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Tucker Carlson, Trump’s shadow diplomat

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:51:34 GMT

BRUSSELS — Donald Trump has mulled naming Tucker Carlson as his vice president if he gets another term as U.S. president. But Carlson, the ex-Fox News journalist and polemicist, looks more like he’s auditioning to be Trump’s top international diplomat.Since his ouster from cable TV, Carlson has been taking his new X show on a world tour, and his interviews with Argentina’s Javier Milei and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán have racked up hundreds of millions of views.Yet Carlson is also engaging in a sort of shadow diplomacy. In early November, he popped up in London to visit Julian Assange at Belmarsh prison. Eleven days later, Carlson was spotted on the streets of Madrid, alongside Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s far-right Vox party, amid protesters against amnesty for Catalan separatists. “Your politics are complicated for an American,” Carlson told Spanish outlet El Confidencial. “I want to understand it and try to explain it.”This week, Carlson released an episode of his X show entitl...

Authorities investigating apparent murder-suicide in Marlborough

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:51:34 GMT

An investigation into what police are calling an apparent murder-suicide was underway in Marlborough after authorities say a man and a woman were found dead at a home Wednesday morning.In a joint-statement, the Middlesex District Attorney’s office and Marlborough Police Chief said the investigation was launched after police discovered the bodies of a 28-year-old female and a 29-year-old male at a home on Rice Street.Authorities said police were first called to the residence just after 10 a.m., where officers encountered two women and a child who said their female roommate had been shot.Entering the home, police then found both the resident and a 29-year-old man, both dead from apparent gunshot wounds.“The preliminary investigation suggests that the two decedents had been in a dating relationship,” the DA’s office stated. “Last night the male had allegedly threatened the female at his home. The female party returned to her Rice Street home this morning. ...

More mild next couple of days

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:51:34 GMT

It was another chilly day as highs only maxed out in the 30s. For Boston, that’s ten degrees below average for this time of year. Tomorrow temperatures will be closer to the average in the mid/upper 40s. It’ll be even more mild by Friday!Before we get there, it’s cold overnight. Temperatures will fall into the 20s for MetroWest and Worcester County, 30s near the coast and for the Cape. We’ll get more clearing by sunrise, and the morning will start off with a lot of sunshine. That might help to offset the chill for you.After the cold start, tomorrow will be a pleasant day. Temperatures aloft will become more mild, and our temperatures at the surface will respond by going up through the end of the week. We’ll see some mid and high-level clouds in the afternoon with less wind compared to the past couple of days out of the southwest. Highs will be seasonable in the mid/upper 40s.Friday morning won’t start off as cold, more chilly in the 30s. Then tem...

Bruins players hit the shopping aisles for gifts to give to children at local hospitals

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:51:34 GMT

Members of the Boston Bruins traded in their skates for shopping carts Wednesday morning as the team hit a local Target to buy toys for kids who are in local hospitals this holiday season.The annual tradition continued in Watertown as players like David Pastrnak and Jeremy Swayman perused the aisles for gifts to give.“I do have a list,” Pastrnak told 7NEWS. “I’m ready to deliver some Christmas spirit and get some toys for the kids. It’s a very little thing we can do to make a lot of kids happy and that’s why we’re glad to do it.”He and his teammates spent the morning grabbing dolls, board games, and other items, checking off gifts from clipboards as they filled their shopping carts.“I’m doing a lot of toys right now – a little Barbie setup here, a little basketball, I’ve got a Bruins T-shirt here, so all good stuff,” said B’s forward Trent Frederic as he surveyed his haul.The crew’s ultimate go...

Healey: Tens Of Thousands Coming For “America’s Game” When Army-Navy Game Kicks Off at Gillette

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:51:34 GMT

Next weekend’s Army-Navy Game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, only the third time in the game’s 124-year history that it will be played outside of the mid-Atlantic region, will be an economic boon for Massachusetts and help kick off a series of historical celebrations here, Gov. Maura Healey said Wednesday.The Army-Navy football game is a tradition that began in 1890 when the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York faced off against the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland. The Navy Midshipmen lead the series, 62–54–7, but the Army Black Knights won last year’s contest 20-17 in double overtime. When the game kicks off at 3 p.m. on Sat., Dec. 9, it will be the first time the service academies square off in New England and the third time it is played somewhere other than the mid-Atlantic (Chicago hosted in 1926 and Pasadena, Calif., hosted in 1983).Most tickets for the game are controlled by the academies and secondary market prices have been soaring as thousand...

