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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Capital Source Longtime Republican operative Beth Lindstrom will take square aim at Democratic US Senator Elizabeth Warren, whom she hopes to topple next year.  capital source Democratic congressional candidate Lori Trahan formalized her campaign Thursday, touting a $242,000 fund-raising haul in the last two weeks of September.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories During a CNN interview, the secretary of state would not answer repeated questions on if he called the president ‘‘a moron’’ after a tense meeting.   There was a pretty striking finding in Thursday’s Quinnipiac University poll.   It’ll be an interesting meeting at the White House on Monday between President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.  Senator Susan Collins on Sunday counseled President Donald Trump to choose his words more carefully.

A group of psychologists and mental health professionals on Saturday marched through New York calling for President Trump to be removed from office. The group — which included more than 100 psychologists and mental health professionals — are pushing for Trump to be ousted from his post, according to The New York Post. “We can sense the power of Trump’s underlying fear that he is worthless and weak by how intensely he resists and retaliated against any criticism,” said Harry Segal, a Cornell

President Trump had dinner at his Washington hotel on Saturday, capping off a day in which he also paid a visit to his Virginia golf course with Sen. MORE (R-S.C.). The president arrived at the Trump International Hotel, just blocks away from the White House, shortly after 8 p.m., according to a White House pool report. It wasn't clear if Trump was joined at the hotel by any dinner guests. The president ventured out to the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va.

The Smithsonian has commissioned two artists to paint the official portraits of former President MORE that will hang in the National Portrait Gallery.  Kehinde Wiley, an artist known for his large-scale paintings of black men, will paint the former president, and Amy Sherald, who won the Portrait Gallery’s 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, will paint the former first lady. The Portrait Gallery is absolutely delighted that Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald have agreed to create the official portraits of our former President and First Lady,” Kim Sajet, the directo

Actor Alec Baldwin returned to "Saturday Night Live" this week to resume his impersonation of President Trump.  Baldwin's Trump touted his many accomplishments in the episode's cold open. The skit hit at the Trump administration's decision to halt ObamaCare payments known as cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) and the decision not to certify the Iran deal. "Its been a big week, folks," Baldwin's Trump says in the skit. "We're getting rid of everything Obama did -- health care, the Iran deal. And we're ripping out all the vegetables in Michelle's garden and we're planting McNuggets. McNuggets.

"Saturday Night Live" took a jab at White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway this week, comparing her to "IT" villain Pennywise trying to lure CNN anchor Anderson Cooper into the sewer. The digital short re-creates the opening scene from the Stephen King's film, "IT," with SNL's Cooper in a yellow raincoat noticing Conway in the sewer. "Hello, Coopy. It's me, Kellyanne Conway," SNL cast member Kate McKinnon says.  McKinnon's Conway proceeds to offer Cooper different comments she would make if Cooper were to put her on TV.  "OK. So secretary Tillerson did not call the president a moron.

INDIANAPOLIS — The man from Mexico followed a manager through the factory floor, past whirring exhaust fans, beeping forklifts, and drilling machines that whined against steel. Workers in safety glasses looked up and stared. Others looked away. Shannon Mulcahy felt her stomach lurch.

Four Rohingya refugees were trampled to death by an elephant in a makeshift camp in the Cox’s Bazaar area of Bangladesh on Saturday morning. A woman and three young children, who had fled violence in their home country of Myanmar, were killed when the animal stormed their temporary shelter in the Balukhali camp, where tens of thousands of refugees are living. The deaths of the woman; two girls, 9 and 6; and a boy, 1; were confirmed by Md Abdul Khayer, the officer in charge of the Ukhiya police station in the area. Six people, including the husband and a son of the dead woman, Taslima Siddique,

BERLIN — Hertha Berlin nodded to social struggles in the United States by kneeling before its Bundesliga home game on Saturday. Hertha’s starting lineup linked arms and took a knee on the soccer field, while Pal Dardai’s coaching staff, General Manager Michael Preetz, club officials and substitutes took a knee off it before playing Schalke. The club and forward Salomon Kalou also voiced their support on the social media network Twitter. “We wanted to make a stand against racism,” Hertha’s captain, Per Skjelbred, said after the team’s 2-0 defeat. The action was intended to show solidarity with