?When are Republicans going to stand up to Trump? Never.? Here?s why

President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up from the presidential SUV.

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President Trump is heading an administration that is scoring policy victories with surprising efficiency, fulfilling campaign promises and propelling his support among Republican voters.

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Texas-based Southwest Key Programs Inc. finds itself accused of complicity in Trump?s separations policy, raising broader questions about how much moral responsibility is borne by the thousands of people who are working to carry out that policy.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9717410m) Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort arrives at the Federal Courthouse in Washington, DC, USA, 15 June 2018. Manafort is accused of witness tampering and the office of US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has asked a federal judge to revoke his bail before a trial this autumn. Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort, Washington, USA - 15 Jun 2018

Ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort jailed ahead of trial

Paul Manafort was ordered into custody Friday after a federal judge revoked his house arrest, citing newly filed obstruction of justice charges.

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Ethics experts say they are concerned that the president is waiting to decide whether to disclose the gifts he receives, using an apparent loophole in the law.

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Whether jesting or not, no US president has been as free in his admiration of dictators and absolute power as the 45th, historians say.

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The president has calculated that he will gain political leverage in congressional negotiations by continuing to enforce a policy he claims to hate.

Edward Blum is president of Students for Fair Admissions.

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Meet the man behind the Harvard admissions lawsuit

Edward Blum has become the face of the effort to end racial considerations in higher education.

Harvard Yard.

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Harvard report found Asian-Americans faced admissions penalty

Harvard University?s own internal research raised alarms about how Asian-American applicants are treated by the college?s admissions process.

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The actress admitted that she was once friendly with Jared Kushner. Key word: ?was.?

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Harvard University president Drew Faust shared breakfast at McKenna?s Cafe.

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The Breakfast Club: How Faust and Walsh forged an unlikely friendship

For much of the past half-decade, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Harvard University president Drew Faust met regularly for breakfast, forging an unlikely friendship.

BOSTON, MA. 08/ 31/ 2011: NEW AMERICANS U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf welcomes 3,600 new U.S. citizens from more than 130 countries during a naturalization ceremony attended by the director of the Vermont Service Center of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Dan Renaud, and featuring the USS Constitution Color Guard at the TD Garden. ( David L Ryan / Globe Staff Photo ) SECTION : METRO TOPIC :01standalonephotos REPORTER Brian Ballou

Lawyers ask federal judge to step down from landmark overbilling case

Lawyers from the firm Labaton Sucharow argued that federal Judge Mark Wolf is biased against them in a case where they?re accused of inflating legal fees.

Your Home | Summer Living

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Empty-nesters-to-be commission a bright, modern home that?s everything their year-round residence isn?t.

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Holmes, who reigned briefly as the world?s youngest female self-made billionaire, was criminally charged with defrauding investors along with the company?s former president.

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The 11-year-old Maltese was grabbed from the backyard and dragged into the woods by a coyote.

Nestor Ramos

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The Massachusetts Poor People?s Campaign had been staging demonstrations around the state, but until it blocked rush-hour traffic, almost nobody noticed.

At 70, this Nahant surfer dude is still stoked

Nahant?s ?Fearless Freddy? Jonas caught his first wave as a teenager in Nahant and has been hooked ever since.

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The QB says the protests resulted in ?a lot of good, healthy conversations? in the Patriots locker room.

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The star forward reportedly wants out of San Antonio, but the Celtics and Spurs have not yet engaged in talks.

Globe, after extensive review, suspends columnist

The Boston Globe said Friday it will suspend columnist Kevin Cullen without pay for three months after an examination of his work found significant problems in a series of radio interviews and some public remarks he made in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013.

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As high-tech baby products and customizable strollers proliferate, fathers are getting very interested in the gear.

Dozens of Iranian soccer fans squeezed into Phoenix Landing in Cambridge to watch their country take on Morocco in the World Cup on Friday.

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In Cambridge, World Cup brings a jubilant reprieve for local Iranians

For more than 100 Iranians who packed an local pub in Massachusetts, their national team?s victory over Morocco took their minds off the challenges of being Iranian in the United States.

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Eric Abramovitz thought he was rejected from the world-class Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. Two years later, he found out that he was, in fact, accepted to the program.

Ty Burr

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Ty Burr wanted to restore not only what it felt like to be an adolescent but an adolescent boy in the Boston area during the late spring of 1972.

Dinner With Cupid

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Will an after-dinner walk lead to something?

Ian Pai, who argued in his court suit that he was entitled to a larger share of the royalties earned by the Blue Man Group, in front of the Astor Place Theater, in New York.

Blue Man Group to pay more than $3 million to end royalty dispute

Ian Pai always felt, he said, that he had played a core role in the success of the Blue Man Group. But Pai said the payments he was receiving were not what he deserved.

One killed in Palmer crash

A person was killed after a car crashed into a pole in Palmer Friday night, police said.

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Michael A. Cohen

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His press conference was a cavalcade of lies, mischaracterizations, and breathtakingly inappropriate statements.

Special reports

IDEAS | THE BIG TECH ISSUE

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Users? clicks and posts built Facebook and Google?s online empires. Isn?t it time they got paid for their labor?

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Stat

Watch ?Runnin?,? a STAT documentary

?Runnin?,? now available for purchase on Vimeo, takes an intimate look at a group of friends in Somerville who came of age as the opioid epidemic took hold and morphed into a national nightmare. It retraces the lives of friends lost, and one last member of the group struggling to avoid the same fate.

Globe event

Seattle?s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston

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.

Love Letters: The Podcast

Love Letters Podcast

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Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.

Listen:   Apple Podcasts   |   Stitcher   |   RadioPublic

 

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Jim Wallace, executive director of the Gun Owners? Action League of Massachusetts.

Hundreds in Mass. may lose their guns

The abrupt reversal comes after federal law enforcement officials said that the state?s Firearms License Review Board was clearing applicants who were disqualified from owning guns under federal law.

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It was billed as the ?Taxi of Tomorrow.? Tomorrow didn?t last long.

NEW YORK ? In 2011, after a lengthy competition among automakers, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that the Nissan NV200 would become the ?Taxi of Tomorrow,? with most yellow cab owners required to purchase the boxy, bright yellow van.