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Fund-raising haul grows for Warren

Elizabeth Warren, already the nation’s leading congressional fundraiser, raised $8.67 million in April, May, and June - $1.7 million more than the previous three months.

Romney outraised Obama by $35 million June

Romney’s $106 million haul last month bested Obama’s total of $71 million, according to a report.

Obama to push middle-class tax cut extension

The president will call on Congress to pass a one-year extension of tax cuts for households making less than $250,000 a year.

An MBTA bus collided with a movie production truck parked outside the Roxbury Municipal Court Monday. Fifteen people, including the bus driver, were being examined by emergency medical personnel.

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MBTA bus collides with movie truck in Roxbury

At least 11 people were taken to the hospital after a bus collided with a truck associated with the production of a new Sandra Bullock movie.

Great white sighting at Nauset Beach deters few

Thousands of people packed one of the Cape’s most popular beaches — Nauset in Orleans — a day after a great white shark approached a kayaker.

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Nauset Beach in Orleans was closed Saturday after a kayaker had a close encounter with a great white shark.

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Crowds returned to the beach the next day.

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Sharks feed on seals, which are plentiful on some Cape Cod beaches in the summer.

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Nauset Beach lifeguards watched swimmers Sunday as the crowds returned to the beach.

Tech Lab Plus

Samsung serves up a worthy iPhone rival

The Galaxy S III is the best-selling smartphone in the world right now, and that’s no surprise. It’s a sleek, gorgeous little powerhouse.

Wind turbines lined the hillside at First Wind's project in Sheffield, Vt.

Wind farms on land grow with few critics

Despite controversy that has slowed the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound, land-based wind farms are expanding rapidly in the region.

Ellen Kokinda removed her vehicle from the corral ­— one of the parking spaces Somerville has set aside for bicyclists.

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How effective are anti-obesity campaigns?

Somerville has waged a decade-long campaign to reduce rates of obesity among its residents, but measuring the success of the initiative is a much trickier proposition.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/07/04/BostonGlobe.com/Enterprise/Advance/Images/sumner004-603--90x90.jpg The Sumner Tunnel

The first of three underwater crossings beneath Boston Harbor, the Sumner Tunnel opened on June 30, 1934.

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Amelia Earhart relocated from California to the Boston area in 1925 and often flew from what was then Dennison Airport in Quincy.

Amelia Earhart search revives her local connections
Fedner Dorrelus (far right) led a hip-hop class as part of Boston’s Afterschool and Beyond program.

Program keeps Boston students learning all summer
Workers install transformers at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, where the focus is on energy efficiency.

New data center focuses on using less energy
Eric McCormack plays a schizophrenic neuroscience professor who helps an FBI agent (Rachael Leigh Cook) in “Perception.’’

Television Review

‘Perception’ is less than sum of its quirks
Renata Simone

G Force

Looking at the grip of AIDS
Debra Jo Rupp as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Barrington Stage Company’s production of “Dr. Ruth, All the Way.’’

Stage Review

The life of Dr. Ruth before she became famous

Daily Dose

Can a teen’s anger mean a mental disorder?
The Rangers have been the most balanced team in the game, with starting pitching, bullpen, hitting, power, and defense.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Handing out MLB’s midseason bests, worsts
Fishermen in Sao Vicente in Cape Verde pulled in nets. Leaders see schools as the base of their economy.

Bridgewater State helping educate Cape Verde’s youth

Opinion | Jeremy D. Goodwin

Lenox’s Music Inn was jazz’s secret hotspot
Zach Parise was the captain in New Jersey, but left that behind to go home to Minnesota.

Sunday Hockey Notes

Bruins take long shot attempt at Zach Parise
Lofa Tatupu finally signed with the Falcons in March. Now, he is battling with 2011 third round pick Akeem Dent for the starting spot vacated by free agent Curtis Lofton.

Sunday Football Notes

Lofa Tatupu back in game with Falcons

Sports

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Yankees 7, Red Sox 3

Ryan Sweeney smacks the wall at the center-field triangle after failing to make a diving catch, resulting in an RBI triple.

Red Sox stumble into All-Star break in last place

The 7-3 loss to the first-place Yankees dropped the Red Sox into last place in the AL East.

Metro

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Carlos Henriquez

State lawmaker arrested on assault charge

Dorchester state Rep. Carlos Henriquez was arrested after he allegedly punched a woman inside a car near a Northeastern dorm.

Columnists

A downed tree took out power lines last week in Washington, D.C.

Juliette kayyem

Pulling the plug on nation’s security

Tech Lab Plus

Samsung serves up a worthy iPhone rival
Fashion Project is Boston-based.

Innovation Economy

New site peddles high-end apparel to benefit charities

joanna weiss

‘The Newsroom’ and the news: There’s too much of both
US citizenship candidates wait at a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles last month.

jeff jacoby

Time to rethink notion of immigration quotas

joan vennochi

When Mitt Romney’s campaign struggles, don’t blame the ‘Boston boys’
Despite high hopes, Konarka’s products never took off.

Innovation Economy

Why did solar cell company Konarka fail?
The T’s economic troubles may have consequences for the economic development of Boston.

opinion | Derrick Z. Jackson

MBTA’s troubles bode ill for region

lawrence harmon

Our zero tolerance for moderation regarding drinking
Carl Crawford.

Christopher L. Gasper

Carl Crawford stands by allegation of racial slur

Adrian Walker

From Boston to Tanzania, with a
MITT ROMNEY

opinion | Joshua green

Avoiding risk with the Romney Fog Machine

Business

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Works built scaffolding at a construction site for a factory in Shandong Province in China.

Chinese prime minister warns of pressure on economy

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s warning is the clearest expression yet of concern at the top of the country.

Politics

Protestors from MoveOn.org, the Occupy movement, and Long Island Progressive demonstrated on Sunday against a fund-raiser for Mitt Romney at the beachfront home of billionaire David H. Koch (house on right) in Southampton, N.Y.

Mitt Romney’s offshore accounts draw more fire

President Obama’s campaign again blasted Romney for offshore holdings and renewed its call for him to release additional tax returns.

Nation & World

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Egyptians chanted slogans in front of the presidential palace in Cairo Sunday.

Egyptian president moves to reinstate Parliament

President Mohamed Morsi ordered the Islamist-dominated Parliament back in session, defying military leaders who had disbanded the body.

Arts

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Book Review

‘Zoobiquity’ by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers

The book examines the physiological similarities between humans and animals — as well as some illuminating differences.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

CDC: Methadone overdose kills thousands a year

About 5,000 patients taking the prescription painkiller die every year — the vast majority from accidental overdoses.

“Massachusetts is way ahead of everybody [with its clean energy goals] so, from a practical point of view, the demand is being created by Massachusetts.”

Paul Gaynor,  First Wind chief executive

Magazine

The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

N.Y. vs. Boston: By the numbers
The cover for the June 24 2012 issue

A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?
The cover for the June 10 2012 issue

5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson

Opinion

“A nuclear Iran or a cyber-threatening China are much more sexy topics than aging infrastructure.”

 Juliette Kayyem

Ideas

“By taking massive numbers of songs, symphonies, and sonatas, turning them into cold, hard data, and analyzing them with computers, we can learn things about music that would have previously been impossible to uncover.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on what computers are teaching us about music