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The Supreme Court nominee holds undergraduate and law degrees from the school. On campus, the sexual misconduct allegations against him have sparked protest.
analysis
GOP adopts Trump’s tactics in Kavanaugh battle
Republicans, and President Trump, are using a hyper-combative approach as they try to salvage the Supreme Court nomination.
Rachel Mitchell is the sex crimes bureau chief for the Maricopa County Attorney’s office in Phoenix. Senator Chuck Grassley said he was “very appreciative that Rachel Mitchell has stepped forward.”
Was Brett Kavanaugh’s Fox News interview persuasive?
Body language experts offered varying opinions.
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Mayor Martin Walsh’s solution to the housing crunch: seek 16,000 additional new housing units by 2030.
Former Brookline police officer, town reach $150,000 settlement
Prentice Pilot had complained of racial discrimination on the force.
Slain wife ‘couldn’t finally take his baloney any more’
Allen Warner is accused of fatally attacking his estranged wife, Shana, in what officials called a “despicable, cowardly act of domestic violence.”
Necco auction marks the end of another Boston institution
It took decades for New England Confectionery Co. to assemble its candy empire. And it will take just weeks for that empire to be disassembled and sold off in pieces.
What the Dunk? Yeah, Dunks has a new name
Doughnuts are still on the menu, but the new name (Dunkin’) is intended to reflect the chain’s increasing emphasis on coffee and other drinks.
Jordan Rankin, 17, died Tuesday morning at a Boston hospital after the two-car crash.
Matthew Mead/Associated Press/File
Meal kit delivery services were supposed to save a nation that can cook only chicken. So what happened?
PETER ABRAHAM
Rookie manager Alex Cora’s inclusive approach turned a good team into a historically great one.
Stan Grossfeld
These are the last days on the beat for Fenway’s famous bullpen cop
Steve Horgan, whose “touchdown” salute in 2013 became an iconic moment in Boston sports, retires in January.
TV Critic’s Corner
When ‘Making a Murderer’ returns next month: Will he be exonerated?
Netflix is bringing the series back for a second set of 10 episodes, in which Steven Avery’s post-conviction lawyer, Kathleen Zellner, works to prove that Avery was wrongly convicted.
TV Critic’s Corner
A look ahead at the third season of ‘This Is Us’
Get your juggling skills up to speed: New episodes will include a regular future timeline, which we saw in last season’s finale, along with the current and past eras of the family.
When should I start taking Social Security? 60-somethings want to know
The question might seem straightforward if you haven’t started looking into it, but there are enough wrinkles and curveballs to warrant careful consideration.
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Globe Magazine
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seemed so like me. But he was hiding more than I ever realized.
Savoring food factory tours
There’s something exciting about seeing how some of our favorite local foods are made. The free samples aren’t bad either.
Elizabeth Warren backs nurses on ballot question
The Massachusetts Nurses Association is promoting ballot Question 1, which would set limits on the number of patients assigned to hospital nurses at one time.
BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL
The 49ers QB was lost for the season with a torn ACL, robbing us of a chance to truly evaluate him.
Renée Graham
Cosby was a monster. And his victims, who were silenced and ignored, weren’t the only ones who knew it.
Trump opens UN speech with awkward moment, drawing laughter after boasting of accomplishments
President Trump responded by saying, ‘‘I didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s OK.’’
Editorial
This is no time for DeVos to gut sexual assault guidelines
The Trump administration’s support for alleged predators fuels concern that its new campus standards for sexual misconduct could be “weaponized” against accusers.
The world, the stage, the way ahead
Lost and alone, Deb made a decision to reclaim the only home she’d ever had, whatever the risk.
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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.
Smart’s mother died weeks after the Celtics guard agreed to a four-year, $52 million contract.
Rajheem Chardonette is due in court Wednesday on a charge of armed assault with intent to murder, Fall River police said.
Wellesley-based designer Andra Birkerts employed an upholstered, arched niche as the backdrop to this teenage girl’s lounge in a Chestnut Hill home. | realestate.boston.
The Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund said Charlie Baker and Jay Gonzalez each earned “1oo percent scores” on a questionnaire.
Florence is expected to cause record flooding downriver in South Carolina as its final act.
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John Paul, AAA Northeast's Car Doctor, answers a question from a reader who is tempted to pay more at the pump for premium gas.
The deal continues the hard charge of Michael Kors into the world of high-end fashion.
A musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic transposes the setting to the London of the mid-1960s.
Steve “Nookie” Postal is making a modern version of the tomato soup/grilled cheese combo at the new Revival Cafe + Kitchen.
To make better biomedical tools, a scientist picks apart fireflies’ glow
Invertebrate evolution and biomedical research are more closely intertwined than you might think.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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