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From A Weekend Standoff To The World Of Politics, We Review Week's Biggest News

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Police work in the area of an hours long standoff with a group of armed men that partially shut down I-95 on Saturday in Wakefield, Mass. (Michael Dwyer/AP)
Police work in the area of an hours long standoff with a group of armed men that partially shut down I-95 on Saturday in Wakefield, Mass. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

Here is the Radio Boston rundown for July 9. Tiziana Dearing is our host.

  • We review some of the biggest news stories this week, including an armed standoff in Wakefield, a new candidate entering the gubernatorial race, and the persistence of the Delta variant. Joining us are Renee Graham, a Boston Globe columnist and WBUR contributor, and Tom Nichols, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. We'll also take listener calls.
  • Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley joins us to talk about a number of issues, including infrastructure, her efforts to abolish the death penalty, and the ongoing situation in Haiti.

This program aired on July 9, 2021.

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