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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the text of the pared-down Obamacare repeal bill Thursday night.
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Scaramucci called a reporter last night and went on a profanity-laced rant about Priebus Is Anthony Scaramucci trying to out-Trump President Trump?
DC lobbyists ready for ?Hunger Games? of tax code reform As the GOP?s fight over health care drags on, businesses are salivating over the next item on the Trump agenda: a tax code overhaul.
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Governor Baker is set to sign the recreational pot measure Friday, setting in motion a high-stakes, 11-month sprint to license retail establishments.
SJC affirms ruling granting South Boston man new murder trial Frederick Weichel, 65, was freed on bail in April after spending 36 years in prison for a murder he insists he didn?t commit.
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N.E. fentanyl deaths ?like no other epidemic? New England has the highest rate of fentanyl-related deaths in the nation, due mostly to Mexican cartels bringing in vast quantities of the synthetic drug.
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Travel company offers blind woman free trip The chairman of Overseas Adventure Travel wrote a letter to JoAnn Becker to say he was ?very sorry and saddened by the way our organization communicated with you.?
Can Boston?s roads and trains handle the building boom? The region is hungry for housing, but questions are mounting about the capacity of the transit system to handle so many more riders.
Diver recounts dramatic rescue of boy after boat capsized ?The life preserver had the kid pinned against the floor of the boat . . . without an air pocket. I was able to reach him, to grab him,?? Michael Margulis said.
A man allegedly killed his wife on a cruise because she laughed at him A Utah man told an acquaintance who later walked into the couple?s blood-splattered room that he did it because she laughed at him, FBI officials said.
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The Waltham apartment complex that burned did not have the type of proactive plan that can help prevent fires at construction sites, because the city did not require such plans in 2015.
How Hingham police say a fatal standoff unfolded Incident reports released this week revealed new details about the 10-hour standoff that ended with the suicide of a 26-year-old man at his family?s home.
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An Army veteran who voted for the guy who says she shouldn?t serve President Trump?s tweet not only purported to ban transgender people from serving, it insulted the service of veterans like Brianna MacKinnon.
HEALTH
Why we should tell girls they?re ?beautiful? less often Children?s concerns about appearance and body image can start as early as preschool, and parents might unwittingly fuel these unhealthy obsessions.
Starbucks to shutter all Teavana stores as sales disappoint The company reported disappointing global sales growth on Thursday, and said it will close all 379 Teavana locations over the coming year.
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The company was focused on streamlining its operations to better establish itself as an ?on-the-go? brand.
Six months in, how is NBC Boston faring against its established rivals? It?s been six months since NBC Boston launched, joining the city?s five other TV outlets, including WHDH-TV Channel 7.
Fox News spends more than $100,000 to poke fun at NYT Fox ran a full-page advertisement in the Times on Thursday, blurbing a recent review in the newspaper about ?Fox and Friends.?
Red Sox? Sam Kennedy says Dennis Eckersley was owed an apology Kennedy said he apologized to the NESN analyst after pitcher David Price verbally blasted him.
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At age 26, Ravens? John Urschel retires from NFL to pursue PhD in math at MIT A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Urschel already has nine published or accepted research papers to his name.
Undrafted rookie?s TD catch leaves Patriots defense doing pushups The undrafted free agent had one of the highlight plays during the Patriots? practice Thursday.
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Editorial
When it comes to health care, this is an awfully dangerous bet Voting for a bill that senators don?t actually support, just to get it out of their hair, would be a dangerous move.
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His parents said he just needed to sleep. A SWAT team came instead In Hingham, a welfare check on a disconsolate young man with a gun turned into something utterly unimaginable.
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What realtors and sellers are required to disclose to buyers ? and what they aren?t There are only two things state law requires a seller to tell you.
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Using CRISPR, scientists efficiently edit genome of viable human embryos Some of the nation?s leading scientists have long warned against such work.
The Patriots? backups would be favored over the Jets? starters by a touchdown.
Mr. Driscoll, the Globe said in an editorial, was ?a banker who knows there is more to life, and to banking, than the bottom line.?
A sampling of the housing market here includes an antique with five fireplaces and a town house with a private courtyard.
Newly installed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci called into CNN in a combative interview with Chris Cuomo.
Palestinians gathering for prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound clashed with Israeli police nearly two weeks after a deadly attack there.
Second quarter results show shipments still declined, but revenues improved as the maker of Sam Adams exceeded low expectations.
New look at old store; New England Book Award winners; and a memoir of facing tough medical challenges and a tough adolescence
The director talks about her new film, what she hopes to accomplish by releasing it in a country where racial divisions remain a critical issue, and more.
The Roaring Twenties Lawn Party takes place at Ipswich?s Castle Hill on the Crane Estate on Aug. 5 and 6
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