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MIT professor shot and killed in his Brookline home
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Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was pronounced dead on Tuesday after being shot on Monday night.
An MIT professor was shot and killed in Brookline on Monday night.
Brookline police responded a report of a man shot in his home on Gibbs Street, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office.
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was transported to a local hospital and was pronounced dead on Tuesday morning, the DA says.
Loureiro was the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics. Originally from Portugal, the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs announced his death in a regulatory hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities on Tuesday, according to CNN.
“Sadly, I can confirm that Professor Nuno Loureiro, who died early this morning, was a current MIT faculty member in the departments of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Physics, as well as the Director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Our deepest sympathies are with his family, students, colleagues, and all those who are grieving,” an MIT spokesperson wrote in a statement.
In January, Loureiro was honored as one of nearly 400 scientists and engineers with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from former president Joe Biden.
The investigation into the homicide remains ongoing. No further information was released.
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Delta flight returns to Logan after smoke scare in cockpit – Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
A smoke scare on a Delta Airlines flight from Boston caused it to turn around.
The flight, with more than 250 people on board, was headed to Nice, France, when the pilots reported smoke in the cockpit.
As a precaution, the flight was treated as an emergency and was given priority once it returned to Logan Airport.
The plane landed safely and the passengers were reaccommodated.
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3 arrested after trying to break into downtown building, Boston police say – The Boston Globe
Three males were arrested while fleeing from an alleged break in at property in downtown Boston Thursday evening, police said.
A call reporting a breaking and entering in progress across from 7 Water St. came in at 7:33 p.m., a police spokesperson said.
The call prompted nearly a dozen marked squad cars to race to the scene in the Financial District.
The three males were wearing black ski masks when they allegedly ran from officers near Water and Washington streets toward Court Square, police said.
All three were arrested.
No other information was immediately available.
This breaking news story will be updated as more information becomes available.
Tonya Alanez can be reached at tonya.alanez@globe.com. Follow her @talanez.
President Trump holds up an executive order to limit mail-in voting as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick looks on in the White House’s Oval Office in March.
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President Trump’s executive order to limit voting by mail has hit a legal hurdle.
On Thursday, a Boston-based judge blocked parts of the order that, at least so far, has not directly affected mail-in voting for this year’s midterm primary elections.
The legal fight, however, is likely to continue. The order pushes the boundaries of Trump’s authority under the Constitution, which gives state legislatures and Congress — not the U.S. president — the power to set the rules for federal elections.
The Trump administration is expected to appeal the new ruling by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a nominee of former President Barack Obama, as a separate appeal of an earlier ruling by another federal judge moves forward in a similar set of lawsuits based in Washington, D.C.
Among other directives, Trump’s order from March calls for the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Postal Service to create lists of adult U.S. citizens or eligible voters in each state. It also calls for USPS, which is independent of a president’s administration, to deliver mail-in ballots only to people on those lists.
In response, USPS has proposed using information from state election officials to create voter lists. Postmaster General David Steiner told lawmakers Wednesday that under the proposal, the Postal Service would not deliver the mail ballots of any states that refuse to turn over their absentee voter lists to the federal government.
For the D.C.-based cases, the judge found in late May that it was too early for an emergency ruling that would block directives that the Trump administration has yet to carry out. Democrats are appealing that judge’s ruling to the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia.
Editor’s note: USPS is a financial supporter of NPR.
Edited by Benjamin Swasey
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