This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news sixty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The waiting is the hardest part, so they say all eyes are on dead unless the jury continues their deliberations. The Karen Reid retrial of the bzs Emma Friedman has details. We may retire and deliberate your verdict.
Today's day two of jury deliberations. Judge Canoni started off the day as she always does, asking jurors if they avoided outside coverage of this case before sending them off to deliberate. Jurors got the case on Friday. After closing arguments, they deliberated for about an hour and a half before they went home for the weekend. There's twelve people on
this jury, seven women and five men. During the first trial that ended in a mistrial over a hung jury, there was an even split of six men and six women. There's three charges on the verdict, slip second degree murder, manslaughter while driving under the influence, and leaving the scene of an accident.
Resulting in death.
I'm a freedman. W B Z Boston's news.
Radio I Met Karen Read verdict slip has Karen Reid's defense with some issues. This morning, the defense formally asked the court to amend the second verdict slip for manslaughter, the defense saying the current verdict slip, particularly the slip for count two, risk confusing the jury and thus causing errors. Judge Beverly Canoni denying motion, writing that the verdict slip
is consistent with Massachusetts law. Lawyers for Harvard have made their case against the Trump administration's plans to ban international students from enrolling at the school.
The hearing saw lawyer for the Trump administration arguing that Harvard can't be trusted that the school isn't properly monitoring its students or sufficiently cracking down on anti Semitism. Harvard's lawyer said the vetting of visa holders is the government's responsibility, and he argued the university is being retaliated against for
not bending to the administration's far reaching demands. Judge Allison Burrows has extended her temporary restraining order, which had been set to expire this coming Thursday, until next Monday while she considers whether to impose a longer lasting injunction.
Mattis CBS is Stephen Portnoy. President Trump, meantime, is at the G seventh summit in Canada. He says Iran want to negotiate with Israel while it still can.
Despite weekend talks getting canceled. President Trump said Monday he believes Iran is open to engagement with the US on a nuclear agreement.
They have to make a deal, and it's painful for both parties, but I'd say Iran is not winning this war and they should talk, and they should talk immediately before it's too late.
The President told ABC Sunday, it's possible the US could get involved in Israel's fight against Iran as today. What it would take for that to happen, he said.
I don't want to talk about that.
Karen Travers, ABC News. The White House.
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ninety seven. Pretty decent day to day, temperatures climbing into the seventies and the warmer spots mid sixties. In the cooler spots, we'll have mostly cloudy skies as we head into the evening, temperatures mainly in the fifties upper fifties downtown, a few degrees below that in the suburbs. There'll be some fog that pushes in here later tonight in some areas as well, and then some clouds around Tomorrow, maybe some showers or drizzled Temperatures about seventy a rather cloudy night.
Tomorrow night hello of sixty one with a couple of showers possible. Wednesday's a warmer day, more humid too, some sunshine, temperatures near eighty. Maybe a thunderstorm as well. Thursday, maybe a thunderstorm especially late in the day as we really crank up the heat, getting to around ninety degrees for the high on Thursday. With that increased humidity, those storms on Thursday afternoon should push the humidity out of our way right now five degrees see in Boston. Well it's
a tiny little dot, that's it. A couple of pixels. But the humble period carries a lot of weight These days, it appears wbz' s Kyle Shaffle has details.
It seems a large part of texting is subtext, and there's a lot to read between those lines. You're texting somebody to text you back there. But a period at in his ends?
Are they mad at you?
Or what?
One per one hundred percent?
They're definitely mad at you.
Every single person I talked to under the age of thirty had that same opinion. Periods are the province of grandparents and old people, especially in a text. Younger folks understand them as a sign of deep anger.
But someone like a friend or significant other, there's a period there, you're in trouble.
This isn't just a feeling among a couple of people. There's been several recent studies published in this area. One of those out of Australia found that the negative association decreases the longer the sentences.
Yeah, I mean I always assume that he's mad at me when.
He uses a period. Kyle Shaffle to be BZ Boston's NewsRadio.
Wait till I put a dozen exclamation points at the end of the text downe. At eight pm, the Red Sox will be announcing more information about the trade of Rafael Devers to Red Sox Nation. The Sluggers had to San Francisco to play for the Giants. There are some wondering what happened. Nobody busies drumal Holland with details.
Raphael Devers had landed the largest contract in Red Sox history. It's gone and now Raffie's gone. The Red Sox feeling like Rafael Devers did not live up to the ten year, three hundred and thirteen million dollar deal he signed in January of twenty twenty three. If not shocked, Red Sox fans are at least surprised by the deal. The Socks are hot right now and just swept the Yankees. Randy Dumalig is with our friends KCBS in the Bay Area.
He says, Giants fans out there did not see this one coming, but they're on cloud nine and they love the idea of Devers hitting out there at Oracle Park.
Some of his hits from Fenway laid over to Oracle and actually some of those doubles and triples would be Homer's, you know, here in San Francisco.
Yeah, I'm probably going to see some baseball splashing down in McCovey Cove from Devers, Rafael Devers, the last remaining member of the twenty eighteen World Series champion Boston Red Sox, now a San Francisco Giant, drewma Holland WBZ Boston's News Radio.
By the way, Red Sox oaping up a three game series against those Giants in San Francisco beginning on Friday. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News Radio