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Trump talks about reporters being shot and says he shouldn’t have left White House after 2020 loss
On the final Sunday of the presidential contest, Donald Trump is asking voters in Pennsylvania again to make him leader of a “failed nation” while unleashing a profane, conspiracy-laden rant asserting US elections are not legitimate.

Harris is narrowly ahead of Trump in NC, NV, and WI, in new poll In three key states, a blue wall of anxiety
Live Updates

National Election Day forecast: Will Mother Nature tip the scales?
Bad weather has been known to disrupt some key elections, but can a rainy forecast in a couple of swing states help decide this presidential race?

FCC Commissioner accuses Kamala Harris’ SNL appearance of dodging equal time rule
The commission’s equal time rule requires broadcast television and radio stations to provide comparable time and placement to opposing candidates for federal office. I

In surprise ‘SNL’ appearance, Kamala Harris mocks Donald TrumpThe best ‘SNL’ presidential political impressions

In Governor’s Council races, voters could make history by electing first women of color
The eight-seat Governor’s Council, which is a vestige of Colonial government, also considers the appointments of parole board members and serves as the hearing board for pardons and commutations of jail sentences.

Trump promises to bring about a new era of Christian power

As voters head to the polls Tuesday, former president Donald Trump’s ambitions for America’s future are almost impossible to miss. He has sworn an era of “retribution” for his enemies. Vowed to deport millions of immigrants. Fueled concerns about rising fascism.

These seven maps show the combinations of swing state victories that could deliver Trump or Harris the presidency
With seven battleground states in play, multiple combinations of victories are possible for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris to reach 270. We're breaking them down.

Voter Resources

Titans 20, Patriots 17 (OT)

Instant Analysis

Patriots ruin chance to build momentum with OT loss to lowly Titans

That was a terrible loss, falling to one of the worst teams in the NFL — a now 2-6 Titans team that had lost its previous two games by a combined score of 86-24.
See how the game unfolded

‘It’s hard to really pull out positives out of this one’: What Jerod Mayo said after the Patriots’ seventh loss
The Patriots suffered their seventh loss of the season in a 20-17 overtime decision against the Titans on Sunday.

‘Just a dumb decision.’ Here’s what Patriots QB Drake Maye said about OT loss to Titans, late-game rollercoaster
Maye got New England to overtime with a moment of magic in the final seconds, but threw a game-sealing pick in the extra period.

North Toward Hope
He migrated to Massachusetts in search of stability. Now, he’s homeless.
In a collision of two huge challenges facing Massachusetts, newly arrived migrants are struggling to find scarce housing.

Migrants are moving into a Western Mass. town. Now the welcome mat is fraying.Read more from the series North Toward Hope
Globe Magazine

A workaholic’s guide to building a sense of self outside of professional achievement

The physical risks of the always overachieving work life — and how to avoid them.

‘The reckoning is still ongoing’: Cillian Murphy on the Catholic Church, complicity, and his new Irish drama

The Oscar winner plays a village coal merchant who discovers a secret about the local convent in the Irish drama "Small Things Like These."
PODCAST | SAY MORE WITH SHIRLEY LEUNG

‘We just want to try to find the best person to take over’: What Wyc Grousbeck is looking for in a new Celtics owner

With the first round of bids due in the coming weeks, Grousbeck is hoping the new owner will agree to a “transition” period that allows him to remain at the helm over the next few years.
Celtics defeat Hornets for second straight day

The US is awash in subterranean lithium. This startup wants to get it out.
In Medford, a startup called Lithios says it’s creating a clean and relatively cheap way to access vast amounts of lithium that’s presently sloshing around in briny water beneath the southern United States.

MIAA FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
MIAA football playoffs: See the seeds and matchups for all eight divisions
St. John's Prep (Division 1), Catholic Memorial (D2), Reading (D3), Duxbury (7-1), Shawsheen (D5), Hudson (D6), Uxbridge (D7), and Randolph (D8) earned top seeds in 128-team field.

After burning 500 acres, Massachusetts brush fires shift west

The forecast shows little sign of rain so conditions are not set to improve even as the weather cools.
Dorchester man charged with setting brush fire in Milford, police sayHere's where active fires are now in Mass.

