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$600m Powerball drawing set for tonight

Ticket sales for the largest jackpot drawing in the history of the multi-state lottery game will end at 9:45 p.m.

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.

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.

New: Expanded Sunday arts

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

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.

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.

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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‘Arrested Development’ on Netflix: Bullied into bingeing

As the cult favorite returns with a season-sized “episode dump,” Globe critic Matthew Gilbert asks, does giving viewers too much leave them with nothing to talk about?

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Keith Lockhart, still going strong with the Boston Pops

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Athletic Association of the Blind Track and Field Tournament

Harvard students erupt at scholar’s claim

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

Photographer meets woman in 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?

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

The jackpot for Powerball set a record on Friday as it exceeded $600 million, bringing buyers out for Saturday night’s drawing. Sisters Connie Cataldo (left) and Susan Fox, of Derry, N.H., were part of a long line of players in Methuen.

Powerball fever, pot grow to new level

Heather Maloney has released three albums since 2009, with a full-band approach flavoring her “adventurous folk,” as she describes it, with pop and rock.

Heather Maloney keeps her music in the moment

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.