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Somerville YMCA alters expansion plans after family refuses to sell their home

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Trump will award Medal of Honor to three US Army service members in White House ceremony

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War widens as Israeli and American planes pound Iran

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A fourth US service member has died in the Iran operation, US military says. Follow live updates.

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Larry Edelman | Trendlines - The Middle East is in turmoil, but markets are mostly placid. Here's why.

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Sudbury police dispatcher injured while serving in Navy during Iran conflict

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The CIA helped pinpoint a gathering of Iranian leaders. Then Israel struck.

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Photos: See Mindy Kaling, Timothée Chalamet, and more stars hit the Actor Awards red carpet

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PERSPECTIVE -- My young family needs another bathroom. Will Boston's archaic zoning rules flush away our plans?

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GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL -- The Celtics committed to developing Neemias Queta into a starting center, and on Sunday it paid off handsomely

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'MasterClass meets Mass General': Milton-based media startup uplitMD aims to be a video guide for new parents

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your tv gps - This week's TV: A new Carl Hiaasen adaptation starring Scott Speedman, Padma Lakshmi is back on TV, and more - Plus, Steve Carell's new HBO dramedy, "Rooster," debuts.

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Ayanna Pressley, who once considered running against Senator Ed Markey, endorses him for reelection

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Has this winter been worse than the 'Snowmaggedon' winter of 2015? Here's what the data show.

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Lindsay Clancy due in court Monday for pretrial hearing

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The Providence Place mall is up for sale. But is the age of the indoor mall over?

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She was a link between the governor and immigrant communities amid Trump's crackdown. Then she was sidelined by it.

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Lamplighter Brewing Co. workers successfully vote to unionize, local representatives say

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Cher's son charged with simple assault and trespassing at New Hampshire private school

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Route 1 North is like driving a bad videogame

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AS I SEE IT -- Demystifying the majestic owl

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Lost and/or found - Ten weird but totally true Boston stories - Explore parts 10-6 today.

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David D'Alessandro -- When going to a game costs $2,500, the system is broken

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EDITORIAL -- With Iran attack, Trump abandons a core tenet of his foreign policy

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Eugene R. Fidell -- Another strike on Iran, another constitutional breach

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Nada Bakri -- The coat that put me in my place

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BOLD TYPES - Jim Koch ties Boston Beer's sales growth to Sun Cruiser, a vodka-tea drink - Boston Beer's founder and chief executive pointed to this newly popular drink as a success story on the company's most recent earnings call.

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New Hampshire investigators seeking information about unsolved murder -- The body of 36-year-old Rosalie Miller was discovered in Auburn, N.H. on Jan. 20, 1997.

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Firefighters rescue man from house blaze in Townsend, officials say -- A man was hospitalized after firefighters rescued him from a burning home in Townsend on Sunday morning, officials said.

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15-year-old arrested with loaded gun in Dorchester; missing 14-year-old found safe, police say -- Police allegedly found a gun in the teenager's bag with an obliterated serial number and two live rounds in the magazine, offials said.

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YVONNE ABRAHAM - It's a cruel world. The lasting damage from a Tinder sting gone wrong at Assumption University - We live in an era that sets our worst moments in stone, to be scrutinized and judged forever.

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Dartmouth College went all-in on AI. Then came the tension. -- The swift rollout at the Ivy League school is a case study in the turbulence that AI can bring.

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Life expectancy for Bostonians is increasing, but not for Black residents, new report shows -- Black men had the lowest life expectancy of any major demographic group at 72 years, more than nine years lower than men of other racial groups.

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GLP-1 weight loss drugs help drive another year of historic losses at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass. -- The $380.5 million operating loss demonstrates just how challenged the health care market has become amid soaring spending.

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It's now easier than ever to search the Globe recipe archive

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Free March events: St. Patrick's Day, Women's History Month, and more

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A Black and Indigenous sculptor used an old form to tell subversive stories

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When the Oscar feels more owed than deserved

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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 -- Anatomy of yet another State Police scandal

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Alex Beam -- Why hasn't the United States been banned from international sports?

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- Trump gives the court the cold shoulder

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

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RIGHT, LEFT, AND CENTER -- Boasting, bashing, and lying: Three writers on Trump's State of the Union address

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IDEAS -- Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

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RI POLITICS - Five years in, R.I. Governor Dan McKee is still fighting to win over his own party - That the incumbent governor has to expend any energy to convince Democrats at this stage tells you everything you need to know about the state of the governor's race.

