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Advocates are hopeful that a proposed Medicare rule will make end-of-life decision-making a routine part of medical care.
Biden?s plans for 2016 still a mysteryIt?s six months until the Iowa caucuses and the Democratic field still has one big asterisk: the 72-year-old sitting vice president.
?Whitey? Bulger?s lawyers in court to argue for new trialBulger?s defense team will have 15 minutes to try to persuade a federal appeals court that the gangster did not get a fair trial in 2013.
As vote looms, concern raised over tax holidayThe rise in opposition appears insufficient to kill the tax holiday this year, but its fate in future years is increasingly uncertain.
UMass president lobbies to restore money to budgetMarty Meehan wants the funds to cover collective-bargaining raises to staff and professors that have gone unfunded for a year.
Jim Davis/Globe Staff/File 1999
As salaries of college presidents have risen to new heights, compensation for their prep school counterparts has quietly surged in kind.
Most of the dead were wedding guests aged from 14 years old to 60 years old, an official said.
In local Dominican community, debate on racism boilingIn recent weeks, prominent Dominicans here have criticized the country?s citizenship policies toward people of Haitian descent.
New York Magazine features jarring stories of 35 Cosby accusersThe article included graphic, gripping details from women who said they were sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby.
Christopher L. Gasper
A joyous nation showers love upon Pedro MartinezThe newly enshrined Hall of Famer is a symbol of hope and achievement for his fellow Dominicans.
Pedro Martinez shows gratitude during Hall of Fame inductionThe Red Sox great kept returning to two words during his speech in Cooperstown: ?God and thank you.?
TV Review
The show, which premiered Sunday, documents the day-to-day unreal reality of Caitlyn Jenner, fresh from her public debut as herself.
Some offshored manufacturing jobs return to USCompanies have brought nearly 40,000 manufacturing jobs back to the US in the past five years.
Music Review
There was never a question that owner Bonney Bouley wanted Scruffy the Cat to be the last band standing on stage at her club.
BetaBoston
Fox Sports is leading a $300 million investment that will help the Boston fantasy sports startup battle its larger competitor.
World War II Museum
A transcription of a radio message that Hermann Goering sent to Hitler days before his suicide will go on display Tuesday at the Museum of World War II.
Young stroke survivor Valerie Giglio?s long road back Giglio was just 42 when a stroke left her partially paralyzed and unable to sing. A new program at Mass. General aims to help victims like her and even younger.
NFL finalizes new rules for football inspection Among the new procedures, the league will introduce random football pressure-checking at halftime and after the game.
Brown, the progeny of pop superstars, died about 6 months after she was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub.
Hike the Whites
It?s down to the last 8, vote todayVoting in the quarterfinals runs until Tuesday. Fill out the bracket and see who will make the final four.
Inside the presidential primaries with James PindellGlobe reporter James Pindell brings you the latest news from New Hampshire and beyond as 2016 presidential politics take shape.
Renée Graham
Bernie Sanders, other candidates need to get louder on civil rightsPoliticians must quickly realize that waving a scrapbook of good deeds done is not enough.
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Big Picture
Photographer David Ryan provides a visual respite of the shoreline during an assignment in a fixed-wing Cessna.
Cambridge company born in Internet?s ?big bang? has lasting impact
Viaweb played a pivotal role in the evolution of e-commerce, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Religious persecution, by both oppressors and the oppressed India showcases the maddening complexity of religious persecution.
Ortiz added to his legacy on the day his friend and former teammate, Pedro Martinez, was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Hundreds streamed into a funeral home in the city Sunday to mourn Thomas Sullivan.
Only the 10 candidates ranking highest in polls will be able to take part.
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Mayor Marty Walsh announced this week that the ParkBoston app could be used in five more Boston neighborhoods.
In a striking admission, Bashar Assad said that the country?s army faced a personnel shortage.
The fines are for failing to complete 23 safety recalls covering more than 11 million vehicles, according to two people briefed on the matter.
Many performances were spiritually aligned with the festival?s roots while others built on those roots and put a contemporary spin on them.
How can I make sure that everyone has fun on our beach vacation, including my teens, who want nothing to do with their parents?
Design New England
A home with open spaceA new floor plan for a renovated 1960s ranch-style house makes entertaining easy.
Why slow thinking winsMany decisions and policies are created with intuitive-but-wrong approaches.
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