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Mac Jones completed 21 of 35 passes for 252 yards with one touchdown and an interception.

Yes, OK, the Patriots beat the Steelers, but so far what have we learned about Mac Jones?

We still have a million questions about Jones, 2022 Bill Belichick, and New England’s offensive game plan.

‘I just dropped it:’ Against his former team, Steelers’ Gunner Olszewski’s error swung the game in the Patriots’ favor How it happened: Patriots survive sloppy moments to beat Steelers for first win

Nelson Agholor outmaneuvered the Steelers' Ahkello Witherspoon for a 44-yard touchdown in the second quarter.

Ben Volin | On Football

The Patriots’ offense is struggling, but at least the defense can still win a game

Led by Matt Patricia, the Patriots' offensive scheme is still under question.

‘End the game:’ The Patriots’ clock-killing drive to seal the win is the type of progress they want to see

Mac Jones (right) and Brian Hoyer celebrated the Patriots' first victory of the season.

Christopher L. Gasper

Mitch Trubisky and the Steelers’ pop-gun offense is just what the Patriots needed

Brenden Schooler's recovery of Gunner Olszewski's muff led to a Patriots TD and a 17-6 lead in the third quarter.

Jim McBride | Between the hash marks

Patriots celebrate a special (teams) victory in 500th game for owner Robert Kraft, and other observations

It was victory No. 342 for Kraft, who has collected six Super Bowl wins since buying the franchise in 1994.

T to reopen Orange Line after unprecedented month-long closure
If the shutdown, which is set to end Monday morning, was a commuting nadir for the people who take around 100,000 trips on the line each weekday, officials say it was worth the sacrifice — passengers will experience a safer, faster, cleaner, more reliable subway experience.

‘I have no idea what any of these even mean’: Massachusetts clerks are getting bombarded with conspiracy-fueled records requests about the 2020 election

The problem has become so pervasive it’s caught the attention of Secretary of State William F. Galvin, whose office has contacted the attorney general.

Protesters target Children’s Hospital as hundreds rally to defend it
The counterprotesters stood in front of the hospital’s main entrance along Longwood Avenue in Boston carrying signs with messages like: “We love our trans kids.”

Fiona nears Dominican Republic after pounding Puerto Rico
No deaths have been reported, but authorities in the US territory said it was too early to estimate the damage from a storm that was still forecast to unleash torrential rain across Puerto Rico on Monday.

Photos: Hurricane Fiona strikes Puerto Rico’s southwest coast

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Perla, the woman migrants say enticed them onto planes, reflects an ugliness we must contend with

The woman who enticed desperate Venezuelan migrants onto the planes that dropped them on Martha’s Vineyard without notice last week is straight out of a Dickens story.

Civil rights lawyers ask Healey, Rollins to open criminal investigation into migrants’ plight See more coverage

Biden: Classified documents at Mar-a-Lago raise concerns

Red Sox 13, Royals 3

Xander Bogaerts has the batting title in his sights after Red Sox clobber Royals in series finale

BUCCANEERS 20, SAINTS 10

Tom Brady’s temper, talent critical as Buccaneers take down rival Saints

Kim Jackson greeted Sonny Walker in 2018 at his bar. He was one of the first black tavern owners in the city.

Sonny Walker, pioneering Black tavern owner, dies at 97

Mr. Walker was more to his patrons than a path-breaker for Black businessmen. He was a font of wisdom, camaraderie, and good cheer.

Joan Dimick (back, second from left) with her family, clockwise from back left: Brian McGorry, Lynn Normand, Sean McGorry, MaryEllen McGorry, and Joan McGorry. Dimick died at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H., after undergoing heart valve surgery performed by Dr. Yvon Baribeau in 2014, her family said.

SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW-UP

New Hampshire keeps patients in the dark about their doctors’ malpractice, disciplinary records

Patients and families in New Hampshire have no reliable way to learn crucial information about a doctor because the state’s medical board is one of the least transparent in the nation.

Spotlight: A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death

Chef Barbara Lynch is opening her first restaurant in more than a decade in The Rudder, a former restaurant and bar that closed three years ago.

DEVRA FIRST

For her first new restaurant in more than a decade, chef Barbara Lynch looks homeward

The award-winning chef — whose heart isn't in Boston the way it once was — is opening The Rudder in Gloucester, another step in a colorful journey.

Hispanic Heritage Month

My NFL dream didn’t pan out. But now that I’m a teacher and coach, I know I’ve ‘made it.’

My true success? Crushing social barriers and stereotypes society has built for young men of color.

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third Documenting Chelsea’s indefatigable heart Read more Hispanic Heritage Month stories

Leaving East Boston, and Coming Back Home

After dreaming of a career in football Tyrone Figueroa’s career took an unexpected turn: he became a public school teacher and returned home to East Boston. ( By Randy Vazquez/Globe Staff, By Andrea Patiño Contreras/Globe Staff )

Opinion

Dr. Yvon Baribeau works the controls of a surgical robot working inside an artificial chest cavity at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H., on April 3, 2002.

