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Higher Education


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The Delta variant is stirring uncertainty on college campuses for fall

Many universities are about to attempt their first full, in-person semester since 2019. But a nationwide surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Delta variant has complicated the return, leaving many schools on the brink of another year without a clear picture of what student life will look like.
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Biden extends eviction moratorium another two months, including in most of Mass.

Citing the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Tuesday announced a new 60-day federal moratorium on evictions in counties where the cases are at elevated levels. Currently, that includes all of Massachusetts, except for Franklin and Hampshire Counties.
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Respiratory infection affecting small children makes an early appearance

Cases of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, have been rising nationally since the spring, and doctors in Massachusetts have started noticing the trend. But it's not straining hospitals here, since COVID prevalence is lower than in other parts of the country.
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Miriam Conrad, longtime federal public defender, is retiring. She took on tough cases, including Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev

Conrad, the chief federal public defender in Massachusetts, recently announced that she will step down next spring.
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Biden calls on Cuomo to resign in wake of sexual harassment investigation

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo faced mounting pressure Tuesday to resign, including from President Biden and other onetime Democratic allies, after an investigation found he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women and worked to retaliate against one of his accusers.
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Redistricting battles kick off early as Democrats scramble to try to cut into GOP advantages

"Every twist and turn in every state is going to be contentious and chaotic and contested," said one political observer.
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Officer dead, suspect killed in violence outside Pentagon

A Pentagon police officer died after being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of violence at a transit center outside the building, and a suspect was shot by law enforcement and died at the scene, officials said.
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Trump says he will not try to stop ex-Justice officials from testifying

Trump said that he would not sue to keep six former Justice Department officials from testifying, according to letters sent to them Monday by Douglas A. Collins, who was known as one of Trump’s staunchest supporters when he served in Congress and who is now one of the former president’s lawyers.
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Afghan official: Acting defense minister targeted in attack

A powerful explosion rocked an upscale neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday in an attack that apparently targeted the country’s acting defense minister. At least 10 people were wounded, a health official said.
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Taliban take much of provincial capital in south Afghanistan

The Taliban pressed ahead with their advances in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, capturing nine out of 10 districts of the Helmand provincial capital, residents and officials said. Afghan government forces launched airstrikes, backed by the United States, in a desperate effort to defend the city of Lashkar Gah.
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Missing Belarusian activist is found dead in park in Ukraine

A Belarusian antigovernment activist was found dead in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Tuesday, in what police described as a murder or a suicide, casting a renewed spotlight on the risks faced by opponents of the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko even outside their own country.
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OPINION


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The pathetic politics of anti-public-health pandering

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis leads a cynical group of demagogues.
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EDITORIAL


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Infrastructure deal is too important to lose

Whatever its flaws, the legislation would be an unprecedented infusion of much-needed money into roads, bridges, and transit. Congress shouldn’t let this rare moment of bipartisanship pass.
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LETTERS


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Measure would repair educator pipeline to boost teacher diversity

Diverse talent is already in our classrooms in the form of our students, but we have a broken educator pipeline in Massachusetts that presents challenges for diverse talent from entering teaching in the first place.
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A final salute to a man who had saluted so many

Russell Pittsley was a longtime member of a military honor guard and stood at attention at countless funerals. On Saturday, he was the recipient of those honors during his own funeral at St. Mary's Cemetery in Middleborough.
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Today in History

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2021. There are 149 days left in the year.
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Baker digs in on mask-wearing in schools: ‘I don’t think you can apply a national standard’ to Massachusetts

“I’m not going to get into making decisions that I believe, in many cases, ought to be driven, at the end of the day, by the folks at the local level who know those communities best,” Governor Charlie Baker said Tuesday.
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Red Sox place closer Matt Barnes on COVID-19 injured list, but his test comes back negative

The team hopes Barnes, who is vaccinated, can rejoin the club on Wednesday.
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‘We don’t want this slide to continue,’ says Red Sox manager Alex Cora after his team’s season-high fifth straight loss

Over the last eight games, Sox starters have an 8.47 ERA while averaging just over four innings an outing.
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TPC Boston loses next year’s PGA Tour playoff event

Northern Trust ended its partnership with the PGA Tour, bouncing TPC Boston in Norton from the playoff rotation in 2022.
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Biden extends eviction moratorium another two months, including in most of Mass.

Citing the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Tuesday announced a new 60-day federal moratorium on evictions in counties where the cases are at elevated levels. Currently, that includes all of Massachusetts, except for Franklin and Hampshire Counties.
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Senators behind $1 trillion public works plan show off their work

The lawmakers, part of a group that they like to call the G-10, for gang of 10 — five Republican, five Democratic senators — are appealing to the wishes of many voters for not only better airports, roads, and Internet service, but also for some bipartisanship in Washington.
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French drug giant Sanofi buys Lexington’s Translate Bio for $3.2b

It’s betting big on the local company’s expertise in technology that led to the first two COVID-19 vaccines.
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Boston Ballet dancer files sexual assault lawsuit

Sage Humphries, a Boston Ballet Dancer, has filed suit against Mitchell Taylor Button. She says he and wife Dusty Button, a former Boston Ballet principal dancer, sexually and verbally abused her.
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For a ruthless mother in David Mamet’s ‘Communion,’ justice is beside the point

The playwright's one-act drama at Great Barrington Public Theater presents some provocative ideas, but leans too heavily toward abstraction.
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Weaving the amazing tale of fiber artist Judith Scott

Author Melissa Sweet collaborated with Scott's twin sister on a new biography for kids.
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