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Enrollment plummeted at many New England colleges

At more than two dozen colleges and universities across the region, the number of full-time graduate and undergraduate students plummeted by more than 20 percent this September compared with the previous year, according to the New England Commission of Higher Education, the regional accrediting agency.
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Metro


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US Attorney Andrew Lelling, Boston police commissioner put focus on hate groups, vow to protect the polls

Federal and local authorities said that they are tracking hate groups on social media and will post federal monitors and police at polls across the state to protect voters from intimidation or threats during the presidential election.
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To win crucial Pennsylvania, Trump leans heavily on unfounded fears of massive voter fraud

For months, President Trump has been warning that the election is tilted against him, that Democrats are conspiring to steal his victory. It’s a message that has been embraced by other Republican officials and seeped down to voters who are heeding Trump’s call to keep an eye on the polls and guard against a problem — voter fraud — that experts say is exceedingly rare.
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Joe Kennedy III campaign says it improperly spent $1.5 million in Senate primary

A campaign finance expert said in the 20 years he’s spent watching money in politics, he can’t recall an instance of a high-profile candidate such as Kennedy committing this sort of campaign finance violation.
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The average Boston commuter has gained nearly seven hours a week. But what have we done with the time?

The silver lining to the pandemic, if there can even be one, has been the bonanza of time.
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Politics


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To win crucial Pennsylvania, Trump leans heavily on unfounded fears of massive voter fraud

For months, President Trump has been warning that the election is tilted against him, that Democrats are conspiring to steal his victory. It’s a message that has been embraced by other Republican officials and seeped down to voters who are heeding Trump’s call to keep an eye on the polls and guard against a problem — voter fraud — that experts say is exceedingly rare.
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Coronavirus


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The average Boston commuter has gained nearly seven hours a week. But what have we done with the time?

The silver lining to the pandemic, if there can even be one, has been the bonanza of time.
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Nation


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US budget deficit hit $3.1 trillion amid virus spending surge

The federal budget deficit soared to a record $3.1 trillion in the 2020 fiscal year.
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Coronavirus at ‘turning point’ in Europe, hitting at-risk groups

Doctors are warning that Europe is at a turning point as the coronavirus surges back across the continent, including among vulnerable people, and governments try to impose restrictions without locking whole economies down.
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Top Mexico official helped smuggle drugs to US, authorities say

Mexico’s former defense secretary helped a cartel smuggle thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States in exchange for bribes, according to court documents unsealed Friday.
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Retired French surgeon faces 312 pedophilia and abuse charges

A retired French surgeon has been charged with the rape and sexual assault of more than 300 people, a vast majority of whom were under 15, in what could be France’s biggest-ever pedophilia and sexual abuse case.
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The swamp became a cesspool

The Trump White House misled the American public about the pandemic, while informing wealthy campaign donors who profited. This happened under a president who promised to ‘drain the swamp.’
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Young people, get out your vote

There is a profound opportunity for younger voters to become the most influential voting bloc in November.
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Barrett’s response on climate change leaves some unsettled

The Supreme Court nominee would not express a view on an issue she called a 'contentious matter' of policy.
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US Attorney Andrew Lelling, Boston police commissioner put focus on hate groups, vow to protect the polls

Federal and local authorities said that they are tracking hate groups on social media and will post federal monitors and police at polls across the state to protect voters from intimidation or threats during the presidential election.
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Higher Education


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Enrollment plummeted at many New England colleges

At more than two dozen colleges and universities across the region, the number of full-time graduate and undergraduate students plummeted by more than 20 percent this September compared with the previous year, according to the New England Commission of Higher Education, the regional accrediting agency.
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Metro


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US Attorney Andrew Lelling, Boston police commissioner put focus on hate groups, vow to protect the polls

Federal and local authorities said that they are tracking hate groups on social media and will post federal monitors and police at polls across the state to protect voters from intimidation or threats during the presidential election.
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UMass says NCAA’s penalties to men’s basketball, women’s tennis teams don’t match the violations

The teams were stripped of victories from 2014 to 2017 because some athletes received a combined sum of about $9,100 as a result of an administrative error.
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Despite a lost racing season, most competitive rowers with sights set on the Olympics have stayed the course

The Head of the Charles, which would have been held this weekend in Boston, was among the many competitive crew events lost to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Patriots cancel practice, place James Ferentz on COVID-19 list, but Sunday game with Broncos still on

The Patriots are set to play the Broncos on Sunday, in a game that has been postponed one week already.
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With housing courts set to reopen Monday, calls grow to extend ban on evictions

A growing chorus of state and local officials, including Attorney General Maura Healey, are urging Governor Charlie Baker to extend the state’s strict ban on evictions, at least until measures Baker rolled out on Monday are up and running.
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With housing courts set to reopen Monday, calls grow to extend ban on evictions

A growing chorus of state and local officials, including Attorney General Maura Healey, are urging Governor Charlie Baker to extend the state’s strict ban on evictions, at least until measures Baker rolled out on Monday are up and running.
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Governor Sununu plans to sue Massachusetts next week over plan to tax housebound N.H. commuters

The border war between Massachusetts and New Hampshire over housebound commuters' payroll taxes intensified on Friday when Governor Chris Sununu declared that his administration would challenge the Baker administration in federal court.
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Obituaries


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Bernard Cohen, lawyer who took on mixed marriage laws, dies

Bernard S. Cohen, who won a landmark case that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of laws forbidding interracial marriage and later went on to a successful political career as a state legislator, has died. He was 86.
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Lulu Peyraud, a French wine matriarch, dies at 102

Lulu Peyraud, the matriarch of a wine-producing family in the Bandol region of southern France, who epitomized a joyous, exuberant and generous Provençal way of life as a cook and a hostess, died Oct. 7 in La Ciotat, France. She was 102.
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Faith Stewart-Gordon, doyenne of the Russian Tea Room, dies at 88

Faith Stewart-Gordon, an actress who traded Broadway for blini when she married the owner of the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan and then spent nearly three decades as its owner, greeting the glitterati who dined there in her incongruous Southern lilt, died Friday at her home in New Preston, Connecticut. She was 88.
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MUSIC


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Boston Symphony Orchestra cancels all live performances through spring

The orchestra also teased a new virtual series, featuring musicians recorded in an empty Symphony Hall.
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FOOD


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4 candy shops for sweet family field trips

These stops feature everything from international treats to old-fashioned confections.
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Putting people of color on the Christopher Columbus pedestal

Artist Cedric “Vise 1” Douglas kicked off a new project designed to celebrate "the everyday person" from Boston.
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