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National Grid's lockout of workers may be taking steps forward


As the National Grid lockout approaches the five-month mark — and the holidays and the end of unemployment benefits loom for sidelined workers — there appears to be some movement in the standoff that has put 1,250 union employees out of work.

New technology could radically reshape MBTA fare policies


Should you pay a higher fare if your subway ride is longer than other commuters' trips? Or more for a bus or train ticket during rush hour, and less during off-peak times? The MBTA has long relied on a set of fixed fares for most transit lines, but a ...

Maine warns against kids ingesting marijuana by accident


AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine says the number of young children accidentally ingesting marijuana has risen from 2 in 2016 to 16 in 2017. The state this month cited figures provided by the Northern New England Poison Center, which serves Maine, New ...

America loses with Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court


Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell won . . . and America lost. On Friday, the US Senate indicated that it will vote, along largely partisan lines, to confirm Brett Kavanaugh for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. For McConnell, President ...

That hand symbol you're seeing everywhere? Not OK


I know what “the circle game” is. It's a Joni Mitchell song and an album from Tom Rush that my dad was super into; but it's also the earliest known example of live trolling. My brothers used to “play” it with me. It involves forming your thumb and ...

Live updates on Hurricane Florence


Hurricane #Florence Advisory 58: Now available on the NHC website. go.usa.gov/W3H · 1:34 PM - 13 Sep 2018 ... #WPC_MD 0831 affecting Coast and Coastal Plain of SE NC, #ncwx , go.usa.gov/xPYpR. Retweeted by NWSGSP · 2:04 PM - 13 Sep 2018.

Hawaiian Airlines to offer nonstop flights from Logan Airport to Honolulu


Hawaii promises paradise to vacationers. Getting there? That's far from blissful. But Hawaiian Airlines is about to make that difficult slog — often lasting 15 hours or more — much easier for New Englanders. The company on Friday plans to unveil a ...

Study finds no link between transgender rights law and bathroom crimes


A first-of-its-kind study being released Wednesday refutes the premise that the state's transgender antidiscrimination law threatens public safety, finding no relation between public transgender bathroom access and crimes that occur in bathrooms.

East Coast faces rising hurricane threat from Hurricane Florence


A strengthening Tropical Storm Florence is casting a hurricane-sized shadow across the East Coast, where it could strike late next week. The chances of Florence hitting the United States have increased as the storm drifted west across the central ...

Calif. man charged with making threatening calls to Globe


A California man was charged Thursday with threatening to shoot and kill Boston Globe journalists, calling them “the enemy of the people,” in response to the newspaper's nationwide editorial campaign denouncing President Trump's political attacks ...

The Great Trumpkin peers into the mirror of truth


The Great Trumpkin was enraged. Enraged at the magic mirror newly hung in the Oval Office, the mirror he had found on an obscure search engine that wasn't controlled by the Deep Google State and wouldn't drag up nasty fake news about him but instead ...

Traveling through the USA, wondering when everything changed


It's early in the morning. I'm at the airport, to catch a flight to Florida. The TSA agent pats me down, because the full-body scan showed something suspicious. She feels my arms, taps my breasts, kneels behind me, taps my buttocks, gropes under the ...

Read John McCain's farewell letter to America


Rick Davis, Senator John McCain's former presidential campaign manager and a family spokesman, read the following farewell statement from the senator at a news conference at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on Monday. ''My fellow Americans, whom ...

Once again, Simone Biles is the top gymnast in the country


Those involved with USA Gymnastics speak of Simone Biles in mythical terminology. Shawn Johnson, on hand at Sunday's US Gymnastics Championships as members of the 2008 Olympic team were honored, said watching Biles, the four-time Olympic gold ...

Junior trio jump through hoops to share gold


Gold-medal podiums aren't meant to fit three people. A rare sight materialized Saturday at TD Garden when Isaiah Drake, Fuzzy Benas, and Justin Ah Chow concluded their portions of the 2018 US Gymnastics Championships in a three-way tie for first place ...

