Moments before the Senate Judiciary Committee gaveled in to vote, there was nothing but drama and suspense.
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Jeff Flake gives a little cover to fellow Republicans An FBI investigation gives the Senate an opportunity to hit the pause button.
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With call for FBI probe, Jeff Flake steps into the breach The pity is that it took one man with a conscience to force the majority to do its duty.
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Alan Dershowitz and Eric MacLeish
With an FBI investigation underway, following a nine-hour Senate hearing on Thursday, two high-profile lawyers weigh in on whether Christine Blasey Ford or Brett Kavanaugh was lying.
? The Judiciary Committee voted to advance Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to a full Senate floor vote after GOP Senator Jeff Flake called for a one-week delay to allow for an investigation.
? After ordering the investigation, President Trump said the updated investigation, which comes in response to sexual misconduct allegations, ??must be limited in scope?? and ??completed in less than one week.??
? Trump said Christine Blasey Ford ??was a very credible witness?? but also that Kavanaugh?s own testimony was ??an incredible moment.??
The dean of the law school, John Manning, refused to comment on Kavanaugh?s status at Harvard, where he has taught since 2008 and is slated to return in January.
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Flake?s planned talk in Boston moved amid safety concerns The Arizona Republican is scheduled to take part in Forbes?s fifth-annual Under 30 Summit on Monday.
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In order for the Red Sox and Yankees to meet in the postseason, the Yankees will have to beat the Oakland A?s next Wednesday.
YANKEES 11, RED SOX 6
Yankees display power in rout of Red Sox New York belted four home runs and clinched home field for the Wild Card Game against the A?s.
Four people were killed at the bowling alley in September 1980.
State Police union president resigns amid new federal probe Dana Pullman said he was stepping down as union president for ?personal reasons,? but it comes as the union faces a burgeoning criminal investigation.
Harvard discrimination lawsuit officially headed to trial A lawsuit alleging that Harvard University?s admissions practice discriminates against Asian Americans is officially headed to trial.
Investigators have found no sign of foul play in death of former state senator Brian Joyce Joyce, formerly of Milton, was facing a sweeping federal corruption indictment at the time of his death.
Level 3 sex offender from Mass. captured in New York One of the Massachusetts State Police?s most wanted sex offenders was found Friday morning in a New York motel.
New Hampshire man grows record-breaking pumpkin ? 2,528 pounds The pumpkin grown by Steve Geddes of Boscawen, N.H., is the biggest pumpkin ever grown in North America.
After Suffolk DA candidates forum, accusations of playing race card arise Rachael Rollins and Michael Maloney went back and forth through proxies Friday.
COMMENTARY
As ?The Hate U Give? heads to the big screen, the bestseller is one of the most challenged books ?The Hate U Give? has been a New York Times bestseller for 82 weeks. It was also the eighth most questioned book of 2017. Here?s why.
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The gas company is facing a worker shortage in its bid to hire 1,300 people to assist in cleanup work in the Merrimack Valley.
Facebook says 50 million user accounts have been affected by a security breach The bug would allow attackers to ??seize control?? of user accounts, Facebook said.
US attorney?s office won?t say whether it is still investigating Baker?s son More than three months after a woman accused Andrew ?A.J.? Baker of groping her on a plane, federal officials would not say this week whether they are still pursuing an investigation into Governor Charlie Baker?s adult son.
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The Red Sox owners and Live Nation are exploring a 5,000-seat music hall between Lansdowne and Ipswich streets.
Dinner with Cupid
Blind date: ?We said goodbye with three long hugs? They?re baby boomers and former programmers. Can they find a framework for romance?
Editorial
The lies that senators must tell themselves to support Brett Kavanaugh The issue here is as much Brett Kavanaugh?s honesty in the present as what he may have done in 1982.
The world, the stage, the way ahead Lost and alone, Deb made a decision to reclaim the only home she?d ever had, whatever the risk.
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Deb was still new to this high school in Peabody, and had found her way to the vaunted theater program, establishing a foothold in a realm that felt magical.
There is plenty of blame to go around on the Patriot defense, and the issue with Hightower may be deployment.
?The hearing will be held in a location to be determined in the coming weeks,? the offices of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey said.
Built in 1931, it served as a school for decades before it was converted into a condo complex known as Academy Park. Search more Fall House Hunt listings at realestate.boston.com.
Kiah Morris, the only African-American woman in the Vermont House of Representatives, announced her resignation Tuesday.
Pope Francis invoked his ?supreme? authority to stiffen a sentence originally handed down by a Vatican court in 2011.
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The SEC is alleging Musk made false and misleading statements about plans to take the company private.
As the Massachusetts Port Authority searches for a new leader, its board must decide whether to hire a coach or a superstar, a conductor or a soloist.
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A new documentary celebrates the film director?s overlooked achievement.
So many of the jokes have already made the rounds on social media, probably months or even years ago.
Can genetic tests gauge how well antidepressants will work? With more products aimed at gauging the effectiveness of mental health treatments, some say science is getting left behind.
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.
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