A chart displayed employment data at a Joint Economic Committee meeting in December in Washington, D.C.

Hiring in US fell sharply in Dec.

Only 74,000 jobs were added, the fewest in three years, and the unemployment rate fell to 6.7% as more people stopped looking for work.

Customers shopped at a Chicago Target on Nov. 28, 2013.

Target data breach expands to 70m

The revised number from the pre-Christmas breach was substantially higher than the 40 million Target previously said were affected.

With approval from Catherine Greig’s attorney, James J. Bulger’s lawyer visited her at a detention center in Rhode Island to deliver a letter the gangster had written to her on a legal pad. She then wrote her own letter to him.

With sobs, Bulger, Greig traded jailhouse love letters

“Whitey” Bulger and Catherine Greig wrote the letters on a legal pad ferried between prisons by a defense attorney.

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The revolt of the unpaid intern

C.J. Burton

Fed-up interns are suing their former employers for back pay. Will this bring fairness to job training — or doom a legion of unemployed college students?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/01/09/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/131117-N-DO831-080.jpg Navy’s new $12b aircraft carrier beset with problems

The vessel, which is the first in a next generation of carriers, may be less effective than older vessels, a review shows.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/01/09/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/greenhouse_10monks-1_business.jpg Monks in Spencer launch brewery

Saint Joseph’s Abbey built one of the largest breweries in the state — and the first American Trappist Brewery — to meet its expenses.

Battered Patriots soldier on

It’s hard to argue that any team has reached the Super Bowl with as many impact players on the sideline as this year’s Patriots.

Opinion

opinion | Andrew J. Bacevich

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/01/09/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/0110oped_bacevich.jpg The endless Army

The generals are hard at work searching for new venues in which to demonstrate the Army’s relevance.