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In Roxbury today, Romney to hit Obama on business

Mitt Romney plans to criticize President Obama over his handling of small business development during a visit to a Roxbury small business today.

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Matthew Gilbert

Emmy nominations star ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Homeland’

There were treats in this year’s nominations, but the omissions were glaring.

Mass. lost 2,600 jobs in June

The state posted its first job losses in seven months as the unemployment rate remained 6 percent.

Warren being considered as DNC keynote speaker

An Obama campaign official confirmed that US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is being considered for the high-profile speech at next month’s Democratic convention.

Arlington cleans up after storm knocks down trees

Hundreds of trees are down, dozens of homes are still without power, and at least eight streets remain closed in Arlington after Wednesday’s storm.

On Thursday, officials in Arlington worked to remove trees that fell when an apparent microburst hit the city during Wednesday's storms.

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On Thursday, officials in Arlington worked to remove trees that fell when an apparent microburst hit the city during Wednesday's storms.

Only a stump remained from a tree that fell on a car in Arlington.

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Only a stump remained from a tree that fell on a car in Arlington.

A large tree branch fell in front of the Hardy School in Arlington.

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A large tree branch fell in front of the Hardy School in Arlington.

Large sections of a tree fell on Lake Street in Arlington.

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Large sections of a tree fell on Lake Street in Arlington.

A tree fell onto a home on Margaret Street in Arlington.

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A tree fell onto a home on Margaret Street in Arlington.

Traffic contended with high water on Route 1 in Saugus Wednesday afternoon.

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Traffic contended with high water on Route 1 in Saugus Wednesday afternoon.

A car was stuck in water on a road in Malden on Wednesday as thunderstorms brought flooding to the area.

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A car was stuck in water on a road in Malden on Wednesday as thunderstorms brought flooding to the area.

Austin Esmond took advantage of deep water to catch a ride on the Boston Common.

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Austin Esmond took advantage of deep water to catch a ride on the Boston Common.

Rebecca Revenel of Boston kept herself and her four-month-old son Silas Revenel dry .

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Rebecca Revenel of Boston kept herself and her four-month-old son Silas Revenel dry .

Severe thunderstorms are rolling across the state this afternoon, tossing lightning, hurling hail, and dousing the area with heavy rain.

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Severe thunderstorms rolled across the state Wednesday, tossing lightning, hurling hail, and dousing the area with heavy rain.

Forecasters said earlier today that areas south of the Massachusetts Turnpike in Massachusetts would likely be hit the hardest.

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Forecasters said had predicted that areas south of the Massachusetts Turnpike would likely be hit the hardest.

Richard Salus sat on one of the tree stumps left behind at his Sudbury home.

NStar takes heat on tree-removal policy

Company officials say clear-cutting is the only way to guarantee reliable power, but the practice has outraged some homeowners.

House passes compromise three-strikes bill

The measure would eliminate parole for habitual criminal offenders while reducing some mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.

Is Tiger Woods ready to win another major?

British Open pick: Woods will finally win

Big names will contend, but golf’s biggest name will finally win a major again, Globe golf writer Michael Whitmer says.

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Bob Ryan

Penn State should discuss ending football
Brenda Delgado (center) participated in a class at Urban College, which may have to cancel its fall courses.

College faces closure over $250,000 deficit
Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk pointed to marine railways at a stop along the city’s new harborwalk.

Gloucester hopes to lure tourists with high-tech harborwalk
Weymouth in a yellow hi-lo top from Forever21 ($12.50) and red jeans from MadeWell ($88).

Kara Weymouth pursues fashion as blogger TheBostonista

Postal stamp revives the Williams-DiMaggio rivalry
SHIFTBoston ran a competition for ideas to illuminate Copley Square. Here, “Crystal Sun,” a sketch of one the three finalists.

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SHIFTBoston attempts to light up Copley Square
Only about one-third of the candlepins lanes that were available in the late 1980s are still available today.

Candlepin bowling lovers aim for a comeback
A flying leap from the dock at Castle Island was one way to contend with the humidity and 97-degree heat on Tuesday. Many others found respite in air-conditioning on what turned out to be the 110th anniversary of the cooling technology.

