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Hull or high water: When climate change hits home

Town residents in Hull know flooding is a problem, but no one wants to leave.

Meltdown at Market Basket: How did we get here, and what’s next for shoppers?

On this episode of The Globe podcast, host Jazmin Aguilera gets the inside story of the clash and how it’ll affect shoppers from Boston Globe business reporter Jon Chesto.

Inside a research fraud scandal that rocked the scientific community — and tested the future president of MIT

It seemed like Duke scientists had developed a “Holy Grail” of cancer treatment. Then the truth came out. In this week’s Globe Magazine cover story, reporter Mike Damiano takes readers inside the scandal that ended with broken careers, betrayed patients, and a lasting legacy of doubt in scientific institutions.

5 tips for raising healthier, screen-balanced kids according to the ‘media-trician’

"Media-trician" Dr. Michael Rich recommends embracing a balanced approach to screen time and abandoning restriction-based controls.

Catch up on one of the most popular Boston Globe stories of the year

Listen to a narrated rendition of the tale of a 32-year-old woman who posed as a teenager to re-enroll in high school.

‘Universities are the enemy.’ Final episode of ‘The Harvard Plan’ examines the growing distrust of higher education.

Episode three explores the deep history of Harvard and the distinctly American idea of “diversity.”

In case you missed it

‘You tried to break us, and you didn’t’: One family relives busing in new audio documentary

Earline Pruitt and her daughter Denise relive the start of school desegregation in this Globe audio documentary.

When the Red Sox finally won: Hear about the ‘Sea of Joy’ after the 2004 ALCS and World Series
In this special podcast miniseries featuring Kevin Millar, Johnny Damon, and Terry Francona, the Globe goes blow-by-blow through one of the best comebacks in sports history and Red Sox' first title in 86 years.

‘A biblical kind of sports story’: Recounting the incredible run of the 2004 Red Sox
In this special podcast miniseries, the Globe revisits the team of misfits and underdogs known as the “Idiots” who defied the odds to break the curse that had loomed over Fenway Park for 86 years.

‘I guarantee you that baby will be out before the end of the game’: Red Sox fans remember the joy of 2004
In the epilogue of our special podcast series, hear directly from New Englanders whose lives were forever touched by the Red Sox.

Latest stories

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

🏀 As college hoops return, Kevin McNamara previews Rhode Island’s D1 men’s teams

No one knows hoops like Kevin McNamara: He's here to help catch us up quickly on where the four Division I men’s basketball programs in the state stand heading into the season.

Mayor Wu to hold briefing on local response to federal SNAP cuts

Wu and other officials will brief reporters Friday on the local response to the looming suspension of federal SNAP benefits amid the government shutdown.

About three decades ago, the ‘Perfect Storm’ emerged over the Northern Atlantic

Also known as the Halloween Nor’easter, the monster storm evolved as a hurricane became swept into another system and grew in intensity days later.

Slip Slidin’ A-Waymo: Will self-driving cars ever be able to deal with Boston snow?

Skeptics of robotaxis question whether they will be able to navigate Boston's confusing streets in the depths of winter.

Geno Marconi strikes misdemeanor plea deal, agrees to resign as New Hampshire Port Authority’s director

The deal comes three weeks after his wife, N.H. Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi, was convicted of a misdemeanor for having sought to meddle with the investigation into her husband.