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Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: We defining local news.

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Speaker 1: We've got some clouds in Boston, a few showers, forty

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Speaker 1: seven degrees at six o'clock. Good morning. I'm Charlie Burger on.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's happening. The so called Epstein files continue to

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Speaker 1: stir partisan debate and some recriminations. In Washington. Wdbs's Mike

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Speaker 1: Macklin spoke with Congressman Stephen Lynch.

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Speaker 3: It seems that that whole list of people that Trump

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Speaker 3: wants to investigate a people he's had long standing grudges with.

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Speaker 2: Congressman Steven Lynch, responding to President Trump's call for the

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Speaker 2: Justice Department to investigate alleged ties convicted sex offender Jeffrey

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Speaker 2: Epstein had with former President Bill Clinton and other prominent individuals,

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Speaker 2: Lynch calling for a thorough and impartial congressional review of

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Speaker 2: the so called Epstein files.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we want a full, stem to stern investigation of

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Speaker 3: everything that was involved here. And because of the documents

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Speaker 3: we're getting, we've got a new list of people that

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Speaker 3: we wish to talk to to bring them in for

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Speaker 3: depositions and interviews.

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Speaker 1: A lot of work ahead of a.

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Speaker 2: Fel Mike Becklin WBZ Bloxton's news radio.

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Speaker 1: President Trump pulling his support of a longtime political ally.

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Speaker 4: In a post of his social media website Friday, President

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Speaker 4: Trump called Republican representative from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Green, a

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Speaker 4: ranting lunatic, claiming she has and his words gone far left.

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Speaker 4: Trump also said he would support a challenger and a

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Speaker 4: primary for her seat, and criticized Green for her appearance

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Speaker 4: on the View. This after Green signed a discharge petition

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Speaker 4: to force a vote in the House to release files

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Speaker 4: related to the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Green says

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Speaker 4: Trump is trying to intimidate Republicans ahead of a planned

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Speaker 4: vote on Tuesday. I'm Scott Carr, I'm Washington.

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Speaker 1: How about the Bruins, who have won six of their

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Speaker 1: last seven, winning last night in Montreal three to two.

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Speaker 1: Ruins will host Carolina tomorrow, Flippers in town to Faceisics

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Speaker 1: this afternoon at the Garden three thirty tap. Patriots get

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Speaker 1: a weekend off. They played Thursday. They're off till next

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Speaker 1: Sunday when they play in Cincinnati. This morning. In the NFL,

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Speaker 1: it's a nine to thirty start for Miami in Washington

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Speaker 1: game from Madrid College Football Georgia Tech Rally to be

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Speaker 1: Boston College thirty six thirty four at Chestnut Hill. Looking

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Speaker 1: for extra work around the holidays, Boston police are urging

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Speaker 1: you to be careful when you apply. Wdbc's Jared Broslan

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Speaker 1: with more on a scam warning.

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Speaker 5: Boston police want residents to be wary when applying for

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Speaker 5: temporary holiday jobs. Some scammers have been caught posting fake

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Speaker 5: job listings. Victims give scammers access to highly sensitive personal information,

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Speaker 5: thinking it's part of the hiring process, and some are

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Speaker 5: told to send over money, with the scammers saying it's

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Speaker 5: for supplies, training, or application fees. According to the most

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Speaker 5: recent data from the Better Business Bureau, these types of

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Speaker 5: scams where the risky is for people ages eighteen to

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Speaker 5: forty four. Authorities are urging people to be cautious about

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Speaker 5: listings offering unusually high pay for holiday positions, and never

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Speaker 5: start working for a company before being officially hired. It's

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Speaker 5: also smart to verify the employer before sharing any personal

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Speaker 5: or financial information. Cherre Brosan WBZ Boston's News Ready.

