New tax in Seattle irks Amazon. What might that mean for Boston?

A per-worker levy to help address homelessness has the company reconsidering its hometown expansion plans.

NESTOR RAMOS

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Our reactions to Boston Dynamics? latest four-legged machines might say more about us than about cutting-edge robots.

Coming soon to a state near you? A man watches a baseball game at a Vegas casino.

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Will legalization of sports betting end gambling scandals?

Experts say the specter of such shenanigans will diminish, but not disappear.

Animal control officers captured a coyote in Mattapan in October 2012.

Woman walking dog in Saugus escapes wild coyotes by climbing a tree

A Melrose woman who was walking her dog in Saugus Saturday morning was forced to clamber up a tree to escape a pack of wild coyotes, officials said.

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North Korea canceled a high-level meeting Wednesday with South Korea and threatened also to call off a historic summit planned later this month.

Opinion | Niall Ferguson

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I wish I had a fistful of dollars for every article I have read in the past year about the foolishness of Trump?s foreign policy.

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When asked Monday whether he is considering submitting signatures and seeking reelection, Stanley Rosenberg replied in a text message: ?No.?

Capital Source

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Scott Lively is challenging Governor Charlie Baker in the GOP primary on Sept. 4. The secretary of state?s office won?t have final numbers until June 5.

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Waiting too long to turn on your A/C is risky if it doesn?t work properly. Avoid fees, waits, and discomfort with these simple steps.

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NBA East Finals | Game 2: Cavaliers at Celtics, 8:30 p.m.

ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JAN. 17-18--This is an April 1994 file photo showing former Boston Celtic Robert Parish waving to the crowd at the Boston Garden in Boston, during one of his last games as a Celtic. Parish will have his well-known jersey number-00 retired in ceremonies in Boston at the FleetCenter, Sunday, Jan. 18, 1998. (AP Photo/Jon Chase,File) library tag 12081999 sports Library Tag 09052003 Sports

Robert Parish had a lot to say about the Celtics

The former Celtics center shared his thoughts on Brad Stevens and the team?s postseason run.

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Here?s an inside look at the new Orange Line cars

The first new train is expected to enter service later this year. The cars feature more space, seats that fold up, digital displays, and wider doors.

Clockwise (from top left): Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine; Block Island, R.I.; a Nantucket lighthouse; gingerbread cottages on Martha?s Vineyard.

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Four New England destinations named hottest vacation spots for summer 2018

A survey of more than 3,000 TripAdvisor users found that the Northeast is the most popular region of the country for summer travel this year.

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Professors criticize media for handling of Junot Diaz allegations

A letter published in the Chronicle of Higher Education alleges a ?full-blown media-harassment campaign? against Diaz.

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Wolfe chronicled everything from hippies to the space race before turning his sharp eye to fiction.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/lee_0508018_seniorsoak9_met.jpg Forget finals: As graduation approaches, high school seniors are sweating a weeks-long water war

Despite the current social climate ? as well as pleas from school officials to put the game to rest ? ?Senior Assassin? remains a widely popular springtime tradition for high school seniors.

Renée Graham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/15/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/graham-4251.jpg Black women are waiting for their #MeToo moment

Black women who speak against abusive men are considered traitors.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/15/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/957137644.jpg Should Steven Tyler be banned from Spotify like R. Kelly?

Spotify is pulling acts from its service as part of the company?s new Hate Content and Hateful Conduct policy, and a women?s group has some suggestions.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/17/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/6e6d1303998642d894fc1efabebe4967-6e6d1303998642d894fc1efabebe4967-0.jpg There?s a disturbing new theory about what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

A team of analysts suspect that the plane?s 2014 disappearance and apparent crash was a suicide by the pilot ? and a premeditated act of mass murder.

Lindsay Shookus (second from right) at an Emmys party last year with boyfriend Ben Affleck and (from left) Jeff Garlin, Charissa Thompson, and Larry David.

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Ben Affleck?s girlfriend is happy to talk ? except about Ben Affleck

Lindsay Shookus is featured in the new issue of Elle.

Love Letters: The Podcast

Love Letters Podcast

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It?s easy to say you?ll remain chummy with your ex. It?s much harder to actually do.

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SCOT LEHIGH

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Anti-gay crusader and GOP candidate Scott Lively deserves mockery, not votes.

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