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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

Attleboro HIgh School, where a student showed up for school testing positive for COVID.

A Massachusetts teenager tested positive for COVID-19. His parents sent him to school anyway.

The exterior of the Westin Copley Place. The hotel now houses hundreds of students from Northeastern University.

Northeastern lessens punishment for 11 students dismissed for breaking COVID-19 rules

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

Majority Leader McConnell: Senate will vote on Trump court pick September 18, 2020 | 9:04 PM

Trump Widens China Tech Attack, Banning Tencent's WeChat, TikTok

Trump administration bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores beginning on Sunday September 18, 2020 | 6:55 PM

Police Shooting Connecticut

Man shot at by officer while fleeing traffic stop surrenders September 18, 2020 | 5:25 PM

Michael R. Caputo, the Health and Human Services Department’s top spokesman, went on medical leave this week, days after he attacked C.D.C. scientists in a bizarre Facebook video. Credit...Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Emails detail effort to silence CDC and question its science September 18, 2020 | 4:46 PM

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2016, file photo, a herd of bison grazes in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park in Wyo. Documents released to a bison advocacy group show park officials were pressured in 2018 to treat the animals more like livestock. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Massachusetts boots Wyoming off list of states exempt from travel rules September 18, 2020 | 4:25 PM

Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a canvassing event in South Carolina this past February.

Elizabeth Warren voices support for Question 2 ballot initiative September 18, 2020 | 4:19 PM

A public health worker receives a test swab from a patient at a Covid-19 testing site. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Mass. reports 8 new COVID-19 deaths, 431 new cases September 18, 2020 | 4:01 PM

The Maples, Wrentham

5 dead, 25 infected in COVID-19 outbreak at long-term care facility in Wrentham September 18, 2020 | 2:26 PM

A man walks by a career center storefront in Lawrence this past June.

Massachusetts no longer has the country's highest unemployment rate September 18, 2020 | 1:40 PM

Boston, MA - 2/11/19 The Boston City Council's Committee on Government Operations holds a public hearing to discuss petitions sponsored by Councilor Andrea J. Campbell.
Photo by Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
Topic: 12elections
Reporter: Milton Valencia

Andrea Campbell 'seriously considering' campaign to be Boston mayor September 18, 2020 | 1:30 PM

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine phlebotomist Mayra Fernandez prepares to take a blood sample from study participant Julio Li in Miami. Miami is one of 89 cities around the U.S. testing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

VACCINE QUESTIONS

POLL: Under what circumstances would you get the coronavirus vaccine? September 18, 2020 | 1:06 PM

A Black Lives Matter march in Kirkwood, Mo., a St. Louis suburb, on June 6, 2020.

Despite Trump's warnings, women in suburbia don’t seem too worried about its destruction September 18, 2020 | 12:24 PM

Scene of Hyde Park fatal crash

Car severed in half in fatal Hyde Park crash September 18, 2020 | 12:17 PM

A Mass. man's Trump sign kept getting stolen. Then he had a shocking idea. September 18, 2020 | 12:03 PM

Stan Grossfeld/ Globe Staff

Nantucket officials say COVID-19 numbers are ‘trending in the right direction’ after Labor Day spike September 18, 2020 | 11:52 AM

Nathan Klima for The Boston Globe

'We need more leaders like Susan': Charlie Baker backs Collins in Maine Senate race September 18, 2020 | 11:02 AM

A helicopter drops water as firefighters battle the El Dorado Fire in Angelus Oaks, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. The wildfires raging on the West Coast became an all but inescapable crisis around the country on Tuesday, with at least 27 people dead in three states, fires and evacuations starting in Idaho, milky smoke clouding the skies over Michigan and haze reaching as far as New York City. (Eric Thayer/The New York Times)

Firefighter dies in blaze sparked by gender-reveal celebration September 18, 2020 | 10:51 AM

Tourists visit the pool outside of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. (Brynn Anderson/AP)

The Falwells, the pool attendant, and the double life that brought them all down September 18, 2020 | 10:42 AM

Providence College

Over 80 Providence College students test positive for COVID-19 in 2 days September 18, 2020 | 10:18 AM

Fire at 24 Fairmount St., Dorchester

Massive 4-alarm Dorchester fire displaces 19 people September 18, 2020 | 9:45 AM

Trump administration bans WeChat, TikTok citing national security September 18, 2020 | 9:08 AM

Candlelight Christian Fellowship

A 'no-masker' pastor prayed against a mask mandate. He's now in intensive care for COVID-19. September 18, 2020 | 8:57 AM

Children trick or treat in Williamstown, Mass. last year.

POLL RESULTS: Cancel trick-or-treating? Boston.com readers are split on the scary subject September 18, 2020 | 5:00 AM

1 killed, 1 critically injured in shooting in Charlestown September 17, 2020 | 10:19 PM

Report: Much needs doing to shield nursing homes from virus September 17, 2020 | 6:18 PM

Christopher Muther

Northeastern lets suspension of 11 first-year students stand, but credits tuition September 17, 2020 | 6:15 PM

Police shoot dog that was attacking 2 people, other dog September 17, 2020 | 5:21 PM

Gulf between White House's words, Trump's actions on masks September 17, 2020 | 5:14 PM

Man fatally stabbed at Providence Place mall; 4 in custody September 17, 2020 | 4:49 PM

BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 17: Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker speaks to the media after receiving a flu shot at a CVS in Roslindale on September 17, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Stuart Cahill/Pool)

Charlie Baker underscores flu shot requirement for students amid COVID-19 September 17, 2020 | 4:37 PM