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🌤️Mostly sunny and warmer, with highs nearing 50.

Spring feels a bit closer today, and GBH meteorologist Dave Epstein has a guide for people who want to put out their bird feeders. One note on bird feeders and bird flu: cases of Avian influenza have primarily been found in birds such as geese and ducks, not in the songbirds that tend to, well, flock to birdfeeders. “Songbirds are supposedly not really susceptible to bird flu,” Epstein told us. “So unless you have chickens, I would say, keep enjoying the birds.”

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President Donald Trump will address a joint session of Congress tonight, his first such speech since returning to the Oval Office. A few things to watch for: how will billionaire Elon Musk show up? What will Trump say about Ukraine and its war with Russia? Will Trump, who so far has acted with little need for Congressional approval, lay out a legislative plan? And how will lawmakers react? Locally, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said she will be bringing Doug Kowalewski, of Wellesley, who lost his job at the National Science Foundation under Musk’s mass firings.

Uncertainty around federal funding has scientists and advocates worried about the future of care for the estimated 135,000 people living with Alzheimer’s disease in Massachusetts — and the people who will be diagnosed in the years to come. “If that funding starts to chip away, what will happen is not only will we lack in advancing some of the promising therapeutics, but people will not be incentivized to go into the field,” Tufts Medicine Behavioral Health Director Dr. Brent Forester said.

How should America celebrate 250 years of independence from British rule next year? “There are so many other amazing stories and narratives that are not told,” said Imari Paris Jeffries, co-chair of an initiative called Everyone250. The group’s goal is to ensure marginalized communities who played major roles in American history aren’t ignored. “There’s an expansive story of that colonial time. Sure, there were other people, indigenous [and] Black folks that were around during that time. But not all of our origin stories started in 1776.”

It’s pothole season: All winter, water from rain and snow has been seeping into small cracks in the pavement, then freezing and expanding, which causes those little cracks to deepen into larger cracks and potholes. Now that spring is nearing, public works departments across the state are trying to fix their roads before too many local drivers accidentally mess up their cars. A tip: if you damaged your car in a pothole in the last 30 days, you can file a claim with the city or town for some compensation.

Local Haitians and Venezuelans are suing the Trump administration over changes to their temporary protected status

A Boston-based civil rights organization is taking the Trump administration to court over temporary protected status, or TPS, for migrants from Haiti and Venezuela.

So what is TPS? It’s a way for people migrating from countries the U.S. has deemed unsafe to live and work here legally. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem moved up the end of Venezuela’s TPS designation from October 2026 to as early as April 2, 2025, and Haiti’s from February 2026 to August 3, 2025. Under this change, thousands of people living in Massachusetts will lose their legal status, protection from deportation and work permits.

This lawsuit is the first legal challenge to the administration’s attempt to cut off Haitians’ temporary protected status.

“Our lawsuit will make clear that presidents do not have unchecked power to dismantle humanitarian protections at will, such as TPS,” said Mirian Albert, senior attorney for Lawyers for Civil Rights, which filed the lawsuit. She said the plaintiffs are “fearful for their families because of the situations that forced them to leave their home countries to come to the U.S. to begin with.”

One of the plaintiffs is a Venezuelan migrant referred to in the lawsuit by the pseudonym Gustavo Doe. He came to the U.S. in 2023 after getting threatened for opposing corruption in his home country. TPS allows him to get medical care for a car accident he was in, and allows his mother to work at a supermarket.

“I hope the final decision includes keeping TPS for a long time. The conditions in Venezuela have not improved at all — the political, socioeconomic, and humanitarian situations are the same as a few years ago,” he said.

GBH’s Sarah Betancourt has a full overview of the case here.