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Senate nearing nominations deal

Majority Leader Harry Reid had threatened to change Senate rules to prevent Republicans from filibustering Obama nominations.

Vice President Joe Biden read the oath of office to Senator Ed Markey during a ceremonial swearing-in at the Capitol on Tuesday.

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Markey sworn in to Senate

Vice President Joe Biden delivered the oath to longtime US Representative Edward Markey.

Trial of ‘Whitey’ Bulger

Bulger’s lawyers plan to call 37 witnesses

Among those Bulger’s defense plans to call to the stand is Joseph Salvati, a former North End man wrongly convicted of a 1965 Chelsea murder.

Lynn Cooper, owner of Stroller Spa Boston, repairs and details baby strollers at locations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

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Royal baby puts strollers in the spotlight

A celebrity pushing a stroller can fuel the brand upward or stoke stroller envy. And just wait until the royal baby arrives.

Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson in a unit similar to the one where Aaron Hernandez is being held.

What it’s like for Hernandez in jail

“This is not the Ritz,” Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson said as he offered a tour of the restrictive conditions under which Aaron Hernandez now lives.

George Zimmerman smiled after a not guilty verdict was handed down in his trial.

Zimmerman jury was initially split on guilt, juror says

Before they started looking at the law, half of the jurors wanted to convict George Zimmerman of either murder or manslaughter, a juror said.

Opinion

TOM KEANE

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High profile cases like the Demoulas clan from Market Basket aside, family-run companies tend to be better run than non-family ones.

Globe exclusives

In early July, Egyptian soldiers guarded a border area beset by violence after the Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, was ousted.

Unrest pushes gas cost higher
“Monsters University” is the only G-rated movie released this year.

In edgy times, little room for G films
Richard Fields, Suffolk Downs’s largest shareholder, is focused on garnering a resort casino license for the site.

The man behind Suffolk Downs casino bid
The Medicaid-fraud case against Dr. Punyamurtula Kishore (center) prompted the ruling.

SJC upholds e-mail searches

Frame by Frame

Bowl tells tale of rich, rigid China Trade

ALBUM REVIEW | INDIE ROCK

David Lynch, ‘The Big Dream’
Male soprano Michael Maniaci sang arias as Gil Rose led the Monadnock Festival Orchestra in Sunday’s all-Mozart program.

Music Review

Traditional opening to unusual season
Laurie Bent (left) dressed in light clothing to avoid tick bites during a walk with Emily Hutcheson and Bent’s dog.

BITTEN BY UNCERTAINTY

Public awareness of Lyme lags
Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone (near right) and Dr. Mo Shafi use magnetic stimulation technology to observe brain function on a study participant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Health

A gym for the mind
MIT grad student Kael Greco demonstrated stress monitoring devices on his wrist and hand as he drove in Boston and Cambridge traffic.

MIT studies aim to ease stress of driving
MBTA bus driver Miguel Goncalves said he maintains an easygoing, respectful attitude with his passengers on Route 15 in Roxbury.

Serenity on Route 15 bus
Weston conservation administrator Michele Grzenda installed tick information boxes in Burchard Park.

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Preventing tick bites

Sports

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All-Star David Ortiz embraced Athletics slugger Yoenis Cespedes during the Home Run Derby. Cespedes went on to win the event.

All-Star David Ortiz feeling comfortable at break

At 37, the Red Sox DH is making his ninth All-Star Game appearance and having one of the best seasons of his career.

Metro

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Jennifer Nowak, 38, the older sister of James Lusher, fought back tears as she stood with Berkshire District Attorney David Capeless during a press conference Monday in Westfield about the investigation into the 1992 disappearance of the teenager, who was 16 at the time.

Serial killer confesses to ’92 slaying of Westfield boy

Lewis Lent Jr. has confessed to abducting James “Jamie” Lusher, killing him, and then dumping his body into Greenwater Pond in Becket.

Columnists

Marissa Alexander of Florida received a 20-year prison sentence for firing a warning shot at her abusive ex-husband.

Farah Stockman

Florida’s unjust gun laws

Kevin Cullen

Trying our patience
John Farrell argues with Todd Tichenor after the umpire awarded Yoenis Cespedes second base in the 10th.

Dan Shaughnessy

John Farrell the right man for the job

Yvonne Abraham

Evil knows no social bounds
Electronic cigarettes are gaining popularity amid a big push by tobacco companies, but their long-term health effects are still unknown.

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E-cigarettes: the new fracking

Adrian Walker

A Market Basket of discontent
Representative William Keating (right) at a hearing in early May on the Marathon bombings.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Frustration rises with FBI on bombings
The University Paris-Saclay is an effort to create an education, research, and innovation cluster about half an hour outside of Paris. Today, much of the area is still farmland.

Innovation Economy

Can France create its own Kendall Square?
The remote controls in Beverly Beckham’s house.

Beverly Beckham

For many, remotes are out of control
John Lackey has been the poster boy for Red Sox rehabilitation.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox have rebounded from 2012
Pat Donahue arrived arrive At Moakley Courthouse with her sons, Shawn, Michael, and Tommy, for the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger on June 12.

Kevin Cullen

A widow’s dignity
Former Red Sox infielder Jed Lowrie hit a home run against his former team on Friday as the Athletics lost to the Red Sox, 4-2.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

A’s roster peppered with former Red Sox

Nation & World

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Supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi threw stones toward opponents of Morsi during clashes on a bridge in downtown Cairo.

7 killed in overnight clashes in Egyptian capital

The clashes are the latest eruption of political violence since the military deposed the Islamist president nearly two weeks ago.

Politics

Democrats have fared well under Walsh’s leadership.

State Democratic party chairman to step down

John Walsh will take over leadership of Deval Patrick’s political action committee as Patrick moves into the final stage of his governorship.

Business

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Congress Street is located in the heart of what has been named Boston's innovation District.

Boston’s office market in midst of a resurgence

Rents are rising swiftly as local companies add employees and move forward on construction of new buildings in the city and nearby suburbs.

Arts

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Bill Janovitz in his home studio, which he has dubbed “The Bomb Shelter,” in Lexington. Janovitz has a new solo album coming out, his band, Buffalo Tom, plays Boston Common this week, and he has written a book on the Rolling Stones.

Rolling Stones book is latest effort for rocker

For a guy who has dubbed himself “Part-Time Man of Rock,” Bill Janovitz is awfully busy.

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Magazine

The cover for the July 14 2013 issue

Medical marijuana for kids
The cover for the June 30 2013 issue

Rethinking the golden years
The cover for the June 23 2013 issue

The bee keepers
The cover for the June 16 2013 issue

Last of their kind

Ideas

“Somewhere in America, a chimpanzee is about to have its day in court. Its lawyers hope to have the animal declared a ‘person’ in a court of law.”

Chris Berdik,  on the “animal personhood” movement