Turmoil engulfs Egypt, death toll rises

As the death toll of clashes between protestors and police soared to 638, relatives in search of loved ones uncovered the faces of the bloodied, unclaimed dead.

Jane Richard, who lost her older brother Martin and her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombing, is recovering and using a prosthetic.

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Richard family continues recovery

Four months after the Boston Marathon bombing took their youngest son’s life and severed their daughter’s left leg, the family is doing its best to resume a normal life.

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Athol residents welcomed Sergeant Sean Murphy, who released the photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture in response to a Rolling Stone cover.

Movie Review

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Lee Daniels’s star-studded film is remarkable for its unerring social portrait of a black middle class torn by the era.

Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs is one of the few redeeming features of Joshua Michael Stern’s biopic “Jobs,” out on Friday.

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‘Jobs’ gets pulped in laborious film

Ashton Kutcher as the late founder of Apple is one of the few redeeming features of Joshua Michael Stern’s Steve Jobs biopic.

An artist's composite of the Kepler telescope is seen in this undated image.

NASA officials give up on fixing Kepler telescope

Scientists have spent months trying to repair the planet-hunting telescope’s positioning mechanism.

Edwin Alemany was arraigned in the murder of Amy Lord at West Roxbury District Court today. His lawyer said he tried to commit suicide scratching open the arteries on his neck and arms.

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.

Opinion

NICHOLAS BURNS

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The president now has the opportunity to open talks with Iran for the first time in 34 years.

Globe exclusives

A Chinese worker sat in front of a huge billboard advertising the opening of a fast food restaurant in Shanghai.

Is obesity a form of addiction?
Aaron Hernandez was arrested in June and has remained in jail without bail since.

Inside the double life of Aaron Hernandez
The olinguito, the first carnivore species to be discovered in the Americas in thirty-five years.

New mammal species found ‘in plain sight’
MLB commissioner Bud Selig

MLB set to expand instant replay in 2014
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
Small cosmetic changes were made to the Forum restaurant’s second floor.

Forum on Boylston Street reopens
“We didn’t want to go completely traditional,” said Lindsay Pumpa, the project’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.

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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
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
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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Tom Brady, center, was with the Patriots for their workout on Thursday.

Tom Brady returns to field for Patriots

Wearing a knee brace, Brady was back at practice Thursday, one day after exiting with a left knee injury.

Metro

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Federal court Judge Joseph Tauro has spent about four decades on the Massachusetts bench.

Groundbreaking federal judge to step back

US District Court Judge Joseph Tauro, the first judge to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, is retiring from full-time status.

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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Lebanese residents ran past burned cars and shops at the site of a car bomb explosion in southern Beirut.

Powerful blast kills 3 in south Beirut suburb

A car bomb ripped through a crowded southern Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah.

Politics

Gov. Deval Patrick introduced President Barack Obama during a fundraiser stop in Boston in 2011.

Patrick had dinner with vacationing president

President and Michelle Obama took time from their Vineyard vacation Wednesday to share a meal with Governor Deval Patrick.

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Applicants waited in line for appointments with a representative from the Department of Unemployment Assistance in Woburn.

State unemployment rate rises to 7.2%

The Massachusetts unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent in July, the highest level since September 2011.

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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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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