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2012 case linked to ‘person of interest’ in woman’s death

Edwin Alemany, the suspected assailant in the choking of a woman last September, is now under scrutiny in this week’s fatal stabbing of Amy Lord.

Elizabeth Warren backed the rival of Larry Summers to lead the Federal Reserve.

Warren signs letter backing Yellen to lead the Fed

Senator Elizabeth Warren urged President Obama to appoint Janet Yellen over former Harvard colleague Larry Summers.

orioles 6, red sox 0

Red Sox fall out of first place

After the Red Sox’ lineup was overpowered in Baltimore, the Tampa Bay Rays took the lead in the AL East with their win over the Yankees.

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning faces 21 charges in the WikiLeaks case.

Closing arguments end in Bradley Manning court-martial

The judge has started deliberating on the 21 charges Manning faces, but she did not say when she would rule.

George Lacerte and Bette Bissonnette competing at the Yankee Classic DanceSport Championships in Cambridge last month.

Tom Bissonnette

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Baby boomers are turning to competitive ballroom dancing

For a group of baby boomers who started to compete just in the last three years, the pressure is intense. And they love it.

Chris Stratton of Northbridge with daughter Caroline and niece Leah Cohen.

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Taylor Swift Dads grin and bear it

Less enamored with America’s sweetheart than with their girls, the dads, like the ones at this weekend’s shows at Gillette, are concert Sherpas.

christopher l. gasper

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With the team remodeling its passing game without Wes Welker and Aaron Hernandez, Ridley should have a bigger voice in the Patriots’ attack this season.

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A dreary offseason mercifully concluded this week — one in which Wes Welker walked out the door over money and Aaron Hernandez was released after he was arrested in a murder case.

Opinion

LAWRENCE HARMON

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Metaphorically speaking, Sergeant Sean Murphy beat up a suspect by releasing unauthorized images of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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the trial of james “whitey” bulger

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Nearly 6,400 fans crowded into the bleachers lining the Patriots’ practice fields on Friday morning.

Patriots get back to business
Instructor Valentina M. Perez demonstrated a judo move with Thomas White at Ultimate Self Defense & Performance, which is one of the gyms in South Boston that will offer free self-defense and martial arts classes to train women.

Fear surges after attacks in South Boston
Lord and her vehicle were captured on surveillance video Tuesday.

Emotional trauma may have kept Amy Lord from fleeing
Heather Little-Andrade, photographed at her home in Dighton, said she is glad her daughter wants to move from her South Boston apartment.

Parents torn over children’s safety, dreams
Tim Tebow signed autographs at the end of the camp.

Tim Tebow splits role in Patriots workout
Rep. John Tierney

Ethics panel may scrutinize Tierney
Joseph Dana paddles a traditional handmade birch canoe on the Penobscot River and watched as the Veazie Dam was breached in Eddington, Maine.

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Globe photos of the week, July 26, 2013
Alfred Barr

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The Wellesley professor who invented contemporary art
Walter Willett.

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Walter Willett’s food fight
Janet Yellen spoke at the the International Monetary Conference in Shanghai, China,in early June.

Shirley Leung

The case for Janet Yellen to run the Fed
The kitchen and living area of a 530-square-foot apartment at Factory 63 in the Innovation District (top). An ADD Inc. designed 300-square-foot microapartment. Critics have pressed city officlals to allow the small units to help cut housing costs.

Boston backs development of smaller living units

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Tim Tebow signed autographs at the end of the camp.

Tim Tebow splits role in Patriots workout

Tebow caught some passes, was unimpressive throwing the ball, and deflected questions about Aaron Hernandez in the team’s first practice.

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Ernest Wallace (above, right) appeared at his bail hearing yesterday in Attleboro District Court with his lawyer, David Meier.

$500k bail set for aide linked to Hernandez

A prosecutor described Ernest Wallace, who is charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder, as the “right-hand man” of Aaron Hernandez.

Columnists

Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the most famous women in America in the 1920s and ’30s.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The poet as a rock star

kevin cullen

Traces of the old Southie
Tom Brady deflected questions about his emotions regarding the Aaron Hernandez murder investigation.

christopher l. gasper

Tom Brady needed to say more

Shirley Leung

Summers is too much for Fed to handle

Yvonne Abraham

Is Charles Yancey’s run for real?

JOAN VENNOCHI

Warren’s on right side of loan bill

Alex Beam

Really real summer reading list
Mayor Thomas Menino toured the student-heavy apartment blocks along Commonwealth Avenue on Aug. 31, 2007, with the Inspectional Services Department.

JEFF JACOBY

Don’t trash my city
Patriots coach Bill Belichick departed after his news conference at Gillette Stadium.

Dan Shaughnessy

Belichick dignified, human in comments on Hernandez case

Kevin Cullen

Trying to sort out the lowlifes

EDWARD L. GLAESER

In Detroit, bad policies bear bitter fruit
Ryan Braun did not contest the evidence in this case and the Players’ Association was not summoned for a customary appeal.

Dan Shaughnessy

Ryan Braun deserved harsher penalty

Nation & World

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The move signaled a new push to reduce the population of 166 detainees at the prison, where dozens are on a hunger strike to draw attention to their indefinite detention.

Two Guantanamo detainees to be moved to Algeria

The White House is starting the transfers as part of President Obama’s goal to close the prison.

Politics

Attorney General Eric Holder said the Department of Justice would ask a court to require Texas to get permission from the federal government before making voting changes in that state.

Holder presses Texas to clear voting law changes

The Attorney General revealed that the Justice Department would ask a court to require the state to get permission from the federal government before making voting changes.

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High school students attended the Samsung Mobile App Academy — a two-day crash course in app-making — this week at MIT.

MIT, Samsung hold app camp

In a campaign to teach kids about technology, Samsung taught 30 local high school students the art of app making at MIT.

Arts

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The best of the Summer Arts Weekend

Alison Krauss is just one of several reasons to get to Copley Square for the free Summer Arts Weekend. Here are some highlights.

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Movie Review

Logan, played by Hugh Jackman, revisits Japan and fights his greatest battle in “The Wolverine,” directed by James Mangold.

‘The Wolverine’ is sliced just right

Hugh Jackman and company smartly take a step in a different direction from “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” released four years ago.

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What happened at Deerfield
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Are big blue bins bad for recycling?
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Rethinking the golden years
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The bee keepers

Ideas

“Using techniques from the past, ideas from hot-weather countries, and new findings from building design experts, we can see a surprising portrait emerge of what life might look like if we decided we could no longer afford our addiction to air conditioning.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on life without A/C