Visa program offers promise to the poor ? then breaks it

The $900 million Echelon Seaport project on Seaport Boulevard will feature luxury condos and apartments.

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It?s not clear what, if anything, the project will do for parts of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan.

The Trump presidency

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President Trump said the new sanctions will have a ?very big financial impact.?

President Trump.

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Trump takes break with ?working vacation?

President Trump spent the first full day of his ?working vacation? quietly on Saturday.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abrahamy-9820.jpg In a Malden classroom, a lesson on immigration

Many economists say drastically cutting immigration hurts the economy for everyone.

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Fractures in the GOP from 2016 ? largely papered over after Donald Trump?s surprising victory ? are reopening.

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The Red Sox analyst was arrested following an incident in January at his home in California.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/unnamed-9779.jpg After family outcry, sick vet gets room at VA hospital

A sick Navy veteran in desperate need of specialized care in Boston spent days in limbo in a hospital in Bangor, his family says.

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The Russian president wants you to know he loves the outdoors.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Clipboard-9826.jpg Melrose man wanted for attempted murder, police say

John C. Ferreira, 54, should be considered armed and dangerous, and may be traveling with a Rottweiler, police said Saturday night.

12-year-old girl struck by alleged drunk driver in South Boston

Richard Higgins, 78, of Attleboro was arrested and charged with drunk driving, third offense, officials said.

New Hampshire man killed in construction accident

John Davis, 55, of Concord, was killed after he lost control of a dirt roller Saturday morning, officials said.

Dracut, Ma., 06/08/17, It's been over 100 days since Noelia has had skilled nursing help. She carries her 78-pound daughter up the stairs to begin the evening's bed-time rituals. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

Alone and untrained, a mother becomes nurse for her daughter with disabilities

Noelia Ferreira wants her Abi, born with a rare genetic defect, to know comfort and joy and never an institution. But low state pay rates for nurses who could help have left her alone as caregiver ? exhausted, fearful, and desperate. By Jenna Russell | Photos by Suzanne Kreiter

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_eclipse2_met.jpg For the total solar eclipse, they?re off to the land of the vanishing sun

Area residents are traveling all over the country to make sure that they?re within the ?path of totality? during the celestial event.

This Week in Weed

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Is the salary for the state?s top marijuana regulator too low? That and more in the debut edition of This Week in Weed.

RED SOX 4, WHITE SOX 1

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Andrew Benintendi and Jackie Bradley Jr. hit two-run homers to back Drew Pomeranz in the Sox? fifth straight win.

GARY WASHBURN | SUNDAY BASKETBALL NOTES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/21/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/lee_chicagobos1_spts.jpg Jaylen Brown?s trip for the NBA Africa Game continues his quest to become a leader

The Celtics? rising young star embraces his experiences overseas before playing in the NBA Africa Game.

Bob Ryan

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Encouraging any young person to play football is projecting them into a world fraught with physical danger.

Reenactors Stephen and Jeanne Keith posed for a portrait during the World War I Living History Weekend.

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Fort Devens marks 100th anniversary of the base and US entry into World War I

?The reason I do reenacting is the connection to ancestors,? said Robert Stack, standing in World War I doughboy attire.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/06panmasschallenge06a.jpg Thousands of cyclists take off in first day of the 38th Pan-Mass Challenge

More than 5,300 cyclists took off Saturday morning in the 2017 Pan-Mass Challenge, raising money for patient care and cancer research.

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?We don?t live in fear of the great storms. We respect them,? Mr. Albert told viewers.

Concert review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/31/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/AFP_QM8GV.jpg In Foxborough, Coldplay?s offer has new meanings

But if there was plenty that was familiar, the world has changed between then and now.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/dT2%20(1).jpg ?There are other worlds than these.?

Stephen King has created many worlds and many of them he has connected, in ways big and small, with the ?Dark Tower? series acting as the linchpin.

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/2011-2020/2017/08/04/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Jen%20Gunter.jpg This gynecologist is taking on Trump, Goop ? and wacky health trends

Careening between empathy, outrage, and snark, Dr. Jen Gunter wants to protect women?s health and take down pseudoscience.