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Union officials sue MBTA after arbitrator proposes slashing pensions of those who retire before the age of 65

The president of Carmen’s Union president and MBTA officials said Monday that the two sides are still in negotiations over a final pension agreement.

NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defense test
A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.

Biogen pays $900m to settle whistle-blower suit over kickbacks

Under the terms of the settlement, the Cambridge-based drug firm will pay more than $843 million to the US government and more than $56 million to 15 states for overbilling Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs.

Biden’s student debt plan would cost $400 billion, per CBO

President Biden’s plan for student debt cancellation will cost the federal government about $400 billion over the next 30 years, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

Stocks fall on recession fears; Dow slips into bear market

In the US, stock indexes have been losing ground, coming off their fifth weekly loss in six weeks.

KARA MILLER | THE BIG IDEA
Traffic is so bad, it could hurt our economy. But there’s a way to fix it.
Gridlock reigns during the morning and evening commutes, pretty much no matter where you are. But why is that, and what should we do about it?

Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday announced an overhaul of Boston's Zoning Board of Appeals, which votes to approve many small and midsized development projects in neighborhoods around Boston.

Wu set to overhaul powerful city zoning board

Mayor Michelle Wu Monday wiped out most of the Zoning Board of Appeals members on Monday, nominating a slate of community developers, neighborhood organizers, and construction union representatives as replacements.

On Basketball | Gary Washburn
Celtics players still confused about what caused coach Ime Udoka’s yearlong suspension
"My initial reaction? I was a little confused but nobody has any of the information,'' Brown said. "There’s a lot of speculation going on, which makes it difficult for the guys who have been here.”

CELTICS MEDIA DAY

Celtics media day: Key takeaways as interim coach Joe Mazzulla, star players address Ime Udoka’s suspension for the first time

Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Marcus Smart were among the players peppered with questions about Udoka.

Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of employees working from home
Cambridge had the state’s highest percentage of people working from home in 2021 at 44.4 percent, with Boston trailing not far behind at 30.3 percent.

‘Soul-sucking’: Why some Gen Zers are quitting the 9-to-5

Dr. Ximena Venegas inside the first Boston location of Tend, a technology-driven dental company.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Orthodontist vs. insurer: How Question 2 could bring sweeping changes to dental industry

If Question 2 passes, it could affect not just the insurers that do business here, but also dentists and orthodontists — not to mention anyone with dental insurance.

Computer engineer Jack Harwood used his iPad to show off his view while attending his meeting remotely on the Charles River Esplanade in Boston.

Dave Epstein | Forecast

Southern New England will have good weather to view Jupiter while Floridians prepare for Hurricane Ian

While folks people in Florida will be closely monitoring the track of Hurricane Ian over the next several days, the weather here in southern New England looks absolutely stunning.

Jupiter closer to Earth than it has been in 59 years on Monday night

Though Mac Jones (right) was under siege at times and threw three interceptions, he went toe-to-toe with Baltimore's Lamar Jackson for most of Sunday's game.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

Just when Mac Jones was making strides, he is dealt this setback

Any significant missed time for Jones will be a blow to his second-year development and the wobbly 1-2 Patriots.

Patriots quarterback Mac Jones has a high ankle sprain, and there is no timetable yet for his recovery

Hispanic Heritage Month

A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt
The Hispanic history I carry with me: Rixy
A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and Latino joy, as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

Documentando el corazón infatigable de ChelseaIdeas | Rarely seen snapshots of Latino BostonRead more Hispanic Heritage Month stories

Visiting Guatemala, my parents’ homeland, transported me to my childhood memories

A family outing to Jamaica Plain’s old Hi-Lo Foods market was always a taste of home.

Isaiah Almonte helped carry the flag of Puerto Rico at the start of the Festival Betances parade in Boston's South End in July 2022. The Festival Betances is the longest-running Latino cultural festival in New England.

MARCELA GARCÍA

How I learned to stop worrying and love Hispanic Heritage Month

Is dedicating only a month every year to honor Latino culture just another example of “Hispandering”?

With the Celtics and Udoka, it’s about brand

How remote work withers our social networks

Pamela Paresky and Samuel J. Abrams

An ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ mentality on campuses turns potential friends into allies — or enemies

As law-skirting practices evolve, the state’s gun laws must as well

Culture
Banned Books Week Quiz
Banned Books Week is now underway! Put your knowledge of banned and challenged works to the test with our quiz.

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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.

Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon BaribeauVideo: What the Spotlight Team’s investigation discovered about Dr. BaribeauN.H. hospital promises review after revelations about doctor with 21 malpractice settlements

Dr. Yvon Baribeau

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

Baker declines to criticize DeSantis over migrant flights, saying he has no interest in ‘presidential debate’
“I’m not running for president, so why engage in what is obviously a presidential debate?” Baker said during an appearance on GBH’s “Boston Public Radio.”

The US government is challenging a big airline alliance, with Boston at the center of the case
The Department of Justice is suing to block a partnership between JetBlue and American Airlines that it worries could reduce competition at Logan and major New York airports.

Local researchers are aiming to create the perfect battery. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
Researchers and companies around the world are racing to solve the problem of storing clean energy when the sun isn’t shining on solar farms or the wind isn’t turning turbines.

Hurricane Ian nears Cuba on path to strike Florida as Category 4
Ian was forecast to intensify rapidly and hit Cuba as a major hurricane late Monday, and then become an even stronger Category 4 hurricane over warm Gulf of Mexico waters before striking the west central coast of Florida on Wednesday.

Interactive map: Storm tracker shows Ian's projected path

What are the chances that marathon record-breaker Eliud Kipchoge will run Boston in April?
The BAA is optimistic that he'll turn up in Hopkinton sooner or later, and given the upcoming calendar and the advanced stage of his career, it makes sense that it be sooner.

Take a look at the birthday cards ageism advocates say are mean and stereotypical
A group called Changing the Narrative is challenging America’s card makers to reframe their message and design a new collection of birthday cards that celebrate rather than denigrate aging.

Recommended reads

Maryann Zujewski, an education specialist with the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, placed flowers at the stone of Agnes, a slave who died in 1718.

With new headstone, Marblehead won’t let enslaved woman be forgotten

Agnes, a woman who the town’s prominent Russell family enslaved as a domestic servant, died in 1718 at about age 43.

Steve Carell spotted out shopping in Chestnut Hill: ‘Dude loves malls’
The Concord native was spotted at The Shops at Chestnut Hill on Saturday afternoon where he sported a baseball cap and jeans, easily blending in with other suburban shoppers.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS
This week’s TV: ‘SNL’ cast shrinks, Jan. 6 hearings resume, and a new ‘Interview with the Vampire’
Eight "Saturday Night Live" players won't be returning for season 48, including Kate McKinnon and Pete Davidson, while four newbies have been added to the cast.

Somerville tenants rally over soaring rents, gentrification of Green Line Extension corridor
The six-unit building at 82-84 Tremont Street, a few blocks from Union Square, has been bought by a limited liability corporation and is slated to be torn down, tenants said.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Elizabeth Strout (“Lucy by the Sea”) is in conversation with Dawn Tripp in person Monday at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre.

Author readings around Boston Sept. 25-Oct. 1

Jesus Garcia as Rodolfo and Lauren Michelle as Mimì in Boston Lyric Opera's "La bohème," directed by Yuval Sharon.

In Boston Lyric Opera’s new ‘La bohème,’ the girl dies at the beginning — and it works

Pavement has reunited for a 30th anniversary tour that arrives at the Wang Theatre Sept. 28.

Slanted, enchanted, and a few years older, Pavement embarks on a reunion tour

Raymond Lee as Dr. Ben Song in NBC's reboot of "Quantum Leap."

With tiresome reboots, TV is stuck in a cycle of watch, rinse, repeat

Special Projects

Back to Boston

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The Littleton Mill Gun Shop

As law-skirting practices evolve, the state’s gun laws must as well

Students walk on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. According to a Heterodox Academy survey, the primary reason students say they don’t express their authentic views is fear of peers taking offense.

Pamela Paresky and Samuel J. Abrams

An ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ mentality on campuses turns potential friends into allies — or enemies

Michael S. Roth

College mission: Encourage diverse views but protect democracy

Russian Federation Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergey V. Lavrov spoke during the United Nations Security Council meeting. While that meeting provided a forum for discussion of Russia’s crimes in Ukraine, as long as Russia exercises veto power in that body it can be little more than a debating society.

Russians vote with their feet against Putin’s folly

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

Town council questions school department’s new policies following ‘naked fat test’ investigation

The School Committee chairman said the committee had taken several steps to improve training on sexual abuse reporting.

