Mass. ACLU sues over terrorism task force

The ACLU is suing to get more information about a federal terrorism task force based in the state, and about the unit’s probe of Ibragim Todashev.

Nasdaq has worst day since 2011

The Dow Jones industrial average also fell as investors dumped biotechnology and other industry shares.

BETABOSTON

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A new report found that CEO pay rose 9.2 percent last year, to an average of almost $5 million at the area’s biggest public companies.

The South American oilbird, photographed here in Humboldt’s Cave in Venezuela, is the planet’s top-ranked most evolutionarily distinct bird species.

Conservation biologists use evolution to identify most valuable species

A team led by a Yale University ecologist has used a new measure to rank bird species on the priority list.

“I look at the time in Boston as the first part of my career and the time with the Yankees as the second part,” Jacoby Ellsbury said.

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DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Boston, New York . . . it’s all good for Jacoby Ellsbury

The center fielder made no waves with the Red Sox, and that is unlikely to change in the fishbowl of New York.

The results of a carbon dating test found that the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” papyrus probably dates to eighth-century Egypt.

‘Jesus’s wife’ document no modern forgery, tests show

Tests strongly indicate a papyrus containing the first-known reference to Jesus’s wife is an ancient relic, not a modern forgery as some had thought.

Tech Lab

‘Heartbleed’ security bug is as bad as it sounds

In the wake of the new Internet bug, consumers need to be ready to upgrade their own security practices.

Opinion

JOAN VENNOCHI

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If the decision to break the no-tax promise was a testament to political courage, making it in the first place was the essence of political expedience.