EVERETT, Mass. — People who live here, along the waterfront in view of the Tobin Bridge, are trying to get used to the enormous new neighbor who moved into Boston Harbor this morning — a 935-foot tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from Yemen.

BOSTON — Rep. Barney Frank says he is disappointed by the Democrats’ loss of a Senate seat but is calling on his party colleagues not to try to ram the existing health care bill through Congress before Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown takes office.

The largest earthquake to hit Haiti in more than 200 years rocked the Caribbean nation Tuesday.

BOSTON — Interim Sen. Paul J. Kirk is standing by his decision to make an endorsement in the campaign to replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

Martha Coakley
Michael Capuano
Stephen Pagliuca
Alan Khazei

The Final Countdown
With the primaries less than 24 hours away, the four Democratic candidates in the U.S. Senate race are scrambling for votes all over the state.
WBUR’s Fred Thys caught up with the candidates over the weekend as they campaigned from Harvard Square to Dartmouth to New Bedford in their hustle to win over undecided [...]

BOSTON — A Boston doctor now has the official approval to proceed with tax-funded research on human embryonic stem cell lines. He explains what that means for his work.

The Boston Herald has endorsed (PDF) Rep. Michael Capuano as the Democratic candidate for Senate and state Sen. Scott Brown as the Republican candidate.
“While this newspaper often clashed with the senior senator on issues, what we admired most about him was his steadfastness to the causes in which he believed and his unparalleled devotion to [...]

Here’s a brief look at what’s being said in the political and media world about the Senate race.
‘Dishing With Khazei’
The Boston Globe’s Alex Beam invited the Democratic candidates over to his house for dinner — only one accepted. Between trying to sell Beam’s 18-year-old son on City Year, Khazei’s table talk ranged from risotto [...]

BOSTON — The chairwoman of the panel issuing new guidelines for cervical cancer screening is drawing a sharp contrast between her recommendations and the controversial new mammogram guidelines issued only days earlier.

Here’s a brief look at what’s being said in the political and media world about the Senate race.
‘The Boldest Move Yet’
“Steve Pagliuca has just made the boldest move yet in the US Senate race,” Scott Lehigh writes in Friday’s Boston Globe. Pagliuca held a news conference Thursday where he said that unequivocal support [...]

Here’s a brief look at what’s being said in the political and media world about the Senate race.
On Being Green

The Democratic candidates talked green on Tuesday — even though the environment is not one of the top concerns of voters. That may have been the reason for the event’s low turnout, but WBUR’s Monica Brady-Myerov [...]

BOSTON — The chairman of the task force recommending that most women start breast screening at 50 rather than 40 says he is not surprised by the controversy the new guidelines have generated, but he stands behind them as “the best recommendation that the science would support.”

One by one, President Obama spoke the names and told the stories Tuesday of the 13 people slain in the Fort Hood shooting rampage, honoring their memories as he denounced the “twisted logic” that led to their deaths.

BOSTON — Police say one person was shot and another stabbed outside a psychiatric office at a Boston medical building.

BOSTON — The inaugural Boston Book Festival is bringing authors from around the country to Copley Square this weekend. It’s a celebration of all things books, and we thought we’d examine books and stories that use Boston as a place setting.

BOSTON — A 27-year-old Massachusetts man has been charged with conspiring with others on terror attacks against shoppers in U.S. malls and against U.S. military in Iraq.

BOSTON — In their final debate, incumbent Mayor Thomas Menino and City Councilor Michael Flaherty touched on issues ranging from the deleted e-mail controversy to schools, housing and the economy.

BOSTON — You can now read about 5,000 e-mails that were deleted from the City Hall computer of a top aide to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. The city of Boston on Thursday posted scans of the e-mails on its Web site.