Romney attacked on Bain exit date

By Callum Borchers

President Obama’s campaign accused Mitt Romney of lying about the length of his tenure at the helm of Bain Capital, while the Romney team called the charge “reckless.”

Governors hesitant over Medicare expansion

By Karen Tumulty and N.C. Aizenman

At least seven Democratic governors have been noncommittal about expanding their Medicaid programs under the federal health care overhaul.

A North Dakota man was charged Thursday with three counts of first-degree homicide in the deaths of his three young daughters in northwestern Wisconsin.

By J. David Goodman and Rick Gladstone

Syria’s former ambassador to Iraq exhorted his countrymen to join the revolution, and urged the armed forces to turn their weapons on the regime.

A Russian cargo ship carrying military helicopters and air-defense equipment for the Syrian government, forced to turn back last month, is again on the move.

Medical files released for the first time Thursday portray Yasser Arafat as a robust 75-year-old whose sudden health crisis, a month before his mysterious 2004 death, was initially blamed on viral gastroenteritis.

joshua green

Bush is the winner in tax cut duel

By Joshua Green

George W. Bush’s tax cuts were supposed to last 10 years, but we’re now on year 12.

SCOT LEHIGH

By Scot Lehigh

Do I believe Romney’s reassurance that there’s nothing amiss with his federal tax returns? I’d like to, but I would prefer to be able to verify for myself.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Your identity, adrift

By Joan Wickersham

What happens when an unwanted name becomes attached to you?

By Milton J. Valencia

Inmate advocates, public defenders, prisoners, and their families say outside vendors charge astronomical costs for calls, in some cases $10 for just a few minutes.

Rose Art Museum names new director

By Geoff Edgers

Christopher Bedford would be the museum’s first permanent leader since Michael Rush left in protest over Brandeis University’s plan to sell its collection.

Union-only labor for bridge project irks firms

By Frank Phillips

Nonunion contractors said the Patrick administration’s decision to restrict work on a $285 million project over the Merrimack River is election-year pandering.

By Robert Weisman

There is a rush on to hire people who helped implement universal medical coverage in Massachusetts as states scramble to comply with President Obama’s health care law.

By Erin Ailworth

The latest in a series of donations to area charities could bolster the retail chain’s local reputation after several failed attempts to expand in the Boston market.

Few Massachusetts spectators expected at London Olympics

By Kathleen Pierce

The Olympic torch lands in London in two weeks, but Boston-area travel companies that sell packages have not found many takers.

Marion Cunningham, champion of home cooking on TV, in books

By Kim Severson

Marion Cunningham, a former California homemaker who overcame agoraphobia later in life to become one of America’s most enthusiastic advocates of home cooking, died at age 90.

Superior Court Judge Richard Damiani, who presided over some of ­Connecticut’s highest-profile cases during a career that lasted almost three decades, died Monday.

H.D. Holland, geochemist at Princeton, Harvard

By J.M. Lawrence

Dr. Holland was an Ivy League geochemist who taught thousands of students while publishing groundbreaking research.

Junior Seau’s family donated some of his brain tissue for research amid questions about whether damage from his football career contributed to his decision to commit suicide, officials said Thursday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Penn State should shut down football program

By Dan Shaughnessy

After Thursday’s explosive report, playing this fall would be just another demonstration that the vaunted football program is more important to Penn State than protecting children.

Minor League notebook

By Craig Forde

The Greenville Drive pitcher has recovered from an eye injury and is 9-2 this season.

Monadnock Music, Electric Earth music festivals try to get along

By Geoff Edgers

As Monadnock Music emerges from controversy with new leadership, it faces the upstart classical series Electric Earth.

Art Review

‘The Invention of Fantasy: Eighteenth-Century Venice’ captures romance, imagination

By Sebastian Smee

The Museum of Fine Arts exhibit is a casual collection of prints that capture 18th-century romance and imagination.

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Ballplayer: Pelotero’ a well-crafted, revealing film

By Janice Page

The documentary, produced by Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine, is essential education for baseball fans. It’s a bonus that it’s so entertaining.