EDITORIAL

Patients’ rights in the Live Free or Die state

Spotlight’s exposure of Dr. Yvon Baribeau’s record shows need for transparency in malpractice cases.

LETTERS

Getting out from under the weight of student loan debt

LETTERS

A path to Massachusetts, paved with political intentions

Colin Diver

My old college boycotted the US News ratings. I wish more schools would do the same.

JEFF JACOBY

A powerful new account of how Washington abandoned Hitler’s victims

THROUGHLINE | Esther A. Armah

Centering the colonized in a time of mourning
The reign of England’s longest-ruling monarch represents the blood, the bone, the soil, the struggle, and the graves of millions of people across Africa, the Caribbean, and in England.

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150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.

Spotlight investigation

Part 1

A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau Video: What the Spotlight Team’s investigation discovered about Dr. Baribeau N.H. hospital promises review after revelations about doctor with 21 malpractice settlements

Part 2

A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

Alarmed doctors at Manchester's Catholic Medical Center tried to get a troubled colleague barred from surgery. But hospital leaders resisted. Then came the "summer of death."

Body of missing boater found in Lake Lashaway after long search

The body of the boater, whose identity was not released, was recovered at 12:20 p.m. by rescuers using sonar at Lake Lashaway, the North Brookfield Fire Department said in a statement.

Bidens among thousands to pay respects to Queen Elizabeth II
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden were among thousands of mourners — from locals and tourists to world leaders — to pay their respects at Westminster Hall, where the queen is lying in state.

Biden, VIPs lay low as spotlight stays on late Queen

These Republicans won’t promise to accept 2022 election results, in a echo of Trump
Geoff Diehl in Massachusetts and Don Bolduc in New Hampshire are among the Republican candidates nationwide who have not said that they would accept the results of the November election.

City to disband violence prevention program beset by allegations of internal turmoil
Since last November, five people who worked for SOAR have sued the city, alleging unfair treatment by managers. In June, a former employee spoke out publicly about what he saw was deep-seated dysfunction in the program.

LOVE LETTERS

My boyfriend comes with too much baggage
His family is "toxic and messy."

Zelensky promises no ‘lull’ in taking back Ukrainian towns
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised his country there would be no letup in the counteroffensive that has reclaimed towns and cities from Russian troops, as shelling continued Sunday across a wide stretch of Ukraine.

Four secrets from the world’s longest happiness study

A Harvard study traced people into old age, asking them about their proudest moments and regrets. The results can help us reframe our parenting priorities.

An illustrated guide to people seen on the T
The Orange Line is set to come back online on Monday, and people around Boston are getting ready to resume their regularly scheduled commutes. And by extension — headaches. To mark the occasion, we’ve created a guide to the archetypes you’ll likely brush shoulders with while riding the MBTA.

Piece by piece, Boston’s monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is coming together
"The Embrace," Boston’s long-awaited memorial to the Kings, is headed to the Common in January. Our art critic traveled to a foundry in Washington state, and visited the Brooklyn studio of artist Hank Willis Thomas, to trace its journey.

High Schools

After a rash of misconduct in high school sports, what has been done, and will things be better this year?
Attorney General Maura Healey held a conference in April to address abuses, which led to pledges to work collaboratively by political, school, and other leaders.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Rosalía with her dancers in concert at MGM Music Hall at Fenway, the first date on her US tour.

Pop powerhouse Rosalía in full command at MGM Music Hall

David Koechner plays Laugh Boston September 16-17, with a special “Office” trivia show as Todd Packer Saturday afternoon.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Museum of Fine Arts’ Latinx Heritage Night

16 ways to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month in Boston

A German policeman checks the identification papers of Jewish people in Poland, circa 1941, as seen in "The U.S. and the Holocaust."

‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ examines a question that haunts us still: Why didn’t we do more?

Special Projects

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

King Charles III walks behind the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, adorned with a Royal Standard and the Imperial State Crown and pulled by a Gun Carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, during a procession from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster, in London on Sept. 14.

Alex Beam

Charles — be still my heart

A Boston Police bomb squad officer, left, and a K-9 unit officer, right, on the campus of Northeastern University on Wednesday.

RENÉE GRAHAM

A city in a state of dread and unease

The author hikes with his son and daughter in the Berkshires in 2020.

IDEAS | CRAIG THOMAS

Hollywood and the ‘R-word’

Members of the Martha's Vineyard community and migrants gather at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Edgartown on Sept. 15. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has claimed responsibility for the stunt that sent two unexpected planes of migrants from Venezuela to the island.

