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Originally opened in 1972, Bay Area Rapid Transit was once the envy of all public transportation agencies all across the United States. With its futuristic trains traveling at high speeds connecting various points of the East Bay and the peninsula to Downtown San Francisco, BART trains via the Transbay Tube gave San Francisco Bay area commuters a fast and inexpensive alternative to the always-gridlocked Bay Bridge and highways. But fast forward four decades, the transit system is now an abhorrent mess. Its trains are aging and dirty.

In the article, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, the editor-in-chief of the quasi-official Vatican periodical La Civiltà Cattolica, slams conservative Christians in the U.S. as ignorant, theocratic, Manichean, war-mongering fanatics. Steve Bannon, Spadaro suggests, is part of a dangerous “fringe group” of U.S.

In the article, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, the editor-in-chief of the quasi-official Vatican periodical La Civiltà Cattolica, slams conservative Christians in the U.S. as ignorant, theocratic, Manichean, war-mongering fanatics. Steve Bannon, Spadaro suggests, is part of a dangerous “fringe group” of U.S.

The White House announced Saturday that it has hired attorney Ty Cobb who, as a White House official confirmed earlier to ABC News, will serve as part of an internal legal team to manage matters related to the ongoing investigations into Russian election interference and possible collusion with the Trump campaign. Cobb -- a partner at the baseball Hall of Famer of the same name. His hiring comes in a week in which scrutiny of the Trump family's possible involvement in the election interference was invigorated by revel

The second Russian individual who attended a controversial meeting with Jared Kushner has been identified as a lobbyist who has been reported to have ties to Russian intelligence agencies. The Associated Press reported that Rinat Akhmetshin attended the meeting, stating that Akhmetshin confirmed his presence at the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower. The AP states that Akhmetshin dismissed claims that he has ties to Russian intelligence as a "smear campaign." In one of the emails that Trump Jr.

Attorney General the Supreme Court order that exempted visa applicants who could establish a “bona fide” relationship with citizens or entities of the United States. U.S. District Judge Derrick K.

This week’s revelations about Donald Trump Jr.’s emails and meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, which the latter allegedly secured by having an interlocutor float the promise of incriminating information about Hillary Clinton, brought a renewed public focus on the congressional investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Here’s a look at where those inquiries stand: The House panel is interviewing former Donald Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo behind closed doors today, a meeting that was scheduled weeks ago.

President Donald Trump has changed his tune on Paris. After once implying that Paris was too dangerous to visit, Trump resolved on Thursday that Paris was “one of the great cities, one of the most beautiful cities in the world.” Bastille Day. Trump arrived at the parade before Macron made his lavish entrance in an open camouflaged military jeep down the Champs-Elysees, waving at the crowd.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories It all started, like so many things connected to Donald Trump, with a display of glitzy, low-brow entertainment. On a music video production set in Los Angeles, Russian pop singer Emin Agalarov shimmies down dark alleys shining a flashlight as he pursues a beautiful woman into an abandoned warehouse. He gyrates past a black Chevy muscle car and, inexplicably, a black stallion before finally locking on the gaze of the woman he was looking for: Olivia Culpo, the 2012 Miss Universe.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories How a four-minute music video was the start of what would become a critical relationship between Donald Trump and a Russian family.  Ty Cobb, a veteran Washington lawyer, is joining President Trump’s legal team to coordinate the response to an expanding investigation.