GOP presses EPA pick with 1,000 questions
Republicans continue to aggressively question Gina McCarthy, who has been nominated to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
Yvonne Abraham
High-stakes action on casino proposals
This casino thing is starting to get really exciting! Just remember every gamble is a risk — especially with this many chips on the table.
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They cut cable, but not their shows
There is a growing number of families who are using Internet-based services to watch TV, thus reducing or bypassing cable altogether.
Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle
FlightCar brings peer-to-peer car sharing to Logan
If you don’t mind letting a stranger drive your car, you could make money instead of paying to park at the airport.
IRS chief out; Obama vows new oversight
President Obama announced that Steven Miller, head of the IRS, had been fired over the agency’s improper targeting of conservative groups.
TECH LAB
Little Nikon with big lens goes a long way
The Coolpix P520 is a limited but decent camera that will deliver high-quality images of distant objects.
Gomez unclear on some aspects of abortion
Fanning confusion, US Senate candidate Gabriel E. Gomez said he is “personally pro-life,” but that he would not try to change abortion law.
Runners, victims finish marathon
More than a dozen Marathon runners crossed the freshly painted finish line exactly one month after an attack left three dead and more than 250 injured.
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More coverage of the bombings
For bombing victim, a welcome departure
Roseann Sdoia, who lost part of her right leg in the Marathon bombings, departed Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Tueday for her North End home.
Sports
nhl playoffs
Bruins defense banged up heading into second round
Dennis Seidenberg and Andrew Ference both missed practice on Wednesday; Wade Redden skated only briefly.
Metro
Space telescope failure may endanger planet-hunting mission
A malfunction on the Kepler Space Telescope, used by Harvard astronomers to find planets, may endanger its capabilities.
Columnists
Nation & World
Palestinians mark their 1948 displacement
Tens of thousands of Palestinians marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel’s 1948 creation.
Politics
Tierney to introduce gun safety bill
The bill would require handgun manufacturers to personalize their weapons to make them impossible to fire if they fall into the wrong hands.
Business
Novartis produces a vaccine in less than a week
The new process is much faster, in part because researchers can now use the genetic code of a virus to design its vaccine.
Arts
Jonathan McPhee gets animated discussing ‘Coppélia’
When the Boston Ballet music director and principal conductor takes the podium for the opening performance, it will be the sixth production of the ballet he has conducted.
Style
Men’s fashion gets respect at RISD’s dandy show
The Rhode Island School of Design exhibition “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion” looks at men who’ve raised fashion to an art form.
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Globe Talk | May 22
Inside the Marathon bombings
Inside the Marathon bombingsGlobe reporters and editors talk about the horror and heroic efforts of a story that has touched us all.