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Obama, Boehner meet to discuss ‘fiscal cliff’

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met as the White House and Congress try to find a way to stop impending tax increases and spending cuts.

Plane believed to carrying singer Jenni Rivera found in Mexico

The wreckage of a plane believed to be carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera was found and there are no apparent survivors.

Justice in the shadows | Secret criminals

Many freed criminals avoid deportation, strike again

The US prison system for immigrants, stymied when it tries to deport some criminals, has quietly released thousands, including killers, a Globe investigation shows.

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Crimes by ex-cons who couldn’t be deported

A look at the crimes committed by convicts whose home countries rejected them.

Bank of America City Center skating rink in the heart of downtown, and a koi pond at the Botanical Center at Roger Williams Park.

Travel

In Providence, embracing and escaping winter at the same time

As the Florida real estate agents are wont to say about New England over the next few months, “Winter — love it or leave it.” In Providence, you can do both in a single day.

Elizabeth Warren is prepared to pick her spots

The senator-elect said she will choose her tactics carefully, keeping quiet when it suits her objective and making noise when she sees the need.

How to write pop songs that make the grade

Tunesmith and former “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi teaches Berklee students the fine art of the hit song.

Patriots Notebook

Chandler Jones more hopeful than Logan Mankins

Jones and Mankins were asked after practice Saturday if they expect to return to the field Monday. They gave much different answers.

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From the Archives | Photo Gallery

The attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor left over 2,400 dead, 68 of them civilians, after waves of Japanese carrier-based fighters and bombers turned the naval base in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor into an inferno.

Globe exclusives

New England Compounding was located in the same Framingham complex as a business owned by his wife’s family.

Little scrutiny as drug compounder expanded

Meet the Fall All-Scholastics

The Browns are 4-8 after going 5-11 in 2010 and 4-12 in 2011.

Sunday Football Notes

Could Michael Lombardi lead Browns to some glory?

How to donate to Globe Santa

Ideas

The end of days?

‘The Hobbit’ emerges

Holiday gift guide

Among those who have significantly influenced the contemporary television landscape (from top): director Robert Altman, “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling, author Charles Dickens, mockumentary filmmaker Christopher Guest, “Candid Camera” creator Allen Funt, vaudevillians like Fannie Brice, author Edgar Allan Poe, screenwriter Nora Ephron, “Sherlock Holmes” creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and founding Surrealist, Andre Breton.

The towers of TV

Angela Menino, filling in for her recuperating husband, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, cheered the arrival of Santa Claus as the holiday trolley tour came to Readville on Friday night.

Menino’s absence is felt as holiday trolley tour kicks off

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The analyzed gift

Ralph Stewart held a vintage silver platter from restaurant Locke-Ober at an auction on Friday.

Locke-Ober auction marks an end to the venerable restaurant

Sunday Preview | Diversity Boston

Why is TV still so white?

Diversity Boston

Photographed in Boston’s Paul Revere Park, the Rev. Eric Markman of Hartford Street Presbyterian Church (left), Priti Rao of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, and Ed Walker of Independent Consultants of Education are among a devoted group of diversty champions.

Diversity champions

From fields as different as banking, education, politics, health care, and the clergy, these men and women are passionately committed to leveling the playing field for all in Massachusetts.

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Sunday Baseball Notes

The avoidance of Josh Hamilton by so many teams is fascinating.

Josh Hamilton’s agent is doing him no favors

Agent Michael Moye has been secretive and silent about the client he’s supposed to be doing his best for.

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Miri and John Parrucci made fruit kabobs for ruwenzori longhaired fruit bats at the Franklin Park Zoo on Saturday. They later visited a bat lab at Boston University.

Bat fan visits Boston to learn about disease

Miri Parrucci, a third-grader from Havertown, Pa., who is worried about white-nose syndrome in bats, visited the Kunz Bat Lab at Boston University and Franklin Park Zoo.