Koh holds small lead in Third District, poll says

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Despite Dan Koh?s small lead, with less than two weeks until the primary, nearly 30 percent of likely voters say are still unsure who they?ll pick in the Third Congressional District.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/MA07-3375.jpg National realtors group has spent nearly $300,000 to help Mike Capuano defeat Ayanna Pressley

The National Association of Realtors is funding online ads, direct mail, and polling in the Seventh Congressional District.

?Everybody would be very poor? if I were to be impeached, Trump says

?If I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash,? President Trump said, though he added ?I don?t know how you can impeach somebody who?s done a great job.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/Rex_Sanders_speaks_on_Manafort_and_C_9799570E-3379-U841247453615l0C--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg Here?s how Sarah Sanders responded to questions on Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort

As reporters peppered President Trump?s spokeswoman with question after question about Cohen and Manafort, she repeated the same mantra over and over.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Baker_04-19612.jpg Can Charlie Baker take credit for the state?s ?$1 billion surplus??

In a new TV ad, Governor Charlie Baker touts his fiscal management skills, as well as the state?s $1 billion budget surplus. But why the state had all that extra cash is far more complicated.

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Here?s the math: How Zakim, at 34 years old, missed 16 elections

?You were registered ... and you didn?t vote,? Secretary of State William Galvin huffed to his primary challenger.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_24guns-5_metro.jpg Activists who support stricter gun laws embark on Worcester-to-Springfield march

The group plans to end the march Sunday at the headquarters of firearm maker Smith & Wesson.

Sal Giarratani, 70, from East Boston got some sun on Wollaston Beach earlier this month.

Hot in the city: This summer has set records for heat in Boston

The summer of 2018 has been one of southern New England?s hottest in nearly 150 years.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/burr_24deadshark_002.jpg Dead great white shark found on Truro beach

Officials from the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy said experts planned to do a necropsy of the animal.

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A Globe review found all 19 provisional licenses issued by the cannabis commission are tied to host community agreements that appear to violate the agency?s own guidance.

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Coconut oil has been making headlines lately, thanks to a lecture given by a Harvard professor that?s been widely shared online.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/05/11/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Advance/Images/150507_kdb_intern0680.jpg Truck carrying 7,000 pounds of live lobster crashes in Maine

Several live lobsters spilled onto Route 1 in Brunswick.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/unnamed-19685.jpg Child injured after guardrail pierces through car in Northbridge

The 4-year-old girl suffered a serious head injury and was taken to a Boston hospital for treatment.

Boston City Hall flag flap lands in federal court

A West Roxbury man has filed suit against the city of Boston, claiming the city has violated his constitutional rights by denying his group the opportunity to fly a Christian flag.

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Here?s a picture of Hurricane Lane taken from the International Space Station

Astronaut Richard Arnold shared two images of the category 4 storm on Twitter Wednesday.

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Hurricane Lane is the most powerful storm to hit Hawaii since Hurricane Iniki in 1992.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/AFCslider11-21452.jpg Though numbers are down, Patriots still tops in annual N.E. Sports Survey

But here is a question for poll respondents: Are you paying any attention to the Celtics?

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

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The players have turned activism into action. When will others follow?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/suarez_06fountainplay_MET_001.jpg Things to do in Boston with your guests on the cheap

Some of the best things in Boston, as in life, really are free, or at least cheap.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/20/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/turner011618ARTS24whatsheshaving39.jpg How to eat like a local in Harvard Square

From sushi to coffee, burgers to buffets ? here are some places in Harvard Square that might remind you of your youth.

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Photos and video captured NBC News intern Cassie Semyon?s mad dash from a Virginia courthouse to deliver the news of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort?s conviction.

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/613834908.jpg Ben Affleck reportedly back in rehab for alcohol addiction

The Oscar winner, 46, has struggled with alcohol addiction on and off for years, and most recently underwent treatment in 2017.

