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Beginning on Monday, June 12th, the Woonsocket Harris Public Library, 303 Clinton St, will be operating on a summer hours schedule. The library will be open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9am-8pm and Tuesdays and Fridays from 9am-5pm. The library will be closed on Saturdays throughout the summer and will resume the 9am-5pm open hours on Saturday, September 9th, 2023.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet with Jewish students at New York's Columbia University today as the school faces massive protests against Israel. Hundreds of students have been protesting for days against the Biden administration's response to the Israel-Hamas war, calling for an end to support for Israel. Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial resumes Thursday in New York City. Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker is expected to continue testifying for a third day, after explaining to the court how he paid people for the rights to negative stories about Trump only to never publish them in order to protect the presidential candidate. Millions of salaried workers in the U.S. will soon qualify for overtime pay thanks to a new rule from the Biden administration. The rule announced Tuesday by the Department of Labor changes the threshold under which salaried employees become eligible for overtime. An extra four-million workers will qualify for overtime once the rule is implemented in January. A nationwide health alert has been issued for certain ground beef products that have a potential risk for E. coli. The USDA says five and ten-pound beef patties and chubs from Greater Omaha with a "freeze by" date of April 22nd may have a strain of E. coli that is known to cause severe intestinal infections in humans. Los Angeles Dodger Shohei Ohtani hit the hardest home run of his career Tuesday night, and the 12th hardest by any player since 2015. The solo homer in the ninth inning against the Nationals flew 450 feet at a speed of nearly 119 miles per hour. The Dodgers would go on to beat the Nationals 4-1 in the series opener. 
