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Cuts in place, Obama and GOP brace for next fight

Attention is turning to the next major budget hurdle, with less than a month remaining to negotiate a plan to fund the government beyond March 27.

Chad claims Al Qaeda commander killed

The death of Moktar Belmoktar, the terrorist who planned the recent attack on an Algerian natural gas plant, was not yet confirmed.

Winslow wins Republican straw poll for US Senate

State Representative Daniel Winslow won in a straw poll of nearly 200 Republicans held today at the Danversport Yacht Club.

BU student dies after being found unconscious

The 19-year-old was found in an Allston apartment, and campus police said there was no indication of foul play.

Red Sox 2, Twins 1

Red Sox streak continues

Will Middlebrooks returned to the lineup after missing two games, and Ryan Sweeney added an RBI single in the fifth inning.

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Biologist Bryan Windmiller checked for Blanding’s turtles fitted with radio transmitters at the Great Meadows refuge, in a conservation effort that includes raising hatchlings in captivity; the turtle below was “head-started” by Curtis Middle School students in Sudbury.

Evan McGlinn for The Boston Globe.

Conservation effort keeps watch over turtles

A Concord-based project is keeping watch over the local Blanding’s turtle population, hoping to boost their chances for survival.

A killer disguised as Edgar Allan Poe on Fox’s “The Following.”

Critic’s Notebook

Why serial killers draw a following on TV

We kind of, sort of, love serial killers, who surface all over the “dial,” most recently on Fox’s nascent hit “The Following” and the CW’s “Cult.”

Caroline “Calle” Cronk, who has a rare brain tumor, practices her dance moves with her friends during a class in Scituate.

Hope for Caroline

Family aids work to discover a cure

As a Norwell 5-year-old fights a rare and inoperable brain tumor, her family’s nonprofit has raised more than $175,000 for research.

Travel

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A jam-packed, behind-the-scenes walking tour takes visitors to some of Providence’s top kitchens to meet chefs and sample signature dishes and drinks.

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At the end of a road through peat bogs, the circa 1856 Miscou Island Lighthouse looks over the Bay of Chaleur and beyond to Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula.

Travel

Remotely beautiful, with Acadian accents
The Land of Oz in the film

Movies

L. Frank Baum’s Oz remains a wonderful destination
Women hugged Friday outside court, where two men were ordered held without bail on murder charges.

Roxbury slaying a deadly reminder
Richard Ward, the youth director of the Boston Ski Party, a club that promotes skiing in black communities. “We are part of the fabric here now,” says Ward of African-Americans on the slopes.

Boston Ski Party promotes sport in black communities
Emily Glass (left) and her husband Venkat Korvi would like to sell their condo and move into a bigger house but they can't find anything suitable. Home inventories are at an eight-year low and everyone is asking: Where are the sellers?

Local housing market desperately seeking sellers
Nazalone is credited with reversing more than 1,800 opiate overdoses in Massachusetts.

A simple nasal spray gives parents the power to reverse a child’s overdose
A robot

Ideas

Should we put robots on trial?
The Brookline Music School All Stars and Jennifer Hicks perform the song “I’m Down,” at the Somerville Theatre on Thursday.

Music Review

A community expresses itself in ‘Song Reader’

Sunday preview | Magazine

Getting through to your kids in the digital age
The World’s Only Curious George Store is one of the first in Harvard Square to install tablets that allow donations to the homeless.

In Harvard Square, donations to homeless in a swipe
Sea foam on the beach in Hull.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week

Chief justice blasted over Mass. comments

Sports

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Bruins 3, Lightning 2

A power play by Brad Marchand (left) with less than three minutes put a smile on the face of Patrice Bergeron, who assisted the winner.

Bruins come charging back

Brad Marchand snapped home a 20-foot wrist shot with 2:16 remaining in regulation, breaking a 2-2 tie and leading the Bruins to a win at the Garden.

Metro

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Dr. Wade Myers described primitive, aggressive impulses and psychotic behavior by Nathaniel Fujita.

Psychiatrist says Wayland’s Fujita had explosive impulse during killing

Nathaniel Fujita felt numb as he wrapped a bungee cord around Lauren Astley’s neck, he told a psychiatrist who testified at Fujita’s murder trial.

Columnists

The modern look of Suffolk University’s planned classroom building.

Opinion | Lawrence Harmon

Town-gown peace

Opinion | Derrick Z. Jackson

Politics imperil offshore wind sweet spots

SCOT LEHIGH

Baby boomers are the economy’s ‘oh, no!’
Magic Slim was a contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf who helped shape the sound of the Chicago blues.

CARLO ROTELLA

The shuffle done right

Kevin Cullen

‘Silver Linings’ a good take
At some point, the Celtics will have to face the facts that the Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett era will run out of time.

Christopher L. Gasper

Hard to believe in these Celtics

Opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

Yahoo’s broken glass ceiling
Children are treated for cholera at a clinic in Haiti. The epidemic was introduced, it is widely believed, by UN peacekeepers.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

UN’s cold, but correct, call on Haiti

NICHOLAS BURNS

Military’s limits show need for America’s neglected weapon
Boston City Councilor John Connolly announced his candidacy for mayor of Boston outside Brighton High School.

SCOT LEHIGH

A tough challenger for Menino
Tom Brady is now signed with the Patriots through 2017.

Christopher L. Gasper

Tom Brady just wants to win

JEFF JACOBY

Why the fuss on Citizens United?

Nation & World

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Egyptian activists burned a poster depicting John Kerry outside the foreign ministry.

John Kerry prods Egypt on economic reforms

Kerry made his first trip to an Arab capital as secretary of state on Saturday.

Politics

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waved to supporters at an election night rally in Boston.

Romney returning to national stage

Mitt Romney re-emerged in a broadcast interview this week to criticize President Obama’s leadership and will address a conservative gathering this month.

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Product Reviews

Barnes & Noble Nook HD

New tablets offer greater capabilities at lower prices

Rapid changes in tablets are bringing more choices, new features, and better prices.

Arts

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Sam Kassirer, 32, of Arlington, produces recordings in his studio (sometimes the rooms of the house) in Maine. He has played piano since he was 7, and been Josh Ritter’s keyboardist for 12 years, along with producing three Ritter albums.

Kassirer’s ear for Americana’s future

Sam Kassirer bought a farmhouse five years ago and has turned it into a Americana music factory.

Magazine

The cover for the February 24 2013 issue

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger & Catherine Greig’s story
The cover for the February 17 2013 issue

A trip to Rio de Janeiro, without leaving Boston
The cover for the February 10 2013 issue

Change on the Mystic
The cover for the February 3 2013 issue

South End remodel: Rear window

Opinion

“The success is so great that Suffolk deserves to be a case study in town-gown relations.”

Lawrence Harmon 

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From the Archives | Photo Gallery

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Beginning in the 1930s, New England ski trails quickly expanded, and today skiing isn’t the quaint small business it once was.

Ideas

“Nuns have served as the face of Catholicism to generations of Americans, and have been pioneers in health care, education, and social work…What’s next for nuns affects not just the inner workings of the church, but its future course in America.”

Ruth Graham on nuns