The state?s two biggest utilities are shelving a massive $3.2 billion natural gas pipeline project known as Access Northeast until they can find a way to pay for it.
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Republicans hammer Trump over attack on MSNBC host The president called Mika Brzezinski ?low I.Q. Mika? and said she had once been ?bleeding badly from a face-lift? at his club.
This is what Mika Brzezinski actually looked like on New Year?s Eve President Trump said Brzezinski?s face was ?bleeding.? But a photo taken of her that night appears to cast doubt on his statement.
GROUND GAME
Remember Melania Trump?s cyberbullying campaign? Her husband doesn?t either It?s hard to know where to even begin to interpret President Trump?s tweets this morning. But let?s start with his wife?s so-called cyberbullying initiative.
Michael A. Cohen
Somehow, Trump still finds ways to shock us This is quintessential Donald Trump ? nasty, incoherent, childish, pathetically self-directed, and acutely misogynistic.
The GOP?s Better Care Reconciliation Act is really unpopular, and not just because it has a name that is incomprehensible to most Americans.
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Immigration advocates brace for modified travel ban Advocates do not anticipate the level of chaos that ensued at airports after the president?s initial travel ban in January.
Mass. Senate passes hands-free cellphone bill for drivers ? again It?s the second straight year the legislation has passed the Legislature?s upper chamber.
Six questions about how the Legislature will rewrite the new state pot law Details were ? choose your pot pun here ? hazy, being hashed out opaquely, obscured by smoke.
Go to Maine for the holiday fireworks. Stay for the government shutdown Just as tens of thousands are expected to visit Maine for the July 4th holiday, the state government is likely to shut down Friday night.
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KEVIN CULLEN
The six-alarm blaze that left a Dorchester apartment building?s roof collapsed showed that fire can do nothing to gentrification except slow it down.
Bourne police joked with drivers on Facebook Thursday, offering them catapult and zip line options to get to the Cape faster.
Staying connected to co-workers 24/7 is invading vacation time More than a quarter of workers say they are expected to stay on top of work issues when they are on holiday.
Movie Review
In ?Big Sick,? cultures clash ? and love conquers all? Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan star in a comedy that?s about more than just romance.
Universal Studios
Movie Review
Lending this latest installment?s numeral some narrative significance, the movie pits Gru and Dru against a third character.
Isaiah Thomas jumps into Instagram feud with Lance Stephenson Thomas and Stephenson jabbed at each other on the Web over whether Paul George should come from Indiana to Boston.
After public outrage and a survey taken by thousands of people, plans to rebrand the Pioneer Valley as ?West Mass? were officially scrapped.
Ty Burr
Hundreds of film-industry personnel have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, making the membership 13 percent people of color and 28 percent women.
Names
Curt Schilling says he?s thought about running for president ?My thought was, I could run for [the] Senate next year and then I would run for president after Trump?s second term,? he says in a profile just posted on Esquire.com.
Names
Martellus Bennett compared Tom Brady to . . . Prince? The former Pats tight end says the Pats QB is smooooth.
Have an investigative news tip? Do you know about wrongdoing that needs to be exposed? Call the Globe Spotlight team: 617-929-7483 or [email protected].
SCOT LEHIGH
Mark Twain?s lessons for the Trump age Sometimes it?s as though we?re reliving a chapter of ?The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.?
Fifty-nine years of stories from one address With an eye toward the future, the Boston Globe said goodbye to its longtime Dorchester home this week.
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What realtors and sellers are required to disclose to buyers ? and what they aren?t There are only two things state law requires a seller to tell you.
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See how fireworks injuries skyrocket on the Fourth of July The Fourth brings patriotic displays of color, smoke, and sound ? and a slew of emergency room visits from burns or blast wounds.
Performances like Adalberto Mejia?s shutdown effort Wednesday night have been head-scratchingly common this season.
Worcester has paid $475,000 in fees to the lawyers who sued the city of Worcester over a city crackdown on panhandling, city officials said.
The historic brownstone -- with five bedrooms, four baths, two half baths, and 7,554 square feet of living space -- was built in 1890.
Moulton, who represents the North Shore in the House, has adopted a striking change in posture about Pelosi.
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Two analysts and a dealer weigh in.
North Korea on Wednesday vowed to execute South Korea?s former president and her spy director, accusing them of planning to assassinate its supreme leadership.
The thing to know and pass along is that you don?t have to be bullied.
Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell star in this remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film.
Jayson Tatum, Semi Ojeleye, Kadeem Allen, and Jabari Bird presented a ?Music Zone? to band students at the Ohrenberger School in West Roxbury.
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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China is the world?s biggest tea producer, and employs around 80 million people as farmers, pickers and sales people.
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