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BOSTON, MA - 12/07/2020: 08walshcuts --The MBTA Green line passengers with masks on a weekday morning during COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh on Monday blasted proposed service cuts to the MBTA, asserting during a news conference that the measures would harm the most vulnerable city residents and cut hundreds of jobs. Let's take a look at t commuters (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO

Here are the MBTA cuts to subway and bus service taking effect March 14

These are the 19 Mass. communities with the highest rates of COVID-19

Toiell Washington

Meet the 23-year-old who launched her own game company to teach people about systems of oppression

Fighting Biden virus aid, GOP rekindles Obama-era strategy March 6, 2021 | 12:20 AM

BOSTON, MA - 3/5/2021 Khymani James, former student representative on the Boston School Committee, stands for a portrait outside of his home in Dorchester on Friday afternoon. James was sworn in as the student representative in September of 2020, but after months of not being heard, James resigned. He says he could no longer abide by the district's efforts to silence him and other students who were critical of the district. Erin Clark/Globe Staff

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'I am deeply disappointed': The Boston School Committee's student rep. resigned citing 'blatant disrespect' towards him March 5, 2021 | 5:43 PM

04/13/2014 MANCHESTER, NH L-R Governor Maggie Hassan (cq), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (cq), and Senator Kelly Ayotte (cq) greeted National Guard members during an event welcoming home the 237th Military Police Company of the New Hampshire Army National Guard (cq) at Southern New Hampshire University (cq) in Manchester. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)

Why did New Hampshire's two Democratic senators vote against a $15 minimum wage? March 5, 2021 | 5:25 PM

Fighting Biden virus aid, GOP rekindles Obama-era strategy March 5, 2021 | 5:12 PM

BOSTON, MA - 1/07/2021:Gia Brown, a LPN sanitizes a plexiglass compartment after testing a patient. A North End COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic site is set up on Tuesday 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m and Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The testing site has been moved into the alleyway directly behind NEW Health at 332 Hanover Street in order to provide more cover from the elements; the entrance is on North Bennet Street. Walk-up patients only. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO

Mass. reports 1,677 new COVID-19 cases, 25 new deaths March 5, 2021 | 5:01 PM

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Mass. education commissioner wins authority to force school districts to bring students back March 5, 2021 | 4:40 PM

BROCKTON, MA - 3/02/2021: 03brocktonschools -Freshman students walk the hallway in between classes during the bell break which normally would be packed by students. BACK TO IN PERSON CLASS for freshman at Brockton High School during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO

Massachusetts postpones MCAS testing for students March 5, 2021 | 4:33 PM

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Central Falls, RI 3/1/21 Dr. Beata Nelken (cq) draws a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine. However, on further questioning of the woman who was to receive it, it was determined that she came one day too soon for her second shot. The drawn dose was returned to the refrigerated unit for later use. The city of Central Falls has become a hot spot for the coronavirus in Rhode Island. Nelken, the president and CEO of the 1-year-old Jenks Park Pediatrics (cq) practice, has stepped up by providing testing and vaccinations for the community. (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff) Reporter: Ed Fitzpatrick

Mass. reports 650,411 people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 March 5, 2021 | 4:03 PM

The short-term, middle-term, and long-term future of the coronavirus March 5, 2021 | 3:39 PM

'WHITESPLAINING"

Two white doctors did a podcast on racism for a prominent medical journal. It went poorly. March 5, 2021 | 3:17 PM

Col. Mark Anarumo, the president of Norwich University, at the private military academy's campus in Northfield, Vt., Feb. 25, 2021. Anarumo decided that the best way to support students forced to quarantine in their rooms was to move into the dormitories, too. (Annie Flanagan/The New York Times)..

A Vermont college president worried about the risks of dorm isolation. So he moved in. March 5, 2021 | 2:55 PM

Registered traveling nurse Patricia Carrete, of El Paso, Texas, walks the hallways during a night shift at a field hospital set up to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in Cranston, R.I. Rhode Island's infection rate has come down since it was the highest in the world two months ago and many of the field hospital's 335 beds are now empty. On quiet days, the medical staff wishes they could do more. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

How Rhode Island fell to the coronavirus March 5, 2021 | 2:28 PM

Body recovered after reports that an ATV rider fell through ice March 5, 2021 | 2:12 PM

People are given COVID-19 vaccinations, center, as doses of COVID-19 vaccine are loaded into syringes at a counter, below, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, at a vaccination center at Gillette Stadium, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Vaccination sites

State paying more than $1 million weekly for Gillette and Fenway vaccination sites March 5, 2021 | 1:42 PM

Boston, MA - 3/24/20 - The streets downtown were virtually empty a day after Governor Charlie Baker issued a stay at home advisory for all non-essential workers as a way to reduce the spread of coronavirus and flatten the COVID-19 curve. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Massachusetts is planning to have around half of state employees telework permanently March 5, 2021 | 1:32 PM

Bill O'Leary

Should Biden push to change Senate rules to benefit Democrats? March 5, 2021 | 12:26 PM

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pauses as he marks his ballot on Election Day 2018 at the Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco, in Mt. Kisco, N.Y.

Scandals reveal Cuomo known by New Yorkers to wider nation March 5, 2021 | 11:31 AM

Senate Dems strike jobless aid deal, relief bill OK in sight March 5, 2021 | 11:22 AM

Construction worker flown to Boston hospital after fall at Needham job site March 5, 2021 | 11:15 AM

Richard Barnett, a supporter of former president Donald Trump, sits inside the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Jan. 6. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Richard Barnett

Capitol riot suspect pictured at Pelosi's desk screams 'it's not fair' in courtroom outburst March 5, 2021 | 10:58 AM

Federico G. Klein was included in a poster seeking information on several people seen in the crowd that stormed the Capitol.

A midlevel member of the Trump State Dept. has been arrested on charges related to the Capitol attack March 5, 2021 | 10:27 AM

Medical Assistant Keona Shepard holds up the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine as she prepares to administer it at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center during the mass coronavirus vaccination on Thursday, March 4, 2021 in New Orleans. (Chris Granger /The Advocate via AP)

One and done: Why people are eager for Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine March 5, 2021 | 10:16 AM

Tamara Lanier, who is suing Harvard University for ownership of daguerreotypes of slaves whom she counts as ancestors, at home in Norwich, Conn., Feb. 28, 2019. The case renews focus on the role that the country’s oldest universities played in slavery, and also comes amid a growing debate over whether the descendants of the enslaved are entitled to reparations. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)

Images of slaves belong to Harvard, not a descendant, judge rules March 5, 2021 | 9:54 AM

Biden signals support to replace war power authority March 5, 2021 | 9:43 AM

Jump in hiring fuels optimism for US economic recovery March 5, 2021 | 9:39 AM

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Gov. CHARLIE BAKER

Charlie Baker traveling to Florida following a family death, to return Monday March 5, 2021 | 8:15 AM

Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos would see their assets taxed under Sen. Elizabeth Warren's proposal.

(Don't) eat the rich: Many Boston.com readers side with billionaires on wealth tax question March 5, 2021 | 6:39 AM

The maneuver by Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, was unlikely to change any minds about the sweeping pandemic aid plan.

Action on stimulus bill halts as Senate clerks read all 628 pages aloud March 4, 2021 | 11:58 PM

A nurse at a mobile vaccination clinic run by the VA Puget Sound Health Care System holds a tray with a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Thursday, March 4, 2021, in Shelton, Wash.

COVID-19 VACCINE

Boston launches first mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Roxbury March 4, 2021 | 11:28 PM

8-year-old boy reported missing in Worcester found safe in Connecticut March 4, 2021 | 10:37 PM