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It’s Tuesday, and I’m still reckoning with the weekend revelation that we’ve been mispronouncing Henry David Thoreau’s name. In the meantime, let’s go confidently in the direction of today’s news:
Fare game: MBTA General Manager Phil Eng confirmed yesterday that tickets for the agency’s 2026 World Cup trains will be more expensive than its usual event trains to Gillette Stadium. But by how much? The T has been conspicuously — perhaps ominously — tight-lipped. “ We have not finalized the price yet,” Eng told reporters at a press conference at North Station to highlight how the T was otherwise cutting fares for regular commuter rail riders this summer.
It’s not all sunny in Connecticut basketball: The WNBA’s Connecticut Sun are moving to Houston next year. The Mohegan Tribe, which has owned the Sun for 23 years, announced yesterday that they had agreed to sell the team to Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the NBA’s Houston Rockets. According to The Associated Press, Fertitta is buying the team for a WNBA record $300 million.
In court: An Amherst man who was pardoned by President Trump for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is heading to prison on child pornography charges.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts said yesterday that a federal judge sentenced 31-year-old Daniel Tocci to four years in prison after an “enormous” collection of child porn and other disturbing material was found on his laptop.
P.S.— For the first time in over 40 days, TSA workers began getting paychecks yesterday. That’s because President Trump took executive action Friday ordering the Department of Homeland Security to find money to pay TSA workers, even as the shutdown of the department continues. Airport wait times are reportedly improving, but the move doesn’t mean everything will immediately return to normal. NPR reports that ICE agents could remain at some airports and TSA remains down 500 workers who have quit. Here are some tips if you still run into long airport lines.
Nik DeCosta-Klipa is a senior editor for newsletters at WBUR.
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