Battling 95-degree temperatures, Maggie Galvis stretches a hose from her apartment to fill a pool at the Boston Housing Authority’s Bunker Hill Development in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, MA on June 25, 2025. A heat dome raised temperatures and humidity to peak levels throughout the region, before a cold front is expected to deliver a wave of showers and thunderstorms to snap the sweltering weather.
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Leona Barshay, 4, and her father Richie Barshay perform a song that Leona wrote during their week at Miles of Music Island Camp on June 10, 2025. Richie Barshay, a professional drummer who has toured with artists including Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, teaches drums and performance skills at the camp alongside his wife Tracy Einstein, who instructs Alexander Technique. The camp welcomes participants of all ages, creating an intergenerational community where children and adults learn music together in the same classes. Tracy Einstein noted how her daughter thrived in the camp environment, saying Leona “didn’t get nervous at all” when performing with a microphone in front of the entire camp community.
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Franklin, NH – A woman keeps the flag from dragging in the dirt as two men work on the roping before the start of the Military & Veterans Campus ribbon cutting Thursday, September, 18, 2025.
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Students play with balloons during Hingham High School’s queer prom on May 31, 2025 in Hingham, Mass. The dance, dubbed “Kick-off to Pride,” was organized by senior Hope Huffman, who has planned the school’s queer prom for three years. Huffman said this year’s event was more than a celebration—it was a respite from negativity surrounding current LGBTQ issues. The queer prom offers students an alternative to traditional proms where many LGBTQ youth feel pressure to conform to gender expectations or skip the events altogether.
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Jen Fowler comforts her son Dante, 12, who has autism, during an behavioral episode at their home in Wakefield, MA on February 13, 2025. Jen refers to 2 p.m. as the “bewitching hour” when Dante’s outbursts begin. Every day in the United States, disabled children like Dante are being cheated out of an education, relegated to their homes for months on end because no schools will serve them. Their public school districts have given up on teaching them, pledging instead to pay for them to attend schools elsewhere that offer more intensive support. But other options, which often include highly sought after private schools, can be near impossible to come by, leaving kids in the lurch for extensive periods of time.
