Ryan slams Trump remarks as ?racist,? but maintains support

House Speaker Paul Ryan.

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Speaker Paul Ryan said Donald Trump?s remark was a ?textbook definition of a racist comment,? but maintains his support of the presumptive GOP nominee.

ground game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/07/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/538428388.jpg Clinton?s milestone isn?t welcome news for either camp

Hillary Clinton?s and Bernie Sanders? campaigns have their own reasons to pooh-pooh her becoming the presumptive nominee.

4/12/16 - Arlington, MA - John Tortelli, cq, has private insurance and still was denied treatment because his liver wasn't damaged enough from his hepititis-C infection. Topic: 14hepatitis. Story by Felice Freyer/Globe Staff. Photo by Dina Rudick/Globe Staff.

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After insurer changed policy, he?s winning hepatitis C fight

The virus can no longer be detected in a patient who is getting a drug his health plan once said it could not afford.

Cooking With | Gordon Hamersley

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/02/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/pasta_lesson_29.jpg How to turn ordinary ingredients into extraordinary pasta

Giulia chef Michael Pagliarini drops some noodle knowledge.

HOME OF THE WEEK

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This Colonial has three bedrooms, and the roof and heating, air-conditioning, plumbing, and electrical systems are new.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/07/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/05349542.jpg Boston to host major climate summit in 2017

It?s expected to draw 2,000 business officials and urban leaders from across the US and China.

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The father of Brock Turner issued a letter arguing the 20-year-old deserved only probation that was blasted as offensive and tone-deaf.

Globe Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Advance/Images/0612mag_cover_altcrop.jpg If the MCAS is so good, why are we ditching it?

Massachusetts? standardized test has long been considered the best in the nation. Here?s why we?re throwing it out.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/150219_mbta_042a.jpg If you think Boston is crowded now, just wait

If you think getting in and around Boston at peak hours is tough right now, just wait 15 years.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/burlington2.JPG Agency greenlights plan to ease I-95/Route 3 traffic

The $800,000 project will address backups with the addition of signage, lane striping, and lane barriers.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/10/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_view_met.jpg Everybody on the Tobin Bridge will soon have to pay tolls

The state is installing collection equipment in the northbound lanes, and the system is expected to be activated this fall.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/04/26/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/1983biogen.jpg Biogen stock hammered on dismal drug results

The Cambridge company lost $7 billion in market value after a multiple sclerosis drug failed to hit its primary goal in a clinical trial.

LIVE UPDATES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/07/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/6185d809c757403c8c0d6b3cbb6f4f91-6185d809c757403c8c0d6b3cbb6f4f91-0.jpg At Redstone trial, judge questions gender makeup of lawyers

The judge in a battle over Sumner Redstone?s $40 billion empire asked why there weren?t more female lawyers present.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/01/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/011316_wpifigure_08.jpg WPI says rape victim partly responsible for assault

Worcester Polytechnic Institute argues some of the fault belongs on the student for engaging in risky behavior.

Cambridge won?t celebrate Columbus Day. It?s now Indigenous Peoples? Day.

The City Council voted unanimously to change the holiday?s name.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/07/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/CkVkC2GWkAAKjnX.jpg Keep the umbrella handy for the next two days

Thunderstorms, including possible hail, are expected to hit Greater Boston this afternoon, with another round of storms tomorrow.

Colleen Michell, with her son Hanson, struggled with her chip card at a Target store in Dorchester. The cards represent a step up for security and a step down for efficiency.

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New credit card chips are holding up the register

In an on-demand economy where speed is a given, the new chip-card transactions have all the charm of a dial-up modem.

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Nonprofits facing same challenges as for-profit sector

With limited resources and growing community demands, nonprofits need to start thinking more like businesses.

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Opinion & Ideas

OPINION | BILL WELD

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/0608weld.jpg The Libertarian alternative

Gary Johnson and Bill Weld urge voters to give the two classic Jeffersonian liberals a close look.

Life sciences

STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.

The Big Picture

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the big picture

Remembering Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali said ? I am the greatest? and proved it many times over, on the way to becoming perhaps the most widely recognized person on the planet.

Ground Game

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/dc85ea4e-d2f7-4ee9-8207-de6ea23e940e.jpg What the tough primary season means for Clinton

While Americans may not like Hillary Clinton as much as when she was secretary of state, they dislike her GOP opponent even more.

Globe investigations

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight9090-10654.jpg Private schools, painful secrets

More than 200 victims. At least 90 legal claims. At least 67 private schools in New England. This is the story of hundreds of students sexually abused by staffers, and emerging from decades of silence today.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight-9497.jpg Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight?

?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Design New England

Design New England

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/06/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/low_res.png ?This is home?

Keith Leblanc and Kelly Monnahan create a haven for themselves, family, and friends in the piney hills of outer Cape Cod.