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🌦️ Cloudy through the morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon with a high near 66 — before the rain arrives this evening. Good Morning Boston, The Red Sox play their first game of the 2026 season at 4:10 p.m. today in Cincinnati. It's the first of a six-game road trip to start the season, so you'll have to wait until their home-opener next Friday to try Fenway Park's new chowder-covered lobster "poutine" (an apparent attempt to see if current U.S.-Canada relations can get even worse). However, we do have one big game, er, match, locally: The T's test match: Gillette Stadium is hosting an international friendly this afternoon between two of the world's top soccer teams, Brazil and France. It's also serving as a warm-up for the MBTA, as the agency prepares to transport 20,000 people to each of Gillette's seven World Cup matches later this year. " We want to make sure that we work the bugs out in advance before we have 20,000 people late for their soccer match," Ryan Coholan, the MBTA's chief operating officer, told WBUR's Andrea Perdomo-Hernandez. "But that's not gonna happen." (Fingers crossed.) What are they doing differently? The T will run four special event trains between Boston and Foxborough, compared to just the single train it runs for most Patriots games and concerts. Unlike usual event trains, these will run nonstop between South Station and Foxborough, leaving every 15 minutes starting around 12:45 p.m. (The match itself starts at 4 p.m.) The match will also allow the T to test out "recycling" the first train to Foxborough, which means it will loop back to Boston — using an infrequently used track to Mansfield — to pick up more passengers. "We don't expect any problems, but we want to prove it out to make sure everything's going to work as we expect," Colohan said. And last but not least, the T is instituting boarding groups and queues for passengers to get on the train. Can you still get train tickets? As of yesterday, Colohan said around 2,000 train tickets had been sold for today's game — roughly one-third of the four trains' combined 6,000-person capacity. He expects more to fill up. Some people "risk it" and just buy a ticket when they show up at South Station, according to Colohan. But he recommends simply buying a ticket via the mTicket app ahead of time. What does this mean for regular commuter rail service? The special event trains mean there will be no regular commuter rail service to Foxborough today and five Franklin line trains will be canceled, since part of the line is a single track. There will also be reduced service on the Fairmount line after noon. What to expect this summer? For World Cup games, the T plans to ramp up from four game-day trains to 14. Colohan says that will be more disruptive to other commuter rail lines "simply to free up the equipment." Heads up: Tickets for those World Cup train tickets go on sale in less than two weeks, on April 8, for those lucky enough to have snagged match tickets. PSA: Gov. Maura Healey's administration launched a new online hub yesterday with everything you need to know about the state's plans for the World Cup. In other MBTA news: Red Line riders are in for some mild disruption after dark. Due to a new phase of an ongoing signal upgrade project, riders on the Braintree branch will need to switch trains at JFK/UMass after 8 p.m. The new phase begins tonight and will go on for about two weeks, before it switches and becomes a problem that riders on the Ashmont branch will have to navigate. There also continues to be reduced service across the entire Red Line after 8 p.m. The T suggests budgeting for an extra 10-15 minutes of travel time. Breaking overnight: Boston's School Committee unanimously approved the district's $1.7 billion budget for the coming school year, which includes cutting 300 to 400 staff positions . At the same time, Committee Chair Jeri Robinson called for an audit of the district's spending, saying it hadn't improved student outcomes. "It's time to do some self-reflection," Robinson said. "Are we really utilizing our resources to the best of our abilities? We all want to say — and we all agree — that our students deserve more, but we also understand that student outcomes don't change until adult behaviors do." On Beacon Hill: As expected, the Massachusetts House passed the PROTECT Act last night, by a vote of 134-21. The wide-ranging immigration bill, written in response to President Trump's aggressive deportation campaign, now heads to the Senate, where top lawmakers have signaled they have more provisions to add. P.S.— Not a soccer expert? You can become one real quick with this new World Cup glossary from WBUR's Roberto Scalese. It covers everything from soccer tactics and rules to the tournament format to all those strange British idioms. Nik DeCosta-Klipa Senior Editor, Newsletters The Rundown Federal headwinds threaten the emerging Mass. climate tech industry Under the Trump administration, many entrepreneurs working on climate tech, renewable energy or environmental justice have found their grants delayed, threatened or rescinded. The federal headwinds threaten to slow Gov. Maura Healey's plans to make Massachusetts the global hub for climate tech. The 2024 Mass Leads Act invested $1 billion over 10 years for climate tech and clean energy. Read more. DHS funding deal on shaky ground as Trump and Democrats both decline to embrace it After weeks of start and stop negotiations between Congressional Democrats and the White House, there's an emerging proposal to fund the majority of DHS and tackle ICE enforcement funding separately. Read more. Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial The verdict marks the end of the first-ever jury trial over whether tech giants should be held accountable for social media addiction. It may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits. Read more. ICE chased wrong man on morning of Vermont raid that led to clash with protesters, agency admits The agency admitted they chased the wrong man in a new court filing Tuesday, casting further doubt on the legitimacy of the controversial enforcement operation. Read more. Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer-winning author who turned unlikely subjects into bestsellers, dies at 80 Kidder immersed himself in worlds he was previously unfamiliar with, producing richly researched books about topics that may not sound like light reading. Read more. Anything Else? Gov. Maura Healey's proposed budget would let local cities and towns deploy cameras to catch and ticket speeding drivers. But first, the state need to stricter guardrails to prevent enforcement disparities, Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, the executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, argues in this Cognoscenti commentary. Ahead of a pivotal April 8 court hearing, Boston's plan to renovate White Stadium to be the home for the Boston Legacy is getting support from the New England Revolution. (It's a little ironic, since Josh Kraft, the son of the Revolution's owner, was a frequent critic of the stadium project during his run for mayor last year.) In New Hampshire, an anti-transgender rights activist is suing a city over its policy requiring people to share their name and address during public meetings. The lawsuit argues that the rule is a chill on free speech, especially when the topic is controversial. A movie that's less than 90 minutes? Film critic Sean Burns reviews "Miroirs No. 3," an 86-minute movie from German director Christian Petzold about two grief-stricken women that's beguilingly light on its feet . "It’s easy to watch in a way that makes movie critics reach for adjectives like 'minor' and 'slight,' but a more careful examination reveals a picture that’s anything but," Sean writes. What We're Reading 📚 Elizabeth Warren Led a Key Housing Bill. She Might Lead to Its Downfall. (NOTUS) Yes, that’s a Tatte: why Boston was the perfect setting for the fracturing love story in ‘The Drama’ (The Boston Globe) The Onion had a very good year (Fast Company) Tell Me Something Good A feast of flowers for winter-weary eyes returns to the Gardner Museum The annual “Hanging Nasturtiums” tradition is a harbinger of hope for winter’s end at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Gardner herself started cultivating the delicate, flowering tendrils with her horticulturalists in the early 1900s. Read more. Play: WBUR's daily mini crossword. Can you keep your streak going? Before you go: You are here. 😎 Forward to a friend. They can sign up here. 🔎 Explore WBUR's Field Guide stories, events and more. 📣 Give us your feedback: newsletters@wbur.org 📧 Get more WBUR stories sent to your inbox. Check out all of our newsletter offerings. 📱 Download the WBUR App for iPhones and iPads or Android devices.

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GOP Gov CAUGHT IN $35 MILLION SCAM that COULD END HIM

                                                                                                                        

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Trump promotes a doctor who has claimed alien DNA was used in medical treatments

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“Mr. President, the woman that you said is a great doctor in that video that you retweeted last night said masks don’t work and there is a cure for Covid-19, both of which health experts say is not true. She’s also made videos saying that doctors make medicine using DNA from aliens, and that they’re trying to create a vaccine to make you immune from becoming religious,” Collins asked.

The CNN reporter went on to press Trump: “It’s misinformation.”

On her website and in sermons posted on YouTube, Immanuel – who practices medicine at Rehoboth Medical Center, a clinic in Houston, and is the founder of the Fire Power Ministries church – has, among other things, claimed that sex with “tormenting spirits” is responsible for gynecological problems, miscarriages and impotence.

“Many women suffer from astral sex regularly. Astral sex is the ability to project one’s spirit man into the victim’s body and have intercourse with it,” she once claimed in a sermon. Immanuel has not responded to CNN’s efforts to contact her for comment.

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