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The widow of a Marine who died by suicide is helping others heal from a pain that she knows all too well.
NESTOR RAMOS
In Robert Kraft’s name, a professor wrestles with sex and slavery
As a Brandeis professor, Bernadette Brooten has studied the long, intertwined history of sex and slavery. One of the names on her endowed chair? Kraft.
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Robert Kraft is just one of potentially hundreds of people connected to what authorities say was an international operation.
A spokesperson for Kraft said: “We categorically deny that Mr. Kraft engaged in any illegal activity,” after he was accused of soliciting prostitution as part of a human trafficking investigation.
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JEFF JACOBY
Should adding a census question about citizenship raise hackles? Only if it was added dishonestly.
Opinion | Christopher Weyant
Democrats have a very crowded field for the 2020 presidential election.
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R. Kelly is canceled. Is it time to cancel Michael Jackson?
I allowed my lifelong fandom for Jackson to overshadow the possibility that he groomed children and their starstruck parents, and ruined young lives.
A new garage on Broad Street moves vehicles around — without a person driving.
Miss Conduct
My boyfriend and I are fighting over his son’s disrespectful girlfriend.
RED SOX NOTEBOOK
Alex Cora pays tribute to the Globe’s Nick Cafardo
Instead of giving his usual pregame briefing, the Red Sox manager spoke about the late writer Friday.
The league’s reassessment of Thursday’s finish found errors in the critical jump ball, plus three uncalled fouls on Boston’s final play.
A number of Democratic strategists say that the president’s racist taunts could have the ironic outcome of helping defuse any doubts the lingering controversy has sowed.
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Ground Game
The senator was the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club dinner.
2 Boston police supervisors on leave in connection with payroll probe
The supervisors were placed on leave last week.
The officers were dismissed from the department and later reinstated, to six-figure settlements that included back pay, according to data released Friday.
Sean P. Murphy | The Fine Print
Mark Stepakoff figured it would take only a few minutes to renew his real estate license with the state.
Among the key questions for William Gross and Rachael Rollins, and one that is sensitive to police and community relations: Were officers justified in using deadly force?
Catholic leaders at sex abuse summit hear plan for removing bishops
The proposal is the most significant acknowledgment yet from the Vatican’s inner sanctum that the existing system for holding its own leaders accountable needs to be improved.
Chesto Means Business
Wayfair stock reaches new heights, even as retailer posts more losses
Bostonians don’t have to go far to find a company whose stock can soar nearly 30 percent after it posts a loss of more than $500 million in one year.
Dane Kouttron
Meet “Chomper,” the googly-eyed snow destroyer.
MARIJUANA MOMENT
Scientists actually did a study to confirm that marijuana causes the munchies
Science has confirmed that marijuana really does cause the munchies.
Truth and Consequences
Opinion columnist Michael Cohen takes a candid and no-holds-barred look at the current political moment. Sign up now.
Dating in 2019 is…complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.
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Read a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn’t quite turn out the way they expected.
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The Big Picture
In a world where the smartphone is now ubiquitous, photographers capture daily life in which the personal device is part of the moment.
The Red Sox started the exhibition season by shutting out Northeastern, 6-0, in seven innings.
Boston is taking a step toward recognizing the role slavery played at one of its most visited landmarks.
The home has four bedrooms, four full baths, and two half baths in 4,830 square feet of living space.
Senator Edward Markey’s said he’s relying on the report to largely determine if there is “evidence of impeachable offenses” against President Donald Trump.
Elecia Dexter, a 46-year-old black woman, is taking over as the paper’s publisher and editor from Goodloe Sutton.
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The functionality of the 911 interior and dash has been one of the model’s hallmarks since the beginning. Function as art, some might say.
Employees quickly learned the best tactics for tricking insurers into approving payments for the company’s powerful Fentanyl spray, a former company manager said in court Friday.
In the long crescendo of the Puccini opera’s last 20 minutes, the soprano transported to a higher plane.
Are we ignoring — or outright banning — an easy affordable-housing fix?
Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region’s housing shortage.
Meet the executives who will defend pharma before Congress
One’s a college dropout. One’s a self-proclaimed street fighter. And one survived a presidential tweetstorm.
