The Trump presidency

As President Trump heads overseas, scandal widens at home

Donald Trump has left the country on his first foreign trip as president as an investigation continues to roil the White House.

The White House.

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Russia probe reaches current White House official, report says

The senior White House adviser under scrutiny by investigators is someone close to the president, according to The Washington Post.

First lady Melania Trump Trump, left, President Donald Trump, and US Air Force Col. Casey D. Eaton, Commander, 89th Airlift Wing, walk to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, May 19, 2017, prior to Trump's departure on his first overseas trip. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Trump reportedly tells Russians about firing ?nut job? Comey

The New York Times reported that President Trump had told the Russians that James Comey was ?crazy, a real nut job.?

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Rod Rosenstein said he stood by his memo, but said he had no intention of it being used to fire James Comey.

EDITORIAL

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President Trump had nothing to say after Turkish security guards violently attacked protesters in Washington. That?s reprehensible.

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President Trump?s hugs are apparently both uncomfortable and difficult to avoid.

Renée Graham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/19/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/Graham-1022.jpg Nobody puts Trump in a corner

Evicting a president from office is no small feat.

Sports

Rachel G. Bowers

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Here is a closer look at the guard that could be added into the Green-and-White fold.

FILE - In this May 1, 2017, file photo, Gisele Bundchen, left, and Tom Brady attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between exhibition in New York. Bundchen told

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Tom Brady?s agent denies report of concussion

Don Yee disputed the claim by Brady?s wife, Gisele Bundchen, that the quarterback was concussed last season.

Talking points

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To some, the $4 billion Deer Island sewage treatment plant that opened 17 years ago is an engineering marvel.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/01/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/wiggs_Hospital_472094.jpg Steward merger would make it nation?s biggest private for-profit hospital system

Boston-based Steward would grow to 36 hospitals across 10 states, with revenues of nearly $8 billion.

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A Lawrence boy who alerted police this week that his father was allegedly selling drugs had turned to the DCF year ago.

Metro

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/cooks.jpg AG orders Malden charter school to stop punishing black students for hairstyles

Maura Healey?s office said Mystic Valley Regional Charter School?s hair and makeup policy discriminates against students of color.

Department of Public Works employee dies after crash

The crash happened at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and the driver died early Friday.

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Why did the MBTA bounce these mattress ads? Too spicy

The MBTA has removed four Bernie & Phyl?s mattress advertisements on subway cars because they were deemed sexually suggestive.

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Yale dean placed on leave for derogatory restaurant reviews

A dean at Yale University has been placed on leave after posting racially insensitive comments to a review website.

Kevin Dua

Couple named prom queens at Somerville High School

Miranda Melanson and her girlfriend Learsi Ferrer became Somerville High School?s first same-sex prom royalty.

Hundreds of people wearing yellow stickers that read ?Safe Streets Now? gathered at City Hall Plaza Friday in response to recent comments from Boston Mayor Martin Walsh.

?Streets Are For People? vigil held at Boston City Hall Plaza

Hundreds of people wearing yellow stickers that read ?Safe Streets Now? gathered at City Hall Plaza Friday in response to recent comments from Boston Mayor Martin Walsh.

DANTE RAMOS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/19/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/dante_ramos-3657[1]-3573.jpg The myth of the beleaguered Boston driver

If you?re driving in a crowded city, it?s your job not to hit anybody.

Nation

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/19/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/AFP_OL8ZC.jpg Anthony Weiner pleads guilty in sexting investigation

The former US House member will have to register as a sex offender and could face years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of transferring sexual material to a minor.

Trump Today

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Plus, a rundown of the questionable claims President Trump made at a news conference yesterday.

Opinion & Ideas

Ideas | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/19/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/squarecat.jpg The crazy history of the ?cat lady?

An effort to reclaim the term ?crazy cat lady? ? to drop the ?crazy? and embrace the ?cat.?

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

Investigations

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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/2011-2020/2017/05/19/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/GettyImages-174747930-1024x576.jpg Is sunscreen more protective than a beach umbrella?

Sunscreen protects against sunburn better than beach umbrellas, says a recent study, but that?s not the whole story.