2017 Emmy Awards

Holyoke?s Ann Dowd was emotional while accepting her award.

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Holyoke?s Ann Dowd was emotional while accepting her award.

Kate McKinnon kissed her outstanding supporting actress in a comedy statue.

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Kate McKinnon kissed her outstanding supporting actress in a comedy statue.

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Nicole Kidman reacted after being honored for her role in ?Big Little Lies.?

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Donald Glover?s win at Sunday?s Emmys was historic.

Elisabeth Moss and ?The Handmaid?s Tale? cast cleaned up.

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Elisabeth Moss and ?The Handmaid?s Tale? cast cleaned up.

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The Emmys got it right this time

?The Handmaid?s Tale? and ?Big Little Lies? were among the big winners, and well-deserving.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/18/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/848697334.jpg Donald Glover breaks new ground with Emmy win

He?s the first black director to triumph in the comedy series category.

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The Holyoke actress was honored for her performance in ?The Handmaid?s Tale.?

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Samira Wiley and Samantha Bee got much different reactions.

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With Stephen Colbert as host, it was no surprise that the president was targeted.

Alec Baldwin, left, and Hilaria Baldwin arrive at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

No surprise: Baldwin goes after Trump
Host Stephen Colbert dances onstage during the 69th Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theatre on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. / AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BrownFREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images

Colbert monologue was a hit
Aziz Ansari (left) and Lena Waithe accepted outstanding writing for a comedy series for 'Master of None' (episode 'Thanksgiving').

Lena Waithe also makes history
John Oliver accepts the award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for

Oliver, Chapelle pushed this hashtag
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Patriots 36, Saints 20

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

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Ever since February 2002, the New Orleans stadium has been New England football?s holy land.

New Orleans, LA: September 17, 2017: Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski (left) is attended to by wide reciever Chris Hogan (right) after Gronkowski was tackled after a third quarter catch. He appeared to grab his knee, and he left the field and did not return to action for the rest of the game. The New England Patriots visited the New Orleans Saints in a regular season NFL football game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff).

Gronk joins the Patriots? walking wounded contingent

The star tight end suffered a groin injury in Sunday?s victory. Other casualties were Rex Burkhead, Phillip Dorsett, and Eric Rowe.

8 Marie St. in Dorchester (center) is under renovation while the two neighboring buildings on either side remain boarded up.

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Problem properties often bring down neighborhoods

Amid Boston?s housing boom, hundreds of dilapidated homes, often magnets for crime, can pose dangers.

Opinion | John F. Kerry

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Extreme weather events aren?t partisan events.

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Jann Wenner started the magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers in the 1960s.

?Underperforming? city schools could be intervention targets

Twenty-six Boston schools with low standardized test scores could have their principals and teachers removed.

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The four Boston College juniors are enrolled in the school?s programs in Paris and Copenhagen. They were on a weekend trip.

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The marijuana war has gone local, and pot advocates are losing ? badly.

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The marijuana services firm is the first pot-related company to join the Boston-area?s chamber of commerce.

Malden MA 9/17/17 Karter Zaher (cq), left and Jae Deen (cq) form the hip hop group Deen Squad performing at the second annual New England Muslim Festival at Cambridge Health Alliance. (Photo by Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff)

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?Come hang out with a Muslim. Realize we?re human, too?

Sunday?s event in Malden sought to build bridges across faiths and erode negative stereotypes of Islam.

Sean P. Murphy | The Fine Print

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What Kathie Florsheim learned on Canon?s website stopped her in her tracks.

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??I did the best I could in my circumstances to make an ethical decision,?? Manning said Sunday at a conference on Nantucket.

This image made available by the NOAA-NASA GOES Project shows tropical weather systems Hurricane Norma, left, on the Pacific Ocean side of Mexico; Jose, center, east of Florida; Tropical Depression 15, second from right, north of South America, and Tropical Storm Lee, right, north of eastern Brazil, on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017 at 2:45 p.m. EDT. (NOAA-NASA GOES Project via AP)

Dave Epstein | On Weather

What we can expect from Hurricane Jose

Jose is headed north, but its effect on New England isn?t yet certain.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_foreriverbridge1_met.jpg Here at last, here at last: A permanent Fore River Bridge

The span replaces a temporary structure that?s been in place for 15 years.

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The Rev. Mario Conte can often be found traveling with one or two relics of Saint Anthony stowed away in special containers inside his carry-on luggage.

Special reports

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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

EDITORIAL

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The court has ordered a reasonable exception to the Baker administration policy on placing homeless families in motels.

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.

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].

STAT

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Dr. Vinay Prasad crusades for the principle that scientific evidence, not hope or hype, should guide medical practice.

Crossword

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Puzzled? Keep trying and see if you can triumph.

Globe must-reads

President Trump and Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin (above) have encouraged more VA whistle-blowers to come forward.

SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW-UP

VA hospitals flooded with complaints about care

Lady Gaga postpones European tour
New Orleans, LA: September 17, 2017: Patriots quarterback Tom Brady fires a pass in the second quarter. The New England Patriots visited the New Orleans Saints in a regular season NFL football game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff).

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

Saints found out man coverage isn?t the answer
18weekahead - The 3rd Annual BIG Tiny House Festival will be presented Sept. 23 and 24 by MirandaÕs Hearth, a nonprofit community building organization in Greater Boston. (Handout)

the week ahead

Tired of McMansions? Check out these tiny houses
The Boston Globe?s new printing plant in Taunton has been plagued by a host of mechanical problems.

One problem after another for Globe presses
Margaret Farmer (right) has lived in East Boston for roughly 15 years.

Changing Charlestown is now political battleground
National security adviser H.R. McMaster speaks during a news briefing at the White House, in Washington, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

McMaster says no redo on Paris climate deal decision
Cruz Bay, St. John -- 9/14/2017 - William de Leon sorts through the remnants of an office on Estate Lindholm destroyed by Hurricane Irma, a hotel in the Cruz Bay section of St. John. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: Reporter:

Big hurdles ahead for tourism on Virgin Islands
Bakers Island Light Station

Alight on Bakers Island for the ultimate getaway

Entree might come with side of sticker shock
Students held up signs about rape during new student orientation in Sept. 2015 on the Stanford University campus.

Yvonne Abraham

Campus rape solution remains elusive
17toronto - A group of students new to The University of Toronto walk across the lawn in front of King's College at the U of T at the conclusion of a campus tour for foreign students lead by volunteers from the university's Centre for International Experience in Toronto, ON on Friday, September 8, 2017. (Peter Power for the Boston Globe)

Increasingly, foreign students are choosing Canada over the US

Sports

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Boston Red Sox's Xander Bogaerts, left, and Rafael Devers cannot stop a ground ball single hit by Tampa Bay Rays' Evan Longoria that drove in Jesus Sucre from third base during the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius)

Rays 3, Red Sox 2

John Farrell left Eduardo Rodriguez in one batter too long

Jesus Sucre?s homer off Rodriguez in the sixth inning turned out to be the difference on Sunday.

Metro

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Able-bodied MIT students used wheelchairs to get around the Cambridge campus last week.

MIT class focuses on life lived on wheels

When it comes to using a wheelchair or navigating hallways with impaired vision, most MIT students don?t know where to begin.

Real Estate

Maine Governor Paul LePage?s home back on the market for double the price

Set right across the street from the water, this three-bedroom, three-bath, 2,237-square-foot home in Boothbay, Maine, is listed for $409,000 ? and it is owned by Governor Paul LePage and his wife, Anne.

Politics

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Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks onstage during the 69th Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theatre on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. / AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BrownFREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images

Watch Sean Spicer?s surprising Emmys appearance

?This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period,? Spicer said.

Cars

Search This Week's Specials

You won't believe the apps used by distracted drivers

DAYTON, Ohio -- Google Maps is the top phone app used by drivers when driving, but others have been found to use Facebook, Twitter and Netflix while behind the wheel, according to TrueMotion, a Boston-based company that studies drivers habits.

Columnists

ALEX BEAM

Our (un)imperiled democracy
Students held up signs about rape during new student orientation in Sept. 2015 on the Stanford University campus.

Yvonne Abraham

Campus rape solution remains elusive
A web-connected vending machine from the company Bodega.

Renée Graham

Keep your hands off my bodega, Bodega
Among the officers of the USS Lindenwald in 1956 was Lieutenant Elihu Schimmel.

JEFF JACOBY

In the Arctic Circle, a Cold War Rosh Hashana
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks during a news conference at Fenway Park before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays in Boston on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

It?s time for baseball to overhaul The Code
Newton, MA - 8/31/2017 - Dr. Suzanne Miller, 49, an orthopedic surgeon, working out at the Nonantum Boxing Club as she prepare for the upcoming Belles of the Brawl event at the House of Blues. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Sports, Reporter: Kevin Paul Dupont, Topic: Belles of the Brawl, LOID: 8.3.3571477267.

Kevin Paul Dupont | On Second Thought

They?re all dying to punch you out
Amazon recently opened a massive distribution center in Fall River.

SCOTT KIRSNER | INNOVATION ECONOMY

Can Amazon deliver what Boston needs?
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 11: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders listens as White House Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert answers questions at a White House briefing September 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. Bossert provided updated information on the federal government's efforts to respond to destruction caused by Hurricane Irma during the briefing. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Michael A. Cohen

America?s norms are being shredded
Mark Lenza says tenants in buildings he manages are reporting weak sales.

THOMAS FARRAGHER

Picture-perfect Vt. town not so perfect anymore
A banner is unfurled over the Green Monster during the fourth inning.

NESTOR RAMOS

The sign on the Monster; monster behind the sign
Boston, MA: June 13, 2017: CITY TRADE?......Fans watch as Red Sox starting pitcher David Price heads for the bullpen for his pre game warm ups. The Boston Red Sox hosted the Philadelphia Phillies in a regular season MLB inter league baseball game at Fenway Park. (Globe Staff Photo/ Jim Davis)

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Using David Price in relief is letting him off the hook
Malden Police Officer Ayrton Borges.

KEVIN CULLEN

A simple salute recognizes an honorable life

Nation & World

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This photo released by the North Korean regime showed a purportedly successful missile launch in June 2016.

North Korea gained access to rare, potent rocket fuel

US intelligence agencies believe the rocket fuel initially came from China and Russia.

Business

Hurricane Irma pulled this house in Vilano Beach, Fla., off a ridge near the ocean ? part of the storm?s $50 billion in damage in the state, where proximity to the sea is a big draw.

Post-Irma, Harvard expert urges Fla. to rethink economy

Florida?s economy has long thrived on one import above all: people.

Arts

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Jeremy Richard, Marcel Meyer, and Matthew Baldwin in ?Hamlet.?

Theater

Williams festival puts Shakespeare in his place

This week?s festival pairs the works of Tennessee Williams and the Bard.

The Big Picture

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

The Big Picture

Impact of Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma devastated Caribbean islands and left a path of destruction all over the state of Florida.

Magazine

The cover for the September 17 2017 issue

Six of the prettiest New England towns for leaf peeping

The cover for the September 10 2017 issue

Advice: How do I politely cut ties with my hairdresser?
The cover for the August 27 2017 issue

Waltham?s Shin Lim could be the biggest name in magic since David Blaine

The cover for the August 20 2017 issue

Advice: How do I enforce a dress code for my kids? friends who visit?