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<v Speaker 1>This is WBC Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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<v Speaker 2>It's forty degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good Thursday morning.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Madison Rogers, and we start this hour with some

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<v Speaker 2>breaking news from Washington. The Trump administration just has just

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<v Speaker 2>announced mass layoffs and a major transformation at the Department

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<v Speaker 2>of Health and Human Services. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy

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<v Speaker 2>Junior says he wants to reorganize the department and create

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<v Speaker 2>a new division called the Administration for a Healthy America.

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<v Speaker 3>We have two goals. The first is obvious, to save

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<v Speaker 3>the tax parent money by making our department more efficient,

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<v Speaker 3>and the second is to radically improve our quality of service.

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<v Speaker 3>I want to promise you now that we're going to

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<v Speaker 3>do more with less. No American is going to be

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<v Speaker 3>left behind.

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<v Speaker 4>He says.

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<v Speaker 2>Ten thousand full time employees will lose their jobs, and

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<v Speaker 2>the agency's twenty eight divisions it will be consolidated. HHS

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<v Speaker 2>oversees major agencies like the CDC, the FDA, and NIH.

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<v Speaker 2>It also regulates drugs, food safety, and medical research. Now

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<v Speaker 2>to Harvard, where hundreds of professors have signed on to

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<v Speaker 2>a letter calling for the college to push back against

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<v Speaker 2>the Trump administration. More on that with wbz's James Rojas.

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<v Speaker 4>The letter, that's been signed by over six hundred faculty

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<v Speaker 4>calls for a mounted opposition to the Trump administration and

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<v Speaker 4>its crackdown on higher education. It sites Columbia University's concessions

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<v Speaker 4>to the federal government after it was accused of mishandling

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<v Speaker 4>protests and campus anti semitism. Four hundred million dollars in

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<v Speaker 4>federal funding were also threatened. The letter says the ongoing

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<v Speaker 4>attacks on American universities threatened Bedrock principles of a democratic society,

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<v Speaker 4>including rights of free expression, association, and inquiry at Harvard

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<v Speaker 4>James Rojas, WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>A federal judge in Boston has just ordered the government

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<v Speaker 2>to excit plain why a toughs PhD student is in

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<v Speaker 2>ICE attention. Yesterday in Somerville, thousands of people rallied in protests,

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<v Speaker 2>and wbz's I'm a Friedman was there.

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<v Speaker 1>The Palestinian Youth Movement held an emergency rally in Powderhouse

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<v Speaker 1>Square Park demanding ICE. Rally's Tough's doctoral student Romesa as Turk.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to be very clear about something that we

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<v Speaker 1>need to call what happened to Romesa. What it is

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<v Speaker 1>state sanctioned political kidnapping. She was taken into custody by

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<v Speaker 1>plain clothes, ice agents and masks near where she lives

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<v Speaker 1>in Somerville.

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<v Speaker 4>I have to shout up, this is my community. I

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<v Speaker 4>live here. I can't see my neighbor abducted and say nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>Lawyer say the Turkish national was maintaining a valid F

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<v Speaker 1>one visa status. DHS said she is being held in

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<v Speaker 1>Louisiana and that she was engaged in activities supporting Hamas.

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<v Speaker 1>Tufts University president says her student visa has been terminated.

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<v Speaker 1>The Palestinian Youth Group is planning another rally at Somerville

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<v Speaker 1>City Hall to demand that city council not put any

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<v Speaker 1>tax dollars towards apartheid and genocide and gaza in Somerville.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a Friedman w's Z Boston's news radio.

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<v Speaker 2>And again the government is now facing a Friday deadline

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<v Speaker 2>to explain that detention, and looking at the four day forecast,

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<v Speaker 2>it stays mostly sunny and breezy out there this afternoon,

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<v Speaker 2>getting into the upper forties this afternoon. Right now, it

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<v Speaker 2>is around forty in Boston. Tonight turns out partly cloudy

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<v Speaker 2>and brisk, with a shower in spots late even a

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<v Speaker 2>snowshower mixing in north and west of one twenty eight

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<v Speaker 2>in those communities. Well to the north and west, it'll

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<v Speaker 2>get down into the low mid thirties. It's around thirty

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<v Speaker 2>eight for the low in Boston. Sun to start your Friday.

