Amid pressure, Romney releases tax returns

Mitt Romney, whose prior refusal to release his tax returns provided a line of attack for Newt Gingrich and other rivals, earned more than $42 million over the last two years.

Obama to signal campaign themes tonight

Tonight’s State of the Union address gives President Obama a chance to steal the spotlight from the fractious GOP and turn it toward his rallying call for economic and tax fairness.

This Nov. 20, 1963 photo released by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston shows President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy descending the Grand Staircase at the White House.

Last of secretly-recorded JFK tapes released

In tapes released today, President John F. Kennedy’s voice can be heard on the day before he left for the November 1963 trip to Dallas during which he was assassinated.

THIS HANDOUT FILE HAS RESTRICTIONS!!! The Invention Of Hugo Cabret Asa Butterfield plays Hugo Cabret in the 2011 film

Jaap Buitendijk/Paramount Pictures

84TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS

Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ leads Oscars with 11 nominations

Martin Scorsese’s first 3-D movie was nominated for 11 Oscars, including best picture and best director, as Hollywood prepared to honor its top pictures of 2011.

Wesley Morris

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/01/24/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/morrisw.png And the Oscar nominations go to...

Say this for the past. It refuses to stay there. At least six of this year’s nine best picture nominees comfortably reside in decades before our own.

On Hockey

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/01/24/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/24jvtimthomas--90x90.jpg Tim Thomas wrong to skip White House trip

Thomas missed the point of the day and he mistreated his teammates. He needed to be there in solidarity, and celebration, with his team.

“You can call it whatever you’d like. I call it influence peddling. It is not right. It is not right.”

Mitt Romney,  on Newt Gingrich’s postcongressional work as a consultant for Freddie Mac

Globe Insiders

Globe Insiders Video

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/01/24/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/RealRomney hc c--90x90.jpg The Back Story: Behind ‘The Real Romney’

Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman talk about their new biography on GOP presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Inside The Boston Globe

The Institute of Contemporary Art on the South Boston waterfront.

ICA effort raises $25m as museum looks to future

Expensive Super Bowl trip for Patriots fans
Governor Patrick

Patrick seeks broad changes for community colleges

DirecTV customers may miss the Super Bowl

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW

In ‘Hymn,’ seeking a beauty beyond beauty

An unusually subdued Sundance carries on
Professor Gary Marcus with members of the band Rush Hour, all 11 years old at the time (from left), Sarah, Riley, and Ryan. Marcus says he would encourage a child to study music. ‘‘And I would try to make it fun. And not be so results oriented.’’

G Force

Studying music and the brain

Fewer females, more male spending
More than two dozen politicians, housing authority employees, and Tim Murray campaign workers say that former Chelsea housing chief Michael E. McLaughlin (above) was a key fund-raiser and organizer for the lieutenant governor.

From Sunday’s Globe

McLaughlin raised money for Murray, employees say

G cover

A doctor to watch over you

Obituary

Brian Arredondo, 24
088

tech lab plus

New watch is really a wrist computer

Columnists

Joanna Weiss

The political ad game

Boston Capital

Natural gas rate cuts proposed

Alex Beam

Can fame coexist with obscurity?
Carrie Twomey at a Boston hotel Monday. She left her home in Ireland to attend a court hearing about Boston College oral history project about the conflict in Northern Ireland for which her husband Anthony McIntyre was a researcher. She says her family will be in danger if the tapes are given to British authorities.

Kevin Cullen

Caught in a tug of war
Former Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe congratulated Tom Brady after Sunday’s game.

Tony Massarotti

Just how have the Patriots pulled this off?
Former Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe presented team owner Robert Kraft with the AFC championship trophy.

Bob Ryan

Patriots toughed it out against Ravens

Juliette Kayyem

Willfully stupid on Turkey
Quarterback TomBrady scored on a 1-yard plunge in the fourth quarter to give the Patriots the lead for good.

Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots earn Super Bowl rematch with the Giants

Adrian Walker

Theft cut wide, deep

innovation economy

Shop online for best deal on oil
Mementos surround the Joe Paterno statue to pay tribute to the coach’s many contributions to the Penn State program.

Bob Ryan

His role in scandal damaged Joe Paterno’s image

Gareth Cook

Want to get in shape? Just move!

Metro

Tags in this section:

Accidents stir warnings over dangers of thin ice

Following a pair of weekend accidents on area ponds, one of them fatal, public safety officials stepped up warnings about the dangers of venturing onto thin ice.

Nation & World

Tags in this section:

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, spoke yesterday in Berlin.

European crisis to slow world economy, IMF says

The International Monetary Fund today urged world leaders to focus on growth more than budget cuts in order to spur the global economy.

Politics

Political Notebook

While continuing to denounce Newt Gingrich for his consulting work for Freddie Mac, the Romney campaign sought to deflect questions about the former Massachusetts governor’s investments.

Romney’s old investments stir up new financial questions

Romney’s latest financial disclosure report listed several investments, worth as much as $500,000, in lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Business

Tags in this section:

A sale-pending sign hung in front of a single-family home in Brookline in late December.

Mass. single-family home sales drop in December

The volume of single-family home sales fell 5 percent in December from a year ago, and condo sales took an even bigger hit.

Sports

Tags in this section:

31-year-old Cody Ross batted .240 with 14 home runs and 52 RBIs for the San Francisco Giants last season while playing at least 22 games at every outfield position.

Cody Ross agrees to sign with Red Sox

Ross agreed to sign with the Red Sox, giving them an experienced hitter with postseason success on his resume to help replace J.D. Drew in right field.

Arts

Tags in this section:

MUSIC REVIEW

Claremont Trio reboots Gardner series in new hall

The Gardner Museum’s popular chamber music series returned from its hiatus on Sunday and took up residence in its gleaming new home featuring a youthful ensemble, the Claremont Trio.

Lifestyle

Tags in this section:

G Cover

One woman’s quest for a civil casino debate

With research (and some Vegas) in her blood, Foxborough resident Traci Bridge Longa wants every voice to be heard on the Kraft-Wynn proposal.

Magazine

The cover for the January 22 2012 issue

Mother worries about her Occupy Wall Street protester son
The cover for the January 15 2012 issue

Mass. voting maps reflect State House evolution
The cover for the January 8 2012 issue

Photograph by Essdras M Suarez
The cover for the January 1 2012 issue

Bostonian of the Year: Carmen Ortiz

Opinion

“We might as well train ourselves to recognize negative political ads, assume they can’t be trusted, and tune out.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“The unipolar world isn’t necessarily better than what preceded it, either for the US or for the rest of the world. It might even be worse.”

Thanassis Cambanis,  on the trouble with American dominance