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Manchester, NH - 10/10/2020 Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (cq)) joined Granite Staters for a “Vote Now” socially distanced rally. Warren gave remarks on what’s at stake this election for Granite State families and the need to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Democrats up and down the ticket. (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)

Elizabeth Warren’s office compiled a list of all the Trump administration’s Hatch Act violations. It's long.

Classrooms are reconfigured to allow for social distancing at Boston Preparatory Charter School in Boston.

Read: Mass. Teachers Association slams state officials for ‘trying to bully’ districts engaged in remote learning

12/17/2019 Boston Ma - A fresh coat of snow is removed from Newbury Street in Boston.(Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)

Updated: 6 maps predicting Friday's snowfall in Massachusetts

Neighborhood kids from left Ethan Murtie, 5, Torran Archer, 9, Sula Archer, 5 and Ione Archer, 5, watch candy as it drops down into a chute after they attended a nearby halloween party on Friday evening. John Downs of Winchester created the candy chute that delivers candy into people's hands by pressing a button. The fully automatic candy delivery system took him about 10 days to build and sits on his front lawn. It's a safe way to celebrate trick-or-treating in the age of COVID-19.

Winchester man creates candy cannon for socially distanced trick-or-treating October 29, 2020 | 10:48 PM

UVM Health Network

Cyberattack hits Vermont network, including 6 hospitals October 29, 2020 | 8:15 PM

Walmart

Walmart removes guns, ammunition on display at U.S. stores amid civil unrest October 29, 2020 | 8:05 PM

It's Asexual Awareness Week — here’s what that means October 29, 2020 | 7:52 PM

Chairs are stacked against a blackboard for temporary storage while classrooms under go social distancing spacing at the McCormack Middle School in Dorchester. Students are beginning the school year remotely during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

COVID-19 IN SCHOOLS

Mass. reports 201 new COVID-19 cases among students, 85 among school staff at districts across the state October 29, 2020 | 7:49 PM

Mass. reports 27 new COVID-19 deaths, 1,243 new cases October 29, 2020 | 6:11 PM

President Donald Trump speaks during a FOX News Channel town hall at the Scranton Cultural Center, Thursday, March 5, 2020, in Scranton, Pa., co-moderated by FNC's chief political anchor Bret Baier of Special Report and The Story anchor Martha MacCallum. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Fox News eyes a future with no White House fandom October 29, 2020 | 6:00 PM

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh embraced some unusual legal theories about voting in an opinion issued Monday night. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford.

Brett Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh fixes error in election opinion after Vermont complaint October 29, 2020 | 5:33 PM

Boston-10/29/20 Mayor Marty Walsh hosted a media availability at Boston City Hall to discuss updates relating to COVID-19. He urged all residents and workers to get tested. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff (metro)

'Get The Test Boston'

Marty Walsh unveils plan to address Boston's rise in COVID cases October 29, 2020 | 5:06 PM

A portion of a Washington state mail-in ballot is shown with choices that include Donald Trump and Joe Biden for president, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, in Olympia, Wash.

What's your prediction?

Poll: Who do you think will win the presidential election, and why? October 29, 2020 | 4:16 PM

President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett stand on the Blue Room Balcony after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the Constitutional oath to her on the South Lawn of the White House Monday.

Boston.com readers to Dems in Congress on Amy Coney Barrett confirmation: 'Get over it' October 29, 2020 | 2:30 PM

02/08/2013 NEWBURYPORT, MA Alexis Lane (cq) 13, of Newburyport, got some air while sledding on March's Hill (cq) as a winter storm, expected to dump as much as 24 inches of snow in the region, intensified in Newburyport. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)

New Jersey school district pledges to protect the snow day October 29, 2020 | 2:07 PM

Scene of fatal shooting at 25 Elwood Road, Franklin

26-year-old shot to death in Franklin early Thursday identified October 29, 2020 | 2:07 PM

