‘Whitey’ Bulger won’t testify
This courtroom sketch depicted James

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“As far as I’m concerned I didn’t get a fair trial. This is a sham, and do what you want with me,” the gangster said at his trial.

Dan Shaughnessy

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Parcells enters the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend after a career in which he won two Super Bowls and rescued the Patriots from irrelevance.

Shirley Leung

It’s time to say yes to Walmart

Tom Menino got one thing wrong: Saying no to Walmart. The next mayor of Boston needs to get it right.

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US issues travel alert over Al Qaeda threat

The alert warned of possible attacks in the Middle East and North Africa between now and the end of August.

US jobless rate falls to 7.4%

US employers added 162,000 jobs in July, the fewest since March, but the gains were enough to push the unemployment rate to its lowest level since 2008.

Unlike peers, Warren bucks press in Senate hallways

Elizabeth Warren will either huddle close to a colleague, breezing past several reporters, or use a variety of other methods to avoid hallway questions.

For the latest in radar, Raytheon built a balloon

To protect Washington from attack, the Army didn’t turn to some cutting-edge technology — instead, it opted for something out of the 18th century.

Opinion

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What has been derided as John Kerry’s quixotic quest may instead be seen as a shrewd diplomatic maneuver.

Globe exclusives

Set in Indonesia, Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing” presents a film within a film, scripted and shaped by gangsters.

Movie Review

Focus on ‘Killing’

From Steve Locke’s “there is no one left to blame” at the Institute of Contemporary Art “the rising up” (2013).

Art Review

Images speaking of desire and fear
Denzel Washington (left) and Mark Wahlberg play undercover cops out to thwart a drug lord.

Movie Review

‘2 Guns,’ no brains
Bobby Campbell of Alabama wheeled his daughter Caroline through the Prouty Garden at Children’s Hospital after her foot surgery.

Prouty Garden at Boston Children’s may soon be no more
Julian Edelman caught the ball during a drill on Thursday.

Training camp report

For Patriots, injury door keeps revolving
Boston police commissioner Edward F. Davis is beginning to be mentioned as a candidate for the next secretary of homeland security.

Davis rumored to be candidate for Homeland Security post

Dead shark dumped at door of Nantucket pub

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Same-sex marriage in the US
Michael Cera (third from left, with the Silva brothers) stars in “Crystal Fairy.”

Movie Review

Find cheap thrills using ‘Crystal’ method
With only 17 months left in his term, Governor Deval Patrick could be facing some treacherous times.

Patrick enters his final stretch
President Obama is expected to play a round at Vineyard Golf Club when his family comes to the island for vacation.

Explore Obama’s Vineyard golf haven

Jan. 16, 1981: James Reilly, 10, stretched a bubble by blowing through it at the Boston Children’s Museum.

From the Archives | Photo gallery

Boston Children’s Museum

Sports

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Red Sox 8, Mariners 7

Fans at Fenway Park celebrated when Daniel Nava blasted the game-winning hit to center field.

‘Magical’ Red Sox walk off with another win

The Red Sox, down 7-2 in the 9th, scored six times to record their 11th walkoff win this season and extend their AL East lead.

Metro

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Raymond Wallace during a previous court appearance. Wallace was involved in shooting at the Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary.

Sheriff defends prisoner-transport procedures

The incident in which a prisoner and deputy sheriff were shot could have been “much worse,” the sheriff said.

Columnists

Kevin Cullen

Time for an explanation
Bill Parcells helped change the trajectory of the Patriots franchise during his four-year stint as head coach in the 1990s.

Dan Shaughnessy

Bill Parcells reflects on his Patriots years

Shirley Leung

It’s time to say yes to Walmart
Argentina’s Mauricio Munoz took a blow during a featherweight title match in Macau last week.

CARLO ROTELLA

All’s unfair in boxing and politics

alex beam

Curse of the Maestro
US Representative Joseph Kennedy III is seen in a Feb. 11, 2013 interview.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Kennedy’s break: Principle or politics?

Jim Koch, founderof the Boston Beer Co.

Shirley Leung

Brewer gives women cold shoulder
Joe Louis Arena and an abandoned house in Detroit.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Motor City hustle

Adrian Walker

Let whole city vote on casino

Kevin Cullen

Will Whitey testify, or won’t he?
Righthander Jake Peavy was the compromise candidate for the Red Sox.

Christopher L. Gasper

Jake Peavy was worth the risk

farah stockman

‘Getting to Yes’ in the Middle East

Nation & World

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Margaret Miles (right) cheered with her wife Cathy ten Broeke (left) at a Minneapolis Freedom to Marry Celebration. They were the first gay couple legally married in that city.

Gay weddings begin in R.I., Minn.

The number of places where same-sex couples can wed grew to 13 states and the District of Columbia.

Politics

Rob Consalvo, a city councilor running for mayor, visited a neglected house in HydePark.

Mayoral hopeful Consalvo vows to fight blight

Councilor Rob Consalvo said that if elected mayor he will impose penalties on banks that fail to maintain foreclosed properties they own in Boston.

Business

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Michael Dell increased his offer to include a special dividend for shareholders.

Michael Dell increases offer for namesake computer maker

The new offer from the founder of Dell includes a special dividend for shareholders.

Arts

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Tony and Obie award winner John Wulp is staging the world premiere of “Red Eye of Love” inside a community center on picturesque North Haven, Maine.

Tony winners stage musical on Maine island

Tony and Obie award winner John Wulp is staging the world premiere of “Red Eye of Love” inside a community center on picturesque North Haven, Maine.

Movies

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Steve Coogan stars as British porn king and real estate mogul Paul Raymond in “The Look of Love.”

‘The Look of Love’ is skin deep

In the biopic of the British porn king and real estate mogul Paul Raymond, he learns nothing from his personal failings and tragedies, and neither does the viewer.

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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield
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Kitchen overhaul
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Rethinking the golden years

Ideas

“Alfred Barr’s Wellesley class, small as it was, launched a generation of students into prominent roles in the art world, helping to spread the gospel of contemporary art as curators, journalists, and critics.”

Christopher Shea,  on how a young professor helped invent contemporary art in America