Three Honduran migrants huddle in the riverbank amid tear gas fired by US agents on the Mexico-US border on Sunday.

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Trump backs use of ?very safe? tear gas on migrants

President Trump is strongly defending the US use of tear gas at the Mexican border to repel a crowd of migrants that included children.

Former FBI director James Comey. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer

In Boston, James Comey says Acting AG Whitaker ?may not be the sharpest knife?

The former FBI director made the comments during an interview with WGBH News at the Boston Public Library.

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The South Shore and the Cape and Islands are seeing strong winds; power outages are likely.

Democrat Mike Espy (left) and Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith are in a run-off for a US Senate seat in Mississippi.

Ground Game

What you need to know about today?s Miss. Senate run-off

Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the seat in April, is facing Democrat Mike Espy.

FILE - In this May 23, 2018, file photo, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves Federal District Court after a hearing in Washington. The New Britain, Conn., city council is expected to take up a proposal Wednesday evening, Sept. 26 to change the name of a street that honors his father, the city's former three-term Mayor Paul Manafort Sr. Eight members of the Manafort family have signed a letter urging the council to keep the name honoring the patriarch. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Manafort lied to investigators, Mueller?s team says

Paul Manafort, former chairman during Donald Trump?s presidential campaign, lied to investigators in the Russia probe, violating his plea agreement, officials said.

Search team members in Paradise, Calif.

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Northern California fire recovery costs likely in billions

US Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke visited the area scorched by the Camp Fire on Monday, and local authorities raised the death toll from the fire to 88.

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President Trump on Monday rejected a central conclusion of a dire report on climate change that was released Friday by his own administration.

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2018 file photo, Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley speaks at a rally at City Hall in Boston. On Nov. 6, Pressley became Massachusetts' first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

Ayanna Pressley says she will support Nancy Pelosi for House speaker

Pressley?s announcement came days after the Globe reported that just over half of the House Democrats from New England were publicly supporting Pelosi.

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US health officials say the tainted romaine appears to have come from the Central Coast region of California.

Encore Boston Harbor

Everett casino to donate $10 million to social programs

The casino, along with the Connors Family Office, will form a committee that will help identify philanthropic efforts and disburse funds.

Leicester pot shop?s neighbors say traffic jams are miserable

Leicester, Ma., 11/26/2018, Traffic backs up on Main Street as cars wait in line to get to a parking lot and then get on a shuttle bus to ride to Cultivate to buy recreational legal marijuana. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

Dozens of angry residents excoriated elected officials and executives from the local marijuana store for failing to adequately control the hoards of cannabis consumers traveling to the shop.

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Commissioner William Gross?s pledge to improve relations between the community and police is being tested after he denounced the ACLU on his personal Facebook page.

Boston-area scientists criticize Chinese researcher who changed embryonic DNA

A Chinese scientist who used a powerful gene-editing technique to change the embryonic DNA of twins drew fire from ethicists and doctors in Massachusetts and from a professor at MIT who helped invent the tool.

Lucianny Rondon (right), sister of the late 18-year-old Leonel Rondon, was overcome with emotion while speaking about her brother during a Senate committee hearing in Lawrence Monday.

?We will not let this loss be without meaning? says family of teen killed in gas explosions

Leonel Rondon died during the Merrimack Valley gas explosions after a chimney from a house that blew up toppled onto the vehicle he was sitting in.

Matt Damon appeared as Judge Brett Kavanaugh during ?Saturday Night Live? on Sept. 29.

Names

Matt Damon will host ?Saturday Night Live? in December

Will the Cambridge native once again lampoon Brett Kavanaugh?

Ty Burr

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The director?s death raises ugly memories of his most famous film.

Some of the items adorning the halls of the Massachusetts Historical Society include modern nautical prints, a painting of Brook Farm in West Roxbury, a collection of gifts, and books. The society?s trove of historical papers is unsurpassed outside the Library of Congress.

WORK SPACE

An office where history comes alive

Massachusetts Historical Society librarian Peter Drummey says he has the ?best job of anyone I know.?

Developer Les Otten had the North Country hopeful he would revive the 150-year-old resort, shuttered since 2011.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

Can the Balsams, in all its nostalgic splendor, be saved?

The Balsams Grand Resort, a New England institution since 1875, has been shuttered since 2011 and parts of it are starting to crumble. Les Otten has been trying since 2014 to orchestrate a rebirth.

Boston, Ma -April 5, 2018- Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff- Opening Day at Fenway Park-Red Sox vs. Tampa- Hanley Ramirez walkoff hit in extra innings sinks Tampa Bay 3-2

Hanley Ramirez is launching a comeback

The former Red Sox slugger is playing in the Dominican Winter League for Tigres de Licey. He?s trying to return to the MLB in 2019.

Boston College players celebrate after defeating Louisville during an NCAA college football game in Boston, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Sports Log

BC football lands school-record 13 players on All-ACC squad, four first-teamers

RB AJ Dillon, OT Chris Lindstrom, CB Hamp Cheevers, and TE Tommy Sweeney earned All-ACC first-team designation.

Company that owns rights to ?Scream? mask is suing Celtics Terry Rozier for selling ?Scary Terry? shirts

Last season, when fans started calling the Terry Rozier by his new nickname, he saw a chance to merge his favorite horror flick with some branded merchandise.

FILE - In this April 14, 1987, file photo, Democratic presidential hopeful Gary Hart fields a question during a news conference in Denver. The Gary Hart saga of 1987 is barely remembered by many, and seen largely as a sad political footnote, even an unfortunate joke. Makers of ?Front Runner,? starring Hugh Jackman as the once-promising Colorado senator, argue that Hart?s story was hardly a joke but actually a watershed moment for American politics, journalism and culture, when politicians became celebrities and their private lives became public property. And, they say, it remains deeply relevant today. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

Ed Andrieski/File/AP

JOAN VENNOCHI

Joan Vennochi: In ?The Front Runner,? the press is the enemy

The Front Runner? should get a big thumb?s up from President Trump.

Opinion | Philip Heymann and William Ruckelshaus

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There is clear legal and political framework forbidding the president?s selection of Matthew Whitaker to supervise the Mueller investigation.

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My wife, Laura Levis, did everything she could to save herself when the asthma attack began. She went to Somerville Hospital and called 911, too. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?

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The Big Picture

What happened at the border this weekend

A peaceful march devolved into unrest when US agents fired tear gas to stop migrants attempting to storm a border fence separating Mexico and the United States.

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The summit organizers are scrambling to evaluate the claim before the scientist is scheduled to speak at the meeting.

Love Letters: The Podcast

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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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