The stunning move raised the specter of political interference by a sitting president into an investigation by the nation?s top law enforcement agency.
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President Trump greeted James Comey on Jan. 22 in the Oval Office. Trump fired Comey on Tuesday.
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SCOT LEHIGH
This president clearly doesn?t want a man like James Comey in charge of an investigation that could have serious repercussions for his administration.
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EDITORIAL
After President Trump?s bombshell announcement, the nation is at a crossroads.
Here?s why the Trump administration says Comey was fired Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is the man who laid the groundwork for Comey?s firing.
Schumer to Trump: ?You are making a big mistake? The Senate?s top Democrat says he warned the president about potential blowback when Trump called to inform him that James Comey had been fired.
Warren: ?It?s time for Congress to get their heads out of the sand? The US senator tweeted that President Trump should not be allowed to ?pick the person to continue this critical investigation? into Russia.
Jeffrey Toobin slams a ?grotesque abuse of power? The CNN legal analyst went off as word of FBI Director James Comey?s firing broke, at one point asking, ?What kind of country is this??
James Comey learned of his firing while speaking to FBI employees in LA While the FBI director was speaking in Los Angeles, TV screens in the background began flashing the news.
What now for the FBI?s Trump-Russia probe? James Comey?s firing throws a cloud of doubt over the FBI?s investigation into allegations of Trump campaign ties to Russia.
Malone Kidanemariam turned himself in to police Tuesday night and was arrested.
?We want to remember Richard and Lina for who they were, not how they died? Family and colleagues of Richard Field and Lina Bolaños grieved for the couple after they were killed over the weekend.
Barry Chin/Globe Staff/File 2015
William Evans and Dan Conley gave different information during separate news conferences about the deaths of two people in South Boston.
Harvard researchers found out what many parents already know: Getting mental health care for a child can be especially difficult.
Cardinal O?Malley said to disapprove of BC High admitting girls A letter from a Jesuit leader says O?Malley ?strongly opposed? the idea because it would threaten all-girls high schools in the area.
Adrian Walker
An unlikely football star hopes to break through barriers in another field Gosder Cherilus, born in Haiti, wants to become one of the area?s few successful minority real estate developers.
Boston Latin School is pulled into Harvard race-bias suit A federal judge ordered the elite exam school to turn over internal communications related to Harvard?s use of race in its admissions process.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
Here?s a reality check for Celtics before Game 5 There are two schools of thought on this series: Either you believe or you are deceived.
State launching tax-free savings plan for disabled residents Disabled Massachusetts residents are about to get their own version of a college savings plan.
Bars and packies got free equipment to push Budweiser, state says State regulators said Anheuser-Busch illegally pushed its beers over those of competitors.
South Shore auctioneer gets 4 years in prison for real estate fraud Dan Flynn was sentenced for defrauding more than 90 people of as much as $21 million.
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A longstanding poor record on flight cancellations and a simmering standoff with pilots came to a head Monday, and left passengers brawling.
dining out
Is this New England?s best barbecue? It?s quite possible ? likely, even ? that the finest smoked meats in the region are coming out of a tiny, homespun corner lot next to a gas station.
Stephen Colbert welcomes ?Daily Show? alums to ?Late Show? The former ?Daily Show? correspondent played host to his old colleagues, including Jon Stewart.
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JEFF JACOBY
A back-of-the-bus human rights policy Rex Tillerson?s equivocations on human rights are as dismaying as the Obama administration?s.
Summer of ?67
The summer that changed Boston The nation was splintering, and Boston wasn?t immune. But something was happening here.
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These photographs found joy at the end of life. And the world responded After losing both parents to cancer, a photographer found herself connecting with strangers who shared similar grief.
Drew Pomeranz allowed five runs in the first inning, and the Sox were never quite able to catch up.
Naloxone would be readily available under a plan the city is considering.
You can expect to see some new faces on the 39th season of This Old House, which airs this fall.
A growing number of Republicans are pushing for deep tax cuts even if they add to the government?s $20 trillion debt.
It would be a reversal of Obama-era policies that aimed to show more leniency to lower-level drug offenders.
The Boston-based blade maker is striking back, with the industry?s first order-by-text service.
The new Amazon series from ?Transparent? creator Jill Soloway is a letdown.
Angela Atenco Lopez prepares the mole of her native Puebla the way she was taught ? slowly.
Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight? ?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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The Big Picture
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed for the last time in New England. After 146 years, ?The Greatest Show on Earth? ends it historic run.
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