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On Boston Globe Today: Could late-night T service come back? An offhand comment from MBTA general manager Phil Eng kicked up a flurry of speculation. Transportation editor Jason Margolis tracks the possibility. Watch: https://trib.al/zcnjVlu

MIT professors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, along with James A. Robinson, of the University of Chicago, were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for their research into how institutions and political systems shape which countries become prosperous. Their studies have shown the importance of giving people a real democratic voice for countries’ economic survival, the Nobel committee said. Read more about their work: https://trib.al/c3Q5Fya

In Massachusetts, where a housing crisis has put homeownership out of reach, a plurality of voters believe new arrivals are taking up affordable housing that should go to American citizens first, a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll shows. https://trib.al/YwQlxvx

On Boston Globe Today: It’s Maye day. Rookie quarterback Drake Maye is in as starting quarterback on Sunday. But is it the best move for the team? Reporter Christopher Price weighs in. Watch: https://trib.al/CNZWI7D

One resident told me she wasn't sure what the level of PFAS in her blood meant. Turns out, it was 90x the average American's level, according to the CDC.

Residents of Toms Way, a small nook of a street not far from downtown Nantucket, learned that many of their wells had high levels of PFAS, a group of compounds known as “forever chemicals” that can leach into water systems and cause health problems, including cancer, liver damage, and thyroid disease. On Sunday, four households filed a class action suit against the manufacturers of the chemicals. https://trib.al/UY6pNvb

Hundreds of women far from their extended families are facing the profound emotional and physical toll of pregnancy in a foreign land with no place to call home. A Globe review found Massachusetts’s overwhelmed shelter system does little to address the heightened needs of pregnant and postpartum women, from nutrition to mental health.

On Boston Globe Today: 50 years to the date after "Saturday Night Live" premiered, the movie, “Saturday Night,” hits theaters, chronicling what happened in the 90 minutes before the first show aired. Boston.com entertainment and culture writer @Kslane reviews the film: https://trib.al/bMKAqMg

Can Boston offset the decline in commercial real estate values? Earlier this year, Mayor Michelle Wu filed a bill with a plan to do so. But, to the bafflement of many on Beacon Hill, she made clear she wasn’t interested in modifying it to win over the Senate. Why? Boston Globe financial columnist Larry Edelman dives into it in the latest edition of Trendlines.

An intense solar storm, at least the third so far this week, is making the northern lights shine bright again in the southern parts of New England Thursday night. Forecasters with the Space Weather Prediction Center say strong geomagnetic storms sparked by a hurling coronal mass ejection will cast the brilliant colorful display farther south than usual to the mid-latitudes, as far south as Cape Cod, Rhode Island, and Connecticut in New England.