Coronavirus

What’s behind Trump’s hospitalization?

President Trump may be at higher risk of complications from COVID-19 given his age and weight, though doctors caution that the effects of the virus can be variable. Continue reading →

Politics

Trump’s positive COVID test shatters his illusion of pandemic recovery

Further jolting a political landscape that was already in overdrive, the diagnosis raised urgent questions about how the 74-year-old commander in chief would fare against the disease. Continue reading →

Coronavirus

Trump’s diagnosis is an indictment of his COVID-19 response, experts say. Is it also a teachable moment?

The president’s case “is exemplary of our failure at the federal level,” said one Harvard expert. Continue reading →

World

As the coronavirus has spread, world leaders have not been spared.

With his positive coronavirus test, President Trump joins the ranks of others like Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil who have been infected. Also having tested positive are the presidents of Bolivia, Guatemala, and Honduras and the prime ministers of Armenia and Russia. Continue reading →

World

Trump tests positive for COVID-19, and the world shudders

Trump is not the first world leader to be infected. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil both tested positive. Johnson ended up in an intensive care unit where, he said later, “things could have gone either way.” Continue reading →

World

EU sanctions Belarus over election, gets in-kind response

The European Union imposed sanctions Friday on 40 officials suspected of election misconduct and a brutal security crackdown on protesters in Belarus, which quickly retaliated by announcing its own sanctions against the EU and recalling its ambassadors from Poland and Lithuania. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Agonizing turns in the final stage of life

Readers offer a range of reaction and policy proposals following the Globe Spotlight Team's "Last Words" series. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

What we can learn from the president’s infection

There’s a lesson in the fact that Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. It’s that denying scientific evidence of harm does not offer immunity to it, whether it’s the pandemic or the warming planet. Continue reading →

OPINION

Trump, COVID-19, and America’s sickness

Trump’s positive COVID-19 test may be a political October surprise. But you don’t have to be an epidemiologist to know that medically speaking, it’s not all that shocking. Continue reading →

Politics

Two Republican senators test positive for COVID-19, adding to uncertainty surrounding Supreme Court pick

Their positive diagnoses raised concerns that the virus had spread at a Saturday Rose Garden ceremony, at which President Trump announced he was nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Continue reading →

Globe Local

Women are leaving the workforce in droves

Four times more women than men dropped out of the work force in September, according to economic data released Friday, affirming fears that women’s careers are collapsing under the pressures of caring for and educating children through a pandemic. Continue reading →

K-12

In Mass. schools, 63 students and 34 staff members have tested positive for coronavirus, state reports

As coronavirus cases climb, 63 students and 34 staff members who have been inside public school buildings across Massachusetts have tested positive for COVID-19, state education officials said Friday. Continue reading →

NBA FINALS

Lakers take charge of Game 2 against the Heat

The Lakers shot 51 percent, making 16 consecutive shots from 2-point range in a stretch that started late in the first quarter and ended late in the third. Continue reading →

Red Sox

The Red Sox will have a high draft pick in 2021. Here are some of the top prospects they might consider

If he falls to the Red Sox, shortstop Jordan Lawlar, out of Dallas Jesuit High School, could be a good addition. Scouts call him a "balanced" player. Continue reading →

Patriots

Patriots' Shilique Calhoun called half man, half mystery — and noticeably improved

All joking aside, Calhoun has played a large role on the defensive line for the Patriots. Continue reading →

Business

Wall Street takes Trump’s COVID news in stride as investors assess impact on election, economy

Investors are hoping that the unease created by President Trump’s illness and Friday’s weak jobs report will spur Congress to pass another financial rescue package. Continue reading →

Business

Warby Parker funds scholarships for Black students at Back Bay optometry college

The New York eyeglass retailer has pledged $440,000 to the New England College of Optometry to give two Black students free tuition for four years. Continue reading →

Business

US unemployment drops to 7.9 percent but hiring slows pre-election

Unemployment fell from 8.4 percent in August, but that mainly reflected a decline in the number of people seeking work, rather than a surge in hiring. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Renée C. Fox, founding figure of medical sociology, dies at 92

Renée C. Fox, a leading scholar of medical sociology, a field she was instrumental in creating in an era when women had a difficult time being heard in academia, died on Sept. 23 at a hospice center in Philadelphia. She was 92. Continue reading →

Obituaries

With 77 years at NIH, Herbert Tabor was ‘last living voice’ of center’s early years

Herbert Tabor, a leading scientific investigator at the National Institutes of Health whose 77 years of service made him the longest-serving employee at the medical research center and among the longest-serving in the federal workforce, died Aug. 20 at his home on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. He was 101. Continue reading →

Obituaries

S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Indian singer with huge catalog, dies at 74

(Those We’ve Lost) Continue reading →

Arts

‘I don’t want to be abandoned’: Live events workers march for extended unemployment assistance

More than 100 Boston-area theater employees marched Friday afternoon from the Citizens Bank Opera House to the Boch Wang Center to rally for extended unemployment benefits. Continue reading →

LOVE LETTERS

He reaches out when he’s bored and lonely

Check out a letter from someone who pines for a man who only reaches out when it suits him. Should the letter writer respond to his texts? Continue reading →

TV CRITIC'S CORNER

Stevie Nicks’s dreams unwind into ‘Rhiannon’ miniseries

The singer-songwriter has spent her lockdown working on the expanding project, which was initially going to be a movie. Continue reading →