President Trump?s racially charged words dovetail with harsh policies

President Donald Trump speaks during a immigration event with

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What?s emerged in recent months is the degree to which Trump has put some of those verbal sentiments into policy, crafting initiatives that critics call bigoted, dangerous, and sending a troubling signal to white, far right voters.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/08/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/lee_070818_warren8_met.jpg Elizabeth Warren slams Trump at Natick forum

Asked by a reporter about President Trump?s offer to make a charitable donation if she took a DNA test, Warren shrugged Trump?s comments off as a distraction technique.

16-year-old dies in apparent drowning in North Attleborough

Fire officials located the boy?s body Sunday evening hours after he had been reported missing, and performed emergency lifesaving measures.

FILE - In this May 15, 2018, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., pauses as he speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington. With McConnell leading the way, President Donald Trump has been putting his imprint on the federal judiciary for generations to come. While the latest opening on the Supreme Court is commanding all the attention, the nominees to the lower courts are also consequential. More than 40 federal district and circuit court judges have confirmed by the Senate so far. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Mitch McConnell pursued from Kentucky restaurant by angry crowd

The Louisville encounter was the second time in two weeks that McConnell?s private life has been disrupted by a spontaneous protest.

Lamb on the lam: Police chase runaway sheep named Dodge in Mansfield

Mansfield Police were on a hot pursuit Sunday morning, but the furry suspect they were after ultimately got away.

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Maude Gorman, who is a survivor of sexual assault, resigned after an emcee made a joke about the women?s movement on stage.

Man found dead in New Hampshire river

The body of a middle-aged man was found in New Hampshire?s Contoocook River on Sunday afternoon, officials said.

In this handout photo taken and released by Chiang Rai Public Relations Office on July 8, 2018 shows Thai soldiers and paramedics assist a rescued boy on a stretcher to an ambulance in Tham Luang cave area after divers evacuated some of the 12 boys and their coach trapped in the cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in the Mae Sai district on July 8, 2018. Foreign elite divers and Thai Navy SEALS on July 8 began the extremely dangerous operation to extract the 12 boys and their football coach as they raced against time, with imminent monsoon rains threatening more flooding that would doom the rescue operation. / AFP PHOTO / CHIANG RAI PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE / Handout / XGTY - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Four rescued from Thai cave in risky operation; nine remain inside

Eight boys and the coach remained inside the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex as authorities paused the international effort until Monday to replenish air tanks.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/08/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/AFP_14Y8JR.jpg US opposition to breast-feeding resolution stuns World Health officials

The US delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations on a World Health Assembly resolution to encourage breast-feeding.

Capital Source

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/BEDFORD_20180429_DEBATE_032-001[1].jpg In backing Gifford for Congress, Fitchburg mayor rebuffed others ? including Marty Walsh

The pull for Fitchburg Mayor Stephen L. DiNatale?s political heart strings was not without competition.

A big apartment complex is being built on Waltham?s Cooper Street, the site of a building that burned down last summer.

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Live where you work? In Waltham, that?s not so easy

These are boom times in Waltham. But the city?s economic growth is missing one key ingredient: new housing.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_ferry2_met-17819.jpg ?It?s gotten to be almost normal?: Steamship Authority canceled two trips Sunday

The Steamship Authority?s cancellation of two trips Sunday added to local frustration with the transportation agency, whose fleet has been plagued with mechanical problems.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/brownermugshot.jpg Former Patriots cornerback Brandon Browner arrested, reportedly charged with kidnapping

Browner played for the Patriots for one season and was part of the 2015 Super Bowl-winning team.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/09/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/0df79f38736347a3b1d37af0a4bec27e-0df79f38736347a3b1d37af0a4bec27e-0.jpg Power-packed AL lineup will be a challenge for NL

The AL?s dream outfield of Mookie Betts, Mike Trout, and Aaron Judge will be tough to hold down.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

The Red Sox may be red-hot, but baseball is striking out in every way

Folks are staying away and who can blame them? The product is not very good

Adrian Walker

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/walker-17845.jpg Whittier Street board votes to name the headquarters for the center?s director. Maybe the staff should have gotten a vote

Employees at Whittier Street Health Center just voted to unionize, after years of frustration with the center?s director. So isn?t this an awkward time to name a building after her?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/hornzy.jpg The search for ?Hornzy Twigs?: Tweet over stuffed animal lost in Logan Airport goes viral

Any chance you?ve seen a cute, pink, stuffed baby giraffe with horns sitting around Boston?s airport?

Parishioners doused the Rev. Arakel Aljalian of St. James Armenian Apostolic Church in Watertown.

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Ancient Armenian water celebration comes to Watertown

When celebrating Vartavar, there is no such thing as a no-splash zone. Everyone gets wet.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/09/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/afc0ecf1fa60490cb3312386684a5d9a-afc0ecf1fa60490cb3312386684a5d9a-0.jpg With wedding rings found in the ashes of their burned home, a husband proposes again

A California couple who lost their home in a wildfire made a new happy memory Sunday amid the ashes when they found what was left of the wife?s wedding and engagement rings.

David Caillouette wades in the ocean with his twins, Aidan (left) and Madeline, 5, in Orleans.

On the Cape, tourists and locals take sharks in stride

Over the past week, 10 great white sharks have been spotted off the Cape Cod shoreline.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/opennewbury1.jpg Pedestrians stroll down a car-less Newbury Street for third annual ?Open Newbury?

If you missed Sunday?s event, fear not: It was the first of three this summer.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/africa%20hero.jpg For refugees in Kenya, an education in hope

The Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwest Kenya is a world apart, a holding center for thousands dispossessed by war and conflict. Opportunity knocks rarely here, but a once-obscure New Hampshire university has made it the idealistic focus of its global plans.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/unnamedpi%20c.jpg Watch ?Runnin??: The opioid crisis hits Somerville

?Runnin?,? now available for purchase on Vimeo, takes an intimate look at a group of friends in Somerville who came of age as the opioid epidemic took hold and morphed into a national nightmare. It retraces the lives of friends lost, and one last member of the group struggling to avoid the same fate.

Globe event

Seattle?s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston

Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.

Love Letters: The Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/16/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/lovelettersalbum.jpg Getting over a breakup

Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.

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