Amid wrangling on Hill, Kerry keeps visibility low

By Matt Viser

Senator Kerry has kept a low profile recently that contrasts with his previously outspoken tendencies.

GOP senators offer immigration compromise

By Rosalind S. Helderman

Three Republican senators offered an alternative to the Dream Act, proposing to give permanent residency, but not citizenship, to young adults brought into the country illegally.

By Don Babwin

A suburban Chicago man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for killing his wife and three school-age children as they sat buckled into the family’s SUV.

200,000 protest Mohammed Morsi in Egypt

By Maggie Michael and Sarah el Deeb

Protesters packed Egypt’s Tahrir Square in the biggest challenge yet to the Islamist president.

By Sameer N. Yacoub

Insurgents launched attacks against security forces and civilians in central and northern Iraq on Tuesday.

By Jill Lawless

Shakespeare’s Globe, the open-air London playhouse that helped win modern audiences over to all-weather outdoor theatergoing, is embracing the great indoors.

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End of the Menino era?

By Scot Lehigh

If Mayor Menino opts to call next year his last, he goes out unbeaten, with a valedictory period in which his time at City Hall will be celebrated.

opinion | Anna Ross

By Anna Ross

The concept of community seems entirely absent from the proposals under consideration.

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By Jeff Jacoby

What Medicare needs is not more top-down control, but the flexibility and competition of a consumer-driven free market.

Cost soars in Mass. drug lab scandal

By John R. Ellement

The state’s public defender agency estimates that defending the thousands affected by suspect evidence could cost $332 million.

Road ahead may get rocky for Governor Patrick

By Frank Phillips

Deval Patrick faces issues that will challenge his ability to shape his legacy during the last two years of his governorship.

Powerball fever hits peak with $500m jackpot

By Katheleen Conti

In anticipation of Wednesday night’s jackpot drawing, scores of Mass. residents are expected to purchase last-minute tickets to get in on the action.

By Jenifer B. McKim

The 4,000 single-family homes sold last month pushed the number of statewide sales for the first 10 months of 2012 above the total for all of last year.

By Robert Weisman

Moving closer to building a New England franchise, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is seeking to enter the Connecticut market.

Suffolk University shifts core of campus downtown

By Casey Ross

The school, long a controversial neighbor on Beacon Hill, will shift its campus closer to Boston’s downtown and build a $62 million classroom complex.

Marvin Miller, transformative baseball union chief, dies at 95

By Mark Feeney

Mr. Miller helped create free agency for baseball players and changed professional sports with multimillion dollar contracts. He was 95.

Earl ‘Speedo’ Carroll, sang with Cadillacs, Coasters

By Margalit Fox

Mr. Carroll, the lead singer of the 1950s doo-wop group the Cadillacs, who later was a New York City school custodian, died Sunday in Manhattan. He was 75.

Running back duo boosting Patriots’ offense

By Fluto Shinzawa

Stevan Ridley and Shane Vereen give the Patriots two contrasting styles, and give a new threat to what was already a dominant offense.

On baseball

Marvin Miller deserved to be in Hall long ago

By Nick Cafardo

Miller transformed not only baseball but other sports forever, but there are no clear answers to why he isn’t in Cooperstown already.

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Kevin McHale dealing with saddest loss of all

By Dan Shaughnessy

The Celtics legend and his wife, Lynn, have become devastated new members of the saddest club in the world; they are parents who have lost a child.

The unstyled look of hipster food magazines

By Jonathan Levitt

The latest trendy food and lifestyle magazines are driven by a desire to exist outside the mainstream food world and all that goes with it.

Cheap Eats

Outside of Union Square, potatoes every which way

By Sheryl Julian

PotatoFreak is tucked away in Cobble Hill Plaza, a small strip mall a few miles and light years from Union Square. But they can really turn out a spud.

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