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Does covering your face protect you, or not? What?s behind the change in coronavirus recommendations
Just a few weeks ago, the official word was that face masks wouldn't protect you from the coronavirus. Now, the CDC is urging people to wear cloth masks when in public places. What changed?

Small businesses are struggling with the coronavirus and the federal loan process. ?It?s a damn mess,? one Mass. co-owner said

Business owners say they have been stymied by a litany of hurdles, including a last-minute change to terms of the Paycheck Protection Program. Some company owners worry the bungled rollout of loan money will be too little and too late for them to survive.

Marty Walsh, in the age of coronavirus, is decisive. But even he has doubts
Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Walsh has relied on his vast network of contacts across Boston to gather information, process the fast-moving crisis, and gut-check his decisions, according to interviews with the mayor and more than a dozen civic, political, and business leaders.

opinion | Niall Ferguson
China?s three-body problem
One of the many things I learned from reading ?The Three-Body Problem? is that it?s OK for China to harm the world in order to save it.

At a family-run nursing home in R.I., an invisible enemy is killing residents and infecting staff

?I would call it epic and heroic and holy," CEO Peter Pezzelli says of the staff members who continue to provide care while the death toll mounts.

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Mass. reports 1,337 new coronavirus cases, 29 new related deaths

Who gets sick with coronavirus, who doesn?t, and why?

Live Updates

Congress, White House reach high for next coronavirus bill; Top Wisconsin court blocks governor?s move to delay election

The latest on what?s happening in New England, the US, and around the world.
Stocks surge higher on hopes that worst of coronavirus outbreak may be nearing Coronavirus pain easing in Spain, Italy; UK braces for bleak days Maine?s coronavirus count rises to about 500 Harvard University president Larry Bacow, recovered from coronavirus along with his wife, says they?re ?feeling much better'

Amid coronavirus, Pine Manor College?s future uncertain

Pine Manor College, which enrolls mostly low-income and first-generation students, was already struggling financially. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit and the Chestnut Hill institution?s future beyond this semester has grown increasingly bleaker, according to state regulators and the regional accreditation agency.

CDC preliminary data shows few children infected with coronavirus have been hospitalized and symptoms may be different

Relatively few children who become infected with coronavirus have been hospitalized compared to their adult counterparts, and they may have different symptoms as well, according to a preliminary review of available data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

Other states are doing it. Should Massachusetts schools close for the rest of the year?

Keeping schools closed in Massachusetts would be painful, wiping out one third of the academic year and disrupting learning statewide.

Opinion

Connie M. Ulrich

Post-coronavirus, how will we address the trauma health care workers have suffered?
Joan Vennochi

Baker?s perception vs. reality at the Holyoke Soldiers? Home
EDITORIAL

Learning from the deadly outbreak in Holyoke

Aaron Thomas

Why I don?t feel safe wearing a face mask

Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center on lockdown after two inmates stabbed
The Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley was placed on lockdown Monday after a fight between three inmates left two stabbed and one of those two men hospitalized, state officials said Monday.

Al Kaline, Tigers? perennial all-around All-Star, 85
Al Kaline, one of baseball?s finest hitters and defensive outfielders whose Hall of Fame career spanned 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, died on Monday at his home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He was 85.

Australian court dismisses cardinal?s sex abuse convictions
The High Court Chief Justice Susan Kiefel announced the decision of the seven judges on Tuesday in the appeal of Cardinal George Pell. The decision means he will be released from Barwon Prison outside Melbourne.

Body of RFK granddaughter recovered in Md.; Congressman Kennedy posts moving video tribute
Authorities are continuing their search Monday for Maeve Fahey Kennedy Townsend McKean's 8-year-old son, who is also presumed dead after they went missing in a canoe Thursday in Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

Even now, you can have some control over your finances
Harvard Business School grad Tina Hay?s visual approach to money matters is especially appealing in these scary times.

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Milford police officer fatally shoots man who charged at him with metal pipe, Worcester DA says

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Comfort Zone

Should you text your ex? A flow chart.

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Remember that time Samuel L. Jackson read to us?

Visit your favorite zoo and aquarium animals online

TEDConnects gathers global experts for daily, virtual talks

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The US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country. Here?s how we got there

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The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

The coronavirus tracker

These maps track the path of coronavirus

Coronavirus resources

Kids and the coronavirus: what you need to know

How to apply for unemployment benefits in the era of coronavirus

Yes, you can still get a package delivered. Just wash your hands, expert says

A coronavirus-inspired window sing-along version of ?Sweet Caroline? springs up in Boston

I tried to go 24 hours without touching my face. I made it 18 minutes
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The Great Divide

Online, but off-kilter: A day in the life of a Boston sixth-grader

Malaki Solo is one of more than 50,000 students in Boston studying at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Without enough to do, the 12-year-old spends much of his time bored inside his small Dorchester apartment.

