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Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Today's Headlines

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Dan Shaughnessy

From Bob Cousy to Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, Celtics history is second to none

As is so often the case with this fabled franchise, Tuesday's banner raising also was a night to honor the past. And the world champion Boston Celtics have more great past than any pro basketball team in the land. Continue reading →

Data

Boston averages 1,900 serious or fatal crashes per year. Here are the most dangerous intersections.

Many of the most dangerous intersections are in underserved communities and weren't built with pedestrian safety in mind. Continue reading →

Elections

‘Way too much at stake’: A look at the supporters going to extreme lengths to support their favored presidential candidate

With the race on a knife’s edge, volunteers of all political stripes are trekking to swing states to canvass for their candidates. Continue reading →

Business

Nearly 40,000 patients at Children’s, UMass, and Tenet hospitals may be forced to find new doctors or insurance plans

Patients are scrambling after negotiations broke down over reimbursement rates between hospitals and Point32Health, the state’s second-largest health insurer. Continue reading →

Elections

What’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s next act? Transforming MAGA, and fund-raising.

The “Make America Healthy Again” concept has Republicans, long champions of industry and deregulation, calling out the idea of corporations run amok. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

What is justice years after a crime has been committed?

WATCH: A decades-old secret put a mother behind bars and brought a family closer. Globe Magazine writer Patricia Wen unpacks Lee Ann Daigle’s complex story. Watch →

Proposed minimum wage law faces pushback

WATCH: Ballot Question 5 would raise the minimum wage for tipped workers, but not all employees support it. Segun Oduolowu speaks to a bartender and a server. Watch →

Zillow climate scores and the housing market

WATCH: The real estate giant makes weather threats clear. Climate reporter Sabrina Shankman breaks down the reaction from home buyers, sellers, and agents. Watch →

The Nation

Nation

US charges Iranian Revolutionary Guard official in assassination plot

The plot to kill the activist, Masih Alinejad, who has criticized Iran’s repression of women, was disrupted by the US government. Continue reading →

Nation

Yellen says isolationism ‘made America and the world worse off’ in speech to global finance leaders

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen opened the IMF and World Bank annual meetings by highlighting US economic growth since the nation was in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading →

Nation

With election looming, John Kelly speaks out on Trump

Few top officials spent more time behind closed doors in the White House with former president Donald Trump than John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who was his longest-serving chief of staff. Continue reading →

The World

World

Russia’s warming Arctic is a climate threat. War has shut scientists out of it.

The stalled collaboration is setting back efforts to monitor the shrinking of the Arctic, which is warming four times faster than the global average and accelerating the planet’s rise in temperature. That threatens to leave governments and policymakers without a clear picture of how fast the Earth is heating up. Continue reading →

World

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s posthumous memoir is a testament to resilience

In his memoir “Patriot,” the Russian opposition leader tracks the boredom, isolation, exhaustion, suffering, and absurdity of prison life. Continue reading →

World

Hamas’s guerrilla tactics in north Gaza make it hard to defeat

Hamas’s remaining fighters are hiding in ruined buildings and the group’s vast underground tunnel network, much of which remains intact despite Israel’s efforts to destroy it, according to military analysts and Israeli soldiers. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Deal or no deal on taxes? Wu should take this win.

Quibbling over whether residential taxes go up 9 percent or 8.5 percent is pointless. Continue reading →

OPINION

The media’s toxic affair with Trump

Call it normalizing or "sanewashing," but covering the former president as if he’s an ordinary nominee is journalistic malpractice. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Fox’s Baier asked important questions, which Harris dodged

I found Baier to be fair, objective, and a gentleman. He asked important questions, which the Democratic presidential nominee avoided answering by using her stock talking points. Continue reading →

Metro

Politics

‘We’ll have some discussions’: Top Mass. lawmakers indicate they may change MCAS, audit ballot questions if they pass

While ballot questions give residents a direct say in what becomes law in Massachusetts, any voter-approved measures can be — and regularly have been — changed by state lawmakers. Continue reading →

Metro

Question 1 won’t fix what ails the Legislature. But what will?

It’s not hard to see why DiZoglio’s efforts have struck a nerve with voters. Continue reading →

Politics

In Senate race between Elizabeth Warren and GOP challenger John Deaton, there’s one issue at the center: Immigration

Their back-and-forths highlighted how immigration has cemented itself as a key driver of voter concerns in recent months, even in a reliably blue state like Massachusetts. Continue reading →

Sports

PREDATORS 4, BRUINS 0

Nothing doing in Nashville: Bruins come up empty in shutout loss to previously winless Predators

The Bruins looked slow and sloppy for large stretches on the final night of a weeklong, three-game road trip. Continue reading →

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

‘We just picked up where we left off’: Celtics have no trouble turning the page on their banner night

The Celtics showed in a 132-109 season opening win they are prepared to defend their title and, for now, the Knicks aren’t even in their stratosphere. Continue reading →

Celtics

The Celtics are ready to move forward, but first they took a chance to look back

The Celtics have history that few, if any, professional sports franchises can match, so they put it on display. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Nearly 40,000 patients at Children’s, UMass, and Tenet hospitals may be forced to find new doctors or insurance plans

Patients are scrambling after negotiations broke down over reimbursement rates between hospitals and Point32Health, the state’s second-largest health insurer. Continue reading →

Business

IRS raises standard deduction, adjusts tax brackets for 2025

The IRS set the 2025 standard deduction for a single filer at $15,000 and for a married couple at $30,000 for the first time. Continue reading →

Biotech

Seaport Therapeutics raises another $225 million to embrace ‘golden age of neuroscience’

The Boston-based startup is developing what executives hope will be more effective treatments for depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Sister Sally Butler, nun who blew the whistle on sex abuse, dies at 93

“Sally had a kind of holy outrage. She was a person of unusual conscience,” said a director of BishopAccountability.org, a digital archive of Catholic abuse. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Robert Bernstein, father who championed gay rights, dies at 98

Mr. Bernstein became an ambassador to parents of gay children, inviting them to celebrate their children for who they were and to join the movement for their equal rights in society. Continue reading →

Obituaries

John Kinsel Sr., Navajo code talker during World War II, dies at 107

Mr. Kinsel, who served from October 1942 to January 1946, was part of the second group of Marines trained as code talkers. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Music

‘You have a lot more tools at your disposal than you think,’ says cellist and Project STEP visitor Andres Sanchez

The New England Conservatory alum led a masterclass for young music students Saturday. Continue reading →

Movies

‘Nightbitch,’ ‘Nickel Boys,’ and more on tap for this year’s IFFBoston’s Fall Focus Festival

The fest kicks off at 7 p.m. on Halloween with "Nightbitch," Marielle Heller’s adaptation of the 2021 bestseller by Rachel Yoder. Continue reading →

Books

A ‘Hot Mess’ success from Plainville author Jeff Kinney

On Sunday, Kinney launched "The Hot Mess Show," a family-friendly and interactive tour supporting his new book "Hot Mess." Continue reading →