Hundreds face off in white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

Rally supporters and counter-protesters screamed, chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other Saturday morning.

The Trump presidency

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Chinese President Xi Jinping made a plea for cool-headedness over tensions with North Korea in a phone conversation with President Trump on Saturday.

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??I fight on the front lines every day,?? Omarosa Manigault-Newman said, prompting gasps of disbelief from people in the audience. ??If you?re not at the table, you?re on the menu.??

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Even as the conflict seems to escalate, Bostonians aren?t exactly tightening their gas masks just yet.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/22/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/wiggs_Students_01.jpg Mystic Valley charter school drops ban on hair extensions

The handbook sent to parents Friday from the school no longer bans hair extensions, hair that is more than 2 inches in thickness or height, or shaved sides.

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A new study that assessed costs over a seven-year span concludes sick patients are placing a greater strain on an overmatched health system.

From left, a woman who declined to giver her name, Scott

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As homelessness rises, Salem debates solutions

The city now has between 60 and 80, including 13 chronically homeless individuals who account for 1,000 calls to the police a year.

Sunny, dry weather forecast for week ahead

Sunny skies with highs in the 70s are expected today and Sunday.

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John Garzia had been diving for decades, said Ursula Guyer. It was his main hobby. He went every Wednesday, she said.

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The home at 43 Cedar St. in North Cambridge was ?in a tremendous amount of disrepair? and had been condemned for quite some time.

Photos of ?women computers? Williamina Fleming (top left) and Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

Bringing to light what ?women computers? did

One woman, after being abandoned while pregnant by her husband, got a job as a maid and ended up discovering the Horsehead Nebula.

Concert review

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James Taylor played at Fenway Park for the third straight year, and he once again had Bonnie Raitt for an hour-long opening set.

Boston MA 5/13/17 Boston Red Sox Chris Sale delivers a pitch against the Tampa Bay Rays during first inning action at Fenway Park. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff)

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Chris Sale?s biggest Cy Young competition? Corey Kluber

The Red Sox ace seemed like slam-dunk winner before Kluber started his second-half surge.

Yankees 5, Red Sox 4

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New York erased a 3-0 deficit with a five-run eruption in the bottom of the eighth, ending the Sox win streak at eight games.

Nestor Ramos

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/comp.jpg We spent a day eating convenience store food. What could go wrong?

Finding decent food at Boston-area gas stations and convenience stores isn?t always convenient.

Abbott-Action has a state of the art corrugated box making facility. A worker checks the label on one of the stacks of precut boxes that are ready to be shipped out. The boxes lie flat in the stacks and are folded into boxes by the clients.

Why online shopping may not save the cardboard box

Online shopping may be a game-changer for the cardboard industry, and for recycling habits.

A Perseid meteor streaked across the sky in Norfolk.

David Epstein

How to watch the Perseid meteor shower this weekend

This year, the peak of the Perseids will occur in the predawn hours of Aug. 11, 12, and 13.

Construction at The Beverly in Boston.

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What price is affordable? Luxury apartments at a discount ? sort of

The Beverly, set to open near North Station early next year, isn?t quite like all the other luxury housing that has sprouted up in downtown Boston recently.

Miss Conduct

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How far must we go in helping out the people next door?

Taylor Swift had testified that a former radio DJ reached under her skirt and intentionally grabbed her backside in 2013.

Judge throws out DJ?s case against Taylor Swift in groping trial

Taylor Swift had testified that a former radio DJ reached under her skirt and intentionally grabbed her backside in 2013.

The police in Lawrence, Kan., have a few tips for college students

The department?s tweets are directed at its local University of Kansas students, but the advice is applicable to college campuses everywhere.

Investigations

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/03/03/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/AFP_MB3WQ.jpg Documenting Hate: Submit an incident you know about

If you have been a victim or witnessed a hate incident, share your information here so we can investigate.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/11/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Nuclear.jpg The feds are on an unusual mission here: getting locals to trust science

Fear haunts a community near a nuclear plant. So the U.S. is having scientists explain to locals why they should trust in science.