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WBUR TODAY: What's next for local TPS holders?

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  ❤️ Donate Friday, June 26, 2026 🌧️ Mostly cloudy, with showers this morning and a high near 81. Good Morning Boston, It's Friday. The final World Cup group stage match in Foxborough kicks off this afternoon — and it's the big one. France and Norway will play at 3 p.m. to determine the winner of Group I. In Cambridge, the city is holding a watch party for the game ahead of its annual public dance party in Central Square. (Click here to find other watch party options around Greater Boston.) But first, the news: Legal limbo: Local immigrant rights groups are urging the thousands of Haitians in Massachusetts living under Temporary Protected Status to talk to a lawyer ASAP, following yesterday's Supreme Court decision. The court's conservative majority ruled in a 6-3 decision that the federal government has the power to terminate TPS — which the Trump administration has been trying to do for migrants from Haiti, Syria and 11 other countries. The ruling means nearly ...

WBUR TODAY: Turn down the heat

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  FROM TUESDAY! SUBSCRIBE TO RECEIVE TIMELY POSTS! ❤️  Donate Tuesday, April 28, 2026 ☀️  Sunny, high of 58 Good Morning Boston, The Red Sox have strung together three wins in a row for the first time all season, under new (interim) manager Chad Tracy. Meanwhile the Celtics have a chance to close out the series against the 76ers at the Garden tonight. And the Boston Fleet start their playoff run on Thursday. (Let's not talk about the Bruins or Patriots right now.) Happy days are here again? But first, the news: Getting warmer:  Boston is hoping that more trees and a change in how we cook can help reduce climate-warming carbon emissions — and keep people cool. Almost 20 years after Boston's  first climate action plan  was unveiled by then-Mayor Tom Menino, WBUR's Barbara Moran reports that Mayor Michelle Wu yesterday laid out her roadmap to help the city slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. "Climate change is here. We feel it. We know it every single day,...