Candy corn recalled by Auburn company over allergy concerns

Arcade Snacks issued a recall of its 15-ounce candy corn packages on Friday, per an FDA advisory, after it was found that the products may contain undeclared egg. No illnesses have been reported in connection to the products, the agency said.

Massachusetts confirms 5th human case of West Nile virus this year

The woman was likely exposed to the virus in Middlesex County in an area that is already known to be at an increased risk, according to the Department of Public Health. In the Greater Boston area, the risk for the virus is moderate to high.

Baker declines to criticize DeSantis over migrant flights, saying he has no interest in ‘presidential debate’

“I’m not running for president, so why engage in what is obviously a presidential debate?” Baker said during an appearance on GBH’s “Boston Public Radio.”

Sports

Myles Garrett was involved in a one-car accident following practice Monday afternoon.

Browns star Myles Garrett suffers minor injuries after his Porsche involved in rollover accident

His agent said it was expected Garrett was to be discharged Monday night into Tuesday.

Fans went looking for drier conditions when Monday's game was halted.

Red Sox-Orioles resume at Fenway after a 100-minute rain delay

It wasn’t all bad, as some Boston fans made the best of an unfortunate situation during the stoppage in play.

The Yankees' Aaron Judge and Red Sox third baseman Bobby Dalbec have a chat during the first inning of New York's rain-shortened 2-0 win Sunday.

Baseball notebook

Aaron Judge didn’t homer, but Yankees are happy with sweep of Red Sox

As Judge chases Maris, the Yankees carried a seven-game streak into Toronto, where they need just one win to clinch the AL East.

On Basketball | Gary Washburn

Celtics players still confused about what caused coach Ime Udoka’s yearlong suspension

BOYS' SOCCER NOTEBOOK

A new generation of highly skilled goalkeepers are taking the game by storm

Bruins Notebook

Bruins coach Jim Montgomery expects Nick Foligno to bring a spark to third or fourth line

Business

Wu set to overhaul powerful city zoning board

Mayor Michelle Wu Monday wiped out most of the Zoning Board of Appeals members on Monday, nominating a slate of community developers, neighborhood organizers, and construction union representatives as replacements.

Biogen to pay $900m to settle whistle-blower suit over kickbacks

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.

Biogen pays $900m to settle whistle-blower suit over kickbacks

Starbucks says it wants union bargaining to begin

Alisa Amador

My Boston History

I'm a multilingual singer-songwriter. Here's why I call Boston home.

The Acostas in Havana — parents Antonio and Rosa Acosta, 2-year-old Rosalin in her mother’s arms, and brother Anthony.

My Boston History

Talent and education aren’t always enough. So I work to ensure opportunities for all.

Sabrina Avilés

My Boston History

Documenting Chelsea’s indefatigable heart

My Boston History

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third

metro

Mariangely Solis Cervera is Boston’s chief of equity and inclusion.

Mariangely Solis Cervera wants to embed equity into Boston’s culture

Bridge replacement project to get East Bay bike path finally on track

Jupiter closer to Earth than it has been in 59 years on Monday night

sports

Nate Eovaldi, who is completing his four-year deal, has has been on the injured list since Aug. 22 with shoulder inflammation.

Nate Eovaldi gets to pitch once again before Red Sox fans

Nothing to go on as to whether Joe Mazzulla is the right person to lead these Celtics

Buccaneers to relocate operations to Miami area in preparation for Hurricane Ian

business

Kate Megraw, the CIO at Webster Five Bank in Worcester, worked from home in June.

Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of employees working from home

Factory jobs are booming like it’s the 1970s

Stocks fall on recession fears; Dow slips into bear market

politics

Senator Kyrsten Sinema spoke during a Senate hearing on Sept. 14 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Senator Sinema backs strengthening filibuster in speech at McConnell Center

Jan. 6 committee ‘aware’ of call between White House switchboard, Capitol attacker

False claims, threats fuel poll worker sign-ups for midterms

Nation

This illustration made available by Johns Hopkins APL and NASA depicts NASA's DART probe, foreground right, and Italian Space Agency's (ASI) LICIACube, bottom right, at the Didymos system before impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, left.

NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defense test

Mastriano’s sputtering campaign: No TV ads, tiny crowds, little money

Florida urges some to begin evacuating as Hurricane Ian strengthens

World

US Vice President Kamala Harris, center, and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (not seen) meet at the Akasaka Palace state guest house in Tokyo, on Sept. 26.

