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Wave of bombings in Iraq kills dozens

Car bombings targeting those celebrating the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan killed 69 people around Baghdad Saturday.

Shoppers flock to stores on sales tax holiday weekend

Consumers can bypass Massachusetts’ 6.25 percent sales tax on items priced lower than $2,500 today and tomorrow.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wave as they boarded Air Force One before heading to Orlando, Fla.

Obamas returning for stay on Martha’s Vineyard

The president and First Lady planned to arrive Saturday afternoon for a nine-day stay after stopping in Orlando, Fla., to address veterans.

Fire and rescue personnel stood amidst the aftermath of a plane crash between two homes in East Haven, Conn.

4 bodies pulled from wreckage of Conn. plane crash

A family member identified two of the dead as former Microsoft executive Bill Henningsgaard and his teenage son.

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Forest Whitaker stars in the new movie “The Butler,” based on a true story about a butler in the White House.

ANNE MARIE FOX

Movies

How ‘The Butler’ evolved from the page to the screen

Screenwriter Danny Strong explains how he brought Eugene Allen, a black butler who worked at the White House for more than three decades, to life.

Critic’s notebook | Don Aucoin

For girls, ‘Wicked’ casts a spell

A decade on, this underrated musical continues to celebrate the power of female friendship.

travel

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Today’s Sicilian table reflects what the colonizing Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, and Spanish brought to the island.

Opinion

JOANNA WEISS

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Today’s parenting crisis is whether we’re abdicating our biggest responsibility, to make sure kids treat each other humanely.

Globe exclusives

Tim Tebow completed 4 of 12 passes for 55 yards and took three sacks in two-plus quarters.

On Football

Patriots keep it simple with Tim Tebow
Co-owner David Buckley attached a keg line to a cleaning connector at the Port Tavern in Newburyport.

Beer line cleaning system hopes to tap into US

Oyster thieves striking in Cape Cod
Police released this photo of the festival the victims had attended in Franklin Park.

A year later, Roxbury triple murder still a mystery
Victoria Martins of Freitas Farms worked at City Hall Plaza this week, one of several farmers’ markets across the city this summer.

Far from the farms, city markets thrive
The Landmark Center currently hosts Best Buy, among other stores.

Samuels unveils Landmark Center proposal
“There are still lots of customers who like to hold a book in their hands and feel it and smell it,” said Bill Johnston, of Commonwealth Books, referencing the president’s recent visit to an Amazon facility.

Obama’s Amazon visit riles up booksellers
An ongoing survey of mammals on a half-dozen of the close-in islands has found thriving populations of coyotes, foxes, and deer.

Island getaways lure creatures great, small
The cab of a truck that broke through a guardrail this afternoon was lifted back onto the road.

Boston traffic snarled after truck crash on I-93
Rebecca Ferguson and Max Irons star in the British period drama “The White Queen” on Starz.

Television Review

‘The White Queen’ scratches the itch

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas

Little Libertarians on the prairie
Backyard Farms’ greenhouses for growing hydroponic tomatoes cover 42 acres in Madison, Maine.

Shirley Leung

A heavy loss in pursuit of perfection

Sports

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patriots 31, eagles 22 | preseason

Tom Brady set the offense while playing against the Eagles.

New-look offense doesn’t skip a beat in Patriots’ win

Tom Brady kick-started New England in a game that saw more Tim Tebow at quarterback than planned.

Metro

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Steve Davis, brother of alleged James “Whitey” Bulger victim Debra Davis, addressed the media on Friday in front of the J. Joseph Moakley US Courthouse.

Bulger jury to resume deliberations on Monday

Jurors in the racketeering trial of James “Whitey” Bulger have deliberated for 28 hours over four days, after listening to 35 days of testimony from 72 witnesses.

Columnists

Alex Rodriguez looked up toward photographers after leaving a news conference in Tampa in 2009.

Opinion | Derrick Z. Jackson

Baseball’s integrity still isn’t restored

Opinion | RENÉE LOTH

Trash cash
On Oct. 30, 1948, the main business district of Donora, Pa., was cloaked in smog, the sunlight virtually obliterated by thick low-hanging pollution.

joan wickersham

The haze of history

Kevin Cullen

Waiting for the unknown
A water taxi cruised in The Woodlands, Texas.

EDWARD L. GLAESER

A fracking pioneer’s environmental dream

JOAN VENNOCHI

John Walsh’s rhapsody in blue
Backyard Farms’ greenhouses for growing hydroponic tomatoes cover 42 acres in Madison, Maine.

Shirley Leung

A heavy loss in pursuit of perfection

Yvonne Abraham

Perilous rolls of the dice
Daniel Conley.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Conley loses temper and respect of voters

Adrian Walker

The future begins at the Globe
Caroline Kennedy

Opinion | SCOT LEHIGH

Ambassadorship requires a seasoned diplomat, not a big name

Shirley Leung

The case for a sales tax rollback

Nation & World

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Nidal Hasan is charged in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and more than 30 others wounded.

Fort Hood victims want shooting designated terror

Victims say the designation of “workplace violence” has robbed them of benefits and made them ineligible to receive the Purple Heart.

Politics

President Obama spoke during a press conference on Friday.

President pledges new limits on surveillance

President Obama called for greater transparency and more oversight of America’s extensive electronic spying programs.

Business

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Last month, Backyard Farms had to destroy its entire crop of 420,000 tomato plants due to an infestation of whiteflies.

Backyard Farms delays tomato shipments

It’s the second setback for the Maine company, which in July had to destroy its crop of 420,000 tomato plants due to an infestation of whiteflies.

Arts

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Events

Vince Gill and Paul Franklin.

Boston-area to do list

What’s happening in and around Boston.

Lifestyle

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“There are still lots of customers who like to hold a book in their hands and feel it and smell it,” said Bill Johnston, of Commonwealth Books, referencing the president’s recent visit to an Amazon facility.

Obama’s Amazon visit riles up independent booksellers

Some independent bookstores called the president’s effort to highlight Amazon as a positive example of job creation “misguided.”

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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