Boston Globe Today | October 24, 2023

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Frustration mounts around the Green Line extension

WATCH: The MBTA’s newest line will close for major repairs. Reporter Diti Kohli shares what that means for the residents & businesses who depend on it. Watch →

Break into biotech without a science degree

WATCH: Reporter Robert Weisman tells us how Bostonians can get a job in the city’s life sciences sector. Watch →

Nation

Trump and Cohen meet again, this time as enemies at trial

Cohen did not say anything he has not already said. Nonetheless, the courtroom was silent and tense as he testified about his former employer — whom he always referred to as Mr. Trump — and said that he had committed crimes as part of his role at the Trump Organization. Continue reading →

Politics

Republicans nominate Mike Johnson for House speaker after Emmer’s withdrawal, desperate to end chaos

Three weeks on, the Republicans are frittering away their majority status — a maddening embarrassment to some, democracy in action to others, but not at all how the House is expected to function. Continue reading →

Nation

Georgia Supreme Court allows state’s six-week abortion ban to remain

The Georgia case is not over, because the court addressed only the question of whether the state ban should have been voided because of when it was enacted. The court sent the case back to a lower court for a trial on the separate question of whether the state Constitution protects a right to privacy and whether that right encompasses abortion. Continue reading →

World

Energy agency sees peaks in global oil, coal, and gas demand by 2030

For more than a century, the world’s appetite for fossil fuels has been expanding relentlessly, as humans have continued burning larger amounts of coal, oil, and natural gas almost every year to power homes, cars, and factories. Continue reading →

World

Amid intense fighting, Ukraine orders evacuation of children

The Ukrainian government has ordered the evacuation of hundreds of children in shattered villages across southern Ukraine, and is sending police door to door to convince parents that it is time to escape the widespread Russian shelling in the region. Continue reading →

World

‘I went through hell,’ freed Israeli, 85, says of subterranean captivity in Gaza

In harrowing detail, an 85-year-old Israeli grandmother described her 17-day ordeal as a hostage, offering for the first time a captive’s account of the armed Palestinian group Hamas’s subterranean garrison beneath the Gaza Strip, the conditions in which the group’s hostages are being held, and the operatives deployed to tend to them. Continue reading →

OPINION

Israel must maintain its democracy despite war with Hamas

A country in which there is a minority without rights, without representation, without the ability to even express sympathy for those who were killed is not a democracy. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Passionate debate over the Israel-Hamas war is fine. Violence is not.

Dehumanizing rhetoric is making both Jews and Muslims fearful. Elected officials and civic leaders could do more to counter the vitriol. Continue reading →

OPINION

How the Jan. 6 insurrectionists won

The next GOP House speaker will probably be someone who either denied or questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election outcome. Continue reading →

Transportation

T officials disclose more delays on key projects like new Red and Orange line cars; say Green Line Extension could be fixed soon

MBTA officials announced a grim series of setbacks on projects that will impact hundreds of thousands of transit riders and the state’s climate goals Tuesday, including more delays on new Red and Orange line cars as well as the infrastructure for electric buses. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Lindsay Clancy, Duxbury woman charged in children’s deaths, researched ways to kill, court documents say

A Duxbury woman charged with murdering her three small children in January allegedly researched ways to kill on her cell phone prior to the slayings, according to search warrant affidavits made public Tuesday. Continue reading →

Politics

Stephanie Fattman to pay record-high penalty to settle allegations that her husband schemed to boost her campaign

State Senator Ryan Fattman will also pay $55,000 under the civil agreement he and his wife — both Sutton Republicans — signed with the office of Attorney General Andrea Campbell. Continue reading →

bruins notebook

Bruins coach Jim Montgomery would like his defensemen to give offense more of a shot

Through five games, Bruins blue liners had not scored a goal, and the coach wants to work on that. Continue reading →

dan shaughnessy

Brad Stevens is fine with the pressure of being a favorite: ‘The weight of expectations is a good thing’

Very big things are expected of the Celtics this season. The president of basketball ops wouldn’t have it any other way. Continue reading →

Colleges

BC details hazing allegations against swimmers and divers in court hearing

A number of freshmen vomited into plastic bags they were instructed to wear around their necks while binge-drinking, the university alleges. Continue reading →

Business

‘What good is the train for me?’ For those building a life around the Green Line Extension, frustration mounts.

The new tracks into Somerville and Medford have been rife with issues. Here’s what that means for riders who have come to depend on the line. Continue reading →

Business

Late to the game, Mass. drugmakers seek to piggyback on obesity drug boom

Several biotechs in Massachusetts are seeking to elbow their way into the lucrative market, which is dominated by Denmark’s Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. Continue reading →

Technology

Massachusetts, 40 other states sue Instagram over child marketing

Rhode Island and New Hampshire are also part of the legal action accusing the company of designing its apps to addict younger users. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Lee Berk, ‘visionary’ president who expanded Berklee’s range as a music college, dies at 81

Mr. Berk’s “visionary leadership and immeasurable contributions to Berklee have left an indelible mark on our community and on the world of contemporary music,” said David Bogen, the college’s interim president. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Park Seo-Bo, whose quiet paintings trumpeted Korean art, dies at 91

A painter, Park Seo-Bo's elegantly furrowed monochromes and indefatigable drive made him a pillar of the Korean art world. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Natalie Zemon Davis, historian of the marginalized, dies at 94

A social and cultural historian, Natalie Zemon Davis's imaginative and deeply researched investigations of the lives of marginalized figures profoundly influenced the discipline. Continue reading →

BOOKS

Roz Chast draws on eggs with melted wax

The New Yorker cartoonist, whose new book “I Must Be Dreaming” illustrates her dream world in quirky detail, has been rendering her curiosity about the world in different mediums since childhood. Continue reading →

BOOKS

Curtis Chin tells the story of his family’s Chinese restaurant and asks ‘For here or to go?’

A new memoir by a co-founder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop is grounded in personal and political history. Continue reading →

WHAT SHE'S HAVING

This British author will change the way you work in the kitchen

Bee Wilson’s “The Secret of Cooking” focuses like a laser beam on the things that make capable cooks capable. Continue reading →