Federal prosecutors said Donald Trump directed the payments to ward off a potential sex scandal that threatened his 2016 campaign.
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Michael Cohen left his New York apartment building on Friday.
Comey faces off with GOP over Clinton e-mails, alleged bias Former FBI director James Comey, who appeared under subpoena, announced after the meeting that he would return for more questioning Dec. 17.
Manafort lied about Trump administration ties, Mueller says Paul Manafort misled prosecutors in recent debriefings about his communications and a meeting with a Russian associate, according to a court filing Friday.
Opinion | Erwin Chemerinsky
Did Mueller implicate Trump in criminal activities? The crucial question will be how this is handled in a country that prides itself on the principle that no one, not even the president, is above the law.
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BOB HOHLER
Turner died a year after marrying his nurse, who now gets his NFL pension, but his parents claim he wasn?t mentally fit to make decisions.
Dorchester stores? closures leave working-class families without options Residents wonder what might fill those spots, and whether they?ll continue to offer affordable options for those who live nearby.
Winchester native expected to be named Joint Chiefs chairman Army General Mark Milley would succeed Marine General Joseph Dunford, who also has Boston-area ties.
Trump says Tillerson is ?dumb as a rock? and ?lazy as hell? Rex Tillerson?s claims that President Trump regularly pushed him to take actions that were illegal infuriated his old boss.
Nestor Ramos
On the Orange Line tracks, three discarded items and the stories they tell Was this an accumulation of a few days? trash, scattered by the passing trains? Or, worse, the leavings of a single sad life?
At Harvard, Rashida Tlaib blasts comments by former Trump advisor Gary Cohn Gary Cohn, President Trump?s former top economic adviser and an ex-Goldman Sachs executive, got a cold reception from a newly elected House Democrat during an off-the-record event Thursday.
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Baby, it?s cold outside ? for songs that celebrate sexual assault and domestic violence ?Baby, It?s Cold Outside? should be left outside modern culture.
Michael A. Cohen
Power grab in Wisconsin and Michigan is an assault on democracy Republican legislators are using a lame-duck session to subvert an electoral outcome and make a mockery of democracy.
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Before the 1920s, immigrants who came to the United States without permission weren?t treated as criminals. A surge of nativist sentiment brought the law down on these migrants.
Tara Sullivan
For Tom Brady, Miami is his house of horrors The Patriots quarterback is 7-9 all time on the road against the Dolphins.
Chad Finn
Red Sox keep band together, but is it the right move? Keeping the roster intact has not been the post-championship mode of operation in previous tenures.
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Feeling blue at the holidays? Here?s a thought that may help. During the most wonderful time of the year, sadness sometimes, somehow finds a way to creep in.
A patient coughed up this blood clot in the shape of his lung airways ? and the picture is ?remarkable? The image of the cast was published in The New England Journal of Medicine recently, sending people into a tizzy.
Dinner With Cupid
Blind date: ?There were a lot of birthdays that night in the restaurant? Will too many rounds of ?Happy Birthday? kill the mood for these daters?
Elderly man, 78, evicted for using medical marijuana John Flickner is staying at a Niagara Falls, N.Y., shelter after being tossed out in the cold earlier this week.
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Families facing health problems are in need of help Mounting medical problems have frayed emotions and finances for many families seeking help over the holidays.
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Charges against Boston officer disappear after private court hearing It?s another example of the unusually secretive process that Mass. uses to consider requests for criminal charges issued in district and municipal courts.
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Help was a few feet away. Why didn?t they save her? My wife, Laura Levis, did everything she could to save herself when the asthma attack began. She went to Somerville Hospital and called 911, too. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?
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The Big Picture
Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: a colorful sunrise, Christmas tree lightings, and high school sports.
During their four-game win streak, there has been a jump in their step and a lot more passing.
A long-delayed development that promises to reshape a key corner of Dorchester is moving forward again, with one of Boston?s best-known developers at the helm.
In the heart of Hopedale, the sights and sounds that brought the Draper Corp. factory to life went still and silent decades ago. In their absence, shattered windowpanes and chipped paint, boarded windows and dark hallways are mainstays at the expansive, 1,000,000-square-foot former industrial powerhouse that once churned out textile machinery used around the globe.
The South Boston Democrat had been one of 16 in the caucus to sign a letter saying they would not back her bid for speaker.
A jury rejected arguments that James Alex Fields Jr. acted in self-defense during the August 2017 ??Unite the Right?? rally.
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With temperatures dropping, dealers have a harder time moving droptops off the lot.
The market saw its third weekly decline in four weeks.
Hart told critics that they should ??stop being negative?? after the years-old tweets were uncovered.
Democrats are eyeing a valuable pharma asset: its patents After a midterm election that saw voters focused on drug prices, progressives are decrying pharma?s abuses of the patent system.
Love Letters: 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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Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix? Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.
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