EDITORIAL

Trafficking in human lives should have consequences for its Republican perpetrators

Just after winning his Republican primary on Tuesday, New Hampshire Senate candidate Don Bolduc said he no longer believed that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Trump and conceded that Joe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States.

EDITORIAL

This Republican’s pivot should fool no one

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

Protesters target Children’s Hospital as hundreds rally to defend it

The counterprotesters stood in front of the hospital’s main entrance along Longwood Avenue in Boston carrying signs with messages like: “We love our trans kids.”

T to reopen Orange Line after unprecedented month-long closure

If the shutdown, which is set to end Monday morning, was a commuting nadir for the people who take around 100,000 trips on the line each weekday, officials say it was worth the sacrifice — passengers will experience a safer, faster, cleaner, more reliable subway experience.

Sonny Walker, pioneering Black tavern owner, dies at 97

Mr. Walker was more to his patrons than a path-breaker for Black businessmen. He was a font of wisdom, camaraderie, and good cheer.

Worker injured in Dorchester porch collapse

A worker was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after falling when a porch collapsed on the rear of a Dorchester home Sunday, the Boston Fire Department said.

Sports

Aaron Judge jogs around the bases after launching his 59th home run of the season, putting him two behind Roger Maris' American League (and Yankee team) record.

MLB NOTEBOOK

Yankees’ Aaron Judge blasts Nos. 58 and 59, pulling within two of Roger Maris’ American League mark

Judge’s 11th multihomer game tied the season record set by Detroit’s Hank Greenberg in 1938 and matched by the Cubs’ Sammy Sosa in 1998.

Aaron Jones (left) rushed for 132 yards and a touchdown and caught a scoring pass from Aaron Rodgers (right).

Packers 27, Bears 10

Aaron Rodgers, Packers lean on running back Aaron Jones, still take care of Bears

The Packers rebounded from a season-opening loss and beat the Bears for the seventh straight time.

Georgii Merkulov got some valuable ice time during the Bruins' development camp in July.

Bruins notebook

Georgii Merkulov wants to play in Boston, but knows that may not be in the cards this season

The rookie prefers to play center but with Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci, and Charlie Coyle ahead of him on the depth chart, his game needs refining to make the jump to the next level.

WNBA FINALS: Aces 4, Sun 1

Las Vegas Aces turn aside Connecticut Sun en route to first WNBA title

golf roundup

Cameron Smith closes strong for three-shot victory at LIV Golf Invitational-Chicago

Christopher L. Gasper

Mitch Trubisky and the Steelers’ pop-gun offense is just what the Patriots needed

Business

Zelensky promises no ‘lull’ in taking back Ukrainian towns

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised his country there would be no letup in the counteroffensive that has reclaimed towns and cities from Russian troops, as shelling continued Sunday across a wide stretch of Ukraine.

A dream lives on. Fields hopes to revive thoroughbred horse racing in Hardwick.

Richard Fields tries, tries again, to revive thoroughbred horse racing in Massachusetts.

Lexington student wins award for groundwater-monitoring tech

EU recommends suspending billions in funding to Hungary

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My Boston History

Why humor is the best bridge between cultures

My Boston History

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third

CONNECTIONS

A taste of home at the Hi-Lo Supermarket

PERSPECTIVE

Yes, OK, the Patriots beat the Steelers, but so far what have we learned about Mac Jones?

The Patriots’ offense is struggling, but at least the defense can still win a game

‘End the game:’ The Patriots’ clock-killing drive to seal the win is the type of progress they want to see

Mitch Trubisky and the Steelers’ pop-gun offense is just what the Patriots needed

Patriots celebrate a special (teams) victory in 500th game for owner Robert Kraft, and other observations

‘I have no idea what any of these even mean’: Massachusetts clerks are getting bombarded with conspiracy-fueled records requests about the 2020 election

Protesters target Children’s Hospital as hundreds rally to defend it The counterprotesters stood in front of the hospital’s main entrance along Longwood Avenue in Boston carrying signs with messages like: “We love our trans kids.”

Fiona nears Dominican Republic after pounding Puerto Rico No deaths have been reported, but authorities in the US territory said it was too early to estimate the damage from a storm that was still forecast to unleash torrential rain across Puerto Rico on Monday.

Perla, the woman migrants say enticed them onto planes, reflects an ugliness we must contend with

Biden: Classified documents at Mar-a-Lago raise concerns

Xander Bogaerts has the batting title in his sights after Red Sox clobber Royals in series finale

Tom Brady’s temper, talent critical as Buccaneers take down rival Saints

Sonny Walker, pioneering Black tavern owner, dies at 97

New Hampshire keeps patients in the dark about their doctors’ malpractice, disciplinary records

For her first new restaurant in more than a decade, chef Barbara Lynch looks homeward

Hispanic Heritage Month

My NFL dream didn’t pan out. But now that I’m a teacher and coach, I know I’ve ‘made it.’

