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House votes to defund Obama’s health care law

The 230-189 vote, which also aims to avert a government shutdown on Oct. 1, sets up a showdown with the Democratic-controlled Senate.

Woman fights off attempted abduction near South Bay

A man in a white vehicle pulled up to the woman in broad daylight, asking if she needed a ride before grabbing her, police said.

School president’s spending violated policy, state says

A review found that Westfield State University president Evan Dobelle spent money “indiscriminately.”

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Westfield State’s president portrayed a fund-raising trip to San Francisco as a rousing success, but an early draft of his report painted a less glamorous picture.

Ian Keltie

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Do we still trust Bill Belichick?

We asked sportswriters, fans, and former players if the Patriots coach deserves our continued devotion.

“Asa’s Palace” (above) and “The Pariah Way” had been rolled up in Jack Whitten’s studio for 40 years.

Art Review

Unfurling and saluting a legacy at Rose Art Museum

Powerful, never previously displayed work by the African American artist Jack Whitten appears in “Light Years: Jack Whitten 1971-1973.”

Charlotte Golar Richie has worked for Mayor Menino and Governor Patrick.

LAWRENCE HARMON

A clumsy effort from Charlotte Golar Richie

Golar Richie’s poor all-around performance during the mayoral campaign is mysterious for someone so talented.

What $17 billion can buy you

With a reported net worth of $17.2 billion, Fidelity’s Abigail Johnson could hypothetically afford to buy 17 John Hancock towers — or all 30 NBA franchises.

Opinion

JOAN WICKERSHAM

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There’s no category known as “the bullying story,” and yet bullying is one of the great subjects of literature.

Globe exclusives

For much of this year, Leiha Macauley had this sign outside her office door.

Shirley Leung

I am woman, hear me pump
Jody Steel is a doodler. And her work, done almost exclusively while listening in class at Emerson College, has included such performers as, from top, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Thom Yorke, and Bryan Cranston.

An artful twist on legwork
Pope Francis waved as he arrived for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Thursday.

Pope Francis calls on church to change focus
While the Red Sox are happy to make the playoffs, the celebration Thursday was subdued.

on baseball

Red Sox holding off on big celebration
Sixty-six names were added to the Garden of Peace memorial on Beacon Hill on Thursday.

Hundreds watch as new names added to Garden of Peace
Walden Media’s “The Watsons Go to Birmingham’’ is set in the middle of a seminal moment of the civil rights fight: the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963.

Brothers try to restore a family habit
Bryan Cranston is up for his fourth Emmy for his work in “Breaking Bad.”

G cover | 2013 Emmy Awards preview

Gold standard
Greg Bokor with his pencil drawing of an AR-15 rifle, which viewers can erase with erasers stamped with the name of a gun victim.

globe north

Artist hopes to fuels talk about gun violence
Hugh Jackman (center) plays the father of a missing girl. Jake Gyllenhaal (rear) is a detective.

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Prisoners’ is both gripping, grueling
Krista Perry's tattoo.

Memorializing the Marathon in permanent ink
Don Merry (left) and Jason Costa bring empty cages back to their boat on Duxbury Bay, where oyster harvesting has been banned due to an outbreak of bacteria.

Globe South

Oyster bed closures leave aquaculturists reeling
Martha Coakley chatted with Berklee students Angelica Franzino (left) and Carly Tefft while campaigning outside Fenway Park, which had become emblematic of her failed US Senate run.

Coakley, seeking 2010 redemption, returns to Fenway Park

Boston mayoral race

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The mayoral campaign

Campaign signs competed for attention on a fence along Dorchester Avenue on Thursday.

What are the candidates’ signs really saying?

A font choice can suggest decisiveness, warmth, or a new direction. Color selection hints at which candidate might play it safe and who is a rebel.

Sports

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Red Sox 3, Orioles 1

John Lackey hugged Jarrod Saltalamacchia after keeping the Orioles at bay and securing the Red Sox’ spot in the postseason.

Red Sox clinch playoff berth on John Lackey’s two-hitter

Lackey’s best outing of the year allowed the Sox to secure their first postseason trip since 2009.

Metro

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Mourners left flowers in front of Shayne Desroches’ home in Hopkinton on Thursday.

Hopkinton mourns teen cyclist killed in crash

A 13-year-old boy was killed when he was struck while riding his bicycle on Wednesday afternoon.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Push harder for gun-law changes

Kevin Cullen

New book honors Jewish baseball players
Tommy Kelly has been a positive addition for the Patriots’ defense.

Christopher L. Gasper

No denying Pats’ D has improved

Tech Lab

It’s easier to share files between phones

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The literature of bullying
artha Coakley and Charlie Baker.

Yvonne Abraham

A second act for Charlie Coakley

JOAN VENNOCHI

Boston soars, but only for some developers

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Boston needs a chief entrepreneurship officer

JEFF JACOBY

Wellesley faculty back Chinese dissident
At 45 Province in downtown Boston, residents enjoy the use of a rooftop pool; the units offer 85 different layouts.

Shirley Leung

A house hunting trip like no other
Josh Redmond will be sworn in after he graduates from the police academy in November.

Kevin Cullen

A badge of honor
A model wore a wedding dress that featured an antler-like headband holding up the veil, in Paris in July.

Opinion | Farah Stockman

We’re nuts over nuptials

Nation & World

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An attack late Thursday in the city’s Back of the Yards neighborhood left three victims, including the boy, in critical condition.

Boy, 3, among 13 wounded in late-night attack on Chicago park

The shooting left three victims, including the boy, in critical condition.

Business

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What $17 billion can buy you

With a reported net worth of $17.2 billion, Fidelity’s Abigail Johnson could hypothetically afford to buy 17 John Hancock towers — or all 30 NBA franchises.

Arts

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Stage Review

Erica Spyres and James (Joey) Caverly in SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “Tribes.”

Absorbing ‘Tribes’ speaks volumes about failures to communicate

Actor James Caverly is first-rate in Nina Raine’s play, now receiving its New England premiere.

Movies

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Movie Review

A scene from Benson Lee’s “Battle of the Year.”

A hiphop ‘Battle’ with a ragtag team

It’s one thing for the French to beat us at speed-typing in “Populaire” – but hip-hop?

Globe Insiders

Insider Event | Sept. 25

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Attend a book signing and presentation by Qais Akbar Omar, author of the internationally acclaimed memoir.

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Magazine

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Beauty of the bottle
The cover for the September 8 2013 issue

Jefferson slept here
The cover for the August 25 2013 issue

Little folk
The cover for the August 18 2013 issue

Sharks Inc.

Ideas

“If we call something war, the instinct is that the military should really be in charge……But if you say it’s not actually military conflict, it’s not war in any sensible way, then you raise questions about whether the Department of Defense should really be responsible for this.”

Thomas Rid,  on cyberwar