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☔More rain today, but warmer, with highs in the 60s. Sunset tonight is at 7:09 p.m., and the sun should come out tomorrow.

We’re exactly three weeks away from Marathon Monday. GBH’s Lisa Wardle put together a primer of how to watch the race, whether in person or from home . It includes historical highlights (celebrating the 50th anniversary of the wheelchair division) and a list of elite runners to watch. Check it out and dream of sunnier days.

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A Harvard Medical School scientist from Russia has been in federal immigration detention for a month and a half, according to her attorneys, despite having a valid visa to enter the country. Kseniia Petrova, 30, was returning from France with frog embryos — described as nonhazardous, noninfectious and non-toxic — for her lab, packed in her suitcase. Friends say she “fled persecution in Russia for protesting (without destruction or violence) the war in Ukraine.” She’s being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana. 

Rep. Ayanna Pressley is calling for the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts graduate student detained by federal immigration agents on the street outside her Somerville apartment last week. “Her rights of free speech have been violated,” Pressley told GBH’s Boston Public Radio. “Due process has been violated here — she was not taken before a judge. There was no court process. There’s no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed to reporters last week that he revoked Ozturk’s visa and those of other students who participated in protests against the war in Gaza. Ozturk had co-authored an op-ed in the Tufts student paper opposing the war and asking the university to end financial investments in Israeli companies.

Cambridge brother hearings: Thirty-four men have now officially been charged with buying sex from a brothel in Cambridge and Watertown. The men officially charged on Friday included Chestnut Hill dermatologist, a Lexington orthodontist, and a Cambridge based actor. The hearings have been a chance for human trafficking survivors to call for more accountability. “It’s showing that this state is not going to tolerate people buying people, and that just sends a clear message in itself,” said Audra Doody, who now works with an organization called Safe Exit in Worcester, which helps people leave sex work. “If that message gets out maybe traffickers and pimps wouldn’t sell young vulnerable girls. My pimp wouldn’t have sold me if men didn’t buy me.”

Wellesley strike: After 10 months of contract negotiations, non-tenure-track professors at Wellesley College walked off the job last week. “Over the past few years we’ve gotten a couple of increases, but salaries are really not enough to live on,” said Leah Okumura, a senior instructor in the biological sciences department. Non-tenure-track faculty make up about a third of Wellesley College’s professors. With four weeks left in the semester, Provost Courtney Coile informed the campus in an email that federal guidelines may require the college to issue incomplete grades to students if their professors remain on strike.

Formerly imprisoned Black men say they are being targeted for eviction from Charlestown complex

Michael Penn is facing eviction because his property manager claims he was aggressive towards staff members and that his dog, Sasha, barks too much. The same property manager says Penn’s neighbor, Demerius Calhoun, left a window open in his living room and caused the pipes to freeze and a neighbor’s apartment to flood. Another neighbor is being threatened because the property manager is accusing him of smoking in his apartment — even though he says he doesn’t smoke.

All of them, tenants at The Graphic Lofts in Charlestown, are Black, formerly incarcerated and say they are being targeted.

“They want me out,” Penn said. “It sucks when I move into a situation where I’m happy to be and for no reason other than the fact that I’m Black or I have a record or, you know, they just don’t like my appearance … To them, I just scream Black thug or, you know, gangster or whatever.”

Leslie Credle, who runs Justice 4 Housing and helped place the men in their apartments, said that all the tenants she helped place there are now getting threatening letters from property managers.

“It was the dog. It was the window. It was the smoke. It’s anything and everything they can put their hands on, and they bombard them with legal letters,” Credle said.

An attorney for the management company, Texas-based Willow Bridge Property Company, defended its policies, saying the company is “committed to providing its residents with safe, decent, and affordable housing.”

“While management provides residents with warnings and opportunities to resolve lease violations, when residents continue to refuse to comply with basic lease obligations and infringe on the rights of other community members, at times legal actions must unfortunately be taken to protect the rights and safety of our community,” attorney Jeffrey Turk wrote in a statement to GBH News.

A GBH News reporter came to visit Penn’s apartment on a recent Sunday afternoon. Penn’s dog Sasha was in a crate on the other side of the room — and did not bark.

“My dog doesn’t bark,” Penn said.

Read the full reporting from Paul Singer here.