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Boston, MA--12/1/20-- Governor Charlie Baker gives opening remarks at the Swearing-In Ceremony for SJC Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd at the State House. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

White House task force tells Massachusetts to consider 'rolling back' reopening plan

Yasir Batalvi

What it feels like to get Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine

Trump campaign's star witness in Michigan was deemed 'not credible.' Then, her loud testimony went viral.

Members of President Donald Trump's legal team, including former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, left, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, speaking, attend a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

How is Trump’s lawyer Jenna Ellis ‘elite strike force’ material? December 3, 2020 | 2:46 PM

Volunteer bitten by tiger at Carole Baskin's Big Cat Rescue December 3, 2020 | 2:36 PM

07/30/2018 BOSTON, MA Inbound traffic on the Massachusetts Turnpike as seen from the Market Street overpass in Boston. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)

The Mass. Pike is about to get some new exit numbers December 3, 2020 | 2:24 PM

Doug Henning, right, dressed as Buddy the Elf to meet his biological father for Thanksgiving.

Maine man dresses as Buddy the Elf to meet his biological father for the first time December 3, 2020 | 1:35 PM

SOUTH END RESCUE

GoFundMe launched for mother, two children displaced by South End fire December 3, 2020 | 1:02 PM

City Councilor Matt O'Malley

Boston City Councilor Matt O'Malley won't seek re-election next year December 3, 2020 | 12:21 PM

Ex-presidents would get vaccine publicly to boost confidence December 3, 2020 | 12:16 PM

Stephanie Gero and Matthew Cushing.

Vermont parents arrested in death of their 1-month-old child December 3, 2020 | 11:06 AM

Scott Farm's Heirloom cider.

Yankee's Mel Allen on the New England specialty he can't live without December 3, 2020 | 11:05 AM

2 die in head-on crash involving dump truck, car December 3, 2020 | 10:54 AM

Coast Guard: Mayday call about Maine vessel a probable hoax December 3, 2020 | 10:46 AM

Nurse Kathe Olmstead, right, gives volunteer Melissa Harting, of Harpursville, N.Y., an injection as a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine this past summer.

U.S. virus deaths top 3,100 in a single day for the first time December 3, 2020 | 10:16 AM

‘There absolutely will be a black market’: How the rich and privileged can skip the line for COVID-19 vaccines December 3, 2020 | 8:43 AM

Next for Biden: Getting the right health team as virus rages December 3, 2020 | 5:32 AM

Jamaica Plain, MA - 6/22/20 - The Forest Hills MBTA station in Jamaica Plain, MA on June 22, 2020. (Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe)

MBTA SERVICE CUTS

What Massachusetts residents think of the MBTA's proposed cuts December 3, 2020 | 12:35 AM

Police break up 400-person party at Long Island mansion December 2, 2020 | 11:39 PM

Marijuana plantation

U.N. reclassifies cannabis as a less dangerous drug December 2, 2020 | 10:34 PM

Then-candidate for governor Deval Patrick was flanked by security after a campaign stop at the Boys and Girls Club in Lowell on Oct. 27, 2006. Sergeant Cleveland Coats (back, right) would later join Patrick's security detail when he was governor.

Sgt. Cleveland Coats

Commission: Black trooper victim of racial discrimination December 2, 2020 | 9:56 PM

COVID-19 tests from Mass General employees wait to be processed at Massachusetts General Hospital on Nov. 12.

Mass. reports highest daily total of COVID-19 cases December 2, 2020 | 8:31 PM

Fact-checking Trump's claims of vote rigging. Again. December 2, 2020 | 7:53 PM

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Christmas Trees

Christmas tree farms around Mass. are being cleaned out December 2, 2020 | 7:35 PM

Harvard Yard is seen on the closed Harvard University campus in Cambridge.

Colleges seek $120 billion for higher education in coronavirus relief bill December 2, 2020 | 7:09 PM

President Donald Trump departs after participating in a video teleconference call with members of the military on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020, at the White House in Washington.

In video, Trump unspools unsubstantiated voter fraud charges December 2, 2020 | 6:39 PM

COVID-19 RELIEF

Biden, top Democrats swing behind bipartisan virus aid bill December 2, 2020 | 5:14 PM

Austin Mayor Steve Adler.

Austin mayor went to Mexico while urging people to stay home December 2, 2020 | 5:07 PM

Everett, MA 11/30/2020:
A line of people wait in the rain for a coronavirus COVID-19 test at the Cataldo site on Elm Street.
Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

Mass. reports 4,613 new COVID-19 cases, 46 new deaths December 2, 2020 | 5:00 PM

Jabin Botsford

Ivanka Trump's political ambitions seek new home after the White House December 2, 2020 | 3:59 PM

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addresses a news conference at the White House in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, with members of the coronavirus task force. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times)

Why a Boston church got Anthony Fauci to speak to its congregation December 2, 2020 | 2:38 PM

BOSTON, MA - 10/05/2020: 06covidmetrics---Sandra Munera, a LPN at NEW Health Charlestown in the Crossroads Resource Center reads over patient data before conducting 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

COVID-19 cluster stemming from private club under investigation in East Bridgewater December 2, 2020 | 2:32 PM

The Boston Fire Department rescued a woman and children from a fire on West Newton St. Wednesday.

Photos: Mother, 2 children rescued from balcony during Boston apartment fire December 2, 2020 | 2:25 PM