May 31, 2025 • 6 mins
The Trump administration takes aim at visas linked to Harvard Univeristy, Harvard is returning 175 year old photographs of enslaved people to a wonam who says she is their relative, The securities and exchange commision is droppig its case against Binance. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Got some showers in the area to start this Saturday morning.
We're at fifty seven degrees at six o'clock. Good morning, Welcome.
I'm Charlie Burger On. Here's what's happening, and it's another
wet start to the weekend. Watch some fogs to start today.
(00:22):
Otherwise it looks to be breezy and cooler with fully
limited sunshine. It just happens every weekend, doesn't it. With
Troy Thornton and the four day WDBZ ACU weather forecast
in just a couple of minutes, the Trump administration taking
aim at visa's linked to Harvard University. Under a new directive,
the State Department is ramping up its vetting process for
(00:45):
visa applications and using social media to do it. US
embassies and consulates will be screening social media for students,
faculty employees, guests, speakers, and more looking for a visa
to travel to Harvard. The memo also states the pilot
project could be extended to all student visas in the future.
(01:05):
This comes a day after a federal judge blocked President
Trump's effort to ban international students from enrolling. Harvard is
returning one hundred and seventy five year old photographs of
enslaved people to a woman who says she's their relative,
and they'll be transferred to a South Carolina museum devoted
to black history.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
To Mari Lanier has fought for fifteen years to get
the haunting images of Papa Ensi and his daughter from Harvard,
and stettled this week in a deal that removes them
from the school's ownership.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I believe that he is feeling vindicated. I feel that
he is feeling validated.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
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.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
He took new pictures. These inside people were forced to disrobe,
they were poked, they were prodded.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Lanier says her ancestors were used to promote black and periority, but.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
In reality, Rinty and Jailier were educated people. Brini was
actually an educator. He was self taught.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Allison Keys CBS News protests at MIT's commencement ceremony yesterday
after the class president and her family were banned from attending.
Mis wbz's Madison Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
A day of pomp and circumstance and protest. MIT Chancellor
Melissa nobles commencement speech was interrupted.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Over the past four years, right before our eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You've students are chanting. Let Mega walk. Thursday, at a
separate ceremony, twenty twenty five, class President Mega M. Murray
broke from her prepared remarks in a pro Palestine demonstration.
You showed the world that MIT wants a free Palestine.
She accused MIT of being complicit in the genocide and
campus leaders of trying to suppress student protests, and an
(02:54):
email obtained by The Globe, the chancellor told the Murray
she deliberately misled organizers and would be and from graduation.
Madison Rogers WBZ Boston's News Radio A.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
West Roxbury donort Chop more than sixty years in business,
changing ownership, but continues to Florida. Let's check the four
day WBZ at you weather forecast LEA Troy Thornton tells
us today we've got some fog to start, get some showers.
We will see some sun from time to time, but
we're gonna stay wet in many areas for at least
(03:25):
the early part of this day. It will get better.
We get to about sixty six for a high, got
some showers overnight tonight, and then it will clear out.
We drop back to fifty Tomorrow. It's breezy, clouds, sun again,
maybe a shower here and there, primarily north and west
of the city. Tomorrow, again high in the mid sixties.
