Real estate groups ready to battle GOP on tax proposals

Staffer Thomas Kutz hands out papers before the start of the House Ways and Means Committee mark-up of the GOP tax reform plan titled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

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Home builders and real estate agents are ramping up a battle against Republicans in Congress with a simple message.

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Trump said in a tweet: ??Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ?old,? when I would NEVER call him ?short and fat????

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President Trump said the investigations and reports are affecting his ability to work with Russia.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/11/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/ddbe3fce-f03c-4c04-8e0e-78c12b8a46e9.jpg Bannon paints a target on McConnell?s back. His response? ?Ha-ha?

?I have an objective that Mitch McConnell will not be majority leader, and I believe will be done before this time next year,? Bannon said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/2cb709c85ff0498bb2f85431dfd1ad9a-2cb709c85ff0498bb2f85431dfd1ad9a-0.jpg Navigating the murky waters of Medicare drug plans

Navigating the 2018 Medicare drug plan options isn?t easy, but failing to do your homework might be costly.

Firefighters responded to a four-alarm fire in East Boston on Saturday night.

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4-alarm fire in East Boston closes streets in Central Square

A four-alarm fire at a large warehouse on Border Street in East Boston Saturday evening prompted street closings in Central Square.

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Donald Morgan was arrested Friday after he allegedly drove away with a police vehicle, prompting a search that resulted in a man?s death Thursday.

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George Takei, Richard Dreyfuss are accused of sexual misconduct

A man said George Takei assaulted him in 1981, and a writer who worked for Richard Dreyfuss said he sexually harassed her for years. Meanwhile, Ellen Page said she was harassed on a movie set.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/GettyImages-456415850.jpg Matthew Weiner denies sexual harassment allegations to Cambridge audience

The ?Mad Men? creator?s event went on as scheduled even though a Seattle appearance has been canceled.

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For a second day, Moore, a GOP candidate for Senate in Alabama, rejected a report that linked him to a 14-year-old girl in 1979. Meanwhile, Republicans were distancing themselves from him.

Man fatally shot on Massachusetts Avenue identified

The man who was fatally shot in his car near Symphony Hall in Boston on Monday has been identified as Brent Stevenson.

Sumiao Chen paid $200,000 for a liquor license that other Cambridge restaurant owners got for free.

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How much is a liquor license? In Cambridge, it depends

For years, the Cambridge License Commission has required some restaurants to pay up to $450,000 for a liquor license while others get theirs free.

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In 2009, a gunman opened fire in an immigrant services center in Binghamton, killing 13. The attack manifests here in countless ways, both trivial and profound.

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If history is any guide, this will not work out well ? but that hasn?t stopped a slew of Democrats with varying levels of roots in the district from such attempts.

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Temperatures dropped to 23 degrees Saturday morning, making it the coldest Nov. 11 on record since 1901. And the cold will linger for several days, forecasters said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/02/14/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/Tlumacki_shivaayyadurai_business502.jpg Entrepreneur Shiva Ayyadurai will run for Senate as an independent

Ayyadurai, an MIT grad who claims to have invented e-mail, had been campaigning as a Republican.

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Mrs. Haith was a program supervisor and a second mother to generations of youths at the Lee School community center in Dorchester.

Bob Ryan

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A 16-member committee does the voting, and 12 votes are necessary to secure election.

PETER ABRAHAM

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/06/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/ryan_cora2_spts.jpg Alex Cora?s former Red Sox teammates knew he had the stuff to manage

?I saw him becoming a manager, 100 percent,? said Jon Lester.

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The Red Sox and agent Scott Boras could get some good face-to-face time this week in Orlando.

Mario Taricano played the drum while marching with the Waltham American Legion Band during the Veterans Day Parade in Boston on Saturday.

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Photos: Veterans Day in Boston

Boston was home to at least two parades on Saturday.

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A monument honoring military service members of Puerto Rican ancestry who had been awarded the Purple Heart was unveiled Saturday.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/10/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy-13610.jpg Once again, the Patriots will wait for the other guys to screw up

They received a lot of help during their bye. Now it?s Denver?s turn on Sunday night.

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The team will remain in Colorado following Sunday?s game against Denver to prepare for Mexico City?s altitude next week against the Raiders.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/11/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/lee_celtichornet1_spts.jpg Kyrie Irving has a minor facial fracture

The Celtics guard, injured Friday night, is doubtful to play Sunday against Toronto.

Maple Leafs 4, Bruins 1

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Toronto swept back-to-back games against Boston.

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Authorities closed the street and stopped the water, but water was restored just after 6 p.m. Saturday.

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Mark Smith wants to inject his dying daughter with a virus in hopes it might kill the bacteria rooted in her lungs.

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Anna Myer brings ?Shift? to the ICA

Anna Myer trained at the Cambridge School of Ballet and danced with Boston Ballet, but the company she founded in 1992, Anna Myer and Dancers, has appeared in an MBTA station and on basketball courts as well as at more traditional venues like the Strand Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Tsai Performance Center. Over the past decade, Myer has created the rap operas ?Street Talk, Suite Talk? and ?Hoop Suite.? She?s taken her company to Franklin Field in Dorchester and the Lenox Street Housing Development in Roxbury. And with writer and photojournalist Jay Paris, she?s created beheard.world, a ?new nonprofit that combines performing arts, film, and advocacy.?