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Spotlight

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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The president also defended the actions of son Donald Jr.

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

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

//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.

epa06087024 French President Emmanuel Macron (C-L) shakes hands with US President Donald J. Trump, next to Macron's wife Brigitte Macron (L) and US First Lady Melania Trump, during the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, France, 14 July 2017. The Bastille Day, the French National Day, is held annually on 14 July to commemorate the storming of the Bastille fortress in 1789. EPA/CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / POOL MAXPPP OUT

Macron says his charm offensive may soften Trump?s climate stance

French President Emmanuel Macron said his overtures toward Donald Trump may have changed the US president?s mind about climate change.

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

Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani spoke in 2014, after receiving the Fields Medal.

Harvard-trained math scholar, only woman to win Fields Medal, dies

Dr. Mirzakhani grew up in Tehran and came to Harvard in 1999.

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.

Boston, MA - 7/16/2017 - Nursing staff and supporters walk a picket line in front of Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA, July 16, 2017. The nurses were locked out by the hospital after a one day strike. (Keith Bedford/Globe Staff)

Tufts hospital officials say buses carrying replacement nurses were attacked

A spokeswoman for the the union representing the picketing nurses said its officials were not aware of the incident and denounced it.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/13/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/tlumacki_patriotspractice_sports606seqn}.jpg Watch a teenage Tom Brady describe himself as a high school quarterback

As a senior at Junípero Serra High School in 1994, Brady was featured as one of the ?Bay Area?s hottest young players? by a local TV station.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/16/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/AFP_QN34J.jpg Roger Federer drops Marin Cilic to claim record eighth Wimbledon title

Federer won in straight sets to claim his 19th Grand Slam singles title.

Alex Speier

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Missing bullpen pieces represent a potential domino effect that could have considerable consequences.

//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.

Man is fatally shot in Roxbury

The man, who was in his 20s, died at the scene of the shooting near Kendall Street and Shawmut Avenue on Saturday night.

Sam and Taylor Sabky with their son Purnell, recently diagnosed with a rare genetic disease.

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STAT

Family races to raise money for research no one will fund

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.

An ever-changing view of windows in the Seaport District.

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IDEAS | COURTNEY HUMPHRIES

Why is every new building in Boston made of glass?

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

//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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Do you know about wrongdoing that needs to be exposed? Call the Globe Spotlight team: 617-929-7483 or [email protected].

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

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/06/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/SOBER_HOME_DELRAY_09.jpg Some people seeking help for opioid abuse are lost in a circle of lies

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.