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  ❤️  Donate Monday, June 1, 2026 ☁️  Mostly cloudy, with a high of 60. Good Morning Boston, By now, you probably know the sonic boom heard 'round the region on Saturday was, in fact,  a meteor exploding in our atmosphere . According to the American Meteor Society, it was only three feet wide. But it managed to make such a commotion because when a meteor "encounters all this air, this friction, and that heats it up and it vaporizes it as it enters through the atmosphere... it basically can't stand the stress and it explodes," Richard Binzel, a planetary science professor at MIT, explained to WBUR's Paul Connearney. Now, let's get to more news making noise this week. What's in the water?   Massachusetts has been testing residents' wastewater for COVID-19 for years. But starting today, whatever you flush down the toilet will be tested for seven additional viruses, including influenza and RSV. The updated surveillance comes as Massachusetts prepares for a...

  The Saturday Send Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from  CommonWealth Beacon  that you may have missed. This week, reporter Jordan Wolman covers Attorney General Andrea Campbell's admonishment of Massachusetts's five gas companies for submitting " completely inadequate " climate compliance plans. Campbell recommended that the Department of Public Utilities issue fines if suppliers don't submit substantially reworked roadmaps for weaning customers off natural gas. Plus, Cape leaders fear that a federal failure to finance the replacement of a  91-year-old bridge  will lead to costly stopgap repairs, state policymakers mull restricting children's  social media use , the Senate energy chair signals the chamber may not be on board with the House's plan to  cut $1 billion  from Mass Save, and the Supreme Judicial Court upholds the verdict finding tobacco company  Phillip Morris liable  in the lung cancer death of...