Massachusetts correction officer arrested on charges of smuggling drugs into facility
Roxsandra Wright was taken into custody on a felony warrant issued by the Ayer District Court for delivering contraband to a prisoner.

All the drama between rapper Megan Thee Stallion and her Maine Coon, explained
Rapper Megan Thee Stallion is no stranger to successfully battling it out with other artists in cyphers or public rap beefs, but it seems she may have finally met her match with her cat.

What to know about the unprecedented floods that killed more than 200 in Spain
In the blink of an eye, the muddy water covered roads, railways and entered houses and businesses in towns and villages on the southern outskirts of Valencia. Here are a few things to know about Spain’s deadliest storm in living memory.

Still wrecked from past Israeli raids, hospitals in northern Gaza come under attack again

Severe storms hit Oklahoma, causing injuries and leaving thousands without power

LOVE LETTERS

I don’t like kissing my husband

He’s a mouth-breather.
BEHIND THE SCENES

‘My dog peed on my music’ and other mishaps: Boston Symphony Orchestra librarians are on the case

"We’re there in case some last-minute disaster happens," said BSO principal librarian D. Wilson Ochoa.

‘Some were not happy’: At Boston Children’s Hospital, a dispute over how to screen children for gender transition

The testimony provides an extraordinary window into the inner workings of what is perhaps the most influential pediatric gender clinic in the US.
Harris Vs. Trump on Key Issues

From Israel to crypto, Trump takes a transactional approach to issues

In talking about ‘freedom,’ Harris hopes she has a winning message on guns

Trump and Harris both support a bigger child tax credit. But which families should get it?

Trump and Harris embody a stark partisan divide on fighting poverty

Opinion
MARCELA GARCÍA

The untold story of Boston’s Dominican pride and the 2004 Red Sox

A new Globe mini documentary tells the story of how Pedro, Manny, and Big Papi changed Boston
IDEAS | Rémy Furrer

A better way to map the election

RENÉE GRAHAM

It’s not a bad sign for Harris that the race is so close

EDITORIAL

Enrolling kids in college isn’t enough

JEFF JACOBY

What makes vote-buying wrong?

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2023-24 GLOBE SCHOLASTIC AWARDS

Through its winning culture and community spirit, Norwell sets a standard as a Globe Scholastic Award recipient

With 70 percent of the student body participating, Blue & Gold teams won 71.45 percent of their 317 regular-season games in 2023-24 to capture the Globe’s Division 4 Ames Award.
Here are the 10 divisional winners for the 2023-24 Globe Scholastic Awards

Photos of the month: October 2024
Some of the best Boston Globe staff photos from October, including the end of the Red Sox' season, fall activities, and the one-year anniversary of the Lewiston mass shooting.

Five New Bedford bridges are getting makeovers as part of $378 million rehabilitation project
The Route I-195 to Route 18 interchange rehabilitation project will take around six years to complete. Construction is scheduled to begin in the spring.

Motorcyclist dies after crash with pickup truck in Bellingham, police say

An initial investigation indicated speed may have been a factor in the crash, police said.

At UN summit, historic agreement to give Indigenous groups voice on nature conservation decisions

Indigenous delegations erupted into cheers and tears after the historic decision to create the subsidiary body was announced.

Ukraine’s Zelensky urges allies to act before North Korean troops reach the front

Zelensky raised the prospect of a preemptive Ukrainian strike on camps where the North Korean troops are being trained and said Kyiv knows their location. But he said Ukraine can’t do it without permission from allies to use Western-made long-range weapons to hit targets deep inside Russia.

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News Analysis

Ahead of unprecedented election, looking for lessons in America’s past

Perhaps only twice have Americans experienced anything like this: once at the precipice of civil war at home, the other time over a proxy war 8,000 miles away.

Harvard professors bash congressional report on antisemitism as ‘political hit job’
The 325-page report argues university leaders have failed to confront antisemitism on their campuses since the Hamas-led attack on Israel last fall.

REDDIT AMA
‘If any of these questions pass, how and when do they go into effect?’ and other questions about the 2024 statewide ballot initiatives answered
Globe reporters hosted an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit earlier this week that was focused on the five statewide ballot questions Massachusetts residents will be voting on this Tuesday.

