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Elections

Maine Governor Mills to launch campaign to challenge Susan Collins

A center-left Democrat, Janet Mills has occasionally clashed with progressives in the state legislature, but this year, she made national headlines for her high-profile clashes with President Trump. Continue reading →

Climate

‘One of the worst in years’: Toxic bacteria outbreak poses new challenge prior to the Head of the Charles

As rowers prepare for the iconic Head of the Charles regatta, it's not just other boats they're dodging on the water — it's toxic blooms of cyanobacteria, too. Continue reading →

Higher Education

As Trump demands ‘compact’ with top universities, MIT says no deal

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands. Continue reading →

Nation

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 18 missing and feared dead, sheriff says

Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said it was one of the most devastating scenes he’s ever seen: “There’s nothing to describe. It's gone." Continue reading →

Politics

White House signals federal layoffs have begun during shutdown

The administration did not immediately specify how many workers and programs would be targeted, or when the affected employees would lose their jobs. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

For Trump’s aides and officials, the battle online is always on

During the first nine months of Donald Trump’s extremely online administration, the president’s always-be-posting style has been adopted and echoed by a coterie of top aides who have embraced online tactics. Continue reading →

Nation

National Guard stands down in Illinois while troops patrol in Memphis with local police

Memphis Mayor Paul Young, a Democrat, said he never requested that the Guard come to his city. Continue reading →

Politics

EPA explored if abortion pills could be detected in wastewater

The highly unusual request appears to have originated from a letter sent from 25 Republican members of Congress to the EPA asking the agency to investigate how abortion drugs might be contaminating the water supply. Continue reading →

The World

World

Aid groups prepare to provide quick relief to Gaza under cease-fire

TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israel will allow the United Nations to deliver larger amounts of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip starting Sunday, according to a senior U.N. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the plans. Continue reading →

World

Gaza cease-fire begins, Israel says, as thousands return to the north

TEL AVIV, Israel -- Thousands of people began the long walk from the south to the north of the Gaza Strip on Friday after the Israeli military announced a ceasefire that mediators hoped would lead to the end of the two-year war. Continue reading →

World

Peru wakes up to 7th president in less than a decade

Boluarte, Peru’s first female president, took office in December 2022 after Parliament used the same mechanism to impeach her predecessor. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OpEds

Love is a puzzle

A remembrance of my exes, inspired by The New York Times crossword. Continue reading →

OpEds

The pawns in Washington’s government shutdown game

Washington lawmakers aren’t likely to come close to feeling the financial strain that their constituents do. Continue reading →

Letters

Exploring the promise of our wild lands

Readers share their takes on The Wild Issue, a special edition of Globe Ideas that explored our relationship with nature. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts Governor's Race

Healey blasts plans to withhold back pay from federal workers during government shutdown

Healey praised the nearly 2,000 TSA agents and air traffic controllers at Logan for working through the shutdown without pay. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

‘No doctors for animals.’ Sheffield brothers aboard flotilla allege mistreatment, lack of due process in Israeli custody.

In a statement Friday, the top Israeli official in New England sharply disputed the mistreatment claims of the brothers, calling them "entirely baseless." Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

In another shakeup to Haverhill police, mayor appoints new acting chief and places deputy chief on leave

The Haverhill Police Department has faced scrutiny following the death of a man restrained by several officers in July outside. Continue reading →

Sports

Bruins

Marco Sturm brought energy, enthusiasm, and efficiency to his first training camp as coach of the Bruins

Sturm appreciated the way everyone bought into his philosophy and plans. Continue reading →

Bruins

Hampus Lindholm exited early in Bruins’ OT win. What happens if he can’t go?

Lindholm will spend a portion of Friday undergoing tests for what Marco Sturm said was a lower-body injury not related to the kneecap he fractured last season. Continue reading →

Celtics

Celtics squander 27-point lead in exhibition loss against Raptors

Although the starters breezed, Celtics bench failed to hold lead, committing 29 turnovers in a 107-105 loss. Continue reading →

Business

Retail

Sporting retailer Orvis to shutter half its locations nationwide, citing tariff pressures

It's unclear which of the company's retail locations, including the one in Wellesley, will be affected. Continue reading →

Real Estate

After two decades, former Barnes & Noble building finally gets a new tenant: Uniqlo

The new owners of the five-story building secured the lease with Uniqlo over the summer, just months after buying it. Continue reading →

Media

Boston Globe Media wins two prizes for business journalism at prestigious Loeb Awards

The Globe won a Loeb award for the local category for its extensive Spotlight Team investigation into Steward Health Care, while STAT triumphed in the explanatory category. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Ruth Weiss, who chronicled apartheid after fleeing the Nazis, dies at 101

Ruth Weiss, a South African journalist forged by the Nazi persecution she experienced as a child in Germany, who covered the malignant flowering of apartheid in the early 1960s and later wrote about the brutal white regime in Rhodesia before being expelled from the country, died Sept. 5 at a hospital in Aalborg, Denmark. She was 101. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Saul Zabar, smoked fish czar of Upper West Side, dies at 97

The food emporium, called "Zabar's" was founded by Louisa and Lillian Zabar in 1934. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Jim McNeely, innovative composer for jazz big bands, dies at 76

Jim McNeely, a Grammy Award-winning musical artist who played piano with prominent ensembles like the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the Stan Getz Quartet and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, but who was best known for his invigorating big-band compositions, died on Sept. 26 at his home in New York City. He was 76. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Movies

Stand up comics and sibling rivalries fuel this year’s NYFF

Will Arnett tells jokes and Alexander Skarsgård dons leather as the festival comes to a close. Continue reading →

Music

BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus run a gantlet with Beethoven’s ‘Missa solemnis’

The chorus deserves extra flowers for an explosive peformance. Continue reading →

Arts

Native American art and culture in the spotlight as Boston museums open their doors for Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Fenway-area museums have free admission and Indigenous programming and activities on Monday. Continue reading →