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Senate OK’s gay rights bill banning discrimination

The measure, which bans workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, faces dim chances in the House.

A NOAA image, taken on Nov. 7, shows Super Typhoon Haiyan.

Strongest typhoon of the year hits Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan has made landfall in the Philippines, with maximum sustained winds of 195 miles per hour, and gusts up to 235 mph.

Actor Patrick Stewart (right) and 9-year-old Vivenne Harr (center), who uses proceeds from her lemonade stand to fight slavery, rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as Twitter cofounder Evan Williams and and Boston police officer Cheryl Fiandaca (left) looked on.

Twitter soars in stock market debut

Twitter’s stock is closing at $44.90, up 73 percent, on its first day of trading.

Clockwise (from top left) Cindy Breitbach, Gabby Martinez, and Grant Achatz in “Spinning Plates.”

Film Arcade

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‘Spinning Plates’: three restaurants, several reservations

You might not want seconds of Joseph Levy’s documentary about restaurants and their owners, but it does dish up a satisfying slice of life.

Matthew McConaughey plays a 1980s alternative-medicine procurer in “Dallas Buyers Club.”

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‘Dallas Buyers Club’ is far from all right

Matthew McConaughey shows serious talent as AIDS patient and crusader Ron Woodroof.

Jackie Kennedy’s correspondence to Bergdorf Goodman’s Marita O’Connor, who acted as the first lady’s personal shopper, will be auctioned off on Nov. 23 in Amesbury.

Jackie Kennedy’s fashion history goes on auction

Kennedy’s meticulous approach to fashion is revealed in 17 letters that will be auctioned in Amesbury as part of a three-day auction of Kennedy possessions.

The FDA plans to require the food industry to gradually phase out all trans fats.

FDA to ban trans fats

The FDA will require the food industry to gradually phase out the artery-clogging fats, saying they are a threat to people’s health.

Opinion

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/11/07/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/vennochi-3139.png Boston finally gets an open election

Massachusetts voters love incumbents, especially Democratic ones, so Boston’s mayoral election was a breath of fresh air.

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James “Whitey” Bulger was convicted in August of killing 11 people in the 1970s and 1980s and operating a racketeering enterprise that was involved in drug trafficking, extortion and money laundering.

Prosecutors recommend life sentence for Bulger
Lorrie Higgins (left) joined Martin Walsh and her daughter, Lauren Campbell, en route to the polls Tuesday.

Lorrie Higgins: Boston’s new first lady?
Radoslaw Czerkawski at the courthouse in Quincy last week.

Quincy

Puppy Doe suspect has murky past
The two Miami Dolphins linemen at the center of the bullying controversy: Richie Incognito (left) and Jonathan Martin.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

ON FOOTBALL

Dolphins’ troubles may be about more than hazing
OverDrive provides about 1.8 million downloadable e-books and audiobooks to about 90 percent of US public libraries, including Boston’s (above).

Tech lab

The e-book choice — rent, borrow, or buy?
Facebook Inc. has opened an engineering office in Kendall Square.

Facebook opens office in Cambridge
The Suffolk Downs casino proposal required votes in East Boston and Revere because about 52 acres of the property are in Revere. It is unclear if track officials could come up with a Revere-only plan in time to meet a Dec. 31 state deadline.

Gaming panel chief skeptical of Revere plan
Martin Walsh went citywide.

Minority voters were key in Walsh’s victory

Inside Novartis AG’s global research headquarters in Cambridge. The company has been expanding its network of research labs.

Novartis to add 175 jobs in Cambridge, cut elsewhere
A day after squeezing out a narrow victory over John R. Connolly, mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh held a news conference on Boston Common.

Walsh basks in glow after election victory
MassChallenge staffers showed up at Lunch Beat Boston in costume.

Tech sector throws lunchtime dance party
Vice President Joe Biden called the cellphone of a former aide to US Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who happens to share the same name as Boston’s mayor-elect.

VP Biden congratulates the wrong Martin Walsh

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Tim Thomas

Claude Julien pushes back against Tim Thomas talk

Julien said he wants it remembered that Thomas’ 2011 Conn Smythe Award wouldn’t have happened without a strong supporting cast.

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Police say an employee was arrested after the stabbing at a store in Quincy.

Home Depot employee in critical condition after stabbing in Quincy

Police say an employee was arrested after stabbing a co-worker at a store in Quincy.

Politics

‘‘I think all of you understand that there’s no state that actually needs this more than Texas,’’ President Obama said on Wednesday at Temple Emanu-El, a synagogue in Dallas.

Obama pitches health law in Texas

Beset by hard-to-keep promises and a massive website failure, President Obama traveled to the heart of the ‘‘Obamacare’’ opposition.

Columnists

President Nixon, at a news conference on March 15, 1973.

alex beam

The same-name identity crisis

NICHOLAS BURNS

Mideast allies crave leadership from US

Kevin Cullen

We are our parents’ children

Yvonne Abraham

Now to keep Boston voters’ faith

JEFF JACOBY

The bitter pill of failed state tax incentives
OverDrive provides about 1.8 million downloadable e-books and audiobooks to about 90 percent of US public libraries, including Boston’s (above).

Tech lab

The e-book choice — rent, borrow, or buy?

JOAN VENNOCHI

Walsh shows he’s more than just the ‘labor guy’

Adrian Walker

It’s the dawn of a new day

Kevin Cullen

Laboring under a cloud

Shirley Leung

Boston after Menino: losers and winners

Farah Stockman

Lessons from the Menino era
Julian Edelman (left) and Danny Amendola took flight to celebrate Amendola’s 34-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots are starting to put it together

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Police gathered outside the shooting scene late Wednesday.

3 dead after shooting in Detroit barbershop

Several other people were wounded in Wednesday night’s shooting, which erupted outside Al’s Barber Shop on the city’s east side.

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A Lucky Star bus at South Station.

Lucky Star buses will roll once more

Lucky Star lost its license in June for not properly maintaining its buses and failing to monitor drivers’ hours and drug and alcohol tests.

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Movie Review

Chris Hemsworth as the Marvel superhero Thor in the sequel “The Dark World.”

In ‘Thor,’ the swinging hammer misses

The latest attempt by Marvel Comics and parent company Disney to colonize all of popular culture, “Thor: The Dark World” is a poorly plotted extravaganza.

Style

Jackie Kennedy’s correspondence to Bergdorf Goodman’s Marita O’Connor, who acted as the first lady’s personal shopper, will be auctioned off on Nov. 23 in Amesbury.

Jackie Kennedy’s fashion history goes on auction

Kennedy’s meticulous approach to fashion is revealed in 17 letters that will be auctioned in Amesbury as part of a three-day auction of Kennedy possessions.

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People and pigeons have long been interesting to photographers, especially years ago when the birds were more popular and were readily fed.

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Top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts
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A First Period home gets a second life
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David Keith hopes we don’t have to use his ideas to reverse global warming
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Why is it so hard to find a doctor?

Ideas

“A 2011 report from the World Health Organization estimated that Russians were drinking an average of about 4 gallons of pure alcohol per year — about 70 percent more than their American counterparts.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on alcoholism in Russia