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All migrants transported last month to Vineyard to leave military base by weekend

All of the migrants will depart the base by the end of the weekend, the administration of Governor Charlie Baker said in a statement Tuesday. As of Tuesday afternoon, 14 migrants had left the base and 35 remained, it said.

KEVIN CULLEN
Perla, the spy who came in from the heat
From the get-go, the migrants were duped.

Mass. native among 3 awarded Nobel chemistry prize for attaching molecules
This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded in equal parts to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless for developing way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to design medicines. Bertozzi grew up in Lexington.

After years of increases, Massachusetts health insurance rates set to rise another 7.6 percent

The rate hike affects people who purchase plans on the state’s health insurance website.

Millionaires tax proceeds are supposed to bolster education and transportation. Lawmakers would decide if they actually do.

Should voters embrace Question 1, the decision about where the money ultimately goes — and who benefits — would rest with legislators.

Former Northeastern employee arrested in apparent bomb hoax on campus

Jason Duhaime will be brought back to Massachusetts to face federal criminal charges related to the alleged hoax, according to legal filings.

Over the course of the pandemic, the cost of groceries has seen some major increases. Here's how the prices of staples like bread, bananas, and Coca Cola compare from 2019 to now.

How do 2019 grocery receipts compare to food costs today? Here’s what we found.

Inflation has caused the price of staples like bread, yogurt, and bananas to surge. But by how much?

Defunct hotels offer new real estate for housing homeless people
It’s a creative alternative to the traditional congregate-shelter setting that many homeless people tend to avoid.

Herschel Walker, the retired football star and Republican Senate candidate, is accused of funding the abortion of a woman he impregnated

Georgia Senate bombshell dials up questions about the quality of GOP candidates

The episode underscored how, in a year when the political headwinds would seem to favor Republicans, their controversial nominees — many of whom won primaries with the support of former president Donald Trump — are hamstrung in winnable races.

Analysis: This midterm, Obamacare is largely being ignored

Clockwise from top left: Nashville-style fried chicken from Hot Chix in Cambridge, the Yunnan Kitchen crew, “Father’s Advice” cocktail at Baldwin Bar at Sichuan Garden, oysters and lobster at The Little Whale Oyster Bar, and culinary director Brendan Pelley of Xenia Greek Hospitality.

10 restaurant and bar openings we’re excited about this fall

I hope you’re hungry. There’s so much to look forward to on the local dining scene: Homey Greek cooking, fancy finger food, a modern Hong Kong cafe, and more.

Tom Brady kisses Gisele Bündchen in 2018.

Have Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen split up? Here’s a look at their relationship.

The picture-perfect power couple’s relationship is reportedly on the rocks, with multiple outlets reporting on Tuesday the two have hired divorce lawyers. Here's a look back at their relationship.

Jim Montgomery was named coach of the Bruins in July.

Those who know Bruins coach Jim Montgomery know that when he is part of a hockey team, he makes a difference

Whether it was a junior A team in Ottawa, or at Maine, Montgomery knew how to help the players around him succeed. “He said the right things,” a former coach said. “He brought out the best in people.” Now, he'll have to do it with the Bruins.

Jeremy Garcia, 22, of Providence takes a break from working on a mural at The Avenue Concept on Lockwood Street in Providence.

Local youth paint new mural on generational trauma, protests, and life in South Providence

“Art is a way to create a common ground and for the youth to blend together and create something that captures a single moment.”

Question 3 on the November ballot could double the number of locations where a company can sell beer or wine in Massachusetts.

Chesto Means Business

The packie versus food store fight returns, with a twist

Package store owners are pushing a ballot question that would increase the number of locations where beer and wine can be sold but are not facing an organized opponent.

On Sept. 30, two days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, businesses near the beach in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., lie in ruins as others were completely swept away.

No, Hurricane Ian will not ‘fuel the economy’

It surfaces after every disaster — the fallacy that economic ruin is a windfall in disguise.

An early morning phone call, a tragic decision by DOC

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

A warning from China’s surveillance state: It could happen here

Sacheen Littlefeather’s eternal challenge to Hollywood and America

The chip war is reshaping world politics

Health | Mary T. Bassett
Black Americans’ poor health outcomes is proof of wildly overdue unpaid tab for slavery
Successful reparations means eliminating racial health disparities. Until racism no longer drives negative effects on the health and length of a Black person’s life, equity remains theoretical.

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150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.

