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He has traveled so far, from near-fatal abuse to here, invisible among Maine?s poorest, in the care of grandparents who have little left to give but love. By Sarah Schweitzer
Perspective
A not-very-scientific investigation into why last year was so bad and what?s in store this time.
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At 38, Brady is on pace to break league records and put together the best season of his already stellar career.
UMass fights to stay competitive, clamors for more fundingA Globe review of government support for a group of UMass?s self-selected peers shows the university system in the middle of the bunch.
KEVIN CULLEN
For the victims of the predators wearing Roman collars, this movie isn?t about process. It?s more personal, far more visceral.
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South Boston metalworker Jimmy LeBlanc discusses his performance in ?Spotlight.?
BetaBoston
Very few companies have amassed the skills to make inexpensive robots ? and sell them to consumers. IRobot has.
Cruelty case is a glimpse of a different breed of dog loverThe discovery of two dead puppies parted the curtains on a subculture of breeders who raise their animals to be aggressive.
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Two people were pulled from the Charles River Saturday night after a car went through a guardrail near the Museum of Science.
The victim was struck by several vehicles after being ejected from a car that was in a crash, State Police said.
Carson deflects questions about his truthfulnessRepublican candidate Ben Carson said questions about his veracity are irrelevant to the presidential race.
Amid calls for Trump to be dumped, the Republican presidential candidate hosted Saturday?s ??SNL?? as scheduled.
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Nearly 80 percent of heart attacks in the United States go undiagnosed, according to the first nationwide study of its kind.
More than 40 advocacy groups have backed legislation to strengthen the law, widely considered to be one of the weakest in the country.
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Regaining the combat edge demands more than tinkering with machinery.
NICK CAFARDO I SUNDAY BASEBALL NOTES
Battle between scouting and analytics continuesSome teams rely on formulas and calculations, while others go the traditional route of instincts and scouting.
The ice dam cometh. Here?s how to get preparedGlobe columnist Shirley Leung fought ice dams last winter and lost. She shares the crash course she took on insulation.
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Ed Nelson served in the Navy in Southeast Asia but found himself sleeping in the woods in Plymouth.
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JEFF JACOBY
Take the journalists off the debate stagePresidential debates have been routine only since the 1980s, and they have grown in absurdity under control of the broadcasters.
Ground Game
How a big field changes the presidential primary seasonThe field has upended long-planned strategies and made this the most unpredictable GOP nomination fight in a generation.
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Thousands of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns gathered for the annual event in remote China to mark Buddha?s descent from the heavens.
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DraftKings has the chutzpah, backing to go bigPowerful support from the sports-media industrial complex means DraftKings has the momentum to keep growing.
JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
New financial revelations don?t spell doom for church reformsFrancis insisted last week that church leaders can?t serve the poor if they?re seen to ?lead the life of a pharaoh.?
With David Krejci in the penalty box, David Desharnais scored the winner with 1:08 remaining.
The battle for custody of two young children shows the tough decisions forced upon the Department of Children and Families.
They thought, just how bad could military service be when for the first time in your life you had three meals a day?
The Democrat had flirted with backing the never-materialized presidential candidacy of Joe Biden.
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Automatic braking technology started to emerge in the early 2000s as a means of boosting a driver?s braking efforts and tightening seat belts.
An official warned it was too early to say what caused the plane to apparently break up in mid-flight. Analysis of the noise was underway.
Edwards is a fellow at Greater Boston Legal Services, assisting immigrant workers who are victims of wage theft, human trafficking, and worse.
Crowd-phobic procrastinators, this deal is for you.
Philip Glass wrings black humor from Kafka for his intimate, oppressive, and pertinent chamber opera ?In the Penal Colony,? staged this week by Boston Lyric Opera.
The most powerful points of a new bill to protect child models focus on money, and one Boston agent said the proposed rules are long overdue.
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