US lags behind goal to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees

Only about 1,200 refugees have settled here during the past six months, including 10 in Massachusetts.

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A grocery store that was shut down Monday due to a number of violations, including a mouse infestation, may be allowed to reopen.

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Most of the inmates will be released July 28.

Winter weather with possibility of snow expected to return this weekend

Starting Sunday, a weather system is expected to bring much colder weather.

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The ?Luckiest Girl Alive? writer published an online essay about her own assault.

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The 15-year-old girl is seen on video appearing to push or punch an older man before a Donald Trump supporter sprayed her in the face.

learning curve

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/07/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walkout_02A.jpg Charlestown High graduation program is spared

The Liberty Mutual Group stepped forward to provide financial support for the Diploma Plus program.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/30/BostonGlobe.com/HealthScience/Images/nestle-kendall.jpg Why Nestlé has been acting a lot like a drug company

The Nestlé Health Science division is pouring money into companies targeting conditions like gut infections, muscle loss, and Alzheimer?s disease.

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Florida?s governor implored the fabled school to move south, but one person suggested a more practical ? if equally unlikely ? move.

Aquarium de Paris

Feeling adventurous? Stay overnight in a shark tank.

The Aquarium de Paris recently posted a listing on Airbnb for an overnight stay in a waterproof enclosure suspended in their shark tank.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/30/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/billevans-run.jpg Q&A with Police Commissioner Evans: Preparing for the 2016 Marathon

Memo to any criminals pursued by Boston?s top cop: You can hide, but you can?t run.

Fort Myers- Feb 28, 2016- globe photo by Stan Grossfeld- For Globe Magazine only- Red Sox jack of all trades Brock Holt loosens up before taking live batting practice at Fenway South. (Shot in infrared)

Stan Grossfeld/Globe staff

Globe Magazine

The Red Sox photographed as you?ve never seen them

The Globe?s Stan Grossfeld brought an infrared camera to spring training and came home with these.

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The Globe?s baseball writers and columnists make their picks for division champs, wild cards, and the World Series.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/16/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/05163274.jpg Is Selena Gomez dating a Berklee grad?

The singers haven?t confirmed the romance, of course.

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A tourism video was yanked off YouTube after eagle-eyed viewers complained it showed a scene shot in Iceland.

OPINION | LAURENCE H. TRIBE

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/29/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/0330gar1.jpg From judge to justice: the case for Merrick Garland

He will be among our nation?s finest justices, and the Senate should confirm him to the Supreme Court.

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/29/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/Mideast%20Syria%20Islamic_DiNa.jpg Will defeat in the Middle East mean ISIS grows globally?

In its putative state across Iraq and Syria, the militant group is beset on all sides. But it could metastasize.

Ground Game

ground game

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Even when police charge his campaign manager with simple battery, the only one who can stop Trump at this point is Trump.

The Big Picture

A Pakistani Christian mother looks at her son as she holds her daughter during his funeral in Lahore, Pakistan, March 28.

B.K. Bangash/Associated Press

The Big Picture

Bombing in Lahore

At least 70 people were killed, including about 30 children, in a suicide bomb attack at a park in Lahore, Pakistan.

Globe investigations

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The Boston Globe?s 2001-2002 investigation into sexual abuses by clergy in the Catholic Church resulted in more than 600 stories.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

BetaBoston

BetaBoston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/2016-03-21/Granary-Burying-Ground.jpg Building a tombstone for the digital grave

Dave Balter has raised $1.5 million in seed investment for Mylestoned, a startup that aims to build a more modern way to remember the dearly departed.

Crux

John Allen Jr. | All Things Catholic

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/27/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/allen-1570.jpg A guide to decoding Catholic reaction to Pope Francis

Pope Francis is massively popular around the world, but somewhat divisive inside the church itself.