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News in Boston. Right now. It is seventy nine degrees at eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. We're starting in New York where the jury it's just delivered its verdict in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean Ditty Combs. Jurors found the rap mogul not guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. They did convict him on two prostitution charges. Let's get more in the CBS News special report.
The federal jury in New York has acquitted Sean Diddy Combs of the most serious charges against him. CBS is Jureka Duncan.
The jurors found that he was guilty of the Man Act, that is the transportation to engage in prostitution, but they found him not guilty on sex trafficking, very serious charge there, and not guilty on that racketeering conspiracy, which he could have spent up to life in prison.
For two counts he was convicted of each carry a maximum sentence of ten years in prison, but no minimum. CBS News Legal contributor Caroline Policey.
Given his prior history, he doesn't have any prior convictions.
He could get away with time served, even a.
Couple of years.
I mean, this is one of the best possible outcomes that they.
Could have hoped for.
After the verdict was red, Combs held his hands up in a prayer motion and hugged his defense lawyer. The judge is now deciding whether to release Combs from custody. That could come perhaps as soon as today. That decision CBS News special Report.
I'm Michael Wallace, and when it does, we will update you right here on WBZ News Radio and streaming on the iHeartRadio app. It's eleven oh one and President Trump's spending bill is now back before the House. Republicans are hoping to capitalize on the bill's momentum coming out of the Senate as they try to pass it before the President's deadline of July fourth. ABC's Freen and Alley has more on what's in this massive, light, slightly changed bill.
The bill includes four trillion dollars in tax cuts and eliminates taxes on tips in overtime. It boosts border security, and it imposes work requirements on Medicaid. The bill also restricts eligibility for food stamps. The bill would also effectively phase out renewable energy tax credits, and would change student loan programs, phasing out certain payment plans and capping some federal loans. One thing not in the bill a provision
that would have blocked states from regulating artificial intelligence. Senators scrapped that idea.
House Democrats still pushing back against the bill. Speaking on the steps of the Capitol this morning, House Democratic Leader Hakim Jeffries said his fellow party members would do everything in their power to try and stop that legislation. Republicans do hold a slim majority in the House, and here in Massachusetts. Garbage lining the streets of at least fourteen towns this morning as trash collectors spend another day on the picket lines. Hundreds of union employees at Republic Services
are on strike. They're demanding better wages and benefits, but now Republic is accusing them of criminal behavior. They say those on strike have been slashing tires and sabotaging trucks used by replacement crews. The workers say they're fighting back against a company that's not willing to budget negotiations, Republic says their tactics are going too far. WBZ News Radio has reached out to the Union and police for comment.
So far we have not heard back. There is a bit of rain out there still in southeastern Massachusetts, but we are going to start clearing out throughout the afternoon. Temperatures right now in the seventies and low eighties. We'll get up to about the mid to upper eighties later on today in the seventies though if you're on the capein Islands for tonight, gradual clearing with a loan near
seventy on the coast and mid sixties inland. For tomorrow, could have another round of storms in the afternoon and evening with a high just about ninety eighty to eighty five for the capein Islands, so slightly cooler but not by too much. Then the fourth of July mostly sunny, looking great, not as humid, a high in the mid eighties, mostly in the seventies on the capin Islands, and that nice weather carries over into the weekend. Right now, showers
at the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich. It's seventy three west of Boston. Just some clouds in Southborough seventy nine north of Boston, eighty one in North Reading, and in Boston at eleven oh six it is partly cloudy and eighty. A retired judge from Worcester says a deeper federal investigation has to be done into the killing of Harmony Montgomery. Carol Erskine met with the FBI in the New Hampshire US Attorney yesterday. During that meeting, handing over information from
her own probe into the young girl's death. Harmony's mother, Crystal Sorry, sued the state last year, accusing social workers of ignoring signs of abuse. Erskinelcybs News Boston. She thinks the state settled with her to take the spotlight off the Division of Children, Youth and Families.
There were seventeen other reports of abuse, for the most part, weren't investigated, and family members and neighbors and people were calling in dcf DCYF wasn't investigating, so that was an issue for me.
Harmony's father, Adam, was convicted of several charges in the five year old's death, including murder and disposing of her her corpse. Her body has never been found. The Trump administration is holding back almost seven billion dollars that had been set aside for schools nationwide.
The federal money allocated by Congress was to help pay for things like summer school, after school programs, helping students learn English, and other services. Schools were expecting the money on Tuesday, but in an email Monday, the Education Department notified state agencies that it would not be available and that funds were under review. The move is likely to be challenged in court by critics who point out that the money had been appropriated by Congress. I'm Michael Cassner.
And a local federal judge. SA's recent mass layoffs of the Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful. Here, CBS's Christopher Cruz.
Providence, Rhode Island based US District Court Judge Melissa Dubos ordered the government to halt plans to downsize and reorganize the department. She ruled in a lawsuit brought by attorneys general from nineteen states and the District of Columbia. The judge said the states had shown they would suffer quote irreparable harm from the layoffs, and they were likely to prevail in their claims that the firings were quote both
arbitrary and capricious, as well as contrary to law. Christopher Cruz, CBS News Washington.
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