Jalajhia Finklea

Jalajhia Finklea

Authorities are searching for an 18-year-old missing member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe October 29, 2020 | 12:34 PM

Boston, MA - 4/27/2020: Respiratory Therapist Angelika MacClellan, left, talks with nurse Natasha Cacciatore through a patients door in the Special Pathogens Unit ICU at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA on April 27, 2020. The hospital has converted the cardiovascular center into a Covid-19 intensive care unit. (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) section: Metro reporter: Coronavirus Covid-19 STAT ICU

We asked hospitals if they’re prepared for another COVID-19 surge. Here’s what they said. October 29, 2020 | 10:57 AM

Lawsuit says census takers in Mass., elsewhere were pressured to falsify data October 29, 2020 | 9:39 AM

Hurricane Zeta

At least 1 dead as Hurricane Zeta hammers Gulf Coast October 28, 2020 | 11:02 PM

Melina Mara

Desperate voters book last-minute flights to the polls October 28, 2020 | 9:59 PM

Supreme Court rules North Carolina can count ballots received 9 days after the election October 28, 2020 | 9:51 PM

In this June 24, 2019, file photo, Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, of West Springfield, Mass., stands during his arraignment in district court in Springfield.

NTSB release details in crash that killed 7 motorcyclists October 28, 2020 | 7:11 PM

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 28: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing with big tech companies October 28, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee is discussing reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

Ed Markey questions Mark Zuckerberg about potential Trump posts during the election October 28, 2020 | 7:01 PM

Kimberly Budd

Budd set to be 1st Black female chief of state Supreme Court October 28, 2020 | 6:07 PM

Commissioner Jeffrey Riley, with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, speaks in June.

Mass. DESE commissioner: Schools in 'red zones' should remain open until evidence of COVID-19 transmission is seen October 28, 2020 | 5:31 PM

Swampscott rallies have included KKK robe, man in blackface, Confederate flag October 28, 2020 | 4:52 PM

BOSTON, MA - 10/05/2020: 06covidmetrics---Sandra Munera, a LPN at NEW Health Charlestown in the Crossroads Resource Center prepares to give a passenger of a drive up a COVID-19 test. The Massachusetts state COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic numbers are getting worse. At the NEW Health Charlestown site on Tufts Street in the Crossroads Resource Center; a walk-up and drive-through for COVID-19 testing was set up for those with appointments available Monday through Friday, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO

Mass. reports 36 new COVID-19 deaths, 1,137 new cases October 28, 2020 | 4:04 PM

29SJC - BOSTON MA. - OCTOBER 28: Mass Gov Charlie Baker speaks as the Gov. introduces Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice Kimberly Budd as his pick to head the state supreme court on October 28, 2020 in Boston, MA.

(Stuart Cahill/Pool)

Charlie Baker calls Connecticut adding Mass. to its travel advisory a 'bad idea' October 28, 2020 | 3:34 PM

Thousands wait for shuttle buses following a Make America Great Again! campaign rally with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, in Omaha, Neb. Several people were taken to hospitals after the rally for President Trump that drew thousands, many of whom were left stranded miles from their parked cars in freezing weather. (Anna Reed/The World-Herald via AP)

7 taken to hospitals after Trump Omaha airport rally, police say October 28, 2020 | 2:55 PM

Superintendent Dr. Brenda Cassellius

The BPS superintendent said some students could return to buildings Thursday — comments that were quickly walked back October 28, 2020 | 2:45 PM

Time Warp

Yes, that's Elizabeth Warren doing the Time Warp in Tenacious D's get-out-the-vote video October 28, 2020 | 2:29 PM

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2016, file photo, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice Kimberly Budd smiles during a swearing-in ceremony at Faneuil Hall in Boston. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, Gov. Charlie Baker nominated Budd to become chief of the state's highest court. If confirmed, Budd would become its first Black chief justice. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Kimberly Budd set to be 1st Black female chief of Mass. Supreme Court October 28, 2020 | 1:19 PM