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Boy Scouts to accept openly gay boys

The Boy Scouts of America’s National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.

President Obama revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes and a renewed push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

‘This war, like all wars, must end,’ Obama says

President Obama discussed the war on terrorism, adding no president “can promise the total defeat of terror.”

Ibragim Todashev.

Marathon bombings

Wife says man was never questioned in Waltham murders

The wife and best friend of the Chechen man killed by an FBI agent in Orlando Wednesday say he was not questioned about the unsolved murders.

Sister of Marathon bombing victim released from hospital

The family of Martin Richard, who was killed in the blasts, said his sister, Jane, is “in good spirits and looking forward to beginning the next phase of her recovery.”

Terry Francona (left) returned to Fenway Park as the manager of the Cleveland Indians, his first game in the visiting dugout since leaving Boston. He greeted David Ortiz (right) just after a pregame session with the media.

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Francona’s first return to Boston as a manager

Former Red Sox manager Terry Francona said he was enjoying his present situation too much to let his thoughts drift far into the past or the future.

Michael Douglas at the piano in “Behind the Candelabra.”

Friday preview | Television review

Michael Douglas hits the right notes as Liberace

Beautifully written and directed, HBO’s “Behind the Candelabra” doesn’t quite fit into the biopic genre — simply because it is so good.

Friday Preview | MOVIE REVIEW

Still fast, still furious, it all still hangs together

Vin Diesel and the “Fast & Furious” handlers seem eager to assert how they’ve molded a series of installments into, yep, a saga, complete with twisty continuity.

From the Archives | Photo gallery

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/05/22/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/memorial005-1133[1]-097.jpg Memorial Day

Memorial Day was first named “Decoration Day,” referring to the decoration of the graves of soldiers who died in the Civil War.

Edward “Ned” C. Johnson III

Fidelity selling limo firm launched by ‘Ned’ Johnson

The firm’s iconic chairman launched limousine service BostonCoach in 1985 after waiting too long for a taxi at the airport.