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WBUR TODAY: A flaw in the system

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  ❤️ Donate Monday, June 8, 2026 ☀️ Sunny, with a high of 75.  Good Morning Boston, Last night's Tony Awards — hosted by the ever-theatrical P!nk — featured a landmark win for "CATS: The Jellicle Ball" costume designer Qween Jean, making her the first openly transgender woman to win a Tony in any category. Click here to read the rest of the results from the awards show. Now, to more news: Under the hood: You probably haven’t heard of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — at least not in the last decade. The little-known agency within the federal Department of Transportation regulates the commercial truck and bus industry, and runs the only public database that tracks crashes by company. The FMCSA can also flex its muscles, such as when it shut down the popular Fung Wah bus between Boston and New York in 2013 over the company’s long list of safety infractions. But in the wake of last year’s tragic Boston school bus crash , WBUR and ProPublica began taking ...