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Speaker 1: Let's check the four dayvsy ACU weather forecast. LaTroy Thornton says,

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Speaker 1: it's a windy day today with clouds and some sun

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Speaker 1: later on. Today we're getting some rain through most of

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Speaker 1: the area at this hour. We'll be in the fifties

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Speaker 1: early today, and then temperatures will drop into the forties

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Speaker 1: by this afternoon. Tonight brisk and chili with clouds, low

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Speaker 1: thirty five, and then Tomorrow a blustery, colder day, sunshine, clouds,

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Speaker 1: high forty five, but again with that wind, it's going

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Speaker 1: to feel like it's in the thirties all day. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: Tuesday breezy Chile with sun high forty seven. And Wednesday

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Speaker 1: again Chile with sunshine and a high forty eight. Right now,

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Speaker 1: getting some very heavy rain down round the New Bedford

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Speaker 1: Fall River area. Fifty two right now in New Bedford,

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Speaker 1: showers in Milton, where it is forty five degrees, raining

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Speaker 1: hard right now around the Revere area forty six there,

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Speaker 1: and shower to our north as well around the Newburyport

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Speaker 1: area where it is forty Right now in Boston forty

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Speaker 1: seven degrees and showers at six oh five. Students from

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Speaker 1: more than ten colleges and universities around Boston rallied yesterday

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Speaker 1: to protect the promise of higher education. There'sh WBZS and

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Speaker 1: the Friedman.

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Speaker 6: We're here because Northeastern doesn't fulfill that motto like truth

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Speaker 6: and courage. They don't listen to their students, they're not transparent,

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Speaker 6: they don't include us in their decision making process.

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Speaker 7: Northeastern student Jack Mauselea is the co founder and director

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Speaker 7: of outreach for the Education Freedom Project. I found him

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Speaker 7: at the Boston Student Rally and Fenway with crowds of

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Speaker 7: other students. He says they are united through a feeling

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Speaker 7: of deep disappointment that.

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Speaker 6: They're folding to Trump's attacks on international students, on freedom

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Speaker 6: of expression, on academic independence, that they're shuddering the offices

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Speaker 6: of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and students just have no

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Speaker 6: say about that.

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Speaker 7: So the students feel like they've been sidelined in university's

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Speaker 7: decision making process. He says. The Education Freedom Project put

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Speaker 7: out a survey to over one thousand students, parents', faculty,

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Speaker 7: and alumni asking what Northeastern could do better. Now they're

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Speaker 7: trying to get legislation passed through the student government with

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Speaker 7: those answers in mind. It'll be voted on on Monday.

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Speaker 7: W BZ NewsRadio has reached out to Northeastern for comment.

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Speaker 7: In Fenway, I'm a Freedman, w b Z, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: Some colleges and public universities throughout the area have seen

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Speaker 1: enrollment from international students declining, The Globe reporting part of

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Speaker 1: the reason is the Trump administration restricting travel from nineteen

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Speaker 1: different countries. The number of foreign students enrolling this fall

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Speaker 1: at UMass Boston declined seventeen percent from a year ago.

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Speaker 1: UMass Amherst saw a five percent drop in international students

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Speaker 1: this year. Fitchburg State reporting forty fewer applicants, Boston College,

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Speaker 1: Harvard Northeastern reported little change in their international student enrollment.

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Speaker 1: A twenty three year old man hospitalized after being shot

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Speaker 1: by police Friday night in Charlestown, New Hampshire, following a

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Speaker 1: police pursuit. Police were attempting to over Christian Piquette on

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Speaker 1: Claremont Road for not having a license plate when he

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Speaker 1: sped away. Piquette later got out of his car, allegedly

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Speaker 1: coming toward an officer with a knife. When Piquett refused

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Speaker 1: to drop the weapon, he was shot. The officer involved

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Speaker 1: was wearing a body camera at the time of the shooting.

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Speaker 1: The officer's identity will not be disclosed until a formal

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Speaker 1: interview takes place. You are now in the loop or

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