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BEN VOLIN | INSTANT ANALYSIS

Patriots avoid a trap to make another statement, and other observations from a sloppy win in New Orleans

There is plenty to clean up from Sunday’s performance on both sides of the ball, but there is nothing fluky about securing a solid win on the road.

DeMario Douglas, Kayshon Boutte take turns as go-to guys in passing game as Patriots continue to spread offensive wealth
Even without an obvious go-to, No. 1 option, the wide receiver collective has proven to be productive. Douglas (three receptions for 71 yards, including a 53-yard TD) and Boutte (five catches for 93 yards, two TDs) stepped up against the Saints.

Kayshon Boutte’s two TD catches propelled Patriots to 25-19 win over Saints. Here’s how it unfolded.
The Patriots beat the Saints, 25-19, to extend their winning streak to three for the first time in nearly three years.

Here’s an hour-by-hour timeline of the nor’easter for New England
The heaviest downpours and coastal flooding are expected Sunday night into Monday.

Beneath gray skies, Bostonians prepare for the first nor’easter of the season
Residents prepare as a strong nor'easter approaches Boston, set to deliver heavy rains and winds from Sunday to Tuesday.

Maps break down nor’easter’s potential impacts on New England starting Sunday

Widespread power outages and travel disruptions are expected with this storm, including possible delays and cancellations at Logan Airport.
Severe weather tracker: See storm alerts in New England

Tariff unknowns are a new uncertainty for Massachusetts manufacturers
Almost nine months into President Trump’s effort to foster more manufacturing in the United States, businesses that make things in Massachusetts face continuing confusion.

China vows to stand firm against Trump’s tariff threat

Vance warns ‘deeper’ cuts ahead for federal workers as shutdown enters 12th day

Vance warned that the new cuts would be “painful,” even as he said the Trump administration worked to ensure that the military is paid this week
Amid government shutdown, Democrats see chance to ramp up Epstein drumbeatWeird is natural for Portland: Hence, those protest costumes

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

MGB is turning to AI to ease shortage of primary care doctors. Some of them don’t like it.

Several providers said the app — which questions patients, reviews medical records, and produces a list of potential diagnoses — sidesteps real solutions.

The woman, the tires, and a journey to the bottom of the earth
Monet Eliastam has been dragging two tires across beaches and through the woods the last couple years. But it’s not a fitness fad; it’s a quest to become the first American woman to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole.

Israel expects hostages to be freed from Gaza ‘in a few hours’ as ceasefire holds
Israel says it expects all of the 20 living hostages held in the Gaza Strip to be released Monday in its breakthrough ceasefire deal with Hamas.

What to know as Israel and Gaza await the release of hostages, prisoners, aid, and Trump’s visit

Anticipation built across Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank Sunday as the ceasefire held into a third day.

Trump to travel to Mideast to mark cease-fire deal

4 people killed and 20 injured in shooting at bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

A shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say.

As Gabriel House fire lawsuits continue to mount, owner expects more litigation to come

The latest lawsuit, filed by an 82-year-old former resident of Gabriel House, alleges negligence, including by owner Dennis Etzkorn, and says she suffered smoke inhalation, a left foot injury, and the loss of her personal property.

New Alzheimer’s treatments and studies are fueling a sense of hope

Though many questions remain, hopes grow for early treatment and even prevention.

Bourne Bridge reopened after multi-vehicle crash

Person in custody after bomb threat against Topsfield Fair

Amy Poehler hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Role Model performs

Amy Poehler hosted "SNL" this weekend, with Role Model serving as the evening’s musical guest.
LOVE LETTERS

Got to college. Betrayed my boyfriend.

I want to be better to him.
BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Hampus Lindholm gets back on practice ice, but status of Bruins’ defenseman remains unknown

Lindholm skated prior to the full-team practice at Warrior Ice Arena, but it seems likely Haverhill native Jordan Harris will be in for Monday's matinee with Tampa.
Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Nearly 250 patients at top Mass. hospitals say they were abused by a renowned doctor. Why wasn’t he stopped sooner?
Hundreds of women allege Dr. Derrick Todd sexually abused them over a decade. A Globe Spotlight investigation found the state’s medical establishment missed key warning signs.

Larry Nassar and Derrick Todd are two doctors accused of sexual assault under the guise of pelvic floor therapy. What is it?

