The Democratic National Committee plans to spend millions of dollars to consolidate voter registration efforts, traditionally handled by nonprofits and individual campaigns.

Even in normal times, freshman year in college can be a jumbled mix of anticipation, uncertainty and emotional highs and lows. In these hardly normal times, when the quintessential college experience exists only in catalogs, freshmen are being challenged like never before. He lives at home and said it’s often too distracting to focus on online classes so he spends his time on other pursuits. He found that daily campus life begins with temperature checks before breakfast and color-coded stickers to wear indicating no fever. A reserved 18-year-old from Indianapolis, she has already decided to go home and finish the rest of freshman year with online classes.