Amid blistering heat, quest for air conditioning
W. D. Foster, a disabled Iraq War veteran, called voters from the Obama Alabama headquarters in Birmingham.

Obama camp rallies base in red states
Ryan Overberg plays the Presley-esque singer who thrills the girls in Reagle Music Theatre’s “Bye Bye Birdie.”

STAGE REVIEW

‘Bye Bye Birdie’ sizzles in its 50s
Megan Porter, a college fellow, picks beans with intern Sophie Burnieka.

Cambridge students grow it and cook it
MITT ROMNEY

Romney’s potential running mates

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Red Sox general manger Ben Cherington, left, may be mulling changes to manager Bobby Valentine’s roster.

Larry Lucchino: ‘Bold’ trade possible from Red Sox

A day after Carl Crawford’s name surfaced in trade rumors, Lucchino said the team is open to some radical changes.

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Storms break heat wave, usher in cooler weather

Lightning and heavy rain swept across the state Wednesday afternoon, flooding roadways, downing trees and leaving more than 20,000 people without power.

Columnists

Juliette Kayyem

Michelle Bachmann’s anti-Muslim paranoia

Tech Lab

Photo sites worth seeing
The Rev. Michel Louis, (seated left), Lissa Alphonse, and Egyptian tour guide Hithem Mohamed rested at a police station after they were released by their kidnappers in Egypt.

joan vennochi

Kerry, Brown compete for credit after hostage release

Yvonne Abraham

Boston superintendent controversy not a race matter

Bob Ryan

Penn State should discuss ending football

Jeff Jacoby

A book lover’s lament

scot lehigh

Echoes of the Ryan budget
Red Sox lefthander Jon Lester’s season-long struggles — he’s 5-7 — continued with a loss to the White Sox.

Dan Shaughnessy

No excuse for Jon Lester’s frustrating season

Brian McGrory

There’s no way to avoid political ads on TV

farah stockman

Uncertainty on taxes has a high cost for US economy
Kevin Youkilis, left, caught up with ex-teammate David Ortiz before Monday’s game.

Bob Ryan

Kevin Youkilis deserves his comfortable spot

Boston Capital

A struggle for straight answers from Romney

Business

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Workers will get $31k in back pay

The state attorney general found a Woburn firm’s subcontractor paid illegally low wages to men from a Philadelphia church who renovated Boston’s Copley Place Marriott hotel.

Politics

Mitt Romney has pledged to release a complete 2011 tax return but said he will end his disclosures after that.

Republicans push Romney to get it over with, release tax returns

Allies say Mitt Romney could score points for transparency and weather a few stormy news cycles about his wealth, but the candidate appears certain the tempest wouldn’t subside.

Nation & World

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A bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting in Damascus, striking a serious blow to Bashar Assad’s brain trust.

Deadly blast strikes at heart of Bashar Assad’s inner circle

The Damascus bombing killed at least three of the Syrian leader’s most senior aides in the most audacious challenge to Assad’s power since the uprising began 17 months ago.

Arts

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MOVIE REVIEW

Christian Bale as Batman.

What a superhero movie is supposed to look like

Christopher Nolans’s Batman trilogy ends with an epic — even majestic — crash in “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Style

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Sara Faith Alterman (the author of this piece) and her husband, Sam Hawes, on their windy wedding day.

Wedding season shows promise

Attending nuptials as a newlywed provides great perspective about the recent past — and the future.

“I won’t know who, you won’t know who, but there are a lot of innocent people out there who won’t be harmed because of this.”

Les ­Gosule,  on the tough-on-crime “three strikes” bill passed by the Massachusetts House

Magazine

The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

12 Bostonians Changing the World
The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
The cover for the June 24 2012 issue

A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?

Opinion

“According to the new wave of anti-Muslim accusations, America’s enemy takes the form of a woman in national security who marries a man outside her faith as a decoy to her real intentions.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“Iran’s so-called halal Internet will be a kind of anti-Internet—a self-contained loop within Iran’s borders featuring only regime-approved sites, and cut off from the World Wide Web.”

Abraham Riesman,  on bottled, national Internets