Behind the scenes, Jeff Flake worked to reduce tensions in a Senate that was beset with increasing partisanship.
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Did we get to the truth in the Kavanaugh hearings? With an FBI investigation underway, following a nine-hour Senate hearing on Thursday, two high-profile lawyers weigh in on whether Christine Blasey Ford or Brett Kavanaugh was lying.
? The Judiciary Committee voted to advance Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to a full Senate floor vote after GOP Senator Jeff Flake called for a one-week delay to allow for an FBI investigation.
? After ordering the investigation, President Trump said the updated investigation ??must be limited in scope?? and ??completed in less than one week.??
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Flake?s planned talk in Boston moved amid safety concerns The Arizona Republican is scheduled to talk at Forbes?s Under 30 Summit on Monday.
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Christine Blasey Ford?s testimony of sexual assault reopened old wounds for many other victims.
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A tsunami swept away buildings and killed at least several hundred people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, dumping victims caught in its relentless path across a devastated landscape.
State Police union president resigns amid new federal probe Dana Pullman said he was stepping down as union president for ?personal reasons,? but it comes as the union faces a burgeoning criminal investigation.
Four people were killed at the bowling alley in September 1980.
Investigators have found no sign of foul play in death of former state senator Brian Joyce Joyce, formerly of Milton, was facing a sweeping federal corruption indictment at the time of his death.
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The gas company is facing a worker shortage in its bid to hire 1,300 people to assist in cleanup work in the Merrimack Valley.
When the voice of the people is heard Citizens? petitions are a tool residents can use to make changes at the local level
Harvard discrimination lawsuit officially headed to trial A lawsuit alleging that Harvard University?s admissions practice discriminates against Asian Americans is officially headed to trial.
Tech Lab | Hiawatha Bray
Apple Watch: Impressive but incomplete The best additions to the new smartwatch from Apple aren?t available yet.
New Hampshire man grows record-breaking pumpkin ? 2,528 pounds The pumpkin grown by Steve Geddes of Boscawen, N.H., is the biggest pumpkin ever grown in North America.
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In order for the Red Sox and Yankees to meet in the postseason, the Yankees will have to beat the Oakland A?s next Wednesday.
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NICK CAFARDO I SUNDAY BASEBALL NOTES
The Red Sox have the ultimate little man in Mookie Betts.
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Five ways to fix the struggling Patriots Bill Belichick doesn?t need any assistance in turning things around ? but here is some anyway.
Music venue next to Fenway Park proposed The Red Sox owners and Live Nation are exploring a 5,000-seat music hall between Lansdowne and Ipswich streets.
The person was taken to a local hospital. It was not immediately clear whether anyone had been arrested in the shooting.
West Roxbury home damaged in overnight fire One person inside the home ?safely evacuated? and was evaluated by Boston Emergency Medical Services.
COMMENTARY
As ?The Hate U Give? heads to the big screen, the bestseller is one of the most challenged books ?The Hate U Give? has been a New York Times bestseller for 82 weeks. It was also the eighth most questioned book of 2017. Here?s why.
Dinner with Cupid
Blind date: ?We said goodbye with three long hugs? They?re baby boomers and former programmers. Can they find a framework for romance?
Editorial
The lies that senators must tell themselves to support Brett Kavanaugh The issue here is as much Brett Kavanaugh?s honesty in the present as what he may have done in 1982.
The world, the stage, the way ahead Lost and alone, Deb made a decision to reclaim the only home she?d ever had, whatever the risk.
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Deb was still new to this high school in Peabody, and had found her way to the vaunted theater program, establishing a foothold in a realm that felt magical.
There is plenty of blame to go around on the Patriot defense, and the issue with Hightower may be deployment.
More than three months after a woman accused Andrew ?A.J.? Baker of groping her on a plane, federal officials would not say this week whether they are still pursuing an investigation into Governor Charlie Baker?s adult son.
Built in 1931, it served as a school for decades before it was converted into a condo complex known as Academy Park. Search more Fall House Hunt listings at realestate.boston.com.
Former Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy isn?t commenting on the confirmation fight over Brett Kavanaugh.
The administration?s analysis assumes the planet?s fate to be sealed with regards to global temperatures.
The bug would allow attackers to ??seize control?? of user accounts, Facebook said.
US premiere of play about Shakespeare?s son, who died at 11, succumbs to grandiosity.
Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands, Salem Horror Festival, author Sarah Smarsh, and more.
Can genetic tests gauge how well antidepressants will work? With more products aimed at gauging the effectiveness of mental health treatments, some say science is getting left behind.
Until next year, my sweetheart In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.
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Despite debt, millennials are the biggest home-buying generation. How? Slightly more than a third of all home purchases were made by millennials over the past year.
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.
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