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My colleagues spent the weekend reporting on local reactions to the U.S. strike on nuclear sites in Iran — from Congresspeople to everyday Americans and people with family in the region. NPR had people who have tracked the country’s nuclear program for years review satellite footage of the strike sites. “I think the purpose of the attack was to take out centrifuges and infrastructure and they feel they accomplished that,” said David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security. But the country still likely has enriched uranium stocks, he said. And it’s not clear whether this weekend’s strike affected it — or, as others have said, whether military strikes are an effective way to prevent nuclear war at all.

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1. A federal judge said Harvard will be able to keep hosting international students while its case against the Trump administration makes its way through court. In an email to international students on Friday, university officials said they expect the judge “to issue a more enduring decision in the coming days,” and that the school is making contingency plans.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump on Friday said in a social media post that his administration has “been working closely with Harvard, and it is very possible that a Deal will be announced over the next week or so.” University spokespeople did not respond to a request for comment regarding the president’s post.

2. Karen Read’s second trial ended last week in an acquittal on all but one charge of driving under the influence, but people in Canton are still talking about the case. Read faces a civil lawsuit from the family of her former boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. Passers-by last week stopped at locations mentioned in court to point and take photos.

Melissa Fitzgerald of Canton and Carol Villa of Hopedale were in town last week looking at wedding gowns for a family friend. “I think that when you dehumanize and you make a woman the target of something that really bad happened, I think you’re going to have repercussions,” Fitzgerald said. Villa said she thought the outcome was fair, “but I don’t think we can forget about the victim, John,” Villa said. Still, “we have to move forward,” she said.

3. An effort to allow colleges and universities to offer three-year bachelor’s degrees — at a lower cost and for fewer credit hours than current four-year degrees — is moving forward. The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education has drafts of possible regulations.

The regulations would not automatically let colleges offer three year degrees, but they would allow academic institutions to ask the state’s Board of Higher Education for permission to do so.

4. The Boston Calling music festival will skip its 2026 performances and come back in 2027, organizers said. They did not say why.

“Thank you for making this year’s Boston Calling such a wonderful experience. Your energy, passion and support mean the world to us,” organizers wrote in a statement on social media, saying they will return June 4-6, 2027. “Stay tuned for updates.”

Boston reacts to US strikes on Iran with protest, confusion and dread

From his home in Massachusetts, Soheil Fathi said news of American strikes in Iran, where he was born and raised, was frustrating and scary. Fathi, co-owner of La Saison bakery in Cambridge and Charlestown, said he is hoping diplomacy will prevail. 

“I don’t think anyone is gonna benefit from this,” Fathi said. “Not Israeli people, not Iranian people, not even American people. No one’s gonna benefit from this. And when I talked with people back in Iran ... everybody’s just like, shocked. Everybody’s like, 'We don’t get the concept, why are we doing this?’”

Yesterday hundreds of people in Boston protested America’s strikes on Iran in a march from the Boston Common to City Hall Plaza.

“People are worried about making rent. People are delaying starting a family, getting married, buying homes,” said Brian Garvey, executive director of Massachusetts Peace Action. “And year after year, we pour more into these stupid, illegal and costly wars.”

Some of the people representing Massachusetts in Congress — including Sens. Warren and Ed Markey and Rep. Katherine Clark, the Democratic House whip — said the Trump administration acted illegally and against the constitution by ordering an act of war without congressional approval.

“The American people do not want another endless war in the Middle East,” Markey said. 

Read Esteban Bustillos’ and Trajan Warren’s full reporting here.