President Trump has not yet said he will support the measure, which does not include $5 billion that he wants for a border wall.
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Over the objection of outraged students, teachers, and parents, the Boston School Committee voted Wednesday night to close two high schools in West Roxbury over the next two years.
Walking a fine line, Fed raises rates but will be careful with increases next year The Federal Reserve raised interest rates as expected, indicating that it sees the economy growing fast enough to merit a tap on the brakes. But it also dropped the number of expected rate increases in 2019.
Everett official shot to death, allegedly by estranged husband A member of the Everett Board of Assessors and second cousin to the city?s mayor was shot, allegedly by her estranged husband, as she sat in her car in her parents? driveway.
Red Sox have a plan to improve bleacher seats at Fenway Park The team also wants a new function room that?ll provide ?sweeping views? of the playing field, and a 5,000-seat theater alongside the ballpark.
Mueller asks House committee for Roger Stone transcript Stone has been under suspicion because of his proclamations about connections to WikiLeaks and predictions about hacked Democratic emails.
Officials investigating whether toxic exposure played role in death of 11-year-old Haverhill girl Grief counselors are at a Haverhill middle school today to help students and staff deal with the loss of an 11-year-old girl described by a school official as ?beautiful and well-loved.?
Depression shadows old age for nearly a third of Mass. residents The share of people in Massachusetts over 65 who?ve been treated for depression climbed to 31.5 percent, according to a new report by UMass-Boston.
Here are four things to know about the latest news, which reportedly caught the Pentagon unawares.
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Opinion
I do not want to hear that I have a ?humor deficit? or can?t take a joke. I did not over-react. I took a job and because I did not want to be harassed, I was fired.
Suns 111, Celtics 103
The guard scored 29 points, but lacking three of their top interior players, the Celtics were pounded on the boards and lost their second straight.
Academy Award-winner Casey Affleck has signed on to produce the film with Alison Greenspan.
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Two Tufts student-athletes? differing politics, like their different skin color, doesn?t get in the way of their friendship. In fact, by accepting their differences, they have become closer.
Art Review
The two towering figures of British landscape painting are reunited in a show at the Clark Art Institute, with gently subversive results.
Movie Review
?Welcome to Marwen? misses the bigger picture Steve Carell stars in this film that?s based on a true story. But it isn?t true to life.
A Globe journalist will appear on ?Jeopardy!? Thursday. Here are just a few secrets she spilled How do you cram for a show that?s just as likely to ask about hair bands as it is to quiz players on the periodic table? Did she have a buzzer strategy? And what?s the real dirt on Alex Trebek?
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Penny Marshall and the lasting impact of ?A League of Their Own? The film has visceral connections to what women are capable of, what women were once denied, what women can overcome, and how women can connect.
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Michael Flynn?s ?Lock her up!? chant about Hillary Clinton comes back to haunt him.
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Editorial
Warren-Gardner bill would take pot shops out of legal limbo and clear the way for access to banking and credit care services.
Aaron hernandez and Football Inc. The story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America?s most popular sport.
After suicides in Acton and Boxborough, a communion of sorrow The unthinkable has been an all-too-common companion in two small neighboring towns, where six young people took their lives in the short span of 30 months. The questions keep coming: What is happening? Why? When will it stop?
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The Big Picture
Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: a colorful sunrise, Christmas tree lightings, and high school sports.
The team is 9-0 when the running back gets the ball at least 13 times, 0-5 when he gets the ball less.
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Keolis Commuter Services officials said the employee did the decorating on his own time.
The attraction is included in one of six proposals before the Boston Planning & Development Agency to attract more visitors.
Massachusetts? first black congresswoman announced Monday on Twitter that she will work in the Capitol office that belonged to the country?s first black congresswoman.
Decades after the US stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again.
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The show offers a chance to wander from one automaker to the next without ever leaving the building.
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Capital One also will move into the 18-story building, planned as part of a major MIT project.
As a filmmaker, she became the first woman to direct a film that grossed more than $100 million. She also directed ??A League of Their Own,?? ?Jumpin? Jack Flash?? and ??Awakenings.??
Café St. Petersburg in Newton reminds us that Russian food is ready for its moment.
Recovery experts set up new ?religion? in Maine that may skirt drug laws The Church of Safe Injection illegally distributes clean syringes. Branding as a ?religion? may offer some legal protection.
Love Letters: 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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Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix? Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.
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