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A tentative agreement has been reached for the Senate Judiciary Committee to hear testimony Thursday from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault from decades ago.
For some, the year’s lessons feel forgotten
If the public decides you should not be held accountable for what you did as a drunken 17-year-old, some wondered, what message does that send today’s 17-year-olds?
Alan M. Dershowitz
Six rules for conducting the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings
This is an adversarial confrontation, and reasonable people could disagree about the appropriate procedural steps. But there are certain basic rules that must be followed for hearings of this kind to be fair.
The man suffered serious injuries and was taken to a local hospital, Police Commissioner William Gross said.
Authorities are investigating after an 18-month-old boy was found alone in a shopping cart outside of a Target store in Easton.
Mass. juries, pyschologists regularly clear sex offenders deemed no longer dangerous, record show
The civil commitment release procedure for sex offenders has been under scrutiny since two psychologists concluded that convicted child rapist Wayne Chapman, 70, was no longer sexually dangerous and could be set free.
Autumnal equinox arrives Saturday night with fall weather to match
In Boston, a high temperature Saturday was 73 degrees at 2 a.m., and gradually dropped to a 68 degrees by 3:59 p.m.,the National Weather Service said.
White House drafts order to look into Google, Facebook
The order is in its preliminary stages and hasn’t yet been run past other government agencies, said a White House official.
Cosby to fight ‘sexually violent predator’ tag at sentencing
Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing Monday will begin with testimony about his sex offender evaluation.
Lost and alone, Deb made a decision to reclaim the only home she’d ever had, whatever the risk.
Gas infrastructure in Mass.: A recipe for disaster?
The gas lines that wend through the state, beneath city streets, and into people’s homes are overseen by a patchwork of bureaucracies and a regulatory system that largely trusts utility companies to police themselves.
National Guard members deliver hot plates to Lawrence residents
The distribution of 7,000 hot plates will be followed by an effort to provide about 24,000 space heaters to residents in the coming week.
NESTOR RAMOS
How a small company in Malden created the Greatest TV Commercial Ever Made
It did not involve Clydesdales or polar bears or Michael Jordan. It’s an ad for retractable awnings. And it has been seen hundreds of millions of times.
Indians 5, Red Sox 4 (11 inn.)
Indians win in extra innings
Michael Brantley’s 11th-inning single off Drew Pomeranz ended the game.
CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER
They’ll take anybody who can help them win, all manner of malcontents, problem children, bad boys, lawbreakers, and recidivists.
NICK CAFARDO | ON BASEBALL
Even in best of times, Tom Goodwin can’t forget worst
The Red Sox first base coach, after celebrating the team’s division title, reflected on the pain of having lost a son to suicide.
BEN VOLIN | SUNDAY FOOTBALL NOTES
NFL is taking rules to protect quarterbacks too far
Even some quarterbacks are speaking out on behalf of defensive players whose hands are tied by penalties.
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Belichick has an 11-4 record against his former coordinators heading into Sunday’s game against Matt Patricia and the Lions.
Ideas | David Jenemann
The mitts that make us
As the playoffs approach, it’s worth paying a little attention to the mitts and gloves that make so much drama on the diamond possible.
Satanic Temple reopens international headquarters in Salem
The Satanic Temple is reopening its international headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts, in time for the Halloween season.
Dinner With Cupid
Blind date: ‘You can cover a lot of ground in a five-hour date’
Could this possibly be Cupid’s best matchup ever?
Three great foliage hikes in New England
Each site is about 2½ hours from Boston. We’ve given you easy to intermediate hikes and a range of peak foliage dates.
Editorial
Fire Jeff Sessions . . . as the boss of immigration judges
A slew of new directives from Attorney General Jeff Sessions have spurred calls to finally make immigration judges truly independent.
Stranger in the house
The US has a huge need for home health care, and many from Ghana do the hard work
The need for home care is soaring, and much of it is done by immigrants willing to take on this hard and low-paying work.
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The Big Ten team handed the Eagles their first lost of the season.
A 50-page report from the VA’s Office of Medical Inspector found flies are still present but that operating room isn’t used, and the instruments weren’t dirty, but simply discolored by the city’s water supply.
In August 2017, rents were growing at a 2.3% pace, according to a market report from Zillow.
The lawmakers’ comments came hours after President Trump sent out a tweet casting doubt on the account of Christine Blasey Ford, a 51-year-old psychology professor in California.
Gunmen attacked an annual Iranian military parade Saturday in the country’s oil-rich southwest, killing at least eight members of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guard and wounding 20 others.
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Up to 40,000 vehicles are estimated to be lost due to the storm.
Plans call for more than a half a million square feet off of Route 128.
“Caen Amour” imagines “a fictional encounter between early modern dance pioneer Loïe Fuller, butoh creator Tatsumi Hijikata, and Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo.”
Puppies are making people sick — and it’s people’s fault
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have infected more than 100 people have been linked to pet store puppies.
Until next year, my sweetheart
In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and “Wet Hot American Summer” creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.
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Despite debt, millennials are the biggest home-buying generation. How?
Slightly more than a third of all home purchases were made by millennials over the past year.
Seattle’s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston
Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she’s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.
More about Last Seen: The Largest Unsolved Art Heist ever
A true-crime podcast about the most valuable — and confounding — art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
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Deb was still new to this high school in Peabody, and had found her way to the vaunted theater program, establishing a foothold in a realm that felt magical.
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