Obama unveils $3.8t spending plan

Republicans immediately attacked the president’s plan, which seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade.

Obama takes aim at soaring college costs

President Obama is pushing his multipronged college affordability plan in the midst of his campaign for reelection.

David Ortiz

Red Sox, David Ortiz reach one-year deal

The Red Sox avoided an arbitration hearing with the All-Star slugger by agreeing to a deal worth $14.6 million, halfway between the two sides’ proposals.

Court: Marijuana dealers not protected by possession law

The state’s highest court has ruled that people can be charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana even if they were caught with less than an ounce.

Bay State wary of Air Force base cuts

State and congressional leaders are bracing for a battle over a Pentagon plan to strip aircraft from one Air Force base in Western Mass. and possible personnel cuts at another.

A fast track to Fashion Week runways for local designer

Tomorrow night in New York, East Bridgewater’s Jackie Fraser-Swan will show her collection at one of Fashion Week’s most prestigious venues, Lincoln Center.

Video

East Bridgewater mom readies for Fashion Week

Jackie Fraser-Swan, a mother of four who also runs a Newbury Street atelier, will show her new line at New York Fashion Week.

From Sunday’s Globe

A girl who soared, but longed to belong

Elizabeth Warren grew up amid the infinite expanse of Oklahoma, the finite expectations of her place and time, and financial pain at home. The lessons of those years drive her.

A dream exactly as old as Fenway

Charlie Gilbert, 100, who was born on the day of Fenway Park’s first game, wants to throw out the first pitch April 20 when the Red Sox commemorate the centennial.

“You can’t assume that you’ll just jack up tuition every single year.’’

President Obama, on runaway college tuition increases 

Globe Insiders

Globe Talks | Feb. 15, 6 p.m.

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Join the Boston Globe’s movie critics, Ty Burr and Wesley Morris, for a conversation about this year’s Academy Awards.

Inside The Boston Globe

54th Grammy Awards

A clean sweep for Adele as Grammys mourn Houston

TripAdvisor is traveling a rocky road

appreciation

Whitney Houston was everybody’s diva

Dieting? There's an app for fat

Venues vie for cultural recognition

Mattapan massacre trial starting
Kevin Garnett, left, was pumped up after Rajon Rondo hit a free throw with 9.8 seconds left.

Celtics 95, Bulls 91

Celtics show they’re alive with win vs. Bulls

From Sunday’s Globe

A girl who soared, but longed to belong
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Romance: It’s not all hearts and flowers

Auditors noted, then ignored, McLaughlin pay

Weddings

Boston wedding venue guide

Top 10 love letters of the year

Columnists

Rajon Rondo led the Celtics to a win against the Bulls yesterday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Rajon Rondo proving naysayers wrong

adrian walker

Romney can’t outrun past

Innovation Economy

At top of tech sector, women lead by example

Juliette Kayyem

Mass. vets tout skills with Comcast help

James Carroll

Bad option on the table

Yvonne Abraham

Playing with women’s rights

Jeff Jacoby

A second look at ‘The Third Jihad’

Joan Vennochi

The ‘Mad Men’ era of contraception
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Joanna Weiss

The Barstool podium

Adrian Walker

Rethinking the Esplanade

Opinion | LAWRENCE HARMON

A visit to the ‘friends and favors’ office

Innovation Economy

The Mass. start-up climate

Metro

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2/12

Blaze destroys business block in Brighton

Emergency crews yesterday were forced to raze four Brighton businesses after the block was engulfed in a fire that resulted in four firefighters being sent to the hospital.

Business

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Vaccines that attack

Boston-area firms are working to develop vaccines against herpes, diabetes, and other diseases.

Nation & World

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Fifty police officers were injured and at least 55 protesters were hospitalized during rioting in Athens yesterday.

Greece accepts austerity plan amid protests

As protesters looted shops and battled police in Athens yesterday, lawmakers approved an austerity package meant to keep the country from a debt default.

Politics

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, speaks during an address to the 39th Conservative Political Action Committee February 9, 2012 at a hotel in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

GOP vows further battle on birth control

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said he will push to overturn the requirement as another example of government meddling.

Sports

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Beanpot: BC vs. BU, 7:30 p.m.

BU seeking to reclaim territory in Beanpot

The Terriers, who lost to UMass on Friday, are out to avoid three straight years without a title for the first time since 1983-85 when they play BC tonight.

Health and wellness

G Force

Kelley Tuthill of WCVB-TV, a breast cancer survivor

Kelley Tuthill, a news reporter for Channel 5, spoke openly five years ago about her breast cancer diagnosis and this week she will be updating her story.

Arts

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Music Review

Die Antwoord delivers edgy show at Paradise

The South African trio Die Antwoord’s vulgar concoction of underground art and street culture resulted in a show that was unexpectedly uplifting.

Magazine

The cover for the February 12 2012 issue

Boston wedding venue guide
The cover for the February 5 2012 issue

What if the lights go out?
The cover for the January 29 2012 issue

Reversing a restaurant curse
The cover for the January 22 2012 issue

Mother worries about her Occupy Wall Street protester son

Opinion

“Finding a job can be as frustrating as finding true love, and definitely not as fun.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“In the 50 years since the competition, architects have declared Kallmann and McKinnell’s City Hall one of the greatest buildings of the 20th century. Yet its relationship with the people of Boston has remained uneasy, even hostile.”

Leon Neyfakh on Boston’s City Hall