Harvard panel recommends barring students from final clubs

The recommendation from the faculty committee is the culmination of months of research about how best to punish students who join the organizations.

The advertisement, which also appeared in East Boston, was from Weedmaps, a California-based company that runs an online marijuana dispensary rating service.

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Marijuana billboard in South Boston called ?insensitive?

The incident illustrates the kinds of issues communities could face now that marijuana use has been legalized in Massachusetts.

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/26/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Grads.jpg Why more jobs and degrees won?t reduce poverty

What perverse illogic could keep poor families from the benefits of rising education and more plentiful paychecks?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/tlumacki_tuftsnursesstrike_metro089.jpg Hundreds picket outside Tufts Medical amid nurse strike

The first nurses strike at a major Boston hospital in 31 years got underway Wednesday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/DEjQ4eCXYAAukix.jpg Green Line service resumes after small fire forces evacuations

About 100 people on each of the three trains had to walk through a tunnel downtown.

Gymboree filed for bankruptcy protection last month.

The full list of about 350 Gymboree, Crazy 8, Janie and Jack stores closing

Here?s a list of the stores that are slated to close, including seven in Massachusetts.

This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf.

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The iceberg that broke away from Antartica? It?s 25 times the size of Boston

Don?t worry about it showing up on our shores ? the chances of that ice floating up to Cape Cod are nil.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/07/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/wiggs_Cape_02.jpg Flash flood watch in effect for much of southern Mass.

Much of northern Connecticut and all of Rhode Island are also included in the National Weather Service advisory.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/pike.jpg 1 dead, 2 injured after Mass. Pike crash in Brighton

The crash occurred on Interstate 90 eastbound in Brighton near the New Balance building after 2 p.m.

As the dust settles on an extraordinary news cycle centered on Donald Trump Jr., we?re left with one big question: Where do we go from here?

Richard Drew/Associated Press

GROUND GAME

Want clues as to how the Trump Jr. story will end? Watch these dynamics

For four days, the American political universe found itself captivated by the unfolding drama over his meeting with a Russian lawyer.

Michael A. Cohen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Michael%20Cohen-3867.jpg Fools and hucksters are governing this country

Their very presence in the White House is a daily debasement of the values and traditions that once made America great.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/TRUMP_SON_ADV19_6.jpg Free diamonds, summers in Eastern Europe: 7 weird facts about Donald Trump Jr.

Here are seven things you might not know about the 39-year-old at the center of the latest White House controversy.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/13ad66ed5b244b43b154cc42f5efa37c-13ad66ed5b244b43b154cc42f5efa37c-0.jpg President Trump says Putin favored Clinton for president

Trump tells Christian broadcast station CBN in an interview taped Wednesday that Hillary Clinton would have weakened the US military.

President Donald Trump

The curious case of Trump?s friend Jim

For all things Paris, President Donald Trump?s go-to guy is Jim. But whether Jim exists is unclear.

Tech Lab

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/089413e9df554866b03b0a158de37ae3-089413e9df554866b03b0a158de37ae3-6732.jpg Amazon, other tech giants see profit in shrewd moves downmarket

Amazon?s discount for Prime membership shows the value of wooing low-income consumers.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Mowbray_13shawsword04_met.jpg Mass. Historical Society acquires sword of Robert Gould Shaw

The artifact was discovered in an attic and is being called a ?once-in-a-lifetime? find.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/10/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/Meredith_Goldstein_NewLogo-3183.jpg A dating site matched me with someone I know. Now what?

She likes him but wonders if he swiped on her profile just to be courteous.

Andy Serkis as Caesar (with Devyn Dalton as Cornelius) in ?War for the Planet of the Apes.?

20th Century Fox

Movie Review

In powerful ?War for the Planet of the Apes,? the battle begins

Andy Serkis returns as the ape leader Caesar in this ambitious and often thrilling film.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Garter%20snake-5932373-SXDM-U8328296148427UH--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg Police remove snake from vehicle belonging to man who said he?d rather set fire to his car

An unidentified driver told a dispatcher that he was afraid of snakes and would rather burn his car than touch the garter snake.

State Representative Scott Hamann.

Maine state rep: If Trump gets within 10 feet, he will be a ?half-term president?

The Democrat later deleted the comment, which was posted to Facebook, and released a statement saying his words were ?inappropriate.?

Julian Edelman and Aly Raisman at an ESPN party in Hollywood earlier this week.

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Julian Edelman, Aly Raisman spotted at ESPN party

Each athlete appears nude in ESPN The Magazine?s Body Issue.

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

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Investing.jpg Meet the investors who think they can pick biotech winners by algorithm

Investing in biotech is risky. So one venture capital firm developed an algorithm it claims can pick winners and losers quickly.

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