In N.H., debate rages over the future of a tax that lawmakers have already killed
New Hampshire’s interest and dividends tax is set to be phased out at the end of this year. But it is a topic in the governor's race in the state.

Culture & Lifestyle

‘The reckoning is still ongoing’: Cillian Murphy on the Catholic Church, complicity, and his new Irish drama

Their love story begins at the Arthur Fiedler Footbridge

Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., and other ‘Avengers’ stars assemble for Kamala Harris endorsement video

Jimmy Kimmel let Trump make the argument against himself in his own words

Special Projects

Where do the 2023-24 Celtics stand among the greatest teams in NBA history?

Data show that these Celtics are truly extraordinary, a team of uncommon prowess on both ends of the court
HIGH & DRY

Priced out: How Boston’s broken liquor license system drives chefs from the city

A stubbornly high price tag for serving alcohol hurts thousands of hospitality workers, aspiring restaurateurs, and the city itself.
Interactive map

Pothole season is upon us. See which neighborhoods have the most reports

Boston’s 311 data provides a day-by-day look at the condition of the city’s streets and sidewalks, which neighborhoods are hit hardest, and just how fast repairs are made.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Alan Wirzbicki

Someone needs to shake up Beacon Hill

David Scharfenberg

Voters should choose Dylan Fernandes for state Senate

Anita Hill and Daniel Thomas Kryder

Voters can show their commitment to ending gender-based violence

MARCELA GARCÍA

The untold story of Boston’s Dominican pride and the 2004 Red Sox

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Election forecasts are sophisticated — and possibly meaningless

IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Despite progress against wildfires, state warns blazes could continue for weeks

As of Saturday night, there were 106 brush and wildland fires reported over the previous week.

Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe to launch archeological investigation of ancient burying ground

Though Burying Hill was once said to be the center of life for the Wampanoag people, it is today shrouded with trees and largely forgotten.

Dr. Eli Newberger, pioneering physician in child abuse field who championed music’s power, dies at 83

“Eli’s impact on children’s welfare is significant,” said Randal Rucker, former chief executive of Family Service of Greater Boston.

In Governor’s Council races, voters could make history by electing first women of color

The eight-seat Governor’s Council, which is a vestige of Colonial government, also considers the appointments of parole board members and serves as the hearing board for pardons and commutations of jail sentences.

Sports

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

MIAA football playoffs: Favorites, sleepers, best first-round matchups, Divisions 1-8

Plenty of contenders and sleepers in each division capable of making a run to the Super Bowls at Gillette Stadium.
live updates

Titans 20, Patriots 17 (OT): Drake Maye’s late heroics save New England in regulation, but his interception sinks Patriots in OT

Maye went 29 for 31 for 206 yards and a touchdown, plus another 95 on the ground in his return from the NFL’s concussion protocol.
patriots

‘It’s hard to really pull out positives out of this one’: What Jerod Mayo said after the Patriots’ seventh loss

The Patriots suffered their seventh loss of the season in a 20-17 overtime decision against the Titans on Sunday.
Patriots

‘Just a dumb decision.’ Here’s what Patriots QB Drake Maye said about OT loss to Titans, late-game rollercoaster

Bills 30, Dolphins 27

Tyler Bass’s 61-yard field goal gives Josh Allen and the Bills a thrilling win over Tua Tagovailoa and the Dolphins

FORMULA 1

Max Verstappen takes a major step toward fourth straight F1 title by winning Brazilian Grand Prix

Business

The US is awash in subterranean lithium. This startup wants to get it out.

In Medford, a startup called Lithios says it’s creating a clean and relatively cheap way to access vast amounts of lithium that’s presently sloshing around in briny water beneath the southern United States.
North toward hope

He migrated to Massachusetts in search of stability. Now, he’s homeless.

In a collision of two huge challenges facing Massachusetts, newly arrived migrants are struggling to find scarce housing.
PODCAST | SAY MORE WITH SHIRLEY LEUNG

‘We just want to try to find the best person to take over’: What Wyc Grousbeck is looking for in a new Celtics owner

Harris and Trump focus on Sunbelt states during final weekend push for votes

magazine
Globe Magazine

‘Fight Song’ was Rachel Platten’s breakout song. Then, she broke down.

