MIDTERMS SLIDER WHITMAN, MA - 11/06/2018: Voting at Whitman Town Hall had a steady morning flow(David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO TOPIC 07earlyvoting

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People voted at the Whitman Town Hall in Whitman.

MIDTERMS SLIDER Kristen Leach votes with her six-month-old daughter, Nora, on election day in Atlanta, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Kristen Leach voted with her six-month-old daughter, Nora, in Atlanta.

MIDTERMS SLIDER Voters line up to vote at a polling place in Doylestown, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Voters lined up to vote at a polling place in Doylestown, Pa.

MIDTERMS SLIDER Swampscott, Ma., 11/06/2018, Governor Charlie Baker votes at The First Church in Swampscott. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

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Governor Charlie Baker voted at The First Church in Swampscott.

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Geoff Diehl ate breakfast at Martin?s Restaurant in Abington before voting.

MIDTERMS SLIDER Brookline, MA - 11/06/18 - Voters for Brookline's Precinct 8 line up to cast ballots inside Young Israel of Brookline. (Lane Turner/Globe Staff) Reporter: () Topic: (07earlyvoting)

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Voters lined up at Brookline's Precinct 8 polling place.

MIDTERMS SLIDER A woman and her children vote at a polling station during the mid-term elections at the Fairfax County bus garage in Lorton, Virginia on November 6, 2018. - Americans started voting Tuesday in critical midterm elections that mark the first major voter test of Donald Trump's controversial presidency, with control of Congress at stake. About three quarters of the 50 states in the east and center of the country were already voting as polls began opening at 6:00 am (1100 GMT) for the day-long ballot. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images

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A woman and her children voted at a polling station in Lorton, Va.

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Voters are lined up at the Center at The Heights in Needham.

MIDTERMS SLIDER Cambridge, MA - 11/6/18 - Senator Elizabeth Warren (cq) emerges from the voting booth in Cambridge. Photo by Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Topic: 07senateMetro Reporter: Victoria McGrane

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Elizabeth Warren emerged from the voting booth in Cambridge.

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Jay Gonzalez greeted a supporter before voting in Needham.

MIDTERMS SLIDER Falcon Wien, age 2 1/2, huddles under the coat of her mother, Sarah Wien, as she votes at the Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco, in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Falcon Wien huddled under the coat of her mother, Sarah Wien, as she voted in Mt. Kisco, N.Y.

MIDTERMS SLIDER People vote at the Greenspring Retirement center during the mid-term election day in Fairfax, Virginia on November 6, 2018. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images

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People voted at the Greenspring Retirement center in Fairfax, Va.

MIDTERMS SLIDER Congresswomen Elect Ayanna Pressley makes her way into the Adams Street Library in Boston, Massachusetts to vote on November 6, 2018. - Americans started voting Tuesday in critical midterm elections that mark the first major voter test of Donald Trump's presidency, with control of Congress at stake. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP/Getty Images

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Ayanna Pressley made her way into the Adams Street Library to vote in Boston.

MIDTERMS SLIDER Family members accompany voters as they cast their ballots at the Whetstone Community Center polling location, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio. Across the country, voters headed to the polls Tuesday in one of the most high-profile midterm elections in years. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Family members accompanied voters as they cast their ballots in Columbus, Ohio.

Mass. voting begins with pivotal ballot questions atop the ticket

The sleepy election in Massachusetts contrasts with the intense anticipation surrounding whether Democrats will surf a ?blue wave? nationally and retake control of one or both chambers of Congress, implementing a check on the chaotic administration of President Trump.

Analysis

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After nearly two years of President Trump?s divisive and increasingly nationalistic style of politics, voters will deliver a midterm verdict on him and the party he has re-shaped.

A lone voter casts her vote at a polling station inside a school, during the Super Tuesday Republican primary elections in Cambridge, Massaschusetts, March 6, 2012. Republican voters make their way to the polls in the Super Tuesday primary elections in 10 states and 437 delegates at stake. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/GettyImages) 28TicketTV

Are you ready to vote? Here?s our 2018 election guide

The midterm elections are here: Are you ready to vote?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/02/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/940b404f790d4da299e35f34ee909a0d-940b404f790d4da299e35f34ee909a0d-0.jpg Here?s your ultimate cheat sheet of House and Senate races to watch tonight

These are the contests that will likely decide which party controls Congress ? and, as a result, either bolster or hinder the president?s agenda.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/03/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/pE%20icons-5617.jpg Here?s a list of the Globe?s editorial board endorsements

The Boston Globe editorial board endorses candidates and ballot questions in advance of the election.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Clipboard-22621.jpg Tell us why you voted in the 2018 midterm election

We know that expected voter turnout for the midterm election is high, but we want to know why you voted.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/09/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_070717_redline_16360x.jpg Red Line operator tells morning commuters to go vote, sings ?What the World Needs Now is Love?

