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Speaker 2: All Right, the sun's trying to come out through the cloud.
Speaker 2: Sixty six degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock on this Saturday. Hello,
Speaker 2: thanks as always for being with us. I'm Sherry Small.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. The Trump administration not letting up on Harvard.
Speaker 2: In a new directive, Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling
Speaker 2: for additional vetting for people requesting visas to travel to
Speaker 2: Harvard that includes screening their.
Speaker 1: Social media accounts.
Speaker 2: US embassies and consulates will be screening the social media
Speaker 2: of students, faculty employees, guest speakers, contractors, and more who
Speaker 2: are looking for a visa to travel to Harvard. The
Speaker 2: directive also says that the pilot project could be extended
Speaker 2: to all student visas in the future. This comes just
Speaker 2: one day after a federal judge in Boston blocked President
Speaker 2: Trump's efforts to ban intern national students from enrolling, and meanwhile,
Speaker 2: along legal battle is settled, with Harvard agreeing to turn
Speaker 2: over one hundred and seventy five year old photographs of
Speaker 2: enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to black history.
Speaker 2: The lawsuit brought on by a woman who says she's
Speaker 2: a relative of the slaves in the photographs.
Speaker 1: Sa Mari Lanier has fought for fifteen years to get
Speaker 1: the haunting images of Papa Rensi and his daughter from
Speaker 1: Harvard and settled this week in a deal that removed
Speaker 1: them from the school's ownership.
Speaker 3: I believe that he is feeling vindicated. I feel that
Speaker 3: he is feeling validated.
Speaker 1: The images, made with an early photographic method, were commissioned
Speaker 1: by a Harvard biologist whose theories were once used to
Speaker 1: support slavery in the US. He took nude pictures.
Speaker 3: These inside people were forced to disrobe. They were pope,
Speaker 3: they were prided.
Speaker 1: Lanier says her ancestors were used to promote black inferiority, but.
Speaker 3: In reality, Renty and Jillier were educated people. Reni was
Speaker 3: actually an edge cator. He was self taught.
Speaker 1: Allison Keys, CBS News to the Middle East Now.
Speaker 2: UN watchdog group says that Iran has increased its stockpile
Speaker 2: of near weapons grade uranium in recent weeks. The US
Speaker 2: in Tehran have held several rounds of talks over a
Speaker 2: possible nuclear deal. Iran insisting its nuclear program is for
Speaker 2: peaceful purposes only. Meanwhile, in the war in Gaza, Iran
Speaker 2: backed Hamas is considering a new ceasefire deal with Israel.
Speaker 2: The deal leaves the prospect of more aid flowing into
Speaker 2: Gaza unsettled.
Speaker 4: The one has been continuing to send in a certain
Speaker 4: amount of limited aid so far. One of the objections
Speaker 4: that Hamas made to the proposal was it had been
Speaker 4: under the understanding it thought that there would be a
Speaker 4: return to an unrestricted flow of aid, which was the
Speaker 4: case in the previous ceasefire. But this proposal doesn't guarantee that.
Speaker 2: And that's the BBC's Barbara Plutt Usher reporting. Now. The
Speaker 2: UN says looters in Gaza have blocked and unloaded dozens
Speaker 2: of food trucks before they were able to reach their destinations. Now,
Speaker 2: the fort A Wvzaki weather forecast, all right, we've seen
Speaker 2: some rain right now. The rain is lingering along western
Speaker 2: Mass right now. We will see limited breaks of suns.
Speaker 2: Steady rain will taper off into another shower or two,
Speaker 2: so we're not out of the shower woods quite yet.
Speaker 2: A high of just sixty six degrees tonight, A couple
Speaker 2: of showers around during the evening then clearing sky is
Speaker 2: a mild low near fifty. Tomorrow again we're seeing a
Speaker 2: high of sixty six degrees. There may be some spotty
Speaker 2: showers north and west of four ninety five for everybody
Speaker 2: else just a mix of sun and clouds. And then
Speaker 2: again this pattern that we're seeing rain on the weekends
Speaker 2: and then clear skies and highs near seventy as we
Speaker 2: head back to work on Monday, partly sunny to mostly
Speaker 2: sunny Tomorrow. Tuesday's high even warmer near seventy five, calling
Speaker 2: for sunshine. Right now it is partly sunny, sixty six
Speaker 2: degrees at eleven o six. All right, back to news.
Speaker 2: After more than sixty years in business, a donut shop
Speaker 2: in West Roxbury gets new owners. There's WBC's j Willette.
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Speaker 5: Anna's Handcut Donuts is under new ownership finalized by the
Speaker 5: Boston Licensing Board. Show Van Bonn of Waltham comes from
Speaker 5: Twin Donuts to take the reins, making delicious donuts fresh daily.
Speaker 6: They go stale one day. That means there's no preservatives
Speaker 6: in them.
Speaker 1: You get a real donut.
Speaker 5: Brian Dowling and Tom Horgan have been coming here for
Speaker 5: sixty years. Safe to say they're pleased with the new
Speaker 5: owner so far.
Speaker 7: Next Christian the outside soft, nice and fuffie on the
Speaker 7: out side, good excellent donnut.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna tired.
Speaker 7: It's sitting that window which all of people go by
Speaker 7: going to work and I don't have to go to work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what a life outside A pup A coffe nationed donut.
Speaker 5: That's all you can ask for, Blane.
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Speaker 5: From West Roxbury. J. Willette WBZ, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: The Head of DOGE heads for the exit door. Elon
Speaker 2: Musk's time as a special government employee in the Trump
Speaker 2: administration comes to an end, President giving Musk a White
Speaker 2: House send off the.
Speaker 7: I of Office meeting marking the end of his time
Speaker 7: as de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency
Speaker 7: or DOGE.
Speaker 5: Is not to the end of the DOG, but really
Speaker 5: the beginning. My time as a special government point necessarily
Speaker 5: had to add, was a limited time thing.
Speaker 7: Musk's exit comes after he criticized Trump's policies in an
Speaker 7: interview airing tomorrow on CBS's Sunday morning. He says he
Speaker 7: was disappointed and the president's spending bill that economists say
Speaker 7: would increase the deficit.
Speaker 2: And that CBS is touring small reporting. Musk originally said
Speaker 2: that he would save the government to trillion dollars the
Speaker 2: final total it ended up being about one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty billion. The Securities in Exchange Commission is dropping its
Speaker 2: case against Finance.
Speaker 6: The crypto exchange platform was accused of operating an unregistered exchange,
Speaker 6: artificially inflating its trading volume, and misleading investors about its
Speaker 6: surveillance and controls. The dismissal comes as the SEC continues
Speaker 6: to pull back on enforcement against the digital asset industry
Speaker 6: under President Trump. I'm Brian Shook.
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