Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio re defining local.
Speaker 2: News in Boston. Right now. It is seventy nine degrees
Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: We're starting in New York where the jury it's just
Speaker 2: delivered its verdict in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial
Speaker 2: of Sean Ditty Combs. Jurors found the rap mogul not
Speaker 2: guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. They did convict
Speaker 2: him on two prostitution charges. Let's get more in the
Speaker 2: CBS News special report.
Speaker 3: The federal jury in New York has acquitted Sean Diddy
Speaker 3: Combs of the most serious charges against him. CBS is
Speaker 3: Jureka Duncan.
Speaker 4: The jurors found that he was guilty of the Man Act,
Speaker 4: that is the transportation to engage in prostitution, but they
Speaker 4: found him not guilty on sex trafficking, very serious charge there,
Speaker 4: and not guilty on that racketeering conspiracy, which he could
Speaker 4: have spent up to life in prison.
Speaker 3: For two counts he was convicted of each carry a
Speaker 3: maximum sentence of ten years in prison, but no minimum.
Speaker 3: CBS News Legal contributor Caroline Policey.
Speaker 5: Given his prior history, he doesn't have any prior convictions.
Speaker 2: He could get away with time served, even a.
Speaker 1: Couple of years.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is one of the best possible outcomes
Speaker 5: that they.
Speaker 2: Could have hoped for.
Speaker 3: After the verdict was red, Combs held his hands up
Speaker 3: in a prayer motion and hugged his defense lawyer. The
Speaker 3: judge is now deciding whether to release Combs from custody.
Speaker 3: That could come perhaps as soon as today. That decision
Speaker 3: CBS News special Report.
Speaker 2: I'm Michael Wallace, and when it does, we will update
Speaker 2: you right here on WBZ News Radio and streaming on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. It's eleven oh one and President Trump's
Speaker 2: spending bill is now back before the House. Republicans are
Speaker 2: hoping to capitalize on the bill's momentum coming out of
Speaker 2: the Senate as they try to pass it before the
Speaker 2: President's deadline of July fourth. ABC's Freen and Alley has
Speaker 2: more on what's in this massive, light, slightly changed bill.
Speaker 5: The bill includes four trillion dollars in tax cuts and
Speaker 5: eliminates taxes on tips in overtime. It boosts border security,
Speaker 5: and it imposes work requirements on Medicaid. The bill also
Speaker 5: restricts eligibility for food stamps. The bill would also effectively
Speaker 5: phase out renewable energy tax credits, and would change student
Speaker 5: loan programs, phasing out certain payment plans and capping some
Speaker 5: federal loans. One thing not in the bill a provision
Speaker 5: that would have blocked states from regulating artificial intelligence. Senators
Speaker 5: scrapped that idea.
Speaker 2: House Democrats still pushing back against the bill. Speaking on
Speaker 2: the steps of the Capitol this morning, House Democratic Leader
Speaker 2: Hakim Jeffries said his fellow party members would do everything
Speaker 2: in their power to try and stop that legislation. Republicans
Speaker 2: do hold a slim majority in the House, and here
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts. Garbage lining the streets of at least fourteen
Speaker 2: towns this morning as trash collectors spend another day on
Speaker 2: the picket lines. Hundreds of union employees at Republic Services
Speaker 2: are on strike. They're demanding better wages and benefits, but
Speaker 2: now Republic is accusing them of criminal behavior. They say
Speaker 2: those on strike have been slashing tires and sabotaging trucks
Speaker 2: used by replacement crews. The workers say they're fighting back
Speaker 2: against a company that's not willing to budget negotiations, Republic
Speaker 2: says their tactics are going too far. WBZ News Radio
Speaker 2: has reached out to the Union and police for comment.
Speaker 2: So far we have not heard back. There is a
Speaker 2: bit of rain out there still in southeastern Massachusetts, but
Speaker 2: we are going to start clearing out throughout the afternoon.
Speaker 2: Temperatures right now in the seventies and low eighties. We'll
Speaker 2: get up to about the mid to upper eighties later
Speaker 2: on today in the seventies though if you're on the
Speaker 2: capein Islands for tonight, gradual clearing with a loan near
Speaker 2: seventy on the coast and mid sixties inland. For tomorrow,
Speaker 2: could have another round of storms in the afternoon and
Speaker 2: evening with a high just about ninety eighty to eighty
Speaker 2: five for the capein Islands, so slightly cooler but not
Speaker 2: by too much. Then the fourth of July mostly sunny,
Speaker 2: looking great, not as humid, a high in the mid eighties,
Speaker 2: mostly in the seventies on the capin Islands, and that
Speaker 2: nice weather carries over into the weekend. Right now, showers
Speaker 2: at the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich. It's seventy three
Speaker 2: west of Boston. Just some clouds in Southborough seventy nine
Speaker 2: north of Boston, eighty one in North Reading, and in
Speaker 2: Boston at eleven oh six it is partly cloudy and eighty.
Speaker 2: A retired judge from Worcester says a deeper federal investigation
Speaker 2: has to be done into the killing of Harmony Montgomery.
Speaker 2: Carol Erskine met with the FBI in the New Hampshire
Speaker 2: US Attorney yesterday. During that meeting, handing over information from
Speaker 2: her own probe into the young girl's death. Harmony's mother,
Speaker 2: Crystal Sorry, sued the state last year, accusing social workers
Speaker 2: of ignoring signs of abuse. Erskinelcybs News Boston. She thinks
Speaker 2: the state settled with her to take the spotlight off
Speaker 2: the Division of Children, Youth and Families.
Speaker 6: There were seventeen other reports of abuse, for the most part,
Speaker 6: weren't investigated, and family members and neighbors and people were
Speaker 6: calling in dcf DCYF wasn't investigating, so that was an
Speaker 6: issue for me.
Speaker 2: Harmony's father, Adam, was convicted of several charges in the
Speaker 2: five year old's death, including murder and disposing of her
Speaker 2: her corpse. Her body has never been found. The Trump
Speaker 2: administration is holding back almost seven billion dollars that had
Speaker 2: been set aside for schools nationwide.
Speaker 7: The federal money allocated by Congress was to help pay
Speaker 7: for things like summer school, after school programs, helping students
Speaker 7: learn English, and other services. Schools were expecting the money
Speaker 7: on Tuesday, but in an email Monday, the Education Department
Speaker 7: notified state agencies that it would not be available and
Speaker 7: that funds were under review. The move is likely to
Speaker 7: be challenged in court by critics who point out that
Speaker 7: the money had been appropriated by Congress. I'm Michael Cassner.
Speaker 2: And a local federal judge. SA's recent mass layoffs of
Speaker 2: the Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful. Here,
Speaker 2: CBS's Christopher Cruz.
Speaker 1: Providence, Rhode Island based US District Court Judge Melissa Dubos
Speaker 1: ordered the government to halt plans to downsize and reorganize
Speaker 1: the department. She ruled in a lawsuit brought by attorneys
Speaker 1: general from nineteen states and the District of Columbia. The
Speaker 1: judge said the states had shown they would suffer quote
Speaker 1: irreparable harm from the layoffs, and they were likely to
Speaker 1: prevail in their claims that the firings were quote both
Speaker 1: arbitrary and capricious, as well as contrary to law. Christopher Cruz,
Speaker 1: CBS News Washington.
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