Nation

Alaska troopers brutally beat man in mistaken arrest, prosecutors say

Two Alaska state troopers have been charged with assault for pepper spraying, beating, and ordering a dog to bite a man whom they wrongly believed had a warrant out for his arrest in an allegation of police violence that the state’s top public safety authority called unprecedented. Continue reading →

Nation

Harris and Walz make small-town stops and campaign phone calls on Pennsylvania bus tour before DNC

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz gave pep talks to campaign volunteers and a high school football team Sunday, with their bus tour in a corner of Pennsylvania serving as a modest, small-town version of the grand rally she’s expected to have at the Democratic nominating convention in Chicago this week. Continue reading →

Nation

Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaign

Some of the internet’s most influential far-right figures are turning against former president Donald Trump’s campaign, threatening a digital “war” against the Republican candidate’s aides and allies that could complicate the party’s calls for unity in the final weeks of the presidential race. Continue reading →

World

Quintuplets among Gaza’s dead as Blinken visits the region to seek a cease-fire deal

Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 29 people including young quintuplets overnight and into Sunday, health officials said, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel to try to seal a cease-fire deal that could help ease soaring regional tensions. Continue reading →

World

A family flees and a mother mourns after Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian village

Since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel and the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians across the West Bank have become common. Continue reading →

World

Ukrainian president says push into Russia’s Kursk region is to create a buffer zone there

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday the daring military incursion into Russia’s Kursk region aims to create a buffer zone to prevent further attacks by Moscow across the border. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Steward should pay severance to laid-off workers

More than 1,200 employees at Carney, Nashoba Valley could lose jobs. Continue reading →

OPINION

The hellscape of the emergency department

Staff avoided interactions in order to prevent being asked yet again the question they couldn’t answer: How long will it be? The avoidance of eye contact added to the inhumanity of the experience. Continue reading →

OPINION

The world of calculated risk-taking was the world in which I belonged

Read an excerpt from “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything” by Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Five shot near Dominican Festival in Franklin Park

Five people were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries Sunday night after a shooting broke out in Franklin Park as a daylong celebration of Dominican culture was winding down, Boston police said. Continue reading →

New Hampshire

Judge to decide whether transgender N.H. teen can play on her school’s soccer team

The state declined to sign onto an agreement that would have allowed the plaintiffs to keep playing school sports during an initial phase of litigation. N.H.’s ban against trans girls playing on girls’ sports team went into effect Sunday. Continue reading →

Immigration

Reprieves continue for many migrant families facing ouster from overflow shelter system

More than two thirds of families who received notices to leave temporary overflow shelters in Mass. have been granted reprieves, the Healey administration said Saturday. Continue reading →

Orioles 4, Red Sox 2

Red Sox had chances, but bats can’t deliver in the right moments in series-splitting loss to Orioles

Boston had 11 hits but was just 1 for 14 with runners in scoring position, striking out 11 times. Continue reading →

Patriots

Eliot Wolf defends Patriots’ offensive line as unit struggles to convince in training camp

Eliot Wolf spoke to the media for the first time since the draft on Sunday. Continue reading →

PATRIOTS

Training camp observations: Drake Maye turns up the heat in quarterback competition

Jerod Mayo made it clear Friday that the quarterback competition is not over, so there could be an opening for Drake Maye if he continues to make progress. Continue reading →

Business

Game of inches: Lobster fishermen say tiny change in legal sizes could disrupt imperiled industry

Lobster fishermen say tiny change in legal sizes could disrupt imperiled industry. Continue reading →

Future of Work

Eight neurodivergent people in Greater Boston told us how they navigate the workplace

Some work remotely to minimize disruptions. Others request that instructions are given in writing, rather than verbally. Others punctuate their daily to-do lists with regular rewards. Continue reading →

THE FINE PRINT

Her sister died. Then scammers took over her phone number and started racking up bills.

A Bedford woman learned some hard lessons after scammers, apparently impersonating a family member, got T-Mobile to move her late sister’s number to a phone controlled by the scammers. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Maurice Williams, whose ‘Stay’ was a hit for him and others, dies at 86

With his doo-wop group the Zodiacs, Mr. Williams cranked out several hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s but none stuck in the annals of pop culture like "Stay." Continue reading →

Obituaries

Jerry Fuller, writer of ‘Young Girl’ and other hit songs, dies at 85

A songwriter who helped give the sexual revolution a Top 40 soundtrack, Jerry Fuller also had a brief solo career as a crooner, starting in the late 1950s, a decade before he would become well known as a songwriter. Continue reading →

Obituaries

French actor and heartthrob Alain Delon dies at 88

An angel-faced tough guy of cinema, Mr. Delon worked with some of the top European film directors in the 1960s and '70s. Continue reading →

BOSTON AT A BARGAIN

This week’s free, cheap things to do: JP Porchfest, ‘Footloose,’ and Vinyl Night at the ICA

Live music is aplenty in the city in these final weeks of August. Continue reading →

Arts

Trump said hello. Tom Brady said thanks. A court sketch artist tells all.

Jane Rosenberg discusses her new book, "Drawn Testimony," in which she shares her work as a courtroom sketch artist for high-profile cases. Continue reading →

ASKING ERIC

‘Helicopter’ grandma is suddenly ghosted

Advice from R. Eric Thomas. Continue reading →