FBI fires agent who sent anti-Trump texts

Peter Strzok, who was among those who oversaw the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation as well as the Russia probe, was reportedly fired for violating the FBI?s policies.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/03/20/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tlumacki_massstatepilicecolonelgilpin_metro337copy.jpg State Police got many warnings on payroll abuse. And they did nothing

Records show leaders were repeatedly confronted not only with remarkable amounts of OT, but also suspicious sick time claims and sloppy record-keeping.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/statehouse2-12092-10865.jpg A landmark law hopes to improve Alzheimer?s care in Mass.

A first-in-the-nation law in Massachusetts requires health care professionals to undergo training on Alzheimer?s care before they can obtain or renew their licenses.

Evan Horowiwtz | Quick Study

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/10/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/7e2300f9d5ec43099857d2552a7b9447-7e2300f9d5ec43099857d2552a7b9447-0.jpg How can you tell there?s a recession coming?

There are two kinds of indicators to watch: Worrisome economic trends and excessive optimism. It?s not hard to spot both right now.

A Boston police cruiser was stationed outside the crime scene on Sunday.

Man fatally shot in Mattapan was a Boston city worker

The man fatally shot at his Mattapan home late Saturday night was a Boston Public Works employee, and he had been shot before in December.

15 shots fired into Salisbury home, but police say there?s no threat to public

Officials say they are still seeking a motive after police recovered shell casings from a 9mm firearm that appeared to be fired from the street.

Luan Smerqaku, 31, awaited a tow truck Sunday after flood waters overtook Boston Street in Lynn. The city received more than 8 inches of rain.

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In a soaked Lynn, ?it was a few hours of complete craziness?

Rain pounded the region early Sunday, and Lynn saw more than 8 inches. Closer to the city, numerous roads were closed thanks to flooding.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Rex_White_supremacists_march_on_anni_9788291AG.jpg ?Unite the Right? rally was underwhelming

Organizers expected as many as 400 participants in the sequel to last year?s deadly gathering in Charlottesville, Va., but a fraction of that showed up.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Chin080818SuffolkDADebate_Met8.jpg In race for Suffolk DA, residency questions swirl

Among political operatives, it?s an open secret, the subject of a months-long whisper campaign. On occasion, it has spilled into public view.

Adrian Walker

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/walker%20(3)-19164.jpg In Mass., we?re still waiting for the wave of change

Will 2018 be a year of political change in our state, or simply a close call for the status quo?

Appreciation

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/AP_17339810885540.jpg Richard Sipe helped uncover pattern of clergy sex abuse

Sipe, who died Wednesday, explained that the clergy abuse horrors the Globe?s Spotlight team was discovering were quite likely part of a pattern throughout the church.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/14dog%20photo.jpg Troopers chase down loose dog on I-291

A Springfield dog decided to take its morning walk to the extreme on Sunday.

Man donates to firefighter drive, leaves wedding ring behind

The man?s ring fell off his finger while he was dropping his donation into a large boot the Gloucester firefighters were using to collect for charity.

Rodrigo Cordeiro

How to build a successful online dating profile

You?ve done it. You?ve joined the countless Americans using a dating app in their quest for love. Now, though, comes the hard part: Constructing a profile.

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President Donald Trump said on Twitter Monday that his chief of staff called Omarosa Manigault Newman a ?loser & nothing but problems.?

National security experts say Omarosa Manigault Newman?s recordings made in the Situation Room were a severe breach of protocol.

Omarosa?s Situation Room recordings alarm security experts

Critics denounced the recordings as a serious breach of ethics and security. Said a former Obama administration official: ?This is unprecedented.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/13/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/Rex_Aretha_Franklin_seriously_ill_F_9788703A-8411.jpg ?Queen of Soul? Aretha Franklin is seriously ill

The singer canceled planned concerts earlier this year after she was ordered by her doctor to stay off the road and rest.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/b08280033716436ca1df7ea6ea8198fe-b08280033716436ca1df7ea6ea8198fe-0.jpg ?Beautiful? and ?Lovely?: Trump tweets reflect fixation on women?s appearances

When President Trump took to Twitter to complain about two women with connections to the Russia investigation, he affixed special descriptions to both.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/21/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/200_john_oliver(3).jpg John Oliver says ?astroturfing? is ?serious threat to our public discourse?

