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Mayor Wu names Kenzie Bok as incoming Administrator of the Boston Housing Authority

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:43:04 GMT

Mayor Michelle Wu announced Wednesday that Councilor Kenzie Bok will serve as the next Administrator of the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), which provides affordable housing to over 62,000 residents. Bok will begin a transition period in may before current Administrator Kate Bennett steps down this summer. “The Boston Housing Authority has been a lifeline for generations of Boston families, and in this moment of housing crisis, the BHA must be a model for housing as health, safety, opportunity, and community,” said Mayor Wu. “Kenzie brings a deep commitment to our BHA communities along with an expansive vision of how public housing should anchor our neighborhoods and city – I’m thrilled for her leadership and look forward to building on the strong foundation set under Kate’s stewardship by the entire BHA team,” she added. “We are all so grateful for Kate’s decades of service to our residents and work to ensure a smooth transition...

Stormy Daniels ordered to pay Trump team another $120,000 in legal fees

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:43:04 GMT

(CNN) — Three thousand miles away from his New York legal drama, Donald Trump secured a substantial victory in another court.The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the former president in his effort to recoup additional legal fees from adult film star Stormy Daniels, who had filed and lost a defamation suit against him.Daniels was ordered to pay Trump’s attorneys just over $120,000 in legal fees. That’s on top of the more than $500,000 in court-ordered payments to Trump attorneys she’s already been ordered to pay.The civil litigation is officially unrelated to Trump’s arrest and charges filed against him in New York, but both involved Daniels, who was paid $130,000 in hush money during the 2016 presidential campaign to keep quiet about an affair. (Trump denies the affair.)Daniels had sued Trump in 2018 after he called an allegation by Daniels that an unknown man threatened her in a parking lot to keep quiet about her all...

Orioles promote Grayson Rodriguez, club’s top pitching prospect, to make major league debut Wednesday

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:43:04 GMT

Grayson Rodriguez is back home.Baltimore’s top pitching prospect was promoted to the Orioles and will make his major league debut Wednesday in his home state of Texas against the Rangers, the club announced. He’ll wear No. 30.Rodriguez, a consensus top 10 prospect in baseball, was expected to make the Orioles’ rotation to open the season, but he instead began the year in Triple-A Norfolk after struggling in spring training.In a corresponding move, the Orioles placed starting pitcher Kyle Bradish on the 15-day injured list with a bruised right foot. Bradish took a 104 mph line drive off his foot during his start Monday. The right-hander threw one warmup pitch before exiting the game in the second inning.While Tyler Wells’ five-inning relief outing led the Orioles to a 2-0 win Monday and saved an already-fatigued bullpen, it didn’t change the calculus that the Orioles would need a different starting pitcher for the series against the Rangers now that Well...

Stocks drift, yields drop on latest sign of slowing economy

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:43:04 GMT

By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT (AP Business Writers)Stocks are drifting on Wall Street and Treasury yields are falling following the latest signal that the U.S. job market is slowing. The S&P 500 is down 0.1% at the open and the Nasdaq composite is off 0.4%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is slightly higher. Data from payroll processor ADP came in much weaker than forecast, adding to disappointing numbers out Tuesday on job openings. FedEx is up more than 3.5% after it said it’ll undertake a $4 billion cost-cutting plan. Johnson & Johnson is rising on news that it’s earmarking nearly $9 billion to cover allegations that its baby powder containing talc caused cancer.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story appears below. Wall Street futures are mostly unchanged leading up to a series of economic reports and employment data that could influence the Federal Reserve’s monetary policies in its lengthening fight against inflation.Futures for th...

Passive and aggressive? All part of Heat’s Jimmy Butler channeling his inner Dwyane Wade

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:43:04 GMT

This was before Jimmy Butler started trolling. This was as Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra was finishing off his pregame interview Tuesday and the subject turned to whether Butler should take a more aggressive bent considering his remarkable seasonlong efficiency.Understand, this also was before Butler did not attempt a single shot in the first quarter Tuesday night against the Detroit Pistons, not even an attempt that drew a foul. This also was before Butler attempted only a single shot in the second period, a missed layup with 1:41 left before halftime in what would turn into a scramble of a victory.But even then, Spoelstra wasn’t biting.“We’re both abundantly on the same page about his assertiveness and aggressiveness, and the whole team is, as well,” Spoelstra said. “We don’t want him to defer at all. He’s ridiculously efficient and he’s been getting more efficient every single year. I think he has just a better feel for how we wan...

