Akamai breaks ties with security expert

Akamai Technologies broke ties with Internet security researcher Brian Krebs after his website became the target of a massive worldwide digital attack.

A group of runners began their race against an MBTA Green line train along Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.

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Can a group of runners really outpace the T?

The rules are simple: Starting at Boston College Station, the group picks a train, chats briefly with the driver, and then proceeds to race it.

Wash. police now say 4 fatally shot in mall north Seattle

Authorities initially said four people were killed, then said three were dead, before revising the number again.

Hiawatha Bray | Tech Lab

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Even as billions of people worldwide store their most sensitive information online, relatively few of them do everything possible to keep it safe.

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According to the Massachusetts State Lottery website, Gail Harmon claimed the grand prize ? $1,000 a day for life ? from the drawing held Sept. 22.

A visitor was seen at a makeshift memorial for Keith Scott.

Video shows man?s wife pleading with Charlotte police

A video of a deadly encounter between Charlotte police and Keith Scott shows his wife repeatedly telling officers he is not armed.

Grace Lindquist (top and bottom left) and Heinz Borowski (top and bottom right) began their correspondence in 1937.

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THOMAS FARRAGHER

Over seas and many years, a pair of remarkable pen pals

Their letters to each other, yellowed now with the age of nearly eight decades, are a time capsule that chronicles events big and small.

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The lawsuit claims the law violates equal protection rights because it prevents municipalities from regulating ride-hailing companies the same as they do cabs.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/kreiter_tripadvisorceo1_biz.jpg Is TripAdvisor?s revenue risk paying off?

TripAdvisor doesn?t just want to give you reviews anymore. It wants you to come to its site to book the entire trip.

Poll judge Chala Alemo was stationed in the middle of a large parking lot to direct voters to the correct entrance of a former home repair store that is now an early vote center, one of four early-vote locations in Minneapolis.

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Weeks before Election Day, the votes are rolling in

What was once a singular ?Election Day?? is shifting into an election season spanning months.

OPINION | SCOTT GILMORE

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Russia?s recent elections only show how the country has been eroded under Putin?s leadership.

Michael A. Cohen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/24/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/cohen-1792.jpg Not your father?s GOP ? not even George H.W. Bush?s GOP

Word that Bush will vote for Hillary Clinton is the clearest example of the party?s seismic shift to the right.

MLB coverage

Red Sox 2, Rays 1

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Not since 1990 have the Red Sox had a longer win streak within the division.

Arts coverage

Ty Burr

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Commercial blockbusters still exist and they still make obscene amounts of money, but they matter less and less.

Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attend a meeting at the camp in Llanos del Yari, Caqueta Department, Colombia, on September 16, 2016 ahead of the 10th National Guerrilla Conference to be held from September 17 through 23. After 52 years of conflict, FARC rebels open what leaders hope will be their last conference as a guerrilla army, where they are due to vote on a historic peace deal with the Colombian government. / AFP PHOTO / LUIS ACOSTALUIS ACOSTA/AFP/Getty Images

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IDEAS | KENNETH RAPOZA

Can voters in Colombia forgive FARC?s violent past?

President Juan Manuel Santos has his entire political future resting on one vote.

FILE - This Jan. 19, 1931 file photo shows Chicago mobster Al Capone at a football game. An intimate letter he penned from prison suggests the ruthless racketeer had a soft side. The three-page letter, which is to be auctioned next week in Cambridge, Mass., is addressed to Capone's son, Albert

Did Al Capone have a soft spot?

A three-page letter the notorious gangster wrote to his son while at Alcatraz prison will be auctioned off by Boston-based RR Auction next week.

Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett reacts after being called for a foul against the Denver Nuggets in the third quarter of the Nuggets' 97-90 victory in an NBA basketball game in Denver on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

On The Parquet Podcast

Remembering Kevin Garnett?s days in Boston

In this edition of the Globe?s Celtics podcast, Gary Washburn and Adam Himmelsbach discuss the Big Ticket?s Celtics days.

West Roxbury, MA - 9/23/2016 - Catholic Memorial's Jack Mcgowan (42) rumbles for a long touchdown run, the only score during the first half. Brockton at Catholic Memorial High School football. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Sports, Reporter: Emily McCarthy, Topic: 24Brockton, LOID: 8.3.105518940.

Week 3 high school football results

From Top 20 matchups to league rivalries, here are the scores from Friday?s high school football showdowns.

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

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South Africa motorbike racing

Not far from the refurbished F1 race track of Kyalami in Johannesburg is a small, virtually dirt race track that attracts only the brave.

Metro

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A ?corpse flower? bloomed at the Franklin Park Zoo in 2012.

Whose ?corpse flower? will bloom first?

A pair of the rare and stinky specimens ? one in Boston and the other in New Hampshire ? inch closer to blossoming every day.

Nation & World

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