Q&A

‘You can be nice and polite, and tough as nails’: How Katherine Clark wields power in Congress

Globe Magazine

A workaholic’s guide to building a sense of self outside of professional achievement

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I had accidentally gotten off at the wrong T stop’

metro

Lisa likes trying new experiences

National Election Day forecast: Will Mother Nature tip the scales?

Five N.H. state Senate races to watch as control of the legislature hangs in the balance

sports

Max Verstappen takes a major step toward fourth straight F1 title by winning Brazilian Grand Prix

With its depth on display, Wellesley girls’ swimming rules the South yet again

EMass football Top 20: With a bounce-back effort, St. John’s Prep locks in No. 3 ranking

business

TGI Fridays files for bankruptcy protection as sit-down restaurant struggles continue

In N.H., debate rages over the future of a tax that lawmakers have already killed

As Republicans focus on voter fraud, a conservative Maine outlet enters the fray

politics

Candidates are on the home stretch, ahead of Election Day on Tuesday

FCC Commissioner accuses Kamala Harris’ SNL appearance of dodging equal time rule

When polls close in battleground states on Election Day

Nation

Harris appeals to Latino pride, and anger at Trump, in final push

Trump promises to bring about a new era of Christian power

Harris and Trump battle to the wire in swing states, Times/Siena polls find

World

Israelis and Palestinians find little hope in divisive US election

Russia feigns indifference over US election but roots quietly for Trump

What to know about the unprecedented floods that killed more than 200 in Spain

opinion

Readers see red over Sununu’s support of Trump

Some final MCAS keywords: equity, inequality, standards, teaching

Voters can show their commitment to ending gender-based violence

lifestyle

I don’t like kissing my husband

Crowds flock to tiny Massachusetts town to send off New York’s Rockefeller Christmas tree

What’s your take on friendship after this breakup?

food & dining

Starbucks nixes upcharge for milk substitutes amid disappointing earnings

The Mighty Squirrel plans a Watertown taproom; imbibe Colonial cocktails at the InterContinental

Iggy’s Bread opens a croissant café with no signage, but plenty of good vibes

travel

American Airlines’ new tactic to tackle ‘gate lice’ crowding may miss the mark

Christmas on the Cape: Skip the airport and head over the bridge for some festive fun

Holiday feasts and fanfare: New Orleans is always up for a party

Arts

Voting with your eyes: A new exhibition at the MFA looks at art and democracy

In Charles Atlas’s video art, the camera dances too

In the Berkshires, Clark Art Institute receives $45 million donation, 331 works of art from late philanthropist

Books

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

In Sara Daniele Rivera’s ‘Blue Mimes,’ poetry that moves, in both English and Spanish

Local bestsellers for the week ended Oct. 27

Movies

GlobeDocs viewers honor two local filmmakers with Audience Awards

Five things to do around Boston, Nov. 4-10

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

Television

John Mulaney hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Chappel Roan performs

In surprise ‘SNL’ appearance, Kamala Harris mocks Donald Trump

Television loves a triple play

music

All the drama between rapper Megan Thee Stallion and her Maine Coon, explained

Don’t expect Jakob Dylan to start tweeting any time soon

For 1,400 lucky fans, a surprise Tyler, The Creator performance was a rare treat

Theater/Dance

What makes Frankenstein’s Creature so monstrous, anyway?

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou not in ‘& Juliet’?

Zarna Garg is on a mission — to ‘destroy’ at her Comics Come Home debut

Health

About 30% of women are reinfected with a UTI within a year. This R.I. professor is looking for a way to change that.

Why is Lifespan buying hospitals in Massachusetts instead of saving two in Rhode Island?

R.I. Life Science Hub still in negotiations to develop lab incubator space: ‘In the business world... things moved a lot faster’

Obituaries

Dr. Eli Newberger, pioneering physician in child abuse field who championed music’s power, dies at 83

Dub Jones, who scored 6 touchdowns for Browns in one game, dies at 99

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