analysis

With no consensus from Republicans, health bill falters

President Trump, who was generally disengaged on the health care legislation, spoke during a meeting Tuesday with Senate Republicans.

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Republicans vowed, over and over for years and years, that they would repeal Obamacare. Yet they failed again.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/27/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/06053279.jpg Health bill is in doubt as some GOP senators withhold support

Republicans were forced to regroup after several GOP senators said they did not support the bill, and during a meeting President Trump said a defeat could be ?OK.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/27/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/802140774.jpg Mitch McConnell says ?good progress? was made on health bill at Trump meeting

The Senate majority leader said after the meeting there?s a ??really good chance?? of passing the bill, but it won?t happen before July 4.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/20/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/837402d2881f46d3bae67420ec97f17e-837402d2881f46d3bae67420ec97f17e-0.jpg How Warren turned into an enthusiastic supporter of single-payer health care

Senator Elizabeth Warren is telling fellow Democrats to endorse a single-payer health insurance system for the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at the press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMMNICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images

Rick Perry had a whirlwind of a time at the White House press briefing

The former Texas governor was so entertaining that reporters actually cried, ?Please come back!? after he was finished.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/28/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/trump_time_cover.jpg March 2009 Time cover of Trump is phony

A fake magazine cover featuring Donald Trump hung on the walls of at least four of his golf clubs.

Your robot will serve you now ? and it might make deliveries, too

Once the Cafe ArtScience robot masters its domain, it might be sent out on the streets as a delivery service. (No word yet on whether it will take tips.)

From left: Milton ?Lil Rel? Howery, Amber Stevens West, David Alan Grier, Loretta Devine, and Jerrod Carmichael in NBC?s ?The Carmichael Show.?

Commentary

Jerrod Carmichael went there with the N-word, and it was insulting

An episode of the NBC sitcom that used the word six times did nothing to defuse its ugliness.

Houston, TX Feb. 5 2017: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, (left) and Patriots owner Robert Kraft (right) are pictured together on the podium during the post game celebration. The Atlanta Falcons play the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI at NRG Stadium in Houston on Feb 5. (Globe Staff Photo/Jim Davis) reporter: various topic: Super Bowl

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

Hard to believe Deflategate didn?t strain Kraft/Goodell friendship

Goodell has to put Deflategate through the spin cycle one more time.

FILE - JUNE 27: Actor Michael Nyqvist, known for his role in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, died of lung cancer June 27, 2017. He was 56. MUNICH, GERMANY - MARCH 15: Actor Michael Nyqvist poses during a photo call for the Sky Series Night '100 Code' on March 15, 2015 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Joerg Koch/Getty Images)

Obituary

Michael Nyqvist, who appeared in ?John Wick,? ?Dragon Tattoo,? dies at 56

Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist, who starred in the original ?The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? films and often played villains in Hollywood movies like ?John Wick,? died of lung cancer.

Gisele Bundchen?s ?rock star? Instagram post.

Names

Gisele is ?a rock star for a day?

Tom Brady?s better half posted a photo of herself with a guitar on Instagram Tuesday.

Bill Belichick and Linda Holliday in N Magazine.

Names

Belichick smiles (sort of) in magazine profile pics

The Pats coach and longtime girlfriend Linda Holliday are featured in Nantucket?s N Magazine.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/03/07/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/tlumacki_taxis_metro174.jpg Developers buy Boston Cab properties in Fenway for $50 million

The sale is the first step toward a possible major new residential development in the booming neighborhood.

Storm clouds roll over Fenway Park, prior to heavy rain and lightning, prior to baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins in Boston, Tuesday, June 27, 2017. The start of the game was delayed due to weather. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Watch videos of the hail that pelted New England today

Thunderstorms rumbled through Massachusetts on Tuesday, dropping quarter-sized hail in some areas.

Dave Epstein

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/10/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_061017_feature_11536x.jpg July 4 weekend is getting close. So what will the weather be like?

Friday looks like a day with a lot of clouds and possible thunderstorms, but Saturday is looking like a great beach day.

STAT | SPECIAL REPORT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/28/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/stat_opioid_ink_color_f_flat-1600x900.jpg Opioids could kill tens of thousands in the next decade

Deaths from opioids have been rising sharply, and overdoses already kill more Americans under age 50 than anything else.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/27/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/ferry-11301.jpg Ferry captain mistook boats, pole for buoys before crash

The accident earlier this month sent 15 people to the hospital.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/03/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_030117_fatal_09967x.jpg Boston drivers are dead last in insurance company safety report

The Allstate insurance company ranked cities for driver safety. Boston isn?t first, or anywhere close to it.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/26/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/shutterstock_407995804-4680.jpg Boston doesn?t make the cut on Fortune?s best workplaces for millennials

Despite the city?s high percentage of young workers, no Boston-headquartered company made this year?s top 100 list.

A rendering of the HUBweek installation at City Hall Plaza.

HUBweek

A huge installation is coming to City Hall Plaza for the HUBweek festival

The week-long innovation festival in October will feature a new central site and headliners that include authors, journalists, and researchers.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_baker4_met-U8328296148420MB--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg Not even close: Charlie Baker leads Democratic rivals in new poll

Governor Baker performs well in a new poll against the three Democrats who have declared challenges to him. But, warns the pollster, it?s still early.

Globe file photos

James Pindell | Ground Game

Why it?s time for Trump to stop calling Warren ?Pocahontas?

?Pocahontas? is a racially tinged insult President Trump has hurled dozens of times at this point.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/27/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Opioids.jpg STAT forecast: Opioids could kill nearly 500,000 in U.S. in next decade

Opioids could also cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions as the crisis of addiction accelerates.