Alewife garage closed again for weekend inspections, says MBTA

The MBTA?s Alewife parking garage, which was closed last weekend for repairs, was shuttered again this weekend for a follow-up assessment of the structure?s condition.

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President Trump is accusing social media companies of ?totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices? and says ?we won?t let that happen.?

Boston-08/17/18-Boston Anniversary Free Speech March- Counterprotestors gathered in front of the StateHouse as they held a rally. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro)

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Counterprotesters gather as Boston Free Speech rally is set to start at noon

The group of mostly younger adults included people from many ethnic backgrounds, some of whom wore shirts bearing slogans such as, ?Black lives matter,? ?Abolish prisons,? and ?This is what a Womanist looks like.?

Billie Weiss/RedSox

More thunderstorms could hit the area today

Storms were expected to continue throughout the region overnight and Saturday afternoon, bringing showers and potentially heavy rainfall with them.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Clipboard-19465.jpg Second State Police trooper to plead guilty in OT fraud case

The 40-year-old trooper, who allegedly stole $11,103 in overtime, is the sixth person to be charged in the widening overtime fraud scandal.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/18/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/2f6e15244c43449a89cc15bd69d4cd59-2f6e15244c43449a89cc15bd69d4cd59-0.jpg Melania Trump, a mysterious first lady, weathers a chaotic White House

After more than a year in Washington, she remains an intensely private first lady still adjusting to the demands of a new life.

Three Republicans seeking to challenge Elizabeth Warre  are John Kingston(left), Beth Lindstrom (center) and Geoff Diehl.

Globe Staff

Aiming at Elizabeth Warren, GOP candidates take 3 paths

Shaped by money, style or both, the GOP?s US Senate primary has become a study in contrasting campaign trails among the three Republicans vying to face Elizabeth Warren.

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??The local politicians who run Washington, D.C., (poorly) know a windfall when they see it,?? the president wrote.

FILE - In this March 12, 2017 file photo, White House Director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison Omarosa Manigault, right, walks past President Donald Trump during a meeting on healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Manigault Newman, who was fired in December, released a new book

It?s not just audio: Omarosa has video, AP says

Omarosa Manigault Newman has made clear that she plans to continue releasing the pieces of evidence if President Trump continues to attack her credibility.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Clipboard-14843-19507.jpg A new skirmish in Harvard admissions case

Minority student and alumni groups at Harvard University are pushing back against what they consider an attempt to exclude their perspective from a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate race as a consideration in admissions.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/17/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/IMG_0994.JPG Channel 7?s Bri Eggers has a new forecast: Idaho

The WHDH meteorologist announced in a Facebook video Friday that she and her family are moving ?Idahome,? as she calls it.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/hotchkiss_school_01.jpg Report finds seven former Hotchkiss faculty members sexually abused students

The elite Connecticut boarding school apologized Friday after an independent investigator found that seven former faculty members sexually abused students between 1969 and 1992.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/18/BostonGlobe.com/Obits/Images/Rex_Former_UN_Secretary_General_Kofi_9793472A.jpg Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan dies at age 80

Mr. Annan, the first black African secretary general, redefined the United Nations over his two terms.

Man allegedly indecently assaults two women on the Esplanade

State Police are asking the public to help identify a man who allegedly grabbed two women?s buttocks on the Esplanade near Community Boating earlier this month.

Dr. Charles Czeisler at a sleep lab in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women?s Hospital.

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Thomas Farragher

Sleep, the final frontier: This guy studies it. Here?s what he has to say

Charles Czeisler has traveled the world in search of data about how we sleep, why we sleep, how long we sleep and how well. And there are surprises everywhere.

David Hogg, co-author of #NeverAgain, discusses the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during an interview in New York, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Fourteen students and three staff members were fatally shot and multiple others wounded during the school massacre, on Feb. 14, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NAMES

Maureen Dowd, David Hogg, Joi Ito announced as speakers for HUBweek 2018

The New York Times columnist, Parkland shooting survivor, and MIT Media Lab director are just three of the notable figures slated to appear at this year?s event.

Alex Speier

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The Red Sox center fielder also explained why Kevin Kiermaier?s effort on a ball he just missed was also a display of elite defensive skills.

