On Day 2, Donald Trump?s children take center stage in Cleveland

Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump Jr. testified to the candidate?s character, casting him as a man undeterred by challenges.

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With Donald Trump?s nomination Tuesday, the anti-Trump movement was quashed and the candidate was empowered.

Melania Trump waved to the delegates after her speech at the Republican National Convention Monday. A campaign spokesman said. ?We don?t believe there?s anything in that speech that doesn?t reflect her thinking.?

Plagiarism concerns force campaign to go off-message

Trump officials and surrogates insisted that, even if Melania Trump?s speech contained elements of a Michelle Obama address, the infraction was minor.

SCOT LEHIGH

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Scot_Lehigh_150px-1943.jpg The GOP?s intellectual vacuum

What?s the party?s big idea? Rolling burning barrels at Hillary Clinton.

DANTE RAMOS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/577084492-767.jpg Resentment is in full view at GOP convention

Party officials are barely hiding the racial and ethnic anxieties that presidential nominee Donald Trump plays to.

THOMAS FARRAGHER

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Some people are now opting to root for a world-ending meteor strike instead of either of the leading parties? candidates for president.

Christopher Sheldon proposed to Lacey McGreevy Tuesday morning, and they were brought on stage at a Big & Rich concert later in the day.

A proposal she couldn?t refuse?

Lacey McGreevy said ?yes? when asked by Christopher Sheldon ? around them, a different kind of party was going on.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/garry_marshall_obit.jpg Garry Marshall, acclaimed television and film figure, dies at 81

Marshall created ?Happy Days? and ?Laverne & Shirley,? and also directed ?Pretty Woman.?

OBITUARY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Mary%20%20Knight%20(1).JPG Mary Knight, longtime community activist in Dorchester, dies at 69

Mrs. Knight, an immigrant from Jamaica, had worked to improve the Grove Hall area since the 1960s.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/trooperbeating1-11536-11543[1].jpg 2 troopers released on bail after they?re charged in much-debated arrest

A video, taken from a TV station?s helicopter, appears to show officers beating a suspect after a lengthy chase.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boghosian_22wecommuter18_REG-7579-7880-11522.jpg One year in, new MBTA board has a big to-do list

Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack, who works closely with the board, called its progress ?outstanding? for the first year.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/HealthScience/Images/GettyImages-508240648-1024x576-257.jpg Zika case in Florida could have come from local mosquito

Health officials in Florida are investigating whether the case is the first mosquito-borne Zika transmission in the continental US.

More than 68,000 people visited World's End in Hingham last year, taking in views of Boston from the 251-acre property owned and managed by The Trustees conservation group.

Richard Cheek

World?s End welcomes more visitors, to dismay of neighbors

Last year, more than 68,000 people visited the conservation property that juts into Hingham Harbor, and trustees want more.

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Leaders of Phillips Exeter Academy acknowledged that the school mishandled a recent accusation of sexual misconduct.

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/vennochi-1951.jpg The power of Megyn Kelly

Kelly?s support of Gretchen Carlson could be a tipping point in pushing Roger Ailes out of Fox News.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/577708158.jpg Is Roger Ailes on the way out at Fox News?

Ailes started the cable outlet from scratch and built it into a titan, but harassment claims could force him out the door.

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The allegations involve hate speech posted on social media by high school students.

UberX cars are charged $4 for each pickup and each drop-off at Los Angeles International Airport.

Al Seib/Los Angeles Times

SHIRLEY LEUNG

All hail Uber, anywhere but Logan

The House?s proposal to prop up the taxi industry at Logan is bad policy but so are Massport?s rules on Uber and Lyft.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/chin071916BakerDCR_Met1.jpg You have more time to spend in the park or take a dip in the pool

State officials announced the extended hours Tuesday, part of an effort to provide safe haven for families.

CAPITAL SOURCE

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/MedicineMan010A.jpg Half of Mass. voters oppose legalized marijuana question

A survey found that 51 percent of state voters plan to vote against the marijuana legalization question, while 41 percent said they would support it.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boghosian_23snapchat8_MET-11565-11557.jpg Pair found guilty in Snapchat sex assault case

A man and woman were convicted of assault to rape and other charges in the case of a Saugus attack on a 16-year-old girl.

Dead animals, burning trash found at Westport site, police say

An animal cruelty investigation is under way after police discovered hundreds of dead and injured animals on a 70-acre lot in the Southcoast town.

Opinion & Ideas

DANTE RAMOS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/19/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/577084492-767.jpg Resentment is in full view at GOP convention

Party officials are barely hiding the racial and ethnic anxieties that presidential nominee Donald Trump plays to.

Globe investigations

?When the EMTs arrived, Dave was laying like this.? Gerry Hill said, offering to show where his suicidal son was fatally shot after a tense encounter with police.

spotlight

When despair meets deadly force

Nearly half of people killed by Massachusetts police over the last 11 years were suicidal, mentally ill, or showed clear signs of crisis.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.