People on board praised her for a heartfelt message that included reminding folks to be good to one another.

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Peter DeMarco

Globe Magazine

Help was a few feet away. Why didn?t they save her?

My wife, Laura Levis, did everything she could to save herself when the asthma attack began. She went to Somerville Hospital and called 911, too. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?

N.H. Supreme Court upholds Owen Labrie sexual assault conviction

Labrie, now 23, was acquitted at trial of raping the victim, Chessy Prout, who was also enrolled at St. Paul?s at the time of the incident, but convicted of having sex with someone below the age of consent and using computer services to entice a minor.

Dorchester-1988-Whitey Bulger and Catherine Greig walk together with her two poodles. BlackMassCast

Bulger wrote that his years on the lam were the happiest of his life

In letters the mobster penned after his capture in 2011, he made clear that he hoped to be buried with longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig.

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/05/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/vennochi-5644.png The state?s political elite played dumb to the evil of ?Whitey?

Leaders tainted the Commonwealth by bowing to the Bulger Brothers for decades.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/LeonelRondon[1].jpg Lawrence City Council to consider naming street after teen who died in gas explosion

Leonel Rondon, 18, died after a house on Chickering Street exploded, sending a chimney crashing down onto the vehicle that he was sitting in.

Talking Points Live/Larry Edelman

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Plus: What?s at stake for business in the midterms. Boston?s super-tight office space market. And remembering a famous haberdasher.

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Long Island City in Queens and Arlington, Va., will host the campuses, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Papa Gino's at Hancock and Beale streets in Quincy is among those that closed.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Papa Gino?s could be minimum wage test case

Could the chain be the tip of the iceberg lettuce when it comes to the state?s new minimum wage rules?

Photos from Adobe Stock

Perspective | Magazine

My Instagram account got hacked ? and I?m glad

I woke up one day following thousands of people I didn?t recognize. When I started to undo the damage, I realized I didn?t want to.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/01/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/turner110118METRO28bishops25.jpg O?Malley angry over lack of transparency: ?It?s inexplicable?

During a bishops meeting in Baltimore next week, Boston?s Cardinal Sean O?Malley suggested he plans to encourage his fellow bishops to hold themselves accountable.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/03/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_RedLine_01.jpg Woman, 71, punched in head on Red Line after asking for seat

The incident played out last Friday around 5 p.m. as an older woman boarded a crowded train.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/09/24/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boghosian_25threats5_MET.jpg Trial date set for man who allegedly threatened to kill Boston Globe employees during phone calls

Robert Darrell Chain, 68, of Encino, Calif., is slated to stand trial in US District Court in Boston on June 10.

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/06/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/AP18309860081301.jpg Idris Elba named ?sexiest man alive? by People magazine

The British actor said the award ?was a nice surprise.?

Opinion & Ideas

Editorial

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/05/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/06editorial.jpg These companies give workers paid time off on Election Day so they can vote

A growing group of employers ? including Patagonia and Walmart ? are giving workers paid time off to vote on Election Day.

Special reports

Inside our ?secret courts?

In these private hearings, who you are ? and who you know ? may be just as important as right and wrong. Read the Spotlight report.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Globe staff photos of the month, October 2018

Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: fall colors, Halloween, and a World Series victory.

Newsletters

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Get the information and analysis about candidates and questions that you need to vote Tuesday. Sign up here.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/11/06/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Claire-McKaskill-GettyImages-1055820936-1024x576.jpg In these eight midterms races, health and medicine are front and center

Voters will weigh in on issues ranging from medical marijuana to abortion rights to Obamacare.

Love Letters: The Podcast

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In a special bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein explores what happens to summer romance when the summer ends, and ?Wet Hot American Summer? creator David Wain shares a girl-crazy memory from his own camp days.

Listen:   Apple Podcasts   |   Stitcher   |   RadioPublic

 

Real Estate

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/10-beechwood-road-halifax-exterior-side-1024x576$medium-9070.jpg Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix?

Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.

Globe event

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Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.

Crossword

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/crossword.jpg Play the crossword

Puzzled? Keep trying your hand at our interactive crossword and see if you can triumph.