This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. A mix of sun clouds over Boston. It is seventy six degrees at eleven o'clock in the morning. Thanks for joining us. I'm Kendall Bule. Here's what's happening. A hearing underway and Boston Federal Court on a lawsuit filed by eighteen states, the District of Columbia and San Francisco County
blocking President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court ruled that the judge's previous nationwide injunction against the order was in overreach. CBS League analyst Dane Rosenbaum on what might change.
These states, led by New Jersey and Massachusetts, are merely asking a federal judge whether the injunction placed on the enforcement of President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship can still remain in force while the case challenging the constitutionality of the President's actions works its way through the courts.
Executive orders current blocked by an order from a New Hampshire federal judge who recently certified a class action lawsuits. New developments and the push to release the Jeffrey Epstein file CBS's Jered Hill as the latest.
The president says he's ordered Attorney General Pam Bondy to petition the courts to allow the release of any and all pertinent grand jury testimony related to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Overnight, President Trump also blasted a Wall Street Journal article that claims he sent Epstein a body note for his fiftieth birthday, featuring a doodo
of a naked woman Online. President Trump called the letter fake, writing it's not the way he talks and he doesn't draw pictures, threatening to sue the paper bid.
He says theoj could make the request release of testimony as soon as today, but approval good take time. The House is passed bill that will undo billions of dollars in federal funding. ABC's j O'Brien explains, I.
Was overnight narrowly passing this White House request to claw back nine billion dollars in funds Congress already approved and in some cases doge then cut, including billions in four and EID and slashing one billion dollars from public broadcasters like NPR and PBS. President Trump celebrating in a post this morning. After this bill also cleared, The Senate's now headed to his desk.
Cancelation of one point one billion dollars for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting represents the full amount it's due to receive during the next two bunch of years. Trouble in the harbor for some Manchester by the Sea teams. Routine marine patrol by Manchester Police came across a small sail boat occupied by five boys in their early teens taking on water. The patrol boat immediately took four of the young men on board, while a fifth stayed on the
vessel to help and towing it back to shore. That team abandoned chip when it began to sink the when was heard the boat did make it close to shore. Plans are now underway to raise it. They've mid eighties today, a breezy mid eighties, and that it's going to be a whole lot more comfortable than it has been the past few days. It's going to be a mix of
sun and clouds. Cleared tonight which just dropped down in the mid sixties and Boston fifties, many inland suburbs back into the eighties tomorrow with sun and some clouds and a clutting up at night, A couple of showers and Duncan storms possible lasting through Sunday. Sunday stemperature is expected in the mid eighties. Right now in Boston, Partley sunny seventy six degrees. A Massachusetts town celebrating the return of Duncan with a name change. Wbz's Jared Brosnan reports.
The town of Stowe has been without a Duncan since twenty twenty two, something wbz's own Matt Shearer documented over the last few years. But next Thursday, the Duncan Desert will officially disappear as a new location opens up in the spot of the old Beef and Ale restaurant on Great Road. To mark the occasion, the Salem Selects Board voted unanimously to rename the town Duncan on July twenty fourth.
The grand opening will also include the unveiling of the Duncan Desert Gallery wall, a five thousand dollars donation to the Stow Food Pantry, and free coffee for one hundred days for the first one hundred Duncan Rewards members in line share. Brosn and WZ Boston's News or Radio.
Care workers at a one hundred seven twenty four bed nursing home and Andover hitting the picket line today. More than eighty union workers at Andover Manor have been negotiating with management since last October. The United Healthcare Workers local says they're seeking better pay for their nursing assistants and other employees, while the for profit home is proposing changes amounting to a more than six percent pay cut. Picketing due to begin at two this afternoon. The end of
an era in late night TV. CBS has announced it is ending the Late Show with Stephen Colbert next May, saying the decision is financial, not related to the show's content. CBS's Jared Hill has more.
Stephen Colbert has been an outspoken critic of President Trump, and recently criticized a decision by CBS parent company Paaramount to settle a lawsuit with mister Trump, a suit the company has maintained is without merit. Reaction poured in from fellow talk show hosts.
I think it's a huge loss for Late Night, and.
I think it's a huge loss for CBS and fan We.
Love Stephen Colbert. We came to New York and we came to the show last night. Sorry to hear it's going.
To be canceled. Colbert's Late Show started in twenty fifteen, taking over for originator David Letterman, who started the show in nineteen ninety three. Jared Hill, CBS News New York.
Not everyone's buying the reasoning CBS is given for the move. Colbert has been very critical of his employees, calling CBS's lawsuit settlement with the Trump administration a big fat bribe. A new study suggests COVID boosters can help cancer patients stay out of the hospital. CBS is Michael.
George reports cancer patients who get COVID booster shots are hospitalized far less than patients who didn't. The study by Cedar Sinai Medical Center showed that cancer patients were twenty nine percent less likely to be hospitalized or be admitted to the ICU if they got their booster shot. Findings are a reminder that regular COVID vaccines are life saving for people with weekend immune systems.
The studies findings published in the journal GEMMA Oncology. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, listen to wa DZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm at the duel WBZ, Boston's news radio