Today's Top Headlines

Thursday, September 17

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Macklemore called on New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to donate to Palestinian relief organizations after the rapper was removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour. Plus, amid a legal battle over President Donald Trump's efforts to add his name to the Kennedy Center building, the board voted to shutter it. Here at home, we're tracking muggy weather and the return of rain. I'm Kaitlin McKinley Becker, and these are your headlines.

Macklemore is donating $1 million of his earnings to Palestinian relief organizations after he was removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour, and he has invited New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to do the same.

Macklemore said Wednesday on Instagram that he wants to “bring the conversation back where it belongs.” He specified that the money was the entirety of his net earnings from Sheeran’s tour and that it would go to six organizations working to support Palestinians.

“Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protection,” Macklemore wrote. “A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any life on this earth.”

Time is short, but we’re still in the warm air for the next couple of days.

Highs again approach (but aren’t promised to eclipse) 80 degrees as humidity peaks today.

We’ll see a lot more cloudiness but hold back on the showers until this afternoon. Even then, the focus on the steady – and at time moderate to heavy – rain will be to the north.

A judge has ordered juror questionnaires in the Lindsay Clancy case to be impounded after NBC10 Boston broke the news that the holdout juror in the case faced multiple domestic violence allegations and had an active restraining order against him.

The move comes as questions grow about what the juror disclosed during the selection process and whether the issue could play a role in Clancy’s ongoing legal fight to avoid a retrial.

To better understand what happens next, NBC10 Boston spoke with retired Massachusetts Judge Carol Erskine.

A driver fled after hitting a teenage girl Wednesday afternoon in Holbrook, Massachusetts.

Police responded around 2:30 p.m. to a 911 call reporting a pedestrian crash on North Shore Road.

The victim, a 16-year-old girl, was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Standing outside the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, it wasn’t hard to get people’s thoughts on another piece of Kennedy’s legacy.

“I think people are very upset, I really do,” said one visitor from Washington.

“We would not go to the Kennedy Center when his name was on the building,” said another visitor from Washington.

An EMT was injured in an assault while responding to a call Wednesday at Boston’s Logan Airport.

Boston EMS said the victim was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Massachusetts State Police said troopers responded to Gate B18 around 3:30 p.m. after an incident involving two passengers.