Trump focus of ads ? both positive and negative

President Trump may not be on the ballot this November, but he?s dominating the airwaves nationally, with more than a quarter of political ads mentioning him.

A photo in Rick Stack's collection shows him (right) at the scene of a car crash. Captain Rick Stack, a long-time North Attleboro firefighter, has been diagnosed with PTSD.

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Firefighter haunted by horrors past

He was a first responder who?d seen it all, but then the memories rushed back and crushed him. Now he advocates for firefighters facing PTSD, a burden rarely discussed but very real.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/composite_3.jpg ?It came down to a matter of inches.? Father of injured Falmouth police officer grateful following shooting

Across Falmouth, residents expressed relief and gratitude on Saturday that two officers survived the shootout.Across Falmouth, residents expressed relief and gratitude on Saturday that two officers survived the shootout.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/29/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/3b006a56a8984f82a344e1f5b55d49cf-3b006a56a8984f82a344e1f5b55d49cf-0.jpg Police say 3 killed, 7 injured in New Orleans shooting

A police spokesman said the shooting happened on the 3400 block of Claiborne Avenue.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/18/BostonGlobe.com/BigPicture/Images/973567452.jpg Rep. John Lewis hospitalized, under ?routine observation?

The civil rights icon has been hospitalized in Atlanta for undisclosed reasons.

US Representative Seth Moulton, back center, spoke at The Merrimack County Democrats Summer Social at the home of Ambassador Dick Swett and Dr. Katrina Swett in Bow, N.H. on Saturday.

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In New Hampshire, Moulton calls for ?new generation of political leadership?

Moulton, who represents Massachusetts? Sixth Congressional District, was the keynote speaker at the Merrimack County Democrats? main summer event.

Worcester police investigate apparent drowning in Lake Quinsigamond

The body of a 37-year-old woman was found face down in the water at Lake Park Saturday morning, police said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/PQPFStormTotalQPFWeb1-18642.jpg Sunny, drier Sunday to follow humid Saturday

The humidity will ease off for a few days as a cold front moves through the region, according to forecasters.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boghosian_29warrenpic13_MET.jpg Elizabeth Warren criticizes GOP on opioid crisis, immigration

At a town hall Saturday, Warren sharply criticized the Trump administration and congressional Republicans for straying away from American values.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/28/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/1004911150.jpg Black man accuses Sean Spicer of hurling racial slur at him

A black man yelled at former White House press secretary Sean Spicer in a bookstore and accused Spicer of calling him a racial slur when they were students at a prep school decades ago.

JEFF JACOBY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/jacoby-1606.jpg Jeff Jacoby: Nations don?t trade with each other, and trade is not a war

The United States and Canada are not competing firms. Trade is conducted by individuals, not by countries.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/24/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Handout_29kirsner_01_biz.jpg At PillPack, a lot of credit goes to the father of invention

CEO TJ Parker?s concept grew out of ideas from his dad?s modest New Hampshire pharmacy business. Amazon is buying the company for about $1 billion.

According to five years of admissions data and internal e-mails and documents that Harvard had to provide Students for Fair Admissions for the court case, about 50 to 60 students in the college?s freshman class of more than 1,600 students enter through the Z list process.

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How do you get into Harvard? For the lucky few, there?s the Z list.

Universities across the country have their admissions lists, rejection lists, and waitlists, but Harvard?s end-of-the-admissions-line Z list is a place of both purgatory and privilege.

RED SOX 10, TWINS 4

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/29/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Chin072818RedSox-Twins_Spt26.jpg Reliever Heath Hembree set up Red Sox to pound their way past Twins

Hembree got the Sox out a jam in the sixth, then pitched a scoreless seventh.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/29/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Chin072818RedSox-Twins_Spt33-001.jpg Rafael Devers injures hamstring, may land on disabled list

The third baseman tweaked his hamstring in the first, and then again running the bases in the eighth.

Peter Abraham | On Baseball

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/29/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Chin072818RedSox-Twins_Spt29.jpg Jackie Bradley Jr.?s average is a small detail in a much larger body of work

The center fielder provided some pop with a two-run triple in Saturday?s win.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/WCVB_28booth_001.jpg Clark Booth, 79, a TV sportscaster and more for decades

Mr. Booth widely roamed Boston?s sports, news, and features landscapes for 55 years.

Photos by Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

ON THE JOB

For Ludlow taxidermist, a focus on artistry, painstaking detail

Vincent Kersey?s fastidious work has won national and world championships and he proudly mounts ? not stuffs ? every animal as if it were his own.

Renée Graham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/graham-1605.jpg In Trump?s America, Trayvon Martin?s story goes on

A new documentary on Trayvon Martin?s death is difficult to watch, because his story continues: Again and again, black victims are defamed and dehumanized.

Nestor Ramos

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/07/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/400_nestor.jpg Got a Lamborghini? You needn?t worry about being towed

This is a tale of two parking violations: one in Cambridge that resulted in a ticket, another in Missouri that landed a woman in jail.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/21/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/Walker_072118_29weiweipix_7760x.jpg Ai Weiwei brings a potent show to Provincetown

?Rebar and Case? springs from the moment when the famed artist?s practice slammed into the brick wall of the Chinese government.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Chatham_Shark_Images-001.jpg In a dramatic scene, shark kills seal only feet from beach-goers in Nauset

Swimmers and surfers at Nauset Beach hurried to dry land after a great white shark was seen eating a seal close to the shore Friday afternoon.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/regularblank-8424-khLF--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg How to stop your smartphone from tracking you

Here are some steps you can take to help stop companies from knowing exactly where you are all the time.

Opinion & Ideas

EDITORIAL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/szymczak_votingX_01.jpg Time for a spring primary in Massachusetts

Fall primaries are great for incumbents, but problematic for challengers.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Commuting_print.jpg The target: you and your every move

How companies use geolocation data to target you ? and everyone around ? in ways you?re not even aware of.

Newsletters

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STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/AP_99010104738-1024x576.jpg DEA wanted new suppliers of research marijuana. Nothing changed

Two years after saying they?d consider licensing new suppliers of marijuana for scientific purposes, none has been approved.

Globe event

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/08/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/SeattleTimes_10kirsner02_biz.jpg 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.

Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/FlfQGTy9_585.jpg More about Last Seen: The Largest Unsolved Art Heist ever

A true-crime podcast about the most valuable ? and confounding ? art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

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Pittsburgh sees hands-on restart of Uber's self-driving cars

Uber officials say the company has taken the first step toward relaunching its self-driving cars on Pittsburgh area streets four months after a fatal accident involving one of the cars in Tempe, Arizona