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Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Today's Headlines
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Media

Gen Z voters could decide the election. From TikTok memes to Twitch livestreams, here’s how they’re following it.

Ahead of the Nov. 5 election, the Globe interviewed two dozen local Gen Z residents about how they stay informed. Continue reading →

Politics

‘People are angry’: Trump rally’s comments on Puerto Rico reverberate among community

The comments made during Trump's New York rally enraged Harris activists, who believe they will leave a mark in the community. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

Here’s how you can stay overnight at — and possibly own — a 143-year-old lighthouse

Kevin Ferias, owner of the historic (and supposedly haunted) Borden Flats Light, nestled between Fall River and Somerset, is looking to pass the torch to a local lightkeeper. Continue reading →

Elections

‘A difficult line’: Maine Democrat Jared Golden is fighting for his political life in a district Trump won in 2020

Golden has navigated one of the country’s most competitive districts by emphasizing an independent streak that may be unmatched even by Maine’s famously free-thinking political standards. Continue reading →

RI HEALTH

How to best stop rats emerges as big issue in Rhode Island mayoral race

Cranston considers rat birth control and possums as possible strategies, while Providence is starting to use a liquid form of rodent birth control. But experts emphasize a more basic strategy: cutting off the food supply. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Patriots push to victory without Drake Maye

WATCH: New England broke their losing streak, despite QB Drake Maye's concussion. Boston.com’s Khari A. Thompson breaks down what happened and what’s next. Watch →

CVS plagued by financial woes, unrest, CEO shake-up

WATCH: Business reporter Janelle Nanos explains how the Rhode Island-based pharmacy got here and where they hope to go next. Watch →

These young Americans are single-issue voters

WATCH: A cohort told reporter Emma Platoff that they’re voting based on the war in Gaza. Platoff unpacks why with politics editor Victoria McGrane. Watch →

The Nation

Elections

Anti-Puerto Rico comments at Trump rally spur outrage as Bad Bunny supports Harris

The popular recording artist shared to his 45.6 million Instagram followers a video from Kamala Harris's official account in which the vice president outlines her vision for Puerto Rico. Continue reading →

Nation

Trump at the garden: A closing carnival of grievances, misogyny, and racism

Donald Trump’s closing rally at Madison Square Garden on the second to last Sunday before the election was a release of rage at a political and legal system that impeached, indicted and convicted him, a vivid and at times racist display of the dark energy animating the MAGA movement. Continue reading →

Nation

Rebuilding from hurricanes hinges on immigrants at center of US election

Builders are anxious about proposals laid out by Donald Trump that would further crack down on immigration — a key source of labor for the construction industry. Continue reading →

The World

World

Israel passes laws to restrict the work of a UN agency that is a lifeline for Gaza

Israeli lawmakers passed two laws on Monday that could threaten the work of the main United Nations agency providing aid to people in Gaza by barring it from operating on Israeli soil, severing ties with it, and labeling it a terror organization. Continue reading →

World

Ukraine braces for Russians to assault with North Korean troops

The United States warned Monday that North Korean soldiers were moving toward Russia’s western Kursk region, which Ukraine invaded in August, as Ukrainian forces braced for what they said could be imminent assaults involving the new troops. Continue reading →

World

How are the world’s trees doing? A new assessment has answers.

More than one-third of the world’s tree species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive assessment of trees by the world’s leading scientific authority on the status of species. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

A fight over values and a Pride flag means the end of a Catholic camp

The apparent violation that led to the closing of a camp for children and adults with intellectual and physical disabilities: Putting up a Pride flag. Continue reading →