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⛅Must be March: partly sunny day with highs in the 40s and a chance of rain or snow tonight. Sunset is at 7:04 p.m.

The International Skating Union’s World Figure Skating Championships, the sport’s second-biggest stage after the Olympics, start at TD Garden today. But this evening, before the pairs short program begins, skaters will pause to remember six Skating Club of Boston community members who were killed in January when an Army helicopter collided with the American Airlines flight they were on over the Potomac River. The six included athletes Spencer Lane and Jinna Han, their mothers, Christine Lane and Jin Han and coaches Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova.

Skating Club of Boston pairs figure skaters Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov felt a sudden shift from ecstatic highs to terrifying lows: they won a national championship and, just a few days later, lost their fellow club members in the crash.

“I believe that they want us all to skate,” Efimova told GBH’s Esteban Bustillos . “They want us to do the best. So with these thoughts, we will be there on the ice.”

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A federal judge in Boston heard two hours of arguments yesterday as a group of transgender plaintiffs sought to block the Trump administration’s requirement that passports reflect individuals’ sex assigned at birth, while their lawsuit over the matter proceeds. “Traveling with identification that does not match poses a safety risk for transgender individuals, and I simply would not feel comfortable not having accurate identification at this time,” said lead plaintiff Ash Lazarus Orr, a transgender man. Department of Justice lawyers said President Donald Trump has the power to change which gender markers can and can’t appear on passports. Judge Julia Kobick did not indicate when she’d issue a ruling.

Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner’s colleagues expressed dismay after prosecutors said he was one of the men accused of buying sex at a brothel broken up by authoritiesin 2023. Councilor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler called for Toner to resign, and other colleagues said they are disheartened, but waiting for Toner’s case to work its way through the courts. “In Massachusetts there’s a reason that the Commonwealth prohibits brothels, because they exploit and commodify vulnerable people,” Councilor Patricia Nolan said.

“I’ve never heard someone say to me, ‘Hey, boy, I loved getting to Logan Airport today. It was amazing,’” said Richard Davey, CEO of the Massachusetts Port Authority. Logan had its highest-ever number of passengers last year (43.5 million) and is expecting to see more growth. So, how can MassPort make getting to the airport less frustrating? In short, Davey said: encouraging public transportation and services like the Logan Express, which pick up passengers from Braintree, Danvers, Framingham, Woburn and the Back Bay. Davey said they’re considering a program that would allow riders to go through security at the Logan Express pickup site and be dropped off directly in the airport’s secure area.

PBS and NPR’s chief executives will appear before the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) today . Chairwoman Majorie Taylor Greene has accused the broadcasters of bias. No legislation is expected to be discussed. GBH is an affiliate of both PBS and NPR and, like other stations, we get our funding from a combination of viewer and listener support, corporate sponsors and some money provided by Congress through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The hearing starts at 10 a.m. You can livestream it here .

In Boston’s Green Dragon Tavern, revolutionaries brewed their plans for resistance

It was the bar gossip that helped launch the American Revolution. And, like a lot of bar gossip, it wasn’t completely true.

In 1775, Boston’s Green Dragon Tavern was a place for mostly men (but some women, too) to gather and hear the latest news. Under British rule, there were no legal guarantees of freedom of speech or assembly. Taverns gave people a space that wasn’t the street or the church to gather and plan. People would talk about current events and read newspapers out loud for tavern patrons who were illiterate or couldn’t read English.

The rumor was: British forces loyal to the crown were planning to kidnap John Hancock and Samuel Adams in Lexington, and confiscate munitions in Concord.

“The British only ever intended to steal munitions that day,” said Brooke Barbier, a public historian with a PhD in American history and founder of Ye Olde Tavern Tours. “But this was the information that was uncovered. And then that’s when Paul Revere sets off on his famous ‘Midnight Ride’ to warn primarily Hancock and Adams that they were in danger — which, technically, they weren’t — but the rebels believed that they were.”

Today, there’s a Green Dragon Tavern near Boston City Hall with a sign calling it the “Headquarters of the Revolution.” It’s not the original tavern: that one was destroyed sometime in the 19th century. The current Green Dragon Tavern opened in 1993.

But, you can still go there for a beer, a little history and — if you’re lucky — some bar gossip of your own.

“The past few years, past five years pretty much, it’s been difficult here,” said Noelle Somers, COO of Green Dragon Tavern’s owner, Somers Pubs. “I really feel like this will bring a boom to our area.”

Read more of Esteban Bustillos’ reporting here. 

We want to hear from you: For the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, GBH News is looking for lesser-known stories about that moment in history. Is there a person, event, or place that you want to know more about? A piece of lore from your city, town, family, or friends you’d like us to check out? Send a message to our reporters at daily@wgbh.org . We’ll be following up on some tips for future stories.