Trump orders FBI to investigate Kavanaugh

President Trump ordered an FBI investigation into allegations against his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, after Republicans delayed the vote under pressure from their own party

Opinion | Mickey Edwards

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Kavanaugh?s view that a president who commits a crime cannot be indicted has no basis in the Constitution.

Opinion | Rebecca G. Pontikes

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A litigator focused on employment discrimination offers analysis of Brett Kavanaugh?s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Michael A. Cohen

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The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings were reduced to to partisanship and tribalism.

JOAN VENNOCHI

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An FBI investigation gives the Senate an opportunity to hit the pause button.

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? The Judiciary Committee voted to advance Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to a full Senate floor vote.

? President Trump said in a statement that the updated investigation, which comes in response to sexual misconduct allegations, ??must be limited in scope?? and ??completed in less than one week.??.

? Trump said Christine Blasey Ford ??was a very credible witness?? but also that Kavanaugh?s own testimony was ??an incredible moment.??

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/28/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/h_54660989.jpg ?You?re telling all women that they don?t matter?: Jeff Flake confronted by women in elevator

Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher, a Northeastern graduate, confronted the senator Friday after he said he would vote to advance Brett Kavanaugh?s nomination.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/28/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/1046148396.jpg Wait ? what did Jeff Flake just do? And what does it mean for Brett Kavanaugh?s nomination?

Moments before the Senate Judiciary Committee gaveled in to vote, there was nothing but drama and suspense.

NAMES

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The Arizona Republican is scheduled to take part in Forbes?s fifth-annual Under 30 Summit on Monday.

OPS PHOTO BY george rizer bw september 22 1980 sammy sammy whites shooting scene where four were killed.

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Remembering the 1980 massacre at Sammy White?s Brighton Bowl

Four people were killed at the bowling alley in September 1980.

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The bug would allow attackers to ??seize control?? of user accounts, Facebook said.

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Joyce, formerly of Milton, was facing a sweeping federal corruption indictment at the time of his death.

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More than three months after a woman accused Andrew ?A.J.? Baker of groping her on a plane, federal officials would not say this week whether they are still pursuing an investigation into Governor Charlie Baker?s adult son.

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For nearly 30 years, landscaper Neill Byrnes has played the part of the Aerosmith frontman in Draw The Line. For some hard-core fans, he?s just as good as the real thing.

Ideas | Shirley Leung

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Meghna Chakrabarti and David Folkenflik sat down for a wide-ranging interview on the increasingly complex media landscape.

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The pumpkin grown by Steve Geddes of Boscawen, N.H., is the biggest pumpkin ever grown in North America.

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Around 300 Cape Cod residents filled a Wellfleet school?s gymnasium to voice an array of concerns.

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?A starter since Day 1 in this league,? McCourty said of the safety.

CHAD FINN | UNCONVENTIONAL PREVIEW

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Imagine, a must-win in Week 4. Now that feels like something from the Patriots? old days.

State Police union president resigns amid federal probe

Dana Pullman said he was stepping down as union president for ?personal reasons,? but it comes as the union faces a burgeoning criminal investigation.

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A N.H. judge gave Nathan Carman 10 days to answer certain questions from his aunts and provide them with documents in their lawsuit alleging he killed his wealthy grandfather.

Teen in DCF care allegedly trafficked for sex by worker at DCF-financed group home, AG says

Ashley Goodrich faces a number of charges, including four counts of trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude.

Tech Lab | Hiawatha Bray

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The best additions to the new smartwatch from Apple aren?t available yet.

Rendering of a proposed music theater the Red Sox owners and Live Nation would build alongside Fenway Park.

Fenway Sports Group

Music venue next to Fenway Park proposed

The Red Sox owners and Live Nation are exploring a 5,000-seat music hall between Lansdowne and Ipswich streets.

Dinner with Cupid

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They?re baby boomers and former programmers. Can they find a framework for romance?

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Love Letters advice columnist Meredith Goldstein and Jasmine Guillory, author of ?The Proposal,? discuss.

Opinion & Ideas

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/28/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/1042093500.jpg The lies that senators must tell themselves to support Brett Kavanaugh

The issue here is as much Brett Kavanaugh?s honesty in the present as what he may have done in 1982.

Special reports

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Lost and alone, Deb made a decision to reclaim the only home she?d ever had, whatever the risk.

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A drama unfolds in Peabody

Deb was still new to this high school in Peabody, and had found her way to the vaunted theater program, establishing a foothold in a realm that felt magical.

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SEPTEMBER 27 - WASHINGTON, DC: Senator Dianne Feinstein. Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh testified in front of the Senate Judiciary committee regarding sexual assault allegations at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill Thursday, September 27, 2018. at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on September 27, 2018 on Capitol Hill. Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

Opinion | Jennifer Braceras

Feinstein played Ford like a pawn

2018 MCAS scores for schools across the state
Three Harvard University students are going to Malaysia for the Astellas Oncology C3 Prize competition. From left: Emily Dahl, Do Hyun Kim, and Olga Romanova.

Harvard students work to better lives of young cancer patients in poor countries
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh speaks at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. A professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo By Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Opinion | Martha Coakley

Angry and defiant, Kavanaugh brings heat but no light
US Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 27, 2018. - University professor Christine Blasey Ford, 51, told a tense Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that could make or break Kavanaugh's nomination she was

JOAN VENNOCHI

Brett Kavanaugh and the tears of a bully
Contraband seized during the Greenfield traffic stop.

Four Vermont residents arrested in fentanyl bust after traffic stop in Greenfield

Mary Winchenbach's Maine-based business, Tirdy Works, is growing after a video of her selling products went viral.

