The awkward questions both candidates have managed to dodge

Wednesday is the final time this campaign we get to force both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to stand on a stage and answer questions before Election Day.

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Wednesday is the final time this campaign we get to force both candidates to stand on a stage and answer questions before Election Day.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/19/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/warrentrump1.jpg ?Put on your big-boy pants,? Warren tells Donald Trump

Senator Elizabeth Warren didn?t hold back in her criticisms of Trump and his election-rigging claims.

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Another victim of this election cycle? Comedy.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/19/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/shaughnessy1-10240.jpg Why can?t Brady answer the ?locker room talk? question?

Here are some thoughts on the QB?s silence, John Farrell, Curt Schilling, and other matters . . .

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/19/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Yan_Assumption%20Football_Coin%20Toss.JPG Team Impact to be honored as Community Heroes at Globies

The program matches children with life-threatening or chronic diseases with college teams.

10/18/2016 - Easthampton, MA - October 18, 2016: Robert Meeropol and his daughter Jennifer Meeropol pose for a portrait at the Rosenberg Fund For Children in Easthampton, MA on October 18, 2016. Robert and his brother Michael Meeropol, children of accused spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, are asking President Obama to pardon their mother. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe)

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In new twist in Rosenbergs spy saga, sons seek mother?s exoneration

Michael and Robert Meeropol are citing new evidence that Ethel Rosenberg did not seek to pass evidence to the Soviets in sensational Cold War case.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/19/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/23ef1eef38414f6db80d05d654cc9f6a-23ef1eef38414f6db80d05d654cc9f6a-0-ksGE--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg Julian Edelman?s mom is adorable

The Patriots wide receiver got a surprise in the mail from his mother.

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/03/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/5d38f1e5b31d40868d69db0132167830-5d38f1e5b31d40868d69db0132167830-0.jpg Amy Schumer responds to fans who left her Tampa show

The comedian promised not to call Donald Trump ?an orange, sexually assaulting, fake-college-starting monster? ever again.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/02/24/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Copy%20of%2023mcdonough_photo1.jpg Federal judge in DiMasi case pivots to his codefendant

The judge who raised questions about the release of former Speaker Salvatore DiMasi is making queries about Richard McDonough.

Captain Encouragement swoops into Boston

The masked ?superhero? has been seen walking around the city, trying to inspire people to keep their heads up.

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2106, file photo, Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting of the Cancer Moonshot Task Force in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Biden will speak Wednesday, Oct. 19, about the so-called

Biden makes pitch for cancer-curing initiative

Vice President Joe Biden said the fight against cancer needs to tap into the potential curative powers of advanced research and technology.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/newspaperbox1-11797-U82371375060589C--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg Two face charges in Salem newspaper box explosion

The box for the Rainbow Times, the region?s largest LGBT newspaper, was blown up Aug. 23 and the incident was captured on surveillance video.

Fatal cat virus outbreak is detected in Mattapan

Several cats that were reported to be sick with panleukopenia, also known as feline distemper, a possibly fatal and highly infectious virus.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/dad8fe9320ba412a893a0c479162f37c-73682021b5734af1818019aa23aac623-0-11207-kSIH--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg Family of slain Danvers teacher sues town, schools

Colleen Ritzer?s family filed suit against the town, its school department, and a cleaning company whose workers washed away potential evidence.

Coast Guard used infrared to spot missing swimmer in fog

Visibility was near zero off Ipswich as a helicopter canvassed the area Tuesday night, officials said.

His online romances were allegedly part of $350,000 scheme

A N.H. man is accused of bilking women he met online as well as other victims of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Sex offender charged with exposing himself to high school volleyball team

The 41-year-old, who was on probation and was wearing a GPS tracker, allegedly exposed himself to a group of teenaged girls on a bus on Route 1 in Walpole.

Azalea a 19-year-old female chimpanzee, smoked a cigarette at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday.

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Azalea, the chain-smoking chimp, is a star in North Korea

Pyongyang?s newly opened zoo has a new star: Azalea, the smoking chimpanzee.

Obituary

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/handout_19levis01_met.jpg ?I love you?: The aching tragedy of her final days

After Laura Levis died, millions caught a glimpse of her last days with her husband, Pete, and her final hours alive.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight9090-11856.jpg The broken covenant

Behind the fragmented state of mental health care lies a political system failure that spans decades ? and continues.

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The battle to recapture Mosul

Iraqi and Kurdish forces have begun a military offensive to take back the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul.