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Commuter traffic is essentially nonexistent due to the virus outbreak as a few cars pass under a sign urging out of state visitors to quarantine for 14 days on the Zakim Bridge into Downtown Boston, Friday morning, April 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Massachusetts is removing New Hampshire and Maine from list of states exempt from travel order

FILE -- Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Agency, testifies before Congress in Washington on March 13, 2019. Her tenure at the GSA, which she has run since December 2017, has not been without controversy. (Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times)

Smith College hopes for a 'peaceful transition of power' as their alum delays it

The West Chop Light and Coast Guard Station are shown, Sunday, June 28, 2020 in Tisbury, Mass. on the island of Martha's Vineyard. The lighthouse was built in 1891 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Vogue pulls article glamorizing Martha's Vineyard wedding linked to COVID-19 cluster

Cars line up at the Benton Harbor High School parking lot, in Benton Harbor, Mich., Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, during a COVID-19 drive-thru testing site operated by InterCare Community Health Network in collaboration with Spectrum Health Lakeland. No appointments are needed at the testing site, which is currently open Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and is available to anyone with or without symptoms, free of charge, with a photo ID. (Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via AP)

Mass. reports 2,288 new COVID-19 cases, 34 new deaths November 20, 2020 | 5:02 PM

Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump listens to Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Trump, speak during a news conference on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

The next Trump on a ballot? November 20, 2020 | 4:18 PM

Mnuchin denies trying to hinder incoming administration November 20, 2020 | 3:44 PM

Danielle Rogers, a RN, conducted a test with a patient for COVID-19 at the Prince Hall Grand Lodge near Grove Hall in Boston on Nov. 5.

These are the 62 Mass. communities with the highest risk for COVID-19 November 20, 2020 | 3:00 PM

EMT Giselle Dorgalli, third from right, performs chest compression on a coronavirus patient at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles.

CORONAVIRUS DEATHS

Daily COVID-19 deaths in U.S. reach highest level since May November 20, 2020 | 2:35 PM

Trump makes late-term bid to lower prescription drug costs November 20, 2020 | 2:31 PM

Kayleigh McEnany

Kayleigh McEnany tells CNN's Kaitlan Collins, 'I don't call on activists,' at end of White House press briefing November 20, 2020 | 1:44 PM

What 635 epidemiologists are doing for Thanksgiving November 20, 2020 | 12:00 PM

Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Whatever it is, it’s probably not hair dye November 20, 2020 | 11:05 AM

Climate change is making skating, ice fishing and snowmobiling that much more dangerous November 20, 2020 | 10:41 AM

As her partner battles COVID-19, a quarantined Rachel Maddow pleads: 'Don't get this thing' November 20, 2020 | 10:21 AM

Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaks during a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Fact-checking the craziest news conference of the Trump presidency November 20, 2020 | 10:06 AM

Tucker Carlson bashes Trump attorney Sidney Powell for lack of evidence in fraud claims: 'She never sent us any' November 20, 2020 | 9:49 AM

‘People need to stay home’: Ashish Jha urges Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving November 20, 2020 | 9:45 AM

Boxborough

Boxborough man charged after alleged 3-day assault over purported gambling debt November 20, 2020 | 9:33 AM

Cold weather brings surge in cold-stunned sea turtles on Cape November 20, 2020 | 8:59 AM

In an undated image provided vie the Library of Congress, a drawing shows President Rutherford B. Hayes taking the presidential oath of office in 1877.

Last-Ditch Effort

Trump’s attempts to overturn the election are unparalleled in U.S. history November 20, 2020 | 8:25 AM

Pedestrians walk past Pfizer world headquarters in New York.

COVID-19 VACCINE

Pfizer seeking emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine in U.S. November 20, 2020 | 7:33 AM

Birthday time: Biden turns 78, will be oldest U.S. president November 20, 2020 | 1:03 AM

'If 2020 was a tree'

The sad case of the quickly-removed Brighton Christmas tree November 19, 2020 | 11:54 PM

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah.

Romney slams Trump efforts as 'undemocratic' November 19, 2020 | 11:44 PM

View of Copley Square subway station in Massachusetts, USA on April 4, 2012.

MBTA transit ambassador stabbed after argument in Copley Square station November 19, 2020 | 9:43 PM

President-elect Joe Biden speaks about the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris watches, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020.

Joe Biden wins Georgia, flipping the state for Democrats November 19, 2020 | 8:17 PM

In this Nov. 12, 2020, file photo, travelers make their way through the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport during the coronavirus pandemic.

CDC pleads with Americans to not travel for Thanksgiving November 19, 2020 | 7:40 PM

Downtown Boston

Construction worker hospitalized after 20-foot fall from site in Boston's Financial District November 19, 2020 | 7:01 PM

A woman places her ballot in a dropbox after voting at Fenway Park, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Here's how many people in Massachusetts voted in the 2020 election November 19, 2020 | 6:36 PM

COVID-19 IN SCHOOLS

Mass. reports 398 new COVID-19 cases among students, 254 among school staff November 19, 2020 | 6:22 PM

Andover, MA 11/6/2020: Claire Chiesa with her daughter on a school Zoom. Story is about wide variety of instruction hours in the state. Claire Chiesa in Andover said her kids even have wildly different experiences in the same school: her second-grade daughter receives four to five live instruction sessions with teachers on her two remote learning days each week, while her fifth-grade son only receives two half-hour check-ins, with minimal instruction. The rest of the time, he is expected to work alone on assignments. He finishes within 90 minutes and then wants to play, Chiesa says.
Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

REMOTE LEARNING

Which students in Mass. are learning remotely? New poll finds major disparities. November 19, 2020 | 6:09 PM

BROCKTON HIT-AND-RUN

Brockton man charged in hit-and-run that killed 72-year-old mother of 11 November 19, 2020 | 5:35 PM

A Plymouth Select Board member says the town manager secretly monitored her emails. The manger says she was only doing her job. November 19, 2020 | 5:33 PM