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At confirmation hearing, bipartisan praise for Kerry
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Senator John McCain introduced Senator John Kerry during his confirmation hearing.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, and Republican Senator John McCain introduced John Kerry at his secretary of state confirmation hearing.

Mass. single-family home prices rose 18% last year

The numbers are another sign that the state’s housing market may be on the mend.

Older injuries raise questions for nanny

Old bone fractures were discovered in a 1-year-old Cambridge girl who died last week, allegedly at the hands of her nanny.

Yvonne Abraham

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For working mothers, the case of 1-year-old Rehma Sabir should be especially disturbing.

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At new Panera cafe, customers pay what they want

The Government Center Panera Cares location, the chain’s fifth nonprofit outpost, depends on donations from customers.

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Ex-Chelsea Housing chief Michael McLaughlin faces up to 20 years for allegedly falsifying his income, reported as $360,000 in 2011.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Clinton’s reality check

It isn’t a grand strategy that will make the world safer, but rather small bureaucratic moments, Hillary Clinton told legislators.

Beyonce performed at President Obama’s second inauguration.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Unlike Beyonce, Hillary faces the music

Beyonce, who is said to have lip-synched the National Anthem at the inauguration, can learn something about survival and risk-taking in Washington from Hillary Clinton.

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With 11 key players set to become free agents, Bill Belichick must quickly move into evaluation mode as he seeks to rebuild his beaten team.

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The Christian Science Plaza.

Two towers to rise next to Christian Science site

Jon Napoli taught a

With medical marijuana legalized, a grow-your-own effort

Patrick would bolster pharmacy oversight
Facebook is testing a service called Graph Search, which may help it compete with Google Plus social network.

Tech Lab

With new Facebook search, there’s nowhere to hide
Copa Airlines’ Panama City hub. Passengers will be able to connect from there to popular cities including San Jose, Guatemala City, and Sao Paolo.

Copa Airlines’ Boston-Panama flight opens up Latin America

Cooking up a connection
Madeleine Lambert stars as the title character in Gamm Theatre’s production of “Anne Boleyn.”

Stage Review

Royal power plays in Gamm’s ‘Anne Boleyn’
Irish Baroque Tub Chair from Baker at the Boston Design Center , originally $6,663 and $1,100 during the sale.

Bargain Bin

One stop for home improvement ideas
Pomegranate-glazed chicken with coconut quinoa at Abby Park in Milton.

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Going with the grains

2 costly LNG terminals sit idle
Manti Te’o will talk about his misadventures in cyber love to Katie Couric Thursday on her daytime talk show.

Stories of love, deception have long been entwined

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Inaugural language

Sports

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Marian Gaborik slipped this game-winning goal past Tuukka Rask in overtime.

Bruins fall to Rangers in OT

The Bruins fought back several times, but Marian Gaborik’s hat trick, notched 27 seconds into overtime, gave them their first loss of the season.

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An agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation entered Agiltron in Woburn. A team of federal agents and local police, in an apparent investigation, searched Wednesday the premises of a Woburn manufacturing company that has military contracts.

Federal agents raid Woburn defense firm

A team of federal agents is investigating a Woburn manufacturing company, officials said.

Columnists

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Invest in Massachusetts, but don’t play Robin Hood
Bill Belichick now must contemplate what his 2013 roster will look like.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots must change ways and personnel
Beyonce performed at President Obama’s second inauguration.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Unlike Beyonce, Hillary faces the music
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Clinton’s reality check

Yvonne Abraham

A parent’s child-care nightmare
Facebook is testing a service called Graph Search, which may help it compete with Google Plus social network.

Tech Lab

With new Facebook search, there’s nowhere to hide

scot lehigh

Obama must take his case to the people

Adrian Walker

Patrick’s call to pay for the future

Kevin Cullen

Antibullying idea clicks
The Ravens celebrated after stopping Patriots quarterback Tom Brady on a critical fourth-down play late in Sunday’s contest.

Dan Shaughnessy

An abrupt end for the Patriots
A girl played near a UN armored vehicle belonging to Jordanian peacekeepers at slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

farah stockman

Outsourcing peace
Sean Penn is Mickey Cohen in the new film “Gangster Squad.”

JOANNA WEISS

Hollywood and its gun fetish

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In one of her last public appearances as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton testified for six hours on the attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans.

Clinton defends US response to Libya attack

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she had moved quickly to improve the security of US diplomats after the attack in Benghazi, Libya.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Bay staters John Quincy Adams (1817- 1825) and Christian Herter (1959- 1961) served as secretaries of state.

Kerry appointment would revive Bay State connection

So here’s a trivia question: how many secretaries of state have political roots in Massachusetts?

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Klaus Schwab, chairman of the World Economic Forum, with Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund.

Bank executives on defensive at Davos

Leading bankers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, are on the defensive amid demands to regulate their industry more closely.

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Book Review

Rosie Schaap, author of

‘Drinking With Men’ by Rosie Schaap

Rosie Schaap’s memoir “Drinking With Men,’’ blends her accounts of growing up as a woman and a drinker.

Style

First lady Michelle Obama.

Should you start 2013 with a bang?

Not long after Kate Middleton was caught with side bangs, Michelle Obama debuted bangs of her own, and celebs like Jennifer Lawrence and Kerry Washington continue to rock fringe like champs.

Magazine

The cover for the January 20 2013 issue

My friend Tito
The cover for the January 13 2013 issue

Alfresco fabulous
The cover for the January 6 2013 issue

Best Boston Globe photos of the year, 2012
The cover for the December 23 2012 issue

Bostonians of the Year: Raisman and Harrison

Opinion

“The threat of outmigration may explain why state and local taxes, in Massachusetts and elsewhere, are generally regressive.”

Edward L. Glaeser 

Ideas

“With just a few exceptions, the majority of gun deaths in the United States have been self-inflicted every year since at least 1920.”

Leon Neyfakh on the gun toll we’re ignoring 

“Now you don’t have to say [hydroponics are] just for growing tomatoes.”

Jonathan Napoli owner of Boston Gardener and The Hempest, about his medical marijuana growing classes.