Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news seventy
Speaker 1: six degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The government says Harvard's been naughty.
Speaker 1: It comes after an investigation by the Trump administration into
Speaker 1: allegations of civil rights violations at the Ivy League school.
Speaker 1: CBS's Stacy Linn has details.
Speaker 2: It concluded that the university violated civil rights laws requiring
Speaker 2: colleges to protect students from discrimination based on race or
Speaker 2: national origin. The federal task force said at times this
Speaker 2: school was a quote willful participant in anti Semitic harassment
Speaker 2: of Jewish students, faculty, and staff. The administration is now
Speaker 2: threatened to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League
Speaker 2: school if it fails to take action.
Speaker 1: In a statement to WBZ News Radio, Harvard says, no
Speaker 1: matter the contact, anti semitism is unacceptable. They also say
Speaker 1: Harvard is far from indifferent on this issue and strongly
Speaker 1: disagrees with the government's findings. Following developing news, a long
Speaker 1: time Boston police officer has been charged with raping a child.
Speaker 1: The Suffolk County DA says Paul Downey of West Roxbury
Speaker 1: was arranged today on charges that include aggravated rape of
Speaker 1: a minor, sexual conduct with a child under eighteen, an
Speaker 1: electronic enticement of a child for sexual activity. He has
Speaker 1: been ordered held without bail. Boston's Police Commissioner Michael Cox
Speaker 1: says the chargers are obviously very troubling and our thoughts
Speaker 1: are with any alleged victims. Down He was immediately placed
Speaker 1: on administrative leave. The sergeant's been with Boston Police since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. When it comes to tenant paid broker
Speaker 1: fees in Massachusetts, the Commonwealth is about to just say no.
Speaker 3: I'm really pleased to see it. I propose this right.
Speaker 3: I propose getting rid of broker's fees because you know,
Speaker 3: we got to make it more affordable for people to
Speaker 3: be able to rent apartments my administration. As you know,
Speaker 3: housing is the top priority. You need to build more housing,
Speaker 3: build more house, and build more housing.
Speaker 1: Governor more heay, reacting as lawmakers are close to outlawing
Speaker 1: mandatory tenant paid broker fees as part of the state
Speaker 1: sixty one billion dollar budget. It's one of many items
Speaker 1: in the agreement which Democratic leaders are sending to the governor.
Speaker 1: The budget would still hike spending by nearly six percent
Speaker 1: over the state's current spending plan, and estimates of tax
Speaker 1: revenue may commit hundreds of millions below what state officials
Speaker 1: had originally projected. Trade talks are back on with Canada.
Speaker 1: Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney says talks with the US
Speaker 1: ever resoomed after they were scinded plans to tax US
Speaker 1: technology firms.
Speaker 4: Canada said it will resume trade talks with the US
Speaker 4: after the Canadian government said it wouldn't move forward with
Speaker 4: the Digital services tax. That tax was estimated to cost
Speaker 4: US tech companies billions of dollars. President Trump last week
Speaker 4: called the tax a quote direct and blatant attack and
Speaker 4: said he would end all trade talks with Canada over it,
Speaker 4: even signaling he would announce new tariff rates on Canada
Speaker 4: in the next week. There is currently a twenty five
Speaker 4: percent tariff on some goods from Canada, as well as
Speaker 4: fifty percent tariffs on steel on aluminum. Karen Traver's ABC
Speaker 4: News the White House.
Speaker 1: We've had a few clouds around, and we'll carry some
Speaker 1: of them with us as we head into the evening,
Speaker 1: but we should stay dry all night long until close
Speaker 1: to daybreak tomorrow, and even then, probably just west Boston
Speaker 1: may pick up a shower or two. The temperatures about
Speaker 1: sixty nine overnight, we will start to pick up the
Speaker 1: humidity as well. A warm and humid day Tomorrow. There
Speaker 1: will be plenty of clouds and a few showers or thunderstorms,
Speaker 1: especially in the afternoon and evening. Lower humidity. On Wednesday,
Speaker 1: that's nice, temperatures near ninety maybe nice depending on your perspective,
Speaker 1: partly sunny skies. And then Thursday, here comes the humidity again.
Speaker 1: The temperatures stay around ninety degrees and we may fire
Speaker 1: off a few of those summary thunderstorms in a few
Speaker 1: spots on Thursday, before we get into the holiday on
Speaker 1: Friday with lower humidity, temperatures in the mid eighties with sunshine,
Speaker 1: and I should continue with us through the holiday weekend
Speaker 1: as well. Seventy six right now in Boston, did the
Speaker 1: Red Sox trade Raphael Devers to help funday record signing
Speaker 1: for a soccer team. The Socks say no, but local
Speaker 1: fans of both teams are still finding themselves caught up
Speaker 1: in the conspiracy theories. As we hear from wbz's Kyle Brain.
Speaker 5: It's been a conflicting few weeks for fans of both
Speaker 5: the Red Sox and Liverpool Left c both of which
Speaker 5: are owned by Fenway Sports Group. Just days after the
Speaker 5: Red Sox traded star slugger Rafael Devers, Liverpool announced an
Speaker 5: English record one hundred and seventy one million dollar deal
Speaker 5: for German midfielder Florian Verts. Many Sox fans immediately started
Speaker 5: pointing fingers across the pond, which has left fans of
Speaker 5: both teams, like Billy, in an awkward spot.
Speaker 6: It's just kind of like the cherry on top of
Speaker 6: the last like five years of the Red Sox. It's
Speaker 6: just so frustrating, and I understand that fan sentiment so
Speaker 6: much so I can't even be mad at either side
Speaker 6: because I get it.
Speaker 5: Liam is a host of a popular Red Sox podcast
Speaker 5: and is also a Liverpool fan. He says it was
Speaker 5: only a matter of time before people connected the two.
Speaker 5: I immediately knew it was going to blow up, and
Speaker 5: you know, beyond sports SoC radio and it's going to
Speaker 5: be a fiery talking point on social media.
Speaker 1: I saw it immediately.
Speaker 5: The Red Sox have maintained that trading Devers was a
Speaker 5: purely base ball move Kyle Bray, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Getting out of Dodge is on the agenda for a
Speaker 1: lot of Americans this Fourth of July holiday, and when
Speaker 1: it comes to going places, wz's drewma Holland tells us
Speaker 1: there've never been more wanting to leave.
Speaker 7: Seventy two point two million people will travel at least
Speaker 7: fifty miles or more from home over the Independence Day
Speaker 7: holiday period, and Triple A says that would be a
Speaker 7: record damn good run. And the holiday period began Saturday
Speaker 7: and runs through July sixth, so we are in it.
Speaker 7: And if you look at your calendar, you'll notice that
Speaker 7: travel period includes two weekends, this time around Triple A
Speaker 7: trying to get a bigger picture, a better feel of
Speaker 7: the overall travel flow and safe travels. To you all
Speaker 7: out there, Drew maholland, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WDBC, Boston's News Radio