How much is a liquor license? In Cambridge, it depends

Sumiao Chen paid $200,000 for a liquor license that other Cambridge restaurant owners got for free.

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For years, the Cambridge License Commission has required some restaurants to pay up to $450,000 for a liquor license while others get theirs free.

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President Trump said the investigations and reports are affecting his ability to work with Russia.

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?I have an objective that Mitch McConnell will not be majority leader, and I believe will be done before this time next year,? Bannon said.

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Donald Morgan was arrested Friday after he allegedly drove away with a police vehicle, prompting a search that resulted in a man?s death Thursday.

Commuters waited for buses in the early morning cold at Bellingham Square in Chelsea on Saturday.

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Boston shatters 116-year cold weather record

Temperatures dropped to 23 degrees Saturday morning, making it the coldest Nov. 11 on record since 1901. And the cold will linger for several days, forecasters said.

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The entrepreneur announced Saturday that he planned to run against US Senator Elizabeth Warren as an independent.

FILE - In this March 15, 2016 file photo, actor George Takei attends the premiere of

AP

George Takei, Richard Dreyfuss are accused of sexual misconduct

A man said George Takei assaulted him in 1981, and a writer who worked for Richard Dreyfuss said he sexually harassed her for years. Meanwhile, Ellen Page said she was harassed on a movie set.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/GettyImages-456415850.jpg Matthew Weiner denies sexual harassment allegations to Cambridge audience

The ?Mad Men? creator?s event went on as scheduled even though a Seattle appearance has been canceled.

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President Trump and his advisers have begun developing their own blueprint to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

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For a second day, Moore, a GOP candidate for Senate in Alabama, rejected a report that linked him to a 14-year-old girl in 1979. Meanwhile, Republicans were distancing themselves from him.

Man fatally shot on Massachusetts Avenue identified

The man who was fatally shot in his car near Symphony Hall in Boston on Monday has been identified as Brent Stevenson.

Foxboro-11/08/17- The Patriots practiced at their practice field at Gillette Stadium. Rob Gronkowski stretches during warmups. John Tlumacki/Globe staff(sports)

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DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Once again, the Patriots will wait for the other guys to screw up

They received a lot of help during their bye. Now it?s Denver?s turn on Sunday night.

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The team will remain in Colorado following Sunday?s game against Denver to prepare for Mexico City?s altitude next week against the Raiders.

Bob Ryan

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A 16-member committee does the voting, and 12 votes are necessary to secure election.

PETER ABRAHAM

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/06/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/ryan_cora2_spts.jpg Alex Cora?s former Red Sox teammates knew he had the stuff to manage

?I saw him becoming a manager, 100 percent,? said Jon Lester.

BOSTON, MA - 10/11/2017:President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski checking the time after press conference. Boston Red Sox held a media availability at Fenway Park with President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski on the firing of manager John Farrell. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: SPORTS TOPIC Red Sox

NICK CAFARDO | SUNDAY BASEBALL NOTES

Which teams will be the most active at the GM Meetings?

The Red Sox and agent Scott Boras could get some good face-to-face time this week in Orlando.

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Authorities closed the street and stopped the water, but the scene was slippery amid the cold weather.

Opinion | Stephen Kinzer

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This is more than just another travel ban. It is a geopolitical spectacle unique in modern history.

Antonio Molina, of Roxbury,  who was wounded during the Vietnam War, gave remarks at Saturday?s ceremony in the South End.

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Veterans honored at Puerto Rican memorial in Boston?s South End

A monument honoring military service members of Puerto Rican ancestry who had been awarded the Purple Heart was unveiled Saturday.

Winter Travel | Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/07/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/food1112mag.jpg Ten restaurants to try in New England this winter

Some people claim that winter is ski season. Or hockey season. Or skating season. Some of us know better. In New England, it?s eating season.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/11/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/9800e24163974290b316afe5bec24e9a-1627afba3f2d4075b09ea192695cde3d-0.jpg New Delhi?s smog is so bad, United won?t fly there

United Airlines cited toxic smog that one Indian official said has turned the capital city into a ??gas chamber.??

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Time and again, America has bent the land to its will. Unfortunately, nature always gets the last word.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/10/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/AFP_RR0BY.jpg So who did go to that Kraft party featuring Elton John?

The Rocket Man ? without a band ? played many of his hits to a gathering of local notables.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/11/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/ce0886b9b0e147e0a78dacc81cd2eff6-ce0886b9b0e147e0a78dacc81cd2eff6-0.jpg Huge rally in Barcelona demands jailed separatists? release

Hundreds of thousands of people backing Catalonia?s bid to secede from Spain packed the streets in downtown Barcelona Saturday.

Internet investor and science philanthropist Yuri Milner, left, and renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking, right, seated in a speech adaptive wheelchair, discuss the new Breakthrough Initiative focusing on space exploration and the search for life in the universe, during a press conference, Tuesday, April 12, 2016, at One World Observatory in New York. The $100 million project is aimed at establishing the feasibility of sending a swarm of tiny spacecraft, each weighing far less than an ounce, to the Alpha Centauri star system. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Ideas | Jacob Haqq-Misra

Here?s why plans for a ?death laser? in space have been put on hold

There?s constant tension between human ingenuity and the risk that humans can?t be trusted.

Season Ticket Podcast

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NBC?s Sunday Night Football sideline reporter discussed the NFL, the Patriots-Broncos game, and what being a sideline reporter entails.

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One hundred years ago, one of the world?s top conductors was ensnared in a scandal involving patriotism and sex. It almost toppled Boston?s famed orchestra.

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If it were easier to register to vote, more people would probably participate in local and state elections.

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The Amazon bid

newsroom commentary

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/drone-5771.jpg Dear Jeff Bezos: Come and help us build a better Boston together

An open letter to the owner of Amazon, proposing a true partnership that rewrites the relationship between a city and the big companies that call it home.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/10/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Mallory.jpg To save a young woman besieged by superbugs, scientists hunt a killer virus

Mark Smith wants to inject his dying daughter with a virus in hopes it might kill the bacteria rooted in her lungs.

Crossword

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Puzzled? Keep trying and see if you can triumph.

Arts

Performers with Anna Myer and Dancers/beheard.world.

Dance review

Anna Myer brings ?Shift? to the ICA

Anna Myer trained at the Cambridge School of Ballet and danced with Boston Ballet, but the company she founded in 1992, Anna Myer and Dancers, has appeared in an MBTA station and on basketball courts as well as at more traditional venues like the Strand Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Tsai Performance Center. Over the past decade, Myer has created the rap operas ?Street Talk, Suite Talk? and ?Hoop Suite.? She?s taken her company to Franklin Field in Dorchester and the Lenox Street Housing Development in Roxbury. And with writer and photojournalist Jay Paris, she?s created beheard.world, a ?new nonprofit that combines performing arts, film, and advocacy.?