Nestor Ramos

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/20151102_bus_6.jpg ?I was the only one left behind. And I was the only one who was brown?

A 14-year-old from Brookline was just trying to catch a bus home from Maine. Instead, he got a lesson in the insidious ways that race and bias operate in America today.

Greenfield mayor surprises homeless with Friday eviction from town common

After weeks of assuring the homeless they would not be forced off the common, the city?s mayor announced he would be closing the common on Friday, despite no solution to the affordable housing shortage.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/clintonMV01.jpg Bill Clinton drew a crowd on Martha?s Vineyard, but Hillary Clinton ?stole the show?

Clinton discussed his new book, "The President Is Missing."

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This isn't the first time the Aerosmith frontman has threatened legal action for Trump's song use.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/3391617_9.jpg A million-dollar Apple computer? Let the bidding begin

One of the original computers developed by Apple founders is up for auction in Boston.

CHICAGO, IL - MAY 03: Customers shop at Chicago's last remaining Sears store on May 3, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. The store, which opened in 1938, is scheduled to close in July. Sears opened its first retail store in Chicago in 1925. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Here?s the full list of the 33 Sears and 13 Kmart stores closing around the US

The one-time powerhouse retailer that survived two world wars and the Great Depression has been calving off pieces of itself as it burns through money.

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The posted 2017 returns show the former Harvard University law professor and her husband reported an adjusted gross income of $913,000.

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The one-year experiment aims to help relieve congestion in the traffic-choked Seaport District and nearby neighborhoods.

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The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation has scheduled a press conference Thursday to present Chesna?s family with a mortgage payoff letter, an official said.

$73 million school in Roxbury is the first newly constructed BPS school building in 15 years

?Our kids deserve this, and [this building] says they are worth this. . . . This is what we fought for,? one sixth grade teacher said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/24turtle%20photo.jpg Sea turtle freed from lobster buoy line in Cape Cod Bay

The leatherback sea turtle was rescued Wednesday and swam free of the line.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_snowleopards1_met.jpg Two adorable snow leopard cubs make their debut at Stone Zoo

Want to see a really, really cute Himalayan kitty? How about two of them?

Opinion & Ideas

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/tlumacki_worcesterstateDemconvention_metro211.jpg Endorsement: Jay Gonzalez is the best choice for Democrats

A former official in the Patrick administration, Gonzalez has the right background to go toe-to-toe with the governor.

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/16/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/adc4a41efecc4b5da3bf8235b7f5808a-adc4a41efecc4b5da3bf8235b7f5808a-0.jpg Endorsement: Charlie Baker deserves GOP nod

It?s important for the Massachusetts GOP that Baker win big in the Sept. 4 Republican gubernatorial primary.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/20/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/4Y7A7448TaylorUsry-kixF--90x90@BostonGlobe.com-Homepage.jpg TSA says air marshals don?t follow ?ordinary? travelers. Some ordinary travelers beg to differ

She?s a social media manager for an arts-and-crafts company, and somehow became a target of a secret TSA surveillance program.

Newsletters

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Haejin_Final_Mushroom-1600x900.jpg Science is testing claims about psilocybin microdoses, and finding some truth

Psilocybin microdoses do improve a form of thinking underlying creativity, a study suggests.

Globe event

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/08/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/SeattleTimes_10kirsner02_biz.jpg 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.

Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/FlfQGTy9_585.jpg More about Last Seen: The Largest Unsolved Art Heist ever

A true-crime podcast about the most valuable ? and confounding ? art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

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Stefan Karl Stefansson (pictured in Baltimore) played the Grinch in ?Dr. Seuss? How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical? at the Citi Wang Theatre in Boston in 2008.

?LazyTown? villain Stefan Karl Stefansson dies at 43

Icelandic actor Stefan Karl Stefansson played villain Robbie Rotten on ?LazyTown? and led the 2008 touring production of ?Dr. Seuss? How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical.?