Warren rips deals with big banks

By David Uberti

After a quiet first month, Senator Elizabeth Warren rebuked federal regulators for settling cases with banks.

Republicans block Hagel from defense post

By Jeremy W. Peters

The move is likely to further strain partisan tensions while temporarily preventing the White House from assembling its national security team.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and KEVIN McGILL

A federal judge has approved Transocean Ltd.’s agreement with the Justice Department to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and pay $400 million in criminal penalties for its role in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Amid tensions, S. Korea stages military drills

By Choe Sang-Hun

Following North Korea’s nuclear weapons test, South Korea staged military drills and disclosed a new cruise missile.

By GEORGE JAHN

Tehran showed UN officials equipment meant to accelerate output of material that can be used for both reactor fuel and atomic arms.

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza

Tunisia’s prime minister will continue to oppose his own political party and seek to form a government of technocrats by Saturday to solve the country’s crisis or resign.

SCOT LEHIGH

GOP progress — now you see it, now you don’t

By Scot Lehigh

After four long years as Chicken Little, can the GOP conclude that the sky actually hasn’t fallen and remake itself?

Richard W. Murray and Daniel P. Schrag

The coming storm

By Richard W. Murray and Daniel P. Schrag

The best chance of success in minimizing the effects of climate change will involve industry, government, and citizens making challenging decisions.

Elissa Ely

By Elissa Ely

MassHealth covered the cost of the cream to rid a patient of scabies, but not the cost of a load of laundry.

Kevin Cullen

Whitey-washed disinformation

By Kevin Cullen

Whitey Bulger needs to summon all his considerable powers of persuasion to convince anybody except the dangerously naïve that he wasn’t an informant.

Cyclists say their rights are going unrecognized

By Martine Powers

In Boston’s growing cycling community, a perceived lack of criminal prosecution of motorists involved in fatal bike crashes has been a source of outrage.

At University of Vermont, no admission for bottled water

By Brian MacQuarrie

UVM is the first public university in New England to ban bottled water, which activists say is environmentally unfriendly from the factory to the landfill.

Insurers set off a fight on replacement parts

By Todd Wallack

Repair shops in Mass. are considering lobbying state regulators to prevent insurers from insisting on using only used or generic parts to fix cars.

By Beth Healy

The 30-year bull market in bonds, with prices rising as interest rates plunged, is ending, market strategists said.

Few local changes likely as airlines merge

By Katie Johnston

The $11 billion merger agreement between American Airlines and US Airways is not expected to have a major impact at Logan.

Joe Morgan, 67; newsman finished career in traffic copter

By Bryan Marquard

Mr. Morgan spent the end of his career high above Greater Boston reporting on traffic for WBZ Radio from a helicopter.

Jake McNiece, rabble-rousing, bridge-razing paratrooper

By William Yardley

Mr. McNiece, 93, was a paratrooper from the Filthy 13 during World War II.

By Gregory Katz

Mr. Dworkin was a liberal scholar who argued that the law should be founded on moral integrity.

Celtics still seen as dangerous team

By Baxter Holmes

NBA insiders say the depleted Celtics could make a second-half surge because of their veteran guile and leadership from Doc Rivers.

Dan Shaughnessy

Why we love Larry Lucchino

By Dan Shaughnessy

The man who runs the Red Sox may not be happy with Dan Shaughnessy, but the Globe columnist offers abundant praise for him.

Christopher L. Gasper

NBA’s age limit doesn’t need repeal

By Christopher L. Gasper

The knee injury of Nerlens Noel, the likely No. 1 pick, is unfortunate, but the bigger tragedy would be repealing the NBA’s age limit because of it.

Shakespeare’s marriage is at center of ‘The Last Will’

By Jeffrey Gantz

Shakespeare’s final puzzling years are addressed in Robert Brustein’s “The Last Will,” now having its world premiere at the Modern Theatre.

Television review

‘Beyoncé’: In search of charisma

By Matthew Gilbert

The HBO documentary is a vanity production from top to bottom with very little that feels genuinely candid.

Names

New tune arrives just in time for Timberfakes

The Timberfakes — Boston’s own Justin Timberlake cover band — were elated when the pop star announced that he’d be making new music.