An effort to ban public funding of abortion in Mass. is underway

Massachusetts is one of 17 states where public money is used to fund abortions for low-income women. Now, some activists are hoping to change that.

The ART Institute is housed within the American Repertory Theater in the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge.

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Harvard theater school to go on ?three-year hiatus?

In the latest setback for the troubled ART Institute, it will stop accepting new students for three years as leadership works on ?a strategic plan.?

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Spotlight

At a four-star veterans? hospital: Care gets ?worse and worse?

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.

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/16/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/horowitz-6825.jpg CBO changed the health care debate. Think what it could do about marijuana in Mass.

A marijuana tax in Mass. can bring in revenue, although if it?s too high, it could spur a black market. So what?s the right number?

The Trump presidency

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/16/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/AP17196684129897.jpg President Trump cites media?s ?fraudulent reporting?

The president also defended the actions of son Donald Jr.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/18/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/AP_724091189189.jpg President?s lawyer says meeting with Russians wasn?t ?nefarious?

A member of President Trump?s legal team said Sunday that there was nothing improper in Donald Trump Jr.?s meeting with a Russian lawyer.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/16/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/36b63b84f91646bb9954b1b71775b914-36b63b84f91646bb9954b1b71775b914-0.jpg Investigator found Seattle Mayor Ed Murray sexually abused foster son in 1984, report says

Three decades before Ed Murray was elected Seattle?s mayor, a child-welfare investigator found that he had sexually abused his foster son.

CAMBRIDSGE, MA - 7/14/2017:A view of a pizza restaurant in Harvard Sq. A popular DC pizza place has asked Cambridge officials who won't allow them to open in a vacant Harvard Square space at 1-8 Brattle Street . There's too much pizza in Harvard Square, according to the Board of Zoning Appeals, thanks to their fierce protection of the neighborhood's essential character and secret infighting in the trust that has owned the building for nearly a centuy -- it will very likely become ... another bank. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO TOPIC15nestor

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In Cambridge, there is such a thing as too much pizza

&pizza could well be the last hope of turning the corner into something attractive and fun for the thousands who pour through the area daily.

Yankees 3, Red Sox 0

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/16/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/RinaldiRedSox10.jpg Red Sox embarrassing offensively in shutout loss to Yankees

The Sox mustered only four hits, grounded into 14 outs, and had six infield popups.

adrian walker

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/walker-12106.jpg The state and TD Garden cut a deal, and promptly forgot all about it

There is blame to go around - but more importantly, there is a way to make this right.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abraham-12052.jpg 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.

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.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/10/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_vertexscholars1_met.jpg Two immigrants will get full-ride scholarships to UMass

Cuishan Mei and Sayed Shah received full-ride scholarships to attend college from Vertex.

Game of Thrones

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?Game of Thrones? is back tonight. Here?s a recap of where we left off

When ?Game of Thrones? returns to HBO for its seventh season on Sunday, it will feature fewer episodes and a more concentrated focus.

Television

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/gilbert-5723.jpg Please! Don?t kill off these ?Game of Thrones? characters

We know there will be death during season seven. But for the good of the show, ?Game of Thrones? writers, let these five live.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/16/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Bedford_170716_TUFTS_NURSES_003.jpg ?We never thought it would come to this point?

Tufts officials said there was an alleged attack on buses carrying replacement nurses flown to Boston to care for patients during the nurses? strike.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/07/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/BB-04272MSG.jpg ?Dunkirk? tells the story of an epic chapter in World War II

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

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/01/08/BostonGlobe.com/Boston/WebLinked/2017-01-25/Boston/WebLinked/2017-01-25/Boston/WebLinked/2017-01-22/Boston/Images/TS-DV1441898.jpg Want to see the aurora tonight? Go north for the show.

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

//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.

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

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/14/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/dante-3892.jpeg Freedom ? another name for less coverage, more paperwork

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.