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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and a former Manafort associate, Richard Gates, were indicted Monday. Separately, Robert Mueller announced that former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents.   A guilty plea was unsealed in the case of the former Trump campaign adviser, who lied to federal agents.   Michael A.

White House lawyer Ty Cobb said Sunday the president’s tweets calling an inquiry into his ties with Russia a “witch hunt” and calling for an investigation into MORE are not a reaction to special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe. “His tweets today are not, as some have asked, a reaction to anything involving the special counsel with whom the White House continues to cooperate,” Cobb told NBC News. Trump 

Anticipation is building in the nation’s capital ahead of Monday's reported indictments stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling. While the individuals being charged could be taken into custody as early as Monday, according to CNN, even key lawmakers on Sunday knew little about the p

Puerto Rico's state-run electric utility said Sunday that it has accepted the governor's request to immediately cancel a $300 million contract with a small Montana-based energy firm amid mounting controversy over the deal, according to media reports. Ricardo Ramos, the island's energy authority executive director, announced the decision during a press

ObamaCare made it through nearly 10 months of repeal attempts with Republicans in full control of Washington. It now faces another crucial period starting Wednesday.  It’s the first test of how the Trump administration will handle enrollment under the law it claims is “imploding.” With the president making no secret of his desire to kill the law completely, Democrats accuse the administration of "sabotage" and say the number of new enrollees is likely to drop as a result.  That would lift the uninsured rate, which has fallen dramatically since the law went into effect, and could hurt ObamaCare

The ambush in Niger that killed four U.S.

A daughter obsessively imagines the final moments of her father’s life five years later. Was he afraid? What was his last thought as the waters of New York rose around him and his wife? A granddaughter likes to picture that they died holding hands. She knows it didn’t happen that way. Other families nearby dealt with loss in other ways.

At 8:30 p.m. on a Monday, millions of residents of the most man-made landscape in the United States were reminded how powerless they were against the forces of nature. Hurricane Sandy shoved the East River across the F.D.R. Drive onto the streets of Manhattan, reducing the ostensible hub of the universe to a blacked-out, waterlogged, immobile shambles.

Iceland’s governing conservative Independence Party held off a stiff election challenge from the Left-Green Movement to maintain the most seats in Parliament, results released on Sunday showed. But it was unclear who would receive the mandate to form the next government. President Gudni Johannesson would normally call upon the leader of the biggest party.

CAIRO — Egypt carried out a sweeping reshuffle of its security forces, removing a dozen senior police and military officials from critical posts just a week after an ambush by militants killed at least 16 policemen in the desert outside Cairo. The brief police and military statements that announced the move late on Saturday did not give a reason for the shake