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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 Payton Corbett, a 34-year beer truck driver, is challenging Mayor Joe Curtatone this year in Somerville.  CAPITAL SOURCE Lindstrom announced her US Senate candidacy last month.  CAPITAL SOURCE The former Trump campaign manager will be a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Does a 70-year-old former presidential nominee really want to be a junior senator from Utah?   If Corker retires, it would probably put a seat that analysts expect to stay in GOP hands into a more uncertain state.  Warren said nominee Mark Esper’s work as chief lobbyist at Waltham-based Raytheon raises questions about his fitness to lead the Army.

Politico reported Sunday. Besides courting millions in cash flow from conservative mega-donor Robert Mercer, Bannon has also been vowing his support to challengers who could usurp the seat from GOP incumbents, according to the news outlet. ADVERTISEMENT Senior GOP lawmakers fear Bannon’s rising electoral revolt will pull away resources and millions of dollars that can be used to fight their key Democratic rivals. McConnell has warned the White House about the potential primary perils that could come about because of Bannon's mission,

Over 1,000 people, primarily U.S. citizens, have been evacuated from St. Marteen and St.

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said that President Trump firing former FBI Director James Comey was the biggest mistake in “modern political history." Asked during an interview on "60 Minutes" Sunday if it was true that he called the Comey firing the "biggest mistake in political history," Bannon said, "That probably would be too bombastic, even for me, but maybe modern political history." Bannon told interviewer Charlie Rose that had Trump not fired Comey, the president would not be faced with an

North Korea on Monday warned the U.S. that it would pay a “due price” if the U.N. Security Council approved a Washington-led resolution for fresh sanctions, Reuters reported. “In case the U.S. eventually does rig up the illegal and unlawful ‘resolution’ on harsher sanctions, the DPRK shall make absolutely sure that the U.S.

Elegant melancholia isn’t enough for the National anymore. On its seventh album, “Sleep Well Beast,” its new songs have more rhythmic ferment and melodic crosscurrents; they translate emotional complexity into musical counterpoint. Until now, the National’s trajectory was fairly linear. From its self-titled 2001 debut album onward, the National was a band growing consistently more polished, resourceful and secure.

Don Ohlmeyer, whose influential television career ranged from producing ABC’s “Monday Night Football” during its 1970s heyday to guiding NBC to No. 1 in prime time two decades later on the strength of programs like “Seinfeld” and “ER,” died Sunday in Indian Wells, Calif. He was 72. His family confirmed the death in a statement, saying the cause was cancer. Mr. Ohlmeyer, a cocksure, creative personality, was well known to NBC when it hired him in 1993 to resurrect its once-dominant entertainment division. After a decade as a disciple to Roone Arledge, the president of ABC Sports, Mr.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — When Indonesia recently — and quite publicly — renamed the northernmost waters of its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea despite China’s claims to the area, Beijing quickly dismissed the move as “meaningless.” It is proving to be anything but. Indonesia’s increasingly aggressive posture in the region — including a military buildup in its nearby Natuna Islands and the planned deployment of naval warships — comes as other nations are being more accommodating to China’s broad territorial claims in the South China Sea. The two countries had three maritime skirmishe