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Speaker 1: at sixty eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening gathering today in Boston.
Speaker 1: We're a broad coalition of progressive organizations called military strikes
Speaker 1: on Iran illegal and called for no war with Iran.
Speaker 1: Cole Harrison is with the Massachusetts Peace Action.
Speaker 2: We need a permanent peace in the region. We need
Speaker 2: reconciliations in the US and Iran. There's no reason we
Speaker 2: have to fight Iran, and we also need the peace
Speaker 2: to extend to Gaza and passed on. There's a genocide
Speaker 2: going on. Our country is behind it. We need them
Speaker 2: to stop, and we need immediate ceasefire, and we need
Speaker 2: to stop US weapons to Israel.
Speaker 1: Several other groups joining in that calling for a return
Speaker 1: to diplomacy. The White House giving an update on the
Speaker 1: next steps with Iran after doubling down on the success
Speaker 1: of US strikes on the country's nuclear program. ABC's Karen
Speaker 1: Travers has the latest.
Speaker 3: The White House says there are no meetings scheduled right
Speaker 3: now between the US and Iran, despite President Trump saying
Speaker 3: Wednesday that that would take place next week. Press Secretary
Speaker 3: Caroline Levitt said the administration is focused on diplomacy and
Speaker 3: getting to a point where Iran agrees to a non
Speaker 3: enrichment civil nuclear program.
Speaker 4: Right now, we're on a diplomatic path with Iran.
Speaker 5: The President and his team, namely Special Envoy Witcoff.
Speaker 4: Continue to be in communication with the Iranians and especially
Speaker 4: our golf and Arab partners in the region.
Speaker 3: Karen Travers ABC News. The White House the.
Speaker 1: House Judiciary Committees subpoened Harvard for documents as part of
Speaker 1: an investigation into the school's tuition pricing. A top Republican
Speaker 1: on the committee says they're trying to determine whether Ivy
Speaker 1: League schools are violating antitrust laws by raising tuition prices.
Speaker 1: The lawmakers say Harvard has not responded to multiple requests
Speaker 1: for documents. Trump administrations also launched investigations into Harvard for
Speaker 1: reports of discriminatory hiring practices and anti semitism on campus.
Speaker 1: Planned Parenthood reacting to a new court ruling that takes
Speaker 1: aim at the abortion provider.
Speaker 4: The Supreme Court has cited with South Carolina and allowing
Speaker 4: states to cut off medicaid funding to plant Parenthood. Public
Speaker 4: health care money generally can't be used for abortions. Medicaid
Speaker 4: patients go to Plant Parenthood for things like contraception, cancer screenings,
Speaker 4: and pregnancy testing. President Trump's budget bill in Congress would
Speaker 4: also cut Medicaid funding to the organization. South Carolina's governor
Speaker 4: first moved to cut off Medicaid funding to Plant Parenthood
Speaker 4: in twenty eighteen, but was blocked by a patient lawsuit.
Speaker 4: The state argued Medicaid patients should not be allowed to sue,
Speaker 4: citing lower court rulings that let states like Texas block funds.
Speaker 4: Public health groups like the American Cancer Society say lawsuits
Speaker 4: are the only real way Medicaid patients have been able
Speaker 4: to enforce their right to choose their own doctor. Plant
Speaker 4: Parenthood receives ninety thousand dollars a year, a small portion
Speaker 4: of South Carolina's overall Medicaid budget. I'm Marcella Sanchez.
Speaker 1: The Commonwealth will be offering a summer child nutrition program
Speaker 1: for the second year in a row. The sun Bucks
Speaker 1: pro Graham provides grocery money to eligible low income Massachusetts
Speaker 1: families with school aged children in these summer months to
Speaker 1: buy food when schools are closed. Governor Morri Healy says
Speaker 1: students shouldn't miss out on healthy food just because school
Speaker 1: isn't in session. The program started in June of last year,
Speaker 1: after the end of the summer pandemic EBT, and served
Speaker 1: about six hundred thousand Massachusetts children in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: We do have some showers around the area, a lot
Speaker 1: of them out toward central Massachusetts, in fact, on a
Speaker 1: line here coming down through Winterton and Gardner and Holden
Speaker 1: Spencer just to the west of Worcester, and down to
Speaker 1: the south there Oxford and Webster getting some shower activity.
Speaker 1: A lot of this is heading to the south end
Speaker 1: to the east, so you may get in on this
Speaker 1: a little bit closer to Boston as we head through
Speaker 1: the next several hours. Here. There's some rain up toward
Speaker 1: the Merrimack Valley. There has been through the day, and
Speaker 1: a little bit more as you head up into New Hampshire,
Speaker 1: a little bit more as you head over to the Cape,
Speaker 1: although most of it's light and pushing a way as
Speaker 1: we speak, so we will continue to watch these showers
Speaker 1: scattered across the area tonight, and temperatures within a few
Speaker 1: degrees of sixty mainly cloudy Tomorrow, upper sixties with a
Speaker 1: couple of showers. Saturday seventy three with a couple of
Speaker 1: showers and the clouds around. And then Sunday we may
Speaker 1: break out a little bit of sunshine. We could still
Speaker 1: have a shower. Temperatures seventy five to eighty right now,
Speaker 1: sixty eight degrees in Boston with the Red Sox away,
Speaker 1: the bands will play. It's been a busy week for
Speaker 1: concerts on Lansdown Street. W Busy's Drumal Holland tells us
Speaker 1: the tunes continue tonight.
Speaker 5: Ah here we go MGM Music Hall, Fenway, a massive
Speaker 5: night of music on tap with Gaslight Anthem kicking things
Speaker 5: off tonight front man Bryan Fallon and those sweet rock
Speaker 5: and roll vocals one night after playing Guildford, New Hampshire
Speaker 5: too so short rest with these guys shot Tony Crowz
Speaker 5: bring tonight's show home. They could do hit after hit
Speaker 5: if they wanted, But tonight they're touring behind their new
Speaker 5: album Butter Miracle, which is getting ravered views as well,
Speaker 5: so it should be an outstanding mix of music all around.
Speaker 5: Have a fun night on Lansdowne Street. It is so
Speaker 5: much better than a red Sox game these days. Drew
Speaker 5: maholland WBZ sit Boston's news radio.
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