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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 The teenagers with the Hyde Square Task Force were the first to discover that TD Garden failed to comply with a 1993 law requiring the arena hold three annual fundraisers.   The prospect set off some angry words from the camp of one of the US Senate candidates.  CAPITAL SOURCE Likely Republican Senate candidate John Kingston has begun staffing up his campaign, adding a former aide to Governor Charlie Baker as a senior adviser.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories The first deployments could take place within days.

Posted at 7:30 pm on August 21, 2017 by Jim Jamitis According to Katrina Pierson, slavery is “good history” that somehow shows how great America is. Talking head segments on cable news are normally pretty inane. The host poses a question and then Democrat and Republican “strategists” proceed to contradict each other.

Posted at 10:15 pm on August 21, 2017 by Joe Cunningham

Posted at 10:30 pm on August 21, 2017 by Jim Jamitis Shepard Smith apparently thought covering a celestial event that rarely takes place over the United States was below his pay grade or something. He basically spent the day mocking people’s interest in the solar eclipse, prancing around the stage in mock excitement.

Posted at 1:28 am on August 22, 2017 by Jennifer Van Laar Apparently there wasn’t enough in the news cycle to write about today, so one outlet felt the need to tell Barron Trump it’s time to start dressing like Daddy’s mini-me when he’s in public.

Posted at 4:00 am on August 22, 2017 by Joe Cunningham Last night, President Donald Trump gave what was a very hawkish speech on the Afghanistan strategy his administration will be taking. It featured a promise to get out of the business of nation building and to get tougher on terror havens like Pakistan.

House Speaker MORE (R-Wis.) on Monday said he wishes President Trump would tweet less, noting there are posts on Twitter he would prefer not to see from the commander-in-chief. “Do I wish there would be a little less tweeting? Of course, I do. But I think, I don't think that that’s going to change,” Ryan said at a town hall when asked how he reconciles Trump’s tweeting with what he teaches his children.  Ryan, who sat down for a town hall with CNN in Racine, Wis.

Filmmaker Michael Moore in a Monday appearance on “The Late Show” said he wished he had been wrong about his prediction that MORE would win the 2016 presidential election.  “No, I’ve never wanted to be more wrong in my life,” Moore told Stephen Colbert, who congratulated him on successfully calling the Election Day upset. “Well I live in Michigan and so, right, I was trying to warn the rest of the country, out here.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and other top Democrats hit President Trump on Monday for failing to offer much detail during his much-anticipated speech laying out the future for the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan. “Tonight, the President said he knew what he was getting into and had a plan to go forward,” Pelosi said in a statement Monday. “Clearly, he did not.