The Deflategate report

NFLPA files appeal for Tom Brady over Deflategate

The NFL Players Association wants the Patriots quarterback?s case to be heard by a neutral arbitrator.

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The Patriots issued a nearly 20,000-word rebuttal rejecting nearly all the findings of the Wells Report.

Boston Marathon bombing trial

Members of the media waited outside the courthouse during closing statements Wednesday.

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Marathon bombing trial enters waiting phase

It?s up to 12 jurors to decide whether convicted Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev receives the death penalty.

House passes bill for Congress to review Iran nuclear deal

The bill to give lawmakers the power to review and potentially reject a nuclear deal with Iran now heads to President Obama.

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Much of the money Nicholas Zemeitus allegedly stole cannot be found, prosecutors said.

Track workers and officials work at the site of a derailed Amtrak train in Philadelphia.

Body of eighth victim found in Amtrak derailment

Officials believe they have now accounted for all passengers and crew members who were thought to be aboard the train.

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Brandon Bostian, 32, who lived in Queens, began working for Amtrak nearly a decade ago, first as a conductor and then as an engineer.

Ground Game

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Next week, Hillary Clinton will make her second trip to the Granite State since she entered the 2016 presidential race.

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The man is accused of killing his adopted parents in their rented vacation home on the Virgin Islands.

Demi Remick danced  during Somerville Porchfest 2011.

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PorchFest returns to Somerville this weekend

At least 150 musical acts will play on front stoops across the city on Saturday, boosters for the fifth-year event said.

Patricia McCarthy held vigil at St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church in Scituate on Thursday.

Parishioners must vacate Scituate church, judge rules

A state judge ruled Thursday that parishioners who have been holding a vigil at the church since 2004 are trespassing.

Magazine | Perspective

Marriage equality is great. How about equality for singles?

Eleven years after same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, a voice for the unmarried.

NICK CAFARDO | ON BASEBALL

Shouldn?t Jackie Bradley Jr. be playing center field while he?s up?

Would it really be that disruptive for Mookie Betts to move to right, making way for the best defensive player in center?

MIT researchers are fighting extreme poverty with science

The poorest of the poor live on $1.25 or less a day. How can science help?

Telecommuting from paradise

Want to join the ranks of people who work in beautiful places? If you don?t have the means or the discipline, you?ve got your work cut out for you.

Governor Baker?s decision removes all hope of the convention center expansion being done by mid-2019, as projected.

David L. Ryan/Globe staff

With expansion shelved, convention business at risk

The 18 events booked for the expansion, the MCCA says, were projected to deliver $33 million in taxes and an economic impact of nearly $500 million.

A multistate training exercise  by the Pentagon has sparked a tangled web of conspiracy theories, including a military invasion of Texas. Pictured: A public hearing in Bastrop, Texas, about the training exercise, called ?Jade Helm 15.?

ideas | Q&A

What Texas brouhaha over military training tells us about the brain

Could our culture be cultivating paranoia as it did with eating disorders?

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The Mashpee Wampanoag Indian tribe is concerned that 1,500 people could be gambling at any one time.

The Big Picture

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Amtrak derailment

Authorities continue to investigate the scene of a fatal train derailment on a route between Washington and New York.