GOP spurns Boehner tax bill
Speaker John Boehner did not harness his unruly House majority, cancelling a vote on a bill to extend tax cuts for most while letting rates rise on millionaires.
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Chemist’s e-mails show ties to prosecutors
Annie Dookhan, arraigned Thursday on 15 counts of altering drug evidence and obstructing justice, viewed herself as part of the prosecution team, the e-mails show.
Brian McGrory named Globe’s new editor
Brian McGrory named Globe’s new editorMcGrory, a 23-year veteran of The Boston Globe who led groundbreaking coverage as local news editor and wrote award-winning columns, will become the next editor.
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A final column
A final columnYou, Globe readers, showered Christmas in the City with nearly $100,000 and thousands of gifts, which partly explains the bittersweet feelings I have in leaving this column today.
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Tainted steroids found to cause spinal infections
The contaminated injections that caused a national meningitis outbreak are now causing a second wave of dangerous fungal infections.
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Weld’s return to Boston brings speculation of a Senate run
Maybe the timing, so elusive in recent years, is right for former Massachusetts governor William F. Weld, who had longed to be senator.
Hamilton in a holding pattern for Bruins
Top prospect Dougie Hamilton will play for Canada in the World Junior Championship, but he’s ready and eager to make the leap to Boston.
Dan Shaughnessy
The end of all things... sports
The Mayan calendar says Friday is the last day in the history of the world. Here’s what this means to sports fans.
The apocalypse as a plotline
Pop culture has been schooling us in the end of the world for eons, so if the world does end as some insist the Mayan calendar has predicted, no one can say we weren’t prepared.
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A five-part Globe series on a year in Boston’s Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood.
Sports
Patriots at Jaguars | Sunday, 1
Justin Francis progressing with Patriots because of work
The undrafted Francis has played in eight of the last nine games. Against the 49ers, he made four tackles.
Metro
Boston mayor anticipates leaving hospital Sunday
Mayor Thomas M. Menino, hospitalized since Oct. 26, said he expected to be released from the Spaulding Rehabilitation.
Columnists
Nation & World
Diplomats can’t work in a cocoon, Kerry says
Senator John F. Kerry on Thursday made an impassioned plea for the need for American diplomats to interact extensively with foreign populations, despite the security risks.
Politics
political notebook
Inouye recalled for service to country
Senator Daniel Inouye, the second-longest serving senator in US history, was remembered as a man who gracefully sought to better his country.
Business
US growth faster than expected
The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.1 percent over the summer, but is probably slowing in the current quarter.
Arts
Bang! Bros. breakneck tour (almost) one for the record books
The duo tried to break the record for most performances in different cities in 24 hours, playing 12 shows in 12 towns.
Movies
Movie Review
Cotillard delivers in ‘Rust and Bone’
From director Jacques Audiard, the movie is a twisted yet surprisingly ordinary love story about a kickboxing single dad and a killer whale trainer whose legs get bitten off.
