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After pardoning two turkeys (even though they did nothing wrong!), President Joe Biden is returning to Nantucket today with First Lady Jill Biden to continue their Thanksgiving tradition on the island. We’ll get through today’s news quickly so you can get started on your holiday ASAP, too — especially if you’re hitting the road today.
We knew the likely “when” of sports betting in Massachusetts. Now, we know the likely “who.” The state’s Gaming Commission said Monday that it received 15 applications (and the $200,00 application fees) from potential sports betting operators by yesterday’s Monday deadline. Time to get familiar with these names (because, at the very least, you’re likely going to see them in a lot of ads):
Officials are still looking for answers about what caused an SUV driver to ram into an Apple store Monday in Hingham, killing a man and injuring at least 16 other people. Police say they are questioning the driver — but have not charged them or released their name or age.
The City of Boston is using federal COVID-19 relief funds to provide free classes and job training to local residents who want to get a degree in early education. WBUR’s Carrie Jung reports that it’s the city’s latest effort to address its lack of child care workers.
Last year around this time, many of Massachusetts’ largest colleges and universities began requiring students and staff to get COVID boosters, once eligible, as the first omicron surge began to take off. And after the new bivalent booster designed to combat omicron was approved, Tufts University and Harvard University made them a requirement as well in order to enroll next semester. But as WBUR’s Vanessa Ochavillo reports, no other big schools have followed suit.
P.S.— Speaking of COVID, this might be the most normal-feeling holiday season since the pandemic began. But with hospitals feeling the strain of a “triple-epidemic” of COVID, RSV and flu, WBUR’s Gabrielle Emanuel reached out to four local disease experts to ask how they’re approaching Thanksgiving. You can sign up for our weekly health newsletter to get their advice in your inbox this afternoon.
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