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?Spotlight? triumphs with best picture Oscar

The Oscars came home to Boston at the 88th Academy Awards Sunday night.

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The comedian opened with a winning monologue that let everyone off the hook and put everyone on the hook at the same time.

A shot of Fireball whiskey.

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A well-meaning warning on pregnancy assailed as demeaning

A piece of advice from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is being denounced as alarmist and sexist.

Opinion | Elizabeth Warren

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The Family and Medical Leave Act was a huge step forward for working families, but it?s not nearly enough.

Quincy Center is getting an influx of apartments, including the West of Chestnut complex.

Is it (finally) Quincy Center?s time to shine?

A $60 million apartment project is the first big piece of the area?s long-promised redevelopment.

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General Electric chief executive Jeff Immelt said in an interview that the company?s civic priorities will be education and health care.

Ibragim Todashev (left) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev are the subjects of recently-released Homeland Security files.

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Federal files leave questions about Marathon bomber, friend

The Department of Homeland Security provided redacted files to the Globe after multiple requests spanning three years.

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A winner-take-all fight is shaping up at the ballot box this fall.

A Green Line train leaves Park Street Station.

David Kamerman/Globe Staff

MBTA shrinks its deficit by 43 percent

The rare bit of good news represents a boost for a transit system long plagued by budget problems.

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Hillary Clinton holds an eight-point lead over Bernie Sanders in a new Mass. Democratic primary poll.

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Recent polls suggest that the Wellesley campus may well be a microcosm of the state.

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The inn?s owners would like to see it become a writer?s colony.

Adrian Walker

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Consultants have built a business on the strength of their relationships with the mayor.

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The execution triggered protests in several cities denouncing the hanging.

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Lady Gaga sang her Oscar-nominated song

Gaga, joined by abuse victims, introduced by Biden

Vice President Joe Biden introduced Lady Gaga and urged an end to sexual abuse. Gaga performed "Til It Happens to You? and was joined by several victims.

Globe investigations

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A look at high-impact investigations from The Boston Globe, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning report on abuse in the Catholic Church.

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?Disrupted? became the subject of intense discussion well before its publication because of its central role in an ethics scandal.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

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JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | All things catholic

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Pope Francis suggested he?s open to the idea of artificial birth control as a means of combatting the spread of the Zika virus, while taking abortion off the table.