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Morning Report: Saturday, May 24, 2025

May 24, 20256 min
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A federal judge puts a temporary block on President Trump's move to ban Harvard from enrolling international students. A rocky day on Wall Street yesterday after the President announced a 25 percent tariff on Apple, an American company, and a sweeping 50 percent tariff on European goods, starting next month. A local Golfer manages to make the illusive "Ultimate Shot". Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

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Hello and good Saturday morning is mostly cloudy forty nine degrees in Boston at six o'clock. I'm Sherry Small, Thanks for being with us. Here's what's happening. A little more rain we're going to have to deal with today before we start to dry out tomorrow.

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Today brings slowly limited sunshine with the breeze continuing at times, and yet another cool day with a shower or two round into the early evening hours and a high close to sixty.

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And that's ack you. Weather meteorologist LaTroy Thornton will have the full forecasts coming up. A federal judge puts a temporary block on President Trump's move to ban Harvard from enrolling international students. Harvard says twenty seven percent of its enrollment is students who represent at least one hundred and forty seven countries. CBS News Boston's Brandon Truett has more.

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Students work their entire lives to build up the credentials and the resume again into Harvard, notoriously one of the hardest universities to get into, but incoming freshmen tell me that this back and forth makes them feel like their dreams are on the line.

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It's quite unreal to be accepted in such a great university.

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Julio Palino lives in Germany. He's set to start his freshman year here in the fall. The future economics major says it's Harvard's international community that makes the school stand out from the rest. Even Belgium's Princess Elizabeth is waiting for word on whether she'll be allowed back for a second year, with potential international implications. President Trump, responding to the judges ruling Friday afternoon, billions.

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Of dollars has been paid to Harvard.

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How ridiculous is that billions?

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And they have fifty two billion dollars as an endowment that it's going to have to change his ways now.

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The judge issuing the halt on the foreign student ban is also the same judge considering a separate lawsuit from Harvard challenging the administration's freeze of two point sixty five billion in federal funding. Another legal setback for the Trump administration involving Harvard. The Globe reporting a federal judge in Bustin orders the administration to restore medical research pulled from

a government website within seven days. According to the ACLU, the research by two Harvard doctors was removed because they reference LGBTQ plus and non binary individuals. And it was a rocky day on Wall Street yesterday after the President announced twenty five percent tariff on Apple, an American company, and a sweeping fifty percent tariff on European goods, all starting next month.

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President blasting EU trade practices without citing specifics.

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No, they haven't treated us properly. They haven't treated our country properly.

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All this as the President faces scrutiny over a cryptocurrency venture dinner with top investors. The dinner raking in over one hundred and forty million dollars from just two hundred crypto traders, some coming in from out of the country.

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ABC Zerene Shaw reporting Now the four DAWBC ACHU weather forecast hang on just a little bit longer. We're going to see some clouds, some breaks of sunshine today, breezy, still cool, in a shower or two into the early evening. Looking at the radar map, there are a couple showers out there already. We'll tackle that in just a second. Today's highs near sixty tonight, some clouds with the low forty nine tomorrow finally we dry out, we'll see a

mix of sun and clouds. It's gonna be breezy and cool, with a high of sixty three, but at least no rain. On Memorial Day we warm up more sun than clouds, highs in the low to high sixties, so that'll be nice for those Memorial Day barbecues. Tuesday warmer quite nice. As we head back to work after the long weekend, we'll warm up to seventy four and then looking ahead

midweek Wednesday again highs not far from seventy five. Right now, again looking at the radar map quickly, we're seeing far western massing, some sprinkles, some showers over just clipping Amherst area, Greenfield and then up up over let's see near Lowell, Westford seeing that rain. And then if you're planning on heading up to the Lakes region, maybe taking ninety three on up to New Hampshire, there is some rain to be aware of around Dairy Manchester, the Hooksit area, in

parts of Conquered and North as well. It's six oh six. Back to news now a local golfer manages to make that elusive ultimate.

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Shot unexplainable feel and to be honest, with you.

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Jared Bartelling me first started golfing just five years ago.

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This is something that doesn't come easy, so I like it. It's a game where you kind of you're playing against yourself.

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And this one might be hard to beat. At the West Bridgewater Country Club, at the seventeenth hole, with the weather about to turn sour on Wednesday.

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Sorry bounce landed on the green, rolled a little left to right, and in my head, I was like, if this thing disappears, I'm going crazy.

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It was a hole in one, something Jared says he never thought he'd even see.

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We all started screaming. I threw my club in the air and I sprinted.

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It's only the second ever hole in one for Jared's league, but not a family first. His uncle Frank has apparently made two in Brockton.

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I called him right away and I was like, Uncle Frank, dude, I I just had a hole in one, Like I be on bee Leaf right now. It's absolutely insane.

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Madison Rogers w b Z Boston's news Radio.

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All Right, More accolades for Celtics star Jason Tatum. The NBA announcing that Tatum has been named to the All NBA First Team for the twenty twenty four to twenty five season. The twenty seven year old was unanimously selected to the First Team by all one hundred global media member voters, marking Tatum's fourth consecutive All NBA First Team selection. Tatum averaging twenty six point eight points, eight point seven rebounds, and a career high six assists in the regular season.

He underwent successful surgery after tearing his achelling that happening Game four of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on May twelfth. It's unclear when you'll return to the parking. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio

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