FCC to allow Boston to regulate basic cable rates

Local regulation of basic cable rates will be restored after the city argued that there’s a lack of competition among local providers.

MBTA needs state aid, Davey tells lawmakers

Secretary of Transportation Richard A. Davey told a panel Monday that the MBTA would have to raise fares and cut services even more than planned without aid from a state fund.

An image taken from a video on YouTube Monday showed Syrian tanks in the city of Homs. A peace plan was in jeopardy as fresh clashes raged.)

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Syrian forces fire into Lebanon, Turkey

One person was killed and others wounded as the Syrian government’s crackdown on a year-old uprising has spilled over its borders.

Facebook to buy Instagram for $1b

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he’s committed to growing the photo-sharing service independently of the social networking site he founded.

Mitt Romney pulls negative ads aimed at Rick Santorum

Romney is backing off a plan to aggressively target Santorum in Pennsylvania, as Santorum tends to an ill daughter.

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Warren doubles Brown’s quarterly fund-raising tally

Elizabeth Warren’s campaign raised $6.9 million in the first three months of the year, although she still has $4 million less in the bank than Scott Brown.

James Carroll

A Darwinian campaign season

The Republican candidates have done society a service by forcing voters to acknowledge just how rapidly our culture is transforming.

Editorial

‘Southie’ reality shows are anything but the real story

While the architects of the state’s film tax credit hoped to open up Massachusetts’ stories to the world, this probably wasn’t what they had in mind.

Josh Beckett may have been smiling on Thursday, but he wasn’t when his first start on Saturday resulted in a 10-0 loss.

Tony Massarotti

Who is to blame for the Red Sox’ many failures?

Many of the names have changed, but the results remain the same. The winless Red Sox look far from contender status, and there is plenty of blame to share.

Dr. Austen performed surgery on Debra Haining at Massachusetts General Hospital. The dots on her face mark the trigger points where she had told the doctor the migraine pain strikes.

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Migraine sufferers turn to surgery

A procedure that is becoming more common uses plastic surgery techniques to offer relief for people who have long suffered debilitating pain.

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High-tech Fenway Park keeps its charm
Employees assemble medical scanning devices at a Thermo Fisher plant in Shanghai. Last year, the company’s revenues in China grewby 20 percent.

Mass. firms chasing China’s boom

Pax East ends with a party

Ray Allen shares his love of books

Are fat baseball players a problem?

Martha Coakley publicity stirs political speculation

Wallace showed softer side during visits to native Brookline

New demands from Syria appear to doom peace plan

Daily Dose

Is your social network sabotaging your health?
“Black Ice and Fog on the Burgkuhnauer Allee, Dessau’’ is one of 53 photographs in the Lyonel Feininger exhibit.

Photography Review

A sense of discovery in a late-arriving artist
Billy Hart has drummed with many jazz luminaries over the years. Now he leads a quartet that includes pianist Ethan Iverson, saxophonist Mark Turner, and bassist Ben Street.

Legendary drummer now a band leader

Ideas

How democracies clamped down on the Internet

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Mansfield mourns teen crash victim

Friends and family mourned 16-year-old Michaela Smith, who died in a car crash early Saturday.

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AOL

AOL to sell more than 800 patents to Microsoft for $1b

A “significant portion” of the sale proceeds will be distributed to AOL shareholders, the company said.

Columnists

Josh Beckett may have been smiling on Thursday, but he wasn’t when his first start on Saturday resulted in a 10-0 loss.

Tony Massarotti

Who is to blame for the Red Sox’ many failures?

INNOVATION ECONOMY

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The Red Sox wasted 12 runs and 18 hits. They wasted four spectacular innings of relief by Vicente Padilla. They wasted the emotional rescue of Bobby V’s counterculture lineup.

Dan Shaughnessy

Smackdowns getting worse for Red Sox

Adrian Walker

Judging the judge

Bob Ryan

Celtics made right steps to beat Sixers

Juliette Kayyem

The self-destruction of Arizona

JOAN VENNOCHI

Civil liberties, skewed by the Supreme Court

INNOVATION ECONOMY

What’s great, and not, about the Bay State

JOANNA WEISS

Reaching the middle on gay marriage

Christopher L. Gasper

BC’s Johnny Gaudreau delivers on big stage

Gareth Cook

Beehive management

Lawrence Harmon

Saving Fenway

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Special prosecutor Angela Corey

Trayvon Martin death won’t go to Florida grand jury

The decision on whether to charge a neighborhood watch volunteer in the shooting death now rests solely with a special prosecutor.

Politics

Political Notebook

“I do think there’s a desire for a more idea-oriented Republican Party, but that doesn’t translate necessarily to being able to take on the Romney machine,’’ Newt Gingrich said during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.’’

Newt Gingrich expects Mitt Romney to win

Gingrich is describing Romney as “far and away the most likely’’ Republican presidential nominee.

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For BC hockey, a title in a rebuilding year

Coach Jerry York had talked about this being a rebuilding year for BC, but the Eagles reloaded and won a national championship.

Health and wellness

G Force

Catharine Utzschneider’s making positive strides

Utzschneider is the head coach of Liberty Athletic Club, the oldest women’s running club in the country.

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Book Review

‘Prague Fatale’ by Philip Kerr

Kerr excels at navigating the dark corners of crime thrillers without providing much guiding light to his hero, a Berlin detective.

“That’s a huge population that will want a roof over their head, a car to drive around, and tires to go on it. [China] will need us.”

Patrick Prevost,  CEO of Boston company Cabot Corp.

Magazine

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A Titanic obsession
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45 best breakfast joints around Boston
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Snorkeling vacations you can’t miss
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Grover Norquist: Emperor of no

Opinion

“It’s like a global party is going on, and Arizona’s Republican leadership is waiting by the phone, in an ugly dress, wondering why no one is paying attention.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“Rami Genauer’s project is a kind of experiment — one that asks what happens when you set the powerful urge to watch lawless, explosive violence on a collision course with the blunt tyranny of math”

Leon Neyfakh,  on bringing stats to ultimate fighting