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$600m Powerball drawing set for tonight

The drawing will be at 10:59 p.m., and in the event there is no winner, the jackpot will increase to a staggering $925 million.

Train service to Cape Cod to begin

Next weekend will be the first time in about 25 years service from Boston to Cape Cod will be offered.

Law proposed to recoup public benefits from terrorists

If passed, the measure would allow Massachusetts to recover public benefits from anyone later convicted of weapons of mass destruction.

Broken rail examined in Conn. train collision

A fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is connected to the accident that sent 72 people to the hospital, officials said.

New: Expanded Sunday arts

A sampling of the Globe's enhanced arts & culture coverage.

summer | dance

Michelle Dorrance, making tap for the 21st century

One of the hottest tap artists of her generation, 33-year-old Dorrance is known for creating tight, polished choreography within lively theatrical contexts.

Editor’s note: New expanded culture coverage

Sunday the Globe will introduce a broadened Sunday Arts with new columns and weekly roundups, accompanied by a look at what’s new in style, food, and drink.

summer | pop music

The National primed to kick off first Boston Calling festival

Aaron Dessner is looking forward to attending Boston Calling not only as a performer with his band the National, but also as a patron.

Expanded arts preview

Book tour: Hot summer literary destinations in N.E.

A reading tour of popular summer destinations in New England and the writers and books associated with those places.

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Expanded arts preview | buzzsaw

‘Arrested Development’ on Netflix: Bullied into bingeing

Photo gallery

Athletic Association of the Blind Track and Field Tournament

Harvard students erupt at scholar’s claim

The big vision like in “The Great Gatsby” can still inspire a communal sense of wonder.

Expanded arts preview | Critic’s Notebook

In praise of the less-popular pleasures of the big screen

Globe photographer John Tlumacki met Marathon bombing survivor Nicole Gross in her hospital room on Friday.

Photographer meets woman in Marathon photo

Gabriel E. Gomez autographed a sign for Jerry Isaac, a Quincy Republican, in Quincy on Thursday. Representative Edward J. Markey joined the House Homeland Security Committee in Washington at a hearing on the Marathon bombings on May 9.

Gomez asks: Where’s Markey?

Expanded arts preview | History Repeating

Keith Lockhart, still going strong with the Boston Pops

The bedroom at Blantyre (left) and the appetizer of grilled foie gras at Wheatleigh.

Exclusive Sunday preview | Travel

Berkshires inns offer high quality, higher costs

Clockwise from top left: Cooling off at the fountain on Boston Common, the staircase of the Copley library, Fenway Park, the Esplanade, the Fourth of July celebration, the Boston skyline.

Why do you love Boston? We asked. You answered.

David Ortiz put the Red Sox on the board with an RBI single in the first inning.

On baseball

Red Sox winning the close games

Upgrades at the Boxer Hotel include boutique-style rooms.

Renovated hotel embraces city’s past

Yannick Lebrun and Jacqueline Green in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s performance of “Petite Mort.”

Dance Review

A bold opening night for Alvin Ailey

More coverage of the bombings

This image obtained courtesy of CBS News shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.

Tsarnaev’s defense targets first comments to police

Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hope periodic photos showing the bombing suspect’s recovery will call into question his ability to make any admissions of guilt.