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For a generation not raised on Zoom, there are challenges but simple joys, too.

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He?s essential to keeping the grocery store going ? but as my dad, he?s essential to me
We haven?t seen each other in six months. Our schedules don?t allow for routine conversations. I miss him.

Rhode Island

At a family-run nursing home in R.I., an invisible enemy is killing residents and infecting staff

?I would call it epic and heroic and holy," CEO Peter Pezzelli says of the staff members who continue to provide care while the death toll mounts.

CVS to offer rapid coronavirus tests in Twin River?s parking lot

Raimondo: R.I. tops 1,000 coronavirus cases; now has 27 deaths
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Special Projects

Back to the battleground

What we learned from each of the battleground states we visited ahead of the 2020 election
Who will win in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin next year? The Globe?s D.C. bureau spent time reporting in these crucial battleground states. This is what they found.

Trump?s evangelical support mystifies his critics, but in Wisconsin, it looks stronger than ever
The president?s personal behavior and some of his core political beliefs, including his hostility toward refugees, seem at odds with the major tenets of Christianity. But Trump?s bond with evangelicals has proven to be remarkably resilient.

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Trump promised Wisconsin?s farmers his trade wars would pay off. They?re still waiting

A Pennsylvania roofer loved Bill Clinton and voted for Obama. Here?s how Trump lured him from the Democrats

Prayers in Vegas, slumped shoulders in N.H. ? inside the final days of Warren?s campaign

Elizabeth Warren reflected on what was happening in a series of behind-the scenes interviews with the Globe in the final month of her campaign.
Education

The Great Divide

A new Globe initiative exploring the deep inequalities in our public education system, examining both the challenges and possible solutions to creating equal opportunity for all students.
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Seeing Red: A Globe Spotlight report on Boston?s crippling traffic

We endure some of the nation?s worst rush hour traffic. Our aging transit system is maddeningly unreliable. It is a crisis ? a very slow moving crisis ? that puts our region?s economic prosperity at risk. Who is to blame? Can anything be done? The Globe Spotlight Team investigates.
At the edge of a warming world

On Cape Cod, climate change is already terrifyingly real

Come with us as we explore the Cape to better understand what climate change is doing here, what it means for the future of this beloved place, and what the cost of inaction might be.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Niall Ferguson

China?s three-body problem
Michael Murphy

The role of architecture in fighting a pandemic
Shelby Semmes

In these unsettling times, we turn to nature for comfort
IDEAS | JESSICA PIERCE

In bad times (like the coronavirus pandemic), every dog is a ?very good dog?
LETTERS

Postcards from the pandemic
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

A quarter million Americans could die from the coronavirus. Maybe more. How do we absorb that much death?

VISUAL STORIES

Life during the coronavirus pandemic

Surf?s up in Narragansett: Riders are social distancing themselves on the waves

17 photos of the coronavirus?s effect around the world

Photos: Tom Brady?s 20-year career with the Patriots

metro

Peter A. Brooke, dean of Boston?s venture capitalists, dies at 90
Peter A. Brooke thought of venture capital as "a sort of private sector Marshall Plan," and he became a legendary figure in that financial realm.

KEVIN CULLEN

When dying from something other than coronavirus is a blessing

Brian and Mary Keefe are carrying the grief of losing their only child, Michael. But they also feel a profound sense of gratitude.

Al Kaline, Tigers? perennial all-around All-Star, 85

Al Kaline, one of baseball?s finest hitters and defensive outfielders whose Hall of Fame career spanned 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, died on Monday at his home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He was 85.

When the memorial is held on Zoom

Amid coronavirus, Pine Manor College?s future uncertain

STAT

Stay up to date with STAT?s Covid-19 Tracker

An interview with the CDC director on coronavirus, masks, and an agency gone quiet

Americans are underestimating duration of coronavirus crisis, experts say

A nurse?s coronavirus routine: Recording videos she hopes her family will never need to watch

sports

Kevin Garnett?s Hall of Fame induction will be a good place for 2008 Celtics soap opera to finally end

This year's Hall of Fame ceremony, featuring Kevin Garnett, will be a perfect time for a Celtics Big Three reunion ? and that includes fellow Hall of Famer Ray Allen.
Coronavirus notebook

British Open canceled, Masters in November as golf recasts schedule

Golf tried to salvage its season by canceling the British Open for the first time since 1945, moving the PGA back to August, and playing the Masters on Nov. 12-15.
Bruins

