Weekend fires displace 48 residents

Fires in Cambridge, Lowell, and the Jamaica Plain section of Boston have displaced a total of 48 residents from their homes.

Watergate figure Charles Colson dies at 80

Mr. Colson, the special counsel to President Nixon who went to prison for his role in Watergate and later became a Christian evangelical helping inmates, has died.

BU identifies slain 24-year-old as Indian student

Boston University identified the man shot to death early Thursday in Allston as mathematical finance student Kanagala Seshadri Rao.

UN authorizes 300 observers in Syria

The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Saturday expanding the number of UN cease-fire observers in Syria from 30 to 300.

Yankees 15, Red Sox 9

Yankees hand Red Sox their fifth straight loss

The Yankees erased a nine-run deficit with back-to-back seven-run innings to beat the Red Sox.

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Sahr Ngaujah as Fela Anikulapo Kuti in the musical “Fela!” in a 2009 performance in New York.

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Bill T. Jones on making ‘Fela!’

The unconventional Broadway bio-musical is about the Nigerian musical superstar and political outlaw Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

Copley’s “Paul Revere” (1768) has become an icon of Revolutionary-era America.

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John Singleton Copley: Portrait of the artist as an Englishman

We’ve adopted him as the first great American painter. He wouldn’t have seen it that way.

Robert Battle (center) rehearses his work “Takademe” with Linda Celeste Sims and Yannick Lebrun.

Robert Battle looks within to lead Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

When the company makes its 42d Celebrity Series of Boston appearance, Battle will have been at the helm for almost 10 months.

“The style is what holds everything together with my work,’’ says Alex Katz, here checking the sequencing of pieces for a show at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Alex Katz, prince of prints

At 84, Katz brings his trademark style and pastoral vision to the major MFA show.

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Rockport Police Chief John McCarthy, left, and Mass. State Police Spokesman David Procopio spoke to reporters Friday as aircraft and divers searched the water and area near Long Beach in Rockport for two-year-old Caleigh Anne Harrison.

Search resumes for missing toddler in Rockport

Capitals 4, Bruins 3

Troy Brouwer lifts Capitals past Bruins

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Cubs trade Marlon Byrd to the Red Sox

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144 free things to do around Boston
At Buttonwood Park Zoo in NewBedford, Emily, front, and Ruth poked a ball made from strips of old tires by the Toys for elephants sculpture class at Massachusetts College of Art.

MassArt class solves a huge challenge
Junior attackman Will Manny has 32 goals and 55 points to lead the Minutemen in scoring.

UMass is No. 1 in the nation in men’s lacrosse

Francona returns to cheers, adoration

Smartphone ticketing set for commuter rail

Boston expects surge in cruise business

Nonstop vigil keeps Scituate group hopeful
Stefano Durante of Italy cooled off , with some help from Kathryn O’Friel of Ashby, while climbing Heartbreak Hill on Commonwealth Avenue in Newton.

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Scott Brown says he may release six years of tax returns. Elizabeth Warren said she will release 2010 and 2011 returns.

Brown closer to release of tax returns

US Senator Scott Brown inched closer to fulfilling the Globe request, telling radio host Jim Braude, “Yeah, actually, we’re taking that under consideration.’’

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US Airways reaches pact with American unions

US Airways said Friday that it had reached an agreement with the three main labor unions at American Airlines to support a merger.

Columnists

Outside Fenway Park on its first Opening Day in 1912.

Bob Ryan

For longtime foes, nothing rivals in comparison

lawrence harmon

All is not fair in Boston hotels

Love Letters

Is he stringing her along?

opinion | scot lehiigh

Maher, Nugent pollute the dialogue

Dan Shaughnessy

A day to remember, and a game to forget

Joan Wickersham

Preparing for the Great Flood

Brian McGrory

An untimely award

Edward L. Glaeser

When helpful intentions go up in smoke

Yvonne Abraham

2012, how I miss thee

Joan Vennochi

Tarek Mehanna case puts First Amendment on trial
Thousands turned out to tour Fenway Park during an open house on Thursday.

Dan Shaughnessy

It’s Fenway Park’s time to shine
It’s time for the Patriots to pay Wes Welker, Bob Ryan says.

Bob Ryan

Going through the sports thought process

Politics

Political Notebook

President Obama wants Congress to extend a law that cut interest rates on a federal loan program for low- and middle-income undergraduates.

Obama wooing young voters with student loan focus

President Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will make on campuses in states crucial to his reelection.

Nation & World

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Egyptian generals urged to give up power

Tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square to demand that generals relinquish the power they took after former president Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

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White Sox 4, Mariners 0

White Sox pitcher Philip Humber throws perfect game

Phil Humber threw the first MLB no-hitter in almost two years, leading the White Sox to a 4-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners.

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Music Review

Lucero honors Levon Helm with rowdy country rock

Lucero and J. Roddy Walston and the Business performed Thursday at the Paradise Rock Club, distilling an Americana brew the way Levon Helm himself did for decades.

“When I lose it, I can’t replace it, because it’s like walking around with a $100 bill. Except I don’t slide a $100 bill in and out of a machine all the time.’’

Ryan McGovern,  on commuter rail passes

Magazine

The cover for the April 15 2012 issue

In an artist’s garden
The cover for the April 8 2012 issue

Are fat baseball players a problem?
The cover for the April 1 2012 issue

45 best breakfast joints around Boston
The cover for the March 25 2012 issue

Snorkeling vacations you can’t miss

Opinion

“The federal government attempts a sin tax, 10 percent imposed on tanning beds by the health care law. But the administration hasn’t made us any skinnier, nor will it make us paler.”

Jennifer Graham  

Ideas

“The complexity of federal rules may not be just a reflection of bad style, but a direct and possibly unavoidable result of how our government works.”

Leon Neyfakh