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The Boston Globe’s editorial board has endorsed Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for the Democratic nomination for president, the paper said Tuesday evening. “It is Warren’s efforts to put money lost by reckless bankers during the financial crisis back in people’s pockets, and to protect consumers from predatory lenders and credit card contracts, that give her the bona fides...

Hundreds of Wayfair employees walked off the job Wednesday to protest the online retailer’s decision to furnish a detention camp for migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border. The workers walked out from their Boston headquarters at 1:30 p.m. and headed to Copley Square, about a seven-minute walk away. Organizers called on employees who are based in the headquarters and remote...

Employees at Wayfair are planning a walkout to protest the company’s decision to sell furniture to facilities housing detained migrant children at the southern U.S. border, according to The Boston Globe. An employee, who did not wish to be named, told The Globe that BCFS, a government contractor, placed a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture last week.

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has banned two visitors after a group of middle school students said it was subjected to racism during a field trip. Museum officials apologized to students and staff at Dorchester’s Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy in a letter posted on their website Wednesday. The museum acknowledged “a range of challenging and unacceptable experiences that made...

Whoever broke into a Massachusetts man’s home last week didn’t take a thing. They did, however, leave the house spotless. Nate Roman tells The Boston Globe that when he returned to his Marlborough home from work May 15, he could tell a stranger had been there. Nothing was missing, but the 44-year-old homeowner noticed the beds were made, the rugs...

A Harvard University dean who will act as Harvey Weinstein’s attorney in his upcoming rape trial has been removed. Harvard will not renew the appointment of Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and his wife Stephanie Robinson when their term ends on June 30, according to a statement released by the Winthrop House.

Lawyers for New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft have asserted that video evidence capturing him paying for sex at Florida spa could “destroy” his chances at a fair trial. Kraft’s legal team made the assertions in a legal filing released in Palm Beach County, Florida, where the 77-year-old Brookline, Massachusetts, resident currently facing two misdemeanor counts of soliciting another for...

Prosecutors in the Robert Kraft prostitution case admitted in court Friday that there was not enough evidence to prove there was human trafficking in the Orchids of Asia Day Spa investigation. Kraft’s attorneys were in court for a motions hearing in the New England Patriots owner’s ongoing prostitution case.

Harvard University says it has launched an independent review of a real estate transaction involving its longtime fencing coach and a man whose son was later admitted to the school and joined the team. The Boston Globe reports the coach, Peter Brand, sold his suburban Boston home assessed at $549,300 to Jie Zhao in 2016 for nearly $1 million. Zhao...

A prominent Nigerian nun has blasted the culture of silence in the Catholic Church that has long sought to hide clergy sexual abuse, telling a Vatican summit that transparency and an admission of mistakes is needed to restore trust. In a powerful speech Saturday, Sister Veronica Openibo told Pope Francis’ gathering of the Catholic hierarchy that African and Asian church...

Actor Kevin Spacey faces a criminal charge for allegedly sexually assaulting a male teen at a Nantucket bar in July 2016, the Boston Globe reports.

Dozens of retired state and federal judges called Wednesday on U.S. immigration officials to stop making arrests at courthouses of people suspected of being in the country illegally, saying immigrants should be free to visit halls of justice without fearing they will be detained. Nearly 70 former judges from 23 states — including federal judges and state supreme court justices...

A New Hampshire man has grown a pumpkin that appears to be the largest in the nation. An organization that serves as the worldwide governing body for pumpkin-growing contests says Steve Geddes of Boscawen squashed the competition across North America with his prize winner weighing in at 2,528 pounds.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she’ll take a “hard look at running for president” after the November elections. The Boston Globe reports the Massachusetts Democrat spoke about her future during a town hall in western Massachusetts Saturday. Warren, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, is running for re-election in November against GOP state Rep. Geoff Diehl, who was co-chairman...

Newspapers across the country, including the San Diego Union-Tribune, joined together in support of a free and fair press. As many as 350 newspapers published editorials in a direct response to anti-media rhetoric from President Donald Trump.

The president responded back by saying the papers are ‘in collusion’ on the free press. NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda has more.

Transit police released surveillance footage from the moment a woman’s leg became caught between an Orange Line train and an MBTA platform in Boston, badly injuring her.

A Florida woman really loves Necco Wafers, the colorful candies made by a Revere-based company that is currently as at risk of shutting down.

First came the prayer, then came the answer.