Much better for Monday, of course, it is the weekend's
(03:46):
over sunshine, high seventy and then Tuesday sunshine and high
seventy five. So some rain, primarily along the coast right
now and also up along the New Hampshire, Massachusetts boarding
It's some rain right now in Lowell where it is
sixty degrees, raining along the south shore, as well as
showers in Weymouth fifty eight. But if you go inland
(04:07):
a little bit, it's dry in Attleborough fifty nine and
here in Boston fifty seven degrees and showers At six
oh five. Decades of donuts and no sign of slowing down,
Regulars say recent change has been just great. Here's Wbez's jawillet.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
What do you want in a donut?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You what place? It's wrapped up from plastic? It could
be a month old. Did exploration dating a donuts?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Who is that stuff?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
When I was looking for regulars to chat about Anna's
Handcut Donuts in West Roxbury getting a new owner, Brian
Dowling and Tom Horgan were sitting in front of a
framed watercolor painting of themselves hanging in the cafe.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Do I look good though? And the left?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
It's a stunning recreation that's pretty good. It turns out
they've been dipping donuts and hot coffee here since nineteen
sixty four, when Anna's first opened, and prior when they
were in Saint Teresa's grammar school, and this place used
to be a pizza shop.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
These are made every day, they're fresh.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
They're overjoyed so far with the new owner, Chawfin Baht.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Comparently he wish from Twin Donuts. Yeah we'll build there
for Yeah, he worked over there. He came here out
of his own business.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Regular say, the longtime staple is in good hands. Jay
will Lett, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
A trip to a Southwestern hospital in Indiana leads to
a disturbing discovery.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Nineteen year old on a Tipton, according to Evansville, Indiana Police,
was taken to an emergency room for an evaluation where
they say they found homemade explosives in her backpack, one
of them in aluminum pipe with a strong chemical odor
that a bomb tech confirmed was an improvised explosive. Evansville
Police Officer Taylor Marris.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
It was determined through the investigation that there was a
school that she wanted to do harm to, a school
that's not within EVSC It's not even within the state
of Indiana.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Tipton has been charged with possession of a destructive device.
Jennifer Kuiper CBS News.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Thirty six year old Kevin Boyette of Boston arraigned yesterday
in Boston Municipal Court charged with murder and the death
of twenty one year old Tucky on a Flood of Maynard,
The Globe reporting. Prosecutors say they have video from May
nineteenth of the suspect pulling the victim's motionless body out
of the jeep. The following morning, Boyetta scene with another
(06:13):
person taking the body of Flood and putting her in
a wheelchair. This was near twenty Annunciation Road in Roxbury.
Boyet pleading not guilty and is being held without bail
and we'll be back in court on July first. You
are now in the loop or news updates throughout the day.
Listen to DOUBLEBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm
(06:34):
Charlie Berger on WDBZ, Boston's news radio
This is WBZ Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Got some showers in the area to start this Saturday morning.
We're at fifty seven degrees at six o'clock. Good morning, Welcome.
I'm Charlie Burger On. Here's what's happening, and it's another
wet start to the weekend. Watch some fogs to start today.
(00:22):
Otherwise it looks to be breezy and cooler with fully
limited sunshine. It just happens every weekend, doesn't it. With
Troy Thornton and the four day WDBZ ACU weather forecast
in just a couple of minutes, the Trump administration taking
aim at visa's linked to Harvard University. Under a new directive,
the State Department is ramping up its vetting process for
(00:45):
visa applications and using social media to do it. US
embassies and consulates will be screening social media for students,
faculty employees, guests, speakers, and more looking for a visa
to travel to Harvard. The memo also states the pilot
project could be extended to all student visas in the future.
(01:05):
This comes a day after a federal judge blocked President
Trump's effort to ban international students from enrolling. Harvard is
returning one hundred and seventy five year old photographs of
enslaved people to a woman who says she's their relative,
and they'll be transferred to a South Carolina museum devoted
to black history.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
To Mari Lanier has fought for fifteen years to get
the haunting images of Papa Ensi and his daughter from Harvard,
and stettled this week in a deal that removes them
from the school's ownership.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I believe that he is feeling vindicated. I feel that
he is feeling validated.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
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.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
He took new pictures. These inside people were forced to disrobe,
they were poked, they were prodded.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Lanier says her ancestors were used to promote black and periority, but.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
In reality, Rinty and Jailier were educated people. Brini was
actually an educator. He was self taught.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Allison Keys CBS News protests at MIT's commencement ceremony yesterday
after the class president and her family were banned from attending.
