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.
The market had its best day since Jan. 2 as the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 323 points.
Speaker John Boehner and other House GOP leaders were headed to the White House late Thursday for a meeting with President Obama.
A UMass Lowell poll found John Connolly taking 45 percent to Martin Walsh’s 37 percent among 375 likely voters surveyed.
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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are among the many talking heads who appear in Greg “Freddy” Camalier’s alternately maddening and magnificent documentary.
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.
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“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.
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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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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.
The Red Sox will face stiff challenges from either Oakland or Detroit when the ALCS begins on Saturday evening.
The mayoral candidate scooped up endorsements from three city lawmakers Wednesday.
The trooper was involved in a two-car crash Sept. 22 that killed a mother and her daughter.
The Jupiter-bound spacecraft ran into some problems after successfully zipping past Earth to boost its speed toward the outer solar system.
The former Prime Minister said that densely populated Greater Boston is no place for a reactor like the one in Plymouth.
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.
Rick Kosow’s Sneaker Museum offers a virtual trip through his staggering collection of 1,000 pairs.
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Curious how your community compares with neighboring cities and towns? The Globe’s Matt Carroll offers community-by-community comparisons in vital categories.