RED SOX 7, RAYS 3

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/18/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Chin081718RedSox-Rays_Spt7.jpg Brian Johnson delivers again for Red Sox after a rough start

After allowing three runs in the first, he held down the Rays while Xander Bogaerts sparked the Red Sox comeback.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/17/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/PawSox102.jpg The Sox moving top farm team from Pawtucket to Worcester

PawSox chairman Larry Lucchino will work with the same partner on the new Worcester stadium as he had for the construction of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and renovations to Fenway Park.

A rendering of the proposed ballpark.

Beyer Blinder Bell

Here?s a look at the renderings of the Triple A Red Sox ballpark in Worcester

The new ballpark will be called Polar Park.

Pawtucket Red Sox

Extra! Extra! Innings!

Starting on April 18, the longest game in the history of organized baseball ? played at McCoy Stadium in 1981 ? had 33 innings and dozens more stories.

Shirley Leung

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/17/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/asians-studio-2d7339da-a0b1-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a-8640.jpg We waited a long time for a movie like ?Crazy Rich Asians? ? and that?s too bad

Asian-Americans want to send a message to Hollywood: Our stories are as universal and enduring as anyone else?s, and the proof will be at the box office.

Renée Graham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/17/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/AP_18228443903876.jpg The Violence Against Women Act is in peril

Supporting a law that protects women from domestic and sexual violence should be a no-brainer.

JEFF JACOBY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/17/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/jacoby-1600.jpg From child refugee to Green Beret ? to a seat in Congress?

If ever an immigrant has lived the American Dream, Joe Schneider has. So why embark now on a race for Congress?

TALKING SHOP

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/01/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Walker_080118_OpenCity_15480x.jpg ?The ability to text a restaurant and get a quick direct answer to one?s question seems like a game changer?

Boston-based startup Open City aims to simplify communications between restaurants and customers.

Perspective | Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/14/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/slobs0819mag-4392.jpg A ?real man? should know how to dress. But America celebrates slobs

Why is it considered masculine to remain so utterly clueless about dressing yourself?

A crudo tasting at Bar Mezzana features the chef?s choice of six different fish.

Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe

What She?s Having

It was hot, but we still had to eat

What?s so wrong with downing a whole bowl of queso for lunch?

Television Review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/14/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Group-Sitting-On-Ledge-Vertical-FIN-400dpi.jpg ?Meh? to Matt Groening?s ?Disenchantment?

The ?Simpsons? creator pokes fun at the tropes of medieval drama in his new Netflix series.

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The Connecticut Sun forward decided to use her platform to try to inspire young women who haven?t the same opportunity to compete.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/14/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/Meredith_New_Logo-4393.jpg I was about to say ?I love you,? when he dumped me

Did I wait too long? Or would saying those three little words have changed nothing.

RODRIGO CORDEIRO

HELP DESK

How to get over a bad vacation

Here are some tips from workplace and travel experts to help you avoid feeling cheated out of some much needed time away, and to ease into a busy week without feeling more harried than usual.

Opinion & Ideas

Editorial

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A pilot program using methadone or buprenorphine for addiction treatment deserves support from state law enforcement.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/turner051518METRO07chelseabus505-19204-U832996319084rWB--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg This MBTA route showcases all of the T?s bus problems

The 111 is a rolling case study of all that ails MBTA bus service: overcrowding, delays caused by traffic and passengers who pay in cash, and frequent cancellations.

Newsletters

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A convenient digest of the top political news of the past week, delivered every Saturday. Sign up now.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/16/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/CF3A0977.jpg A women?s health firm pitched a much-needed drug. Men didn?t get it

Antiva Biosciences is getting a front-row view of the challenges involved in pitching a company focused on women?s health.

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.

Cars

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Elon Musk confronts a fateful tweet and an 'excruciating' year

?I thought the worst of it was over ? I thought it was,? Elon Musk told the New York Times. ?The worst is over from a Tesla operational standpoint.? He continued: ?But from a personal pain standpoint, the worst is yet to come.?

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.

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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

US Gymnastics Championships in Boston

This week, Boston will get a look at some of the best gymnasts in the world during the US Nationals, which runs Thursday through Sunday at TD Garden.

Crossword

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