New guidelines may prompt talks about end-of-life care

Susan Johnson (seen with husband, Jerry) discussed her end-of-life concerns with her children.

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Advocates are hopeful that a proposed Medicare rule will make end-of-life decision-making a routine part of medical care.

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It?s six months until the Iowa caucuses and the Democratic field still has one big asterisk: the 72-year-old sitting vice president.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/200_whitey.jpg ?Whitey? Bulger?s lawyers in court to argue for new trial

Bulger?s defense team will have 15 minutes to try to persuade a federal appeals court that the gangster did not get a fair trial in 2013.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/08142011_14reports1_photo-8012063.jpg As vote looms, concern raised over tax holiday

The rise in opposition appears insufficient to kill the tax holiday this year, but its fate in future years is increasingly uncertain.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/200_marty_meehan.jpg UMass president lobbies to restore money to budget

Marty Meehan wants the funds to cover collective-bargaining raises to staff and professors that have gone unfunded for a year.

Compensation for prep school leaders in New England has quietly surged in recent years. Pictured: Phillips Academy in Andover.

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Heads of top prep schools paid nearly $450,000 a year

As salaries of college presidents have risen to new heights, compensation for their prep school counterparts has quietly surged in kind.

Gunfight at Afghani wedding kills 21, wounds 8

Most of the dead were wedding guests aged from 14 years old to 60 years old, an official said.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/HAHL9144.jpg In local Dominican community, debate on racism boiling

In recent weeks, prominent Dominicans here have criticized the country?s citizenship policies toward people of Haitian descent.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/nymag.jpg New York Magazine features jarring stories of 35 Cosby accusers

The article included graphic, gripping details from women who said they were sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby.

Pedro Martinez enters the Baseball Hall of Fame

Christopher L. Gasper

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Gasper-7093.jpg A joyous nation showers love upon Pedro Martinez

The newly enshrined Hall of Famer is a symbol of hope and achievement for his fellow Dominicans.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/200_pedro_cooperstown.jpg Pedro Martinez shows gratitude during Hall of Fame induction

The Red Sox great kept returning to two words during his speech in Cooperstown: ?God and thank you.?

?I Am Cait? documents the day-to-day unreal reality of Caitlyn Jenner, fresh from her public debut as herself.

TV Review

?I Am Cait? a compelling slice of TV

The show, which premiered Sunday, documents the day-to-day unreal reality of Caitlyn Jenner, fresh from her public debut as herself.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/200_robotics.jpg Some offshored manufacturing jobs return to US

Companies have brought nearly 40,000 manufacturing jobs back to the US in the past five years.

David Minehan performed with Scuffy the Cat at  T.T. the Bear?s Place Saturday.

Music Review

T.T. the Bear?s finale a suitably Scruffy occasion

There was never a question that owner Bonney Bouley wanted Scruffy the Cat to be the last band standing on stage at her club.

From left, DraftKings? Matt Kalish, Jason Robins, and Paul Liberman.

BetaBoston

DraftKings gets a boost, led by Fox Sports

Fox Sports is leading a $300 million investment that will help the Boston fantasy sports startup battle its larger competitor.

The copy of Hermann Goering?s radio message to Hitler in April 1945, warning he might take control of Germany, will be on view at the Natick museum beginning Tuesday.

World War II Museum

Natick museum acquires message to Adolf Hitler

A transcription of a radio message that Hermann Goering sent to Hitler days before his suicide will go on display Tuesday at the Museum of World War II.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/27/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/200_jazz_singer.jpg Young stroke survivor Valerie Giglio?s long road back

Giglio was just 42 when a stroke left her partially paralyzed and unable to sing. A new program at Mass. General aims to help victims like her and even younger.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/05/13/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/deflategate%20footballs%20488.jpg NFL finalizes new rules for football inspection

Among the new procedures, the league will introduce random football pressure-checking at halftime and after the game.

Whitney Houston (left) and her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, at an event in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2011.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston, dies at 22

Brown, the progeny of pop superstars, died about 6 months after she was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub.

Hike the Whites

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/17/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/hike-tz-3969.jpg It?s down to the last 8, vote today

Voting in the quarterfinals runs until Tuesday. Fill out the bracket and see who will make the final four.

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/02/20/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/rathe_pindell_employee02.jpg--90x90.jpg Inside the presidential primaries with James Pindell

Globe reporter James Pindell brings you the latest news from New Hampshire and beyond as 2016 presidential politics take shape.

Opinion

Renée Graham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/24/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Graham-1215.jpg Bernie Sanders, other candidates need to get louder on civil rights

Politicians must quickly realize that waving a scrapbook of good deeds done is not enough.

The Big Picture

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Big Picture

Flying over surf and sands on Cape Cod

Photographer David Ryan provides a visual respite of the shoreline during an assignment in a fixed-wing Cessna.

BetaBoston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/24/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/beta.jpg Cambridge company born in Internet?s ?big bang? has lasting impact

Viaweb played a pivotal role in the evolution of e-commerce, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Crux

JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | ALL THINGS CATHOLIC

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/26/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/allen.jpg Religious persecution, by both oppressors and the oppressed

India showcases the maddening complexity of religious persecution.

The Globe Collection Promo