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RED SOX -- One of the Red Sox' biggest recent hires is a 'really bright' whiz of a pitching coach -- Quinn Cleary, a Newton native, childhood Sox fan, and member of a famous Boston sports family, is the assistant director of pitching and head pitching strategist.

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BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL -- The biggest move the Patriots can make in the offseason is locking up Christian Gonzalez -- In four playoff games, Gonzalez allowed 14 catches on 36 targets for 164 yards, an interception, and a 41.9 passer rating.

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Positional analysis | Running backs -- The Patriots had an effective running back duo in Rhamondre Stevenson and TreVeyon Henderson, but they could use depth

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FRANK DELL'APA | ON SOCCER -- New Red Bull boss Michael Bradley touching all the right buttons in perfect start to season

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Celtics 114, 76ers 98 -- Monster effort from Neemias Queta helps pave the way for Celtics in win over 76ers

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Shirley Leung - He's invested billions in Boston. Now one big real estate investor is hitting the brakes. Here's why.

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ON THE COVER -- Assumption University students tried to set up a sting on Tinder. It all went terribly wrong.

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EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT -- Larry Bird was left out of pickup games in French Lick. He nearly slipped away entirely.

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THE BIG DAY -- How Dan and Vicki overcame a big red flag, fell in love fast, then took their time getting married

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PERSPECTIVE -- I've always been a Boston sports fan. But the women's hockey team is something different.

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'An inspiring natural spectacle.' A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red on Tuesday

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Former Newport mayor enters R.I. lieutenant governor's race

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Hannah Green wins HSBC Women's World Championship for second time by a stroke

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Nico Echavarria wins the Cognizant Classic with a flawless weekend after Shane Lowry melts down late

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Celtics guard Baylor Scheierman doesn't let a fractured thumb stop him from starting

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What's at stake for oil markets as Trump strikes Iran

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Trump's Iran strikes risk hitting American pocketbooks if they last

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Ruben Gallego backs Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner

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Rev. Jesse Jackson returns home to South Carolina to lie in state

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FBI investigates Texas bar shooting that killed 2 and wounded 14 as possible terrorist act

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How the AP decided to describe joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran, and Iran's retaliation, as a war

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India and Canada agree to boost economic partnership in a move to reset ties

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Blow after blow to the power of Iran and its proxy militias set the stage for US-Israel attacks

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Trump says 'there will likely be more' US service members killed in Iran before conflict ends. See how the day unfolded.

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What I've learned from helping strangers with their grammar

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Decorum is the death of democracy

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We need smart online gambling regulation

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What counts as a 'rebound' relationship?

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Swanky suits and silly hats: 'Love Story' sets off 'JFK Jr. effect'

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Joe Randall, chef who celebrated Black cooking traditions, dies at 79

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Beat the winter cold with longevity stew

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Signs of spring: Sullivan's Castle Island opens for the season Saturday

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Maine's mobile merriment: How one woman turned a bus into an experience

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'It's therapeutic.' Meet some of the members of skiing's 100 Days Club.

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An obscure printmaker in the chaos of mid-19th-century Paris has a message for us: Stand up to the lies

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At the Gardner, when person meets 'Persona'

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The best local book events this week

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He was gay, she was straight. They fell in love anyway.

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Justin Garcia, of the Kinsey Institute, says humans need sexual novelty and emotional intimacy

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Actor Awards: Michael B. Jordan wins best actor, Catherine O'Hara earns posthumous honor. See the full list.

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Everything you need to know about Sunday's Actor Awards

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Triple threat Thomas Adès illuminates his own music with BSO

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Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind dozens of hits of the 1960s and '70s, has died

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FKA twigs sues Shia LaBeouf, alleging abusive relationship

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Hub Theatre Company's 'The Bald Soprano' hits the high notes, but 'The Lesson' flunks

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'We Had a World' — of monotony

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

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From obscurity to legacy: Henrietta Lacks's immortal cells reshaped research ethics

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Mass. reports two residents diagnosed with measles. Blizzard may have helped prevent spread.

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State revives long-stalled plans to redevelop Shattuck Hospital site at Franklin Park

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hard-line cleric who made Iran a regional power, dies at 86

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Lauren Chapin, youngest child on 'Father Knows Best,' dies at 80

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