On Trump-obsessed cable TV, the defense never rests

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Rudy Giuliani is on one screen arguing for the president. Lanny Davis is on another arguing for his former fixer-turned-tormenter Michael Cohen. They aren?t exactly in a courtroom. Instead, they are focused on making their cases in the court of public opinion.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/AFP_1729QY.jpg Airbnb bill is now uncertain in Mass. after Baker?s changes

Governor Charlie Baker?s small changes could throw a big wrench into complex legislation that was years in the making.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/statehouse1.jpg Many blame legislators for not altering the school funding formula

The Mass. House and the Senate have been working for nearly three years on bills to update the state?s 25-year-old school funding formula.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/31/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/RinaldiStateHouse02.jpg Beacon Hill leaves many key bills out of last-minute deal-making

Amid a flurry of activity at the end of its formal session, the Legislature left several proposals on the cutting room floor.

09/20/99--Smith College students at the Neilson Library on campus. Library Tag 09261999 College Guide '99

Terri Cappucci for The Boston Globe/File/1999

A black Smith College student was eating her lunch when an employee called police

Smith College is investigating after an employee reported a person on campus who ?seemed to be out of place.? The person was a student of color who was on a break from her campus job.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/5e5d3dddab5b4e8389e9abecede33ebd-5e5d3dddab5b4e8389e9abecede33ebd-0.jpg In N.H., Giuliani says Trump is offering opinion on Mueller probe, not an order

On a trip to campaign for a congressional candidate, Rudy Giuliani said the president was not issuing a directive to the Justice Department, as Democrats had suggested.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20180801_134127.jpg ?We both thought that we were prepared. But we weren?t?: Father, daughter rescued from Mount Washington

Crews rescued a father and daughter stranded on a hike to the summit of Mount Washington, one that they first completed 40 years ago.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/17/BostonGlobe.com/BCOM/Images/maeda_location,location_biz1-4511.jpg BPL asks police to investigate after three workers placed on leave

Three facilities managers for the city?s library system were placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/eba477c31d7644ed9f6c48b295a674c9-eba477c31d7644ed9f6c48b295a674c9-0.jpg Sex claims show US cardinal?s ?moral failure,? says official

The head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said Wednesday that sex abuse allegations against a former cardinal raise questions about how the claims stayed secret for so long.

Nestor Ramos

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/nestor-18725.jpg She used marijuana after work, and got fired. Now she?s fighting back

Bernadette Coughlin was fired in May after a fall in the hospital kitchen where she worked led to a drug test.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/16/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/Walker_050417_Harvard_15850x-9729.jpg Harvard lawsuit divides many in Asian American community

Asian Americans say they are deeply divided about whether they are penalized in elite college admissions and whether affirmative action policies are at fault.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Downs_02.jpg Massachusetts State Legislature fails to pass horse racing bill

Chip Tuttle, chief operating officer of Suffolk Downs, said the track may have to close its two races for the weekend.

Boston, MA - 8/01/2018 - Everett firefighter Scott Dalrymple is recovering from third and fourth-degree burns at Mass Generall sustained while battling a house fire in Everett. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Metro, Reporter: Jeremy Fox, Topic: 02everett, LOID: 8.4.2729425079.

Barry Chin/Globe Staff

Everett firefighter recalls blaze that left him burned: ?If I got burnt and the lady still passes, what good is it??

Scott Dalrymple said he?d never experienced heat as intense as the July 13 fire on Morris Street.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/RinaldiTrophy05.jpg The old trophies under the Longfellow Bridge are back. Here?s why

The project first started in 2014. Now, with the bridge reopened, the trophies have reappeared.

The Red Sox went 19-6 in July, but didn?t face the stiffest of competition.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

As good as these Red Sox are, I have a few concerns

If you look closely, there are still a few little red flags peeking through all those impressive numbers.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Chin072618RedSox-Twins_Spt6.jpg Once afterthoughts, Brian Johnson, Blake Swihart providing a boost

The Red Sox call on the lefty pitcher and former top catching prospect to open the series against New York.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - FEBRUARY 04: Nelson Agholor #13 of the Philadelphia Eagles makes a catch against Patrick Chung #23 and Duron Harmon #30 of the New England Patriots during the second half in Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium on February 4, 2018 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

NFL gives an extra heads-up on new helmet rule

The league hopes its instructional videos will reduce the head-scratching about the new rule.

