Nation

How climate change is rapidly fueling super hurricanes

Sixteen of the 20 hurricanes over the past two seasons in the Atlantic basin have undergone rapid intensification. Continue reading →

Nation

House passes bill to avert government shutdown, aid Ukraine

The bill passed the House by a vote of 230-201. The measure next goes to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law. Continue reading →

Nation

US outlines plan for long-term baby formula imports

US regulators on Friday unveiled their plan to allow foreign baby formula manufacturers to stay on the market long term, an effort to diversify the nation’s tightly concentrated industry and prevent future shortages. Continue reading →

World

At least 19 killed, mostly girls, in attack on Afghan education center

At least 19 students were killed and 27 injured, according to Taliban authorities, in the Friday morning blast in Kabul’s Dasht-i-Barchi neighborhood, mostly teenage girls and women in their early 20s. Interviews with community leaders, hospital workers, and eyewitnesses suggest the toll is likely higher. Continue reading →

World

Iran protests continue despite heavy crackdowns

The protests that have shaken Iran for nearly two weeks have continued across the country, including in the capital, Tehran, even as the government expands its crackdown to detain not just protesters on the streets but also public figures who have expressed solidarity with them. Continue reading →

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OPINION

The other country building a border wall

Haiti’s severe political crisis and raging gang violence are forcing an exodus of Haitians. And what’s the response from the Dominican Republic, Haiti’s only land neighbor? Build a wall. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

The latest Mission Hill report is an early test for Boston’s new schools superintendent

The BPS chief said she wants to rebuild trust in Boston’s schools. That starts with accountability. Continue reading →

LETTERS

What we talk about (now) when we talk about kids and gender

While there is very little legitimate discussion on understanding the lives of trans Americans, the struggles they face, and how their families and communities can support and love them, there is an unrelenting campaign to manufacture political theater. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Why prize-winning birds may be absent from New England fairs this year

Topsfield is the latest fair across the country to scale back or cancel events involving birds this year as researchers sound the alarm about the highly pathogenic avian influenza spreading via migratory birds across the United States and Canada. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

‘Mayor Casey’s Crew’ laces up for Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk

Three-year-old Casey O'Donohoe of Melrose, who is being treated for leukemia at the Jimmy Fund Clinic, has been designated as a "Walk Hero," for Sunday's Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk. Continue reading →

Metro

A cancer survivor walks to keep her friend’s memory alive

"Together we’ll be the greatest team there’s ever been." Continue reading →

On Basketball | Gary Washburn

Celtics players and coaches listen as group of former inmates share their stories

The Celtics’ Play for Justice served as a wake-up call for some of these professional athletes that some young people in the community which they represent are suffering. Continue reading →

Basketball

US women’s basketball team reaches fourth straight World Cup gold-medal game

Breanna Stewart scored 17 points to lead the Americans in a rout of Canada on Friday. Continue reading →

Patriots

Patriots quarterback Mac Jones is ruled out for Sunday’s game vs. Packers

Jones was at practice Friday but was officially listed as "did not participate." Brian Hoyer will be under center in Green Bay. Continue reading →

Economy

More shippers on board after $850m expansion of Boston freight terminal

Starting later this fall, the Conley Container Terminal will be served by six routes that connect with 25 ports around the globe. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Boston’s net-zero emissions zoning code raises concerns among developers

The new initiative, which accelerates the city’s push to reduce buildings’ reliance on fossil fuels by several years, has sent jitters through the real estate development industry. Continue reading →

Business

Price of Cambridge biotech’s new ALS drug criticized by watchdog group

It says the $158,000 annual cost per patient isn’t justified, based on the medicine’s effectiveness. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Hilaree Nelson, 49, top ski mountaineer, is dead in Nepal avalanche

The pioneering ski mountaineer was known for making artful turns in improbable places, with dozens of first descents from atop major and lesser-known peaks. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Leonard Cole, who detailed secret Army germ tests, dies at 89

Leonard Cole, a dentist who became an expert on biological weapons and chronicled in troubling detail a secret U.S. Army program that turned millions of Americans into unwitting germ-warfare guinea pigs in the 1950s and ’60s, died Sept. 18 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He was 89. Continue reading →

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MUSIC REVIEW

Wang joins BSO to tackle (and record) Shostakovich piano concertos

Under the direction of Andris Nelsons, the orchestra also performed music by Julia Adolphe and Haydn. Continue reading →

Arts

The RoboBoston Festival ends with MassRobotics’ fifth annual Robot Block Party

This year’s event is free and open to the public, and will take place in Boston’s Seaport Common on Oct. 1 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Continue reading →

Music

Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard is feeling anxious for all of us

The singer and songwriter reflects on the Seattle band's latest album, "Asphalt Meadows," ahead of Death Cab's show Saturday at Leader Bank Pavilion. Continue reading →