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Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories The shake-up comes as President Trump is suffering from dismal approval ratings and struggling to advance his agenda.  As of Friday, you can find him in the West Wing, but Anthony Scaramucci spent his formative years in the Boston area.

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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 Governor Charlie Baker will attend a Republican Governors Association meeting for four days in Aspen, Colo., a spokesman said Friday.  CAPITAL SOURCE Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on Wednesday endorsed Michael Kelley in the District 2 City Council race.  CAPITAL SOURCE On Monday, almost a year to the day after he was offered the running-mate spot, Kaine was back at One Beacon Street.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories The shake-up comes as President Trump is suffering from dismal approval ratings and struggling to advance his agenda.  As of Friday, you can find him in the West Wing, but Anthony Scaramucci spent his formative years in the Boston area.

Posted at 4:00 pm on July 21, 2017 by streiff Jeh Johnson was the most relentless of the oxygen thieves that Barack Obama hired in his effort to turn the United States into a Third-World, Balkanized (no offense to the Balkans) sh**hole. Johnson always gave the impression of being something out of an H. P. Lovecraft story.

Posted at 5:12 pm on July 21, 2017 by Sarah Lee Let’s play a game. First, take an overtly left-leaning “science guy,” one who spends his time hobnobbing with progressive politicians and wagging his finger over those who would show healthy (dare I say scientifically healthy) skepticism over anthropomorphic climate change. Add a dash of hypocrisy (Nye spent Earth Day 2015 flying around in Air Force One with then-President Obama lecturing about climate change.

Posted at 7:36 pm on July 21, 2017 by Jay Caruso Coincidences are sometimes an amazing spectacle to behold.

Posted at 8:50 pm on July 21, 2017 by Susan Wright Trump son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, apparently has a really faulty memory. Already in trouble for excluding numerous meetings held with foreign officials from his security clearance paperwork (including meetings with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.

Posted at 9:53 pm on July 21, 2017 by streiff As had been reported earlier, Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, the Democrat leaning opposition research firm that was behind the discredited Trump dossier, was asked to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He declined to do so. Today, the committee issued a subpoena. And Simpson took the fifth.  

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper blasted President Trump’s relationship with Russia on Friday, saying he wonders if Trump is trying to make “Russia great again.” Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum alongside former CIA Director James Brennan, Clapper was asked by CNN’s Wolf Blister if he believes Trump takes the threat of Russian election interference seriously. “Well, it’s hard to tell,” said Clapper, who served under former President MORE.