HOLIDAYS WEEKENDS

The Red Sox are one win away from their ninth World Series title after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-6 on their home turf Saturday night.

After a move to New York in the late ’60s, the clear-toned Fortune became a versatile fixture on the broad landscape of modern jazz.

Vitriolic tweets and pro-Trump social media posts add context to the background of Cesar Altieri Sayoc, the man in connection with the homemade pipe bombs sent to top Democrats and liberal donors.

After receiving a Justice Department request for a new 2020 census question, the Census Bureau came up with another way to generate more accurate citizenship data. The DOJ refused to meet about it.

A recent book recounts the brutal lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955. In it, the woman who accused the boy of assault admits she was lying. The FBI has reopened the murder investigation.

The speculation surrounding a string of mail bombs harks back to another era in American history, when bombs were a tool of political intimidation and when bombings were blamed on the victims.

The NSA and U.S. Cyber Command can exercise near-godlike omniscience over the Internet. A recent report from The New York Times provides some insight into what they’re doing with it.

This October, the Senate Judiciary Committee has, for the first time ever, held judicial nomination hearings during a recess of the Senate — over the objections of the minority party.

People have been dressing up in costumes inspired by diseases for a long, long time. See if you can ace our quiz.

Frustrated that Congress hasn’t repealed the Affordable Care Act, the administration continues to make moves that chip away at the ACA’s nationwide protections and give states more control.

Also in our weekly roundup, rural teens are experiencing homelessness, and four universities are suing the federal government over international student immigration rules.

Sure, you want your house to look as scary as possible. But certain haunting images are better left in the past.

Dodgers starter Walker Buehler threw seven powerful innings, but Boston outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr.’s solo home run matched Los Angeles’ meager production. It took 10 more innings to break the tie.

The Florida man charged on Friday ran afoul of the law for decades and was arrested for a slew of crimes, including larceny, drug possession and making a bomb threat.

Most recent data shows the law enforcement arm of U.S. Postal Service opened 19 cases related to suspicious items or substances. That’s decline from four years earlier when they probed more than 200.

The city’s slow recovery after ISIS rule is causing anger among residents who say they’re left with little help from the countries that destroyed Raqqa.

The Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot looks like something that would hide under your bed as a child. “Gritty may be a hideous monster,” says the city’s official resolution, “but he is our hideous monster.”

The line between appreciation and appropriation can be hard to pinpoint. Experts weigh in on the writer’s dilemma: Should her husband have worn a Filipino barong to a family party?

Police in Salisbury, England, have arrested a man accused of trying to steal the Magna Carta — the 1215 document that established basic tenets of the rule of law.

That’s slower than the second quarter’s blockbuster 4.2 percent but puts the economy on pace for the fastest annual growth in 13 years.

It’s a prime example of “gentefication,” economic revival led by people with roots in the community. The cultural mix is a culinary celebration: African, Albanian, Caribbean, Italian, Latino and more.

The move would impose a complete ban on some single-use plastics across the European Union and a reduction on others, aiming to implement most measures by the mid-2020s.

The FBI says Tan Wee Beng, a commodities trader in Singapore, helped North Korea avoid sanctions. The U.S. says North Korea takes elaborate steps to get around financial restrictions.

A knife-wielding woman injured at least 14 children at a kindergarten in the western Chinese city of Chongqing, police say. A suspect is in custody.

LGBTQ students are more likely to be bullied, which can lead to missed classes and a higher risk of suicide. For them, a teacher who knows how to “queer” the classroom can make a big difference.

With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, 67 percent of voters say the president is a factor in their vote, far higher than for former President Obama in 2014 when Democrats lost the Senate.

Potentially deadly letters and packages are rare, and technology makes it easier to track down perpetrators. But they can play a powerful role in further polarizing the country, analysts say.

Sphen and Magic, a male penguin couple, are now dads to their newborn foster chick. The unnamed chick weighed in at 91 grams; its sex will be determined later by a DNA test.

At least one of the 10 suspicious packages mailed to Democratic politicans and allies passed through a large U.S. mail sorting facility in Opa-locka, Fla., near Miami, reports say.

Ling Ma’s debut, Severance, won for fiction. Crown earned Derrick Barnes and Gordon James the young readers’ prize. And Rebecca Solnit’s essays, Call Them by Their True Names, won nonfiction laurels.

Only two minuscule slivers of East Island have resurfaced since the storm struck the region and wiped out a critical habitat for endangered monk seals and green sea turtles.

The winner of the Sakharov Prize is Ukrainian film director turned activist Oleg Sentsov who is serving a lengthy prison sentence in Russia, accused of plotting to bomb sites in Crimea.

The award-winning photographer tells the stories behind the profoundly moving images in her new book, Of Love & War — and confesses that she still gets nervous before a new assignment.

Megyn Kelly is on her way out from the Today show on NBC, a source tells NPR; talks about her likely exit continue. This comes after she made offensive remarks about blackface Halloween costumes.

An administration proposal would link what Medicare pays for certain drugs administered in hospitals and doctor’s offices to the prices paid in Europe and other advanced economies.