Sandy shakes up presidential campaign strategies

By Brian MacQuarrie

The hurricane prompted President Obama and Mitt Romney to cancel rallies and raised questions about the effect of the storm on voting.

Storms of past help Scituate cope with Sandy

By Akilah Johnson

Some fears of town officials came to pass when winds felled trees — and, with them, power lines, causing darkness to descend over some neighborhoods.

High court hears challenge to surveillance law

By Jesse J. Holland

Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of a government request to block a lawsuit challenging expansion of a 1978 surveillance law.

Failed Syrian cease-fire ends; death toll tops 500

By Ben Hubbard

Syrian jets unleashed what opponents called the widest one-day bombing since the uprising began.

Israel’s intelligence service has arrested dozens of Hamas members in the West Bank who had been setting up infrastructure for the militant Islamic group there, according to a statement.

Turkish police use tear gas against demonstration

Monday’s march to mark the founding of the Turkish republic went on despite the police’s use of tear gas and water cannons against tens of thousands of pro-secular protesters.

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Hurricane solidarity won’t last long

By Juliette Kayyem

The nation, and political parties, seemed to come together in the response to Sandy, but that detente is likely to be fleeting.

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By Farah Stockman

One reason Pakistan hasn’t made more progress in its fight against extremism is its habit of denying that such homegrown extremism exists.

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By Paul McMorrow

A handful of housing developers are getting worked over because they won’t live up to a false, idealized notion of class and ethnic identity in Jamaica Plain.

Sandy slams Mass., hundreds of thousands lose power

By Peter Schworm, Martin Finucane and Melanie Dostis

One of the largest storms ever to hit the East Coast pummeled Massachusetts on Monday with punishing winds and dangerously high seas.

Storms of past help Scituate cope with Sandy

By Akilah Johnson

Some fears of town officials came to pass when winds felled trees — and, with them, power lines, causing darkness to descend over some neighborhoods.

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By Kevin Cullen

Scituate residents survive storms with a mix of hardy defiance and deep spirituality, and nowhere is that attitude more resplendent than in the sanctuary that is St. Frances.

By Beth Healy

Environmental services company Clean Harbors Inc. said it has agreed to acquire Safety-Kleen Inc., an oil recycler to the likes of NASCAR, for $1.25 billion.

Drug-mix industry stymies regulators

By Robert Weisman and Bobby Caina Calvan

There have been a series of attempts at the federal level to rein in a business that has largely evaded the kind of stringent oversight established drug makers face.

Travelers eye storm and await flights, trains, buses

By Katie Johnston

Travel ground to a halt in New England Monday, and cancellations and delays were expected Tuesday as Sandy’s effect continued to be felt.

Gudmund Vigtel, 87; transformed Atlanta’s High Museum of Art

By Paul Vitello

Mr. Vigtel led the museum’s move to an architectural statement of a building designed by Richard Meier.

Betty Anne McCaskill, 84; mother of senator

The mother of Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, and the first woman elected to the Columbia, Mo., City Council, has died.

Roscoe Gorham, 76; managed popular Roxbury club, aided musical acts

By Steve Morse

Roscoe Gorham, who ran the popular Roxbury club Roscoe’s Lounge, where members of New Kids on the Block played, died of prostate cancer Oct. 23.

Celtics season preview

Rajon Rondo now among Celtics greats

By Bob Hohler

Rondo is drawing praise from some of his predecessors as perhaps the greatest point guard in Celtics history.

On Basketball

For Celtics and Ray Allen, moving on was best

By Gary Washburn

It’s still strange to see Allen talk about his transition so easily, but as the hurt feelings on both sides show, the relationship had run its course.

Buster Posey critical to success of Giants

By Peter Abraham

The Giants catcher drove in nine runs in 16 postseason games and handled a pitching staff that had a 2.88 earned run average.

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Looking at the way men think

By James Sullivan

In a prison classroom, author Anthony D’Aries finds masculine barriers to communication similar to those with his father, which he chronicles in his memoir “The Language of Men.”

Frame by Frame

Making ordered work out of lifelike wildness

By Sebastian Smee

“Second Time Painting” is one of a series of three witty, brazen works Robert Rauschenberg made in 1961.

Graffiti artists take party above ground

By Liza Weisstuch

Josh Falk and Greg Maxim-Burdett have assembled a show for the unveiling of a new studio space for their collective called Project SF, short for Super Friends.