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Dow soars more than 300 points on debt plan

The market had its best day since Jan. 2 as the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 323 points.

House Speaker John Boehner will ask Republicans to approve a short-term extension of the government’s ability, GOP aides said.

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Boehner offers to raise debt limit if Obama negotiates

Speaker John Boehner and other House GOP leaders were headed to the White House late Thursday for a meeting with President Obama.

Connolly leads Walsh by 8 points in new mayoral poll

A UMass Lowell poll found John Connolly taking 45 percent to Martin Walsh’s 37 percent among 375 likely voters surveyed.

The backup musicians (above) of Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, where greats such as Clarence Carter, Aretha Franklin, and Gregg Allman recorded.

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‘Muscle Schoals’ plays legendary sound

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are among the many talking heads who appear in Greg “Freddy” Camalier’s alternately maddening and magnificent documentary.

Scott Carpenter’s landing after a 1962 space flight gave NASA and the nation an hour-long scare that he might not have made it back alive.

Scott Carpenter, 2nd US astronaut in orbit, dies at 88

Carpenter’s landing after a 1962 space flight gave NASA and the nation an hour-long scare that he might not have made it back alive.

From left: Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, and Adam Scott costar in Stu Zicherman’s “A.C.O.D.”

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Parents say the darnedest things in ‘A.C.O.D.’

“A.C.O.D.,” standing for “Adult Children of Divorce,” is predictable and occasionally sitcom-shallow, but it’s blessed with a cast of pro farceurs.

Canadian author Alice Munro.

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Canada’s Alice Munro, 82, wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

Called a “master of the contemporary short story” by the Swedish Academy, Munro is one of the more admired contemporary fiction writers in the English language.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/10/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/vennochi-2798.png The two David Kochs

David Koch wept for researchers in need of day care at MIT as he donated millions to the school, but he doesn’t seem to care about people in need of medical care.

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Peter Gadiot as the genie Cyrus and Sophie Lowe as Alice in ABC’s “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.”

‘Wonderland’: Down the digital rabbit hole

The ABC show is meant to be a paean to the imagination. Too bad the effects pry some of us out of our imaginations and into the tech lab.