Photo e-mailed from Mass. led to child porn network

The image of a toddler clutching a stuffed rabbit was the beginning of a case that led to a Milford man to a serial abuser in the Netherlands, and to traffickers in seven countries and counting.

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Romney would support Israeli strike on Iran, aide says

Mitt Romney’s stance on a unilateral Israeli strike thrusts him into the debate over Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Elizabeth Warren’s fearless image helped propel her effort to win a Senate seat.

Warren’s star rose in D.C. battles

Elizabeth Warren earned a bold reputation that helped catapult her into the nation’s most high-profile Senate race, but also laid the groundwork for attacks against her.

New Mass. law allows drug coupons for prescription drugs

Consumer advocates and policy analysts argue that, while coupons may help patients in the short term, they also help drive up health care costs.

Patrick sends crime bill back

Governor Deval Patrick wants the controversial “three strikes” provision eased to give sentencing judges more flexibility.

Kobe Bryant put up a shot against France's Mickael Gelabale.

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US has no trouble with France

The US men’s basketball team showed its talent in pulling away from France in the opening-round game.

Jordyn Wieber of the US competed in the balance beam during the women's gymnastics qualifying round Sunday.

US breezes through in women’s gymnastics

The US women’s gymnastics team qualified for the finals, though world champion Jordyn Wieber didn’t make it through in the all-around competition.

Yvonne Abraham

Eritrean players hang on to a dream

They were members of the national soccer team in one of the world’s most brutal countries. They’re in the US now, but must they give up on soccer?

TOM KEANE

Rejecting Chick-fil-A is a good power play for mayor

The dustup over the fast-food chain has been portrayed as a First Amendment issue. But it’s more about smart politics and Mayor Menino’s ability to make the city in his own vision.

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The completion of the Charles River Dam Bridge on June 30, 1910, created the Charles River Basin and gave Boston the waterway that is now integral to our urban experience.

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Jon Lester, looking to break a three-game losing streak, gestures to his infielders during a scoreless first inning. Lester went six innings against the Yankees, allowing four runs.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox’ Valentine has to be careful managing Carl Crawford

book review

‘Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies’

Mul’s Diner provides a front-row seat to a changing South Boston. One arrival is the 139-unit apartment complex 50 West Broadway, opened in 2010.

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With reality TV, is Southie about to be New Jerseyed?
“Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour by Cirque du Soleil” employs an arsenal of mimes, acrobats, and dancers — as well as a live band — to showcase Jackson’s songs.

living arts

Michael Jackson lives on in ‘Immortal’

Alison Pargeter, at Roman ruins near Tripoli, says Khadafy’s “cult of personality...swallowed everything.”

Ideas | Q&A

The Libya that Khadafy left behind
Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo take a break from painting a mural on the Greenway.

Os Gemeos making first mural in Boston
This stretch of the popular Regent’s Canal towpath is between the Whitmore and Kingsland Road bridges.

travel

London’s edgy East End is game for Olympic influx

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Patrons ate clams and fries at a picnic table next to the water outside J.T. Farnham’s in Essex.

The Roads to Summer

Along 9-mile ribbon, a clam lover’s paradise

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Movies

Two couples join together to make ‘Ruby Sparks’
Nicholson Baker.

Exclusive Sunday Preview | book review

‘The Way the World Works’ by Nicholson Baker

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The power of the 21st-century mom network

Sports

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Red Sox 8, Yankees 6

Yankees center fielder Curtis Granderson misjudges a drive by Pedro Ciriaco in the ninth inning that went for a triple and brought in Jacoby Ellsbury with the go-ahead run.

Ciriaco is Sox’ designated hero

Unlikely DH Pedro Ciriaco, a 170-pound infielder who hasn’t homered this season, went 3 for 5 in the Red Sox Bronx win, raising his average to .356.

Metro

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Brian Sharp (left), Kerry Branon (holding camera), and Charley Potter examined the whale bone.

Whale skull found to be at least 300 years old, headed to Smithsonian

Researchers say a whale skull found on Brewster beach may provide a missing link between whales of yore and the present-day marine mammals.

Columnists

A 2-year-old girl looks up at the statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on Penn State’s campus in November 2011. School officials removed the 900-pound bronze statue and surrounding tribute last Sunday and moved it to an undisclosed location.

opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

A teachable moment for Penn State

JOANNA WEISS

The mysteries of a high-deductible health plan

Yvonne Abraham

Eritrean soccer players hanging on to a dream
The men’s 155-mile road race, won by Alexander Vinokourov of Kazakhstan, cycles through London’s Richmond Park.

Bob Ryan

Britain’s couldn’t keep up the pace in men’s road race
Jon Lester, looking to break a three-game losing streak, gestures to his infielders during a scoreless first inning. Lester went six innings against the Yankees, allowing four runs.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox’ Valentine has to be careful managing Carl Crawford

Dan Shaughnessy

The Red Sox are done

lawrence harmon

Privatization of Brighton field would set bad precedent

Christopher L. Gasper

Rob Gronkowski focusing on football, not fame

Brian McGrory

Mitt Romney, lost in translation

Bob Ryan

In Kenya, successful runners mean more than medals

Boston Capital

Online retailers pressed to collect sales taxes

Adrian Walker

Boston City Council districts should be scrapped

Business

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Coolest internships

Eric Bachli, 32, and 25-year-old Vilija Bizinkauskas, interns at Blue Hills Brewery in Canton, filled one of 32 kegs full of the signature summer beer Watermelon Wheat.

Careers in beer on tap for Blue Hills Brewery interns

Free beer and the chance for full-time brewing jobs with larger outfits draw interns to the small craft brewery in Canton.

Politics

President Obama’s campaign is determined to fight back even if it must put aside the image of hope and change.

In tight race, Obama jabs hard at Romney

President Obama has shown no inclination to hold back in trying to portray Mitt Romney as out of touch with the middle class.

Nation & World

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Rebel fighters have been pouring into Salaheddiin and other neighborhoods in Aleppo for days as President Bashar Assad’s forces have massed on the outskirts of the city.

Syria pushes attack on rebel strongholds

The Syrian Army pounded opposition strongholds in Aleppo on Saturday, while activists said that opposition fighters had at least partially repelled the assault.

Arts

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Artist and dissident Ai Weiwei.

Documentary on Ai Weiwei is story of art — and art of dissent

Director Alison Klayman found a portrait of contemporary China in Ai Weiwei.

Travel

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Iguazu Falls, on the border of Argentina and Brazil.

Argentina’s remote jungle hides birds, wildlife, and adventure

While tourists stream to Iguazú Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil, few venture deeper into the jungle of the remote province of Misiones.

Books

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Nicholson Baker.

‘The Way the World Works’ by Nicholson Baker

This collection of essays is Nicholson Baker’s fourteenth book and prompts reflection on his extraordinary writing career.

“Some guy is ritualistically abusing a child who has no voice, and we can stop that.”

Gregory Squire,  federal agent

Magazine

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Connected, powerful 21st-century moms
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25 best burgers around Boston
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

Opinion

“Putting it under wraps does not relieve Penn State of its duty to confront the good, the bad, and the ugly of Paterno’s legacy and learn from it.”

Joan Vennochi, on Joe Paterno’s statue

Ideas

“It might seem surprising that something as dramatic as a floating neighborhood would ever be proposed in Boston, but the city had a long history of building outward to the water.”

Courtney Humphries,   on Boston’s lost island neighborhood