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Jessie Rossman, attorney and legal director with the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, was in the courtroom to represent Rümeysa Öztürk and spoke with WBUR's All Things Considered host Lisa Mullins after the hearing.

“I open the case that they are stored in, and...it's this whole experience. You smell the aged books, and then you touch their smooth leather covers that have worn down because they've been held by thousands of citizens of Franklin before you...They're like this little family. I open the case and visit my little family. They're really special.”

Lisa Sowle Cahill, a professor of theology at Boston College, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss how the new pope's American background could inform his perspective and priorities.

Some Bostonians aren’t thrilled to see there’s less green, and a lot more gray, at the partially reopened Copley Square Park. But Jeff Speck, an urban designer from Brookline, makes the case in favor of the redesign.

As WBUR's Patrick Madden reports, for Ozturk's friends and teachers, her ongoing detention and absence from the Medford campus is personal and painful.

Diocese of Worcester Bishop Robert McManus joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss what the election of Pope Leo XIV means for the Catholics in Massachusetts.

Fall River Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha reacts to the new pope.

Federal agents smashed the windows of a car and pulled out two men, video footage shows. They handcuffed out man and dragged the other one out; he struggled until five ICE agents pinned him to the ground and he can be heard screaming. A neighbor shouted at the agents to stop. 

WBUR’s Simon Rios takes a look at the secrecy and lack of information that often follow immigration enforcement.

In recent months, the Trump administration has clawed back funding for research, slashed scientific agencies and reshaped climate policy. The moves are complicating opportunities for environmental science students just as they're entering the workforce.