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Boston will remain in a heat emergency through Tuesday, with temperatures expected to reach a record-setting 100 degrees.
“With this heat emergency coming as we kick off the summer season, we ask our community members to please take care and prepare accordingly for the extreme heat,” said Mayor Michelle Wu. … “Be sure to stay hydrated, take breaks from working outside and regularly check in on neighbors, friends, and family.”
The week is expected to kick off Monday with “dangerous heat and humidity,” reaching a high in the mid-90s. Temperatures are expected to only get hotter Tuesday, according to National Weather Service forecasts.
“There’ll be a brief break for Boston (Monday), because there’s going to be a sea breeze,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Kevin Cadima. “So it won’t be quite as hot as some of the areas to the west, but by Tuesday, it looks like Boston could get close to 100 degrees.”
Boston is likely to break the previous heat record for June 24 set at 95 degrees in 2013, Cadima said. The record high for June in Boston is 100 degrees, set three times in 1925, 1952 and 2021.
The City of Boston declared a heat emergency over the weekend through Tuesday night. The city will take steps during the emergency including open splash pads and pools throughout the city, Boston Public Library locations available to escape the heat, and BCYF cooling centers open to the general public.
City and state officials urge residents to take certain precautions during heat emergencies, including never leaving children or pets in unattended cars, take breaks from being outside, staying hydrated by drinking water every 15-20 minutes and not setting any outdoor fires in Boston.
“You want to escape the heat if you can,” said Cadima. “Stay in air conditioned places and avoid strenuous activity, avoid direct sunlight when you’re doing any physical activities.”
Signs of heat exhaustion include heavy sweating, cool and clammy skin, dizziness, nausea, and muscle aches, and anyone suffering persistent symptoms should call 911 immediately, Boston official said. The heat may be dangerous and deadly for older adults, young children, people with chronic medical conditions, and individuals without access to cooling or shelter.
“If you fall into one of these higher-risk groups, or care for someone who does, it is especially important to take precautions: stay cool, stay hydrated, and seek medical attention if you begin experiencing signs of heat-related illness,” said Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency Director Dawn Brantley.
More information on heat emergency preparedness can be found at boston.gov/heat. Residents can also call 311 with any questions about available City services during the emergency.
“The heat starts to slowly ease on Wednesday,” said Cadima. “It looks like generally in Boston, probably like the mid to upper 80s Wednesday. And then it cools off dramatically for the rest of the week into the weekend with highs in the 70s.”
Wednesday is expected to remain in mostly sunny and hot, NWS forecasts. On Thursday, the high lowers to the mid-70s, forecasts show, with mostly cloudy skies and a chance of precipitation.
Friday heading into the weekend, highs are expected to dip into the low 70s, NWS forecasts show.
“There’s really daily chances of of showers from Wednesday right into the weekend,” said Cadima. “It won’t be raining all the time, but it’s just an unsettled period where each day there’ll likely be some pop up showers and maybe a few thunderstorms at times as well.”
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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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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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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