Mid Day Report: Saturday, May 31, 2025

A long legal battle is settled with Harvard, a U-N watchdog group says Iran has increased its stockpile of "near weapons-grade" uranium, after 60 years in the buisness a donut shop in West Roxbury gets new owners. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is WVZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
All Right, the sun's trying to come out through the cloud.
Sixty six degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock on this Saturday. Hello,
thanks as always for being with us. I'm Sherry Small.
Here's what's happening. The Trump administration not letting up on Harvard.
In a new directive, Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling
for additional vetting for people requesting visas to travel to

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Harvard that includes screening their.

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Social media accounts.

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US embassies and consulates will be screening the social media
of students, faculty employees, guest speakers, contractors, and more who
are looking for a visa to travel to Harvard. The
directive also says that the pilot project could be extended
to all student visas in the future. This comes just
one day after a federal judge in Boston blocked President

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Trump's efforts to ban intern national students from enrolling, and meanwhile,
along legal battle is settled, with Harvard agreeing to turn
over one hundred and seventy five year old photographs of
enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to black history.
The lawsuit brought on by a woman who says she's
a relative of the slaves in the photographs.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Sa Mari Lanier has fought for fifteen years to get
the haunting images of Papa Rensi and his daughter from
Harvard and settled this week in a deal that removed
them from the school's ownership.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
I believe that he is feeling vindicated. I feel that
he is feeling validated.

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The images, made with an early photographic method, were commissioned
by a Harvard biologist whose theories were once used to
support slavery in the US. He took nude pictures.

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These inside people were forced to disrobe. They were pope,
they were prided.

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Lanier says her ancestors were used to promote black inferiority, but.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
In reality, Renty and Jillier were educated people. Reni was
actually an edge cator. He was self taught.

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Allison Keys, CBS News to the Middle East Now.

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UN watchdog group says that Iran has increased its stockpile
of near weapons grade uranium in recent weeks. The US
in Tehran have held several rounds of talks over a
possible nuclear deal. Iran insisting its nuclear program is for
peaceful purposes only. Meanwhile, in the war in Gaza, Iran
backed Hamas is considering a new ceasefire deal with Israel.

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The deal leaves the prospect of more aid flowing into
Gaza unsettled.

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The one has been continuing to send in a certain
amount of limited aid so far. One of the objections
that Hamas made to the proposal was it had been
under the understanding it thought that there would be a
return to an unrestricted flow of aid, which was the
case in the previous ceasefire. But this proposal doesn't guarantee that.

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And that's the BBC's Barbara Plutt Usher reporting. Now. The
UN says looters in Gaza have blocked and unloaded dozens
of food trucks before they were able to reach their destinations. Now,
the fort A Wvzaki weather forecast, all right, we've seen
some rain right now. The rain is lingering along western
Mass right now. We will see limited breaks of suns.

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Steady rain will taper off into another shower or two,
so we're not out of the shower woods quite yet.
A high of just sixty six degrees tonight, A couple
of showers around during the evening then clearing sky is
a mild low near fifty. Tomorrow again we're seeing a
high of sixty six degrees. There may be some spotty
showers north and west of four ninety five for everybody

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else just a mix of sun and clouds. And then
again this pattern that we're seeing rain on the weekends
and then clear skies and highs near seventy as we
head back to work on Monday, partly sunny to mostly
sunny Tomorrow. Tuesday's high even warmer near seventy five, calling
for sunshine. Right now it is partly sunny, sixty six

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degrees at eleven o six. All right, back to news.
After more than sixty years in business, a donut shop
in West Roxbury gets new owners. There's WBC's j Willette.

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The best donuts in what'sh rock Spree Right here.

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Anna's Handcut Donuts is under new ownership finalized by the
Boston Licensing Board. Show Van Bonn of Waltham comes from
Twin Donuts to take the reins, making delicious donuts fresh daily.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
They go stale one day. That means there's no preservatives
in them.

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You get a real donut.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Brian Dowling and Tom Horgan have been coming here for
sixty years. Safe to say they're pleased with the new
owner so far.

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Next Christian the outside soft, nice and fuffie on the
out side, good excellent donnut.

Speaker 6 (04:43):
I'm gonna tired.

Speaker 7 (04:43):
It's sitting that window which all of people go by
going to work and I don't have to go to work.

Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah, what a life outside A pup A coffe nationed donut.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
That's all you can ask for, Blane.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Don't you dip in your coffee if like NiFe is good?

Speaker 5 (04:56):
From West Roxbury. J. Willette WBZ, Boston's news Radio.

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The Head of DOGE heads for the exit door. Elon
Musk's time as a special government employee in the Trump
administration comes to an end, President giving Musk a White
House send off the.

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I of Office meeting marking the end of his time
as de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency
or DOGE.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Is not to the end of the DOG, but really
the beginning. My time as a special government point necessarily
had to add, was a limited time thing.

Speaker 7 (05:25):
Musk's exit comes after he criticized Trump's policies in an
interview airing tomorrow on CBS's Sunday morning. He says he
was disappointed and the president's spending bill that economists say
would increase the deficit.

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And that CBS is touring small reporting. Musk originally said
that he would save the government to trillion dollars the
final total it ended up being about one hundred and
fifty billion. The Securities in Exchange Commission is dropping its
case against Finance.

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The crypto exchange platform was accused of operating an unregistered exchange,
artificially inflating its trading volume, and misleading investors about its
surveillance and controls. The dismissal comes as the SEC continues
to pull back on enforcement against the digital asset industry
under President Trump. I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
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