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Two state Senate candidates backed by the mayor lost last week and another seems headed for defeat.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell supports expanding the state’s public records law and changing voter registration so that people can register and vote at poll sites on Election Day.

Kevin Hayden is running for reelection for his second first full term. He was appointed to the position in 2022, before running for the seat officially later that year.

Mike Minogue, a Republican candidate for governor, says that he wants to make Massachusetts a place people can stay and raise families like his.

Mayor Michelle Wu said Wednesday that the city must “make sure that there are standards for children not to be directly targeted by algorithms that prioritize endless scrolling.”

The president is refusing to sign the bill until Congress passes a voter ID law he wants.

MIT's Jon Gruber discusses 20 years of Romneycare, of which he was a key architect.ACLU of Mass' Carol Rose discusses their lawsuit challenging Trump's efforts to get unredacted voter rolls in the state.Marc Morial of the National Urban League and Rahsaan Hall of Urban League of Eastern Mass join to discuss their organization's support of "clean slate" legislation — criminal justice reform that would automatically seal records for eligible candidates.Judy Pitasi joins us for today's Long Run segment; she oversees a team of 200 volunteers cleaning up after Boston Marathon runners.

NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey gives a Marathon recap and updates us with the latest on the Pat's coach Mike Vrabel drama.Rich Davey, CEO of Massport, discusses how the war with Iran is impacting local travel costs around jet fuel and flight prices.CNN's John King joins us for the latest national political headlines, including Senate primaries and Kash Patel suing The Atlantic for an article about his heavy drinking and absences.Nicole Nguyen, personal tech columnist at the Wall Street Journal, joins us to discuss her latest reporting on what AI really knows about you, and an onslaught of software updates you don't want to ignore.

BPL president David Leonard, Jay Moschella, manager of rare books and manuscripts, and Garrett Dash Nelson, curator of the Leventhal Map Center, discuss the library's exhibit of rare printings of the Declaration of Independence.Tracy Bonham joins with a string quartet for Live Music Friday ahead of a show this weekend at the Burren.Abdallah Fayyad of the Boston Globe and NBC10's Sue O'Connell join us for Press Play to talk about Pete Hegseth's latest Tarantino-inspired prayer service and other media analysis.Boston Athletic Association President Jack Fleming and BAA high performance team member Robert Miranda join for a marathon preview.

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Cannabis Control Commission chair Shannon O'Brien discusses the state of the marijuana industry in Mass.Kade Crockford of the ACLU of Mass joins for a discussion about protest safety and data privacy in our surveillance era.Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses Viktor Orban's defeat in Hungary and lessons against illiberalism more broadly. Plus, thoughts on Hegseth's Holy War and U.S. officials going toe to toe with the pope.And, we talk to Anna McKeown of DreamFar and Jim Keane of Boston Bulldogs run clubs.