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Six killed in shooting at Sikh temple in Wisc.

At least six people were killed Sunday when a gunman opened fire at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee, and the suspected shooter later died in an exchange of gunfire with police.

Romney says more stimulus funding won’t help economy

Instead of stimulus from the Federal Reserve, Mitt Romney advocates incentives and “opportunities for entrepreneurs,” he said in an interview that aired Sunday.

Franklin Morales allowed one run on three hits over six innings for the win Sunday against the Twins.

Red Sox 6, Twins 4

Red Sox win final game of Twins series

Franklin Morales gave up one run over six innings, and Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-run home run, as Boston won the last game of the four-game series.

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Senator Brown’s turbulent childhood is a story of Dickensian dimensions — of a boy, lonely and largely left to raise himself. But not everyone remembers past events as he does.

Jamaica's Usain Bolt, right, won the men's 100-meter with an Olympic-record time.

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Bolt proves again he’s world’s fastest man

Usain Bolt of Jamaica won his second straight Olympic gold medal in the men’s 100 meters Sunday, crossing the line in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds.

Seimone Augustus drove past China defenders Miao Lijie (8) and Ma Zengyu (11).

US 114, China 66

US women rout China in basketball

The US team took control of the game in the second quarter on their way to their 38th straight win in Olympic play.

McKayla Maroney of the US fell in the women's gymnastics vault final.

Maroney falls, Izbasa wins gold on vault

Sandra Izbasa of Romania won the Olympic gold medal on vault after heavy favorite McKayla Maroney of the US fell on her second attempt.

Joe Blanton was traded to the Dodgers after Los Angeles claimed him on waivers. Blanton will join outfielder Shane Victorino, who was sent from the Phillies to Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Sunday Baseball Notes

MLB players who could be put on waivers

Already we’ve seen the Phillies deal Joe Blanton to the Dodgers and the A’s deal catcher Kurt Suzuki to the Nationals. There’s likely a lot more to come.

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Globe Insiders Event | Sept. 13, 2012, 6:00 p.m.

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Join Globe editor Peter Canellos, author Michael Grunwald, and former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker for a look at the US presidential race.

Globe exclusives

Hatchery manager Mickey Novak held up a female salmon at the Sunderland hatchery where the fish are mated.

US bid to return salmon to Connecticut River ends
Zhao Yunlei (left) and Tian Qing of China gave it their all in a thrilling victory over Japan in the gold-medal match.

Bob Ryan

Badminton finale thrilling, not controversial
The Olympic cauldron is lit during the Danny Boyle-directed Opening Ceremony for the London Games.

arts

A critic’s first Olympics
New Orleans Saints offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael Jr.

Sunday Football Notes

Pete Carmichael Jr. one reason Saints have a prayer
The author’s son, Alex Filipov, with an illustration in their Hard Days Night Hotel room.

Travel

Touring Liverpool with a Beatlemaniac son
Cat Cho of Sydney paddled around the Ram Island Lighthouse, built in 1883, on a Maine Kayak excursion.

4 ways to get on the water in New England
The author’s group heads home through the West Elk Wilderness in Gunnison National Forest.

travel

Western Colorado on horseback

Movies

Mocking the vote with ‘The Campaign’
The robo-shark, dubbed Bruce, “became a personality in itself,” said “Jaws” production designer Joe Alves.

Movies

‘Jaws’: Shark tale still has plenty of bite
The author’s children at one of the 1950s vintage cottages at Woodward’s Inn of Lincoln.

Travel

Pancakes and nostalgia in Lincoln, N.H.
Guitarist Bill Frisell will play three times at Newport.

At Newport Jazz, Frisell gives Lennon a chance

Housing bubble? What housing bubble?

Sports

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“When you get a good lift, the bar is literally weightless off your body,” said Olympic weightlifter Holley Mangold.

For weightlifter Holley Mangold, bigger is better

With an extra-large physique, Mangold has become something of a weightlifting prodigy, a medal contender who is still mastering the technique.

