ITALY EARTHQUAKES
At least 23 people were killed in the earthquake, which struck during the overnight hours.
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A man leaned on the rubble of buildings in Amatrice, Italy.
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A woman held a child while standing on a street in Amatrice.
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Rescue teams surveyed the destruction in Amatrice.
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An aerial view of Amatrice after the earthquake.
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A man examined the damage in Pescara del Tronto.
Photos: Central Italy devastated by quakeA number of towns suffered heavy damage in Wednesday?s earthquake.
Pope Francis offers prayers for quake victimsThe pontiff skipped his catechism lesson during his general audience and instead led pilgrims in praying the rosary.
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Some knitting enthusiasts are firing up a movie or television series and getting to work on a pair of, say, alpaca-wool socks.
Scott Brown denies accusations made in Fox News lawsuitA former host at the network says Brown made sexually inappropriate comments and put his hands on her lower waist.
Starting today, some Boston officers will train with body camerasA group of 100 officers chosen from the program come from a variety of the city?s neighborhoods.
Trump behind Clinton, past GOP nominees, in Mass. fund-raisingTrump raised just $674,122 from the Bay State so far, only 6 percent of Clinton?s $10.8 million.
Many who met with Clinton gave to her foundationAt least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or spoke with Hillary Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her charity.
Michael A. Cohen
Clinton?s e-mail ?scandals? are pure fictionOnce you get past the breathless headlines, there?s no evidence of actual wrongdoing.
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SCOT LEHIGH
This is a summer that has shown American politics at its democracy-affirming best.
Medical errors persist, despite increased scrutinyPreventable medical errors reported by Mass. full-service hospitals grew 60 percent in 2015.
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Graduate students can now form unions at universitiesPrivate universities must now accept unions formed by graduate students who conduct research and help teach classes.
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Growing wildfires closed or threaten key roads at Yellowstone and Grand Teton, and forced the campground evacuations.
And then there was one . . . HoJo?s making its last standOne of the last two Howard Johnson restaurants will close in a couple of weeks, taking with it a slice of roadside Americana.
Beverly sloop stuck on sandbar at Gloucester beachThe boat won?t be able to move from the channel until high tide early Wednesday.
There?s been another ?Wessie? the snake sighting in MaineEarl White doesn?t care what people say, he knows what he saw ? he even took a picture of it.
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Liberal, moderate, or conservative? See how Facebook labels youThe social network has come up with its own determination of your political leanings.
A huge crack is spreading across one of Antarctica?s biggest ice shelvesAntarctica could lose a piece of ice that is nearly the size of Scotland.
STAN GROSSFELD
Roger Clemens takes the mound again, in KansasClemens and ex-Red Sox members Josh Beckett and J.D. Drew played in a recent National Baseball Congress event.
Starbucks can put as much ice in your coffee as it wantsA federal judge in California shut down a class-action lawsuit alleging the coffee giant misleads its customers.
JEFF JACOBY
Have more kids; save the worldPopulation doomsayers get lots of attention, but the doom they predict invariably fails to materialize.
Private schools, painful secrets
The unexpected price of reporting abuse: retaliationThe Globe found 15 instances of retaliation at New England private schools against students or employees who raised concerns about sexual abuse by staffers.
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.
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The residents of Louisiana continue to deal with the disastrous affects of historic flooding that killed at least 17 and destroyed about 60,000 homes.
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Judge Thomas Estes recently sentenced a teenager to probation for sexually assaulting two classmates in April.
A disgraced former state representative is trying to get his old seat back, but are his tactics ethical or legal?
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