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A four-star case of failure at Manchester VA

The only hospital for military veterans in N.H. has become ground zero for an extraordinary rebellion led by doctors who say care for their patients is deteriorating fast. By Jonathan Saltzman and Andrea Estes

The Trump presidency

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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the call after John McCain underwent surgery on Friday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/14/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Emin-Instagram_16emin08_met.jpg Tracing a Russian pop singer?s link to Trump

How a four-minute music video was the start of what would become a critical relationship between Donald Trump and a Russian family.

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In Vermont, one man has been tangling with Bernie Sanders for years.

David Williams.

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Yvonne Abraham

A bad apple that can?t be tossed from the barrel

Police officers like David Williams corrode the public trust officers need to do their jobs. And that makes us all less safe.

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?We need to make sure [a contract is] good for the nurses and good for the hospital,? Walsh said Saturday.

?An absolute nightmare? ? Alfred Angelo Bridal closing rattles local brides

?This is the last thing I want to deal with, I thought that bridesmaids dresses would be the easiest thing.?

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New Hampshire, northern Vermont, and Maine will provide the best viewing in New England, predicted one meteorologist.

His parents said he just needed to sleep. A SWAT team came instead

In Hingham, a welfare check on a disconsolate young man with a gun turned into something utterly unimaginable.

YANKEES 4, RED SOX 1 (16 INN.)

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Craig Kimbrel blew the save, and the Red Sox bullpen got a lot of use in the 5-hour, 50-minute battle.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/21/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/22mystic202.jpg Embattled Mystic Valley reported wrong data to state

Neither regulators nor the school?s administrators caught the mistaken information regarding the 2014 school year.

STAT

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Desperate to speed development of a gene therapy that could cure their young son?s deadly disease, a Dedham couple has gone online to raise cash.

Owner Bob Schmertz (left), president Howard Baldwin (center), and coach Jack Kelly (right) with the stand-in for the Avco Cup after winning the WHA title on May 6, 1973.

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KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON SECOND THOUGHT

New England Whalers were pioneers in their own way

The upstart WHA?s inaugural champs will reunite Aug. 5, 44 years after winning the first Avco Cup.

Christopher Muther

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If you?re pondering a visit, don?t assume you need to be Mormon, gay, celibate, or enjoy raw milk to have a good time.

IDEAS | COURTNEY HUMPHRIES

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Today?s dominant architectural form is shiny, seductive, and inefficient.

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Thousands of people gathered at Fenway Park Saturday morning for the eighth annual Run to Home Base.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/07/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/BB-04272MSG.jpg Why Harry Styles was enlisted for ?Dunkirk?

Christopher Nolan set out to make ?an intimate epic? with his latest film.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/IMG_1801.JPG At a Massachusetts wedding, a touching gift for a dying father

?I don?t think they know how important that moment was to me,? said Jessica Otto.

Confidential tips

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Opinion & Ideas

DANTE RAMOS

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Today?s lawmakers aren?t planning for the evolving needs of an aging population. Quite the opposite.

Special reports

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It was a dirty game to start, luring addicts with promises of free treatment. And at the core of the scheme is insurance fraud, blatant and national.

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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/2011-2020/2017/07/14/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Alive%20Hospice.jpg ?Are you saying I?m dying?? Training doctors to speak frankly about death

Doctors are stepping into simulators to practice telling patients the unvarnished truth.