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Monday, October 2, 2023
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red sox

Tim Wakefield, former Red Sox knuckleballer who won two World Series, dies at 57

Mr. Wakefield’s death was the result of a seizure related to a recent diagnosis of brain cancer. Continue reading →

Politics

In Boston’s council election, Mayor Michelle Wu tries to flex her influence

By backing certain candidates, she is trying to build a power structure that makes it easier for her to deliver on her agenda. Continue reading →

Politics

Faneuil Hall should be renamed, some say. But the process and support for a name change are hazy.

A coalition called the New Democracy Coalition has been pushing to rename Faneuil Hall over the last five years because of Faneuil’s enslavement of and trading of human beings. Continue reading →

Cambridge

There’s more to that ‘Lost Hat’ poster on that utility pole. Welcome to the wild world of paper fliers.

Even as online ads have become the most popular way for smalltime musicians, shops, clubs, and other groups to reach their target audiences, paper fliers have endured as an art form and subculture all their own. Continue reading →

Politics

McCarthy faces test as Gaetz moves to oust him for working with Democrats

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s leadership position is in peril after his most outspoken Republican critic, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, said Sunday that he would follow through on threats to try to remove McCarthy from the job. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Judge weighing future of Donald Trump empire is Ivy League-educated ex-cabbie

He’s driven a taxi cab, played in a band, and protested the Vietnam War. As a New York City judge, Arthur Engoron has resolved hundreds of disputes, deciding everything from zoning and free speech issues to a custody fight over a dog named “Stevie.” Continue reading →

Nation

How the right’s elevation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could now backfire

The American right’s efforts to elevate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were as transparent as they were cynical. The idea, as advanced by Stephen K. Bannon and the like, was clearly to try to embarrass President Biden in the Democratic primary. So they used Kennedy’s inflated early poll standing as an excuse to treat the primary challenge from a fringe figure as something real and threatening. Continue reading →

Nation

Menendez codefendant’s curious path from bad deals to a meat monopoly

Just five years ago, Wael Hana was reeling from a string of bad business deals in New Jersey, having tried to launch a truck stop, an Italian restaurant, a limousine service, and other companies without ever hitting it big. Continue reading →

The World

World

Trailing in polls, British Conservatives look to unleash the ‘real Rishi’ Sunak

When Rishi Sunak arrived at the Conservative Party’s annual conference on Sunday, it was his first as Britain’s prime minister. The question looming for many attendees in the cavernous venue in Manchester is whether it could also be his last. Continue reading →

World

Should children join the killing in New Zealand’s war on invasive species?

The pickup trucks rolled up one by one, ferrying a stream of animal carcasses into the show grounds. Pigs, deer, opossums, even feral cats — all would be weighed and showcased, the bigger animals strung on racks, the smaller ones laid out in rows that became heaps as the day went on. Continue reading →

World

A populist ex-premier who opposes support for Ukraine leads his leftist party to victory in Slovakia

A populist former prime minister and his leftist party have won early parliamentary elections in Slovakia, staging a political comeback after campaigning on a pro-Russian and anti-American message, according to complete results announced Sunday. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Patients in hallways, long waits for beds: Hospital bottlenecks reach crisis levels

Hospitals, nursing homes, insurers, and policy makers need to find solutions. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Mass. pushes, against tide, for more charter schools

Question 2 lost resoundingly in 2016, yet its backers paint themselves as victims of "arduous" teachers-union-led politics. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Plastic, plastic, everywhere

Everywhere you look, you can see items in plastic, and it is disheartening. Continue reading →

Metro

Politics

‘All we achieved on Saturday was averting a crisis:’ Following crucial vote, Mass. Democrats call for Ukraine funding

"This vote is the last time I will support a GOP compromise that does not provide clear, credible, and concrete terms for supporting Ukraine,” said US Representative Jake Auchincloss. Continue reading →

Politics

For Boston’s police intelligence gathering operation, more barbed questions

Councilors and civil rights advocates have for years demanded more details about BRIC’s gang database. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Statewide ‘read-ins’ highlight attempts to censor books in schools, libraries

Libraries across the commonwealth are inviting community members to read challenged books in public as part of a statewide “Let Freedom Read” series. More than 70 such events are being planned across the state this week. Continue reading →

Sports

red sox

‘He was our hero:’ Tim Wakefield remembered for his selfless charitable works, including for the Jimmy Fund

Wakefield's death came on the same day as the Jimmy Fund's annual walk for cancer research. Continue reading →

Celtics

How the Celtics landed Jrue Holiday and created a lineup that will be hard to beat

Holiday, a defensive wizard, comes to Boston after being dealt from Milwaukee to Portland as part of the Damian Lillard trade. Can he be the piece the Celtics need to win a title? Continue reading →

Ben Volin | Instant analysis

Patriots’ blowout loss to Cowboys is what happens with a quarterback like Mac Jones

Jones's physical limitations — he doesn’t have a strong arm, and twice was intercepted on weak throws to the sideline — are getting in the way. Continue reading →

Business

Trendlines

A couple of months investors would rather forget

Stocks are way down and bond yields are near a 16-year high. Here’s what’s behind Wall Street’s dour mood. Continue reading →

Technology

This Roxbury company is getting corporate America buzzing about bees

Best Bees’ SmartHive technology collects data on conditions and activity in hives and uses AI to analyze the health of bee colonies. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Big lab space — and a supermarket — could soon come alongside Southie convention center

Two teams filed bids for the six acres, which are spread across three empty MCCA-owned lots on D and E streets in the shadow of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Chris Snow, NHL executive and ‘beacon of hope’ for those with ALS, dies at 42

“Hope meant outrunning ALS,” his wife, Kelsie Snow, once wrote. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Nancy Van de Vate, composer and advocate for women in music, dies at 92

Early in her career, Nancy Van de Vate, a celebrated modernist composer, would tell people about her work and sometimes be met with dismissive questions such as “Do you write songs for children?” And although she often won competitions that she had entered anonymously, her daughter Katherine said, she rarely won when she entered them under her own name, a dynamic she attributed to gender discrimination. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Names

She wants you to know the real ‘Jeopardy Amy’

With her memoir “In the Form of a Question,” out Tuesday, the champ shows us her sense of humor and peels back her pearls-wearing “Jeopardy!” persona to share her real-life experiences. Continue reading →

Music

Aerosmith postpones remaining tour shows, including New Year’s Eve date at TD Garden

The band says singer Steven Tyler is recovering from a fractured larynx in addition to the previously diagnosed damage to his vocal cords. Continue reading →

MUSIC REVIEW

SZA sets sail across familiar waters with an ever-loyal crew

The singer was met with waves of affection Saturday night at TD Garden. Continue reading →