Do the Celtics have a target on their backs?

WATCH: Critics say the team's lack of energy broke their early win streak, but Boston.com’s Khari A. Thompson insists it won’t be an issue moving forward. Continue reading →

Drake Maye continues to improve for Patriots

WATCH: The rookie QB has impressed in limited action this season. Can the Patriots put together a win streak? Reporter Nicole Yang weighs their chances. Continue reading →

Joe Mazzulla wants to bring fighting back to the NBA

WATCH: The Celtics coach said a lack of physicality is “robbing the league.” Boston.com sports writer Khari A. Thompson fights back on that idea. Continue reading →

Nation

Prosecutor says veteran’s subway chokehold ‘went too far.’ Defense says his ‘courage’ helped others

Prosecutors and defense lawyers agree on this about Marine veteran Daniel Penny’s encounter last year with a distressed, angry man making ominous remarks on a New York subway: Penny didn’t mean to kill him. Continue reading →

Nation

Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they’re in the US legally

Critics fear the change could scare people away from hospitals in Texas, even though patients are not required to answer the questions to receive medical care. Continue reading →

Political Notebook

Harris on Trump in Wisconsin: ‘The man is angry’

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday cast former President Donald Trump as an angry man who has exhausted Americans with his focus on division in a speech at an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers labor union hall in Janesville, Wisconsin. Continue reading →

World

North Korea boasts of ‘the world’s strongest’ missile, but experts say it’s too big to use in war

The ICBM launched Thursday flew higher and for a longer duration than any other weapon North Korea has tested. But foreign experts say the test failed to show North Korea has mastered some of the last remaining technological hurdles to possess functioning ICBMs that can strike the mainland US. Continue reading →

World

Israel pummels Gaza and Lebanon, killing dozens in latest waves of deadly airstrikes

The Israeli military launched waves of deadly airstrikes across Lebanon and Gaza, killing at least 24 people in Lebanon’s northeast on Friday, the country’s state-run National News Agency reported. Continue reading →

World

Spiritual, not spooky. After Halloween, Christians observe All Saints’ Day

It’s the time of year — tradition says — when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted. Continue reading →

OPINION

Someone needs to shake up Beacon Hill

The extreme dysfunction of the Legislature, though, is giving GOP candidates an opening to use the same playbook that Democrats have often used against them in national races. Continue reading →

Opinion

Voters can show their commitment to ending gender-based violence

The responses to our survey indicate that survivors will take the issue of gender violence with them to the polls. Eighty-four percent reported that voting was now their first priority. Continue reading →

Opinion

Voters should choose Dylan Fernandes for state Senate

He promises to influence both the most sweeping public policy and the details that matter most to the district. your district. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

In a first, Medford seeks a Proposition 2½ override to fund schools, roads, and a new fire station

If approved on Nov. 5, the override would add $446 per year to the annual tax bill of a single-family home with the average assessed value, $769,000, according to city estimates. Continue reading →

ADRIAN WALKER

Election Day is almost here — but this campaign won’t leave us for a while

The most nerve-wracking election of our lifetime is finally closing in on the finish line, and not a moment too soon. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

Karen Read says she owes $5 million to her defense lawyers. Her supporters continue to donate to her cause.

Read told Vanity Fair that she owes her high-powered defense team more than $5 million ahead of her retrial for allegedly murdering her boyfriend in January 2022. Continue reading →

CELTICS NOTEBOOK

Former Celtics assistant Charles Lee grateful for his title-winning year in Boston

Lee, who was on Joe Mazzulla's staff for the run to last season's NBA title, is now head coach in Charlotte. Continue reading →

BRUINS

How many NHL teams that were out of the playoffs on Nov. 1 eventually made it in? The data don’t bode well for the Bruins.

In the last 11 years, 27.8 percent of teams that did not hold a playoff spot on Nov. 1 righted the ship and made the playoffs, not including the COVID seasons. Continue reading →

CELTICS 124, HORNETS 109

Temps rise as Celtics pull away late to dispatch pesky Hornets

An 11-2 run in the fourth quarter finally put away Charlotte, and then the bodies started flying and two Hornets were ejected. Continue reading →

Retail

The Roche family is selling Roche Bros.

The supermarket chain’s Connecticut-based food distributor is taking a majority ownership stake. Continue reading →

Business

Storms and strikes take a toll on preelection jobs report

Job creation stalled in October, a month battered by strikes and hurricanes, presenting an unclear picture of where the labor market was headed even as overall economic growth remained impressive. Continue reading →

trendlines

Maybe post-pandemic economic policies weren’t so bad after all

Solid growth, including strong retail trends, should vindicate the federal government’s aggressive stimulus measures — even accounting for the burst of inflation in 2022. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol’s cinematic collaborator, dies at 86

His loose cinema-verite films made with Andy Warhol in the late 1960s and early ’70s captured New York’s demimonde of drug addicts, drag queens, and hipsters, and turned an unlikely stable of amateur actors into underground stars. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Yehuda Bauer, preeminent historian of the Holocaust, dies at 98

He did not regard it as his role simply to “memorialize” the dead, he wrote. Instead, “I ask questions about what happened and why.” Continue reading →

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Books

Jodi Picoult’s novel ‘Nineteen Minutes’ was the most banned book in the 2023-24 school year

"They’re coming for what you like to read next," says the best-selling author. Continue reading →

Documentaries

GlobeDocs viewers honor two local filmmakers with Audience Awards

Lisa Olivieri's "Recovery City" and Alex Lopez's "Another Stab at Life" were favorites at this year's 10th anniversary film festival. Continue reading →

Books

Coolidge Corner Theatre among locales in new book from Accidentally Wes Anderson

Popular Instagram account inspires second book of "Adventures." Continue reading →