Landlords routinely put legal fees on renter's ledgers after they face eviction, even if a case is dismissed -- Lawsuits in federal court in Boston are challenging the practice of charging renters for their landlords' legal fees, even if their eviction cases don't end up before a judge.

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State of the Union

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James Pindell | Analysis -- Four takeaways from Trump's (very long) State of the Union address -- Rather than use the moment to reconnect with Americans or lay out a legislative agenda, President Trump delivered something of a campaign rally, punctuated by theatrics.

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Al Green kicked out of State of the Union after holding sign protesting Trump

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Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger questions whether Americans feel the 'golden age' Trump describes -- Spanberger's message, that families are still struggling under Trump's policies, is one Democrats plan to carry nationwide ahead of the midterm elections.

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Forecast | Dave Epstein -- More snow arrives Wednesday morning, along with milder temperatures to start melting away those blizzard piles -- A clipper-like system brings light snow into the region starting in the morning.

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MBTA to resume regular weekday service Wednesday after disruptions from blizzard

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Starting Point -- The Tinder trap that exploded -- You may have heard about a college dorm's disastrous attempt to trap a "predator." The fallout has changed lives — and isn't over.

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Why Willson Contreras may be the power threat the Red Sox need

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Chad Finn -- There is no way Jayson Tatum returning to the Celtics this season could be a bad thing

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Salve Regina University student dies of carbon monoxide poisoning after charging cellphone in snow-covered car -- Newport Police said the incident in a Bellevue Avenue parking lot was accidental.

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RIGHT, LEFT, AND CENTER - Boasting, bashing, and lying: Three writers on Trump's State of the Union address - Immigrants and Democrats took it on the chin all night. In between, there were medals for military heroes.

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EDITORIAL -- Kristi Noem wants you to wait in longer lines at the airport

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ALAN WIRZBICKI -- It's not you. Headlights really are more blinding.

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READER SURVEY -- We want to hear from you: Should the city shovel your sidewalk?

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Plans for proposed ICE facility in Merrimack, N.H., won't move forward, governor says -- "We can breathe easy again," said the chair of the Merrimack Town Council, which had opposed the warehouse.

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Warner Bros. gets a higher offer from Paramount in heated fight for the storied Hollywood studio -- Warner Bros. Discovery said that Paramount has raised the price of its takeover offer to $31 per share, in addition to other revisions.

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Sports betting giant DraftKings cutting jobs amid fight with prediction markets -- The Boston-based company declined to disclose how many jobs were eliminated or where.

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State Police seeks outside review into handling of alleged drunk driving crash -- Scott Quigley was allegedly drunk when his cruiser crashed into a van in December 2023, officials said. A disabled passenger in the van died the next month.

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GLOBE MAGAZINE - Assumption University students tried to set up a sting on Tinder. It all went terribly wrong. The online set-up was fake, but the consequences that followed were real.

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AS I SEE IT - When baseball practice couldn't wait for the snow to melt, these players brought a shovel - The mound was icy, and the foul territory had clumps of snow. But, with the home opener set for later this month, the Beacons had little time to spare.

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'Check back in 15 years': Robotics legend Rodney Brooks rejects AI hype but won't call it a bubble -- The entrepreneur and former MIT professor thinks practical humanoid robots and superintelligence are centuries away.

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'Brain drain' in effect as Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell academics depart for Australian university -- A leading Australian university has poached more than a dozen academic researchers amid widespread concern over the Trump administration's hostile stance toward higher education.

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Tracy Morgan returns (with Daniel Radcliffe) in the winning fall-from-grace mockumentary 'Reggie Dinkins'

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Boston Globe Spotlight Team - Nearly 250 patients at top Mass. hospitals say they were abused by a renowned doctor. Why wasn't he stopped sooner? A Globe Spotlight investigation found the state's medical establishment missed key warning signs.

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Why Trump and the MAGA movement turned against Harvard -- Over a decade of political and cultural upheaval, America's most powerful university grew vulnerable to attack. There were warning signs.

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Why the middle class is disappearing in Massachusetts -- The middle class in Massachusetts is being hollowed out. Driving the squeeze is a stratospheric rise in inequality.

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Water is coming for the Seaport; the whole city will be poorer for it. -- Buildings in the Seaport fund one-tenth of Boston's property-tax base. Flood waters and sea level rise will soon put that at risk.

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EDITORIAL -- Why a conservative justice threw shade at congressional Republicans

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- High court hypocrisy, as conservative justices split on Trump's tariffs

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Can the Edward M. Kennedy Institute save the Senate and itself?

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JEFF JACOBY -- Nativism is a bipartisan American temptation

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RI POLITICS -- UNH poll shows Foulkes leading McKee by 16 points in R.I. governor's race -- The latest results show 34 percent would vote for Foulkes while 18 percent would vote for McKee, but 40 percent remain undecided.

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State of the Union: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, Democrats respond - Virginia Gov. Spanberger offered a sharp contrast to President Donald Trump's depiction of the nation as being in a "golden age" during his State of the Union.

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Peter Abraham | On baseball -- Our second crack at projecting the Red Sox' Opening Day roster after watching workouts and a few Grapefruit League games

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Celtics 97, Suns 81 -- Derrick White, Celtics continue torrid road trip by torching the Suns

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MIAA TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP -- Belmont boys' basketball gets defensive to open Division 1 tournament with win over Chelmsford

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'It's like life is on hold:' Nuns await city decision on re-do of Jamaica Plain monastery -- Three years after a move to Westwood, the Poor Clare nuns say they're 'in a state of crisis.'

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More than 174,200 customers in Massachusetts still without power as utilities bring in additional crews

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Hegseth is said to have warned Anthropic to let military use company's AI as it sees fit

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THE BIG DAY -- When a wedding column takes a tragic turn

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President Trump honors US men's hockey team, Connor Hellebuyck to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Susan Sheehan, chronicler of lives on the margins, dies at 88

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BBC and host apologize after racial slur shouted during BAFTA awards by guest with Tourette's

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A new 'Jane Eyre' adaptation is in the works, starring Aimee Lou Wood

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Why music is so key to figure skating's popularity — and how that music is changing

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Andrew Ranken, whose drumming powered the Pogues, dies

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Two Boston-area theaters revive plays from the '50s with very modern resonances

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Jeffrey Epstein's tissue samples ignited a furor in the Harvard lab of George Church

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Massachusetts to join research study screening newborns for more than 450 genetic diseases

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Gloucester's longest-serving mayor, Bruce Tobey, dies at 73

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