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Lawyers for the woman who?s accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of a sexual assault decades ago said they?ve accepted the Senate Judiciary Committee?s request for her to tell her story.
Alan M. Dershowitz
Six rules for conducting the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings This is an adversarial confrontation, and reasonable people could disagree about the appropriate procedural steps. But there are certain basic rules that must be followed for hearings of this kind to be fair.
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In Boston, a high temperature of 70 degrees was expected Saturday, matching the normal high for this time of year, with an overnight low in the low 50s. Autumn begins at 9:54 p.m.
A 40-year-old man from Westford was jogging when he was fatally hit by an SUV in the town Friday night.
White House drafts order to look into Google, Facebook The order is in its preliminary stages and hasn?t yet been run past other government agencies, said a White House official.
Cosby to fight ?sexually violent predator? tag at sentencing Bill Cosby?s sentencing hearing Monday will begin with testimony about his sex offender evaluation.
Tanzania death toll 209 as survivor found in capsized ferry It was a stunning discovery. As rescue divers probed a capsized Tanzanian ferry two days after the disaster and the death toll soared past 200, a man was found in an air pocket, alive.
Militants attack Iran military parade, killing at least 25 Militants disguised as soldiers opened fire Saturday on an annual Iranian military parade in the country?s oil-rich southwest.
The resident was within his right to kill the animals. But officials say there are better ways to mitigate a bear problem.
The 31-year-old woman rear-ended a Ford F-350 pickup truck which was towing a car carrier.
Malden man accused of urinating on police cruiser, trying to smash window Officers arrested the man at the Oak Grove MBTA station.
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The gas lines that wend through the state, beneath city streets, and into people?s homes are overseen by a patchwork of bureaucracies and a regulatory system that largely trusts utility companies to police themselves.
National Guard members are delivering hot plates to residents in Lawrence The distribution of 7,000 hot plates will be followed by an effort to provide about 24,000 space heaters to residents in the coming week.
NESTOR RAMOS
How a small company in Malden created the Greatest TV Commercial Ever Made It did not involve Clydesdales or polar bears or Michael Jordan. It?s an ad for retractable awnings. And it has been seen hundreds of millions of times.
NICK CAFARDO | SUNDAY BASEBALL NOTES
While some players have turned in 2018 seasons far beyond the value of their contracts, others have gone in the opposite direction.
CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER
They?ll take anybody who can help them win, all manner of malcontents, problem children, bad boys, lawbreakers, and recidivists.
NICK CAFARDO | ON BASEBALL
Even in best of times, Tom Goodwin can?t forget worst The Red Sox first base coach, after celebrating the team?s division title, reflected on the pain of losing a son to suicide.
BEN VOLIN | SUNDAY FOOTBALL NOTES
NFL is taking rules to protect quarterbacks too far Even some quarterbacks are speaking out on behalf of defensive players whose hands are tied by penalties.
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Belichick has an 11-4 record against his former coordinators heading into Sunday?s game against Matt Patricia and the Lions.
Ideas | David Jenemann
The mitts that make us As the playoffs approach, it?s worth paying a little attention to the mitts and gloves that make so much drama on the diamond possible.
Satanic Temple reopens international headquarters in Salem The Satanic Temple is reopening its international headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts, in time for the Halloween season.
Dinner With Cupid
Blind date: ?You can cover a lot of ground in a five-hour date? Could this possibly be Cupid?s best matchup ever?
Three great foliage hikes in New England Each site is about 2½ hours from Boston. We?ve given you easy to intermediate hikes and a range of peak foliage dates.
Editorial
Fire Jeff Sessions . . . as the boss of immigration judges A slew of new directives from Attorney General Jeff Sessions have spurred calls to finally make immigration judges truly independent.
Stranger in the house
The US has a huge need for home health care, and many from Ghana do the hard work The need for home care is soaring, and much of it is done by immigrants willing to take on this hard and low-paying work.
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The Big Ten team handed the Eagles their first lost of the season.
A 50-page report from the VA?s Office of Medical Inspector found flies are still present but that operating room isn?t used, and the instruments weren?t dirty, but simply discolored by the city?s water supply.
In August 2017, rents were growing at a 2.3% pace, according to a market report from Zillow.
The lawmakers? comments came hours after President Trump sent out a tweet casting doubt on the account of Christine Blasey Ford, a 51-year-old psychology professor in California.
Gunmen attacked an annual Iranian military parade Saturday in the country?s oil-rich southwest, killing at least eight members of the country?s elite Revolutionary Guard and wounding 20 others.
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Up to 40,000 vehicles are estimated to be lost due to the storm.
Plans call for more than a half a million square feet off of Route 128.
?Caen Amour? imagines ?a fictional encounter between early modern dance pioneer Loïe Fuller, butoh creator Tatsumi Hijikata, and Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo.?
My father?s clothes were the least remarkable thing about him. After he died, wearing them gave me comfort.
Puppies are making people sick ? and it?s people?s fault Antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have infected more than 100 people have been linked to pet store puppies.
Until next year, my sweetheart In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.
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Despite debt, millennials are the biggest home-buying generation. How? Slightly more than a third of all home purchases were made by millennials over the past year.
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.
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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Hurricane Florence brought heavy winds and rain to the Southeast coast of the United States, leaving devastation in its wake.
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