4 states that will pay off your student loans for moving there

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:43:04 GMT

Paying off student loans can be a difficult journey, sometimes taking 20 years or more. While there are federal programs that will forgive your student loans after a certain number of payments, these can be hard to qualify for. Plus, borrowers with private student loans are not eligible for these programs.Thankfully, there are other ways to find student loan forgiveness, including programs that pay off your loans if you move to a certain state.States that will pay off student loans for moving thereWhether it’s to attract a younger population or stimulate the local economy, states have varying reasons for offering student loan forgiveness to new residents.Before packing your bags, read the eligibility requirements to see if the program fits you. Sometimes you could get a significant portion of your debt forgiven.If you are interested in moving but none of the states listed below interest you, see if there are state and city-sponsored student loan repayment assistance programs in an a...

Tuesday’s high school scores and highlights

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:43:04 GMT

TUESDAY’S ROUNDUPBASEBALLSeth Sullivan and Josh Doney drove in two runs and had two hits each as St. Mary’s (Lynn) (1-0) rolled to a 13-1 Catholic Central League win over Matignon. … Logan Borowicz cranked a three-run homer in a six-run fifth inning as Bishop Stang (1-0) bested Cardinal Spellman, 9-1.Ben Zscau gave up one unearned run in five innings of work, and Wes Hawley plated the eventual winning run in the sixth inning to lift Silver Lake in a 2-1 victory over Hingham in Patriot League play.Dylan DiFilippio hit a three-run triple as Lynn Tech (1-0) coasted to a 13-2 victory over KIPP in Commonwealth Athletic Conference action.In South Coast Conference action, Tyler Kropis fired six innings of shutout ball, surrendering just four hits while striking out eight as Seekonk blanked Case, 8-0.John Sellon pitched all five innings for Abington (1-0), striking out seven while also driving in four runs at the plate as the Green Wave cruised to a 12-0 shutout of South Shore League rival ...

Love him? Hate him? For Donald Trump, attention is attention

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:43:04 GMT

In the currency of today’s attention economy, Donald Trump is the world’s richest man. His media-engulfed arraignment in New York was an out-of-court Exhibit A. In returning to the no-business-like-show-business metropolis that propelled him to tabloid-fodder fame so many years ago, the former president also returned to the very stage where he thrives the most. As he did so, even in an atypically sedate manner, he demonstrated the peculiar way he encounters the world — as luminary and aggrieved party rolled into one.Love him? Hate him? Don’t care? Doesn’t matter. Just like during his presidency, he commands notice. Still. Thousands of New York City police officers, the U.S. Secret Service and swarms of journalists deployed across lower Manhattan can all attest to that.It was a procedural court appearance, the low rung of drama in a criminal case, but it was a full-on spectacle. And calling it that, assessing it in that way, does not diminish it — not in today’s world, where spectacl...

Italian ex-leader Berlusconi hospitalized in ICU, but alert

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:43:04 GMT

ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalized Wednesday in intensive care because of a problem related to a previous infection, but was alert and speaking, Italy’s foreign minister said.The 86-year-old three-time premier was in the ICU at Milan’s San Raffaele hospital, the clinic where he routinely receives care, said Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who is also a leader of Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party. Speaking from Brussels, Tajani said Berlusconi was admitted because of an “unresolved problem” related to a previous infection.Berlusconi has had a series of health problems in recent years, most significantly recovering from COVID-19 in 2020. He told reporters after being discharged from a 10-day hospital stay then that disease had been “insidious” and was the most dangerous challenge he had ever faced. He has had a pacemaker for years, underwent heart surgery to replace an aortic valve in 2016 and has overcome prostate cancer. In January...

Violence at Jerusalem holy site raises fears of escalation

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:43:04 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City early Wednesday, firing stun grenades at Palestinians who hurled stones and firecrackers in a burst of violence during a sensitive holiday season. Palestinian militants in Gaza responded with rocket fire on southern Israel, prompting repeated Israeli airstrikes.The fighting, which comes as Muslims mark the holiday month of Ramadan and Jews prepare to begin the Passover festival, raised fears of a wider conflagration. By early morning, the Jerusalem compound, which is typically packed with worshippers during Ramadan, had quieted down. The mosque sits in a hilltop compound sacred to both Jews and Muslims, and conflicting claims over it have spilled into violence before, including a bloody 11-day war between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza. Al-Aqsa is the third-holiest site in Islam and stands in a spot known to Jews as the Temple Mount, which is the holiest site in Judaism.P...