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Thursday, October 3, 2024
Today's Headlines
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Health

Some Boston doctors are starting to unravel the mysteries of long COVID and find improved treatments

There’s still no cure for the debilitating condition but some front-line clinicians are finding ways to help patients feel better. Continue reading →

Health

Breast cancer rates are climbing. Are plastics and cosmetics to blame?

The risk of developing breast cancer increased by about 1 percent each year between 2012 and 2021 and grew almost twice as fast for women under the age of 50 as those above it. Continue reading →

Politics

N.H. gun owners can carry firearms without a license. What happens when they bring their guns to Mass.?

The state’s approach to gun control faces a new challenge from a pair of cases involving New Hampshire gun owners, which the SJC is hearing jointly. Continue reading →

Politics

‘Cars have flipped over’: Some Boston residents want more input on city’s speed hump program

While officials say the city is set to meet or exceed its annual speed hump goal, residents from across Boston are frustrated with the program. Continue reading →

Politics

Judge unseals new evidence in federal election case against Trump

Made public by Judge Tanya Chutkan of US District Court in Washington, the 165-page brief was partly redacted but expansive, adding details to the already extensive record of how Donald Trump lost the race but attempted nonetheless to cling to power. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Who won the VP debate? Does it matter?

WATCH: Vance and Walz battled in the Big Apple. Washington Bureau chief Jackie Kucinich and political reporter James Pindell weigh on their performances. Watch →

Adulting is hard. How do you find a therapist?

WATCH: You need help, but where do you start? Reporter Dana Gerber has the checklist. Watch →

Boston gun violence memorial looks beyond the numbers

WATCH: It asks visitors to imagine the lives of the victims. Arts reporter Julian Sorapuru talked to a local family who participated in its construction. Watch →

The Nation

Nation

Hurricanes’ hidden toll: Thousands of deaths years after they strike

Unlike the fatalities from turbulent floodwaters and collapsing homes, these deaths can occur years after a disaster. Continue reading →

Nation

Southerners stay in touch the old-fashioned way after Helene cuts roads, power, phones

Hurricane Helene has left millions without electricity and phone service across Southeast in the six days since making landfall, and now many people are relying on ways from the past. Continue reading →

Nation

Hiking the Appalachian Trail often takes 6 months. She did it in 40 days.

Tara Dower's first attempt to hike the fabled 2,198-mile path ended early with anxiety attacks. The last time ended with champagne for the ultramarathoner. Continue reading →

The World

World

Deadly battles in southern Lebanon as Israeli troops clash with Hezbollah

Israel said eight of its soldiers had been killed in the first day and a half of combat in Lebanon, a relatively high toll compared with the daily losses the military has taken in the war in the Gaza Strip. Continue reading →

World

A wider war in the Middle East, from Hamas to Hezbollah and now Iran

With the all-out war here, the main questions now are how much the conflict might intensify and whether the United States’ own forces will get more directly involved. Continue reading →

World

Here’s where US forces are deployed in the Middle East

As US warships helped Israel shoot down missiles from an Iranian attack Tuesday, the Pentagon was preparing to send thousands more US troops, including three additional aircraft squadrons, to the Middle East. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

A strong Israeli defense against Iran benefits US interests

The boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement seeks to undermine US-Israel defense cooperation. Continue reading →

OPINION

How the Celtics could protest a cruel war in Sudan

They could boycott an exhibition game against the Denver Nuggets in the United Arab Emirates, which is secretly arming militias that are massacring Black Sudanese civilians. Continue reading →

OPINION

Vance tried to sane-wash Trump’s autocracy. Walz didn’t let him.

Tim Walz cut through JD Vance’s attempt to smooth talk his way out of acknowledging the truth: He is the running mate of a man who tried to fraudulently, forcefully, and unconstitutionally stay in office against the will of voters, and who stands criminally indicted for doing so. Continue reading →

Metro

Politics

Mass. child care providers say VP debate brought light to crisis, but fell flat on solutions

Child care providers in Massachusetts said they were happy their industry was elevated during the vice presidential debate, but admitted the answers didn’t impress them. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Nibi, a Chelmsford beaver and an internet celebrity, has lawyered up

The state has ordered a local wildlife rescue to release Nibi into the wild, and the questions around the beaver's future have drawn attention from the governor herself. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

‘The treasure has been found’: $26,000 gold statue located in the woods of Western Mass.

“It’s surreal that it was found so quickly,” the creator of the game, Jason Rohrer, said Wednesday. Continue reading →

Sports

on football

Patriots are a mess as they enter the second quarter of their season

Four games into his first year as a head coach, Jerod Mayo is trying to maintain a positive attitude … but things look bleak. Continue reading →

Celtics

Jet lag is the first opponent for the Celtics on Middle East trip

The relatively brief stay that includes 13-hour flights and eight-hour time-zone changes has created some unique challenges for these elite athletes whose days are generally well-scripted by high-performance coaches. Continue reading →

ON BASEBALL

Here’s how the Red Sox became so distant from October baseball, and how they can turn the slide around

There has been a cost to team-building caution, in the standings and in credibility. Sam Kennedy acknowledged that, and said the Sox are into a new phase of roster construction. Continue reading →

Business

Real Estate

A new home for transportation tech startups — this time, with a little room to drive around

A prominent landlord has teamed up with Mass Mobility Hub to foster the sector’s growth at an office park in Waltham. Continue reading →

Trendlines

No, illegal immigration isn’t the reason housing costs so much now

In Wednesday’s debate JD Vance exaggerated both the number of immigrants living illegally in the United States and their impact on rents and house prices. Continue reading →

Energy

National Grid electric bills are going up 3 percent this fall

The typical household will pay an extra $6 to $7 a month, under a new rate plan approved by state regulators this week. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Ella Leffland, novelist drawn to portraying outsiders, dies at 92

Her novels probed the layered history of her home state of California as well as the mental topography of such outsiders and villains as Nazi leader Hermann Goering. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Neil King Jr., who wrote of a long walk of ‘Renewal,’ dies at 65

His travelogue book lyrically evoked the people, history, and back roads of the mid-Atlantic. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Music

Graham Nash brings stories, songs — and Judy Collins — to Boston

"I’ve written a lot of songs, and people are interested in where my head was at when I was writing them," says Nash, 82. Continue reading →

Theater News

American Repertory Theater and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre announce performances

ART adds rock musical to 2024-25 season; BPT to produce student plays and theater marathon. Continue reading →

STAGES

Four characters in search of the present in ‘Now. Here. This.’

Plus politically themed musicals, and a house full of 1940s artists. Continue reading →