Metro

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Hubway bikes at the rack in Copley Square.

Greater Boston to celebrate Hubway bike share expansion

After a first year that far exceeded expectations, a “Rolling Launch Party” will welcome Boston’s Hubway bike sharing system into Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline.

Columnists

First lady Michelle Obama campaigns in Manchester, N.H., Thursday.

opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

This time, Mass. gives Obama little help in N.H.
Bicyclists and pedestrians travel in Stockholm, where traffic has decreased significantly since the city started charging drivers a fee to enter congested areas.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Finding the cure for traffic

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Dropbox’s tale speaks to a Bay State weakness
Roger Federer put in a long workday, taking more than four hours to eliminate Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro.

Bob Ryan

Federer wins an Olympic classic at Wimbledon

Adrian Walker

Gregory Sullivan, crusading inspector general, calls it a career

LAWRENCE HARMON

Energy czar put the green in Boston
Tom Brady waves (left) to some of the many fans attending Patriots practice Friday wishing him well on his 35th birthday.

Christopher L. Gasper

Tom Brady’s 35th birthday presents a dilemma

Brian McGrory

Children’s Hospital plans may mark end for Prouty Garden
Aly Raisman looked up towards the screen after final results were declared.

Bob Ryan

Tiebreaker that cost Raisman bronze hard to figure
An Indian man walked past cables and exposed wires at an electricity substation in New Delhi, India, Wednesday.

Juliette Kayyem

India’s blackout a cautionary tale

opinion | Joshua Green

White male Democrats fading in Congress

Joan Vennochi

Patrick backed down on crime bill

Business

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The state Legislature approved measures to control health care costs and took other steps intended to improve the state’s business climate.

Last legislative session bodes well for future of business

Mass. lawmakers authorized millions for economic development, approved measures to control health care costs, and took other steps intended to improve the state’s business climate.

Politics

President Obama, who spent about $400 million on his campaign from the beginning of last year to June 30 this year, kissed a baby during a campaign stop in Virginia Beach, Va.

After burning through cash, Obama loses upper hand

The president’s campaign is betting that heavy early investments in personnel, field offices, and high-tech infrastructure will propel him to victory in November.

Nation & World

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Bismullah Mohammedi, Afghanistan’s interior minister, and Rahim Wardak (above), the chief of defense, have responsibility for building up Afghanistan’s army and police force.

Afghan lawmakers vote to oust 2 security chiefs

The surprise move could create new turmoil in an already troubled handover of control as the US-led coalition prepares to leave the country.

Arts

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Art Review

Robert Motherwell’s “Beside the Sea With Fish and Chips,’’ on view in Provincetown.

Motherwell show colored with his seaside memories

Robert Motherwell was one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism, the movement that played a central role in shifting the art world’s center of gravity from Paris to New York.

Books

‘Ghost Milk’ by Iain Sinclair

The novel is a meditation on the destruction that can be wrought on a landscape by the excesses of development, including the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Travel

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The author’s group heads home through the West Elk Wilderness in Gunnison National Forest.

Riding through Western Colorado on horseback

A four-day trek into the West Elk Wilderness in Colorado’s Gunnison National Forest brings 15 far-flung family members together.

“It was very difficult trying to wrestle with some of the things that happened, things I hadn’t talked about in forty years.”

Senator Scott Brown 

Magazine

The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Me vs. the Woodchuck
The cover for the July 29 2012 issue

Connected, powerful 21st-century moms
The cover for the July 22 2012 issue

25 best burgers around Boston
The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

12 Bostonians Changing the World

Opinion

“If the real goal is legalization, then do so openly: regulate it, tax it, and get crooks out of the business of growing and distributing it.”

Tom Keane, on medical marijuana

Ideas

“If Willen is right, then the finger-pointing that’s occurred since the financial meltdown is all beside the point. Instead, we need to accept the frightening fact that when an economic delusion takes hold, none of us may be able to tell.”

Leon Neyfakh, on a Federal Reserve economist bearing very bad news