Foxborough-7/28/2018 The Patriots held their third day of training camp at the Gillette Stadium facility. During a passing drill in which towels were thrown as a distraction, wide reriever Braxton Berrios was able to come up with the catch. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(sports)

What are the Patriots? options at receiver?

A positional battle that looked deep is wearing thin after Jordan Matthews was released Wednesday.

Boston, MA - 4/28/04 - Globe 100 - Just like Harvard University and Fidelity Investments, Massachusetts General Hospital will not rank on the Globe 100 because of its private/nonprofit status. (Globe Staff Photo/Pat Greenhouse) (Story slug 18econ by Gavin) Library Tag 05182004 Business Globe 100

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How to land an appointment with a sought-after doctor

Here are some strategies for getting in to see some of the region?s top doctors.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/31/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/150711_WALKER_grocery_6121x-18675.jpg Law credited with protecting fish and livelihoods is being targeted by GOP

Fishing regulations have helped revitalize certain species and now some Republicans in Congress want to give more leeway to local councils in rebuilding overfished stocks.

Commentary | Jeneé Osterheldt

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/31/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_073118_01Trayvon_14556x.jpg Trayvon Martin?s murder is a wound unhealed

If he?d made it home alive, Trayvon Martin would be around Dorian Gordon?s age. Six years later, the Dorchester native still grapples with his murder.

A Q sign (left) was visible among other signs at President Trump?s rally Tuesday.

Who is Q? Behind the conspiracy theory erupting at Trump rallies

The most inscrutable message that came out of Donald Trump?s Tampa rally Tuesday evening was a letter.

Globe Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/web0805fly[1].jpg The secret flight that launched Amelia Earhart?s career

The intrepid flier was a Boston social worker struggling to make ends meet when she got the phone call in 1928.

In ?The Spy Who Dumped Me,? Kate McKinnon (left) plays Morgan, best friend and partner in adventure to Audrey (Mila Kunis).

? ? | Movie Review

Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon offer laughs and misfires in ?The Spy Who Dumped Me?

?The Spy Who Dumped Me? poses a burning question: Can Kate McKinnon carry a movie? Or at least her half of a buddy comedy?

COMMENTARY | TY BURR

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/wiggs_seats_233923.jpg MoviePass has always been a deal too good to last

After hiking its subscription price and limiting its offerings, MoviePass looks poised to go under.

Capital Source

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/obit-1stld-writethru-0ff0c15e-7814-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc.jpg Donald Hall?s last poem was about Scott Brown

The former poet laureate?s final poem was just three lines long, but it sure packed a political punch.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/24/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/Meredith_Goldstein_NewLogo.jpg Can I have a friend with benefits and still stay married?

She loves her husband, but their sex life has gone MIA. She thinks a no-strings guy on the side might be the answer.

This May 13, 2004 photo shows designer Kate Spade posing among handbags and shoes from her collection in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

NAMES

Kate Spade?s husband posts heartfelt image on Instagram

Andy Spade, the widower of Kate Spade, has returned to Instagram with a heartfelt dedication to the late fashion designer nearly two months after her death.

Opinion & Ideas

EDITORIAL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Advance/Images/PlusSecurus.jpg That prison telephone racket? It could soon get even more exploitative

If a proposed merger goes through, it could mean higher prices for the often poor and vulnerable families wrapped up in the prison system.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/30/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Capture2.JPG An oral history of LeBron James and the 2003 UMass-Boston Summer League

How the 2003 Boston Summer League helped introduce LeBron James to the NBA.

Newsletters

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STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/NIH_02-1024x576.jpg Ethical stumbles test NIH?s reliance private-sector research funding

The NIH is working to ensure that recent missteps are isolated incidents, and not emblematic of a broader cultural problem.

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.

Love Letters: The 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

 

Real Estate

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/stan-fellows-home-nest-illustration$medium.jpg Spring House Hunt: Should parents buy property in a college town?

As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Globe staff photos of the month, July 2018

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: the Puerto Rican Parade, Taylor Swift performing at Gillette Stadium, and celebrating fourth of July.

Crossword

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/crossword.jpg Play the crossword

Puzzled? Keep trying your hand at our interactive crossword and see if you can triumph.