NESN recruiting ex-Bruins to provide social media commentary on classic rebroadcasts

Bobby Orr writes moving letter to ?heroes? working at Mass. General

Politics

Congress, White House reach high for next coronavirus bill

Business

Four Massachusetts companies among a group highlighted by Goldman Sachs for fighting virus

Marijuana

Illinois governor commutes sentence of jailed cancer patient who ordered marijuana-infused chocolate
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Perspective

What the US will be like after we conquer the coronavirus
Connections

A taste of my Italian family?s grace and humor in the time of coronavirus
Dispatches from the Edge

At risk populations: ?What helps is feeling like you?re not going it alone?

Dispatches from the Edge

My 46-hour hunt for toilet paper

sports

Tigers Hall of Famer Al Kaline dies at 85

Boston?s PGA event, set for August, postponed one week as golf shuffles its schedule

Here is why masks are being placed on statues of runners all over the place

metro

Peter A. Brooke, dean of Boston?s venture capitalists, dies at 90

When dying from something other than coronavirus is a blessing

Al Kaline, Tigers? perennial all-around All-Star, 85

Nation

Watch live: Trump gives coronavirus briefing

HHS watchdog agency finds severe hospital shortages in combating COVID-19

Trump, Biden spoke by phone about coronavirus

World

Queen Elizabeth, in rare address to British public, urges resolve in face of epidemic

Sunny weather tempts Europe; UK queen urges self-discipline

430,000 people have traveled from China to US since coronavirus surfaced

politics

Top Wisconsin court blocks governor?s move to delay election

Trump, Biden spoke by phone about coronavirus

Navy leader calls fired carrier captain ?naive? or ?stupid?

business

Four Massachusetts companies among a group highlighted by Goldman Sachs for fighting virus

Wells Fargo says cap Fed imposed in 2018 is limiting its role in small-business relief

Small businesses are struggling with the coronavirus and the federal loan process. ?It?s a damn mess,? one Mass. co-owner said

lifestyle

John Krasinski?s ?Some Good News? highlights Patriots? mask delivery, reunites ?Hamilton? cast to perform over video chat

How to keep grandparents and grandchildren connected in new ways, from a distance

He?s essential to keeping the grocery store going ? but as my dad, he?s essential to me

marijuana

Illinois governor commutes sentence of jailed cancer patient who ordered marijuana-infused chocolate

Coronavirus woes: Fargo medical marijuana dispensary shut down

Marijuana companies are making hand sanitizer to donate to local hospitals

opinion

A new age of Prohibition? Now? How about let?s not

Baker?s perception vs. reality at the Holyoke Soldiers? Home

Post-coronavirus, how will we address the trauma health care workers have suffered?

food & dining

Chapter 7: The Ghosts of Quarantine Future

Chapter 6: Cabbage, a love story

How the Pine Street Inn feeds Boston?s frightened homeless

travel

7 virtual tours that can take you there

Heading outdoors for home-school history lessons

Spend time at home planning for your next adventure

Books

TaraShea Nesbit on reading history, poetry, and fairy tales during the pandemic

In Anne Tyler?s ?Redhead by the Side of the Road,? a quiet life, interrupted

With ?Memory Eaters,? author Elizabeth Kadetsky releases family secrets

Movies

?And Then We Danced? stages a pas de deux with a difference in Tbilisi

The movies of 1970 were a ball of confusion

5 movie theaters, 3 nights, 2 afternoons

Television

The Keatons and Camp Kikiwaka add up to 60 minutes of TV togetherness

This week?s TV: Quibi arrives, ?Schitt?s Creek? departs, ?Killing Eve? returns

Your next binge watch? Australia?s ?Miss Fisher?s Murder Mysteries? with its glamorous 1920s costumes

music

Alone at home, until Dua Lipa brings the party

When music lessons move to Zoom: ?There have been some surprising benefits?

Adam Schlesinger: 1967-2020

Theater/Dance

Wake up your flagging spirits with 'The Drowsy Chaperone?

Melinda Lopez?s 'Mala? to be shown on WGBH 2

Boston theaters foresee dramatic changes once the coronavirus crisis subsides

globe local

Get crafty with your holiday shopping at local fairs

Hardiest hikers, campers don?t come in from the cold

Should Massachusetts exempt police body camera footage from state public records law?

Obituaries

Peter A. Brooke, dean of Boston?s venture capitalists, dies at 90

Al Kaline, Tigers? perennial all-around All-Star, 85

The Rev. Joseph O?Hare, resourceful president of Fordham, 89