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Gun battle leaves suspect dead, two officers wounded

Two suspects opened fire on officers from the drug control unit in a daylight shootout in Dorchester.

Wes Welker is now wearing Denver colors, but it sounds as though he is still bothered by things that happened in New England. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Welker details how bond with Belichick fell apart

The ex-Patriots receiver said the coach rode him especially hard last year, and that he finds himself still wary of violating Belichick’s rules.

JPMorgan is target of mortgage security investigation

JPMorgan Chase disclosed that it faces investigation into whether it sold shoddy mortgage securities to investors in the runup to the financial crisis.

No verdict on second day of Bulger deliberations

Since getting the case on Tuesday, jurors in the James “Whitey” Bulger case have deliberated for about 13 hours.

Tom Brady (flanked by Leon Washington and Danny Amendola) worked his magic with the football during Wednesday’s session vs. the Eagles. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Patriots TRAINING CAMP

Tom Brady and receivers put on a clinic against Eagles

Rookie receivers Dobson, Thompkins, and Boyce were a handful for the Eagles, and the Patriots’ secondary play improved, too.

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Race for mayor has many down to their fighting weight

Several months into the city’s first open mayoral race in 20 years, most candidates have either lost weight or kept off pounds they shed in anticipation of running.

Candidates back more restaurant, nightlife options

Three candidates for mayor agreed that Boston needs more nightlife, bars, and restaurants but differed on how to bring them to the city.

Matt Damon and Alice Braga star in the Neill Blomkamp-directed drama “Elysium.”

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Matt Damon’s ‘Elysium’ is standard, not gold standard

Writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s new film is essentially “District 9” with bigger stars and less reason to exist, which hardly means it’s terrible.

Opinion

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The Players Association prodded those union members who allegedly received performance-enhancing drugs to accept a measure of punishment.

Globe exclusives

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Lawrence Summers.

Despite ties, Warren, Summers paths are diverging
David Tennant and Olivia Colman play mismatched detectives thrown together to solve a murder in “Broadchurch.”

Television Review

‘Broadchurch’: A town undone
Isabella “Belle” Hankey has filed suit against the Concord-Carisle schools.

A happy school life lost
Red Sox broadcaster Don Orsillo preparing his chicken and sausage dish.

Don Orsillo at home in the kitchen
Deviled eggs with tuna and black olives added to the creamy yolk at Oleana.

Dining out

Oleana adventurous, iconic
Anna Volain (center), 20, shopping for snacks at Shaw’s on Commonwealth Avenue with friends Liza Posner (left), 20, and Isabel Monteiro, 21.

Gen Y a tough target market
From left: Jennifer Aniston, Will Poulter, Emma Roberts, and Jason Sudeikis in “We’re the Millers.”

Movie Review

‘Millers’ a safe comedy about drug smuggling
Mike Napoli welcomes Jonny Gomes after Gomes’s three-run home run in the sixth.

On Baseball

Jonny Gomes gives Red Sox a 2nd manager
Entrepreneur Sarah Cherry Rice described her curriculum-mapping tool for teachers at a recent Waltham event.

Start-ups take on education’s tangles

Album Review | FOLK/COUNTRY

Tension, grace on ‘The Civil Wars’
The tower will be the first major office building in Seaport Square.

PwC signs lease for Seaport offices
Items from the “light entrees” menu at Hit Wicket in Inman Square include potato sliders (pictured) and South African bunny chow with chicken.

Cheap Eats

Hit Wicket menu calls to cricket fans

Sports

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PGA Championship

Tiger Woods has been in contention at two of the first three majors this year, with a tie for fourth at the Masters and a tie for sixth at the British Open.

Is it finally time for Tiger Woods to end drought?

The world No. 1 player is fresh off a big win and has five victories this season, but has been stuck on 14 major wins since 2008.

Metro

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Patrons watch a harness race at Plainridge Racecourse in Plainville.

Plainridge looking at quick sale to save slot bid

Disqualified from a statewide competition to develop a slot parlor, owners of Plainridge Racecourse are pursuing a quick sale of the track.

Columnists

Caroline Kennedy

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Ambassadorship requires a seasoned diplomat, not a big name

Adrian Walker

The future begins at the Globe

Shirley Leung

The case for a sales tax rollback
A picture taken from inside a car shows Iranians waiting at a bus station in downtown Tehran in June.

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Tehran calculations
Steve Davis (white hair, in front of microphones), the brother of alleged Bulger victim Debra Davis, spoke to the reporters outside the Moakley federal courthouse as joggers passed by Monday.

Kevin Cullen

The theater of Whitey
Pope Francis waved from his popemobile on the Copacabana beachfront in Brazil.

JAMES CARROLL

The pope’s ‘culture of solidarity’

JOHN E. SUNUNU

‘Grand bargain’ is a grand head fake
Shane Victorino held a little impromptu meet-and-greet with some of the 37,611 Fenway Faithful in Sunday’s game.

Christopher L. Gasper

These Red Sox are Dirt Dogs again
Danny Ainge entrusted the Celtics’ head coaching job to 36-year-old Brad Stevens.

Bob Ryan

Stevens has a tough road ahead in NBA

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mayor’s race looms over Suffolk casino
Dockyard, a small Boston-based company, could be facing a significant cost increase, says principal Brian Cardarella.

Innovation Economy

Tech firms learning a costly lesson
Lucy loves to share online songs and videos with her grandmother.

Beverly Beckham

Would a ‘cure’ change the love?

Nation & World

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President Barack Obama spoke to US troops and their families at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Wednesday.

Obama says he would save money by refinancing

President Obama said he hasn’t taken advantage of low interest rates for the mortgage on his Chicago home but would save money if he were to do so.

Politics

Mayor Menino attended a ceremony at the closed Marshall Elementary in Dorchester.

Thomas Menino’s mayoral pick hard to call

Boston’s mayor, who insists he is staying out of the race, has praised two of the candidates and his campaign committee donated money to a third.

Business

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“The fact that we are placing the most sweeping tax on the innovation economy is stunning,” said Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.

Business leaders fight technology tax in Mass.

A coalition of business leaders plans to ask voters to repeal the newly imposed sales tax on computer software services.

Arts

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Heidi Whitman’s collage “From Z to A,” from the “Drawing Connections’’ exhibition.

What’s up at Boston-area art galleries

The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts has given the summer to “Drawing Connections: 23d Drawing Show.”

Food & dining

Cookbook Review

Food blogging couple Lindsay Landis and Taylor Hackbarth.

‘Breakfast for Dinner,’ from husband-wife team, isn’t too cute

The book may not add lasting value to your cookbook collection, but like a good beach novel this volume is tasty enough to set aside.

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Magazine

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The lake house
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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield
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Kitchen overhaul

Ideas

“There hasn’t been a meaningful rethinking of who should appear on our paper money since 1928, when early versions of the bills we still use today entered circulation.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on American currency