This is WBZ, Boston's news radio were defining local news at sixty eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening gathering today in Boston. We're a broad coalition of progressive organizations called military strikes on Iran illegal and called for no war with Iran. Cole Harrison is with the Massachusetts Peace Action.
We need a permanent peace in the region. We need reconciliations in the US and Iran. There's no reason we have to fight Iran, and we also need the peace to extend to Gaza and passed on. There's a genocide going on. Our country is behind it. We need them to stop, and we need immediate ceasefire, and we need to stop US weapons to Israel.
Several other groups joining in that calling for a return to diplomacy. The White House giving an update on the next steps with Iran after doubling down on the success of US strikes on the country's nuclear program. ABC's Karen Travers has the latest.
The White House says there are no meetings scheduled right now between the US and Iran, despite President Trump saying Wednesday that that would take place next week. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said the administration is focused on diplomacy and getting to a point where Iran agrees to a non enrichment civil nuclear program.
Right now, we're on a diplomatic path with Iran.
The President and his team, namely Special Envoy Witcoff.
Continue to be in communication with the Iranians and especially our golf and Arab partners in the region.
Karen Travers ABC News. The White House the.
House Judiciary Committees subpoened Harvard for documents as part of an investigation into the school's tuition pricing. A top Republican on the committee says they're trying to determine whether Ivy League schools are violating antitrust laws by raising tuition prices. The lawmakers say Harvard has not responded to multiple requests for documents. Trump administrations also launched investigations into Harvard for reports of discriminatory hiring practices and anti semitism on campus.
Planned Parenthood reacting to a new court ruling that takes aim at the abortion provider.
The Supreme Court has cited with South Carolina and allowing states to cut off medicaid funding to plant Parenthood. Public health care money generally can't be used for abortions. Medicaid patients go to Plant Parenthood for things like contraception, cancer screenings, and pregnancy testing. President Trump's budget bill in Congress would
also cut Medicaid funding to the organization. South Carolina's governor first moved to cut off Medicaid funding to Plant Parenthood in twenty eighteen, but was blocked by a patient lawsuit. The state argued Medicaid patients should not be allowed to sue, citing lower court rulings that let states like Texas block funds. Public health groups like the American Cancer Society say lawsuits are the only real way Medicaid patients have been able
to enforce their right to choose their own doctor. Plant Parenthood receives ninety thousand dollars a year, a small portion of South Carolina's overall Medicaid budget. I'm Marcella Sanchez.
The Commonwealth will be offering a summer child nutrition program for the second year in a row. The sun Bucks pro Graham provides grocery money to eligible low income Massachusetts families with school aged children in these summer months to buy food when schools are closed. Governor Morri Healy says students shouldn't miss out on healthy food just because school
isn't in session. The program started in June of last year, after the end of the summer pandemic EBT, and served about six hundred thousand Massachusetts children in twenty twenty four. We do have some showers around the area, a lot of them out toward central Massachusetts, in fact, on a line here coming down through Winterton and Gardner and Holden Spencer just to the west of Worcester, and down to the south there Oxford and Webster getting some shower activity.
A lot of this is heading to the south end to the east, so you may get in on this a little bit closer to Boston as we head through the next several hours. Here. There's some rain up toward
the Merrimack Valley. There has been through the day, and a little bit more as you head up into New Hampshire, a little bit more as you head over to the Cape, although most of it's light and pushing a way as we speak, so we will continue to watch these showers scattered across the area tonight, and temperatures within a few degrees of sixty mainly cloudy Tomorrow, upper sixties with a couple of showers. Saturday seventy three with a couple of showers and the clouds around. And then Sunday we may
break out a little bit of sunshine. We could still have a shower. Temperatures seventy five to eighty right now, sixty eight degrees in Boston with the Red Sox away, the bands will play. It's been a busy week for concerts on Lansdown Street. W Busy's Drumal Holland tells us the tunes continue tonight.
Ah here we go MGM Music Hall, Fenway, a massive night of music on tap with Gaslight Anthem kicking things off tonight front man Bryan Fallon and those sweet rock and roll vocals one night after playing Guildford, New Hampshire too so short rest with these guys shot Tony Crowz
bring tonight's show home. They could do hit after hit if they wanted, But tonight they're touring behind their new album Butter Miracle, which is getting ravered views as well, so it should be an outstanding mix of music all around. Have a fun night on Lansdowne Street. It is so much better than a red Sox game these days. Drew maholland WBZ sit Boston's news radio.
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