New GOP plan: Hold kids longer at border ? but with parents

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., with GOP leaders, finishes a news conference after telling reporters that Republicans talked about the Trump administration's policy of separating families after illegal border crossings, and are rallying behind a plan that would allow detained families to stay together while expediting their deportation proceedings. during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Republicans on Capitol Hill frantically searched on Tuesday for ways to end the Trump administration?s policy of separating families after illegal border crossings.

NESTOR RAMOS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/nestor150-17122.jpg The separation policy is ghoulish

A dispiriting 27 percent of the country supports the so-called zero-tolerance policy that has led to a sudden, dramatic increase in families being separated at the southern border.

The Big Picture

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/18/BostonGlobe.com/BigPicture/Images/973077450.jpg The family separation crisis at the border, in photos

At least 2,000 children have been separated from their parents since April.

APFile

GE gets dropped from the Dow Jones industrial average

General Electric, an original member of the Dow Jones industrials, will be removed from the index and replaced by Walgreens.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/19/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/9c5b1005f064474f9a0825ab84a16e91-f94f0038b30f42938cb96b229e77bf22-0.jpg The US is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council

Trump envoy Nikki Haley says the United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it ?not worthy of its name.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/39d0645f01d148508a08e8e097e33d75-2c4115e6ce6549de836e51bb02b31c52-17164.jpg Looking for signs of global warming? They?re all around you

Blueberry bushes near Walden Pond are flowering earlier. Polar bear populations in the Arctic are dwindling. Marmots in Colorado are emerging from their winter slumber earlier.

Gabriel Howson, 22, a recent college graduate pictured with his mom Monica Beato-Howson.

Barry Chin/Globe Staff

Why are millennials living at home? Housing costs and student debt, for starters

The high cost of housing in the region is forcing some recent college graduates to move back in with mom and dad to save money.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/03/01/BostonGlobe.com/Boston/Content/Enterprise/Images/Lesley_University_3-4338.jpeg Citing personal health, Lesley?s president is stepping down

The president of Lesley University is going to step down this summer for personal health reasons, according to a statement from the school.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/08/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/KelseyCronin_11veterans_04_met-001.jpg Lawmakers demand secret VA nursing home data be released after report

Both the Republican-led House and Senate VA committees requested briefings from VA officials following the investigative report by the Globe and USA Today.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_20jogger-4_metro.jpg ?The man chased me and he grabbed my wrists?: Jogger describes kidnapping attempt

A woman who fought off an alleged kidnapping attempt in Bridgewater described the encounter that turned her jog into moments of terror.

Brighton- 06/19/18- The Boston Celtics held a grand opening of their new practice facilty, the Auerbach Center on Guest Street, as seen from the Mass PIke. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(lmetro)

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Celtics unveil a gleaming new practice facility in Brighton

The Auerbach Center, said team owner Wyc Grousbeck, ?is the foundation of our future excellence.?

Arizona's forward Deandre Ayton during the first half of a first-round game against Buffalo in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament Thursday, March 15, 2018, in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/

Deandre Ayton goes No. 1 in the Globe?s 2018 NBA beat writers mock draft

Beat writers from across the league participated in a live mock draft. See how it unfolded.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/19/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/romera.jpg How to eat like a local on Newbury Street

A look at some of the street?s establishments that rise above the rest: for value, for charm, for sheer deliciousness.

Devra First

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/14/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/tlumacki_bertuccichef_lifestyle380.jpg Learning how to make Bertucci?s beloved rolls

Everyone seems to adore them but me. Can the restaurant?s executive chef change my mind?

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A Dunkin? Donuts shop in Baltimore is no longer offering customers coupons if they report workers shouting in foreign languages to management.

Some of Gloucester?s downtown residents (the humans) say that they feel under siege by the city?s other downtown residents (the gulls). The humans say the gulls have invaded, nesting on roofs, tearing into trashbags like they?re tortillas, and creating an incessant racket that destroys sanity and a good night?s sleep.

Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe

The gull next door: Seabirds bedevil some in Gloucester

Gloucester has a lot of seagulls. But does it have a seagull problem?

