Hospital leaders frustrated at failed health care talks

The lobby at Brockton Hospital, which is owned by parent company Signature Healthcare.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

Community hospitals have long argued that they are underpaid by insurers because they lack the market power of big teaching hospitals.

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The proposal would freeze an effort by the Obama administration intended to promote auto fuel efficiency and curb tailpipe emissions of climate-changing pollutants.

Smith College students at the Neilson Library on campus in 1999.

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/2011-2020/2018/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreitre_mgh3_splt.jpg 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.

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Apple has become the world?s first publicly traded company to be valued at $1 trillion.

//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/2011-2020/2018/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Rex_Funeral_for_slain_Weymouth_Polic_9766727B.jpg Two MIT police officers hurt when R.I. officer?s gun discharges after Sgt. Chesna funeral

A Cranston, R.I., officer was changing out of his uniform on a bus when his gun accidentally slipped from his holster and went off.

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The ubiquitous seller of cool but largely unneeded things said it had assets of $50 million to $100 million, and liabilities of $100 million to $500 million.

//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/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.

Sheet metal workers go on strike

About 1,400 sheet metal workers went on strike Wednesday after their union rejected a proposal that would have provided a wage and benefits package totaling nearly $97 an hour.

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

Duncan Jurayj, 16, is building a tiny house on top of a trailer in his Brookline driveway after receiving a $5,000 grant from his high school, Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill.

Kate Silbaugh

What?s this teen doing with his summer? Building a tiny house from scratch

?There?s a bit of a deep breath when your child wants to build a house,? said his mother, Kate Silbaugh.

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 death 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 death.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/RinaldiTrophy04-U832996319084V3E--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.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.

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For a paltry $2.1 million, you can snag your own private island manse on Lake Winnipesaukee, according to an online listing from Maxfield Real Estate.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/JFK-18697-kxYH--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg JFK memorabilia including pens, a rocking chair and clothes up for auction

The auction, part of the Summer Americana Auction series at Eldred?s Auction Gallery in Dennis, is slated to begin Friday.

On Trump-obsessed cable TV, the defense never rests

They aren?t exactly in a courtroom. Instead, they are focused on making their cases in the court of public opinion.

YANKEES AT RED SOX | 7:10 P.M. (NESN)

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CC Sabathia will make his 42nd career start against Boston while Brian Johnson makes his first career start against the Yankees.

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/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Chin080118FirefighterScottDalrymple_Met7.jpg 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.

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?

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

The Patriots think they have a good grasp on NFL?s new helmet rule

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

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.

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/2011-2020/2018/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/AFP_14S8M4.jpg Chinese actress Fan Bingbing off social media amid China tax rumors

Media reports in China say neither the ?X-Men? actress, her production company, nor agent can be reached, boosting speculation that all have been caught up in a tax investigation.

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

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

Love Letters

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/2011-2020/2018/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Abilifystill.jpg Hundreds claim Abilify triggered uncontrollable urges to gamble

A judge is pushing for a settlement of lawsuits claiming the drug Abilify triggered compulsive behavior.

Globe event

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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

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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

Address

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

The Big Picture

David L Ryan/Globe Staff

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

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