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For the second year in a row, lots of Boston's 19 city-run pools are closed for repairs or upgrades. And this summer's excessive heat has left families living by the six shuttered city pools scrambling in search of other places to cool off.

Steward Health Care said Friday that it is closing two of its Massachusetts hospitals — Carney Hospital in Dorchester and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer — that received no qualified bids in its sales process. The bankrupt company said it will shutter the hospitals by the end of August.

"A doctor dismissed my leg pain as being psychological, suggesting to my mom, not me, the patient, to see a psychiatrist instead of investigating the pain I was experiencing.

The families moved into the church a few months after they fled Afghanistan in 2021. They and their supporters realized how difficult it would be to find large, affordable permanent housing in the area. The church's rector is leading an effort to develop a system of housing for the families and others who've been forcibly displaced from their homelands.

Vice President Kamala Harris has set fundraising records since President Biden announced he was bowing out of the presidential race on Sunday. Massachusetts-based Democratic fundraiser Alan Solomont joined WBUR's Deborah Becker to to talk about Harris' early haul and what it means for the presidential race moving forward.

Some party veterans say they wanted a series of mini-forums to hear from Harris and other top Democrats. Harris already has the backing of enough delegates to win the party's presidential nomination.

Remembrances are pouring in for philanthropist and advertising executive Jack Connors who died from cancer at his home in Brookline on Monday. He was 82.

Connors was a founding partner of advertising giant Hill, Holliday and a Boston power broker with a far-reaching legacy in philanthropy, business and politics.

With Biden out of the race, Steve Kerrigan, chair of the state's Democratic Party, spoke about next steps for the more than 100 state delegates headed to the party's national convention in Chicago next month.

The closing down of the men's prison is due in part to a steep drop in the number of people incarcerated in the state over the past decade. Gov. Maura Healey said the state envisions an "economic development project" that would transform the MCI-Concord site, at least partially, into housing.