Egypt authorizes use of deadly force

After 525 people were killed in clashes between police and protesters, Egypt authorized the use of deadly force to protect police and key institutions.

US President Barack Obama made a statement about Egypt today in Chilmark, Massachusetts.

Obama cancels joint exercises with Egyptian military

President Obama canceled a joint military exercise with Egypt, but stopped short of cutting off $1.5 billion in US aid to the country.

Sergeant Sean Murphy left State Police Headquarters after facing a disciplinary hearing for his role in releasing capture photos of accused Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsaranev to the media in July.

Trooper who released photos of accused bomber back on patrol

State Police Sergeant Sean Murphy, who released photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture, has been assigned to the Athol barracks.

Before he left the field with a knee injury Wednesday, Tom Brady participated in a joint workout with the Buccaneers.

Charles Krupa/AP

ON FOOTBALL

Tom Brady’s injury is Patriots’ latest misfortune

After Wednesday’s knee-injury scare, Brady had better sit out the final three preseason games, just to make sure he’s healthy and ready for September.

Jason Wolfe fired by WEEI

Wolfe oversaw both the station’s rise into one of America’s most successful sports talkers and also its recent fade in the Boston market.

Aaron Hernandez was arrested in June and has remained in jail without bail since.

Inside the double life of Aaron Hernandez

Family turmoil and rough associates marked the football player’s life growing up in Bristol, Conn.

Words on gays cost bishop post at Dartmouth

A prominent African bishop’s deanship was rescinded because of controversy over his views on homosexuality.

Opinion

NICHOLAS BURNS

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Obama now has the opportunity to open talks with Iran for the first time in 34 years. He has the right instinct — diplomacy first before thinking about war with Iran.

Globe exclusives

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Small cosmetic changes were made to the Forum restaurant’s second floor.

Forum on Boylston Street reopens
Gabe Mott said competing for the Hult Prize has opened opportunities for his McGill University MBA program team.

Hult Prize accelerator preps competitors for $1m
“We didn’t want to go completely traditional,” said Lindsay Pumpa, the pro-ject’s lead interior designer. “But we did want to speak to Boston color-wise.”

HGTV gives away a luxury condo in Boston

Cambridge restaurateur Jason Bond and sous chef Rachel Miller at the future site of a second Bondir, in Concord.

G Cover

The year of the second restaurant
“At the end of the day it was good to get this guy in jail,” said former State Police colonel Thomas Folery. “But you’d like to see processes put in place so it doesn’t happen again.”

DA may try Bulger, allies
Dan O’Malley, CEO of PerkStreet Financial, said the company simply ran out of options when it was unable to attract enough partnerships and investors.

PerkStreet Financial shuts down after five years

Shirley Leung

Business establishment, meet start-ups
Lisa Saunders parked her car for hours at a time in a valet-only zone.

A valet space of her own
On January 15, 1919, 21 people died when a tank at the Purity Distilling Co. in the North End burst, spewing molasses everywhere.

The science behind 1919 molasses disaster
R.I.P.D, filmed in Boston, Raynham, and Providence, accounted for more than 70 percent of film tax credits issued by the state last year.

After big tax break, cop film was a flop
At Pho Le in Dorchester, you can try noodle soup with shredded vegetables on the side.

A primer on Vietnamese cuisine

Sports

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Blue Jays 4, Red Sox 3

Dustin Pedroia reacted after a called third strike

Blue Jays win over Red Sox in 10

Mike Napoli hit a home run to tie the game, but the new life was only temporary. Toronto scored in the bottom of the 10th to win.

Metro

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Edwin Alemany in court Wednesday, Aug. 14. He had scratches on his arms and neck as he entered his arraignment Thursday, which his lawyer said were self-inflicted.

Alemany attempted suicide, lawyer says

Edwin Alemany, accused of killing Amy Lord of South Boston, had scratches on his arms and neck today as he entered his arraignment.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Raynham track owner riding on luck
Forum, photographed shortly after Boylston Street was re-opened to the public just over a week after the Marathon bombings. The restaurant is set to re-open Thursday.

Adrian Walker

Getting back to business

SCOT LEHIGH

The GOP’s Obamacare whale hunt
Dan Wolf waits for passengers and baggage to be loaded on his plane before taking off from Provincetown Memorial Airport for Boston in 2007.

JOAN VENNOCHI

There’s not a Dan Wolf ethics exemption

Derrick Z. Jackson

Easing the drug laws

Adrian Walker

Mayor’s race hits its stride
A member of a team from the military’s Human Terrain System conducts an interview in Afghanistan in late 2009.

Farah Stockman

Is social science our silver bullet around the world?
At left, the South Boston waterfront; On the right, James “Whitey” Bulger, center, walking on Castle Island with associates Stephen “Rifleman” Flemmi, left, and Kevin Weeks, right, in an undated photo.

Kevin Cullen

Everything has passed Whitey by
The FBI is accused of enabling Whitey Bulger, seen in this mug shot taken in 1955 in Miami Beach.

JEFF JACOBY

Federal overreach — then and now
Johnny Manziel can’t profit from own name.

Christopher L. Gasper

NCAA needs reform

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mass. officials must investigate Todashev death
A freeway sign warned drivers of people crossing in Chula Vista, Calif.

JAMES CARROLL

Sealing the border is part of problem

Nation & World

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Private First Class Bradley Manning said he hopes to someday earn a college degree.

Manning ‘sorry’ for leaks, actions that hurt people

Private Bradley Manning apologized Wednesday for leaking 700,000 government files to WikiLeaks.

Politics

Newt Gingrich (left, with Reince Priebus), emphasized the need to make the GOP appeal to more demographic groups.

GOP in Boston to strategize for 2016

Republicans are meeting in Boston this week, trying to remake their party as a more inclusive, forward-thinking entity.

Business

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State Senator Karen Spilka admits she didn’t oppose the IT tax in a recent bill.

Lawmaker moves to repeal software tax

Democratic state Senator Karen Spilka, running for Congress, has filed a bill to repeal the software services tax that caught many in the tech sector off guard.

Arts

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Book Review

‘The Realm of Last Chances’ by Steve Yarbrough

In “The Realm of Last Chances,” Yarbrough takes a calm, somewhat relaxed attitude toward his characters’ decay.

Style

Boston tastemakers on their 5 must-haves for fall

Ten tastemakers on their must-have list this season, and the answers — overalls! camo! oversize coats! 3D-printed jewelry! — inspired us.

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Magazine

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Daniel Nava, the long shot
The cover for the August 4 2013 issue

The lake house
The cover for the July 28 2013 issue

Walter Willett’s food fight
The cover for the July 21 2013 issue

What happened at Deerfield

Ideas

“The enduring appeal of the books tells us something about how deep the romance with self-reliance runs through American history, and the gaps between the Little House narrative and Wilder’s real life say a lot about the government help and interdependence that we sometimes find more convenient to leave out of that tale.”

Christine Woodside,  on the Little House books as Libertarian fables