Despite election flops, super PACs likely to boost spending

By Michael Kranish and Callum Borchers

Even though some Republican-oriented super PACs didn’t produce GOP victories, the amount of contributions to such committees could increase for the 2014 elections.

Mitt Romney ‘gifts’ remark raises ire within GOP

By Brian MacQuarrie

After stumping hard for Romney in the presidential campaign, several Republican rising stars are now berating him as divisive and potentially damaging to the party.

BP to plead guilty, pay $4.5b in Deepwater Horizons settlement

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and STANLEY REED

BP said Thursday it would pay $4.5 billion in fines and plead guilty to 14 criminal charges.

Tensions mount along Gaza border

By Isabel Kershner

Israel and Hamas brushed aside international calls for restraint on Thursday and escalated their lethal conflict over Gaza.

By ALAN COWELL

A former British politician who was wrongly implicated in child sexual abuse by BBC said the broadcaster should have called him to verify.

By MELANIE GOUBY

Forty-four people were killed in new fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels Thursday.

Scot Lehigh

Enough supply-side silliness

By Scot Lehigh

The GOP needs to move away from “dumbed-down conservatism.” It also needs to rethink supply-side economics, its doctrine since the Reagan era.

Joan Wickersham

If I Ran the Zoo

By Joan Wickersham

A poem about what to do to rude people if we had our way.

Editorial

As a former major-party presidential nominee, Romney has a chance to serve the public, so he should watch his words.

By Todd Wallack

Regulators are moving to strengthen oversight of compounding pharmacies like the one in Framingham blamed for a deadly meningitis outbreak.

Brian McGrory

Perpetual politics in Mass.

By Brian McGrory

Get ready for two solid years of nonstop bickering, ominous commercials, over-programmed candidates, and dinnertime robo-calls.

Murray adds to the buzz over 2014 governor’s race

By Noah Bierman and Stephanie Ebbert

Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray said he is taking a serious look at the next governor’s race.

By Todd Wallack

Regulators are moving to strengthen oversight of compounding pharmacies like the one in Framingham blamed for a deadly meningitis outbreak.

By Megan Woolhouse

Unemployment rose for the fourth straight month in the state, with the 6.6 percent figure well below the national mark of 7.9 percent.

Air fare for travel on Thanksgiving up in Boston, US

By Katie Johnston

In Boston, the average domestic Thanksgiving week fare this year is $481 round trip, up 3 percent from last year.

Jane Holtz Kay, architecture critic and author

By Bryan Marquard

In her books and work for the Globe and The Nation magazine, Ms. Kay was a preservationist, a historian, and a guide toward a more sensible approach to endless urban evolution.

Bernard Lansky; clothier in Memphis outfitted Elvis

By Adrian Sainz

Mr. Lansky, 85, was the retailer who helped a young Elvis Presley establish his signature clothing style of pegged pants, two-toned shoes, and other flashy duds.

Olympe Bradna, child star worked with Gary Cooper

By Paul Vitello

Ms. Bradna, 92, was a French-born dancer and actress who charmed Broadway as a child star of Paris’s touring Folies Bergere and appeared in Hollywood films.

Nets 102, Celtics 97

Celtics miss Rajon Rondo in loss to Nets

By Frank Dell’Apa

The Celtics improvised with a point guard by committee, but defensive inconsistencies proved costly.

Tennis Hall of Fame removes Bob Hewitt

By Bob Hohler

The Hall said it would suspend Hewitt indefinitely and disassociate itself from him after investigating allegations that he sexually abused girls he coached.

Aqib Talib says he’s just here to help

By Shalise Manza Young

The new Patriots cornerback, back from suspension, opted not to talk about his checkered past and said he only wants to focus on football.

Art Review

The art of the ’80s at the ICA

By Sebastian Smee

“This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s” at the Institute of Contemporary Art reflects on the decade’s raw, heartfelt, and politically engaged work.

Curating a decade

By Geoff Edgers

Curator Helen Molesworth says the new ICA exhibition is not the final word on the ’80s, just her take.

Photography Review

‘Provisional Aesthetics, Rehearsing History’ at Wellesley

By Mark Feeney

Two exhibits, in videos and photos, show interesting views of the world.