The first recreational marijuana license in Mass. could be granted Thursday

The Cannabis Control Commission will vote Thursday on whether to issue a license to a cultivation facility in Milford.

Miss Conduct

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/18/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/miss%20conduct-4074.jpg Miss Conduct?s common sense rules for socializing in the age of legal pot

Dos and don?ts for being around marijuana in social settings.

ALEX SPEIER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/19/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/977266244.jpg Trading Rafael Devers makes little sense; here are the reasons why

The production Devers has shown at such a young age is rare and makes him too valuable to move.

Foxborough- 06/05/18- All eyes were on QB Tom Brady as he arrives on the field for the Patriots minicamp at the Gillette Stadium practice facility. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(sports)

Ben Volin | On football

The more Tom Brady talks, the more it seems to be about leverage over the Patriots

All the talk of retirement could be just Brady flexing his muscles and extracting some concessions from the Patriots.

One day after a court ruling killed a proposed tax increase on high earners, three of the business groups that sued to block the proposal turned their attention to the state?s Medicaid program (aka MassHealth).

Talking Points

Health care costs return as central concern for Mass. employers

After vanquishing the so-called millionaires tax, the state?s business groups have an arguably tougher fight on their hands: reining in the expenses of subsidized health care.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_19ReevesSuicide-2_metro.jpg ?We want to shine a light on something no one wants to shine a light on.? A sister turns her grief into action

After her brother?s suicide, Alison Reeves decided to turn her grief into action.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/07/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/greenhouse_DisabilityExhibit-1_metro.jpg ?The history of disability was to hide it,? but Waltham students bring it to light

A unique course at Gann Academy asked students to creating a museum-worthy exhibit on the history of people with disabilities in America. It?s on display though early September.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_priests_grahamdad_splt.jpg Body of priest exhumed to establish whether he fathered a child decades ago

For 25 years, Jim Graham has tried to prove he is the son of a deceased Catholic priest. A DNA sample from the priest?s exhumed body should offer a morbid end to his search.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/2016-06-13T065332Z_794335410_S1AETJPWKIAA_RTRMADP_3_AWARDS-TONYS-17110-U841247453615EuH--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg Fans lined up in droves as Boston ?Hamilton? tickets went on sale Tuesday morning

They didn?t want to throw away their shot.

Here are all the stations where the MBTA is raising or lowering parking rates

Is your commute about to get more expensive? Check this list for all the changes.

In this undated photo, provided by family member Susan Lawrence on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, twin brothers Julius Pieper, left, and Ludwig Pieper in their U.S. Navy uniforms. For decades, he had a number for a name, Unknown X-9352, at a World War II American cemetery in Belgium where he was interred. On Tuesday, June 19, 2018, Julius Pieper will be reunited with his twin brother in Normandy, where the two Navy men died together when their ship shattered on an underwater mine while trying to reach the blood-soaked D-Day beaches. (Susan Lawrence via AP)

Twin brothers reunited 74 years after WWII death at Normandy

A radioman killed in WWII is getting his name back ? Julius Heinrich Otto ?Henry? Pieper ? and a resting place beside his twin, who was killed the same day.

Opinion & Ideas

Michael A. Cohen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/19/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/cohen-4456.jpg Why isn?t caging kids a line in the sand?

If Republicans are willing to accept the forced separation of children from their parents, they are willing to accept a lot worse.

Special reports

IDEAS | THE BIG TECH ISSUE

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/14/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Advance/Images/hero-scharf.jpg Why Facebook and Google should pay you for your data

Users? clicks and posts built Facebook and Google?s online empires. Isn?t it time they got paid for their labor?

STAT

Stat

Watch ?Runnin?,? a STAT documentary

?Runnin?,? now available for purchase on Vimeo, takes an intimate look at a group of friends in Somerville who came of age as the opioid epidemic took hold and morphed into a national nightmare. It retraces the lives of friends lost, and one last member of the group struggling to avoid the same fate.

Globe event

Seattle?s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston

Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.

Love Letters: The Podcast

Love Letters Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/16/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/lovelettersalbum.jpg Getting over a breakup

Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.

Listen:   Apple Podcasts   |   Stitcher   |   RadioPublic

 

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