Soldier, one suspect dead in Ottawa shootings

Police teams entered Centre Block at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday.

AP/The Canadian Press/Justin Tang

A gunman shot a Canadian soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial, then entered Parliament and shots rang out.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/10/20/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Screenshot2014-10-20at1.24.23PM(2)A.jpg ‘Dark money’ helps fuel negative campaign season

In these especially negative midterms, an unprecedented amount of funding for TV attack ads come from secret donors.

Women & Power

Why do female CEOs get fired more often than male ones?

The reason female CEOs get fired more often may lie in a term you’ve never heard: The Glass Cliff.

Fried clam strips with coriander-spiked aioli.

dining out

Waltham restaurant Red Bird sings

With the Moody Street restaurant, Franklin Cafe alum chef Daniel Stokes does for Waltham what the Franklin did for the South End years ago.

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The students — nearly half of them athletes — enrolled in classes they didn’t have to show up for and received inflated grades.

Worry about Ebola outbreak growing in US, survey says

Forty-one percent of survey respondents said they were worried that they or their family members would be exposed to Ebola.

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A judge warned the man accused of killing seven women that him he’d spend ‘‘the rest of his life’’ in jail unless he cooperates.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/10/22/BostonGlobe.com/BCOM/Images/d4989f3d633747f89c26dae6c32d0b00-411be2a9250146acbb72f60c0aab3e94-0.jpg What’s happening in Robel Phillipos trial?

The friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev allegedly misled investigators in the Boston Marathon bombing case.

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The four men were charged with a combined 33 counts in the shootings, but the jury had reached verdicts on only part of the charges.

MassDOT awards MBTA car contract to Chinese company

Officials expect new subway cars for the aging Red and Orange line fleets to be in service by 2023.