Boston Globe Today: Sports | August 25, 2023

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The Patriots Renaissance Tour

WATCH: Boston.com reporter Conor Ryan predicts what the Monday Globe headlines might look like. Will “Alabama Mac” and prime Ezekiel Elliot return? Continue reading →

Chris Gasper: Red Sox refuse to let playoff hopes die

WATCH: Write or Wrong: Host Chris Gasper says the Sox still have a path to the playoffs despite being left for dead after the trade deadline. Continue reading →

Nation

West Virginia can restrict abortion pill sales, judge rules, despite FDA approval that it’s safe

Legal experts foresee years of court battles over access to the pills, as abortion-rights proponents bring test cases to challenge state restrictions. Continue reading →

Nation

Before child died in custody, CBP tried to replace medical contractor

The company operating the medical ward where an 8-year-old girl died while in US border custody was not approved for a new contract last year, but remains on the job. Continue reading →

Nation

Yale police to first-year students: beware the streets of New Haven

The town-gown relationship has long been fraught between Yale, one of the world’s most selective universities, where white students make up the largest demographic, and New Haven, which has long struggled with crime and poverty, and is majority Black and Hispanic. Continue reading →

World

Kremlin dismisses speculation linking it to Prigozhin’s death as ‘lies’

The Kremlin on Friday curtly dismissed rampant speculation that it had ordered the killing of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin as ‘’all lies,’’ stating that an investigation was underway to establish the cause. Continue reading →

World

With Prigozhin’s death, Putin projects a message of power

After Prigozhin’s plane crash, the Kremlin appears to be sending the message that no degree of achievement can protect someone from punishment for violating Putin’s loyalty. Continue reading →

World

French former president Nicolas Sarkozy to go on trial over Libya financing for 2007 campaign

French investigative magistrates on Friday ordered former president Nicolas Sarkozy and 12 others to go on trial on charges that his 2007 presidential campaign received millions in illegal financing from the government of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Continue reading →

OPINION

Should children be allowed to work?

Nationwide efforts to roll back child labor protections are dangerous. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Doctors shouldn’t be overcharged for electronic payments

Technology meant to save the system money is costing doctors money and lining insurers’ pockets. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Workplace is the next battleground in affirmative action fight

"Freedom means having equitable access to this country’s economy and rights," writes one reader. Another writes, "Affirmative action is a method of addressing discrimination, not discrimination itself." Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

In Karen Read case, Norfolk DA tells conspiracy theorists ‘innuendo is not evidence’

The statement was a highly unusual move in a case that has been thrown into the national spotlight in part because of internet theories. Continue reading →

Animals

With more pets arriving on their doorstep, shelters struggle to find them homes

Pet adoptions skyrocketed during the pandemic, but they have plummeted since then. The reason is inflation and the brutal housing market. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Bright planets and a blue moon: A fall stargazing guide for beginners

Saturn will be at opposition this weekend, meaning the ringed planet will be at its closest approach to the Earth and fully illuminated by the sun. Continue reading →

ON BASEBALL

Mookie Betts is living in the present, but he’d like to correct one thing: He never wanted to leave the Red Sox

In the four years since he was traded to the Dodgers, Betts has married, become a father of two, and gained comfort in being one of central figures in the game. Continue reading →

Chad Finn

The Red Sox are simply treading water down the stretch, soon to be submerged

The fact that they're contending for a wild card clouds a lot of truths about their true standing — and it's probably better that they don't make the playoffs. Continue reading →

patriots

How do Patriots’ Christian players reconcile their faith with the brutality of football?

It can seem paradoxical, but some players say it's easier to walk that line with the help of team captain Matthew Slater and team chaplain Jua Robinson. Continue reading →

Retail

Boston burrito chain Boloco is closing most of its stores by year’s end

The burrito chain will close its flagship location near Berklee on Friday, with the Boston Common and 50 Congress outposts to close before the end of the year. Continue reading →

Finance

SJC sides with Galvin over Robinhood in legal fight over stockbroker standards

The high court ruled that stockbrokers in Mass. must be held to a higher “fiduciary standard." Continue reading →

Technology

Instacart files for IPO

The largest US online grocery delivery company disclosed in its filing Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that PepsiCo Inc. will buy $175 million in preferred convertible stock. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Johaar Mosaval, who broke free of apartheid for ballet, dies at 95

A charismatic South African ballet dancer, Johaar Mosaval left the racial barriers of apartheid behind to become a celebrated principal with London’s Royal Ballet. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Prominent Lebanese journalist Talal Salman dies at age 85 after long illness

Talal Salman founded As-Safir, one of Lebanon’s largest Arabic-language independent newspapers, and devoted much of his writing to the Palestinian cause and calls for Arab unity. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Karol Bobko, first to pilot the Challenger into space, dies at 85

An Air Force pilot, Karol Bobko joined NASA as an astronaut in 1969 and then waited 14 years before going into space, piloting the first voyage of the shuttle Challenger nearly three years before it exploded soon after liftoff. Continue reading →

Music

Brandeis plans to shutter PhD programs in music

The Waltham university informed music faculty members that the department’s two PhD degree programs would be put on hiatus with the intention to close them. Continue reading →

Lifestyle

50th Caribbean American Carnival brings ‘all the flavor’ to Franklin Park

This Saturday, Aug. 26, the Caribbean American Carnival Association of Boston will celebrate Caribbean culture from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Continue reading →

Arts

This weekend, solemnly swear you’re up to no good

The debut of the New England WizardFest and Magic Convention touches down in Boxborough. Continue reading →