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Under the deal, Ariel Castro would be sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years for holding three women captive in his home for about a decade.

Ariel Castro agrees to plea deal in Ohio kidnap case

Under a deal, Castro would be sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years for holding three women captive in his home for about a decade.

Edward Snowden

US says it won’t seek death penalty for Snowden

Attorney General Eric Holder has told the Russian government that the US will not seek the death penalty for the NSA leaker.

Trial of ‘Whitey’ Bulger | Live Updates

Prosecution to call final two witnesses

Prosecutors are expected to rest their case Friday after they call an IRS special agent and a FBI agent involved in Bulger’s capture.

Track partner says ex-president ‘pulled a fast one’

Plainridge Racecourse’s main investor said Gary Piontkowski, accused of taking cash from the track’s money room for years, was “deceptive.”

In South Boston, women on edge

Since Amy Lord’s horrific death, young women are now walking in pairs, looking over their shoulders, and clinging to their dogs in an effort to stay safe.

Heather Little-Andrade, photographed at her home in Dighton, said she is glad her daughter wants to move from her South Boston apartment.

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Parents torn over children’s safety, dreams

Heather Little-Andrade of Dighton said she is glad her daughter now wants to move out of her apartment in South Boston after the death of Amy Lord.

Tim Tebow met a crush of reporters when he first appeared with the Patriots at minicamp in June.

Everything you need to know about Tim Tebow

He’s an NFL phenomenon, but yet he’s a backup QB who might not make the roster? Here’s what makes Tebow so popular.

Shirley Leung

Summers is too much for Fed to handle

Larry Summers as the next Fed chairman? Worst idea ever. He is arrogant and a lightning rod and would carry so much baggage he couldn’t fit it on the shuttle to Washington.

Opinion

LAWRENCE HARMON

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Metaphorically speaking, Sergeant Sean Murphy beat up a suspect by releasing unauthorized images of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Globe exclusives

The kitchen and living area of a 530-square-foot apartment at Factory 63 in the Innovation District (top). An ADD Inc. designed 300-square-foot microapartment. Critics have pressed city officlals to allow the small units to help cut housing costs.

Boston backs development of smaller living units
Lord and her vehicle were captured on surveillance video Tuesday.

Emotional trauma may have kept Amy Lord from fleeing
Aaron Hernandez appears to be holding a pistol in this surveillance image.

Hernandez appears to be holding gun in surveillance images
Mayoral candidate Bill Walczak dressed up for Boston’s gay pride parade.

Candidates try to stand out
Leslie Berlowitz, President of The American Academy of Arts.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences head to resign

“All of this feels like it was meant to be,” said Roslindale native Joseph Abboud.

Designer Joseph Abboud, label a perfect fit again
Maggie Carey, writer and director of “The To Do List.”

movies

Maggie Carey finishes her ‘To Do List’

Mind-control study gives mouse false memory
Jake Shimabukuro.

Summer Arts Weekend

Uke-reka!

Alison Krauss has won 27 Grammy Awards.

Summer Arts Weekend

No second fiddle

Rep. Joseph Kennedy III.

Kennedy alone in delegation with vote backing NSA
Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station” revisits the last day of Oscar Grant, who was shot by a San Francisco transit officer on New Year’s morning 2009.

Movie Review

‘Fruitvale Station’ takes the measure of a life

Sports

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Vince Wilfork talked with reporters at Gillette Stadium on Thursday.

Vince Wilfork: Hard to start training camp like this

Wilfork said it was “very disappointing” for the Patriots to have to address the Aaron Hernandez situation just as the new season begins.

Metro

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A funeral was held for Stephen Rakes Thursday at Gate of Heaven Church in South Boston. Rakes had hoped to testify against James “Whitey” Bulger at his racketeering trial.

Funeral held for Stephen Rakes

About 100 people attended a brief service in a church only 2 miles from the courthouse where his run-in with James “Whitey” Bulger was a topic of testimony Thursday.

Columnists

Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the most famous women in America in the 1920s and ’30s.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The poet as a rock star

kevin cullen

Traces of the old Southie
Tom Brady deflected questions about his emotions regarding the Aaron Hernandez murder investigation.

christopher l. gasper

Tom Brady needed to say more

Shirley Leung

Summers is too much for Fed to handle

Yvonne Abraham

Is Charles Yancey’s run for real?

JOAN VENNOCHI

Warren’s on right side of loan bill

Alex Beam

Really real summer reading list
Mayor Thomas Menino toured the student-heavy apartment blocks along Commonwealth Avenue on Aug. 31, 2007, with the Inspectional Services Department.

JEFF JACOBY

Don’t trash my city
Patriots coach Bill Belichick departed after his news conference at Gillette Stadium.

Dan Shaughnessy

Belichick dignified, human in comments on Hernandez case

Kevin Cullen

Trying to sort out the lowlifes

EDWARD L. GLAESER

In Detroit, bad policies bear bitter fruit
Ryan Braun did not contest the evidence in this case and the Players’ Association was not summoned for a customary appeal.

Dan Shaughnessy

Ryan Braun deserved harsher penalty

Nation & World

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Weiner’s once-resurgent political standing in New York City seemed to erode by the moment, as more graphic pictures of his penis appeared online and his conduct and lack of candor were denounced from the campaign trail to the halls of Congress.

Anthony Weiner admits to more lewd exchanges

He said he could not say for certain how many women or lewd images might yet surface.

Politics

Attorney General Eric Holder said the Department of Justice would ask a court to require Texas to get permission from the federal government before making voting changes in that state.

Holder presses Texas to clear voting law changes

The Attorney General revealed that the Justice Department would ask a court to require the state to get permission from the federal government before making voting changes.

Business

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High school students attended the Samsung Mobile App Academy — a two-day crash course in app-making — this week at MIT.

MIT, Samsung hold app camp

In a campaign to teach kids about technology, Samsung taught 30 local high school students the art of app making at MIT.

Arts

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The best of the Summer Arts Weekend

Alison Krauss is just one of several reasons to get to Copley Square for the free Summer Arts Weekend. Here are some highlights.

Movies

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Movie Review

Logan, played by Hugh Jackman, revisits Japan and fights his greatest battle in “The Wolverine,” directed by James Mangold.

‘The Wolverine’ is sliced just right

Hugh Jackman and company smartly take a step in a different direction from “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” released four years ago.

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I was the sun, the kids were my planets, and other reflections from the Globe columnist.

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The complete print edition, in its exact layout. Browse the print edition page by page, including stories and ads.

Magazine

The cover for the July 21 2013 issue

What happened at Deerfield
The cover for the July 14 2013 issue

Are big blue bins bad for recycling?
The cover for the June 30 2013 issue

Rethinking the golden years
The cover for the June 23 2013 issue

The bee keepers

Ideas

“Using techniques from the past, ideas from hot-weather countries, and new findings from building design experts, we can see a surprising portrait emerge of what life might look like if we decided we could no longer afford our addiction to air conditioning.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on life without A/C