Stocks started to fall in early trading and extended their losses throughout the afternoon.
Senate makes it official: Chandler is president The state Senate voted unanimously Thursday to keep Senator Harriette L. Chandler as its president for the rest of the year.
Baker proposal would fund sheriffs, birth control for poor, aid to hurricane evacuees The Legislature will have the final say on the $160 million supplemental state budget bill released Thursday.
White House says President Trump still confident in Kelly The White House says President Trump remains confident in his chief of staff John Kelly even though Kelly defended an aide who?d been accused of domestic abuse by his two ex-wives.
MassMutual to build $240 million office in Seaport District The Springfield-based insurer?s plans include a new 300,000-square-foot building in the Seaport.
It phoned home: Spacecraft that went dead is sending signals back to Earth In a surprising development, a spacecraft that was believed dead for more than a decade has been sending signals back to Earth.
?Staggering? amount of fentanyl recovered during investigation The six-month-long drug investigation included the use of wiretaps and netted a large amount of deadly fentanyl, which has been blamed for hundreds of deaths.
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The world has gotten Trump?s message The US slipped from the second most visited country in the world to third. It?s not difficult to figure out why.
Fla. woman says she flushed her hamster after suggestion from airline A Florida woman says an airline told her to flush her hamster down a toilet at the airport because the emotional support rodent wasn?t allowed to fly with her.
Omarosa talks President Trump on ?Celebrity Big Brother? ??It?s so bad.?? That?s Omarosa Manigault Newman?s take on the Trump administration.
Boston Garden countersued by winter village vendors The fired managers of a winter holiday market are accusing their former business partners of mismanaging the festival on Boston City Hall Plaza.
Drivers, and Oxford comma, come up big in lawsuit settlement A Maine dairy company has settled a lawsuit over an overtime dispute that was the subject of a ruling hinging on the use of the Oxford comma.
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Ty Burr
The number of upcoming ?Star Wars? movies just keeps on growing.
Isaiah Thomas was traded to the Lakers as the Cavs made a series of deals that will have effects on the Celtics.
Jimmy Garoppolo reportedly gets 5-year, $137.5 million deal with 49ers The contract would make the former Patriot, who went 5-0 last season, the NFL?s highest-paid player.
Things that Work
Here?s one idea to make ?Storrowing? a thing of the past In Australia, a sheet of water pours from the ceiling of the tunnel entrance, with a holographic image of a massive, red stop sign.
The Season Ticket podcast Dan Shaughnessy joins host Chris Gasper to discuss the ramifications of Josh McDaniels backing out of the Colts head coaching job.
Here?s how Philly is celebrating the Eagles? win Fans clad in Eagles green lined up 20 deep in spots to catch a glimpse of the champs, who rode up Broad Street in open-top, double decker buses.
CAPITAL SOURCE
The group behind Question 2 (yes, from 2016) has been shuttered Its board of directors made the decision after investigating a complaint of ?inappropriate behavior? by its executive director.
The World War II veteran spent his birthday surrounded by friends and family at the Don Orione Home.
Norwegian Olympic team tries to order 1,500 eggs, ends up with 15,000 instead The mistake apparently came courtesy of Google Translate, which the cooks used to fill out their ingredient list.
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What would putting Steve Wynn?s name on the Everett casino say about us?
Things to Do
The Weekender: ?Shades,? shorts, and shows ? a pre-Valentine preparedness kit The Globe?s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.
SCOT LEHIGH
Let?s say ?thank you? to the people who made the budget deal possible: The voiceless younger generation Congress should find a way to pay for the new spending now, not pass the expense on to the future.
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The best Blizzard of ?78 stories you could dig out The Globe?s call last week for reminiscences about the Blizzard of ?78 resulted in a veritable flurry of stories from our readers. Here are some highlights.
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He calls animal testing ?taxpayer-funded torture.? The FDA listened Anthony Bellotti has taken a novel approach to animal rights advocacy, branding animal testing as government waste.
NBC?s multiplatform approach has everything covered, and the time difference is not a problem.
The New Hampshire woman who won the Powerball jackpot is suing her state for the right to anonymously collect it.
We found two-bedroom homes in Walpole, Wareham, and Plymouth at this price range.
The arrangement, unique in recent legislative history, closes off the possibility of former Senate president Stanley Rosenberg returning to power this year.
The National Science Foundation is tightening its restrictions on grants after reports of sexual harassment by scientists the agency has backed.
A review into sexual misconduct allegations against Steve Wynn will continue, despite his removal as head of his company.
At 78, the former Mott the Hoople frontman has never stopped recording and touring.
Bill Belichick?s longtime girlfriend was decked out in support of the team and her man.
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The Big Picture
The Blizzard of ?78 is a storm that will be remembered. When it was over, 73 Massachusetts lives were lost and hundreds of houses destroyed.
