Nation

Republicans turn on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he launches independent bid

Attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s pivot Monday to an independent run for president met immediate resistance from Republican leaders, who have concluded that his new effort threatens to cannibalize their vote share next year, helping to reelect President Biden. Continue reading →

Nation

McCarthy says he’s willing to return as House speaker

Representative Kevin McCarthy of California said Monday that he is willing to resume serving as House speaker if enough of the Republicans who voted in favor of his ouster last week are open to his reinstatement. Continue reading →

Nation

Heat, high water, hurricanes: Schools are not ready for climate change

The question for schools around the country remains how, and if, they can prepare their facilities for climate change — and other natural calamities, such as the coronavirus pandemic. Money is one issue; bureaucracy is another. Continue reading →

World

Schumer meets Xi and welcomes stronger Chinese statement on Hamas attack

Schumer led a delegation of six senators to China for talks aimed at stabilizing ties following a sharp deterioration in recent years over trade, US support for self-governing Taiwan, human rights, and other issues. Continue reading →

World

Zelensky compares assault by Hamas on Israel to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Monday condemned Hamas for its surprise assault on Israel and likened the attack to Russia’s invasion of his own country. In a speech to NATO, he also criticized Iran for its support of Hamas and Moscow. Continue reading →

World

Hamas attack strips away notion it could be a force for stability in Gaza

Since its founding, Hamas has declared that Israel has no right to exist, that there are no Israeli civilians and that every Israeli citizen is a soldier of the state and thus a legitimate target. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Ideas to boost education keep coming

A Globe story listing some ideas to lift students from post-pandemic learning lows prompted readers to offer some of their own. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Why is the state still letting places like Braintree kill the housing we desperately need?

Local control is a choice, not a law of nature, and the demise of a 500-unit plan near South Shore Plaza is yet more evidence that it’s thwarting the Commonwealth’s urgent need for more housing. Continue reading →

OPINION

My very old, very good dog

The descent is clear but gentle. It could take months, it could take years. Continue reading →

As I See It | Stan Grossfeld

Stuck back in time

“As I See It,” a new weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. Grossfeld introduces us to workers at hand-harvested potato farms in Aroostook County, Maine. Continue reading →

Social Justice

Three years in, Newton’s Indigenous Peoples Day finds a crowd eager to learn

Newton's Indigenous Peoples Day celebration has become one of the region's largest. It is finding an audience eager to learn. Continue reading →

Health

Waiting for a heart transplant, he finally got a life-saving call — but had no ride. A stranger stepped in to help.

When an Oxford resident in need of a heart transplant needed a ride to Boston, he got one from a person — a heart transplant survivor — he barely knew. The act of kindness transpired with help from HeartBrothers, a Marlborough-based nonprofit. Continue reading →

High School Sports

The referee shortage in high school sports is nothing new, but one school is doing something about it

At Taunton High, administrators decided to create a class about officiating to help address the ongoing shortage of game officials, a nationwide problem. Continue reading →

KNICKS 114, CELTICS 107

Observations from the Celtics’ star-less preseason loss to Knicks on second night of back-to-backs

Dalano Banton was in the starting lineup for the Celtics and put up 20 points, and Payton Pritchard led again in scoring with 21. Continue reading →

PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK

Bill Belichick won’t rule out changes after another blowout: ‘We have to perform better’

As for his own future, Belichick was asked on WEEI if he was the “right person” to restart things. He replied tersely: “I’m going to do the best I can to help our football team. That’s my job.” Continue reading →

Business

Harvard professor Claudia Goldin awarded Nobel economics prize for pioneering research on the workplace gender gap

In the rarefied world of economics, some of the field’s best minds figured it was a matter of when, not if, Claudia Goldin would win the Nobel Prize. Continue reading →

bold types

Family history drives EMD Serono’s Lori Lebson

Bold Types is our weekly roundup of the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene. Continue reading →

Trendlines

Soaring interest rates are Public Enemy No. 1

Steep bond rates are inflicting losses on investors, rekindling concern of a recession, and threatening the federal government’s ability to fund itself. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Claude Cormier, landscape architect with a playful eye, dies at 63

Claude Cormier was intrigued when he was asked to create a winter garden for the lobby of Montreal’s convention center in the late 1990s. But an interior “greenhouse” of living plants seemed to him completely unsuitable and unsustainable. What Montreal needed, especially in the winter, he thought, was color. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Ted Schwinden, who served two terms as Montana governor, dies at age 98

Ted Schwinden, a wheat farmer and Word War II veteran who gained national attention for keeping his home phone number listed during two terms as Montana’s governor, has died. He was 98. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Charles Feeney, who made a fortune and then gave it away, dies at 92

Charles F. Feeney, a pioneer of duty-free shops and a shrewd investor in technology startups who gave away nearly all of his $8 billion fortune to charity, much of it as quietly as he had made it, died on Monday in San Francisco. He was 92. Continue reading →

Music

For Joey Spampinato, a return to health and to the stage

After years of cancer treatments, the former NRBQ member is easing back into live shows with wife Kami Lyle. Continue reading →

Theater

Husband-and-wife duo Daredevil Chicken are wedded to comedy

Jonathan Taylor and Anne Goldmann, who honed their comedic chops performing in the streets outside Faneuil Hall, return to town as part of “The Great Mr. Swindle’s Traveling Peculiarium and Drink-Ory Garden” at Harpoon Brewery Oct. 12-Nov. 5. Continue reading →

MUSIC REVIEW

Handel and Haydn delivers a sublime ‘Israel in Egypt’

At Symphony Hall Friday, artistic director Jonathan Cohen had an orchestra of 35 and a chorus of 34. He conducted from the harpsichord, bouncing on his feet when standing, bouncing even when seated. Continue reading →