Business groups raise alarm over bills to bolster community hospitals

Business and health care industry groups warn that proposals by state lawmakers to raise millions of dollars for struggling community hospitals would send costs soaring.

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Trump invitation to Putin stuns even top advisors

A White House meeting would be a dramatic extension of legitimacy to the Russian leader, who has long been isolated by the West for activities in Ukraine, Syria, and beyond and is believed to have interfered in the election that sent Trump to the presidency.

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The bipartisan resolutions would have put the body on record as being in support of intelligence agency conclusions that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

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Putin offered to allow US access to Russians accused of election interference in exchange for interviews of Americans Russia accuses of unspecified crimes.

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President Trump cast aside concerns about the Federal Reserve?s independence and said he?s ?not happy? with the central bank?s interest rate increases.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Rex_Boat_capsizes_killing_eight_peop_9766121B.jpg 8 people dead after Missouri tourist boat accident

A Ride the Ducks tourist boat reportedly capsized with more than 30 people on board, a sheriff said.

Boston, MA - July 11, 2018: Members of the Weymouth Police Department march into St. Mary of the Sacred Heart Church for the wake of Sergeant Michael C. Chesna in Hanover, MA on July 19, 2018. (Relatives and friends are invited to attend visiting hours on Thursday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at St. Mary of the Sacred Heart Church in Hanover, and a funeral Mass will be held the following day at 11 a.m. in the church. Chesna, a 42-year-old, six-year veteran of the Weymouth Police Department, will be buried in Braintree?s Blue Hill Cemetery. Chesna was shot with his own gun Sunday morning, according to authorities. Emanuel A. Lopes, the 20-year-old man charged with Chesna?s murder and the slaying of Vera Adams, 77, was ordered held without bail Tuesday.)) (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) section: metro reporter: Kowalczyk St.

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Slain Weymouth sergeant remembered at wake

About 3,000 police officers paid their last respects to slain Weymouth Police Sergeant Michael C. Chesna at a Hanover church.

Manchester, N.H., worker stung 200 times by bees

Six people were stung by bees Thursday morning in Manchester, N.H., after a tree fell and cracked open a large beehive.

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A new bill pits two of Baker?s strongest GOP tenets ? supporting law enforcement and his pledge against new fees ? against each other.

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Stephen Cote was apprehended in Lakewood less than one month after he was added to the state?s most wanted fugitive list.

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Prosecutors plan to retry Kyle Pam on indictments of larceny from a person over 60, money laundering, uttering, embezzlement, and perjury.

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Bob Massie may not have secured the Democrats? endorsement for governor earlier this year, but he has an unexpected ? and unwelcome ? supporter.

Boston , MA - 07/10/18 - People make their way through Pi Alley. Pi Alley might be the oldest byway in Boston, but don't ask any of the thousands of people who use the 8-foot-wide walk-through where its name comes from. Is it 'pi,' the magical mathematical number? Short for 'pie,' as in dessert? Or 'pi,' the bits of lead type that spilled from the overstuffed pockets of typesetters who shuttled between the composing rooms along old Newspaper Row and the alley's bars? The answer might never be known. (Lane Turner/Globe Staff) Reporter: (Brian MacQuarrie ) Topic: (12piialley)

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One of the city?s oldest byways, frozen in time

Brian Schweizer has worked in Pi Alley for 12 years, but how the downtown shortcut got its name is a mystery to him. ?I have no idea,? Schweizer said. He?s not alone.

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Here are some of our travel-tested favorites.

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The league announced an agreement with the Players Association in a joint statement, which said the sides are working on a resolution.

Peter Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/30/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/kelly.jpg Facing tough schedule, Red Sox enter second half with focus on AL East title

The Sox have 10 games remaining against the Yankees, and 10 combined against the Astros and improved Indians.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/10/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_bos17_spts.jpg In the end, Celtics made a Smart investment

The Celtics wanted Smart more than they wanted to win the deal (four years, $52 million).

Ty Burr

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/gigli%204-683275.jpg You want bad movies? We?ll give you some really bad movies.

An ode to the pleasures of panning a bad movie.

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Ellen Fleming?s stint as a member of the 1 percent was fleeting. But she?s totally OK with it.

Dinner with Cupid

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They enjoyed quietly making fun of people who passed by. But will their snarky banter lead to more?

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A 60-year-old told police that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a family friend who baptized him, molested him beginning when he was a minor.

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SPORTS MEDIA

WEEI switches Glenn Ordway back to the afternoon slot

It?s full circle for Ordway, who led the station?s afternoon show before being let go in 2013 and then brought back to work the midday OMF program.

Total Loss Farm as it looked in 1971.

Peter Simon

Globe Magazine

The groovy beginning (and bittersweet end) of two hippie communes in Vermont

Fifty years ago, a few idealistic young people fled Nixon?s America to live off the land in Vermont. Photographer Peter Simon remembers.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/phoneapp.jpg Still paying retail for downtown parking? The car beside you may be getting a better deal

Parking has long favored the people who own the spots. But now parking apps are empowering parkers.

Photos: Inside the ?Brady Bunch? home, on sale for nearly $1.9 million

The home featured in the establishing shots of ?The Brady Brunch? can be yours for $1.885 million. Take a look inside.

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With all of the talk about shark sightings off Cape Cod lately, some beachgoers might wonder whether they are at risk.

Andre Holland in a scene from ?Castle Rock.?

Television review

In the heart of Stephen King country, a creepy trip to ?Castle Rock?

Even viewers who aren?t students of the Stephen King multiverse will find the Hulu drama worth watching.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/06/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/wiggs_Moses_02.jpg These startups want to buy a share of your house. Is that a good idea?

Home equity investors are offering cash now in exchange for a cut of the growth (or loss) of a home?s value. Consumer protection advocates warn that it raises complex questions.

Opinion & Ideas

Michael A. Cohen

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Hillary Clinton?s hyperbolic characterizations of Donald Trump in 2016 have proved accurate.

Special reports

//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 is a holding center for thousands dispossessed by war and conflict. A New Hampshire university has made it the focus of its global plans.

Newsletters

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Atul-1024x576.jpg Atul Gawande?s first task as health CEO: a listening tour

He?ll travel across the country to meet employees he will serve through an Amazon-backed health care venture.

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.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/FlfQGTy9_585.jpg More about Last Seen: The Largest Unsolved Art Heist ever

A true-crime podcast about the most valuable ? and confounding ? art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 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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