Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio re defining
Speaker 1: local news eighty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A mixed
Speaker 1: outcome that the Sean Diddy Combs trial in New York.
Speaker 1: The music mogul was convicted, but not of the most
Speaker 1: serious charges against him.
Speaker 2: Sean Diddy Combs was convicted of a prostitution related offense
Speaker 2: for flying his girlfriends and paid male escorts around the
Speaker 2: country to engage in sexual encounters, a felony violation of
Speaker 2: the Federal Man Act, but he was acquitted on the
Speaker 2: most serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering at his
Speaker 2: New York trial. The mixed result could still put Combs
Speaker 2: behind bars for up to a decade from the start.
Speaker 2: His lawyers have said they would appeal. While the verdict
Speaker 2: was being read, did he turn to his family sitting
Speaker 2: behind him and made a prayer sign with his hands,
Speaker 2: bowing his head. Then, as he was being let out
Speaker 2: of the courtroom by Marshalls, his family, including his mother
Speaker 2: and children, stood up and applauded as he faced them.
Speaker 2: They also clapped for his lawyers, who were hugging one
Speaker 2: another at court in Manhattan. I'm Julie Walker.
Speaker 1: The judge in the case. Meantime, is expected to rule
Speaker 1: at five o'clock this afternoon on whether or not to
Speaker 1: release Combs on bail. WBC News Radio We'll continue to
Speaker 1: monitor and bring you in the latest. Don't forget. You
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Speaker 1: House now has the Senate pass tax cut and spending bill.
Speaker 1: Like in the Senate, Democrats are not impressed. Massachusetts Congressman
Speaker 1: Jim McGovern says, they're you're noted against it.
Speaker 2: We will not stand by and watch Trump and his
Speaker 2: billionaire friends destroy this country without putting up one hell
Speaker 2: of a fight.
Speaker 1: House Republicans have been working toward a final vote, daring
Speaker 1: critics to oppose. Texas Republican Jody Errington says, this bill
Speaker 1: increases funding from border security, which is what his constituents
Speaker 1: have been demanding. It is the most.
Speaker 3: Eminent national security threat to the country, and the last
Speaker 3: president did not faithfully uphold the laws of land.
Speaker 1: The bill would extend and make permitted various individual and
Speaker 1: business tax breaks that Republican passed in the president's first term.
Speaker 1: Plus temporarily add new tax breaks, such as no income
Speaker 1: taxes on tips and over time. President Trump says the
Speaker 1: US has reached a new trade deal with Vietnam.
Speaker 4: The deal includes a minimum twenty percent tariff on Vietnam
Speaker 4: made products, as well as an agreement by Vietnam to
Speaker 4: open its markets to US products, including SUVs. Vietnam is
Speaker 4: a major producer of shoes and clothing, so the prices
Speaker 4: of those items could likely be affected. The deal also
Speaker 4: includes a forty percent tariff on trans shipping, or the
Speaker 4: rooting of goods through a third country. President Trump had
Speaker 4: promised an even higher tariff of forty six percent against Vietnam
Speaker 4: if a deal was not reached by his July ninth deadline.
Speaker 4: Lindy Kenyon, CBS News, The.
Speaker 1: White House, five New England states, including Massachusetts, are part
Speaker 1: of a coalition of twenty states filing a lawsuit challenging
Speaker 1: the Department of Health and Human Services decision to allow
Speaker 1: Homeland Security, including ICE, access to individual personal health data.
Speaker 1: In the lawsuit, filed in Northern District Court of California,
Speaker 1: the attorneys general argue the mass transfer of the data
Speaker 1: violates the law. Attorney General Andrea Campbell says disclosing individual's
Speaker 1: private health data for the purpose of immigration enforcement puts
Speaker 1: lives at risk. The Trump administration has argued the sharing
Speaker 1: of data is legal and will ensure federally funded Medicaid
Speaker 1: benefits are reserved for US citizens. Checking the four day
Speaker 1: w THEBC Active Weather Forecast, we've had an okay day.
Speaker 1: There's been some clouds, a couple of showers towards the
Speaker 1: Capan Islands earlier, but we've been in pretty good shape
Speaker 1: really around the area with just those clouds here and there.
Speaker 1: Temperatures today getting well into the eighties. Tonight will fall
Speaker 1: back to about seventy and eventually become mainly clear, a
Speaker 1: little bit cooler, mid sixties inland. Tomorrow we heat up
Speaker 1: ninety degrees, so a hot day with some sunshine. That'll
Speaker 1: lead to a few thunderstorms, maybe a couple of gusty
Speaker 1: ones through the afternoon and evening tomorrow, and then we'll
Speaker 1: have mostly clear skies lad tomorrow night, temperatures in the
Speaker 1: upper sixties. Friday, it is the fourth of July, they
Speaker 1: call it that because it's the fourth of July, also
Speaker 1: Independence Day. It'll be in the mid eighties with mostly
Speaker 1: sunny skies for whatever it is you've got planned partly
Speaker 1: sunny on Saturday, Temperatures in the mid to upper eighties
Speaker 1: and then ninety not out of the question for some
Speaker 1: of us. On Sunday with some sunshine. It is eighty
Speaker 1: five degrees right now in Boston. The Bruins made some
Speaker 1: high profile draft picks this year, but wbs's Kyle Bray
Speaker 1: caught up with one that got under the radar.
Speaker 5: Dashech Glenar's journey to Boston has had many twists and turns.
Speaker 5: He was born in Colorado, moved to Chechia, He then
Speaker 5: quit hockey and picked it back up again, and then
Speaker 5: moved to Sweden. But one constant in his life has
Speaker 5: been his love of the Bruins. He's been a lifelong
Speaker 5: fan since his dad would wake him up at two
Speaker 5: in the morning to watch games.
Speaker 3: You used to get haircuts with the side of my
Speaker 3: head right here to a little Boston logo and yeah,
Speaker 3: I had everything, still have my hat. I think he's
Speaker 3: like ten years old.
Speaker 5: But now he gets to play for his favorite team,
Speaker 5: after the Bruins, after them one hundredth overall is a
Speaker 5: relatively unknown prospect. Now he has the chance to play
Speaker 5: alongside check legends like David Posternak.
Speaker 3: I would be in a dream, right, Yeah. It took
Speaker 3: the same route as him, so smedia basically and end
Speaker 3: up in the same line. Probably that'll be awesome.
Speaker 5: From Brighton Kyle Bray, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: A government minister in Australia says, nay to yay. The
Speaker 1: former rapper known as Kanye West recently stripped of an
Speaker 1: Australian visa after he released the single Hyle Hitler earlier
Speaker 1: this year. The Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says the song,
Speaker 1: released in May, promoted Nazism. It's been criticizing criticized for
Speaker 1: an anti Semitic tribute to Adolf Hitler. The minister says, quote,
Speaker 1: we have enough problems in this country already without deliberately
Speaker 1: importing bigotry. You are now in the loop for news
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