Commuter rail delays blamed on locomotives

Defects in the MBTA?s newest locomotives have left the system without enough trains to provide full service.

The Trump administration

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When President Trump hosts Chinese leader Xi Jinping at Trump?s Florida estate, he?ll be blending statecraft and free marketing for his business holdings.

A child received treatment at a field hospital after a chemical attack in Syria.

EPA

Ty Burr

Images from Syria too awful to look at, and too important to look away

An image of a young casualty of war is more than a news photograph. It?s a call to our individual consciences.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/05/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/664894012.jpg Here?s how the Senate?s ?nuclear option? works

Neil Gorsuch will likely be confirmed as the new Supreme Court justice Friday, even though Republicans lack the votes to overcome a filibuster.

Local politics

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Tito Jackson apologizes for pushing arm of WGBH reporter

Jackson, a Boston city council member and mayoral candidate, apologized after the station manager sent him a letter of complaint about the incident.

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Facing uncertainty over federal funding, Boston?s mayor proposed a ?smart? $3.14b operating budget that he said better positions the city for any future financial instability.

Columnists

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/05/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/0406joanforweb.jpg ?Fearless Girl? and the hurdles women face in the workplace

A statue of a ponytailed girl staring down a statue of a bull is cast as a catalyst for serious talk about empowering women in the workplace.

Red Sox

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RED SOX 3, PIRATES 0

Red Sox beat Pirates on Sandy Leon?s HR

Leon homered with one out in the 12th inning, giving the Sox the win at Fenway.

Metro

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abraham-9640.jpg Kennedy Institute reveres a Senate that doesn?t exist

Growing numbers of people have lost their faith, unable to imagine the Senate as majestic.

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J. Keith Motley will step down at the end of the academic year amid a cloud of unrest on the campus over its financial problems.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/bagel1.jpg Lawyer in Dunkin? butter case: $90k payout ?not actually profitable?

An attorney explained why a settlement paying $90,000 to lawyers, but just $500 to the man who brought the lawsuit, is not unfair.

Bishop Filipe C. Teixeira (right) of the Immigration Pastoral Center says the Pledge of Allegiance Wednesday during Immigrants? Day.

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

On Immigrants? Day, advocates urge legislators to pass ?sanctuary state? bill

After speeches, a peaceful crowd of about 100 people hoisted signs supporting immigrants in a rally on Boston Common.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wads[1].jpg Quadruplets accepted to both Harvard and Yale

The Wade brothers have all been admitted at some of the nation?s top universities, including each of them to both Yale and Harvard.

Business

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/05/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/1604122_WALKER_uber_00741x.jpg Thousands of current Uber, Lyft drivers fail new background checks

The state said 8,206 drivers out of 70,789 were rejected for infractions ranging from violent crimes and sexual offenses to suspended licenses.

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Massachusetts Port Authority officials can finally add South America to the Logan Airport lineup ? and they?re reaching into their treasure chest of incentives again to pull it off.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/03/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Warwick_BAThero.jpg After a deadly fire, a small town?s trauma remains

When the call went out, none of the Warwick volunteers could have imagined what they?d find.

Investigations

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/03/03/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/AFP_MB3WQ.jpg Documenting Hate: Submit an incident you know about

If you have been a victim or witnessed a hate incident, share your information here so we can investigate.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/05/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Hospice.jpg How does the hospice community overcome African-American distrust?

Medical researchers working to unpack the issue view minority access to hospice care as a matter of social justice.