Sam Mikulak recaptures US Gymnastics senior men's title


For stretches during Saturday's US Gymnatics Championships at TD Garden, it felt like Sam Mikulak was participating in a different sport than his competitors. Most were playing checkers. Mikulak was playing chess. In a thoroughly dominating performance ...

The Olympic dream not for every athlete


The gymnasts on the floor soldiered through their routines, trying to score high at US Gymnastics Championships, all hoping to earn a spot on Team USA, to one day win Olympic gold. Nancy Kerrigan did her spinning and jumping in bladed boots, but she ...

At 18, Laurie Hernandez has seen the world


When Laurie Hernandez stepped off the podium at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she set off on a journey having little to do with gymnastics. For years, Hernandez had channeled her passionate and lively personality into a tireless work ethic ...

Five things to do around Boston, Aug. 20-26


A power-hungry secretary of state and her depraved nephew scheme to seize the American presidency in Timbuktu, USA, written and directed by Kenneth Prestininzi. Produced by Boston-based avant-garde company Sleeping Weazel — which describes the ...

US Gymnastics Championships in Boston


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Dramatic video shows strength of Webster tornado


If you see a storm like this, better take cover. A Webster brewery and beer garden has posted on Facebook a video that was captured by a security camera during the tornado that slashed through the area on Saturday. It provides an inside look at the ...

Should the state build the North South Rail Link?


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Trump to Iran: 'NEVER, EVER THREATEN' America


WASHINGTON — President Trump has warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that he will face dire consequences for threatening the United States. Trump tweeted late on Sunday about the dangers to Iran of making hostile threats after Rouhani said ...

Lobster prices plummet after tariffs take effect


The burgeoning trade war might be hitting local lobstermen after all. Wholesale prices on lobsters — mostly soft shell — have abruptly plummeted in the last two weeks, less than a month after China imposed a 25 percent tariff on US products including ...

Mark Wahlberg buying auto dealership in Ohio


COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mark Wahlberg wants you to see the U.S.A. in a Chevrolet. The 47-year-old actor, producer, businessman and former rapper on Thursday announced he's launching his first car dealership, Mark Wahlberg Chevrolet in Columbus, Ohio.

Trump invitation to Putin stuns even top advisers


WASHINGTON— Unbowed by swirling criticism of his summit encounter with Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump swiftly invited the Russian leader to the White House this fall for a second get-together. Cleanup from the first continued with no letup ...

Alleged Weymouth killer had history of instability, run-ins with the law


This story was reported by Globe correspondents Emily Williams and J.D. Capelouto and staff reporters Michael Levenson, Emily Sweeney, and John R. Ellement. It was written by Levenson. A 2017 booking photo of Emanuel Lopes. WEYMOUTH POLICE ...

Weymouth shaken after officer, bystander both shot and killed


Officer Michael Chesna. WEYMOUTH — A police officer and a local woman were shot and killed in a quiet residential neighborhood Sunday morning after a 20-year-old man allegedly crashed a car, attacked the officer, stole his gun, and used it to shoot ...

Trump the traitor


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Is Donald Trump committing treason?


Following the 2016 presidential election, a specter of treason was hovering over Donald Trump because of his response to the mounting evidence that the Russians had intervened to help elect him. As the president-elect entered the White House, he ...

Moscow accused of US election meddling in indictment


WASHINGTON — Twelve Russian military intelligence officers hacked into the Clinton presidential campaign and Democratic Party, releasing tens of thousands of stolen and politically damaging communications, in a sweeping conspiracy by the Kremlin to ...

Richie Porte's BMC team wins team time trial


CHOLET, France — Besides still having to make up most of the 51 seconds he lost in a Stage 1 crash, Chris Froome faces another challenge as he seeks a record-tying fifth Tour de France title — Richie Porte's BMC team. BMC beat Froome's Team Sky by ...

Civility can wait; the fight for democracy cannot


THROUGHOUT AMERICA, there are thousands of migrant children, some whose ages are still counted in months instead of years, still forcibly separated from their families. Meanwhile, a white supremacist wants to hold a “White Civil Rights” rally across ...

