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Patriots players celebrated after winning the game.

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Jimmy Garoppolo set up a play in the second quarter.

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Jonathan Jones broke up a pass intended for John Brown.

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LeGarrette Blount dove over the pile on a first-quarter run.

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Wide receiver Chris Hogan celebrated after his touchdown.

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Julian Edelman was brought down in the first quarter.

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Jimmy Garoppolo dropped back to pass in the first quarter.

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Jimmy Garoppolo practiced in a pre-game warmup.

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Jimmy Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett took to the field.

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Patriots owner Robert Kraft greeted fans.

Patriots 23, Cardinals 21

Cardinals miss their chance to take down Patriots

After a white-knuckle fourth quarter, the Jimmy Garoppolo-led Patriots won when Arizona missed a field goal attempt.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

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No need to hurry back, Tom. Your team and your dynasty are in good hands.

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Chin091116Patriots-Cardinals_Spt25.jpg Jimmy Garoppolo plays his role to perfection

In a solid team win, the Patriots? young QB managed to take the biggest steps of all.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Chin091116Patriots-Cardinals_Spt43.jpg Tom Brady?s suspension was supposed to take away Bill Belichick?s secret weapon. It didn?t work

Belichick won the opener without Tom Brady by devising a terrific game plan.

Emerson College is studying proposals to reopen the Colonial Theatre, where members of the Boston Lyric Opera held rehearsals in March.

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Emerson considers reopening Colonial Theatre

Nearly a year after the storied playhouse closed, the college is considering plans from a handful of outside groups to reopen the theater.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/11/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/10torontoc.jpg The talk of Toronto includes Boston

Sorry, Ben Affleck. The best Boston shootout scene might just belong to Ben Wheatley.

Adrian Walker

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Sean Ellis, freed after 22 years in prison for the killing of a Boston police detective, has been tried enough.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_bustudents2_met.jpg Frustrated by finances, BU students team up online

A group of Boston University students is finding common ground on a little-discussed issue: how hard it is to be poor at an expensive private college.

US Open

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Wawrinka, the third seed from Switzerland, upset top-seeded Novak Djokovic with a four-set victory, 6-7, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3.

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During the onstage interview portion of the competition, Savvy Shields was asked what she thought of Hillary Clinton.

In breaking silence, St. Paul?s survivor reclaims her name

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Chessy Prout, who went public two weeks ago, said her family, her faith, and friendships forged with other abuse survivors guided her decision.

Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary ceremony Sunday after feeling ??overheated,?? according to her campaign.

Clinton cancels travel plans after health episode

Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 ceremony after feeling ??overheated,?? and video later showed her stumbling and appearing to fall off a curb.

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Is the eight-floor, 71-bed building planned for the site of the Prouty Garden needed?

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N.H. Republican ties his fortunes to Trump

New England GOP candidates in high-stakes political races have been distancing themselves from Donald Trump. Except one.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/head1-12056.png Democratic Party chairman won?t seek reelection

State Democratic Party chairman Thomas McGee told state committee members Sunday he would not seek a second term.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Crash1A.jpg Fatal Taunton boat crash was race?s second in five years

Bill Giles Memorial Regatta features hundreds of boaters racing slick, high-speed watercraft up to 85 mph.

Two Chelsea teens accused of stabbing driver

Two Chelsea teens are accused of stabbing a man who they had apparently hired to give them a ride.

Three dead in Nev. small plane crash

Officials say three people are dead in a small plane crash in a parking lot at Reno-Tahoe International Airport.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/12/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/thumbnail_ATT00001-(1).jpg Object thrown through window at Nashua mosque

The Islamic Society of Greater Nashua had worshipers inside at the time.

Opinion & Ideas

Opinion | Jeffrey D. Sachs

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The pervasive pessimism that American children today will grow up to worse living standards than their parents is a real possibility, but not an inevitability.

Globe investigations

The desperate and the dead

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight9090-11856.jpg The broken covenant

Behind the fragmented state of mental health care lies a political system failure that spans decades ? and continues.

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.

The Big Picture

Palestinian schoolgirls sit in front of a mural on the first day of a new school year.

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Back to school

A look at children around the world starting school after their summer break.