Trump walks out of meeting with Democrats over shutdown

President Trump called his Wednesday meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and other Democrats a ?waste of time.?

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The bill is unlikely to move forward in the Republican-controlled Senate, where majority leader Mitch McConnell has dismissed it as political theater.

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Here?s a look at what legal experts are saying about President Trump?s idea of going it alone and declaring an emergency so he can build his border wall.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., pose for photographers after speaking on Capitol Hill in response President Donald Trump's address, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Matthew Gilbert

A TV rerun from low-energy Trump and a too-tight Democratic team

Social media may have had fun, but as television programming goes, the Oval Office address and Democratic response were pointless, awkward exercises.

NESTOR RAMOS

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Matt Cameron has more facts than most: while a lot of us have vacillated between irritated and irate over the Trump administration?s hard-line immigration policies and tactics, Cameron has lived it.

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The head of the Food and Drug Administration said that the government shutdown prevents it from doing some routine food safety inspections.

Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Warren to make first New Hampshire visit this weekend as she explores presidential run

Elizabeth Warren?s scheduled visits to the first-in-the-nation primary state will include a stop at Manchester Community College on Saturday.

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Temescal Wellness in Hudson received a ?commence operations? notice from the Cannabis Control Commission, giving it approval to open as early as Saturday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/01/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/d9e93025324b48d8bcd7a426fd9e33db-d9e93025324b48d8bcd7a426fd9e33db-0.jpg Passengers on Alaska Airlines describe 30-hour odyssey

The Boston-to-Los Angeles flight was diverted to Buffalo, where passengers endured a long wait, before flying back to Logan ? with some continuing on to L.A.

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State Street Corp.?s new chief executive officer is executing on a plan to whittle the management ranks.

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An outdated school funding formula in Massachusetts is putting a severe strain on district budgets, a panel of school and municipal leaders warned Tuesday.

MOLASSES SLIDER Boston, MA - 1/15/1919: Police, firemen, Red Cross workers, civilian volunteers, and cadets from the USS Nantucket training ship berthed nearby rushed to the scene on Jan. 15, 1919, after a giant tank in the North End collapsed, sending a wave of an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses through the streets of Boston. They rescued many terrified people but others they were unable to reach. Twenty-one people died and 150 were injured. (Boston Globe Archive/) --- BGPA Reference: 150115_MJ_006

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MOLASSES SLIDER Boston, MA - 1/16/1919: On January 15, 1919, a giant tank in the North End collapsed, sending a wave of an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses through the streets of Boston, killing 21 people and injuring 150. The gooey molasses formed a tidal wave that reached a depth of 15 feet and in places was 100 yards wide over a two block area. (Boston Globe Archive/) --- BGPA Reference: 150114_MJ_002

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MOLASSES SLIDER Section of tank after Molasses Disaster explosion.

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MOLASSES SLIDER Boston, MA - 1/20/1919: Welders carefully began cutting up the molasses tank with torches in the search for bodies on Jan. 20, 1919, five days after the Great Molasses Flood in Boston's North End. Even though firemen constantly sprayed water upon the twisted wreckage, it wasn't until the city ordered powerful streams from the city fireboat that the molasses began to disappear. The salt water of the harbor

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MOLASSES SLIDER Wreckage under the elevated where many express trucks parked, Molasses Disaster

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MOLASSES SLIDER Site of Molasses Disaster showing lumberyard to left near Charleston Bridge

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MOLASSES SLIDER Boston, MA - 1/16/1919: Rubble is all that's left of a fire station on Jan. 16, 1919, the day after a giant tank in the North End collapsed, sending a wave of an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses through the streets of Boston. The tank was 58 feet high and 98 feet in diameter. It was used to store molasses which eventually was shipped to a distillery in Cambridge. At the time of the explosion it was estimated that 2.5 million gallons of molasses were in the tank. (Boston Globe Archive/) --- BGPA Reference: 150114_MJ_003

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MOLASSES SLIDER Boston, MA - 1/15/1919: On Jan. 15, 1919, a giant tank in the North End collapsed, sending a wave of an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses through the streets of Boston, killing 21 people and injuring 150. The flood knocked down a house and smashed vehicles up and down Commercial Street, seen here. (Boston Globe Archive/) --- BGPA Reference: 150114_MJ_001

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Globe Magazine

The day Boston was swamped by a deadly wave of molasses

One hundred years ago this month an enormous steel tank ruptured, sending a torrent of brown syrup on a deadly path through the North End.

The Fine Print

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/01/08/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/lee010719salemcat3MET.jpg A brief frolic outside may cost a woman her cat

In June, Pamela Howard adopted Muse, a blue-eyed, gray-striped, half-Siamese cat who had suffered terrible burns in a previous owner?s neglectful care.

TARA SULLIVAN

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/01/09/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davenport1.jpg The Maori Davenport case will boil your blood and break your heart

This is a reminder of what happens when those in power value service to their rules over servicing their constituents.

COMMENTARY | Jeneé OSTERHELDT

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Statistically speaking, we all know a victim of domestic violence ? or are a victim.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

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Frontier enters the Boston market in April with low introductory fares on flights to Orlando and Raleigh-Durham. But watch out for the large number of ancillary fees.

Chef Mary Dumont posed for a photo in 2016 outside the space that would become Cultivar.

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Cultivar restaurant in downtown Boston to shut its doors

The restaurant at the Ames Hotel is the latest in the city to close down, which its proprietor said was due to ?unforeseen events that have created the perfect storm.?

Nicole Kidman plays an alcoholic detective in ?Destroyer.?

Movie Review

With Nicole Kidman, in ?Destroyer,? desperation is skin deep

This tale of an alcoholic detective seeking to absolve her guilty conscience and bring culprits to justice 17 years after a deadly crime barely rises to the level of a genre rehash.

book review

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Kristen Roupenian?s ?You Know You Want This? is a scintillating new debut story collection.

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The Boston Fire Department?s newest class of recruits is training on Moon Island.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/01/08/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/ryanfacebook6biz.jpg Here?s a look inside Facebook?s new Cambridge office

The tech giant?s local outpost started with a tiny team at in 2013, but it plans to grow to around 600.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/01/09/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/Meredith_New_Logo-5361.jpg I support my unemployed boyfriend, and I?ve had enough

I dumped him when I found out he was hanging out with his ex. Then he started making some big promises. Do I believe him?

Special reports

After her cancer diagnoses, Marie Cajuste?s life unraveled. She was unable to work during the most intense part of her treatment.

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Unhealthy Divide

Battling a double diagnosis ? cancer and poverty

Cancer is a tremendous burden for anyone, but for a growing number of lower-income and even middle-class patients, an illness means an avalanche of trouble.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

The year 2018 in pictures: Part II

Here are the photos from July to December that summed up the year.

Podcasts

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/gladiator%20pic5.jpg Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

The story of a profoundly troubled young man and the ugly underside of America?s most popular sport.

Newsletters

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Follow the Celtics? quest for a title and other NBA news both on and off the court. Sign up here.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/01/08/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Starghill181226_0186-1600x900.jpg People who don?t respond to HIV meds overlooked by pharma, researchers

Patient advocates are pursuing orphan drug status to give companies incentives to develop new treatments.

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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