Mis wbz's Madison Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
A day of pomp and circumstance and protest. MIT Chancellor
Melissa nobles commencement speech was interrupted.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Over the past four years, right before our eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You've students are chanting. Let Mega walk. Thursday, at a
separate ceremony, twenty twenty five, class President Mega M. Murray
broke from her prepared remarks in a pro Palestine demonstration.
You showed the world that MIT wants a free Palestine.
She accused MIT of being complicit in the genocide and
campus leaders of trying to suppress student protests, and an
(02:54):
email obtained by The Globe, the chancellor told the Murray
she deliberately misled organizers and would be and from graduation.
Madison Rogers WBZ Boston's News Radio A.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
West Roxbury donort Chop more than sixty years in business,
changing ownership, but continues to Florida. Let's check the four
day WBZ at you weather forecast LEA Troy Thornton tells
us today we've got some fog to start, get some showers.
We will see some sun from time to time, but
we're gonna stay wet in many areas for at least
(03:25):
the early part of this day. It will get better.
We get to about sixty six for a high, got
some showers overnight tonight, and then it will clear out.
We drop back to fifty Tomorrow. It's breezy, clouds, sun again,
maybe a shower here and there, primarily north and west
of the city. Tomorrow, again high in the mid sixties.
Much better for Monday, of course, it is the weekend's
(03:46):
over sunshine, high seventy and then Tuesday sunshine and high
seventy five. So some rain, primarily along the coast right
now and also up along the New Hampshire, Massachusetts boarding
It's some rain right now in Lowell where it is
sixty degrees, raining along the south shore, as well as
showers in Weymouth fifty eight. But if you go inland
(04:07):
a little bit, it's dry in Attleborough fifty nine and
here in Boston fifty seven degrees and showers At six
oh five. Decades of donuts and no sign of slowing down,
Regulars say recent change has been just great. Here's Wbez's jawillet.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
What do you want in a donut?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You what place? It's wrapped up from plastic? It could
be a month old. Did exploration dating a donuts?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Who is that stuff?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
When I was looking for regulars to chat about Anna's
Handcut Donuts in West Roxbury getting a new owner, Brian
Dowling and Tom Horgan were sitting in front of a
framed watercolor painting of themselves hanging in the cafe.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Do I look good though? And the left?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
It's a stunning recreation that's pretty good. It turns out
they've been dipping donuts and hot coffee here since nineteen
sixty four, when Anna's first opened, and prior when they
were in Saint Teresa's grammar school, and this place used
to be a pizza shop.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
These are made every day, they're fresh.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
They're overjoyed so far with the new owner, Chawfin Baht.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Comparently he wish from Twin Donuts. Yeah we'll build there
for Yeah, he worked over there. He came here out
of his own business.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Regular say, the longtime staple is in good hands. Jay
will Lett, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
A trip to a Southwestern hospital in Indiana leads to
a disturbing discovery.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Nineteen year old on a Tipton, according to Evansville, Indiana Police,
was taken to an emergency room for an evaluation where
they say they found homemade explosives in her backpack, one
of them in aluminum pipe with a strong chemical odor
that a bomb tech confirmed was an improvised explosive. Evansville
Police Officer Taylor Marris.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
It was determined through the investigation that there was a
school that she wanted to do harm to, a school
that's not within EVSC It's not even within the state
of Indiana.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Tipton has been charged with possession of a destructive device.
Jennifer Kuiper CBS News.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Thirty six year old Kevin Boyette of Boston arraigned yesterday
in Boston Municipal Court charged with murder and the death
of twenty one year old Tucky on a Flood of Maynard,
The Globe reporting. Prosecutors say they have video from May
nineteenth of the suspect pulling the victim's motionless body out
of the jeep. The following morning, Boyetta scene with another
(06:13):
person taking the body of Flood and putting her in
a wheelchair. This was near twenty Annunciation Road in Roxbury.
Boyet pleading not guilty and is being held without bail
and we'll be back in court on July first. You
are now in the loop or news updates throughout the day.
Listen to DOUBLEBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm
(06:34):
Charlie Berger on WDBZ, Boston's news radio
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