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As companies shift more permanently to hybrid and remote work, many are paring back their office needs, which is having a variety of impacts on downtown Boston's commercial real estate market.

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It was a perfect spring afternoon 10 years ago when two young men dropped homemade bombs amid the Marathon throng and history swerved. Five lives were lost; many more, changed. A new story for an old town, built of sorrow and resolve, with still no finish line in sight.

He captured the image that told the story of the Boston Marathon bombing. Ten years later, he finally met the subject. Yvonne Abraham: This Ukrainian journalist has been training for the Boston Marathon in the midst of war. She is running for her country.

Jane Richard and her parents, Bill and Denise, paused during a moment of silence Saturday morning at the site of the second Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, where Jane’s brother Martin was killed. Jane lost part of her left leg in the bombing.

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Parents, siblings, and survivors were joined by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Governor Maura Healey during a ceremony on the 10th anniversary of the Marathon bombings.

Friends of Krystle Campbell, (from left) Bonnie Fleischer, Erin Daly, and her husband, Elliott Nerland, gathered in Copley Square. Campbell died in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing near the finish line.

Friends of marathon bombing victim Krystle Campbell remember her on 10th anniversary of attack

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The boy, who was shot around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, was a "missing juvenile run away from New Hampshire," Providence police said.

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With the typical single-family home selling for 96.8 percent of its original list price in February, according to the Greater Boston Association of Realtors, and a typical condo garnering 97.3 percent of its original list price, accurate pricing is critical to a speedy sale.

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Runners take off from the start line in Hopkinton in 2022.

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The Boston Marathon will be a star-studded affair as always, with (clockwise from top left) Brock Holt, Monica Puig, Zdeno Chara, and Ryan Dempster set to be part of the 2023 field.

Several celebrities are running the 2023 Boston Marathon. Here’s a list.

Tuscan Kitchen in Seaport will be serving unlimited servings of bolognese to runners, free of charge, all weekend.

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Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, left, talked to Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 7.

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State Rep. Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) waves to his supporters in the gallery as he delivers his final remarks on the floor of the House chamber as he is expelled from the legislature Thursday, April 6, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee.

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From expelling Black members to sabotaging health care, Republicans’ zero-sum politics assault Black, Brown, and poor Tennesseans, but the people are fighting back.

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A Globe photographer's eyewitness account of the Boston Marathon bombing

Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki remembers the events of the Boston Marathon bombing a decade ago, and how he captured the devastation with his camera.

A Globe photographer's eyewitness account of the Boston Marathon bombing

Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki remembers the events of the Boston Marathon bombing a decade ago, and how he captured the devastation with his camera.

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US President Barack Obama speaks during the "Healing Our City: An Interfaith Service" dedicated to those who were gravely wounded or killed in the Boston Marathon bombing, at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 18, 2013. Obama is in Boston to mourn victims of the deadly marathon attacks, as investigators study images of a suspect who may have planted the bombs. No arrests have been made in connection with Monday's twin bombings near the finish line of the race, which sent metal fragments and nails into a crowd of thousands of runners and spectators, killing three people and wounding 180. AFP PHOTO/Jewel SamadJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images

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