Weather alert: Flash flood watch issued for coastal Mass. and RI for Friday


[230 PM] while many locations will remain dry this afternoon and evening across #MA #RI #CT , isolated showers and T-storms will impact some communities with brief torrential downpours. More details here go.usa.gov/xU26G #Boston #Providence #Hartford ...

Aly Raisman: 'I'm constantly reliving my abuse'


The Olympic gymnastics champion, who delivered a powerful victim impact statement in court against former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar this past January, said in the interview that she is “constantly reliving [her] abuse.” (Nassar was ...

National Grid locks out gas workers


More than 1,200 gas workers have been locked out by National Grid after months of failed contract negotiations. The dispute came to a head early Monday morning when workers were denied access to various National Grid facilities across the state.

Hawaii's quest for a new type of independence


At a cool new bookstore in Honolulu called Da Shop, I met the foreign minister of the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands, Leon Kaulahao Siu. He spends much of his time lobbying at the United Nations and at international missions in Europe. His biggest ...

Nearly 100 trees may fall in Malden sidewalk project


As summer heat descends on Greater Boston, Malden is looking to cut down 97 mature shade trees while installing new sidewalks. “No one is happy about taking down so many,” said Robert Knox, Malden tree warden and director of public works. “We had a ...

US border policy controversy


1. A US Border Patrol spotlight shined on a terrified mother and son from Honduras as they were found near the US-Mexico border on June 12 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande and had become lost in the woods.

A propaganda win for Kim Jong Un


ONE THING IS CLEAR from Tuesday's meeting between President Trump and North Korean strong man Kim Jong Un — Kim has won big. The images transmitted around the world of Trump shaking hands with the world's worst dictator — with intertwined ...

US soccer team ties France in friendly


LYON, France — Kylian Mbappe scored a late equalizer as France drew with the United States, 1-1, in its final World Cup warm-up on Saturday. The 19-year-old forward reacted swiftly from near the penalty spot in the 78th minute, turning in a cross from ...

Norwegian Air faces social media turbulence from local activist


After being stranded for hours at the gate on a Norwegian Air layover between London and Boston, a local activist is leveraging his social media muscle to push the low-cost carrier to “treat customers like humans.” During the eight-hour delay, which ...

Secretive detention centers have no place in the US


IF A MEMBER of Congress can't even get a peek at an immigration detention facility near the border with Mexico, it inevitably raises questions about what the federal government is hiding. On Sunday afternoon, US Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from ...

2017-18 Girls' Track All-Scholastics


Old Rochester | Junior. A junior shot putter and discus thrower, Chandler was selected by Adaptive Sports USA to attend the 2018 IWAS Youth World Games in Athlone, Ireland, this summer. Chandler, who has dwarfism, also played field hockey this past fall.

How a 3-mile train ride turns into a 120-mile journey


Without a passenger rail link between North and South stations, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has only one quick route through Boston when it needs to move train cars for commuters around the network. It's called the Grand Junction ...

Necco is sold for $18.8 million at bankruptcy auction


It looks like Necco Wafers will continue to roll off the assembly line — at least for now. Family-owned Spangler Candy Company of Ohio — which makes Dum Dums lollipops and the orange marshmallow Circus Peanuts — added Necco to its portfolio ...

'It's really raw right now.' Stoughton mourns after 4 high school students die in weekend car crash


STOUGHTON — Prosper Beaubrun, eyes welling with tears, struggled to speak. His 17-year-old son, Christopher Desir, was one of four Stoughton High School students killed in a horrific car crash Saturday. Standing in the driveway of the home Desir ...

Massport sees intense interest in Seaport property


Several bidders already have made their mark on the South Boston waterfront, including: Boston Global Investors, Davis Cos., Skanska USA, and WS Development. Redgate, another bidder, is pursuing a massive redevelopment of the old Boston Edison plant ...

In Boston, hundreds rally for Palestine, against Israel and the US


Speaking at a protest against Israeli policies toward the Palestinians, Nidal Al-Azraq of Lexington struck a defiant yet hopeful tone. “The occupation has failed to destroy us,” Al-Azraq, a 40-year-old Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp, told ...

Shoemaker Rockport files for bankruptcy protection


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