Police identify suspect in South Boston slayings

Police exchanged gunfire with a man in a penthouse of a luxury apartment building in South Boston and found two people dead.

Braintree-05/05/2017- Investigators were on the scene of Motel 6 in Braintree where a Braintree police office was shot. They looked at the room where the suspect stayed and a car parked out front. JohnTlumacki/ The BostonGlobe (sports)

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Police officer is shot in face in Braintree

A Braintree police officer was shot Friday night at a Motel 6 by a suspect who was holed up in a room and later found dead there.

The Trump presidency

Evan Horowitz | Quick study

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/05/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/05929377.jpg The state budget is cratering. Blame Trump?s tax cuts

Our current budget shortfall is driven by the promise of what President Trump?s team has called ?the biggest individual and business tax cut in American history.?

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Michael Flynn was warned by senior transition team members about the risks of his contacts with the Russian ambassador.

President Donald Trump.

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Trump has been sued 134 times in federal court since inauguration

President Donald Trump has been sued nearly three times the number of his three predecessors combined at this point during their presidencies.

World

A man walked near election campaign posters for French presidential candidates.

Evan Horowitz | Quick Study

Everything you need to know about the French elections

A political outsider is going to become the next president of France. It?s only a question of which outsider.

Aaron Hernandez

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/26/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/75a117ce48e044f5aa9a2b8c11c60d22-18019c411d9a49438ccb5bdb3504b418-0.jpg Aaron Hernandez to fiancee: My death was ?almighty?s plan?

In his final letter to his fiancee before his apparent suicide last month, Aaron Hernandez told her his fate was preordained.

Nation

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/06/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/05941200-4013.jpg Police officer free on bond in teen?s suburban Dallas death

A white Texas police officer faces a murder charge in the shooting of a black teenager after being fired earlier in the week.

Arts

for 06Cuckoo ---- A nude scene in a recent production of ?One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest,?? at Boston Children's Theatre has prompted the company?s artistic director to threaten to quit over what he calls an attempt at censorship by two ?overreactionary ninnies?? on the board of directors. ( CREDIT: Burgess Clark )

Burgess Clark

Artistic director caught in storm over nude scene at Boston Children?s Theatre

Burgess Clark says two board members demanded he cut the scene from ?Cuckoo?s Nest.?? He refused.

Ty Burr

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/05/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/07tyburra-8683.jpg ?Saturday Night Fever? still walks the walk

It?s the film?s 40th anniversary, meaning that we?re getting a digital 4K restoration and a director?s cut, and also that we?re old.

Metro

05/05/2017 Boston Ma Boston College High School Male students leave their school. The school may be considering admitting female students. Boston Globe Staff\Photograph Jonathan Wiggs Reporter:Topic

As applications drop, BC High School ponders its future

Boston College High School has experienced a sharp decline in applications, prompting trustees to explore ways to reverse the trend.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/042654b9885946c08e48a5042c4debfd-e5b4936301c54687a85c409f963e13f6-1.jpg Driver in Billerica auction crash had suspended license

Relatives recalled Leezandra Aponte, one of three killed in the crash, as a woman who held her family in the highest regard.

BOSTON, MA - 3/09/2017: A view here of the East Boston toll plaza...TOLL BOOTHS... The toll plazas have all been knocked down. All but one, at the entrance to the Sumner Tunnel. The toll plazas at Allston's big curve, Rte 128 and Mass Turnpike still have construction going on. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff Photo) SECTION: METRO TOPIC 10tollplazas

Sumner Tunnel toll booths under demolition this weekend

The removal of the toll booths is slated to run throughout the weekend, finishing at 5 a.m. Monday to make room for electronic gantries that will allow drivers to pay without slowing down.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abrahamy-10451[1]-10134.jpg All smiles as health care flatlines

In this world, what Republicans did on Thursday is cynical, but it?s not necessarily suicidal.

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/05/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/d1bead5dde714adbb236ddb6a2bd9bbf-d1bead5dde714adbb236ddb6a2bd9bbf-0.jpg Trump order endangers access to contraception

Study after study has found that free access to contraception cuts down the number of unwanted pregnancies ? but President Trump wants to change that.

MyScript?s Nebo is a handwritten note-taking app.

MyScript

tech nomad

Tech tries to bridge the gap from handwriting to digital

Thanks to new apps and hardware, handwriting is going digital.

Sports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/06/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/c6a7362bf0c548bb88405d5cfea2d76a-c6a7362bf0c548bb88405d5cfea2d76a-0.jpg Eliud Kipchoge comes up just short in sub 2-hour marathon bid

The Olympic marathon champion did run the fastest marathon ever in Nike?s Breaking 2 event in Italy.

An injured father, a powerful moment for BC softball

Star slugger Tatiana Cortez delivered for her paralyzed father in a game played in his honor.

Opinion & Ideas

Opinion | Michael P. Jeffries

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/05/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/678666832.jpg Obamacare repeal is based on racial resentment

Racial resentment toward Barack Obama set off a chain of events that will likely cause 20 million people to lose their health insurance.

Special reports

Summer of ?67

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/jim.jpg The summer that changed Boston

The nation was splintering, and Boston wasn?t immune. But something was happening here.

Newsletters

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Address: Spring House Hunt

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/realestate.jpg Advice on taking real estate photos from a Pulitzer-winning photographer

In America, everyone who has a cellphone thinks they are a professional photographer. They are not.

Investigations

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/03/03/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/AFP_MB3WQ.jpg Documenting Hate: Submit an incident you know about

If you have been a victim or witnessed a hate incident, share your information here so we can investigate.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/05/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Zebrafish.jpg The tiny fish that has helped unlock the mysteries of human disease

Through studying zebrafish, Harvard?s Leonard Zon has found genes that cause human diseases.