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Brown criticizes efforts to register welfare recipients

The US senator said the state welfare department sent voting registration forms to 478,000 people as a ploy to boost the ranks of Democratic voters and benefit his rival, Elizabeth Warren.

Romney ad targets Obama’s stance on welfare reform

Mitt Romney’s campaign paints President Obama as a proponent of government handouts who has long opposed work requirements for those who receive welfare.

Boston starter Josh Beckett gave up eight runs in five innings against the Rangers.

Rangers 10, Red Sox 9

Red Sox lose slugfest at Fenway

Josh Beckett gave up eight runs in five innings as the Red Sox lost two of three to the Rangers and six on this 10-game homestand.

The sun sets in Pleasant Plains, Ill., in July.

July was hottest US month on record

Federal scientists say July was the hottest month ever recorded in the continental United States, breaking a record set during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Kerri Walsh Jennings (left) and Misty May-Treanor of the United States celebrated after winning the women's beach volleyball gold medal match.

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Women’s Beach Volleyball

May-Treanor, Walsh Jennings win third straight gold

The pair won beach volleyball gold after beating fellow Americans April Ross and Jennifer Kessy.

Allyson Felix (second from right) won the women’s 200-meter sprint.

Allyson Felix of US wins women’s 200-meter sprint

Felix passed Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica down the stretch to win, while American Carmelita Jeter took bronze.

Kirsten Amann says at first she was reluctant to write a book about racy cocktails, but then remembered that cocktails are supposed to be about having fun.

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The saucier side of getting sauced

Kirsten Amann’s new book is a trip through an array of X-rated cocktails, including the “Hanky Panky” and the “Walk of Shame/March of Glory.”

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Globe exclusives

Joseph Reading, 10, of Fall River cheered Tom Brady at a Patriots’ practice Tuesday.

Fans pouring into Patriots training camp
Aly Raisman won the floor exercises, a first for an American gymnast, after taking the bronze on the balance beam.

For Raisman, individual gold worth the wait
At Cafe Beirut in Jamaica Plain, lamb kebab with rice pilaf and homemade pickles and moujadara.

Cheap Eats

Authentic Lebanese cooking in JP
A new seven-story learning center for the New England Conservatory on Huntington Avenue and Gainsborough Street would include 60 practice rooms and a public jazz cafe.

New England Conservatory to expand campus

Photos

Best images from the London Olympics
Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep in the comedy/drama “Hope Springs,” directed by David Frankel.

Movie Review

Getting older, not necessarily better in ‘Hope Springs’
Organic cucumbers being readied for fermenting in a drum.

food

Locavores turn to fermenting crock to preserve their veggies
“Biking in Berlin 23” by Nancy Murphy Spicer.

Galleries

Reimagining an urban landscape

Margaret Dunbar Cutright, one of the authors that researched the mysteries of the Bobby Dunbar case in Lousiana.

Book Review

‘A Case for Solomon’ by Tal McThenia and Margaret Dunbar Cutright
Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine chatted with Red Sox Scholar Ben St. Fort at the Dimock Center in January.

Red Sox top charitable giving list
Maryanne O’Hara at the Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown.

Author revisits a long-submerged piece of Central Mass.
“Hull” by Hyman Bloom

Frame by Frame

From an eviscerated body, spiritualism emerges

Sports

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PGA Championship

Keegan Bradley’s whirlwind rookie season included a win in the PGA Championship, which he hopes to defend this week.

Keegan Bradley’s ego in check, but his game is huge

The Hopkinton product is at the top of the PGA pyramid, but is proudly connected to his modest roots as he defends his PGA Championship title.

Metro

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Glass Slipper nightclub

Disagreement over booth led to strip club shooting, police say

Steven Gayle of Jamaica Plain was arrested for allegedly shooting two men in the head at the Glass Slipper strip club.

Columnists

The Zakim bridge in 2002.

Brian McGrory

A bright idea for the Zakim Bridge

Kevin Cullen

Bulger wants to do it his way

Bob Ryan

NBA proposal to change Olympics isn’t moving

scot lehigh

Romney’s fanciful tax plan

Jeff Jacoby

Rich Americans pay their fair share in taxes — and then some

Farah Stockman

Tea Partiers see UN plot to take over America
Bobby Valentine watched batting practice before Monday’s game.

Dan Shaughnessy

Are the Red Sox really backing Valentine?
The Bulls were not happy that injury-prone Luol Deng (center) played for Britain. “I have no regrets,’’ Deng said.

Bob Ryan

Not all is lost for Great Britain basketball

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The $600,000 budget thorn

james carroll

Dark fantasy in action

Adrian Walker

Alarm bells in Roxbury health center
Usain Bolt leans at the line, crossing in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds to win the gold ahead of Yohan Blake (5, silver) and Justin Gatlin (6, bronze).

Bob Ryan

Usain Bolt again makes fast work of the 100

Business

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An iced coffee on a counter in a Starbucks in New York.

Starbucks to accept Square mobile payments

Starbucks will be the first national chain to let customers pay with the mobile payment application.

Politics

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Michael Jordan will headline a celebrity basketball game in New York that will double as an Obama fund-raiser.

Michael Jordan recruits for Obama fund-raiser

Jordan will headline a New York celebrity basketball game, and Celtics Rajon Rondo and Paul Pierce are expected to attend.

Nation & World

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Wade Michael Page allegedly died from a self-inflicted wound, the FBI said on Wednesday.

Wis. gunman died of self-inflicted wound, FBI says

Officials said Wade Michael Page died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he was shot by police at a Sikh temple.

Arts

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Thursday Preview | Movie Review

Jeremy Renner stars in “The Bourne Legacy,” the fourth movie of the action-packed series.

‘Bourne Legacy’ can’t revive the franchise without Matt Damon

Even Jeremy Renner’s runty determination can’t wake this dormant series.

Lifestyle

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The little-known Egyptian walking onion.

Egyptian walking onions, almost extinct, now on a chef’s menu

Call it the little onion that could.

“When everybody’s broke, racism takes a second seat.”

Alan Cashaw, Johnstown, Pa., NAACP

Magazine

The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Can GPS find you a mate?
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

“Romney is teetering on the brink of a credibility chasm created by his party’s irreconcilable ideological demands.”

 Scot Lehigh

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