Patients’ rights in the Live Free or Die state

Getting out from under the weight of student loan debt

A path to Massachusetts, paved with political intentions

My old college boycotted the US News ratings. I wish more schools would do the same.

A powerful new account of how Washington abandoned Hitler’s victims

THROUGHLINE | Esther A. Armah Centering the colonized in a time of mourning The reign of England’s longest-ruling monarch represents the blood, the bone, the soil, the struggle, and the graves of millions of people across Africa, the Caribbean, and in England.

Mass. coronavirus at a glance

Cases and deaths

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150 years of The Boston Globe

Part 1 A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

More recent stories

Body of missing boater found in Lake Lashaway after long search

Bidens among thousands to pay respects to Queen Elizabeth II President Biden and first lady Jill Biden were among thousands of mourners — from locals and tourists to world leaders — to pay their respects at Westminster Hall, where the queen is lying in state.

These Republicans won’t promise to accept 2022 election results, in a echo of Trump Geoff Diehl in Massachusetts and Don Bolduc in New Hampshire are among the Republican candidates nationwide who have not said that they would accept the results of the November election.

LOVE LETTERS My boyfriend comes with too much baggage His family is "toxic and messy."

Zelensky promises no ‘lull’ in taking back Ukrainian towns Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised his country there would be no letup in the counteroffensive that has reclaimed towns and cities from Russian troops, as shelling continued Sunday across a wide stretch of Ukraine.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Pop powerhouse Rosalía in full command at MGM Music Hall

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

16 ways to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month in Boston

‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ examines a question that haunts us still: Why didn’t we do more?

Special Projects

Welcome Back to Boston

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A Beautiful Resistance

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

FROM OUR PARTNERS

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Charles — be still my heart

A city in a state of dread and unease

Hollywood and the ‘R-word’

Trafficking in human lives should have consequences for its Republican perpetrators

This Republican’s pivot should fool no one

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

Protesters target Children’s Hospital as hundreds rally to defend it

T to reopen Orange Line after unprecedented month-long closure

Sonny Walker, pioneering Black tavern owner, dies at 97

Worker injured in Dorchester porch collapse

Sports

Yankees’ Aaron Judge blasts Nos. 58 and 59, pulling within two of Roger Maris’ American League mark

Aaron Rodgers, Packers lean on running back Aaron Jones, still take care of Bears

Georgii Merkulov wants to play in Boston, but knows that may not be in the cards this season

Las Vegas Aces turn aside Connecticut Sun en route to first WNBA title

Cameron Smith closes strong for three-shot victory at LIV Golf Invitational-Chicago

Mitch Trubisky and the Steelers’ pop-gun offense is just what the Patriots needed

Business

Zelensky promises no ‘lull’ in taking back Ukrainian towns

A dream lives on. Fields hopes to revive thoroughbred horse racing in Hardwick.

Lexington student wins award for groundwater-monitoring tech

EU recommends suspending billions in funding to Hungary

Why humor is the best bridge between cultures

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third

A taste of home at the Hi-Lo Supermarket

I’m still learning Spanish. And I’ll always be Latina.

metro

City to disband violence prevention program beset by allegations of internal turmoil

Protesters target Children’s Hospital as hundreds rally to defend it
The counterprotesters stood in front of the hospital’s main entrance along Longwood Avenue in Boston carrying signs with messages like: “We love our trans kids.”

Fiona nears Dominican Republic after pounding Puerto Rico
No deaths have been reported, but authorities in the US territory said it was too early to estimate the damage from a storm that was still forecast to unleash torrential rain across Puerto Rico on Monday.

THROUGHLINE | Esther A. Armah

Centering the colonized in a time of mourning
The reign of England’s longest-ruling monarch represents the blood, the bone, the soil, the struggle, and the graves of millions of people across Africa, the Caribbean, and in England.

Part 1

A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Bidens among thousands to pay respects to Queen Elizabeth II
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden were among thousands of mourners — from locals and tourists to world leaders — to pay their respects at Westminster Hall, where the queen is lying in state.

These Republicans won’t promise to accept 2022 election results, in a echo of Trump
Geoff Diehl in Massachusetts and Don Bolduc in New Hampshire are among the Republican candidates nationwide who have not said that they would accept the results of the November election.

LOVE LETTERS

My boyfriend comes with too much baggage
His family is "toxic and messy."

Zelensky promises no ‘lull’ in taking back Ukrainian towns
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised his country there would be no letup in the counteroffensive that has reclaimed towns and cities from Russian troops, as shelling continued Sunday across a wide stretch of Ukraine.

High Schools

After a rash of misconduct in high school sports, what has been done, and will things be better this year?
Attorney General Maura Healey held a conference in April to address abuses, which led to pledges to work collaboratively by political, school, and other leaders.