The shake-up on the communications team comes as President Trump is suffering from dismal approval ratings and struggling to advance his agenda.
Trump?s new communications director has Boston-area ties As of Friday, you can find him in the West Wing, but Anthony Scaramucci spent his formative years in the Boston area.
Ground Game
Sean Spicer is out. Now what? Amid a string of humiliating moments that were the hallmark of Sean Spicer?s short tenure, this one was, apparently, the final straw.
How the press, the Easter bunny, and ?SNL? shaped Spicer?s tenure With Sean Spicer?s departure, here?s a look back at six of the strangest moments that shaped his time as press secretary.
Boston hits heat wave with another 90 degree day The heat wave is the third in the city this summer.
McCain?s strength ?will see him through,? says Victoria Kennedy Kennedy offered encouragement to John McCain, who has been diagnosed with the same cancer that claimed the life of her husband.
CAPITAL SOURCE
Charlie Baker to travel west for GOP governors? conference Governor Charlie Baker will attend a Republican Governors Association meeting for four days in Aspen, Colo., a spokesman said Friday.
From Johnson to Nixon, Mass. has historic impeachment role The commonwealth has a tradition when it comes to commanders-in-chief: deposing them. Or at least trying really hard to.
The man allegedly fired shots at Framingham police during a domestic violence incident.
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After a 26-month long restoration project, the USS Constitution will launch back into the Boston Harbor on Sunday.
How to see the USS Constitution when it goes afloat on Sunday Old Ironsides will return to the water after a two-year restoration.
New Hampshire State Trooper Nick Cyr reeled in a 646-pound bluefin tuna while fishing on Tuesday afternoon in waters off Rye Harbor.
Chad Finn
Here?s your official Dave Dombrowski trades report card The trade deadline is approaching, so let?s review the track record of the Red Sox? president of baseball operations.
The Summer of ?67
When 5,000 Red Sox fans swarmed the team bus at Logan It was a team accustomed to being background noise. Then came the summer of 1967, and the Sox became the soundtrack of Boston.
48 people rescued in one day at Hampton Beach At Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, 48 people were rescued from rip currents on Wednesday.
Mansfield rollover crash blamed on texting while driving A Mansfield woman was cited for texting while driving after she crashed her car Friday morning.
Developer of 45-story tower changes plans, will convert some apartments into condos The move to modify the Government Center project is an indication that condominium demand in Boston remains high.
Christopher Muther
A once seedy section of Vegas has found new life thanks to Boston native Ryan Doherty.
A Patriots lineman got an interesting response from Elon Musk about a hyperloop Guard Joe Thuney wanted to know if the proposed hyperloop might someday include stops in Boston or Providence.
Names
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. is ?working on plans to usher [Affleck] out? as the Caped Crusader.
Professionals who exposed Flint water crisis win first MIT ?Disobedience? award The $250,000 prize was established to reward whistleblowers and activists whose work bucked conventional wisdom for social good.
Ty Burr
Movies worth finding on Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes Since it?s a slow week, and a hot one, here?s Ty Burr?s latest rundown of what he?s been finding interesting on the various streaming menus lately.
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Opinion | John Shattuck and Kathryn Sikkink
The US turns its back on human rights Shuttering the Office of Global Criminal Justice would signal that we are no longer concerned about deterring atrocities.
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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.
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The Red Sox begin a West Coast trip Friday at 10:07 p.m., with Chris Sale on the mound.
The injuries kept a fugitive in pain until he died and his wife buried him in their Dartmouth backyard, an official said.
We bought our first house in 1970. It was listed as a "handyman special," and the ad was not deceiving.
President Trump has denounced The New York Times as ?fake news,? yet he?s granted more interviews there save for Fox News.
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The 2017 Jeep Wrangler starts at $23,995, and the Rubicon model begins at $39,145.
French President Emmanuel Macron promised an ?unprecedented? hike in defense spending next year.
Former police officer Martha Shea now heads the community organization ClearPath.
As AI agents begin forming their own languages, one question remains: Are they talking about me?
The film is wonderful, dopey, high-summer space nonsense from the madman behind ?The Fifth Element? and ?Lucy.?
Chris Welles never expected to get into the fashion game but his life changed in 2007 after a summer safari to Kenya.
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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A look at the long offensive against the Islamic State fighters to retake the city of Mosul in Iraq. Thousands of civilians were killed and nearly 900,000 displaced.
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