GOP hits pause on Kavanaugh vote

How Jeff Flake brought the Senate back from the brink

Behind the scenes, Jeff Flake worked to reduce tensions in a Senate that was beset with increasing partisanship.

Alan Dershowitz and Eric MacLeish

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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 FBI investigation.

? After ordering the investigation, President Trump said the updated investigation ??must be limited in scope?? and ??completed in less than one week.??

NAMES

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The Arizona Republican is scheduled to talk at Forbes?s Under 30 Summit on Monday.

Demonstrators protest against Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court inside the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, September 28, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

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Personal stories of trauma become public and powerful

Christine Blasey Ford?s testimony of sexual assault reopened old wounds for many other victims.

TOPSHOT - Medical team members help patients outside a hospital after an earthquake and a tsunami hit Palu, on Sulawesi island on September 29, 2018. - Rescuers scrambled to reach tsunami-hit central Indonesia and assess the damage after a strong quake brought down several buildings and sent locals fleeing their homes for higher ground. (Photo by MUHAMMAD RIFKI / AFP)MUHAMMAD RIFKI/AFP/Getty Images

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Indonesia tsunami and quake devastate coast, leaving more than 380 dead

A tsunami swept away buildings and killed at least several hundred people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, dumping victims caught in its relentless path across a devastated landscape.

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Dana Pullman said he was stepping down as union president for ?personal reasons,? but it comes as the union faces a burgeoning criminal investigation.

OPS PHOTO BY george rizer bw september 22 1980 sammy sammy whites shooting scene where four were killed.

Remembering the 1980 massacre at Sammy White?s Brighton Bowl

Four people were killed at the bowling alley in September 1980.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/joycefile.jpg 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.

Brett Saber and Chad Hughes listened during a Columbia Gas training session in Shrewsbury.

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Columbia Gas pulling workers from other states amid tight labor market

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.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/20/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/wiggs_storm_l237903-9129.jpg When the voice of the people is heard

Citizens? petitions are a tool residents can use to make changes at the local level

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A lawsuit alleging that Harvard University?s admissions practice discriminates against Asian Americans is officially headed to trial.

Tech Lab | Hiawatha Bray

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The best additions to the new smartwatch from Apple aren?t available yet.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/IMG_0808-21270.jpg 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.

Boston, MA: 4/9/2018: Managers Alex Cora of the Red Sox and Aaron Boone of the Yankees meet with the umpires at home plate before the start of the game. The Boston Red Sox hosted the New York Yankees in a regular season MLB baseball game at Fenway Park. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff)

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Dan Shaughnessy

A Red Sox-Yankees October would be the ultimate baseball theater

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.

Boston Red Sox's Mookie Betts flips his bat after hitting a three-run home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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NICK CAFARDO I SUNDAY BASEBALL NOTES

These smaller players could make a big impact in the playoffs

The Red Sox have the ultimate little man in Mookie Betts.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

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Bill Belichick doesn?t need any assistance in turning things around ? but here is some anyway.

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The Red Sox owners and Live Nation are exploring a 5,000-seat music hall between Lansdowne and Ipswich streets.

One person shot at Providence nightclub

The person was taken to a local hospital. It was not immediately clear whether anyone had been arrested in the shooting.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/DoPtVqlW0AAkscs.jpg West Roxbury home damaged in overnight fire

One person inside the home ?safely evacuated? and was evaluated by Boston Emergency Medical Services.

COMMENTARY

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?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.

Dinner with Cupid

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They?re baby boomers and former programmers. Can they find a framework for romance?

Opinion & Ideas

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/28/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/1042093500.jpg 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.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/RinaldiDrama33.jpg 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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A drama unfolds in Peabody

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.

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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.

Real Estate

Home of the Week: Two-bedroom condo in a former school listed for $399,900

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.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/GettyImages-3123228-1024x576.jpg 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.

Love Letters: The Podcast

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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.

Listen:   Apple Podcasts   |   Stitcher   |   RadioPublic

 

Real Estate

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Slightly more than a third of all home purchases were made by millennials over the past year.

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.

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