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People, what?s going on with this election?

There is no way of knowing what?s really going to happen on Tuesday.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/04/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/05bridgegate-apcombo-kellyleft-baroniright.jpg Bridgegate jury convicts 2 former allies of Chris Christie

The convictions capped a trial that cast doubt on the N.J. governor?s claims he knew nothing about the scheme.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/harvardmumps1.jpg Harvard cancels men?s soccer season over lewd ?scouting reports?

Officials have canceled the remainder of the season, after finding lewd social media postings that started in 2012 continued into the current semester.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/04/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/2ce2e064d18d43729dd0a5465434523d-ec074908249742c9a833e5f9a5929642-0.jpg Judge found Iowa police slaying suspect exploited, hit mother

A man charged in the killings of two police officers had been ordered to move out of his mother?s basement hours before the shootings.

Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon on ?SNL.?

Ryan Huddle | Globe staff

buzzsaw | Matthew Gilbert

The 2016 campaign puts the bite back into ?SNL?

The show is once again in the toss and turn of the news cycle and seeing its best ratings in eight years.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/09/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Advance/Images/09primary02_USE.jpg Want to vote early? Here?s how to do it

For the first time, Massachusetts voters will be able to cast their ballots before Election Day.

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The Boston-based company is making over 7,000 vehicles available for free Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/07/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ryan_stungun1_met.jpg Mass. police used Taser-type weapons 619 times in 2015

The rising figures are largely driven by a rise in the number of devices issued to officers.

When you change your clocks, check your smoke alarms

The state fire marshal?s office reminds residents to check their smoke alarms.

Somehow, a group of people was apparently able to walk in abandoned T tunnels

A YouTube video posted this week shows several people walking through abandoned subway tunnels.

HULL, MA - 11/03/2016: Emma Ryan's funeral at Saint Ann's in Hull. Her soccer teammates, students from Hull High School took the day off from school along with others attended the services. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff Photo) SECTION: METRO TOPIC 04Hull

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

Hull turns out to say goodbye to 15-year-old Emma Ryan

Her death ? so sudden, so unexpected ? shattered Hull. That?s the way it is in a small town.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/04/BostonGlobe.com/HealthScience/Images/Candida-auris_2016-1024x576.jpg Health officials find first cases of new superbug in US

Four of the first seven US patients who contracted the superbug, a fungus, have died.

Nov 2, 2016; Cleveland, OH, USA; Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein holds the commissioner's trophy after game seven of the 2016 World Series against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: David J. Phillip/Pool Photo via USA TODAY Sports

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ALEX BEAM

Theo Epstein for president

Winning World Series rings for Boston and Chicago surely equals outmaneuvering the British army.

Peter Abraham | Beat Writer?s notebook

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/04/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/620748710.jpg David Ross?s impact was off the field, too

The Red Sox would be wise to offer Ross a job when he?s ready to come back to the game.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/27/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/IMG_2525.jpg Taco trucks on every corner? In Mexico City it?s all about trendy food halls

You won?t find taco trucks on every corner in Mexico City, but you will find the city?s newest trend ? food halls.

Connections | Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/28/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/illo1106connections%20.jpg What a parent of a transgender child knows

When one of her twins transitions, this parent and minister began to see the trouble with male/female.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/03/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/05unspoil.jpg How to teach your children that the world doesn?t revolve around them

My kids are loving and well-adjusted, but they have a center-of-the-world attitude with little concept of how lucky they are. Maybe you?ve noticed something similar in your own kids?

TV Critic?s Corner

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/03/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/05crita.jpg Apparently every show about gigolos will be on Showtime

Plus, four other thoughts about the week in television.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/28/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/watergate22.jpg Political scandal never looked so stylish

The infamous Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., gets a luxurious makeover.

Mass. ballot questions

shirley leung

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/04/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/leung-6054.jpg Why it?s so hard to vote yes on Question 2

Who would?ve thought that it would be easier for us to legalize marijuana in Massachusetts than to lift the cap on charter schools?

THINGS TO DO

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/24/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Interlocutor-Tambo-Bones.jpg The Weekender: Beautiful ?Moonlight,? deadpan Newhart, and raw power

Everything fun to do in Boston and beyond.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/04/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/25b915ae-490a-4a0b-95f2-5080e75ab0bb.jpg Your local Trader Joe?s workers might not be so happy after all

In recent years, the good cheer associated with the quirky grocery store has masked growing strife and demoralization in some East Coast stores.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/trolley.jpg The tragedy that Boston forgot

One hundred years ago, a horrific trolley accident on Summer Street killed 46 people. Although it was dubbed the ?worst tragedy in the history of the city? at the time, it has now been all but erased from memory.

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The Big Picture

Globe photos of the month, October 2016

A look at the best images by Globe photographers last month, including Halloween, fall color, and the aftermath of a fatal bicycle crash.