This is w b Z, Boston's news radio way, defining local news seventy five degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock on Monday morning. Thanks for joining us. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. The hearing is underway right now in Boston Federal Court. Harvard is challenging more than two and a half million dollars in federal funding cuts. Here's the AP's Jennifer King with Moore.
It's a pivotal moment in the university's battle against the federal government. The university says the government's using the funding as leveraged to control its academic decisions after they rejected the demands in a letter from an anti semitism task force. They wanted changes to Harvard policies on campus protest, admissions,
hiring in other matters. Harvard President Alan Garber pledged to fight anti semitism, but said no government should dictate what private universities can teach, who they admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they pursue. The Trump administration denies the cuts were made in retaliation and says the government has Why does Russian to cancel contracts for policy reasons. I'm Jennifer King.
At noon, supporters of Harvard say they planned a rally outside the courthouse. Be sure to stay here on WBZ News Radio. We'll have all the latest, and of course we're always streaming on the iHeartRadio app. Meantime, we're expecting to get more information soon about the death of a man in police custody on the streets of Haverol, Essex County.
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Paul Tucker is holding him. Briefing this hour on the investigation into the death of Francis Jigliotti. So ill played out back on the eleventh. Police called to the area by Bradford's seafood Jigliotti reportedly acting erradically, wandering into traffic. Minutes later, he was seen on video screaming for help. Lying on the ground. Multiple Haverol police officers were holding
him down and couffing him. Jigliotti died soon after. In Washington, some House Republicans say they want more transparency with the Jeffrey Epstein case.
A group of House Republicans now joining Democrats pushing for a vote to compel the government to release more of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The proposed resolution would carry no legal wait but demonstrates the bipartisan push for more transparency. Days after President Trump ordered the Justice Department to request the release of grand jury transcripts related to Epstein's sex
trafficking case. Releasing grand jury records could take time and require a judge's approval, and legal experts say the transcripts may not reveal any new details and likely cover only a fraction of the evidence gathered.
That is, the ABC's Nicole D'Antonio with that update and striking sanitation workers for Republic Services remain on the picket line this morning, and trash is still piling up in more than a dozen cities and towns around Greater Boston because of it. This afternoon, attorneys for six of those cities in towns are doing Salem Superior Court. They claim the company is in breach of contract by not somehow getting the trash picked up, and they want a judge
to force the company to get it done. Reps for the company, Republic and the Teamsters Local twenty five, last meeting back on Friday with a federal mediator. The talk's not going anywhere after that meeting. Republic says their offer is competitive. The union says the company is negotiating in bad faith. And for the rest of the afternoon, it is going to be a beautiful Monday out there. If there's any way you can maybe pop out for a lunch Alfresco or just kind of take the laptop outside,
I definitely recommend it. It's not that humid. It's going to be nice and warm, but not too hot. Temperatures right now for most of us in the seventies, and we have a bit of a breezy day right now. That wind from the north northwest about fifteen to twenty miles an hour, So if you do eat outside, just be sure to hold down all the napkins so they don't go flying. For tonight, clear skies, low near fifty if you're north in west of Boston. Sixty or so
in the city and on the coast. For your Tuesday Tomorrow, sunny skies with a high in the upper seventies. Wednesday, mix of sun and clouds and a high in the low to mid eighties. Cooler in southeastern mass warming up and getting more humid on Thursday and Friday, with highs in the nineties seventy six degrees in Fall River, seeing seventy four in Framingham, seventy two in Amesbury. In Boston. Right now, at eleven oh five it is partly cloudy and seventy five degrees.
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Sleep does a body good, of course, especially when that body is still growing. And if a new school start time bill moves forward on Beacon Hill, it might soon be easier for kids to make sure they can get that necessary shut eye.
As we all know, sleep is king when it comes to preparing ourselves for a healthy lifestyle.
He gets six thirty right now. Who doesn't want to get out of bud.
Jerry from Hingham is a third grader. When I talked about school start times, the later the better.
And we start bad at eight o'clock at night.
Right now, there's a bill on Beacon Hill that would have new statewide school start times no earlier than eight am for middle schools and eight thirty for high schools.
I already take three kids to three different places.
John from Handover's a busy dad during the school year, to say the least.
And so my work day starts a lot later.
He's in favor of the chain. Luckily I'm flexible or not Right now, it's still in the works, and if it does get the green light in the Governor's signature, it would go into effect in twenty twenty eight. Jim mcka WVZ, Boston's News radio.
There are almost two hundred and seventy five assisted living facilities here in Massachusetts, and by the end of the week, each and every one will have to file a report on its fire safety protocols. Governor Healy is rolling out what she calls a fire and life safety initiative for these centers. Each facility will have to send letters to families and state officials detailing their safety plans in case
of emergency. They'll also have to take a survey to see if they're complying with safety requirements like working sprinklers. All this in response to the deadly fire in Fall River that tore through the Gabriel House assisted living center. Ten people were killed in that fire. In Gaza, Dozens they're dead, many more wounded after Israeli troops opened fire near a crowd trying to get food at an AID site yesterday. Here's ABC's Ian Pannell.
At least eighty Palestinians killed in more than one hundred and fifty injured. According to hospital officials, we raised our hands like this, this man says, signaling we were peaceful. Then they started firing at us. Israel disputes this number, but he's investigating what happened. World Food Program condemning the incidents as a new low point the idea of insisting they fired to remove an immediate threat, but they haven't said what the threat was.
Meantime, Gaza's Health ministry says the Palestinian death toll has surpassed fifty nine thousand after more than twenty one months of war between Israel and Hamas. You are now in Malu. For news updates throughout the day, listened to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis WBZ and Boston's News Radio