Verizon fires 40 workers due to strike conduct
The employees, including 10 in Massachusetts, received letters over the weekend saying they were terminated for actions during a contentious two-week strike in August.
Obama: ‘Make or break’ time for middle class
President Obama delivered a sweeping indictment of economic inequality in the US as he summoned the memory of President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech today in Kansas.
Coakley urges Congress to investigate Ally Financial
Attorney General Martha Coakley urged lawmakers to investigate the lender and its subsidiary, GMAC Mortgage, for allegedly carrying out illegal foreclosures.
Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe
Special Section | Diversity Boston
Boston's suburbs becoming more diverse
In Massachusetts, as the towns of Lexington and Randolph illustrate, the growing diversity of the suburbs is a splintered story.
Menino pushes East Boston waterfront
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino took aim at stalled development in East Boston today in a major policy address focused on the waterfront.
Ex-Celtic Antoine Walker gets probation
Walker was sentenced today to five years of probation and ordered to pay $770,050 in restitution after pleading guilty to failing to repay gambling debts.
“There are some things I could imagine running six times, but the marathon isn’t one of them.”
Five-term Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino
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Columnists
Metro
Murphy resigns as House whip
House Majority Whip Charles A. Murphy said he wanted to avoid putting his colleagues through a vote on his removal being engineered by House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo.
Business
Talbots shopping again for new leader
Ailing Talbots Inc. yesterday confirmed it will replace chief executive Trudy F. Sullivan, who has failed to revive the troubled Hingham brand.
Politics
Gingrich amassing pile of policy shifts
Accused flip-flopper Mitt Romney faces a challenge by another GOP presidential candidate sharing the same liability: Newt Gingrich.
Nation & World
Rare attacks on Afghan Shi’ites kill 60
A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Shi'ite worshipers at a mosque in Kabul today, killing 60 people in the deadliest of two attacks on a Shi'ite holy day.
Sports
On baseball
Bobby Valentine quickly making rounds
The new manager said he has reached out to all Red Sox players and offered to meet with both Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett.
Lifestyle
E-cards prized as quick, scorned as impersonal
With a growing number of apps for sending e-cards, and even traditional greeting-card giants offering virtual cards, e-cards are taking off.
Arts
Dance Review
‘Urban Nutcracker’ takes contemporary leap
“Urban Nutcracker’’ takes the familiar tale of Clara (renamed Clarice) and plops her onto the bustling streets of contemporary Boston.
Diversity Boston
Diversity Boston
Boy Scouts seek to expand their membership in the inner city
Since the start of the year, the Boston Minuteman Council, a division of Boy Scouts of America, has been pressing to curb the race divide that marks its membership.
Opinion
“Although the Obama administration still talks about a strategic relationship with Pakistan, it has long since become a transactional one.”
H.D.S. Greenway
Ideas
Why anyone is ever selfless is a mystery that has fascinated, not to mention frustrated, scientists since Charles Darwin, who considered it a major problem for his theory of natural selection.
Leon Neyfakh