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Bruins vs. Golden Knights: With win streak snapped, Boston returns to TD Garden – The Boston Globe
Thursday’s game marks Boston’s celebration of Hockey is for Everyone Night, an NHL initiative that supports inclusion in the sport. As part of the celebration, TD Garden and The Hub on Causeway will be lit in rainbow colors. During the team introductions, the Bruins will welcome an honorary lineup featuring six hockey players representing the LGBTQ+ community, sled hockey, deaf, blind, special hockey, and standing amputee/limb difference athletes.
Read more about the Hockey is for Everyone initiative and the Bruins’ planned celebrations here.
The puck will drop at TD Garden and on NESN at 7 p.m. Here’s your preview.
When: Thursday, 7 p.m.
Where: TD Garden, Boston
TV, radio: NESN, WBZ-FM 98.5
Line: Vegas -135. O/U: 6.0.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS
Season record: 24-12-12. vs. spread: 16-32. Over/under: 25-20, 3 pushes
Last 10 games: 7-2-1. vs. spread: 5-5. Over/under: 7-3
BRUINS
Season record: 28-20-2. vs. spread: 33-17. Over/under: 27-22, 1 push
Last 10 games: 8-2-0. vs. spread: 7-3. Over/under: 5-4, 1 push
TEAM STATISTICS
Goals scored: Vegas 160, Boston 164
Goals allowed: Vegas 142, Boston 155
Power play: Vegas 26.5%, Boston 25.5%
Penalty minutes: Vegas 333, Boston 671
Penalty kill: Vegas 81.4%, Boston 78.1%
Faceoffs won: Vegas 50.5%, Boston 52.0%
Stat of the day: Morgan Geekie’s 26th goal of the season, scored in the third period against Dallas, snapped a 12-game goal scoring drought for the forward.
Notes: As part of the Hockey is for Everyone celebrations, the Bruins will auction team-issued and autographed rainbow-taped sticks, and proceeds from the stick auction will benefit Boston Pride Hockey (BPH), New England’s first LGBTQIA+ and ally-friendly hockey organization. “Year after year, this collaboration not only amplifies visibility for our community, but directly strengthens our ability to expand access to the game through impactful fundraising initiatives like the stick auction, which supports our financial aid and scholarship programs — helping ensure that cost is not a barrier to participation,” said Boston Pride Hockey communications director Kevin Corsino. … Nikita Zadorov picked up his league-leading 32nd minor penalty of the season in the loss to the Stars. Zadorov has one goal and 15 assists in 50 games this season. … Dallas controlled the faceoff battle against the Bruins, winning 65 percent of the faceoffs in the game that snapped Boston’s six-game winning streak. It was an anomalous performance for the Bruins, whose 52 percent faceoff win rate is sixth in the league (just ahead of Dallas at 51.9 percent).
Emma Healy can be reached at emma.healy@globe.com or on X @ByEmmaHealy.
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
Local News
The boy was stabilized and flown to a Boston hospital, police said.
A 13-year-old boy was flown to a Boston hospital after he was found unresponsive in a swimming pool at a home in Beverly on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Police and firefighters were called to a home on Parramatta Road after bystanders pulled the boy from the pool, the Beverly Police Department wrote in a press release.
Bystanders administered CPR until first responders arrived, according to police. First responders continued CPR and other “life saving measures,” police said.
An ambulance took the boy to Beverly Hospital where he was stabilized. He was then taken by medical helicopter to a Boston hospital, police said.
The incident is currently being investigated by Beverly police, the department said.
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Federal judge in Boston bars Trump from implementing proof of citizenship requirement to vote – The Boston Globe
A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote.
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston effectively converts a preliminary injunction she issued a year ago, in which she temporarily blocked many of Trump’s efforts to overhaul elections, into a permanent ban.
Casper rejected the administration’s argument that the lawsuit to block the changes brought by Democratic state attorneys general was premature because the rules had yet to be implemented. Instead, she agreed that the Constitution gives states and Congress the authority to regulate elections, and that Trump’s requirements violated the separation of powers.
The Constitution “does not grant the President any specific powers over elections,” she wrote.
Among other proposed changes, Trump’s order would have required people to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote, prevented mail ballots from being counted if they arrive after Election Day, even if they were postmarked by then, and punished states that failed to comply by withholding certain federal money.
It was the latest in a string of rulings against the elections executive order Trump signed just months after taking office for his second term. He has since signed another executive order on elections, seeking to create a national voter list and limit mail balloting. That directive also faces multiple legal challenges.
Last fall, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., overseeing a separate challenge to the first election executive order by civil rights and Democratic Party-aligned groups blocked the government from taking steps to include the proof-of-citizenship requirement on the federal voter registration form. That judge later barred the Secretary of Defense from requiring documentary proof of citizenship when military personnel register to vote or request ballots.
In an apparent nod to the difficulty of implementing a proof-of-citizen requirement by executive order, Trump is pushing legislation in the Republican-controlled Congress to create such a mandate. The SAVE America Act has passed the House but has stalled in the Senate, leading Trump to advocate for eliminating the filibuster that is blocking the legislation.
On Wednesday, he abruptly cancelled the expected signing of a bipartisan housing bill, saying he won’t sign legislation until Congress passes his proof of citizenship requirement for voting.
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