The Trump presidency

?The whole thing has been a witch hunt,? Trump says

President Trump said the appointment of a special counsel ??shows we?re a divided, mixed-up, not unified country.?

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There?s anger. There?s agitation. But most of all there is impatience.

KEVIN CULLEN

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/cullen-9686.jpg Special Counsel Bob Mueller won?t leak but Trump should still be worried

Mueller survived 13 years as FBI director in a town that floats on leaks, but he was never a leaker.

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/18/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Indira%20lakshmanan%20(1)-3561.jpg The greatest self-inflicted witch hunt in history

Someone should tell President Trump he brought the special counsel upon himself with his actions.

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American country singer Toby Keith is scheduled to perform in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, this weekend.

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/02/01/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/McCarthy0207mag.jpg These are the real ?greatest witch hunts? in political history

Consider also these past political witch hunts, and judge for yourself if they are greater than the investigation into President Trump?s ties to Russia.

Alex Diaz, 30, of Dorchester worked during a math class at College Bound Dorchester.

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

For former gang members, making education pay

This fall, 40 former gang members are being paid to resume their education as part of an initiative called Boston Uncornered.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/DLR27734.jpg A study on expanding Boston?s convention center is finally happening

This authority is looking to hire a firm that will research the best way to expand the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Beach_02.jpg To beach or not to beach on a May day

There?s something about going to the beach when you?re supposed to be somewhere else.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_beach_met-9644.jpg The last time it was this hot on May 18, there were deadly consequences

Two men were overcome by the heat in East Boston. Lightning injured three people in Randolph and killed a teenager in Rhode Island.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/18/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/reeromp.jpg A Reebok romper for men? It?s happening.

After a crowdfunding campaign went viral this week by promising to unleash the garment concept on the world, Reebok is getting in on the trend.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/chin080815BikeMemorial_met1.jpg Bump for Walsh on city?s mean streets

To some, Mayor Walsh?s comments about pedestrian and bicycle safety seemed mundane. But to others, they were a call to arms.

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While other Harvard University students were writing papers for their senior theses, Obasi Shaw was busy rapping his.

Magazine | Perspective

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/16/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/perspect0521mag.jpg A lesson from Harvard: Learn to pick your battles

By 21st-century standards, the university?s alma mater is problematic. And fixable.

Globe Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/17/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/illo0521consumption.jpg Why is it so hard to stop buying more stuff?

A neurosurgeon zeroes in on the tricky problem of overconsumption and why our brains aren?t signaling when enough is enough.

Emergency workers investigate the scene of a car that crashed into pedestrians in New York?s Times Square on Thursday.

One killed after car plows into Times Square crowd in NYC

The incident injured about 20 people, and police do not suspect a link to terrorism.

Roger Ailes, at Fox News studios in New York in 2002, died Thursday at 77.

Angel Franco/The New York Times/file

COMMENTARY | DON AUCOIN

Like him or loathe him, Roger Ailes transformed the news

The pugnacious founder of Fox News Channel gave the news an explicitly ideological edge, and in the process he played a crucial role in the rise of President Trump.

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Cornell?s death, ruled a suicide, stunned his family and his fans, for whom Cornell just performed hours earlier at a show in Detroit.

Metro

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/robot.jpg There?s a security robot patrolling the Prudential Center

This officer doesn?t need to take lunch breaks.

Former funeral home to pay nearly $500k for improper care of bodies

Ryder Funeral Home in South Hadley, and its director, allowed bodies to decompose, among other violations, the state said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_missing11_met.jpg Franklin police continue search for missing 20-year-old

Franklin police said they would be looking in harder-to-reach areas.

Trump Today

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/18/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/684257682-4399.jpg Following silence, a Twitter eruption

President Trump erupted on Twitter Thursday morning, calling himself the victim of a ?witch hunt.?

Opinion & Ideas

SCOT LEHIGH

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/18/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Scot_Lehigh_150px-3569.jpg Boston Teachers Union?s tall tale

A certain annoyance has crept into Boston Teachers Union President Richard Stutman?s voice.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Cold%20Case_WEb_shorterNew.jpg Finding Lisa: A story of murders, mysteries, loss, and, incredibly, new life

Her father was not who he said he was. He had secrets, secrets that Lisa would uncover, years later, when she set out to answer the question that burned in her: Who am I?

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Address: Spring House Hunt

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In America, everyone who has a cellphone thinks they are a professional photographer. They are not.

Investigations

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/03/03/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/AFP_MB3WQ.jpg Documenting Hate: Submit an incident you know about

If you have been a victim or witnessed a hate incident, share your information here so we can investigate.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/18/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Tom%20Brady.jpg Tom Brady had a concussion. So what? Here?s what science has to say

Amid reports that Tom Brady had a concussion last year, here?s the latest science on such head injuries and their long-term impact.