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Mayor Thomas M. Menino showed a card from Boston schoolchildren at a press availability today.

Menino says he feels ‘much better’

In his first interview since spending more than a month in the hospital, Mayor Thomas M. Menino didn’t address his political future.

Despite US disapproval, UN upgrades Palestinian status

Exactly 65 years after Israel became a state, the UN overwhelmingly voted to elevate Palestine’s status from UN observer to nonmember observer state.

Power restored to Cambridge

An outage plunged a large swath of the city into darkness from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., including buildings at Harvard and MIT.

While the amount of sea level rise isn't as bad as some earlier worst case scenarios, the acceleration of the melting, especially in Greenland, has ice scientists worried.

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Ice sheets melting at poles faster than before

Polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are now melting three times faster than they did in the 1990s.

Friday Preview | art review

John Wilson: clear and present

One of Boston’s most esteemed and accomplished artists gets a career retrospective.

Friday Preview | Movie Review

‘Killing Them Softly’ cast stands out

A bleakly comic, brutally Darwinian gangland saga that at times comes close to being this year’s “Drive.”

Rajon Rondo suspended 2 games

Rondo, who said earlier Thursday that he didn’t think he “did anything dirty” in shoving the Nets’ Kris Humphries, will miss the Celtics’ next two games.

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From the Archives | Photos

Prohibition in Massachusetts

The 18th Amendment repealing Prohibition was ratified on December 5, 1933. During Prohibition, police were busy raiding speakeasies and arresting bootleggers and rum-runners.