House overrides pay raise veto

The Mass. House quickly overrode a gubernatorial veto of an $18 million pay package that gives huge salary hikes to legislative leaders, judges, and other officials.

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President Trump told the National Prayer Breakfast that he?ll work to ?totally destroy?? a provision that bars churches from supporting candidates.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

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Bill Belichick?s former player personnel guy has helped get the Falcons where they are today.

Fan vs. Fan

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This is fourth in a series that features Falcons fans and Patriots fans answering questions about Super Bowl LI.

names

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Gaga declined to confirm earlier reports that she?ll be performing while suspended from the roof of NRG Stadium.

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The Boston-based vehicle sharing service has cut jobs as the company consolidates some of Zipcar?s operations.

Metro

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A federal judge ruled separately that Maura Healey?s office can be a full participant in a legal challenge to Trump?s immigration ban.

Names

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Today is the first day on the job for the Emerson alum.

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WEEI and The Sports Hub are part of a huge merger planned by Entercom and CBS Radio.

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President Trump

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Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

?It Can?t Happen Here? ? or could it? America flirts with authoritarianism

President Trump?s obsessions about his crowds and his ratings remind me of a very, very long day I spent with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez.

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President Donald Trump spoke on the phone with Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnball from the Oval Office.

Yvonne Abraham

About that call to Australia . . .

It says something about the Trump administration that the disastrous call with Malcolm Turnbull, prime minister of Australia, seems kind of minor, even funny.

DERRICK Z. JACKSON

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In their silence, Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick, and Tom Brady are enabling a bully.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch.

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Ground Game

How Gorsuch?s nomination could be felt by N.E. politicians

Neil Gorsuch?s confirmation proceedings could prove especially important to several US senators from New England.

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White House spokesman Sean Spicer defended the Yemen raid as a ?successful operations by all standards,? despite the loss of life.

Talking Points

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A recap of the most important business news from Thursday.

THINGS TO DO

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The Globe?s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.

Newsletters

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Trump Today

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President Trump did not have a good phone call with the prime minister of Australia or the president of Mexico.

? Schedule: Where the president is today

? News: A look at what happened yesterday

? Social media: What Trump has been tweeting

Opinion & Ideas

Opinion | Seán P. O?Malley

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In the face of a global humanitarian crisis, we cannot treat people as pawns.

Special reports

Timeline

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On Friday, President Trump issued his immigration order. By the weekend, protests rocked cities around the nation.

STAT

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Presidents can select whomever they want as a personal physician; many, but not all, have been military doctors.

Investigations

The Desperate and the Dead | Part 7

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One Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can?t Mass. do the same?