A long-planned attack

 

A look at the victims killed in Las Vegas

At least 59 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in US history.

A wounded person was transported by a wheelbarrow in the wake of the shooting.

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Cameras alerted gunman when police were on the way

Said the local sheriff: ?He evaluated everything that he did in his actions, which is troublesome.?

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Jack Beaton was killed while out celebrating his wedding anniversary ? and he likely saved his wife?s life.

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Already, one member of a band who performed Sunday has changed his position on guns.

Ty Burr | Commentary

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Late-night hosts are speaking truth to power, while dismissing the notion that it?s ?too soon? to discuss how to prevent future massacres.

Boston, MA: October 3, 2017: Red Sox 2B Dustin Pedroia waits for his turn in the batting cage. The Boston Red Sox held a practice session at Fenway Park as they prepared for their ALDS series vs the Houston Astros. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff).

ALDS: Red Sox vs. Astros

How the Red Sox and Astros match up

Houston won 101 games, but the Red Sox have a lot going for them.

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For now, the project?s contours are vague. ?It?s going to start out experiential on the net,? Scaramucci said.

Professor Rainer Weiss is the 32nd Nobel laureate from the physics department at MIT.

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The Nobel laureate who once flunked out of MIT

Rainer Weiss got a second chance at the Cambridge university and is now a professor there. On Tuesday, he received his field?s highest honor.

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At MIT and Brandeis University this week, newly minted Nobel laureates worried that public taxpayer support for research is drying up.

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Former Globe rock critic Steve Morse recalls the rocker?s most memorable performances, from 1976 to 2017.

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The Olympic gold medalist from Needham spoke Tuesday at the Forbes Under 30 Summit.

Tito Jackson gets cold shoulder from city establishment

Tito Jackson walked through Dudley Square in January, after annoucing that he was running for mayor.

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With less than six weeks until Election Day, the icy political treatment has become reality for Mayor Martin Walsh?s challenger.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/04/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/greenhouse_MiltonAcademy-1_metro.jpg More claims of sexual misconduct surface at Milton Academy

According to the school, six more former students say that former theater instructor Rey Buono abused them.

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It?s Brussels? latest regulatory move targeting US tech companies accused of tax avoidance.

Council could vote to give tenants protections against eviction

The Jim Brooks Stabilization Act would make it harder for landlords to evict tenants without just cause, such as to boost rent.

Hurricane Maria's aftermath

Nestor Ramos

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/03/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/nestormugfull-9647.jpg In Puerto Rico, it was the truck drivers all along

As it happens, my father was a Puerto Rican truck driver. (I?m not sure he was to blame.)

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?You know they owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street,? he said, adding: ?you can say goodbye to that.?

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President Trump?s comments during his visit to the island raised some eyebrows.

Demolition work has begun at the former Wonderland Greyhound Park, where dogs raced until 2009.

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It?s last call for the Wonderland dog track

Relics of a bygone era are being razed as the site?s owner, CBW Lending, seeks a buyer for the 38-acre tract.

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The $13 million effort will replace decades-old furniture with modern pieces that are comfortable and can be easily moved.

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Yahoo has tripled down on what was already the largest data breach in history, saying it affected all 3 billion of its users.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/04/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/200_beer.jpg Record ?pay-to-play? fine on beer distributor upheld by Mass. judge

The ruling is a big win for regulators in their three-year crackdown on practices that are pervasive in the state?s alcohol industry.

Sponsored by Pfizer

Dear Scientist, can I tell my mother there will be a cure for Parkinson's one day?

Nancy Horwood didn?t expect to hear back from the scientist she wrote to. Then he invited her to his office to meet.

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A growing number of people who say their fathers are priests are speaking out, drawing attention to an invisible legion of suffering.

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All of a sudden, transportation and its discontents are in the public-agenda spotlight.

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Fall Arts Preview 2017

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A complete guide to movies, music, books, arts, theater, and family events in the Greater Boston area this season.

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Brian Kursonis, who has early-onset Alzheimer?s, is a star of the ?Go Boldly? campaign meant to burnish pharma?s image.

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