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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.

Dana Pico //&nbsp Posted at 10:43 am on July 20, 2017 by Dana Pico (promoted from the diaries by streiff) William Teach of The Pirate’s Cove concluded, in an article entitled CNN Poll: Fewer Want GOP To Repeal And Replace Obamacare: Of course they do: even the worst government program has some beneficiaries, people for whom maintaining the program is far more important to their economic well-being than the waste of money is to taxpa

Posted at 6:00 pm on July 20, 2017 by Jim Jamitis If only the problem of violence in our cities were this easy to solve. The Baltimore Sun reports on a 44 year old mother Erricka Bridgeford’s simple message to her city: “Nobody kill anybody.” There can be no doubt or debate that this movement is coming from a good place in people’s hearts but its impact is likely to be minimal at best.

Posted at 8:00 pm on July 20, 2017 by Andrea Ruth A couple in Redmond, Oregon has been fighting for nearly four years to get the state’s Department of Human Services to give them their two children (ages 4 years and 5 months) back. Amy Fabbrini, 31, and Eric Ziegler, 38, had their first son, Christopher, taken away shortly after he was born in 2013. Their second son, Hunter, was taken from his parents as a newborn infant from the hospital earlier this year. Events that would devastate any parent. And why? Because Fabbrini and Ziegler have below average IQs.

Posted at 9:06 pm on July 20, 2017 by Jay Caruso Donald Trump had no problems throwing Jeff Sessions under the bus. Ironically, Trump is mad at Sessions for adhering to ethical norms by recusing himself from any investigation about Russia. Imagine that. Sessions did the right thing, and Trump is upset. That was one aspect of the interview Trump did with the New York Times.

Posted at 4:00 am on July 21, 2017 by Joe Cunningham This week marked the utter collapse of health care reform efforts in the U.S. Senate.

President Trump will reportedly name Wall Street financier and long-time supporter Anthony Scaramucci as his new White House communications director, according to a new report. Axios reports that two sources familiar with the situation say that Trump will appoint the Republican donor to the post left vacant by Mike Dubke.

Top homeland security and intelligence officials in President Trump's administration have thrown their support behind the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, breaking from the president's own wariness to endorse the findings. At the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on Thursday, Thomas Bossert, the president's homeland security adviser, said that there was no question that Russia had meddled in the 2016 election in comments

Former Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended special counsel Robert Mueller after President Trump said Mueller was leading an investigation riddled with conflicts of interest. ADVERTISEMENT Mueller was appointed special counsel in the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election after former FBI Director James Comey was abruptly fired earlier this year.  told The New York Times in an interview on Wednesday that Mueller was leading an investigation riddled with conflicts of intere

Sen. news reports that Trump has spoken with his top advisers about the possibility of issuing pardons. "Russia's interference in the 2016 elections was an attack on our democracy.