Oliver called the tactics ?sophisticated, effective, and dangerous.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/11/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Walker_040618_07mountida_0278x.jpg New England?s smallest colleges are struggling

A Globe review of federal data shows that many small, private colleges in New England are struggling to meet expenses as their tuition revenue has declined.

Now arriving at City Hall Plaza: A mockup of the T?s new Red Line cars.

Steve Annear/Globe Staff

This Red Line train will be standing by until Thursday

What?s that weird thing on City Hall Plaza? It?s a mockup of the new Red Line trains that will be arriving soon to a station near you.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/AP_18096095421935.jpg She moved to the state last year. Now she?s running for Congress. Can she win in N.H.?

Maura Sullivan moved to the state three months before announcing her campaign, and she otherwise has almost zero ties to New Hampshire.

Nick Cafardo | On Baseball

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/1015676018.jpg It?s OK, Red Sox fans. Chris Sale was brilliant in his first game back from DL

The ace showed no signs of rust after two weeks of rest with 12 strikeouts, one hit, and 68 pitches over five shutout innings.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by ERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9788363n) Tiger Woods of the US reacts after making a birdie putt on the eighteenth green during the final round of the 100th PGA Championship golf tournament at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 12 August 2018. Woods finished in second place. PGA Championship golf tournament in St. Louis, USA - 12 Aug 2018

Tiger Woods: Is he back? PGA performance would suggest so

The 42-year-old, who finished second, had his best closing round in a major with a 6-under-par 64.

Shirley Leung

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/18/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/leung_20131018.jpg Tom Brady?s agent speaks: ?We hadn?t made much progress since the ?70s?

Don Yee addressed the February incident in which WEEI host Christian Fauria used a mock Asian accent to mimic Yee, of Chinese descent.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/13/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/8669791c186a4c12b5b22b85bdea8655-8669791c186a4c12b5b22b85bdea8655-0.jpg Orca back to feeding, frolicking after carrying dead calf

The Center for Whale Research in Washington state says it watched the orca chase a school of salmon in Haro Strait west of San Juan Island on Saturday afternoon.

John Gintell, 79, and Robert Coren, 72, at the gender-free contra dance at the First Church in Jamaica Plain.

?A 30-second romance?: Gender-free contra dance offers non-judgmental queer space

In a church auditorium, dancers from the queer community come to flirt, unwind, and dance together to the tune of high-stepping live folk music.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_081118_14DefJourney_0002x.jpg An arena-rock triple play from Journey, Def Leppard, and Cheap Trick

Despite their aesthetic differences, the shared classic-rock pedigree of the bands made for a natural fit at Fenway Park Saturday night.

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The former Celtics star said playing in Boston ?was all love? before calling Cleveland a ?s---hole? in an Instagram live video.

Opinion & Ideas

Opinion | Margery Eagan

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/09/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/RubbleSprout.jpg ?Everything in the country is broken?

Politicians used to put the country first and do the right thing. Who believes that anymore?

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/RinaldiSnow26-18739-k6uC--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.JPG TSA tracking travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program

Air marshals are conducting a new domestic surveillance program, tracking people as they fly and move through airports. It might be illegal.

Newsletters

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STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/13/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/EugeneLab_02-768x512.jpg To map human memories, a scientist journeys deep into the mind of a worm

Eugene Lee, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT, has been toiling to try answer a fundamental question: How do animals learn?

Globe event

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/08/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/SeattleTimes_10kirsner02_biz.jpg 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.

Podcast

//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.

Cars

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Should I repair my car at the dealer or a local garage?

Should I pick up a used drive shaft and let a local garage do the repair, or should I just have the dealer install a new one? Q. There is a rumble-like vibration when accelerating in my 2012 Toyota Highlander with 165,000 miles on it. The dealer determined that the car needs a center-driveshaft replacement. The [?]

Love Letters: The Podcast

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

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Real Estate

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/stan-fellows-home-nest-illustration$medium.jpg Spring House Hunt: Should parents buy property in a college town?

As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Summertime festivals around the world

Photographers capture communities gathering at events organized to celebrate a variety of cultural observances.

Crossword

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/crossword.jpg Play the crossword

Puzzled? Keep trying your hand at our interactive crossword and see if you can triumph.