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Friday, September 22, 2023
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K-12

Cambridge MCAS scores show full recovery from pandemic

In Cambridge, students’ MCAS scores are back to where they were before the pandemic, in just about every grade and subject. Continue reading →

Metro

‘I had to take the long view’ — Ibram Kendi defends management of embattled research center

In his first interview since laying off more than half the staff of his Center for Antiracist Research, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi disputed allegations of mismanagement and said his center is not in financial distress. Continue reading →

Office Culture

As return-to-office debate continues, Boston employers say this could be as returned as it gets

The one thing companies seem to agree on is that, at least for workers who are able to do their jobs remotely, the traditional workweek of five days in the office could be gone for good. Continue reading →

Class War

The Biden administration finally named a coordinator to combat book bans. That was the easy part.

Even as they see a political opportunity to take on the conservative “parents’ rights” movement, the options for the federal government to engage are limited and themselves politically fraught. Continue reading →

Nation

Rupert Murdoch hands control of Fox media empire to son Lachlan Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as the chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp. — the business empire he once vowed to leave “feet first” — ending a 70-year career that saw him rise from publisher of a small Australian newspaper to become a driving force in global conservative media and politics. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Boston Globe Today | September 21, 2023

Watch the full episode of Boston Globe Today from September 21, 2023. Watch →

Week 3 keys: Fixing Patriots offensive line

WATCH: Columnist Tara Sullivan gives her three keys to Mac Jones and the Patriots defeating the Aaron Rodgers-less Jets this Sunday at Metlife Stadium. Watch →

Boston.com Book Club: Celeste Ng and Jennifer De Leon

WATCH: Novelists Celeste Ng and Jennifer De Leon talk about writing and representation with Segun Odoulowu, host of Boston Globe Today. Watch →

The Nation

Nation

Right-wing rebels block defense bill again, rebuking McCarthy on spending

Just hours after McCarthy signaled that he had won over some of the holdouts and was ready to move forward, a handful of Republicans broke with their party to oppose the routine measure that would allow the military appropriations bill to come to the House floor for debate, joining with Democrats to defeat it. Continue reading →

Politics

Senate approves new leaders for Army, Marines

With the votes, the Senate has approved three of President Biden’s military nominees since Wednesday despite Senator Tommy Tuberville’s virtual blockade. Continue reading →

Nation

A 96-year-old federal judge is barred from hearing cases in a bitter fight over her mental fitness

The suspension comes as lawmakers such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California, face calls to step down over age-related health issues. Continue reading →

The World

World

In Washington visit, Zelensky tries to shore up critical support

“If we don’t get the aid, we will lose the war,” Zelensky said in a meeting at the Capitol with dozens of senators, as recounted by Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat and the majority leader. Continue reading →

World

US wants to keep migrants away from the border by moving it south

As the Biden administration struggles to tackle a humanitarian and political crisis at America’s doorstep, it is focusing increasingly on keeping migrants far from the US-Mexico border by establishing migration processing centers in Central and South America. Continue reading →

World

Mexico feels pressure of relentless migration from South America

Mexico’s immigration system strains under a tide of people desperately trying to go north. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

A daring hope for Catholic women

It’s time for the Catholic Church to discern how it might now formally recognize women like me who are fulfilling vital communal roles that would otherwise go unfulfilled. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

State-funded housing too precious to be left vacant

A complicated application process and overdue repairs share blame for keeping units offline. Continue reading →

OPINION

US support for Ukraine is waning. That’s a bad sign for democracy.

That Putin’s war is an existential threat to democracy means nothing to extremist Republicans disinterested in protecting it. Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

‘I had to take the long view’ — Ibram Kendi defends management of embattled research center

In his first interview since laying off more than half the staff of his Center for Antiracist Research, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi disputed allegations of mismanagement and said his center is not in financial distress. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Adult brother of 12-year-old Mattapan boy fatally shot ordered held on $250,000 cash bail

The older brother of 12-year-old Savion Ellis, who was fatally shot inside their Mattapan home, pleaded not guilty Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court to manslaughter and misleading Boston police about the shooting. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Three vendors claim discrimination by Faneuil Hall Marketplace management

Lawyers for Civil Rights sent the letter Thursday on behalf of three pushcart operators who sell Asian-inspired gifts beside Faneuil Hall, known as the Cradle of Liberty. Continue reading →

Sports

on football

Sunday’s Patriots-Jets meeting is a ‘get-right’ game — for both teams

The Patriots are staring at 0-3 if they lose this one, and the Jets desperately need some traction after a blowout loss last week. Continue reading →

Patriots

Five reasons the Patriots have started 0-2 for the first time since 2001

Since 1990, only 11 percent of NFL teams that started 0-2 have advanced to the postseason. Continue reading →

red sox

Trevor Story sees better things ahead with Red Sox after he can ‘flip the page’ on the last two years

“I signed up to do a job here, and I know I can do it,” said the shortstop, who has been hamstrung by injuries since signing a big free agent deal in 2022. Continue reading →

Business

Healthcare

Three scientists who pioneered eye-imaging device at MIT win prestigious Lasker Award

With advances in the technology over the past three decades, eye doctors can “make earlier diagnoses than ever before possible,” the Lasker Foundation said. Continue reading →

Biotech

FDA advisory panel rejects drug-device combination to treat Type 2 diabetes

The vote essentially upheld the Food and Drug Administration’s earlier rulings, with some members calling for new clinical studies to address the safety and dosing concerns. Continue reading →

Retail

Barbara Lynch’s Butcher Shop restaurant has gone dark. ‘Options are open’ about its future.

The closure comes just a few months after employees alleged that Lynch’s restaurants fostered a toxic culture, filled with abuse and addiction behind closed doors. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Victor Fuchs, a pioneer of health-care economics, dies at 99

A Stanford University economist, Victor Fuchs sought to explain why Americans don't live longer, healthier lives despite spending a fortune on health care. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Robert Klane, writer of ‘Weekend at Bernie’s,’ Dies at 81

A comic novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker, Robert Klane, had a taste for gleeful vulgarity and wrote the screenplay for “Weekend at Bernie’s,” the 1989 cult film about two young insurance company employees who create the illusion that their murdered boss is still alive. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

MOVIE REVIEW | ★½

‘Dumb Money’ — is it worth yours?

Paul Dano plays Brockton native Keith Gill in this real-life David vs. Goliath tale based on the GameStop short-squeeze of 2021. Continue reading →

ART REVIEW

Manet, Degas, and the nude that changed everything

A major new show at the Met brings “Olympia” to the US for the first time and with it a story of two artists’ catalytic friendship. Continue reading →

Theater

Story Pirates gets its ideas from kids, and then the fun begins

From its origins as an improv troupe that built performances around prompts from children in the audience, Story Pirates has branched into a PBS show, an an award-winning podcast, and now a national tour that arrives in Medford on Friday. Continue reading →