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Boston, MA 6/25/2020 Commissioner Jeffrey Riley (cq), with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, speaks. He is flanked by Governor Charlie Baker (cq) and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito (cq). Baker holds a press availability in the Gardner Auditorium, of the State House, during the coronavirus pandemic. Plans for school reopening are disclosed. POOL (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff) Reporter: Hanna Krueger

Charlie Baker's administration is pushing these 16 school districts to resume in-person classes

Video: Pence's airplane returns to New Hampshire airport after striking bird

Road signs on Interstate 93 in Boston.

New exit numbers are coming to Mass. next month

Dear Donald, Dear Mr. President: A Trump-Nixon '80s tale September 23, 2020 | 11:58 AM

Boston -04/22/2020-Asia Mei, owner of Moonshine 152 restaurant stands in her doorway. She has been shut down due to COVID-19. Her corner bar and food served the local South Boston community. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro)

Massachusetts eases COVID-19 seating rules for restaurants September 23, 2020 | 11:11 AM

A volunteer wearing glasses and a mask at a polling location in Des Moines, Iowa.

Does wearing glasses protect you from coronavirus? September 23, 2020 | 10:42 AM

Dear Donald, Dear Mr. President: A Trump-Nixon '80s tale September 23, 2020 | 10:23 AM

A pedestrian walks past the Maplecrest Rehabilitation and Living Center shown in Madison, Maine.

A Maine nursing home worker completed her shift despite virus symptoms. Now 7 residents are dead. September 23, 2020 | 10:00 AM

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks as Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) listens during a news conference September 10, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Here's what Boston.com readers think about whether Dems should 'pack the court' September 23, 2020 | 5:00 AM

Divers find body of missing canoeist in rural lake September 22, 2020 | 9:42 PM

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif.

House easily passes stopgap funding bill, averting shutdown September 22, 2020 | 9:25 PM

In this Jan. 13, 2020, file photo Cindy McCain, wife of former Arizona Sen. John McCain, waves to the crowd after being acknowledged by Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey during his State of the State address.

Cindy McCain endorses Biden for president in rebuke of Trump September 22, 2020 | 8:27 PM

Kobe Bryant Crash Photos

Vanessa Bryant sues sheriff over photos of Kobe Bryant crash site September 22, 2020 | 6:11 PM

FILE -- Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., July 15, 2020. Facebook has detected limited Chinese operations intended to both help and hurt President Donald Trump’s re-election chances, the company announced on Tuesday, September 22, the first public disclosure of Chinese efforts to influence the presidential election in November. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)

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Facebook takes down fake pages created in China aimed at influencing elections September 22, 2020 | 6:07 PM

Feds: Fraudster blew $30,000 in Vegas with virus loan money September 22, 2020 | 5:18 PM

Worcester Mayor's Office

‘She’s a fighter': 102-year-old woman survived both 1918 flu and COVID-19 September 22, 2020 | 4:57 PM

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Mass. reports 11 new COVID-19 deaths, 143 new cases September 22, 2020 | 4:08 PM

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School

Teen and their parents charged following Sudbury underage drinking party September 22, 2020 | 2:44 PM

A billboard displays a message from the City of Lubbock, encouraging people to wear masks, in Wolfforth, Texas, July 1, 2020. Early in the pandemic, much of rural Texas had low coronavirus case counts and few worries, but now, conservative areas are seeing a surge in cases, but distrust in government mandates endure. (Dylan Cole/The New York Times)

'There are more deaths coming. And how many more, depends on us.' September 22, 2020 | 12:45 PM

Ranked choice voting in Maine a go for presidential election September 22, 2020 | 12:15 PM

2 wounded in Connecticut workplace shooting; suspect in custody September 22, 2020 | 12:10 PM

FILE - In this April 29, 2020, file photo, workers move bodies to a refrigerated truck from the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. During the deadliest days of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, the bodies piled up at the funeral home — and the stench that came with it — at an alarming rate. Cleckley says what happened next made him the scapegoat for an unforeseen crisis — hundreds of COVID-19 deaths a day in New York that overwhelmed funeral homes across the city. Authorities swept in and suspended his license in an episode that made headlines in a city already reeling from other horrors of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

'Unfathomable': U.S. death toll from the coronavirus hits 200,000 September 22, 2020 | 11:58 AM

Security footage of Daniel Rosado from the day he robbed a Somerville bank in 2017.

Rhode Island man gets 17 years for high-profile 2019 bank robbery in Somerville September 22, 2020 | 10:43 AM

Mitt Romney says he won't block vote on Trump Supreme Court nominee September 22, 2020 | 10:10 AM

Longfellow Bridge

Update: Body of 23-year-old man recovered from Charles River near Longfellow Bridge September 22, 2020 | 10:09 AM

Franconia Notch State Park

Somerville man dies in N.H. rock climbing accident after large rock severs rope September 22, 2020 | 10:05 AM

A statue of the Native Sachem (leader) Massasoit looks out over the traditional point of arrival of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620, in Plymouth, Mass.

Some see irony in coronavirus' impact on Mayflower's 400th anniversary September 22, 2020 | 9:45 AM

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POLICE SHOOTING

Police shoot man in Kingston Collection mall parking lot September 22, 2020 | 9:23 AM

Massachusetts State Police

North Andover driving school owner charged with running 'large-scale' meth operation September 22, 2020 | 8:44 AM

BOSTON, MA - 9/3/2020 A sign encouraging MBTA riders to socially distance is secured to a beam at the South Station commuter rail. As ridership continues to stay low, the MBTA has maintained strict guidelines in order to decrease the possibility of COVID-19 spread among passengers. Erin Clark / Globe Staff

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MBTA officials tip toe into what future service cuts would actually mean September 22, 2020 | 5:00 AM

The front entrance to the Soldiers Home’s Lawrence F. Quigley Memorial Hospital in Chelsea.

Resident of Chelsea Soldiers' Home tests positive for a 2nd time September 21, 2020 | 5:48 PM

Man accused of hitting bride with a car at wedding September 21, 2020 | 5:11 PM

A N.H. mom's 2-year-old son wouldn't wear a mask on a plane. They got kicked off the flight. September 21, 2020 | 4:24 PM