Red Sox owner Henry in deal to purchase Globe

The impending $70 million cash purchase will put the 141-year-old newspaper, its websites, and affiliated companies in John Henry’s hands.

Budget cuts, D.C. gridlock have distant victims

The inability of Congress to end the sequester is affecting US-funded operations to remove unexploded bombs and land mines around the world.

Kevin Cullen

Once a bully, always a coward

“Whitey” Bulger played his trial like theater right up to the moment that his lawyer pulled the curtain to reveal . . . no one standing there.

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William Camuti laced the iced coffee of former “Whitey” Bulger foe Stephen Rakes with two teaspoons of potassium cyanide, the district attorney said.

The Os Gemeos mural at Dewey Square.

GEOFF HARGADOn

Matthew Ritchie named to do newest Dewey Square mural

The Institute of Contemporary Art has commissioned the British-born artist, known for adapting scientific principles to inspire his work, to take over the massive canvas at Dewey Square.

Customers and employees stood near a promotional display at Jordan’s Furniture in Reading. Jordan’s is one local business offering sales tax holiday discounts before the tax-free weekend.

Promotions underway for sales tax holiday

Businesses are rolling out deals days before the state’s sales tax holiday, a sign of its popularity with shoppers and the importance of the weekend to retailers.

Police report details how Amy Lord died

A police report unsealed Friday said 24-year-old Amy Lord of South Boston died from “sharp force injuries to the neck and torso and asphyxia by strangulation.”

Jon Lester toweled off after coming out of the game.

diamondbacks 7, red sox 6

Red Sox lack the walkoff magic

A one-run deficit against the Diamondbacks hardly seemed like an obstacle after the last two games, but the Red Sox were unable to take another walkoff win.

Opinion

opinion | jim kozubek

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There are ethical implications and dangerous side effects when changes are made to a person’s genes.

Globe exclusives

Elizabeth Aspenlieder (left) and Tina Packer in Shakespeare & Company’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane.”

Stages

In Lenox, taking a real-life relationship to ‘Leenane’
“The better we do [in practice], the more efficient we’re going to be,” Tom Brady said.

Patriots working on offense, Tom Brady says

Case likely won’t hinge on Bulger decision
See the Boston Landmarks Orchestra at the Hatch Shell on Aug. 28.

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31 things for 31 days
Tommy and Patricia Donahue addressed the media outside Moakley Federal Courthouse on Friday after learning “Whitey” Bulger would not testify.

Relatives of alleged Bulger victim disappointed
Freshman Senator Elizabeth Warren, on her way to a policy lunch Tuesday, kept walking past reporters rather than engage in an impromptu Q-&-A session — which some see as a Capitol Hill tradition.

If it’s in a Senate hallway, Elizabeth Warren rarely answers
Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley (center) and Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis (left) spoke at a news conference.

Police commissioner ‘certain’ suspect involved in brutal death

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas

Give American currency a makeover!
After a press event announcing the donation of a 9,000-square-foot parking lot to Artists for Humanity, teens worked on their artwork.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Aug. 2, 2013

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34 home maintenance myths
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’

For the latest in radar, Raytheon built a balloon

Sports

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Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will be looking to connect with a lot of newcomers in his receiving corps.

Patriots QB Tom Brady looks to be in it for long haul

Brady celebrates his 36th birthday Saturday, making him the elder statesman of the 90 players on the team’s training camp roster.

Metro

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Yolanda Rodrigues has been serving up her grilled fare at Ceylon Park on summer weekends for more than a decade.

In weekend barbecue, a heaping helping of home

In Dorchester’s Ceylon Park, where members of the neighborhood’s Cape Verdean immigrant community gather each weekend to eat and socialize, the food has a particular flavor.

Columnists

Kevin Cullen

Once a bully, always a coward

Dan Shaughnessy

Picking up the pieces
Mayoral candidate Bill Walczak would be open to retaining Meredith Weenick.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Next mayor needs no-nonsense CFO

Shirley Leung

It’s time to say yes to Walmart
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

Kevin Cullen

Time for an explanation
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

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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

Nation & World

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A poster of former President Mohammed Morsi was held during at a rally near Cairo on Friday.

Kerry backpedals on Egypt comment

Secretary of State John Kerry’s earlier remarks seemed to signal American support for the Egyptian military’s ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.

Politics

Senator Elizabeth Warren is asking the federal government to speed its review of the current ban on gay men donating blood.

Warren demands US ends ban on blood donations from gay men

Elizabeth Warren’s office said blood from a Roslindale man was rejected for donation after the Marathon bombings.

Business

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James Bullard said Fed forecasts have been too optimistic.

Fed bank president cites missteps by policy makers

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis said his economic forecasts, as well as those of others at the Fed, have been too optimistic in the wake of the recession.

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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Movie Review

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