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Boston, MA: August 16, 2017: The Red Sox Jackie Bradley, Jr. dives head first and beats the ball to the plate as he scores the game winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning on a hit by teammate Mookie Betts. The Boston Red Sox hosted the St. Louis Cardinals in a regular season inter league MLB baseball game at Fenway Park. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff).

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This Aug. 3 photo shows a U.S. Border Protection car that had been sprayed with manure in Alburgh, Vermont.

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New England quarterbacks Tom Brady (12) and Jacoby Brissett (7) work on drills during a joint NFL football team practice with the Houston Texans in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson)

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Jane Richard, right, sister of fatal Boston Marathon bombing victim Martin Richard, bows toward the audience after making remarks as her father Bill Richard, left, looks on during groundbreaking ceremonies for a park named after Martin Richard, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in Boston. Richard at age eight was the youngest of three people killed when two bombs exploded near the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15, 2013. Jane was among those injured in the bombings. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Boston, MA- August 15, 2017: The new MBTA General Manger/CEO Luis Ramirez, left, and Secretary of Transportation and MassDOT CEO Stephanie Pollack take questions from the media during a press conference at the State Transportation Building in Boston, MA on August 15, 2017. Secretary of Transportation and MassDOT CEO Stephanie Pollack announced that Luis Ramirez would become the next general manager starting on Sept. 12. (CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF) section: metro reporter:

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FILE - In this April 10, 2008 file photo, a North Atlantic right whale breaks the ocean surface off Provincetown, Mass., in Cape Cod Bay. Marine conservation groups say the endangered North Atlantic right whale is having such a bad year for accidental deaths that all the mortality could challenge the species' ability to recover in the future. There are thought to be no more than 500 of the giant animals left. Biologists say there have been 12 known deaths of the whales since April, meaning about 2 percent of the population had died in just a few months. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

Accidental deaths of endangered whale threatens its survival

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Police: Man drowns amid dangerous rip currents at Nantucket beach

Boston, MA: August 16, 2017: The Red Sox Jackie Bradley, Jr. dives head first and beats the ball to the plate as he scores the game winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning on a hit by teammate Mookie Betts. The Boston Red Sox hosted the St. Louis Cardinals in a regular season inter league MLB baseball game at Fenway Park. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff).

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Sessions says Charlottesville car attack could be prosecuted as a hate crime

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