The Trump presidency

Comey declines to testify before Senate panel, aides say

Former FBI director James Comey has declined to testify before a Senate Intelligence Committee, aides said.

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

The betrayal of James Comey

It helps to imagine the Trump-Comey episode as a kind of Shakespearean drama.

President Richard Nixon in 1973.

Henry Burroughs/Associated Press/File

Essay

?Nixon speed-dating? with Donald Trump

It took Nixon five years and six months to get to the ?Saturday Night Massacre.? It took Trump little more than 100 days.

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President Trump said ?perfect accuracy? from his surrogates isn?t possible.

Michael A. Cohen

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The president openly acknowledged that the Russia investigation was the key factor in his decision to fire James Comey.

Metro

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/03/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/exeter_09.jpg Former Exeter official pleads guilty to abusing prospective student

Arthur Peekel agreed to pay a $1,200 fine, participate in counseling and sex offender evaluation, and register as a sex offender for the next decade.

Business

Talking Points

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A roundup of the most important business news from Friday.

Lynn commuter rail station to be open to public as 1,200 new apartments are built there

This deal would open Lynn?s Riverworks Commuter Rail station to the public and build about 1,200 apartments there.

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The troubled retailer has been closing dozens of other Sears and Kmart stores around the country.

The ashes of Dr. Richard Field and Dr. Lina Bolanos were carried by mourners from the Gate of Heaven Church in South Boston.

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Mourners gather to remember slain South Boston doctors

Angel Feliz, who met Lina Bolanos through her aunt, said the ceremony was ?very, very emotional.?

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An extensive cyberattack struck computers across a wide swath of Europe and Asia on Friday, and strained the public health system in Britain.

Game Changers

Philanthropy

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/18/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/greenhouse_19bloomberg-5_business.jpg Michael Bloomberg hasn?t forgotten Boston, and his recent donations show it

The multibillionaire son of Medford gives back ? and then some. Just ask the Museum of Science and Harvard University.

Trade group slams Malden school that punished black students over hairstyle

The Mystic Valley Regional Charter School disciplined black and biracial students because of hairstyles that violate the school?s dress code policy.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/11/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/image.jpg Looking for a product boost? Call it ?unicorn?

Why has the mythical horned creature become a pop-culture fad again?

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The pig was safely rescued after wandering the streets of Melrose about 8 a.m Wednesday.

Names

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The host is dealing with a medical issue.

Graduate Kyle Gathers at Ben Franklin Institute Technology.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

Commencement speaker defies odds: ?I?m supposed to be dead?

Kyle Gathers will take the stage to address his classmates and instructors at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology on Saturday.

Dave Epstein

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreier_strangeclouds1_met-9457-U83495639162sdG--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg An unusual Mother?s Day nor?easter is set to hit this weekend

From Saturday evening through much of Sunday it?s going to be wet. Just how wet and how windy remains somewhat in question.

Lifestyle

THINGS TO DO

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/11/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/kids.jpg The Weekender: WikiLeaks, New Kids, and the great Goldie Hawn

The Globe?s picks for everything fun this weekend.

Trump Today

President Donald Trump spoke in the Rose Garden last week.

Shifting stories on the Comey firing

President Donald J. Trump contradicted his top aides and the vice president on his reasons for firing FBI Director James Comey.

Opinion & Ideas

Renée Graham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/12/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/AftVVuEU-1070.jpg The ?Badfellas? presidency rolls on

This presidency operates like a criminal enterprise, the likes of which we?ve only witnessed in Martin Scorsese gangster films.

Special reports

Special section | Game Changers

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/11/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/gamechangershoriz-6383.jpg Fifty-one bright ideas and breakthroughs for 2017

In a revolutionary place like Boston, innovators and innovations are as common as bad drivers. See who made our annual list.

Newsletters

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An afternoon recap of the day?s most important business news, delivered Monday through Friday.

Address: Spring House Hunt

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In America, everyone who has a cellphone thinks they are a professional photographer. They are not.

Investigations

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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/2011-2020/2017/05/12/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Caregiver.jpg I didn?t want to bear witness to my mother?s anguish. But how could I not?

I didn?t want to watch my mother writhe in pain. But I cared for her. Did I help? I don?t know. But I was there.

Real Estate

Peek inside four homes that sold for over $2 million in Greater Boston this week

The big sales in the Greater Boston area this week were all in the $2 million range, but the homes span quite a range of shape, space, and style.