun to do in Boston and beyond.

Facebook algorithms aren?t enough to prevent discrimination

Hard-won civil-rights gains in brick-and-mortar America won?t automatically translate into equal opportunity on the Internet.

The tragedy that Boston forgot

One hundred years ago, a horrific trolley accident on Summer Street killed 46 people. Although it was dubbed the ?worst tragedy in the history of the city? at the time, it has now been all but erased from memory.