Judge says Sessions can?t deny grant money for sanctuary cities

Attorney General Jeff Sessions cannot follow through with his threat to withhold public safety grant money to sanctuary cities, a judge says.

Boston Red Sox assistant athletic trainer Jon Jochim looks on from the dugout before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park in Boston, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

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Red Sox (and Yankees) fined in sign-stealing investigation

The investigation stemmed from the Yankees accusing the Sox of stealing catchers? signs with the aid of an Apple Watch.

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A reputed gang member has been charged with fatally shooting a man on the Southeast Expressway and murdering a woman in his home hours later.

Commuter rail train strikes, kills person in Dedham

The man was struck by an outbound commuter rail train on the Franklin line, police said.

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The North?s state media carried Kim?s comments on Saturday, a day after U.S. and South Korean militaries detected the missile launch from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

The Trump presidency

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Nancy Pelosi reportedly found herself in a position that might be familiar to working women: She was being interrupted by the men around her.

The building housing dozens of businesses, including Black Ink gift shop and Cardullo?s Gourmet Shoppe, are for sale by a family trust.

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Harvard Square properties could fetch more than $100 million

A week after the listing for the Brattle Street properties hit the market, more than 100 notices of interest from would-be buyers have come in, brokerage says.

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An explosion sent commuters stampeding at the height of Friday?s morning rush hour.

Will the men of Brookline become ?selectwomen??

Brookline is about to consider a modest proposal: Let?s rename the town?s governing body the ?Board of Selectwomen.?

Karen Maslow, one of the owners of Salt Island, walked on the beach.The four-acre undeveloped island is for sale by the family that has owned and protected the island since 1959.

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Want to buy an uninhabitable island for a lot of money?

For $750,000, Salt Island could be yours.

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The family of a 5-year-old girl said their daughter was barred admission to a prestigious school but was ahead of her peers cognitively.

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Through a series of word-of-mouth connections and generous gestures, approximately 70,000 books are going to libraries from China to Zambia.

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School refusal is an issue that has only recently earned wider recognition, but one that school administrators say is a persistently vexing problem.

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Mike Lamagna was fishing on his paddleboard when a humpback whale appeared just a few feet away from him.

Equifax disclosed last week that hackers accessed or stole 143 million Americans? Social Security numbers, birthdates, and other information.

Key Equifax executives departing after huge data breach

Equifax says its chief information officer and chief security officer are leaving the company.

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Stanton was widely loved around Hollywood, a drinker and smoker and straight talker with a million stories who palled around with Jack Nicholson and Kris Kristofferson.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/15/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/brady-12967[1].jpg Here?s what Tom Brady eats on an ?average day?

As he as done in the past, Brady advocates eating ?real foods? and achieving balance ? almost to an extreme.

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There?s no app for this: A retail town suffers in the age of e-commerce

Nerves are rattled in this outlet town. The windows in storefront after storefront display identical bulletins of economic distress: Retail space available.

The latest projected storm track predicted the storm will come close to Nantucket.

Jose heads for East Coast; rip currents expected locally

Massachusetts officials say they are keeping an eye on Hurricane Jose, which is expected to churn up high surf in New England.

Love Letters

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Ever since he messaged about his girlfriend, I?ve been weirdly jealous, and I keep having sex dreams about him.

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The two veteran city councilors pulled ahead in a seven-way preliminary contest Tuesday and will face each other on the final ballot in November.

Special reports

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David Gove, a former Cape Cod hockey prodigy, is dead at 38. Felony charges have been dropped against the coach he said raped him as a boy.

Newsletters

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Witness the birth of the marijuana industry in Massachusetts and catch up on national pot headlines every Saturday.

Opinion & Ideas

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Norms that once held our democracy together are getting trampled.

Fall Arts Preview 2017

Fall Arts preview

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A complete guide to movies, music, books, arts, theater, and family events in the Greater Boston area this season.

Nation & World

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A silent march in memory of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire was held Thursday.

Grenfell fire inquiry opens amid ?sense of anger and betrayal?

LONDON ? A major public inquiry into the deadliest fire in Britain in more than a century opened on Thursday, with the retired judge who is leading the investigation citing a ?sense of anger and betrayal? among former residents of Grenfell Tower in London, which was engulfed in flames in June.

Lifestyle

Isabelle Pitrowski (with her mom and her dog Lily) missed almost all of her seventh grade year due to anxiety about school.

When anxiety keeps kids from school

School refusal is an issue that has only recently earned wider recognition, but one that school administrators say is a persistently vexing problem.