Calls for a special investigation were repeated Wednesday as the White House faced questions about the dismissal of FBI director James Comey.
New Justice official is now in an intense political glare Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was a central player in the firing of James Comey.
Republicans resist independent review after Comey firing Democrats are pressing for a special investigation into the Trump campaign?s ties to Russia.
More bad news for Trump: His poll numbers hit new lows Just 36 percent of respondents approved of President Trump?s job performance in a poll released Wednesday.
Senate panel subpoenas Flynn for Russia-related documents The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has subpoenaed former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn for Russia-related documents.
Tom Price commends West Virginia officers who arrested journalist Price, the health and human services secretary, defended police after they arrested a journalist for ?aggressively? asking him questions.
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When university President Edison Jackson introduced Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, students started booing loudly.
yvonne Abraham
America on the precipice This president?s repeated and blatant attacks on democracy are intolerable.
Evan Horowitz | Quick Study
Maybe Trump was right to fire Comey Here?s the thing about President Donald J. Trump?s stated reason for firing FBI director James Comey: it?s actually perfectly sensible.
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CELTICS 123, WIZARDS 101
Avery Bradley scored a career-playoff-high 29 points for Boston.
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A popular podcast takes a look at Providence?s seamier side The podcast ?Crimetown? offers crime and not punishment in Rhode Island?s capital.
Director at center of nudity storm returns to besieged Boston Children?s Theatre As the company takes steps to deal with the biggest crisis it?s faced in years, three trustees have resigned, including the chairman of the board.
The number of drug deaths in the state during the first three months of 2017 showed a slight decline.
Fourth person dies in Billerica auction crash Authorities said a person who was injured in last week?s crash has died, bringing the death toll to four.
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Mr. Phelps was a longtime editor at The Boston Globe and New York Times who oversaw the Globe?s coverage of school desegregation.
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Brockton foresees painful school cuts, teacher layoffs Facing a $16 million budget shortfall, the Brockton School Department says it may cut 344 jobs, including those of 189 teachers.
Pastrami-scented rumors are swirling about the famous Jewish deli from New York.
Harvard releases earliest known voice recording of JFK The clip of the 20-year-old future president was made during a public speaking course in 1937.
At UMass Amherst: Two sets of triplets, one graduation They are six students from towns 23 miles apart. They met as freshman and discovered they?d been in a triplets play group as children.
Comey firing distracts from Flynn questions The firing of James Comey distracted from troubling questions that were being raised over why Trump waited 18 days to fire Michael Flynn.
JOAN VENNOCHI
In Comey firing, the truth is in Trump?s tweets Thanks to Trump?s honesty via social media, the world knows what the president?s really thinking.
Summer of ?67
The summer that changed Boston The nation was splintering, and Boston wasn?t immune. But something was happening here.
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Opinion: Gender gap in Alzheimer?s rates, caregiving needs more attention Women make up nearly two-thirds of Americans with the disease, and shoulder the majority of caregiving.
Can Boston snap its two-game losing streak, or has Washington gained the upper hand? We?ll find out in a pivotal game at TD Garden.
Ricky Early says he doesn?t think Sen. Elizabeth Warren is doing enough for Massachusetts. So he?s making his opinion known.
You can expect to see some new faces on the 39th season of This Old House, which airs this fall.
One word seemed to circulate on Washington?s lips and among the political class around the country Tuesday: Watergate.
As Trump appears to be warming to China, a bipartisan group from the U.S. House of Representatives took aim Wednesday at one of Beijing?s sore spots: Tibet.
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Angela Atenco Lopez prepares the mole of her native Puebla the way she was taught ? slowly.
Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight? ?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed for the last time in New England. After 146 years, ?The Greatest Show on Earth? ends it historic run.
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