GOP?s message to Trump: Please stop

Instead of coming together, the elected officials President Trump needs for help were sprinting away from him Thursday.

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The Trump administration?s travel ban temporarily barring some citizens of six majority-Muslim countries from coming to the US is now in place.

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Hawaii asked a court to clarify the scope of the travel ban, saying the government?s latest restrictions go further than the Supreme Court allowed.

International travelers arrived at Boston?s Logan Airport on the day the Trump administration?s travel ban went into effect.

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Immigration advocates brace for modified travel ban

As a limited version of the ban took effect at 8 p.m., the scene at Logan Airport was calm.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/05142009_met14budget(3)-7240747.jpg Lawmakers asked to hit up lobbyists, companies to fund national confab

Tapping lobbyists, special interests, and an array of corporations, Mass. legislators are raising seven-figure sums to bankroll a national conference.

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What?s more popular than the Senate health care bill? Nixon, to start

The GOP?s Better Care Reconciliation Act is really unpopular, and not just because it has a name that is incomprehensible to most Americans.

Officer who made racially charged video suspended for six months

The Boston officer made a racially charged video with the tagline, ?This summer, black people have met their match.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/lepage062917.jpg Go to Maine for the fireworks. Stay for the government shutdown

Just as tens of thousands are expected to visit Maine for the July Fourth holiday, the state government is likely to shut down Friday night.

KEVIN CULLEN

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/cullen-11688.jpg Fire can?t end gentrification of Ashmont

The six-alarm blaze that left a Dorchester apartment building?s roof collapsed showed that fire can do nothing to gentrification except slow it down.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/AFP_PZ0WI.jpg Questions remain on changes to pot law

Details were ? choose your pot pun here ? hazy, being hashed out opaquely, obscured by smoke.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/16/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/fefab88ac7d348658e56142b8000d21a-fefab88ac7d348658e56142b8000d21a-0.jpg Aetna opts for a base in New York, not Boston

The insurance giant is moving its headquarters to New York City after nearly two centuries in Hartford, Connecticut.

The proposed offices for Amazon, 253 Summer St., overlook Fort Point Channel near the new General Electric headquarters.

Amazon reportedly near deal for building in Fort Point

You can add Amazon to the list of companies beating a path to Fort Point.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/29/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/462fd8ca92ce4cc6a042cc8aaa09ea52-462fd8ca92ce4cc6a042cc8aaa09ea52-0.jpg Lacking financing, utilities put $3 billion natural gas pipeline plan on hold

Access Northeast is the second massive natural-gas project in New England to be shelved because of financing problems.

The Cambridge startup Woobo is designing this voice-recognition toy to be

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Local startups need to make noise about voice computing

Talking devices are on the rise, but a lot of the action is happening on the other coast.

Independence Day

Fourth of July fireworks exploded over the Charles River and Esplanade, as seen from the roof of Boston University at 33 Harry Agganis Way in 2015.

Seven spots (off the Esplanade) to watch the fireworks

Not everyone?s Fourth of July plans include arriving at the Esplanade at 10 a.m. in hopes of snagging the perfect spot.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/29/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/WORKATION_RJ_desktop-6702.jpg ?Workations? blur line between jobs and time off

The ability to stay connected to co-workers 24/7 is invading vacation time in a big way.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/09/29/BostonGlobe.com/BCOM/Images/2015-08-21T145016Z_290542132_TM3EB8L0TDM01_RTRMADP_3_USA-WESTNILE-4934.jpg West Nile virus detected in mosquito in the Berkshires

Mosquitoes often test positive for the virus in the last week of June, state health officials say

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/20/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/salemwillowsJohn%20Phelan.jpg Beloved end-of-school picnic in Salem is a thing of the past

Lack of funding, dwindling interest cancels the annual end-of-school gathering at Salem Willows.

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CRITIC?S NOTEBOOK

Print journalists make the most of TV?s spotlight

The steady stream of TV appearances by journalists in the Trump era counter the caricatures promoted by the president.

RED SOX 6, TWINS 3

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/30/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/tlumacki_redsoxvstwins_sports178.jpg It looks like Mookie Betts has turned the corner

Betts capped a big series and the Red Sox got contributions from all over the lineup in support of David Price.

Christopher Muther

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/22/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/Manchesterbee.jpg After tragedy, the buzz returns to Manchester

A visit to Manchester, England, showed strong resolve and civic pride after a shocking tragedy.

quick bite

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/28/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/turner062717ARTSmastro97.jpg Steaks, seafood, and swagger at Mastro?s Ocean Club

This is food to make deals over: Seafood towers, sushi, steaks, and chops.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/29/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Fireworks.jpg See how fireworks injuries skyrocket on the Fourth of July

The Fourth brings patriotic displays of color, smoke, and sound ? and a slew of emergency room visits from burns or blast wounds.

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My First Home: Growing up in a model home

The family?s Minnesota farm just outside the city limits had been homesteaded 100 years ago, but now was the time to provide homes for returning veterans.

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It?s probably going to be a very, very busy traffic weekend on Cape Cod

Hoping to beat the traffic to the Cape this holiday weekend? If you?re planning to leave Thursday afternoon, it will probably be too late. ?Six o?clock on Thursday, that?s probably the single worst time,? said Glenn Cannon, director of technical services at the Cape Cod Commission, a regional planning agency that studies summer traffic patterns [?]