Judge says Sessions can?t deny grant money for sanctuary cities

Attorney General Jeff Sessions cannot follow through with his threat to withhold public safety grant money to sanctuary cities, a judge says.

Boston Red Sox assistant athletic trainer Jon Jochim looks on from the dugout before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park in Boston, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

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Red Sox (and Yankees) fined in sign-stealing investigation

The investigation stemmed from the Yankees accusing the Sox of stealing catchers? signs with the aid an Apple Watch.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Ransom_12homicide01_met.jpg Dorchester man charged in two killings last weekend

A reputed gang member has been charged with fatally shooting a man on the Southeast Expressway and murdering a woman in his home hours later.

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All four had to be hospitalized, according to police.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/Senter_16schoolresist08_met.jpg When anxiety keeps kids from school

School refusal is an issue that has only recently earned wider recognition, but one that school administrators say is a persistently vexing problem.

The Trump presidency

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Groups of Harvard Law scholars, feminist lawyers, and other university professors had long argued that the Obama-era policy for policing student sexual charges was unfair.

Michael A Cohen

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Norms that once held our democracy together are getting trampled.

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Nancy Pelosi reportedly found herself in a position that might be familiar to working women: She was being interrupted by the men around her.

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The Institute of Politics runs what?s called the Visiting Fellows program, which each semester invites ?prominent? political practitioners to the university.

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Prosecutors charged Jason Stockley with murder for killing Anthony Lamar Smith in December 2011.

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An explosion at a train station sent commuters stampeding at the height of Friday?s morning rush hour.

Ken Rhodes?s shot of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Shutterstock

Picture this: Your vacation photo making it big (and earning you a little cash)

Microstock is a community-driven facet of stock photography that allows photographers of all levels to submit their work for profit.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Chin111116DawnOates_Met3.jpg Brookline private school reaches settlement over claims it barred a disabled child

The family of a 5-year-old girl said their daughter was barred admission to a prestigious school but was ahead of her peers cognitively.

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Mike Lamagna was fishing on his paddleboard when a humpback whale appeared just a few feet away from him.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/AFP_Q05JH.jpg Graphic: What?s the best way to nap?

Lately napping has garnered new respect, thanks to solid scientific evidence that midday dozing benefits both mental acuity and overall health.

talking points

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The region?s fossil-fuel power plant owners hope a lawsuit of their own can stop greenhouse gas emission rules from taking effect.

GROUND GAME

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Holding a vote would serve the political purposes of basically every member of the Senate, admittedly for very different reasons.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/15/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/RinaldiPatriots03-12993.jpg Hightower, Amendola, and Slater are out for Sunday

The Patriots also listed Vincent Valentine as out and three players as questionable for the game in New Orleans.

Kevin O?Brien/The TB12 Method

Here?s what Tom Brady eats on an ?average day?

As he as done in the past, Brady advocates eating ?real foods? and achieving balance ? almost to an extreme.

The latest projected storm track predicted the storm will come close to Nantucket.

Jose heads for East Coast; rip currents expected locally

Massachusetts officials say they are keeping an eye on Hurricane Jose, which is expected to churn up high surf in New England.

Love Letters

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Ever since he messaged about his girlfriend, I?ve been weirdly jealous, and I keep having sex dreams about him.

Dinner with Cupid

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/cupid0917_Comp.jpg Blind date: ?Everyone at the restaurant had been anticipating this date?

Will professing their mutual love of ice cream lead to a sweet romance ? or stone cold rejection?

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/30/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Strobe-Getty_Goveandrichardson01_spt.jpg A hockey pro dies, and coach he said raped him is free

David Gove, a former Cape Cod hockey prodigy, is dead at 38. Felony charges have been dropped against the coach he said raped him as a boy.

Newsletters

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Witness the birth of the marijuana industry in Massachusetts and catch up on national pot headlines every Saturday.

Opinion & Ideas

Ideas | Sage Stossel

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It seems nature?s elements have turned against us.

Fall Arts Preview 2017

Fall Arts preview

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A complete guide to movies, music, books, arts, theater, and family events in the Greater Boston area this season.

Nation & World

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A silent march in memory of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire was held Thursday.

Grenfell fire inquiry opens amid ?sense of anger and betrayal?

LONDON ? A major public inquiry into the deadliest fire in Britain in more than a century opened on Thursday, with the retired judge who is leading the investigation citing a ?sense of anger and betrayal? among former residents of Grenfell Tower in London, which was engulfed in flames in June.

Lifestyle

Isabelle Pitrowski (with her mom and her dog Lily) missed almost all of her seventh grade year due to anxiety about school.

When anxiety keeps kids from school

School refusal is an issue that has only recently earned wider recognition, but one that school administrators say is a persistently vexing problem.