Pelvic floor therapy is rarely, if ever, done by a physician. Doctors almost always refer patients to a specialist.
Opinion
RENÉE GRAHAM

MAGA says Bad Bunny isn’t ‘unifying’ enough to perform at the Super Bowl. We know what they really mean.

The NFL needs to stand up to right-wing pressure to change the halftime show.
IDEAS | JOHN KAAG

What AI can never understand

Heather Hopp-Bruce

Six reasons Gen Xers need to watch ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’

EDITORIAL

We don’t need 100 different septic system rules

Jill Abramson

Why Hegseth’s new press policy was bound to fail

More recent News

Mass. economic development secretary Eric Paley sees ‘urgency’ in helping universities respond to federal cuts

Paley, whose background is in venture capital and startups, sat down with the Globe to talk about his first few weeks on the job.

Protesters at Boston’s Indigenous Peoples Day march briefly face off with police

The demonstration and police response came as tensions remain high following a separate protest earlier this week in Boston over the conflict in Gaza.

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 79

According to The New York Times, her death was confirmed by Dori Rath, who produced a number of Keaton’s most recent films.

Tiger Woods has a seventh back surgery to have disk replaced

Woods said in a social media post he had the surgery in New York and said it was the right decision for his health and his troubled back.

‘An absolute nightmare’: Dedham man suffers brain injury after assault near Fenway Park, his mother says

After being punched by a stranger on Lansdowne Street, the 22-year-old spent several days on a breathing tube in a medically induced coma.

Biden is receiving radiation and hormone therapy to treat his prostate cancer

In May, former president Biden’s office announced that he had been diagnosed with an prostate cancer and that it had spread to his bones.

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At the ICA, an exhibition of Indigenous art that celebrates a vibrant, living present

"An Indigenous Present" at the ICA is a declaration of modern Indigenous culture in America.

TRAVEL
Looking for a fall road trip? Head to the beautiful, bountiful Hudson Valley.
It’s like jumping into a masterpiece, looking over Jasper Francis Cropsey’s shoulder as he painted his famous “Autumn — On the Hudson River.”

ADRIAN WALKER
It’s no surprise MIT’s Sally Kornbluth is the first to flatly reject Trump’s deal
Kornbluth deserves all the credit for standing up for her institution’s core values, even at considerable risk.

MURRAY WHYTE
The Kowloon has to go. But does it have to go like this?
The design for the new Kowloon, at the base of a dull apartment building, is a finger in the eye of the Wongs' beloved Route 1 landmark.

Culture & Lifestyle

The system is rigged: Tim Robinson has fun with conspiracy in HBO’s absurdist comedy ‘The Chair Company’

BIA is ready to introduce you to her ‘truest self’ on ‘BIANCA’

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A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

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In a nation addicted to drugs, local police are addicted to informants.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

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Why I’ve struggled to finish reading Kamala Harris’s memoir

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Metro

Ken Mahan

Maps break down nor’easter’s potential impacts on New England starting Sunday

Widespread power outages and travel disruptions are expected with this storm, including possible delays and cancellations at Logan Airport.
Forecast | Ken Mahan

Here’s an hour-by-hour timeline of the nor’easter for New England

The heaviest downpours and coastal flooding are expected Sunday night into Monday.
Forecast | Ken Mahan

Nor’easter unleashing rounds of windswept rain across Southern New England. Coastal flooding expected.

Widespread power outages and travel disruptions are expected as the storm blows into New England.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

Sports

PATRIOTS

DeMario Douglas, Kayshon Boutte take turns as go-to guys in passing game as Patriots continue to spread offensive wealth

Even without an obvious go-to, No. 1 option, the wide receiver collective has proven to be productive. Douglas (three receptions for 71 yards, including a 53-yard TD) and Boutte (five catches for 93 yards, two TDs) stepped up against the Saints.
live updates

Kayshon Boutte’s two TD catches propelled Patriots to 25-19 win over Saints. Here’s how it unfolded.

The Patriots beat the Saints, 25-19, to extend their winning streak to three for the first time in nearly three years.
PATRIOTS

Here’s the official explanation on the late pass interference call that nullified a 61-yard Patriots touchdown

Referee Adrian Hill, whose crew ended up calling 19 accepted penalties in the game, attributed the timing to the logistics required in making the call.
College Football

No. 3 Indiana has its highest ranking ever in AP Top 25; Texas, USC back in the rankings

NFL

Ex-NFL QB Mark Sanchez released from custody a week after parking fight arrest and stabbing

College Football

Penn State fires coach James Franklin amid midseason free fall in a lost season

Business

China vows to stand firm against Trump’s tariff threat

China signaled on Sunday that it would not back down from a threat of 100% tariffs from President Trump, and Trump responded by taking a less confrontational approach.

