Afternoon Report: Sunday, November 16, 2025

The final pre-trial hearing is tomorrow in the Brian Walshe murder case, an immigrant enforcement surge is underway in Charlotte, North Carolina, and UMass Boston is seeing fewer international students in its classrooms this year. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ at Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Forty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock that afternoon,
I'm Suzanne Sasville. Here's what's happening. A closely watched case
in Massachusetts is almost at trial. The final pre trial
hearing is tomorrow in the Brian Walsh murder case. Wbz's
shared Brosnan has more.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Brian Walsh is the Cohasset man accused of killing and
dismembering his wife Anna on New Year's Day in twenty
twenty three. Her body has never been found. Last week,
at judge ruled that Walsh was competent to stand trial
after a forty day stay at Bridgewater State Hospital. She
also denied the defense's motion to move the trial outside
of Norfolk County or bring in jurors from outside the area.
Jerry's selection is set to begin on Tuesday, and opening

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statements could happen as early as December first. Jerre Brosnan, WBZ,
Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
President Trump's feud with Congresswoman and former ally Marjorie Green
is getting ugly.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
The feud between President Trump and his one time ally
representative Marjorie Taylor Green is intensifying. He called her Marjorie
Trader Green in a true social post one day after
referring to her as a ranti lunatic. Green punched back
in a series of posts on social media. I never
thought that fighting to release the Epstein files, defending women

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who were victims of rape, and fighting to expose the
web of rich, powerful elites would have caused this, But
here we are. All this is ahead of an upcoming
House vote compelling the release of more Epstein files. The
President has called the upcoming vote a distraction for Republicans
and a hoax. Giddy stampanavids CBS News.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
And immigration enforcement surges under way in Charlotte, North Carolina.
ABC's Olivia Rubin has.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
That federal agencyne making arrests around the city. The Department
of Homeland Security officially announcing the operations Saturday, saying it's
targeting quote criminal illegal aliens. Crowds taking to the streets
in protest as residents voice their frustration.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
This is you know, this is not right.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
It comes after similar operations in cities like Los Angeles
and Chicago have at times turned violent. Officials in North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Now urgentcom Charlotte's mayor has criticized the operation, saying it's
causing quote unnecessary fear and uncertainty. Boston police are investigating
a stabbing in Mattapan last night. It happened on Fremont
Street at around seven to twenty pm. The victim was
rushed to the hospital with the life threatening injuries. There's

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no word on their condition, and police say so far
no arrests have been made. Costco is being sued over
its Kirkland signature brand tequila. A proposed class action lawsuit
claims that Costco is falsely advertising that the tequila is
made with one hundred percent and blue Weber agave. According

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to the suit, testing found that the tequila contains significant
amounts of non agave sugars and alcohol, so much so
that it doesn't even qualify as tequila. The suit claims
Costco violated the Rico Act and consumer protection laws. A
chilly night ahead, partly cloudy overnight with real field temps

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in the upper teens and low twenties. Tomorrow blustery and
colds with a mix of sun and clouds high forty five,
but again those real field temps in the thirties. Tuesday
mostly sunny with a high of forty seven sunny on Wednesday,
with the higher forty eight. Right now in Boston, it's
partly cloudy and forty nine degrees. Students from more than

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ten colleges and universities around Boston rallied yesterday saying they
want to protect the promise of higher education. Wbz's Emma
Friedman has details sure because Northeastern doesn't fulfill.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
That motto like truth and courage, Well, they don't listen
to their students, they're not transparent, they don't include us
in their decision making process.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
The Northeastern student Jack Mauslea, is the co founder and
director of outreach for the Education Freedom Project. I found
him at the Boston student rally and Fenway with crowds
of other students. He says they are united through a
feeling of deep disappointment.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
That they're folding to Trump's attacks on international students, on
a freedom of expression, on academic independence, that they're shuddering
in the offices of diversity, equity and inclusion, and students
just have no say about that.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
So the students feel like they've been sidelined in university's
decision making process. He says. The Education Freedom Project put
out a survey to over one thousand students, parents, faculty,
and alumni, asking what Northeastern could do better. Now, they're
trying to get legislation passed through the student government with
those answers in mind. It'll be voted on on Monday.
W b Z News Radio has reached out to Northeastern
for comment. In Fenway, I'm a Freedman. W b Z

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Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
You Mess Boston is seeing fewer in international students in
its classrooms this semester. The Globe says around two hundred
and fifty fewer foreign students arrived on campus this fall,
a seventeen percent drop from last year. Other public universities
in the Bay State, including UMass Amherst, Fitchburg State, and

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the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, have also seen
noticeable declines in foreign student enrollment. Since taking office, the
Trump administration has pressured colleges to enroll fewer international students,
restricted travel from nineteen countries, and targeted international students involved

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in campus protests. Apple has rolled out a new feature
that's helpful for some travelers.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
You can now store your passport in your digital wallet
on your iPhone. Apple says digital IDs will be accepted
at tsacheckpoints and more than two hundred and fifty airports
across the country for domestic travel, but if you're heading
overseas somewhere still will need a physical passport. As for
how secure the new feature is, Apple says your passport
data is encrypted and stored on the device, but the

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company can't see when or where users present their digital
ID or the data that's shown. It's Stacy Lynn, CBS News.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
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