Veterans of Iraq torn over airstrikes against ISIS

Some worry the strikes may spiral into another intractable conflict that will lead to a redeployment of US ground forces.

opinion | Michael A. Cohen

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President Obama is breaking new and dangerous ground in expanding the president?s power to wage war.

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An alleged act of employee sabotage at an air traffic control center brought Chicago?s two main airports to a halt Friday.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Sheen in one of Hollywood?s tired tales of a thug-ridden Boston, ?The Departed.??

Alex Beam

Hollywood can?t let go of old image of Boston

In Boston, the past isn?t dead, it?s just done to death.

3 Bridgewater guards fired after man?s death

The correction officers have been fired for the role they played in the death of Joshua Messier at Bridgewater State Hospital.

Doug Chayka for The Boston Globe

Ideas

Six bold plans for the future of Suffolk Downs

It?s an opportunity so large and unusual that it could change how Boston, and the region, deals with development.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

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Fox will work desperately to sell the ?rivalry? on Saturday, but we all know that these are two sorry franchises at this hour.

Heather Merrill, New England Pet Hospice founder, and Nancy Whitlock (rear)  at client Amy Farber?s Cambridge home. Farber?s other dog Ray died this summer at 17.

A happier ending for dying pets and their owners

As pet services multiply, hospices are slowly rising up to provide care for ailing animals and comfort for owners.

Chef Adam Zieminski cures his own cold-smoked salmon.

Hoofing it on the Berkshires? meat trail

If you love charcuterie, you?ll have a grand time nosing around Berkshire County.