State, city officials chat with Amazon about HQ2

The talk signals the start of a new, more intense phase of a process that began in September and will likely stretch on for months.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned for several hours last week, and former FBI director James Comey was interviewed last year.

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One student said the alleged shooter, a 15-year-old who will be charged with murder, ?was determined? and ?knew what he was doing.?

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Customs agents seized more than $29,000 from a 51-year-old man who flew into Logan International Airport Thursday.

Man, woman found dead in Montgomery in apparent murder-suicide

The State Police said the man had told authorities over the phone that he ?had just killed his wife and was about to kill himself.?

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Senator Chuck Schumer has taken back his offer of billions of dollars for President Trump?s long-promised US-Mexico border wall.

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Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, a 49-year-old Democrat and a veteran who lost her legs in the Iraq War, announced her pregnancy Tuesday.

Flash freeze sends Sutton school bus careening down hill

A school bus carrying about 20 middle and high school students slid down Peach Tree Drive in Sutton Tuesday morning, taking out three mailboxes and hitting a car at the bottom.

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A State Police trooper has been suspended without pay since April amid the agency?s internal probe of possible payments for unworked shifts.

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Governor Charlie Baker is slated to give the State of the Commonwealth speech Tuesday night. And inquiring minds are probably asking themselves why the state is called that.

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?This is going to be Amazon?s retail version of Vietnam; it?s going to take three to five years to fix and at a really really high cost,? one analyst said.

Lisa Davenport bottle fed calves on her family's dairy farm in Shelburne Falls.

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THOMAS FARRAGHER

The demise of a Massachusetts dairy farm

Massachusetts dairy farms are being thinned out by a combination of development pressures and complex economics.

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The mission? To go on a grocery bill ?diet? and ?feast like a foodie,? says Carol Rizzoli, whose family runs a meal-planning website.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/WebGraphics/Sports/BostonGlobe.com/2016/01/20moresports/seasonticket_90.jpg The Season Ticket podcast

Joe Sullivan and Scott Thurston talk about the outlook for Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, and Tara Sullivan discusses her feature on NHL player Brian Boyle and his battle with cancer.

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CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper.

CNN anchor (and lifelong Eagles fan) Jake Tapper is already trash-talking the Patriots

Don?t worry ? fellow CNN anchor (and Patriots fan) John Berman didn?t let Tapper?s comments go unchecked.

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Gisele Bündchen reportedly asked Brady?s college teammate to help convince her husband to retire: ?She was dead serious.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/23/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/patshat150-15646.jpg A Mass. bakery is banning Philadelphia cream cheese in honor of the Patriots

The move comes after a Philadelphia donut shop declared that it was banning Boston cream pie-themed treats leading up to the Super Bowl.

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BRUINS NOTEBOOK

News on Charlie McAvoy was a stunner to Bruins

His teammates were taken aback by the 20-year-old defenseman?s need for a heart procedure.

Renée Graham

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This isn?t about shiny awards. This is an era when no moment of cultural redress should go unseized.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/01/19/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/image-f1a4abe2-df05-45a9-ad85-4ddc873cdafb-6004.jpg ?Shape of Water? leads diverse group of Oscar nominees

The variety reflected a year in which changing technologies and new generations of creative blood continue to alter film.

Rachel Morrison on the set of the film

NAMES

Cambridge native is first woman nominated for cinematography Oscar

?Literally, it?s a dream come true,? cinematographer Rachel Morrison said.

Opinion & Ideas

SCOT LEHIGH

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Although some senators are apparently confused about this, the filibuster wasn?t part of the Senate?s original design.

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One MIT-Harvard researcher is developing a new way to deliver chemotherapy to the abdomen using origami.

Real Estate

Newton couple moves three doors down, makes radical change

Empty-nesters in their 50s were tired of their big Victorian, so they built a contemporary. Read more Design New England stories at realestate.boston.com.