Mass. economic development secretary Eric Paley sees ‘urgency’ in helping universities respond to federal cuts

Paley, whose background is in venture capital and startups, sat down with the Globe to talk about his first few weeks on the job.

MGB is turning to AI to ease shortage of primary care doctors. Some of them don’t like it.

Trump administration is reportedly bringing back scores of CDC experts fired in error

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GLOBE MAGAZINE

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metro

Immigration lawyer under federal investigation is temporarily suspended in Rhode Island

Beneath gray skies, Bostonians prepare for the first nor’easter of the season

As Gabriel House fire lawsuits continue to mount, owner expects more litigation to come

sports

Patriots avoid a trap to make another statement, and other observations from a sloppy win in New Orleans

Hampus Lindholm gets back on practice ice, but status of Bruins’ defenseman remains unknown

Nikola Pilic, whose Wimbledon boycott helped shape modern tennis, dies at 86

business

Harvard’s lead Allston development executive heads to Vanderbilt

New Alzheimer’s treatments and studies are fueling a sense of hope

Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown

politics

Trump administration is bringing back scores of CDC experts fired in error

Trump to travel to Mideast to mark cease-fire deal

Still ‘front and center’: Amid government shutdown, Democrats see chance to ramp up Epstein drumbeat

Nation

Vance warns ‘deeper’ cuts ahead for federal workers as shutdown enters 12th day

California expands privacy protections as Democratic-led states resist Trump’s immigration agenda

Feeling hopeless in custody, many drop claims to remain in the US, leave voluntarily

World

Israel expects hostages to be freed from Gaza ‘in a few hours’ as ceasefire holds

Overnight violence between Afghanistan and Pakistan threatens a wider conflict

Madagascar’s president says a coup is underway after soldiers joined antigovernment demonstrations

opinion

The side of my father that I needed strangers to reveal

The pawns in Washington’s government shutdown game

The photo she’d like to show RFK Jr.

lifestyle

Got to college. Betrayed my boyfriend.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy reportedly buys waterfront compound in Florida Keys

Is this affair about feeling young again?

food & dining

Recipe: Simmer sliced turkey sausages, root veggies, and beans in this fall stew

Dunkin’ Donuts started as a small Quincy coffee and doughnut shop. Now, it has 10,000 US locations.

South End wine shop The Urban Grape says it will close ‘immediately’ amid deep financial troubles

travel

Looking for a fall road trip? Head to the beautiful, bountiful Hudson Valley.

Logan has gone to the dogs — the therapy dogs

A marathon gives them 26.2 great reasons to see the world

Arts

The Kowloon has to go. But does it have to go like this?

At the ICA, an exhibition of Indigenous art that celebrates a vibrant, living present

A rose by many other names — and images

Books

Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp on what’s next for the book industry

Looking in the pages of a father’s book to finally understand his mysteries

Ten years later, Alysia Abbott’s ‘Fairyland’ finally goes from book to screen

Movies

Photos: From ‘Annie Hall’ to ‘Book Club,’ Diane Keaton over the years

Stand up comics and sibling rivalries fuel this year’s NYFF

John Candy quiz: Test your knowledge of the late comedy icon

Television

Amy Poehler hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Role Model performs

‘Homeland’ was a deft interrogator of the ‘War on Terror’

Multiple monsters: How Ryan Murphy’s new Ed Gein series becomes a horror hall of mirrors

music

BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus run a gantlet with Beethoven’s ‘Missa solemnis’

Critic Richard Dyer’s vast record collection, spanning over 20,000 vinyls, is for sale

BIA is ready to introduce you to her ‘truest self’ on ‘BIANCA’

Theater/Dance

Heavily sanitized and fully repaired, Improv Asylum is set to reopen

American Repertory Theater’s ‘300 Paintings’ unpacks an artistic manic episode

A misguided ‘Macbeth’ strains for relevance

Health

MGB is turning to AI to ease shortage of primary care doctors. Some of them don’t like it.

New Alzheimer’s treatments and studies are fueling a sense of hope

HHS employees to be fired as part of mass White House job cuts

Obituaries

Nikola Pilic, whose Wimbledon boycott helped shape modern tennis, dies at 86

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 79

John Lodge, singer and bassist with the Moody Blues, Dies at 82