E-mails detail effort to quell ?Top Chef? dispute

City and union officials, and TV producers, tried to defuse labor tensions surrounding the filming of the series in the Boston area.

Cambridge City Councilor Nadeem Mazen was the first Muslim elected to a government post in Massachusetts.

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Cambridge councilor fights for city and his Muslim faith

Nadeem Mazen, the first Muslim elected in Mass., would prefer to talk about affordable housing or education.

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Protesters braved cold temperatures Tuesday night as they turned out in Jackson Square.

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Donald Trump isn?t the first candidate to spar with the New Hampshire Union Leader.

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Waltham-based Care.com didn?t know about the rap sheet of Stephanie Fox, accused of stealing more than $280,000 from a Boston couple.

Daniel Loeb, a hedge fund billionaire, uses a tax maneuver that reduces his tax bill on certain profits by half.

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To shield their fortunes, the wealthiest put tax system to work

The very richest Americans have financed a sophisticated and astonishingly effective apparatus for protecting their profits.

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The proposed alternative to the Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant would be made up of smaller, neighborhood treatment centers.

Commuters faces slush and snow Tuesday ? and the MBTA started using some of its winter tactics, such as de-icing third rails.

MBTA has mixed results during first winter test

Some subway and commuter rail lines were delayed, but the problems didn?t rival those of last winter.

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A stronger economy and people looking for houses they can afford outside of Boston have been boons for smaller localities.

About 750 turned out in a winter storm to hear Hillary Clinton speak at Old South Church in Portsmouth, N.H., Tuesday.

Health care is main focus of Hillary Clinton?s N.H. stop

The Democratic presidential candidate also took on a number of other topics in Portsmouth on Tuesday.

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Smart plates, utensils may help manage disease, control weight

A growing number of academic researchers and entrepreneurs are designing dishes and cutlery to manage medical conditions or improve health.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/08/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/turner120815FOOD30nyparty56.jpg A New Year?s meal becomes a tradition

The crowd at Audrey Emmer?s Carlisle home has only grown since she first put on a ?feast? for her son and his friends more than a decade ago.

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DraftKings and Illinois AG Lisa Madigan have agreed to a schedule that will likely push any resolution of their dispute well into the summer.

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Here?s our unscientific list of a few that came out faring the best, the worst, or both.

10 years later, did the Big Dig deliver?

The $15 billion project is a road paved with failures, successes, and what-ifs.

The rink for Friday?s Winter Classic at Gillette Stadium took hundreds of workers and thousands of man-hours to complete.

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NHL rink builders tackled Gillette project with icy efficiency

The portable venue for the Winter Classic is a marvel of modern engineering and technology.

The Senators? Chris Neil (left) and the Bruins? Adam McQuaid exchanged eye rakes during a third-period free-for-all.

Fluto Shinzawa | On hockey

For Bruins, fighting a team-building exercise

Nobody seemed to mind that the Bruins and Senators combined for 10 goals and 110 penalty minutes on Tuesday.

Devra First

Where a restaurant critic eats, off the clock

As the Globe?s restaurant critic, I rarely ventured away from my own kitchen when off the clock. But there were exceptions.

When he wants to unwind, Ethan Zuckerman likes to build things with wood, including this writer?s cabin that?s near  his house ? but out of the range of Wi-Fi.

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For MIT?s Ethan Zuckerman, Reddit cat photos matter, too

Zuckerman is director of MIT?s Center for Civic Media and cofounded GlobalVoicesOnline.org more than a decade ago.

Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

The newest addition to the Kennedy clan

US Representative Joseph Kennedy III celebrated Tuesday after his wife gave birth to their first child, Ellie.

Photos

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The sculptures are a New Year?s tradition, and the memories remain even after they?ve melted away.

Where to ring in the new year in Greater Boston

Between ?Star Wars,? the Beehive Ball, the Boston Ballet, a wild zoo celebration, and more, you have plenty of options.

Ground Game

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/29/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/499351058.jpg A campaign fundraising deadline that matters little

This time the difference between a pretty good and a pretty bad fundraising report isn?t much. If a candidate gets an extra million, it means virtually nothing.

Globe Santa

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Globe Santa delivers holiday gifts to local children in need.

Globe investigations

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A look at high-impact investigations from The Boston Globe, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning report on abuse in the Catholic Church.

The Big Picture

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2015 Year in Pictures: Part I

A lot happened in 2015. Take a look at images from the first half of the year on topics from around the world.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.