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President Obama spoke at Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law Wednesday afternoon.

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President Obama was given a Red Sox cap by Mayor Menino after Obama arrived in Boston Wednesday afternoon.

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Obama waved as he exited Air Force One at Logan Airport.

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Obama, with Governor Patrick and Celtics legend Bill Russell, got a sneak peek at the statue honoring Russell.

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Cathey Park of Cambridge waited in Faneuil Hall before President Obama's speech.

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Officials prepared Faneuil Hall for Obama’s visit Wednesday.

Obama will be speaking about health care in the same spot where then-Governor Romney signed the Mass. law in 2006.

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Obama will be speaking about health care in the same spot where then-Governor Romney signed the Mass. health law in 2006.

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Police lined up outside Faneuil Hall on Wednesday.

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President Obama boarded Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, before heading to Boston.

Earlier in the day, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was grilled at a House committee hearing.

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Earlier in the day, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was grilled at a US House committee hearing.

In Boston speech, Obama defends health law

Speaking at Faneuil Hall, President Obama said the health care law in Mass. is a model for the national program.

Sebelius apologizes for health care website ‘debacle’

Top US health official Kathleen Sebelius was grilled on the troubled website, including questions about data security, at a House committee hearing.

Obama to attend Weston fund-raiser

About 60 high-powered, moneyed attendees will dine on Spanish-influenced fare and snack on Red Sox cookies later today.

Shirley Leung

Everyone wants a piece of the casinos

As communities across Mass. decide on casinos, businesses from restaurants to florists are lining up for a piece of the action.

David Ortiz’s unscripted team meeting in the dugout during Game 4 could be a defining moment if the Red Sox wind up winning the title.

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Game 6: Red Sox vs. Cardinals, 8:07 p.m., Fox

David Ortiz’s pep talk may be Series’ seminal moment

The Red Sox slugger’s unscripted team meeting in the dugout during Game 4 could be a defining moment if Boston winds up winning the title.

From the archives | 1918

The last time Red Sox won Series at Fenway

Explore how the Globe covered the Red Sox’ last title-clinching win at home, 95 years ago, when they improved to 5-0 all time in the World Series.

State to take over 4 struggling schools

The Dever and Holland elementary schools in Boston, as well as schools in Holyoke and New Bedford, will be taken over in an effort to bolster student achievement.

Fed leaves stimulus policies unchanged

The Federal Reserve said the US economy still needs support.

Opinion

SCOT LEHIGH

Keeping the mayor’s race in perspective

Here’s one thing you can say with certainty: Both candidates are good and decent individuals.

Globe exclusives

An artist’s rendering of the hot, rocky world, Kepler 78b.

Earth-sized planet discovered close to its sun

Brad Stevens is entering his first season as the head coach of the Celtics.

NBA season preview

Celtics’ new season full of question marks

Koji Uehara is blogging about “The battle against St. Louis” in his native Japanese.

Translating Koji Uehara’s blog

In 1975, Carlton Fisk’s walk-off home run allowed the Red Sox to force a seventh game of the World Series against Cincinnati.

Dan Shaughnessy

Ups and downs in Game 6 for Sox

Green pepper in taco ‘a sign’ of Red Sox victory, woman says

Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations, posts on Twitter about Syria and the Sox.

Sox fans connect on social media

Edye Baker welcomes hundreds of trick-or-treaters to her Swampscott home each year and snaps photos of them in costume.

Trick-or-treating for posterity

Top: A flight for the four tasters is poured from a bottle of white wine. Above: Josh Cole, beverage director at Puritan & Co., the restaurant in Cambridge, tests a white wine. The bottles are wrapped to disguise their labels, and numbered, and tasters’ notes refer to those ID numbers.

9th annual Plonkapalooza

Value wines offer some surprises

An image from a video in Oliver Herring’s “Areas for Action.”

Galleries

Uplifting show from ‘the bottom rung’

XO scallops at Shanghai Social Club in Allston.

DINING out

A toast to American Chinese restaurants

Kiengiang Restaurant’s menu includes banh xeo (pictured) and pho tai nam gau (below).

Cheap Eats

Off the beaten track, stellar Vietnamese in Everett

John Lackey laughed during a press conference at Fenway Park on Tuesday.

Photo gallery

Red Sox at Fenway on Tuesday

World Series

Clay Buchholz (left) and John Lackey, Wednesday night’s Game 6 starter, look on during batting practice Tuesday.

John Lackey can cap redemptive Red Sox season

Starting a potential World Series clincher is not new ground for Lackey, who won Game 7 for the Angels in the 2002 Fall Classic.

Sports

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Midweek Report | On Football

Patriots coach Bill Belichick went blitz crazy in the second half against the Dolphins.

Patriots used blitz to rally back against Dolphins

Bill Belichick didn’t call many blitzes for his defense through the first seven games. Sunday, the Patriots coach brought the house.

Boston mayoral race

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Politics

Martin Walsh and John Connolly debated for an hour.

Boston mayoral rivals swing away in final debate

Desperate for an edge in a tight race marked by few major policy differences, John Connolly and Martin Walsh ripped each other’s background.

Metro

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Investigators believe Michael Pouncey may be able to provide information about a photograph Aaron Hernandez took of himself in 2009.

Officials hope Aaron Hernandez friend sheds light on gun

Authorities want to question the Dolphins’ Michael Pouncey about a gun Hernandez is holding in a photo taken while both were University of Florida students.