Judge orders city to allow 2-day pro-marijuana rally

A judge granted an emergency order Friday that forced the city of Boston to grant a permit for this weekend?s rally.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/03/29/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/AP_060816035053A.jpg Akamai to expand in Cambridge

The Internet data company is seeking a state tax break in return for keeping its workers in Cambridge and adding hundreds of jobs.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/16/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/2016-09-16T153244Z_1675154923_S1BEUBQQMUAA_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-TRUMP.jpg Donald Trump flip-flops on ?birther? views

Donald Trump admitted on Friday that President Obama was born in the US, and falsely accused Hillary Clinton of spawning the controversy.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Black Women?s Agenda?s 29th Annual Symposium at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Downtown Hotel, in Washington, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Michael A. Cohen

Panicked liberals are petrified

Yes, Hillary Clinton has had a few bad weeks. But don?t worry.

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Donald Trump says that, if he?s elected president, he will reverse President Barack Obama?s efforts to normalize relations with Cuba.

Ben Wildes, 23, of Waterboro, Maine stood beside a sign posted for a detour due to ongoing construction on the Tuckerman Ravine Trail at Pinkham Notch.

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Storm Irene?s impact still felt in N.H.

Hillsides have eroded, some footbridges are missing, and washed-down debris has elevated riverbeds.

One dead after triple shooting in Dorchester

One person is dead and two more are injured following an early morning shooting in Dorchester.

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The order comes after a court ruling that the state has not done enough to meet its obligations.

COHASSET

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/08/06/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Advance/Images/ryan_homesite1_so-13301.jpg State rules Cohasset couple can build their dream house

The state overruled the Cohasset Conservation Commission, saying the couple?s plan poses no environmental risks.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/29/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/FrontViewA-2114.jpg Make-or-break vote for a new Minuteman High School

Residents in 16 communities will decide at the polls Tuesday whether to support a new $145 million vocational school.

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A man charged with killing two nuns confessed to investigators that he went into their home, stabbed them to death, and stole their car.

Edward Albee, the foremost playwright of his generation, in New York, July 27, 1994.

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DON AUCOIN

Edward Albee cast an X-ray gaze into the American psyche

Today, Albee?s fingerprints are all over the culture, detectable in dramas like Matthew Weiner?s ?Mad Men.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/17/BostonGlobe.com/Obits/Images/fdb42fff450847098e623afc527a4b7e-fdb42fff450847098e623afc527a4b7e-0.jpg Novelist W.P. Kinsella, author of ?Shoeless Joe,? dies at 81

Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who wrote book that became the smash hit film ?Field of Dreams,? has died. He was 81.

Red Sox 7, Yankees 4

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/17/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/02cdab7ec8c648888f056fa511ac27d6-02cdab7ec8c648888f056fa511ac27d6-0.jpg Red Sox drop hammer on Yankees

Hanley Ramirez continued his power display to support Clay Buchholz, who picked up the win.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tlumacki_fullharvestmoon_metro340.jpg The ?harvest moon? is here

The ??harvest moon?? will rise on Friday - the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, which occurs Sept. 22 this year.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/09/27/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/16loft1.jpg Fertile ground for food-centric ventures

The city is getting crowded with companies seeking to change the way we eat. And the money is following.

FALL HOUSE HUNT: MY FIRST HOME

Mom, Dad, and the magnificent seven

There were nine of us in a second-floor apartment of a typical two-family in Dorchester .

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/17/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/canyonlandsc19.jpg A rugged, rocky ride through resplendent Canyonlands

Southern Utah is a harsh, beautiful land. And no place captures this better than Canyonlands.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/17/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/canyonlands150a.jpg Not a bike rider? You can still enjoy the beauty of Moab.

Moab is considered the mountain bike capital of the country, if not the world. But you don?t have to be a rider to soak in the sights.

Roberto Lovato

Ideas | Roberto Lovato

A terrific site for archeology, except for all the things that could kill you

Watch out for the rattlesnakes and drug cartels.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/03/BostonGlobe.com/Regional/Images/wiggs_Pets_702298.jpg Want a puppy or kitty? How about a pig?

Re-homing pet animals can be tricky, with some critters finding it much harder to get adopted.

Friday?s high school football roundup

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/17/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/kleinr_17stoughton_05-9856.jpg Hanover breaks through, routs East Bridgewater

QB Wyatt Shisler and WR Jeffrey Wheeler helped the Indians end their struggles against the Vikings.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_blindrides1_met.jpg MBTA to subsidize Uber, Lyft rides for customers with disabilities

The first-of-its-kind partnership reflects a growing relationship between public agencies and ride-for-hire firms.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/17/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/goldstein-5168.jpg She met a guy on a bike

?I really like him and I don?t know what I should do. Do I just wait? Do I pursue him? What is my next move??

Globe investigations

The desperate and the dead

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight9090-11856.jpg The broken covenant

Behind the fragmented state of mental health care lies a political system failure that spans decades ? and continues.

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.

The Big Picture

Terezinha Guilhermina of Brazil competes with her guide Rafael Lazarini in the men?s 400m T54 heat two at Olympic Stadium during day five of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games on Sept. 12.

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Paralympics 2016

More than 4,000 athletes from 170-plus nations are competing at many of the same Rio venues as participants in the Olympics.