Spotlight investigation

Part 1
A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

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A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

Alarmed doctors at Manchester's Catholic Medical Center tried to get a troubled colleague barred from surgery. But hospital leaders resisted. Then came the "summer of death."

More recent stories

Federal money to replace Cape Cod bridges has yet to arrive, but lawmakers maintain confidence
The project failed to receive any funding in the first round of grants awarded in September by the US Department of Transportation.

Peter Abraham | On Baseball
With his future in Boston unclear, the Red Sox’ Nate Eovaldi wanted the ball, as he always has
Eovaldi's value and best use could be up for debate, but no one could ever question his willingness to take to the mound, regardless of circumstance.

Lab space and affordable housing set to move forward at long-stalled Roxbury site
Developers would combine a life-science project with housing at an 8-acre parcel on Tremont Street that has sat empty for decades.

By age 15, she’d hosted a Netflix series and launched #1000BlackGirl Books. Now she’s a Harvard freshman.
Since age 10, Marley Dias has been pushing “authors, educators, and administrators to reconsider the messages they’re sending to children.”

Father and son in Woburn arrested on federal charges in alleged human trafficking scheme
Federal charges allege that Brazilian nationals were smuggled into the US and worked at Woburn restaurants, where their wages were garnished to pay the smuggling debts, officials said.

Yankees’ Aaron Judge hits 62nd homer to top Roger Maris, set American League record
Judge led off the game against the Rangers with his record blast, which landed in the left-field stands and set off a sizable celebration at Globe Life Field.

Watch: Judge blasts his record-breaking homer

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“I just wish I could stay a little longer,” Mr. Thomas wrote last year after learning he would soon die of cancer.

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Marcella Hazan’s Italian cookbooks weren’t the first, just the best
All roads lead to the home kitchen, wrote the late fabled cooking teacher in her most influential volume, which has just been reissued in a 30th-anniversary edition.

Take a look inside this $15.9 million waterfront compound on Cape Cod
Marybeth and Stephen Bisson, owners of Wicked Craft in Boston, are selling the property on Red Brook Harbor that includes both a private beach and a tennis court.

‘Worst teacher I ever had’: Former Davisville Middle School student speaks out against former teacher
The woman is the latest former student from North Kingstown, R.I., to accuse school administrators of failing to deal with teachers who were behaving inappropriately with students.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Marley Dias is the host of “BookMarks” on Netflix and a freshman at Harvard.

By age 15, she’d hosted a Netflix series and launched #1000BlackGirl Books. Now she’s a Harvard freshman.

Lucy Lawless in Acorn's "My Life Is Murder."

Why British streamers aren’t getting my attention

Frontman Brandon Flowers and the Killers at TD Garden.

The Killers go big at TD Garden

Clint Baclawski, "Departure," 2022. Scrolling lightbox kits, electronic ballasts, Latex prints, 2-foot LED bulbs, speaker wires, power cords, Stinger cable power supply, matte black wall.

Clint Baclawski’s grand illusions

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A coach bus with migrants aboard departed the Steamship Authority ferry from Martha’s Vineyard as onlookers greet them with a wave, in Woods Hole on Sept. 16. Migrants shipped to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida’s Republican governor said on Friday that they had been misled about where they were being taken, prompting immigration lawyers to promise legal action as the refugees from Venezuela were relocated temporarily to a federal military base.

Time to get ‘Perla’ before a grand jury

Over the weekend, Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, and released a post in which he called Elaine Chao, his former Labor secretary and wife to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, “China Loving Wife, Coco Chow.”

There is no home for Asian Americans in the Republican Party anymore

Carlos Munoz reached out to hug Larkin Stallings of Vineyard Haven as the Venezuelan migrants prepare to leave Martha's Vineyard, Sept. 16.

Our Martha’s Vineyard moments

A groups of migrants walk from the Migrant Resource Center to a nearby shopping center in search of food in San Antonio, Texas, on Sept. 19.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A private sponsorship program for displaced Venezuelans

Massachusetts' bid for federal funding to replace the Sagamore Bridge was not included in $1.5 billion in federal grant money awarded under the “Infrastructure for Rebuilding America” or “INFRA” program.

With Cape Cod bridges, no one brought home the bacon for Massachusetts

A Democratic nominee for Congress, Joseph Alfonso, knocks on doors around downtown Plainwell, Mich.

