Lawmakers on left, right unite to oppose Syria strikes

An unlikely coalition is forming to challenge President Obama’s push for military action.

Candidates who launch their campaigns with Web videos don’t have to worry about interviews and can control their messages.

Baker joins flock of candidates to launch bids online

Charles Baker became the latest candidate to launch his campaign by releasing a carefully crafted Web video, with no public events or interviews with the media.

Christopher L. Gasper

Red Sox are surging down the stretch

These Red Sox have had a rebuttal for every questioning of their legitimacy. They’re sprinting for the finish line.

N.H. patients possibly exposed to fatal brain disease

Eight patients at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester may have been exposed because of contaminated equipment, officials said Wednesday.

The Brown children — Adison, Cole, and Spencer — use so many devices their mother often forgoes policing.

Jackie Ricciardi for The Boston Globe

Living with screens

In digital world, kids gain the upper hand

In an age of screens everywhere, some exhausted parents have stopped policing. “It’s a constant struggle and I don’t always have the energy,” said mother Whitney Brown.

John F. Barros joked with Ramikah Colimon at the Codman Square Farmers Market in Dorchester last week.

The mayoral race: The candidates

Barros believes in pathways to empowerment

How the Roxbury native arrived at this moment, as one of 12 candidates for mayor, is, in many respects, the story of America.

Some leaders and activists in Boston’s African-American community met in Roxbury to discuss the mayor’s race.

Black leaders may ask some mayoral hopefuls to bow out

Leaders from Boston’s African-American communities may ask some candidates of color to abandon their campaigns and rally behind the remaining candidates.

Tech Lab

Selling your phone has gotten easier

There are lots of trade-in options: online, at brick-and-mortar retailers, or even at a kiosk that gobbles up gadgets and spits out cash.

Opinion

JOAN VENNOCHI

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Unions are strongly supporting Martin Walsh in his bid for mayor, raising the question: What would he owe organized labor if he wins?

Globe exclusives

school football preview

New era for EMass school football

At her Wareham home, Rose Cherubini displays a photo of one of the dresses she designed.

style

Standing the test of time
“I went to my first fashionable New York nightclub when I was 15,” says Thom Solo (seated).

g cover

The man behind the heels

Boston building inspectors worked Labor Day weekend as college students moved to apartments for the school year.

City cracks down during move-in weekend
Graves lighthouse.

Sold! Graves Island lighthouse breaks record
Left: “Omakase” means “I leave it up to you’’ and the Cafe Sushi chef served this tasting menu of flying fish, miso-marinated local sea bass, local fluke, smoked salmon, and salmon roe with pickled local corn. Right: seared avocado with truffle oil, salt, and lemon juice.

dining out

Cafe Sushi masters the art of raw fish

“The Safety Bounce” video was taped inside MBTA stations.

T debuting safety rap and dance

Special section

Welcome back! A Boston primer from Ideas
Many customers, like this one at the South Deerfield store, can’t resist the scent of Yankee Candles.

It’s in the olfactory of the beholder
Athenahealth envisions new office space, walking and bike paths to the Charles River, and an Arsenal museum.

Athenahealth to unveil project plans
Turkey chimichangas.

Food they’ll love to eat
The Rifleman burger is a peppered patty with provolone and sauteed mushrooms and onions.

Cheap Eats

Retro Burger sets up shop in Arlington

Sports

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red sox 20, tigers 4

Following his 2,001st career hit, a seventh-inning home run that was his second round-tripper of the night, David Ortiz obliged the cheering fans.

Red Sox blast eight home runs in rout of Tigers

The Red Sox tied their club record for home runs in a game as seven players hit homers, including two by David Ortiz and a grand slam by Will Middlebrooks.

Metro

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Boston building inspectors worked Labor Day weekend as college students moved to apartments for the school year.

As students return, inspectors find more than 2,000 violations

“I think the landlords have gotten the message that we are not going away,” a Boston inspection official said after more than 2,000 tickets were issued.

Columnists

Secretary of State John Kerry testified at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday.

alex beam

John Kerry’s bad idea

EDWARD L. GLAESER

To fight crime in Boston, be prepared to spend more
UN chemical weapons experts visited a hospital where wounded people affected by an apparent gas attack were being treated near Damascus on Aug. 26.

farah stockman

Crossing the line
This week, EMC’s Paul Dacier becomes the first general counsel to head up the Boston Bar Association in its 252-year history.

Shirley Leung

Legal talent growing, in-house

JEFF JACOBY

Where does compassion come from?
Henrik Stenson and his son, Karl, know who’s No. 1 following his triumph at TPC Boston.

Dan Shaughnessy

Henrik Stenson a worthy champion

Adrian Walker

The voter wild card

SCOT LEHIGH

Mayoral hopefuls on fire department reform

JOHN E. SUNUNU

Music dinosaurs pick a bad fight
Sergio Garcia hits out of a trap on the 14th hole during the third round.

Christopher L. Gasper

Garcia letting his play do the talking

Adrian Walker

Squeezing the laborers
State Senator Dan Wolf holds 23 percent interest in Cape Air.

JOAN VENNOCHI

The Dan Wolf exemption

Nation & World

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“When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and sense of duty to others,” said Manning in her petition for pardon.

Chelsea Manning seeks presidential pardon

Manning is asking President Obama to pardon her after sending reams of classified information to WikiLeaks.

Boston mayoral race

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Some leaders and activists in Boston’s African-American community met in Roxbury to discuss the mayor’s race.

Black leaders may ask some mayoral hopefuls to bow out

Leaders from Boston’s African-American communities may ask some candidates of color to abandon their campaigns and rally behind the remaining candidates.

Business

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The new Samsung Galaxy Gear wristwatch can make and receive phone calls and e-mails and supports about 70 applications, but has to be recharged every day.

Samsung unveils smartwatch ahead of rival Apple

Samsung unveiled its highly anticipated digital wristwatch Wednesday, beating Apple to what could become this year’s must-have holiday gift item.

Arts

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STAGE REVIEW

Steven DeMarco as Brick and Madeleine Lambert as Maggie in Wellfleet Harbor Actor Theater’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

A declawed ‘Cat’ in Wellfleet

In her production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’’ Elizabeth Falk — who is credited with “script redaction’’ — diminishes some of the play’s unsettling force.

Style

Bargain Bin

Sara Campbell marks down spring and summer goods

Ami Albernaz’s weekly roundup of bargains includes Campbell’s end-of-summer warehouse sale.

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As summer comes to an end, we take a look at a summer retreat visited by both the philosophers and the frolicker.

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Little folk
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Sharks Inc.
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Daniel Nava, the long shot
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Ideas

“Cities have become the main source of fresh thinking about how to solve the world’s problems — and mayors, more than their higher-ranking counterparts in public life, are the ones setting the course.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the rise of mayors as a powerful political force