In Tokyo, Harris calls US-Japan alliance ‘a cornerstone’

Europe looks at Italy’s Meloni with caution and trepidation

Syria, North Korea take swipes at West as UN assembly ends

opinion

A 2020 protest by Pakistani activists. Half of all victims of modern slavery are in bonded labor arrangements, which are designed to prevent the workers from ever clearing their debt.

Even now, slavery is a worldwide scourge

A new school year, the same concerns about bias in sports settings

The ‘R-word’ still stings and, sadly, endures

lifestyle

Steve Carell at the AMC Boston Common for a screening of his film "Beautiful Boy" in 2018.

Steve Carell spotted out shopping in Chestnut Hill: ‘Dude loves malls’

I’m not meeting high-caliber men

Nia Long issues statement following Ime Udoka suspension, asks for privacy ‘to process recent events’

food & dining

Lauren Abda, founder of Branchfood, poses for a photo in the company’s office in Providence, Rhode Island on Sept. 22.

Rhode Island ‘has all the ingredients to be a leading food state;’ Food innovation platform expands into Providence

Want a late-night bite? You have a few options in Providence

Near Harvard Square, a Spanish tapas bar that feels distinctly Cambridge

travel

Frederik Mayet leans on a cross before heading to the stage for his impending crucifixion scene. Under his loincloth he wears a climbing belt, which will be used to attach him to the cross. Mayet is the first Jesus in his family, and it’s a big deal.

‘We must do this’: German village fulfills promise to God by staging Passion Play every 10 years

Robots, runs, and King Tut

Can I get a refund for these airline credits on Expedia?

Arts

The Town of Warren, in partnership with the Warren Arts & Cultural Commission and The Avenue Concept, has commissioned Josie Morway to paint a mural on the storefront at 24 Child Street, as the town continues efforts to raise awareness on the impacts of sea level rise and climate change.

‘How could a piece of art possibly help the world?’ Warren commissions mural to further awareness of climate change.

The Hispanic history I carry with me: Rixy

Subversive strips at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art

Books

Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents in recent weeks on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021.

Libraries face increased attempts to ban books

Joshua Bennett on reading ‘to pursue astonishment’

Two books on pandemic parenting

Movies

Steve Carell at the AMC Boston Common for a screening of his film "Beautiful Boy" in 2018.

Steve Carell spotted out shopping in Chestnut Hill: ‘Dude loves malls’

Just Jaeckin, whose ‘Emmanuelle’ was a scandalous success, dies at 82

‘Blonde’ is a rare movie with a NC-17 rating. What set it over the edge?

Television

Steve Carell at the AMC Boston Common for a screening of his film "Beautiful Boy" in 2018.

Steve Carell spotted out shopping in Chestnut Hill: ‘Dude loves malls’

This week’s TV: ‘SNL’ cast shrinks, Jan. 6 hearings resume, and a new ‘Interview with the Vampire’

‘Breaking Bad’ creator teams up with Rhea Seehorn for a new series

music

Father John Misty performs at the Bourbon and Beyond Music Festival in Louisville earlier this month.

Father John Misty re-energizes old favorites at Leader Bank Pavilion

Odyssey Opera soars in Rachmaninoff’s ‘Troika’

In Boston Lyric Opera’s new ‘La bohème,’ the girl dies at the beginning — and it works

Theater/Dance

Mishy Jacobson in "Ada and the Engine" at Central Square Theater.

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

For ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ a not-so-little shot of hurrahs

‘Tina’ reaches for a star but falls short

globe local

From left: Marlene Yesley, Sheila Pallay, and Judith Weinberg with the Torah cover they created.

Torah Sisters bond to piece together Jewish history

The Argument: Should accessory dwelling units be allowed statewide in Massachusetts?

Needham Town Meeting will decide on $2.5 million land purchase along Charles River next month

Obituaries

FILE - President Bill Clinton talks with New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio, left, prior to making an address on his national service plan at the Lewis Brown Athletic Center on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J., on Monday, March 1, 1993. Florio, who narrowly lost his re-election bid in 1993 died Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. He was 85. His law partner Doug Steinhardt and current Gov. Phil Murphy confirmed Florio died in statements on Monday. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)

Former NJ governor James Florio dies at 85

Egyptian cleric revered by Muslim Brotherhood dies at 96

Just Jaeckin, whose ‘Emmanuelle’ was a scandalous success, dies at 82