People love this Maine woman who makes artwork out of moose poop

COMMENTARY

Harvard art exhibits remind us the time for change is now

Since 2003, Fenway Park organist Josh Kantor has not missed a Sox home game.

With Twitter, Fenway Park organist helps Sox fans get into the game
From left: The Byrds? Chris Hillman and Roger McGuinn play the album ?Sweetheart of the Rodeo? with Marty Stuart (right) and his band.

The Byrds? McGuinn and Hillman celebrate ?Sweetheart of the Rodeo?

Saugus-03/10/18- Olympic gold medal winner, Meghan Duggan, the captain of the US Womens Ice Hockey team, ran a hockey clinic for youngsters in the parking lot of Big Y Supermarket on an artificial ice surface. The youngsters were given lessons on shooting at the goal and they played several pickup games with her as the parent looked on and snapped photos. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro)

Names

They were rivals at the highest levels of hockey. Then they got married
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lahey Health have criticizing the formula used to calculate the projected cost increases, calling the numbers misleading.

AG, public health agency weigh conditions for Beth Israel-Lahey merger

Sports

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BEN VOLN | ON FOOTBALL

Dont?a Hightower hasn?t been great. But he?s one problem, not the problem

There is plenty of blame to go around on the Patriot defense, and the issue with Hightower may be deployment.

Metro

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A gas worker took a break while working on Brookfield Street last week.

US Senate committee to hold hearing on Merrimack Valley explosions

?The hearing will be held in a location to be determined in the coming weeks,? the offices of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey said.

Real Estate

Home of the Week: Two-bedroom condo in a former school listed for $399,900

Built in 1931, it served as a school for decades before it was converted into a condo complex known as Academy Park. Search more Fall House Hunt listings at realestate.boston.com.

Politics

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Vermont state Representative Kiah Morris, a Democrat, in Burlington, Vt., this month.

Vermont lawmaker resigns, citing racial harassment and husband?s health

Kiah Morris, the only African-American woman in the Vermont House of Representatives, announced her resignation Tuesday.

Nation & World

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Fernando Karadima.

Pope defrocks Chilean priest at center of abuse scandal

Pope Francis invoked his ?supreme? authority to stiffen a sentence originally handed down by a Vatican court in 2011.

Cars

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SEC files complaint against Tesla's Elon Musk

The SEC is alleging Musk made false and misleading statements about plans to take the company private.

Columnists

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., points as Democrats as he defends Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (Tom Williams/Pool Image via AP)

Michael A. Cohen

Lindsey Graham?s unhinged tirade rallies Republicans to back Kavanaugh
US Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 27, 2018. - University professor Christine Blasey Ford, 51, told a tense Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that could make or break Kavanaugh's nomination she was

JOAN VENNOCHI

Brett Kavanaugh and the tears of a bully
Clay Matthews has been called for roughing the passer three times this season.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

With roughing-the-passer calls, it?s the NFL that is piling on

?I?ve loved every minute of being DA,? said Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley. ?I think I?ve been an honorable steward.?

Adrian Walker

Dan Conley leaves behind a safer city
ATLANTA, GA - SEPTEMBER 23: Tiger Woods of the United States reacts during the trophy presentation ceremony after winning the TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club on September 23, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

TARA SULLIVAN

Tiger Woods and the promise of what?s to come
Brett Kavanaugh during the second day of his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 5.

Renée Graham

The effort to disregard #MeToo
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley was followed by reporters Tuesday as he walked into the Senate chamber.

SCOT LEHIGH

Republican actors in a Senate farce
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., listens during a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 31, 2017. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer

Michael A. Cohen

GOP proves it?s a party steeped in misogyny
Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's supreme court nominee, walks to a meeting with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Aug. 21, 2018.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Bill Clinton must be smiling
Rob Gronkowski had four catches Sunday night, but the Lions mostly had him blanketed.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

It could be worse. They could?ve traded Gronk
?This is our platform? for change, says Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce president Jim Rooney, ?and we?re using it.?

Adrian Walker

Can Boston chamber become force for change?

?If we can?t sell this to the American people,? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said last fall, ?we ought to go into another line of work.?

Michael A. Cohen

GOP bet on the tax cut ? and lost

Business

Tom Glynn?s last meeting as Massport CEO will be in November, when the authority hopes to have a new leader lined up to take over his duties.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Busy agenda awaits Massport?s next CEO

As the Massachusetts Port Authority searches for a new leader, its board must decide whether to hire a coach or a superstar, a conductor or a soloist.

Arts

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21Vicuna ZSC_Vicuna_160 (L to R): Srin Chakravorty and Steve Auger in Zeitgeist Stage CompanyÕs production of Vicu?a. Photo by Richard Hall/Silverline Images

The Ticket: What?s happening in the local arts world

This week?s picks by Globe critics.

Movies

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Film director Hal Ashby, shown in a still image from the documentary ?Hal.?

Movie Review

Remembering Hal Ashby, who helped make the ?70s timeless

A new documentary celebrates the film director?s overlooked achievement.

Lifestyle

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From left: Joe Regalbuto, Candice Bergen, and Faith Ford return in the revival of ?Murphy Brown.?

TV Critic?s Corner

A tired ?Murphy Brown? returns to take on Trump

So many of the jokes have already made the rounds on social media, probably months or even years ago.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/GettyImages-3123228-1024x576.jpg Can genetic tests gauge how well antidepressants will work?

With more products aimed at gauging the effectiveness of mental health treatments, some say science is getting left behind.

Love Letters: The Podcast

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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

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

Globe event

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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.

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