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Massachusetts and seven other states today sued the Department of Education for abruptly terminating two nationwide programs that funded teacher training programs for areas facing critical teacher shortages. Read more.

In a withering 76-page ruling, a federal judge in Boston today agreed with states, universities, hospitals and medical schools that the current regime can't simply eliminate hundreds of millions of dollars in previously approved indirect research costs just because it feels like it. Read more.

Groups representing Haitians and Venezuelans on humanitarian visas in Massachusetts today sued the Musk administration over its decision to end the program earlier than initially scheduled, with no chance for public comment and with odds that the thousands of affected people could be sent back to the same violent conditions the program was designed to help get them out of. Read more.

Francis Tarasiewicz of the Boston National Weather Service reports he got "the e-mail" yesterday that he was fired, effective immediately.

this wouldn't be half as hard to bear if I hadn't fought my whole life through foster care and impossible odds to serve this great nation. This past month of serving my community has been the honor of a lifetime.

Boston Police are warning residents to be wary around alleged HelloFresh solicitors going door to door claiming to be able to get you such a deal on ready-to-eat meals. Read more.

A correspondent reports:

Got a text poll from Emerson re the mayoral race. Questions on supporting the police not handing over immigrants, does Boston have room to settle refugees, bike lanes and the stadium.

Oh it did also ask if I supported a WNBA team in town which seemed strange.

We suppose, somehow, the Nooyawka son of the Nooyawk police commissioner, who became a Nooyawk police detective, could suddenly find himself in Boston as  detective. Maybe police departments have some sort of detective-exchange program? Read more.

President Musk's human thumb for homeland security last night threatened Boston because Police Commissioner Michael Cox is refusing to turn over immigrants not charged with any crime so they can be stuffed into Guantanamo: Read more.

Trump's Secretary of Killing Dogs decreed today that "temporary protected status" for several hundred thousand Haitian refugees - many of whom live in the Boston area -  will expire Aug. 3 instead of next February, as set by former Secretary of Homeland Security Alexander Mayorkas. His replacement blamed Mayorkas for not considering how a humanitarian policy might lead to the downfall of the American empire.