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News, fifty one degrees and Sonny in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good Thursday morning. I'm Madison Rogers, and let's start this hour. In Washington, d C. Demonstrators there are spending May Day setting up an encampment on the National Mall. They say they'll be there twenty four to seven.
We are advocating and urging Congress to act and impeach, convict and remove the president.
David Mittich is with a grassroots group called May Day Movement USA. He says there are dozens of reasons to impeach the president, including his administration's defiance of court orders and the president's commutations for January sixth.
Rioters, it's a constitutional crisis, and there's a lot of people, unfortunately on the Democratic side, that want to wait till the midterms. We believe that we don't have that much time. There's over I don't know, five hundred days now till the midterms.
Demonstrations are happening around the country today, including on Boston Common this evening. Organizers there have a rallying cry of stop the billionaire Takeover. May Day is International Workers Day as well. Yesterday, the President acknowledged his tariffs will cause working families some pain, but insists it will be well worth it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly been
in touch with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He's the Maryland man who the Trump administration has admitted to mistakenly deporting his native El Salvador. ABC's Catherine Folders has more.
There have been a lot of mixed messages from the government on this. We know that Trump said in an interview with Terry Moran that he could pick up the phone and call on but of course he's deferring to his lawyers on that. While we know that the Secretary of State has been in direct contact, the question remains, though our house significant are those conversations, Are they really trying to get him back? Are there active negotiations going
on around this, and what exactly is Rubio doing. But it does seem that it is a big development in terms of the contact between the US and El Salvador.
The Supreme Court has told the administration to facilitate a Brego Garcia's return from a notorious El Salvador prison, but the White House says that is not going to happen. Yesterday, a federal judge in Maryland once again ordered the administration to provide details about its efforts or lack thereof, to bring a breako Garcia back, a local immigrant advocacy group, has joined a new lawsuit against the Trump administration over
stripped federal funds. The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy or MIRRA Coalition lost out on three hundred thousand dollars after DHS cut off grants which we're supposed to go to helping local greenhard C Green card holders apply for citizenship. Now that programming has been halted, the mere coalition says. The HS told mass Live that taxpayer funded programs that support or have the potential to support illegal immigration are
out of step with the President's priorities. In the four day wbz ACI weather forecasts, we have tons of sun and clouds out there this afternoon in Boston. The highs near sixty, but it gets into the low seventies for some inland suburbs. Tonight turns out cloudy. We will have a shower too late. It's a low near fifty. Some
rain for Friday, really a spotty thunderstorm. Otherwise, It's damp to start, with some breaks of sunshine in the afternoon, warm and humid seventy six toot eighty for the high again upper seventies, maybe eighty on Saturday, with a couple of showers, maybe a thunderstorm. Sunday looks like a couple of showers around Otherwise it's cloudy and breezy, bit cooler out there, with a high around sixty four in Boston, and looking ahead, some rain and drizzle are possible both
Monday and Tuesday. It is sunshine across the Bay State. Right now in Boston fifty one degrees and breezy at eleven oh five. As Harvard fights the Trump administration in court, some Ivy League professors are enlisting. The wlbz's Jim McKay.
Explains several dozen faculty members at Harvard have pledged to donate ten percent of their salaries for an entire year to help Harvard in their legal battles against the Trump administration. While eighty members have committed to the ten percent salary pledge thus far, they're still collecting signatures. The total commitments they have right now are totally two million dollars. On
top of the legal battles. Billions in research grants have also been pulled by the Trump administration over Harvard refusing to buckle to their demands. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News radio.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her first major speech since leaving office last night, and she used it to attack the man she lost to in November.
You are not alone and we are all in this together, and straight talk.
Things are probably going to get worse before they get better, Harris in San Francisco as rumors swirl around a potential run for California governor. The former Vice president accused President Trump of abandoning American ideals and using his agenda to slash public education, to shrink and privatize the governments, and to cut taxes for the wealthiest among us. The Tony nominations are out this morning, and there are some big names on the list getting ready for Broadway's biggest award
show of the year. George Clooney, Mia Farrow, Bob Odenkirk, Sadie Sink, and Sarah Snook all nominated for their performances. Contenders for Best Play include English, The Hills of California, and Oh Mary for Best Musical. The noms include Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Operation Mincemeat. The Tony Awards are set for June eighth, and there's a controversial new musical out in San Francisco about a murder case that's script and divided the nation.
Twenty six year old accused of shooting United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan late last year is the subject of the sixty minute musical called Luigi, now in Rehearsalshoni creators say the musical will follow Mangioni's time at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn with real life cell mate Sam Bankman Freed and p Diddy by a side For anyone who likes comedy and show tunes, they say,
Luigi will be your new favorite Felony. Luigi, A True Story of love, murder, and hash Brown's runs from June thirteenth to the twenty eighth. More information is available at Luigiimusical dot info. I'm Michael Cassner.
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