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🥶Sunny and cold, with highs in the 20s. Sunset is at 5:08 p.m.

There won’t be duck boats this time: the Patriots lost last night’s Super Bowl to the Seattle Seahawks 29-13. We have a dispatch from the game, but first, an update on the case of Juan David Quichimbo, a Springfield resident who received a deportation notice written on sticky notes and has been in federal immigration detention for almost two months, even though he has a pending application for a visa designed for survivors of labor trafficking. The federal government filed a legal motion last week to deport Quichimbo, who is originally from Ecuador. He does not have a criminal record.

“Congress made these protections to protect people like him who have gone through, in his case, labor trafficking. Removal right now would fly in the face of the protections that Congress had considered when thinking about persons who have been subjected to trafficking and crime,” attorney Elizabeth Shaw told GBH’s Sarah Betancourt.

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Quichimbo’s wife, Mirian Ximena Abarca Tixe, told Betancourt that she and Quichimbo try to speak every night by phone.

“He’s not well… he doesn’t eat much, he doesn’t sleep much… but he wrote me and said he will get stronger and we will wait to see what happens. I pray he gets out soon,” she said. She’s also worried about their 7-year-old daughter, Camila. “My daughter was a cheerful girl. She played, she ran. Now she’s quiet, sad, doesn’t want to go to school... she doesn’t sleep much, and says that her chest hurts. She asks when her father will come home.” You can read more about their story here.

Four Things to Know

1. Boston will spend about $135 million on the renovation of White Stadium in Franklin Park. Boston’s new professional women’s soccer team, the Boston Legacy Football Club, will cover $190 million in construction costs. The city’s tab is significantly higher than original estimates of $50 million.

“I would say the primary driver of why this project got more expensive is because we heard from community members that there were all of these dreams and hopes and goals, and we decided to make the project better — and therefore more expensive — in response to that,” Wu said, highlighting plans for a professional-grade grass field instead of turf, strength-training spaces and a community room with a kitchen. She also said tariffs and the rising cost of steel contributed to the higher price tag. Once completed, the stadium will serve as a shared home for Boston Public Schools athletics and the Boston Legacy, as well as a public recreation space.

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2. The U.S. Education Department is telling colleges and universities to stop using public voter data in their research and is investigating Tufts University, claiming that its National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement misused student data.

Tufts officials said they’re reviewing the Trump administration’s letter and declined to comment. Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, told GBH that while colleges and universities have “come to expect” attacks from the Trump administration, this one is noteworthy because “it’s the idea that nonpartisan research on civic participation could be treated as suspect simply because it relates to voting.”

3. Republican Micah Q. Jones has announced that he will run for the Congressional seat representing the North Shore this year. Jones, a lawyer and Army veteran who lives in Essex, moved to Massachusetts from California to attend Northeastern University School of Law.

He is the first Republican to enter the 2026 race for the 6th Congressional District, now held by Rep. Seth Moulton, who isn’t seeking re-election because he is running for the Senate. The Democrats seeking the nomination are Bethany Andres-Beck, John Beccia, Jamie Belsito, Rick Jakious, Dan Koh, Mariah Lancaster and Tram Nguyen.

4. Massachusetts members of Congress say they’re worried about the Trump administration’s plans for a federally funded center in Cambridge meant for advancing new health care research. The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health-funded Investor Catalyst Center employs about 59 people and distributed $300 million to organizations in Massachusetts in its first year. The private company that operates it received a notice saying the Trump administration plans to terminate their agreement, though a federal official later said the agency is reconsidering its vendor options.

“With Congress’ support, the Investor Catalyst Hub was created precisely to ensure that ARPA-H–funded breakthroughs do not stall out in the lab but instead move efficiently toward real-world deployment,” wrote U.S. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Reps. Lori Trahan, Jake Auchincloss, Seth Moulton, Richard Neal and Stephen Lynch. “The Investor Catalyst Hub is already deeply involved in projects focused on improving cancer surgery, deploying hospital-level care to rural areas and diagnosing and treating lymphatic diseases, all work at risk of being lost should the Hub’s work be terminated.”

Standing room only at Super Bowl LX

By Esteban Bustillos, GBH News

Two words were ringing through my head as I walked into Levi’s Stadium just before kickoff of Super Bowl LX:fly casual.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of credentialed members of the media who attend the Super Bowl and not nearly enough space to accommodate them all inside. So, I was given a seat inside the media workroom, a big tent just on the stadium’s edge. It was nice, they had sandwiches and TVs.

But this was the Super Bowl and I wanted to at least try and see some of the game with my own eyes. So, I walked in slowly, trying not to draw too much attention.

Turns out I’m probably not the rebel I thought I was as I saw several other press members doing the same. So, I posted up near a drink stand and quickly found my tribe: the Pats fan yelling at the field like the players could hear him. A couple of bros wearing Saquon Barkley Eagles jerseys cheering for the Seahawks, one of whom kept yelling “two minutes ‘til Bad Bunny!” as the first half ticked to a close. An older gentleman who, improbably, had to ask what Sénior Conejito’s name was

I only stayed for one half before I returned to my proper post to start writing, but even that taste helped me understand why this was no normal game. The stakes, the pageantry, Bad Bunny hanging from a utility pole like a dadgum lunatic.

Not much went right for the Patriots on Sunday as the Seahawks defense ground the Patriots hopes for a seventh Lombardi into dust, with Seattle winning the game 29 to 13.

But right before the opening kick, with the sun setting on Santa Clara, that stadium was filled with the hope and joy only a moment like the Super Bowl brings. Whether you were coming from Waltham or Washington state, everyone was fulfilling a little bit of a dream just by being there.

I’ve never been one to get too emotional when the “Star-Spangled Banner” is played before a game. But as the song played Sunday and I thought about my family back in Boston and Texas, I teared up. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one.

Dig deeper: 

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-Patriots fans the world over descend on San Francisco for Super Bowl LX

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