Nearly half of Veterans Affairs nursing homes nationwide received the lowest possible quality ranking last year, but the agency kept its ratings from the public.
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The representative blasted President Trump for separating migrant children from their parents.
First lady says US should govern ?with heart? Melania Trump?s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham says the first lady believes ??we need to be a country that follows all laws,?? but also one ??that governs with heart.??
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CHRISTOPHER MUTHER
US residents traveling abroad this summer will soon learn there is no escaping the president.
Questions raised about City Hall ties of outside counsel investigating Fire Department An outside counsel who is reviewing the Boston Fire Department?s handling of misconduct allegations has a long history of representing City Hall.
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The quarterback talked family, retirement, his relationship with Bill Belichick and the Patriots, and more.
Tom Brady explained what he learned from Deflategate Brady said he decided to ultimately accept the four-game suspension because there was ?too much anxiety? surrounding the situation.
Wayfair, anticipating rapid growth, leases more office space in the Back Bay Wayfair, the fast-expanding online retailer, has signed a lease for another 395,000 square feet of office space in the Back Bay.
In the methadone clinics and drug-afflicted neighborhoods of Springfield and Chicopee, Weldon had a reputation as an erratic and violent crack user.
The retail marijuana locations that are expected to soon open in Mass. may have to operate using only cash because no banks have so far agreed to provide services.
12 people displaced in 5-alarm apartment building fire in Ayer Twelve people were displaced after a five-alarm fire ran up a seven-unit Ayer apartment building?s side and into its attic on Sunday afternoon.
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Sean P. Murphy | The Fine Print
Barry Arntz thought he and his sister owned the house passed down to them by their deceased mother ?free and clear? ? no mortgages, no liens, no encumbrances of any sort.
RED SOX 9, MARINERS 3
Rafael Devers, Red Sox power way past Mariners Devers belted a three-run homer, and Jackie Bradley Jr. and Xander Bogaerts also homered to help Boston salvage a split in Seattle.
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Even if Boston doesn?t break the heat record for Monday?s date, it?s certainly going to be the hottest day so far this season.
Several schools announce early dismissal, cancel classes Monday due to heat Temperatures could feel like 100 degrees in the Merrimack Valley, and some schools cited a lack of adequate air conditioning to keep students in class.
Delta Dental, dentists find common ground on payment rates A year after sparring over payment rates, Massachusetts dentists and the state?s largest dental insurer have made peace.
In reversal, Whittier Health Center in Roxbury won?t lay off workers The layoffs ? which included physicians, nurses, and mental health therapists ? had been criticized by employees as retaliation for trying to form a union.
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Brockton firefighters cheered on one of the their own as Matt Parziale competed in this year?s US Open Championship.
Two Harvard sophomores hope to fight homelessness, one doughnut at a time As volunteers at a youth shelter in Harvard Square, Tony Shu and Connor Schoen saw firsthand how homeless people can struggle to find work, trapping them in a vicious cycle.
Trump associate Roger Stone reveals new contact with Russian national during 2016 campaign The man, who called himself Henry Greenberg, offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton, Trump?s presumptive Democratic opponent in the upcoming presidential election.
Giuliani suggests Trump may pardon Manafort after Mueller?s probe Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for President Trump, was jailed last week in the investigation by Robert Mueller.
TV Critic?s Corner
Her reality should be TV, not the White House I really don?t ever want to hear another highly commercialized reality star talk ? even tentatively ? about parlaying silly TV fame into political clout.
Policy on cyberattacks gets more aggressive The Pentagon has quietly empowered the US Cyber Command to take a far more aggressive approach to defending the nation against cyberattacks.
Born of blobfish joke, Ted Cruz edges Jimmy Kimmel in basketball game Texas Senator Ted Cruz triumphed over late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel in their much-hyped charity basketball game that Kimmel dubbed the Blobfish Basketball Classic.
New Hampshire authorities say two Massachusetts hikers who got lost in the White Mountains were carrying almost no useful gear or supplies.
Music Review
Zac Brown Band touches all the bases at Fenway Saturday night?s cover-packed show at the ballpark had something for almost everybody.
Editorial
The case for breaking up Google Never in the history of the world has a single company had so much control over what people know and think.
IDEAS | THE BIG TECH ISSUE
Why Facebook and Google should pay you for your data 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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?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.
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 Podcast
Getting over a breakup Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.
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Calling all foodies Our new weekly summer newsletter, ?Eat. Drink. Eat some more,? gives you 15 weeks of recipes and restaurant tips. Find out more.
The Boston College guard will likely become the first Eagle taken in the first round since guard Reggie Jackson in 2011.
?July 4 is not our independence day. Juneteenth is our independence day,? said Leslie Marshall, 54, of Dorchester.
Can we coexist with the turkeys, coyotes, deer, and other critters that visit or reside in our neighborhoods?
The City Council passed regulations aimed at cracking down on investors who buy housing units to list on short-term rental platforms like Airbnb.
The question of what happens if John McCain steps down from office before 2022 is a lingering one.
Saturday?s blast killed at least 26 people and wounded more than 50.
At Horizons for Homeless Children she oversees a staff of 115 and more than 1,000 volunteers.
The singer, who is retiring from the road, offered a performance that was both a celebration of past glories and a nod toward what might come next.
Here are three worthy Maui adventures that do not involve lying in sand.
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Spring House Hunt: Should parents buy property in a college town? As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.
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The Big Picture
This lone county jail in a remote corner of Appalachia offers an agonizing glimpse into how the tidal wave of opioids and methamphetamines has ravaged America.
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