Suspect dead, two officers wounded in Dorchester
Police searching for suspect on Wellesley Park, Dorchester after two Boston Police officers were shot several blocks away. Another suspect was shot and killed.

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Two suspects opened fire on officers from the drug control unit in a wild, broad daylight shootout this afternoon.

Matt Damon and Alice Braga star in the Neill Blomkamp-directed drama “Elysium.”

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Matt Damon’s ‘Elysium’ is standard, not gold standard

Writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s new film is essentially “District 9” with bigger stars and less reason to exist, which hardly means it’s terrible.

Anna Volain (center), 20, shopping for snacks at Shaw’s on Commonwealth Avenue with friends Liza Posner (left), 20, and Isabel Monteiro, 21.

Generation Y a tough target for marketers

Millennials — generally defined as people born after 1980 — have become skilled at finding ways to avoid the constant stream of advertising.

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No verdict on second day of Bulger deliberations

Since getting the case on Tuesday, jurors in the James “Whitey” Bulger case have deliberated for about 13 hours.

Wes Welker is now wearing Denver colors, but it sounds as though he is still bothered by things that happened in New England. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Welker details how bond with Belichick fell apart

The ex-Patriots receiver said the coach rode him especially hard last year, and that he finds himself still wary of violating Belichick’s rules.

Dan Wolf speaks during the 2013 Massachusetts Democratic Party Platform Convention.

Dan Wolf still running for governor despite ethics ruling

The State Ethics Commission ruled that Wolf, a Democrat, cannot be governor or hold his state Senate seat unless he divests of his minority interest in Cape Air.

Minority officers vow to oppose candidates who support Davis

A group vowed to “vigorously oppose” any mayoral candidate who would let Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis keep his job.

Opinion

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The Players Association prodded those union members who allegedly received performance-enhancing drugs to accept a measure of punishment.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren and Lawrence Summers.

Despite ties, Warren, Summers paths are diverging
David Tennant and Olivia Colman play mismatched detectives thrown together to solve a murder in “Broadchurch.”

Television Review

‘Broadchurch’: A town undone
Isabella “Belle” Hankey has filed suit against the Concord-Carisle schools.

A happy school life lost
Red Sox broadcaster Don Orsillo preparing his chicken and sausage dish.

Don Orsillo at home in the kitchen
Deviled eggs with tuna and black olives added to the creamy yolk at Oleana.

Dining out

Oleana adventurous, iconic
Anna Volain (center), 20, shopping for snacks at Shaw’s on Commonwealth Avenue with friends Liza Posner (left), 20, and Isabel Monteiro, 21.

Gen Y a tough target market
From left: Jennifer Aniston, Will Poulter, Emma Roberts, and Jason Sudeikis in “We’re the Millers.”

Movie Review

‘Millers’ a safe comedy about drug smuggling
Mike Napoli welcomes Jonny Gomes after Gomes’s three-run home run in the sixth.

On Baseball

Jonny Gomes gives Red Sox a 2nd manager
Entrepreneur Sarah Cherry Rice described her curriculum-mapping tool for teachers at a recent Waltham event.

Start-ups take on education’s tangles

Album Review | FOLK/COUNTRY

Tension, grace on ‘The Civil Wars’
The tower will be the first major office building in Seaport Square.

PwC signs lease for Seaport offices
Items from the “light entrees” menu at Hit Wicket in Inman Square include potato sliders (pictured) and South African bunny chow with chicken.

Cheap Eats

Hit Wicket menu calls to cricket fans

Sports

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PGA Championship

Tiger Woods has been in contention at two of the first three majors this year, with a tie for fourth at the Masters and a tie for sixth at the British Open.

Is it finally time for Tiger Woods to end drought?

The world No. 1 player is fresh off a big win and has five victories this season, but has been stuck on 14 major wins since 2008.

Metro

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Patrons watch a harness race at Plainridge Racecourse in Plainville.

Plainridge looking at quick sale to save slot bid

Disqualified from a statewide competition to develop a slot parlor, owners of Plainridge Racecourse are pursuing a quick sale of the track.

Columnists

Caroline Kennedy

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Ambassadorship requires a seasoned diplomat, not a big name

Adrian Walker

The future begins at the Globe

Shirley Leung

The case for a sales tax rollback
A picture taken from inside a car shows Iranians waiting at a bus station in downtown Tehran in June.

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Tehran calculations
Steve Davis (white hair, in front of microphones), the brother of alleged Bulger victim Debra Davis, spoke to the reporters outside the Moakley federal courthouse as joggers passed by Monday.

Kevin Cullen

The theater of Whitey
Pope Francis waved from his popemobile on the Copacabana beachfront in Brazil.

JAMES CARROLL

The pope’s ‘culture of solidarity’

JOHN E. SUNUNU

‘Grand bargain’ is a grand head fake
Shane Victorino held a little impromptu meet-and-greet with some of the 37,611 Fenway Faithful in Sunday’s game.

Christopher L. Gasper

These Red Sox are Dirt Dogs again
Danny Ainge entrusted the Celtics’ head coaching job to 36-year-old Brad Stevens.

Bob Ryan

Stevens has a tough road ahead in NBA

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mayor’s race looms over Suffolk casino
Dockyard, a small Boston-based company, could be facing a significant cost increase, says principal Brian Cardarella.

Innovation Economy

Tech firms learning a costly lesson
Lucy loves to share online songs and videos with her grandmother.

Beverly Beckham

Would a ‘cure’ change the love?

Nation & World

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US President Barack Obama with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 summit in June.

Obama cancels meetings with Putin

The decision reflected US anger about Russia’s harboring of NSA leaker Edward Snowden and President Vladimir Putin’s stubbornness.

Politics

President Barack Obama spoke to US troops and their families at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Wednesday.

US won’t retrench, Obama says

President Barack Obama says security threats will never lead the US to retreat from the world.

Business

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“The fact that we are placing the most sweeping tax on the innovation economy is stunning,” said Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.

Business leaders fight technology tax in Mass.

A coalition of business leaders plans to ask voters to repeal the newly imposed sales tax on computer software services.

Arts

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Heidi Whitman’s collage “From Z to A,” from the “Drawing Connections’’ exhibition.

What’s up at Boston-area art galleries

The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts has given the summer to “Drawing Connections: 23d Drawing Show.”

Food & dining

Cookbook Review

Food blogging couple Lindsay Landis and Taylor Hackbarth.

‘Breakfast for Dinner,’ from husband-wife team, isn’t too cute

The book may not add lasting value to your cookbook collection, but like a good beach novel this volume is tasty enough to set aside.

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The lake house
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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield
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Kitchen overhaul

Ideas

“There hasn’t been a meaningful rethinking of who should appear on our paper money since 1928, when early versions of the bills we still use today entered circulation.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on American currency