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

‘What the hell are we doing?’: Democrats are letting beatable election-denying Republicans cruise to reelection

Metro

COLUMN | DAN MCGOWAN

Generational change is coming to Rhode Island - across every sector

Over the next year, key leaders in the nonprofit, government, and business world are set to leave their jobs. Can Rhode Island handle the change?

RICAS results won’t be released until after the election

The Ed Department says test results will be delayed because it's planning a comprehensive rollout that will give students easier access to their scores.

COMMENTARY | RYAN LUKOWICZ

Rhode Island, it’s time for statewide paratransit service

This is an equity issue, says Ryan Lukowicz, a North Kingstown High School student and RIPTA paratransit rider. Without it, Rhode Islanders with disabilities lose out on great jobs, and can’t access some of the state’s best restaurants and beaches, or needed medical support.

Defunct hotels offer new real estate for housing homeless people

It’s a creative alternative to the traditional congregate-shelter setting that many homeless people tend to avoid.

Sports

Jim Montgomery was named coach of the Bruins in July.

Those who know Bruins coach Jim Montgomery know that when he is part of a hockey team, he makes a difference

Whether it was a junior A team in Ottawa, or at Maine, Montgomery knew how to help the players around him succeed. “He said the right things,” a former coach said. “He brought out the best in people.” Now, he'll have to do it with the Bruins.

Judge surpassed Maris with his Tuesday night homer.

Yankees’ Aaron Judge hits 62nd homer to top Roger Maris, set American League record

Judge led off the game against the Rangers with his record blast, which landed in the left-field stands and set off a sizable celebration at Globe Life Field.

Junior Callie Burchill (13) and fellow captain Bridget Lee have helped propel Braintree to an 8-2 start with new coach CeCi Hodgkins.

FIELD HOCKEY NOTEBOOK

Few coaches connect with their players like CeCi Hodgkins, who has Braintree field hockey off to a flying start

“From the minute I had my first conversation with her, I knew we were in good hands,” said Braintree assistant CC Gonsalves.

Have Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen split up? Here’s a look at their relationship.

Red Sox 6, Rays 0 (5 innings)

In a rain-shortened Red Sox win, Xander Bogaerts provided one more great moment for the Fenway faithful

Watch: Aaron Judge blasts his record-breaking homer

Business

How do 2019 grocery receipts compare to food costs today? Here’s what we found.

Inflation has caused the price of staples like bread, yogurt, and bananas to surge. But by how much?

Elon Musk says he wants Twitter again and will pay $44 billion price

Elon Musk wants Twitter again — and Twitter is game. The billionaire Tesla CEO has proposed to buy the company at the originally agreed-on price of $44 billion, bringing the tumultuous, monthslong saga another step closer to a conclusion.

US vows to supply green-fuel-laggard Japan with bioethanol

Retreating Russians leave their comrades’ bodies behind

From left: Grade 9 students Dehlen Rabb, Marlon Benjamin, and Jose Jimenez.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

‘The Mary Lyon way’: A Boston inclusion school’s successful approach to re-engagement

Schools should teach the forgotten history of the Pledge of Allegiance

Why it’s time to stop leaving voice mail messages

The writer’s baby sitter, Miss Anderson, in 1957.

My baby sitter sent me into the woods to look for butterflies

metro

A couple reflected in a rain puddle walked out to Head Island near Pleasure Bay last month.

Rain expected to continue into Wednesday, falling most heavily in Southeast Mass.

Local youth paint new mural on generational trauma, protests, and life in South Providence

Former Northeastern employee arrested in apparent bomb hoax on campus

sports

Nate Eovaldi may have made his final start for the Red Sox at Fenway Park on Tuesday.

With his future in Boston unclear, the Red Sox’ Nate Eovaldi wanted the ball, as he always has

Teen on trip from hurricane-hit Florida catches home run, meets Yankees

With hip surgery out of the way, Red Sox’ Garrett Whitlock looks ahead to 2023 — likely as a starter

business

A view of the new 51-story mixed-use tower under construction at South Station.

Putting on the Ritz above South Station

Stocks rally for a second day, regaining some lost ground

Deal back on? Elon Musk gets closer to buying Twitter

politics

Herschel Walker, the retired football star and Republican Senate candidate, is accused of funding the abortion of a woman he impregnated

Georgia Senate bombshell dials up questions about the quality of GOP candidates

Federal money to replace Cape Cod bridges has yet to arrive, but lawmakers maintain confidence

Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in review of Mar-a-Lago records

Nation

Residents who rode out the storm arrive at a dock to evacuate by boat in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian on Florida's Pine Island, in Lee County, on Oct. 2.

