Afternoon Report: Monday, May 26, 2025

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Mostly sunny, breezy, and sixty four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, and thanks for joining us on this Memorial Day. I'm Suzanne Salsville. Here's what's happening. President Trump continues his feud with Harvard University. WBZ Jeremy Russ has the very latest.

President Trump threatens to take another three billion dollars in grant money away from the university and redistribute it among trade schools. This comes weeks after the school sued to claw back more than two billion dollars already frozen by the administration. President Trump accuses Harvard of fostering a culture of anti Semitism and wants the university to turn over

WBZ News Radio has reached out to Harvard for comment. Boston Police are alerting Mattapan and Hyde Park residents after multiple reports of attempted robberies targeting food delivery drivers. Authority say drivers were approached by one or more individuals, sometimes with weapons, and running off with the food. They urged drivers to practice these safety tips. Remain aware of surroundings, verify the delivery address, and share your route with a

We're actually spending a week at Isle Royal. It's a national park in the middle of Lake Superial. It's a litteral island.

Rather than get caught in the traffic heading back home to Boston, this couple from Clinton is piecing out.

It worked out where we're flying out Memorial Day. This is where week off.

Going against the grain of returning Memorial Day weekend vacationers here at Logan International Airport hoping.

Not too bad.

I mean, parking was okay here and checking a bag wasn't terribly yet, so I guess, you know, cautiously optimistic.

That's the theme of travel here out on the roads.

Maascot expects peak hours today to be among the heaviest the state has to offer for the holiday weekend.

And there's no Expressway hov Lane either. Well, I just took it over. That's all that travel I've done so far, and it's been fine from Logan j Well at WBZ, Boston's.

News radio, and right now, according to flight Aware, there are eighty two delays at Boston Logan and zero cancelations. This just in to the WBZ newsroom. Officials in Southbridge say a child is dead after apparently falling from a window on Saturday. Details are scarce as the incident remains under investigation. According to process, initial report suggested the child fell from the third floor. It wasn't immediately clear what

In between a flag raising and opening remarks a piece of poetry to mark the occasion.

How many foxholes were soldiers' graves. No freedom is not free.

Weymouth High School band played before a few students told the stories of five Wymouth service members who received Medals of Honor.

As a Medal Honor recipient, WILLIAMS.

Teach is a very important person in Weymouth's history who has shown characteristics of valor.

Now their memory lives on with the unveiling of their statues across from Weymouth Town Hall.

This has been brought to us by bravery and sacrifice. Bravery and sacrifice of five sons of Weymouth.

That's Weymouth Mayor Robert headlife five.

Medal of Honor recipients, more than any community in the United States.

And with that a salute to fallen heroes.

John n began Absen Stephen Bergford's.

Absent in Weymouth, Ema Friedman w b Z, Boston's news radio.

And endurance swimmer is close to finishing his historic trip around Martha's Vineyard. Lewis Pugh began his sixty two mile multi day journey back on May fifteenth, swimming in the Cape's frigid waters and enduring a northeaster. Pugh was taking on the challenge to raise awareness about the place flight of sharks as the movie Jaws approaches its fiftieth anniversary. He wants to change the public perception of the animal and encourage protections. A longtime New York congressman has died.

Charles Wrangle spent forty six years in Congress. He was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and was the first black chair of the House's influential Ways and Means Committee. A Korean Warvett, Wrangle earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He often spoke out about his opposition to the Iraq war.

I challenged anyone to tell me that their feelings about this one Iraq would not be different if they thought that their loved ones, their family, their community would be placed in Ham's way.

He was elected to Congress in nineteen seventy and left in twenty seventeen. Charles Wrangle was ninety four. Matt Piper, CBS News, New York.

A former Mashpee Town employee files a racial discrimination complaint against the town. Stephanie Coleman says she was being underpaid while serving as a former secretary for the town manager compared to her white co workers. Coleman is Wampanoaga and African American. She also accuses the town of retaliation after she spoke out about the wage discrepancy. Meanwhile, the town denies the allegations. A hearing is set in August. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day.