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<v Speaker 2>Then more clouds building fifty seven for the high. Warmer

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<v Speaker 2>out there. Saturday. We will have a few showers around

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<v Speaker 2>and it'll only get up to forty three or so

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<v Speaker 2>in Boston, warmer toward the Cape. Sunday again comps in

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<v Speaker 2>the low forties, with a bit of rain possible, mainly

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<v Speaker 2>in the morning and also mainly north of town. Right now,

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<v Speaker 2>again it's forty, mostly sunny and breezy in Boston at

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<v Speaker 2>eleven oh five, just about five hours the Red Sox

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<v Speaker 2>will begin their twenty twenty five MLB season, and wbz's

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<v Speaker 2>Drew mholland tells us Hope Springs Eternal.

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<v Speaker 5>Major League Baseball's official opening day, you gotta love it.

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<v Speaker 5>Red Sox in Texas first pitch with the Rangers four

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<v Speaker 5>h five today and one of the chances we get

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<v Speaker 5>back to this again, Red.

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<v Speaker 6>Sox fans have wonder here to Boston Red Sox are

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<v Speaker 6>world champions.

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<v Speaker 5>It still gives you goosebumps, doesn't It? So much depends

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<v Speaker 5>on starting pitching. We all know that pitching and defense,

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<v Speaker 5>and today we get our first look at the new ace.

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<v Speaker 5>Garrett Crochet, big guy, six y six, strong arm. He

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<v Speaker 5>gets the ball and tries to put the socks in

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<v Speaker 5>the win column. Drew mohulland WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>State lawmakers are considering some big changes when it comes

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<v Speaker 2>to sports betting. Here's wbz's Jim McKay.

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<v Speaker 6>The bet Tour Health Bill, little wordplay from legislators calls

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<v Speaker 6>for limits on how much and how often gamblers can

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<v Speaker 6>make online bets, bands on all prop bets, and restrictions

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<v Speaker 6>on the ads that run during sporting events. At the

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<v Speaker 6>risk of killing this golden goose that has delivered more

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<v Speaker 6>than thirteen billion dollars in business since sports betting went

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<v Speaker 6>live in Massachusetts back in twenty twenty three, Addiction specialists

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<v Speaker 6>say it's a much needed move. If approved, this would

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<v Speaker 6>make betting on sports in Massachusetts the most heavily regulated

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<v Speaker 6>in the country. Jim McKay wb ZY, Boston's News Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>Top defense officials are facing more scrutiny after mistakenly including

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<v Speaker 2>a journalist in a group chat about strikes in Yemen

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<v Speaker 2>earlier this month. An update now from CBS's Michael Wallace.

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<v Speaker 7>The German news magazine Der Spiegel found the private information

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<v Speaker 7>of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, national Security Advisor Mike Waltz,

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<v Speaker 7>and Director of National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard in hacked data

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<v Speaker 7>that were dumped online. They found password details, mobile phone numbers,

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<v Speaker 7>and email addresses. Hegseth's email address and some of his

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<v Speaker 7>passwords were found in more than twenty data leaks.

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<v Speaker 2>There are a lot of calls for Hegseth to resign

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<v Speaker 2>or be fired, including from both Massachusetts senators. President True

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<v Speaker 2>Trump is calling the situation hoax and a witch hunt,

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<v Speaker 2>though the White House has said that the screenshots do

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<v Speaker 2>appear to be real. Source of say Chris Poppus has

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<v Speaker 2>his eyes on a Senate seat. That is, according to Axios,

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<v Speaker 2>the New Hampshire Democratic rep has been telling colleagues that

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<v Speaker 2>he plans to announce a run for Jeene Shaheen's seat.

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<v Speaker 2>This comes after the Democratic senator announced she would not

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<v Speaker 2>be seeking reelection in twenty twenty six. There have also

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<v Speaker 2>been reports of a potential run on the Democratic side

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<v Speaker 2>by fellow New Hampshire Rep. Maggie Goodland.

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<v Speaker 1>You're now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Madison Rodgers, WBZ, Boston's news radio