Hurricane Ian closes some Florida schools indefinitely

ACLU sues over Nevada county’s hand-counting ballot plan

Rival calls incendiary ad by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul ‘dangerous’

World

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin signs annexation of Ukrainian regions as losses mount

Mass. native among 3 awarded Nobel chemistry prize for attaching molecules

Taiwan vows to respond to China’s military flight incursions

opinion

A coach bus with migrants aboard departed the Steamship Authority ferry from Martha’s Vineyard as onlookers greet them with a wave, in Woods Hole on Sept. 16. Migrants shipped to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida’s Republican governor said on Friday that they had been misled about where they were being taken, prompting immigration lawyers to promise legal action as the refugees from Venezuela were relocated temporarily to a federal military base.

Time to get ‘Perla’ before a grand jury

‘What the hell are we doing?’: Democrats are letting beatable election-denying Republicans cruise to reelection

Our Martha’s Vineyard moments

lifestyle

Tom Brady kisses Gisele Bündchen in 2018.

Have Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen split up? Here’s a look at their relationship.

Welcome to Polyamory City

HONK! returns with a multi-day music extravaganza

food & dining

Clockwise from top left: Nashville-style fried chicken from Hot Chix in Cambridge, the Yunnan Kitchen crew, “Father’s Advice” cocktail at Baldwin Bar at Sichuan Garden, oysters and lobster at The Little Whale Oyster Bar, and culinary director Brendan Pelley of Xenia Greek Hospitality.

10 restaurant and bar openings we’re excited about this fall

Goodnow Farms Chocolate is now offering tours

A grinder for those who agree there’s no such thing as too much garlic

travel

An American cockroach.

Should Airbnb refund for ‘biggest roach I’ve seen in my life’?

A fondness for shoulder season

Keep that summer vibe going: 10 reasons to head to Martha’s Vineyard now

Arts

Clint Baclawski, "Departure," 2022. Scrolling lightbox kits, electronic ballasts, Latex prints, 2-foot LED bulbs, speaker wires, power cords, Stinger cable power supply, matte black wall.

Clint Baclawski’s grand illusions

Mr. Lincoln goes to Concord

When the camera has an imperial power

Books

Marley Dias is the host of “BookMarks” on Netflix and a freshman at Harvard.

By age 15, she’d hosted a Netflix series and launched #1000BlackGirl Books. Now she’s a Harvard freshman.

A brief era of brutality and change in ‘American Midnight’

Linda Ronstadt can’t stand ‘boring writing’

Movies

"I went up there thinking I could make a difference," Ms. Littlefeather said in 1990. "I was very naive. I told people about oppression. They said, 'You're ruining our evening.' "

Sacheen Littlefeather, who declined Brando’s Oscar, dies at 75

When Bobby met Aaron: ‘Bros’ is a meet cute that hits the mark

‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’: It’s a strange brew

Television

Miles Teller hosted the 48th season premiere of "Saturday Night Live."

For ‘SNL,’ season 48 cold opens with a bang

Why British streamers aren’t getting my attention

This week’s TV: True-crime kidnapping, a ‘Community’ movie, and a Hilary Swank series

music

Frontman Brandon Flowers and the Killers at TD Garden.

The Killers go big at TD Garden

Country music icon Loretta Lynn dies

Ed Sheeran announces a 2023 summer stop at Gillette Stadium

Theater/Dance

Maria Hendricks rehearses a scene from "Dracula: A feminist revenge fantasy, really" at Umbrella Stage Company in Concord. Hendricks plays Dr. Van Helsing.

A feminist take on ‘Dracula’ that bites back

Steve Sweeney opens a cozy comedy club in Quincy

With a few clanks, ‘Ada and the Engine’ offers an eye-opening ride through computer history

globe local

Vehicles stand at a Tesla Supercharger station.

Wellesley to hold electric vehicle showcase and test drive Oct. 16

Brookline recognized in Fortune’s ‘25 Best Places to Live for Families’

Emergency call box gives beachgoers direct access to 911

Obituaries

Judge Silberman received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2008.

Laurence Silberman, titan of conservative jurisprudence, dies at 86

Country music icon Loretta Lynn dies

Jack Thomas, journalist who poignantly wrote of his terminal diagnosis, dies at 83