☁️Cloudy day with showers possible tonight and highs in the 70s. Sunset is at 8:24 p.m.
Today GBH’s Sarah Betancourt brings us an interview with Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, the Milford High School student who was detained by federal immigration agents last month. But first: a federal judge in Boston yesterday ruled that the federal government acted illegally when terminated research grants through the National Institutes of Health and ordered the NIH to once again fund that research. It’s not yet clear if the U.S. Department of Justice will appeal.
The Trump administration had cancelled the grants for going against the president’s executive order targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs, or its orders targeting transgender people. In Massachusetts, the Trump administration has cancelled 733 NIH grants and about 250 more National Science Foundation grants — more than in any other state. U.S. District Court Judge William Young said Monday that while the government may pursue the “extirpation of affirmative action,” this went beyond that…