Patriots’ Joe Cardona knows how important Army-Navy game is

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:51:34 GMT

FOXBORO – New England Patriots’ long snapper Joe Cardona will not be a neutral observer when “America’s Game” comes to Gillette Stadium on Dec. 9.Cardona was a four-year starter at the Navel Academy (2011-14) who never experienced defeat in the traditional Army-Navy rivalry game before being selected by the Patriots in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL Draft. Cardona is an eight-year NFL veteran who serves as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve in the offseason.“It’s America’s game and everybody is a winner as long as the two teams go out and play hard,” said Cardona. “But we all know I’m a Navy faithful so I will be supporting blue and gold on game day.“Go Navy and beat Army and don’t make any mistake on that one. I will be here cheering my guys on. You can’t look at this as a normal football game.”The festivities for the first Army-Navy game to be played in Massachusetts and third outside the Mid-Atlantic region kicked off on Wednesday morning in the G-P Atrium inside the lightho...

Ticker: Kraft debuts cheese-free mac-and-cheese; US economic growth revised to brisk 5.2% 

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:51:34 GMT

Kraft Macaroni and… Fava Beans?The Kraft Heinz Co. said it’s bringing dairy-free macaroni and cheese to the U.S. for the first time. The company said the new recipe has the same creamy texture and flavor of its beloved 85-year-old original Mac & Cheese but replaces dairy with ingredients like fava bean protein and coconut oil powder.The plant-based Kraft NotMac & Cheese, which will be rolled out to U.S. stores over the next few months, was developed in collaboration with Not Co., a Chicago startup that makes plant-based milk, burgers and other products.Kraft Heinz, which is based in Pittsburgh and Chicago, formed a joint venture with Not Co. last year. The joint venture, called The Kraft Heinz Not Co., has already released non-dairy cheese slices and mayonnaise in the U.S. It plans to add more products and begin international distribution next year.Kraft Heinz began selling vegan macaroni and cheese in Australia in 2021, but this will be the first time it’s been ...

Marlboro murder-suicide under investigation: Man reportedly kills woman before shooting himself

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:51:34 GMT

Police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Marlboro after a man reportedly killed a woman before shooting himself Wednesday morning.The 29-year-old man and 28-year-old woman had been in a dating relationship, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and Marlboro Police.Police received a report of a shooting at a Rice Street residence at around 10:05 a.m. on Wednesday.When officers arrived at the scene, they found two females and a child outside who told police that their female roommate had been shot inside the home.Then once inside, officers found the woman and the man. They were both dead from apparent gunshot wounds.Police in their preliminary investigation learned that the man had allegedly threatened the woman at his home Tuesday night.The woman returned to her Rice Street residence Wednesday morning.Then shortly before 10:05 a.m., the man reportedly came to the woman’s home, breaking in through a window.Once inside the residence, the man ag...

Spinal Tap film sequel will include guest appearances by Paul McCartney, Elton John and Garth Brooks

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:51:34 GMT

By George Varga, The San Diego Union-TribunePaul McCartney, Elton John and Garth Brooks are set to appear in the sequel to “This is Spinal Tap,” the 1984 cult film classic that was the first film directed by Rob Reiner.In a Monday interview on the podcast “RHLSTP with Richard Herring,” Reiner also disclosed that shooting for the “Spinal Tap” sequel will begin in February, He confirmed that all three of the original film’s stars — Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer — will reprise their roles as the hapless members of a not-very-good English heavy-metal band called Spinal Tap.The new Spinal Tap film will be directed by Reiner, whose other credits include helming such hit movies as “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally” and the Oscar-nominated “A Few Good Men.” Reiner will reprise his role as “Spinal Tap” film director Marty Di Bergi.Released in 1984, “This Is Spinal Tap” was a documentary film satire — or “mockumentary” — of an ill-fated U.S. concert tour by the...

Youth football teams from Dixmoor and Robbins raise funds for Florida trips — and eye national championships

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:51:34 GMT

When the Robbins Eagles youth football organization was founded in 1983, it was seen as a way to “give kids something to do and to give them the chance we didn’t have,” according to Bernard Ward, who helped start the program.Now, on the 40th anniversary of the team’s founding, the Eagles will play on the national stage as the team advances to the American Youth Football League championship in Naples, Florida.“They are going to represent the whole Midwest,” Ward said at a pep rally Tuesday. “It’s the best investment we ever made.”They will be in Florida at the same time as the Dixmoor Vikings are fielding two teams vying for the title in the Pop Warner Super Bowl in Orlando.Vikings coach Dwayne Tyson will bring a team that came in second at last year’s competition, falling shy of the title primarily because he and some other coaches and players came down with the flu at the last minute.“We had big expectations from the...