Analysis

Republicans taking grave risks in Kavanaugh case

Republicans are seemingly marginalizing Brett Kavanaugh?s accuser, a risky approach in an age of #MeToo and with midterm elections on the horizon.

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Republicans have given Christine Blasey Ford until Friday morning to submit a biography and prepared statement ??if she intends to testify?? Monday.

A pedestrian was killed when she was struck by a tow truck in Watertown on Wednesday.

A pedestrian was killed and the driver was attacked in apparent retaliation in Watertown

A woman was fatally injured when she was struck by a tow truck, spurring a man believed to be her son to allegedly stab the driver five times. The driver was in critical condition Wednesday.

Lawrence, MA--9/17/2018-- A Columbia Gas worker worked on South Broadway in South Lawrence. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 18lawrence Reporter:

Gas company?s plan for speedy replacement work raises safety fears

Columbia Gas wants to dramatically speed up the replacement of 48 miles of pipes in the Merrimack Valley after last week?s disaster. But experts said that plan is unrealistic and potentially dangerous.

A rendering of the planned Andrew Square project along Dorchester Avenue in Andrew Square.

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New developer signs on to Andrew Square housing project

Samuels & Associates? participation could help move forward stalled plans to build 656 apartments and condos.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boghosian_20sharkvictim10_MET.jpg Hundreds gather in Saugus to remember victim of fatal shark attack

Friends and family remembered Arthur Gava Medici as a happy person who was always laughing and singing.

ELECTION 2018

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The levy, Gonzalez said, would be a ?modest? 1.6 percent tax on endowments of any private, nonprofit college or university with a fund of more than $1 billion.

Ex-youth football coach charged with sexually abusing child

A former youth football coach accused of filming himself sexually abusing a child has been charged in Boston federal court.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/20minke_003.jpg Dumpster ?snafu? distracts from research into minke whale?s death in N.H.

Efforts to load the dead animal into a Dumpster for transport didn?t go quite as planned.

A shark net surrounded a swim area at Manly Cove in New South Wales, Australia.

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The vexing search for an effective way to prevent shark attacks

As officials on Cape Cod grapple with how to prevent fatal attacks, researchers caution that nothing can fully protect swimmers from sharks.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/31/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/kreiter_greencard1_met.jpg For foreign tech workers, new green card rules loom

New legislation would remove limits on the share of green cards that can be allotted to workers each year from any one country, reviving an issue that has divided thousands of skilled foreign workers.

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/19/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/vennochi-5227.jpg Can a Massachusetts Democrat beat a tall, popular Republican governor? Mark Roosevelt couldn?t

Jay Gonzalez?s uphill campaign for governor recalls the race between Mark Roosevelt and Bill Weld, in 1994.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/19/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy1-22221.jpg After clinch party put on hold (again), are you worried about the Red Sox?

Back-to-back losses in the Bronx has given rise to concerns historic regular season will go for naught in postseason.

YANKEES 10, RED SOX 1

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/20/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/93eaa54938e345409dbceb303ef32d94-93eaa54938e345409dbceb303ef32d94-0.jpg David Price cannot shake his problems with the Yankees

The lefthander dropped to 0-6 in six career starts in New York since joining Boston as the Red Sox again failed to clinch the AL East.

Louie Iacuzzi (left) and James Amaral posed with the banner in Malden.

Red Sox banner returned: In the end, Malden man gets nothing

The bizarre case of a Red Sox division title banner that went missing came to an end Wednesday when a Malden man who says he found it in Somerville brought it to Fenway Park.

Michael Moore sprays water from Flint, Mich., on the governor?s lawn in ?Fahrenheit 11/9.?

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Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump in incendiary film

?Fahrenheit 11/9? is Michael Moore?s latest polemical documentary, and it?s pretty awful.

Watertown, MA., 09/12/18, Jack Keating is upset that a truck using an overhead boom to deliver building materials to a neighbor's house pulled down the overhead wires and ripped the electrical service off his house. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

Sean P. Murphy | The Fine Print

A delivery truck took down wires and power in Watertown. But who?s to blame?

New England Building Supply, whose truck caused the incident, won?t reimburse residents because it says the wires were too low.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/livi28c1-445024.jpg Joseph D. Ketner II, curator at Rose Museum and Emerson College

Mr. Ketner believed in the transformative nature of art and his work offered audiences a chance to be moved.

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/02/09/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/mwbw-robdelaney.jpg Rob Delaney pens an essay about his son?s death

After posting the link to the essay on Twitter Tuesday with the caption, ?I hope this helps,? the Marblehead native received over a thousand comments online wishing him well and thanking him for sharing.

Love Letters

I?ve got a huge crush on my husband?s friend

We?re happily married with kids, but this flirtation has been going on for five years.

Fall Fashion | Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/17/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/success0923illo.jpg Forty years later, is the advice in ?Dress for Success? old hat?

The influential book set the standard in its day. In today?s workplaces, much has changed, and a few rules remain, says a former Filene?s stylist.

Opinion & Ideas

JEFF JACOBY

/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/18/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Jeff%20Jacoby%20artwork-5232.tif If Collins backs Kavanaugh, $1.4m is waiting for her next opponent. That?s not bribery, it?s politics

What could be more typical of democratic politics than lobbying elected officials, or working to defeat them if you disapprove of their performance in office?

Special reports

Stranger in the house

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Globe_arrival_BAT.jpg The US has a huge need for home health care, and many from Ghana do the hard work

The need for home care is soaring, and much of it is done by immigrants willing to take on this hard and low-paying work.

Newsletters

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STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/19/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/DSC4208-1024x683.jpg Black patients are being left out of clinical trials for new cancer therapies

They?re widely underrepresented in clinical trials for cancer drugs, even when the type of cancer disproportionately affects them.

Love Letters: The Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/200_love_letters_bonus.jpg Until next year, my sweetheart

In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.

Listen:   Apple Podcasts   |   Stitcher   |   RadioPublic

 

Real Estate

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/millennials$medium.jpg Despite debt, millennials are the biggest home-buying generation. How?

Slightly more than a third of all home purchases were made by millennials over the past year.

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.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

The destructive aftermath of Hurricane Florence

Hurricane Florence brought heavy winds and rain to the Southeast coast of the United States, leaving devastation in its wake.

Crossword

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