As Senate seeks 11th hour deal, partisan skirmishes continue

US Senate leaders on Sunday scrambled to reach a deal that both Congress and the White House could agree on to defuse the deepening crisis -- at least temporarily.

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner attempted to forge a comprehensive budget deal in 2011, a process that ended bitterly.

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Broken City

Obama’s vision of unity led only to a wider gap

Five years into the Obama presidency, the capital and the country as a whole is far more divided than it was before he was elected.

Anne Morriss played with her son, Alec, 5, on Saturday in Cambridge.

Company seeks to make sperm banks safer

GenePeeks is offering a test aimed at reducing the odds of having an unhealthy child when using a sperm donor.

A courtyard at the UMass honors college complex.

New complex elevates UMass honors program

The university hopes the new $192 million, seven-building complex housing the honors college will lure some of the state’s top students to Amherst.

David Ortiz hit a grand slam in the eighth inning.

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Red Sox 6, Tigers 5

David Ortiz, Red Sox take dramatic win over Tigers

Ortiz’s grand slam in the eighth rallied the Red Sox in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, which is now 1-1.

Dan Shaughnessy

Incredible sports day, from start to finish

Close your eyes and it’s 2004 again. Tom Brady is throwing last-second touchdowns, and David Ortiz is the greatest clutch hitter in baseball history.

Kenbrell Thompkins held onto the ball, scoring the winning touchdown with five seconds remaining in the game.

Patriots 30, Saints 27

Brady’s late TD pass lets Patriots keep faith

In a career full of he-did-it-again moments, Tom Brady’s late-game drive, capped off by a 17-yard touchdown pass to Kenbrell Thompkins, may have been the best one.

Ross Levanto of Beacon Hill had volunteered for Mayor Menino’s political organizations starting in 2005. Now the 37-year-old is volunteering for John R. Connolly’s team.

After 20 years, Menino’s political operation scatters

Word filtered through Team Menino that the boss had given the sign that those who wanted to join the mayoral campaigns should follow their hearts.

Opinion

JOHN E. SUNUNU

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The website disaster is a symptom of a deeply flawed law and the incompetence of the massive bureaucracy needed to carry it out.

Globe exclusives

Mrs. William Meuse and her son Jim, who were burned out of their 125 Spruce St. home, with Mayor Philip Spelman.

Recalling the Great Chelsea Fire of 1973
Tara Brosnick, a medical student at Rutgers University, performs an optical biopsy on a patient’s face using the VivaScope 3000.

No-cut biopsies are here
Nearly six months after he lost his leg in the Marathon bombings, Marc Fucarile was able to stand and kiss his fiancée, Jen Regan.

Together, despite all
Evan Dobelle was welcomed to the University of Hawaii in March 2001, along with his with his wife, Kit, and son, Harry. Three years later, he left under a cloud of controversy.

Did Westfield State miss warning signs?
When Tom Lyons bought the New England Mobile Book Fair, he found inventory was not automated.

A retirement fantasy: Owning small bookstore
Michelle Daszkiewicz, of Norfolk (left), and Debbie McElroy, of Wrentham, showed off the t-shirts that they bought at Curt Schilling’s estate sale.

Curt Schilling’s estate sale was a hit
Joan Wheelis now has the letters, books, official documents, and photographs that her mother, Ilse Kaulbach, had saved.

A long obscured branch on Kerry’s family tree
Brian Howley was one of the drivers who took part in a Drive In Prayer event held at Christ Lutheran Church In Scituate.

Scituate Lutheran church offers drive-through prayers
Devin McCourty’s shift to safety is seen as contributing to the Patriots’ better defense.

Patriots’ defense has improved in limiting big plays
Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting in 2012.

third ear

From shadow of war, a legacy of resistance
Jamie Tedford’s hunch on ads led him to start a business.

Innovation economy

Mad Men meet Mr. Spock
Benedict Cumberbatch (left) plays WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, above left with Daniel Bruhl as his partner.

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Cumberbatch has ideas about ‘The Fifth Estate’

Sports

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A hero of postseasons past, David Ortiz rounds third base — as the Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera looks on — to a standing ovation after his grand slam in the eighth inning tied Game 2 at 5.

David Ortiz deserves this save

Big Papi did what Big Papi is supposed to do: He saved his team’s hide.

Boston mayoral race

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Jim McKay (left) and Peter Barbuto spoke with Dolly Pickup and her grandson, Jackson, in South Boston on Saturday as they worked to build support for Martin Walsh’s mayoral bid.

Well of support for Martin Walsh among those in recovery

Reformed alcoholics and drug addicts are devoted acolytes of Walsh, with some crediting their second chance directly to the mayoral candidate.

Metro

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In search of votes, John R. Connolly made a campaign pitch to a resident of Arizona who was in town for a wedding.

Mayoral candidates look for support at Columbus Day Parade

Over a long weekend in the heart of a tourist-friendly city, Martin Walsh and John Connolly had a tough time finding city voters.

Columnists

From left: Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack Obama, and White House spokesman Jay Carney.

JOANNA WEISS

Talking points: The home version
David Ortiz addressed fans during an April pregame ceremony honoring the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.

JAMES CARROLL

‘B-Strong’ for democracy as well as security

Dan Shaughnessy

This game was one for the ages

Yvonne Abraham

17 years and still waiting
Joe Kennedy is 10 months into his first term.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Joe Kennedy’s surprising Tea Party take
Lobsterman Steve Train inspects a lobster while hauling traps in the waters off Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Derrick Z. Jackson

New England’s threatened lobster
Mayoral candidates Marty Walsh, left, and John Connolly face an arbitration controversy.

SCOT LEHIGH

How to fix the arbitration process

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A mother, a son, a love
Jon Lester, center, and the Red Sox welcome the Tigers for the start of the ALCS on Saturday.

Christopher L. Gasper

Don’t consider these Red Sox underdogs
David Ortiz spoke with the Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera during team workouts on Friday.

Dan Shaughnessy

ALCS gives us an old-school matchup

NICHOLAS BURNS

Shutdown diminishes US as a global power

CARLO ROTELLA

Home life

Nation & World

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Social Security raise among smallest in history

For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans, and federal retirees can expect historically small increases in their benefits.

Business

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APP SMART

Cheat sheets for your walk in the woods

As you take long autumn strolls in the wild, apps can be excellent nature guides.

Arts

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Photography Review

Stanley Tretick’s photograph of John F. Kennedy brushing back Jacqueline Kennedy’s hair, from 1961.

All the photographic way with JFK

“Capturing Camelot” has its share of political and historical photographs, but it’s the personal photographs that stand out.

Health and wellness

From left: Women of Means founder Dr. Roseanna Means, pilot program member Orga Soto, and Dr. Shaun Austin, at the Women’s Lunch Place shelter in Boston.

Taking health care to the street

Women of Means — a nonprofit that provides medical care at a Boston shelter — aims to keep poor and homeless women healthier while streamlining medical treatment.

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Into the woods
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Becoming Bostonian
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Do we still trust Bill Belichick?

Ideas

“Texting and driving is unlike any public safety issue we’ve dealt with before....At the center of the problem, say experts, is a new kind of object — the modern smartphone — that’s changing our behavior on a massive scale.”

Leon Neyfakh on our cellphone habit