New GOP plan: Hold kids longer at border ? but with parents
Republicans on Capitol Hill frantically searched on Tuesday for ways to end the Trump administration?s policy of separating families after illegal border crossings.
Republicans on Capitol Hill frantically searched on Tuesday for ways to end the Trump administration?s policy of separating families after illegal border crossings.
NESTOR RAMOS
A dispiriting 27 percent of the country supports the so-called zero-tolerance policy that has led to a sudden, dramatic increase in families being separated at the southern border.
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At least 2,000 children have been separated from their parents since April.
General Electric, an original member of the Dow Jones industrials, will be removed from the index and replaced by Walgreens.
Trump envoy Nikki Haley says the United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it ?not worthy of its name.?
Blueberry bushes near Walden Pond are flowering earlier. Polar bear populations in the Arctic are dwindling. Marmots in Colorado are emerging from their winter slumber earlier.
The high cost of housing in the region is forcing some recent college graduates to move back in with mom and dad to save money.
The president of Lesley University is going to step down this summer for personal health reasons, according to a statement from the school.
Both the Republican-led House and Senate VA committees requested briefings from VA officials following the investigative report by the Globe and USA Today.
A woman who fought off an alleged kidnapping attempt in Bridgewater described the encounter that turned her jog into moments of terror.
The Auerbach Center, said team owner Wyc Grousbeck, ?is the foundation of our future excellence.?
Beat writers from across the league participated in a live mock draft. See how it unfolded.
A look at some of the street?s establishments that rise above the rest: for value, for charm, for sheer deliciousness.
Devra First
Everyone seems to adore them but me. Can the restaurant?s executive chef change my mind?
A Dunkin? Donuts shop in Baltimore is no longer offering customers coupons if they report workers shouting in foreign languages to management.
Gloucester has a lot of seagulls. But does it have a seagull problem?
The Cannabis Control Commission will vote Thursday on whether to issue a license to a cultivation facility in Milford.
Miss Conduct
Dos and don?ts for being around marijuana in social settings.
ALEX SPEIER
The production Devers has shown at such a young age is rare and makes him too valuable to move.
Ben Volin | On football
All the talk of retirement could be just Brady flexing his muscles and extracting some concessions from the Patriots.
Talking Points
After vanquishing the so-called millionaires tax, the state?s business groups have an arguably tougher fight on their hands: reining in the expenses of subsidized health care.
After her brother?s suicide, Alison Reeves decided to turn her grief into action.
A unique course at Gann Academy asked students to creating a museum-worthy exhibit on the history of people with disabilities in America. It?s on display though early September.
For 25 years, Jim Graham has tried to prove he is the son of a deceased Catholic priest. A DNA sample from the priest?s exhumed body should offer a morbid end to his search.
They didn?t want to throw away their shot.
Is your commute about to get more expensive? Check this list for all the changes.
A radioman killed in WWII is getting his name back ? Julius Heinrich Otto ?Henry? Pieper ? and a resting place beside his twin, who was killed the same day.
Michael A. Cohen
If Republicans are willing to accept the forced separation of children from their parents, they are willing to accept a lot worse.
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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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?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
Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.
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Our new weekly summer newsletter, ?Eat. Drink. Eat some more,? gives you 15 weeks of recipes and restaurant tips. Find out more.
Chris Sale will be on the mound as the Red Sox open a three-game series at Minnesota.
The jury in the trial of Frank Salemme received instructions from a judge before beginning deliberations Tuesday morning.
Can we coexist with the turkeys, coyotes, deer, and other critters that visit or reside in our neighborhoods?
WASHINGTON -- A surge of construction in the Midwest drove US housing starts up 5 percent in May from the prior month.
Interviews with key groups and activists suggest things are still in flux, but there are some obvious places where they will make efforts.
President Donald Trump directed the US Trade Representative to prepare new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports on Monday as the two nations moved closer to a potential trade war.
Adding four underground train lines between North and South stations and a new station could boost the cost to $21.5 billion, but double commuter ridership, new state study says.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui was finishing up previews on ?Jagged Little Pill? at the ART when he got a call about a project ? one that had to be kept under wraps.
Here are three worthy Maui adventures that do not involve lying in sand.
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As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.
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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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