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"Jurers have now heard arguments in Lindsey Clancy's murder trial before they decide the
“fate of the Massachusetts woman who strangled her three young children to death in 2023.”
As Deborah Becker of Immemoration of U.B.U.R. reports, Clancy's mental health is a central
component of her defense against first-degree murder charges."
The defense claims Clancy had postpartum psychosis, and should not be held criminally responsible. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington says Clancy is hopeful. "And she feels that she's had a fear of trial with the judge, and the jury's been very attentive, and all you can do is hope for the best." Prosecutors argue that Clancy did not have psychosis, and was mentally well enough to follow
the law. The case has focused international attention on mental health, especially for new mothers. For NPR News, I'm Deborah Becker and Plimuth, Massachusetts. "The general known as the butcher of Bosnia has died while serving a life sentence for atrocities during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
NPR's Joanna Geckis reports from Athens that Serbia's state broadcasts her announced the death.
“"Rodcomlauch died at 84 in a hospital in the hay after suffering a series of strokes.”
A UN human rights chief once described the Bosnian Serb General asked quote, "The epitome of evil." And international court held lot of responsibility for the single largest atrocity in Europe since World War II. The July 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian city of Shreban
Nitsa. The Balkan wars of the 1990s were sparked by Serbia's president at the time, Slobodan Melosovich, who tried to create a greater Serbia out of the disillusion of the Malkai ethnic state of Yugoslavia. Joanna Geckis's NPR news happens.
Nipal is in the midst of a massive operation of fine hundreds of people, many tourists still unaccounted for since a deadly day lose swept through villages in the northern part of the Himalayan nation. The missing include dozens of Americans and Bersie Hadid has the latest. "They're in their first stages.
“I spoke to Rios Lodi, who heads the World Food Program there and he says, "Workers at this”
point are just trying to dig people out of the mud. But roads have been washed away, so the government's deploying helicopters."
"It's all happening in the mountainous region where road access is always challenging,
but under these circumstances it's impossible." Lodi says they estimated about 10,000 households have been badly affected by this disaster, but he says that number will go up." That's NPR's Deah Hadid reporting. Yesterday the State Department said that the embassy was working closely with local authorities
and tour agencies to help US citizens affected by the severe floods. You're listening to NPR news. The Food and Drug Administration is giving the go ahead for a first of its kind pill to treat metastatic pancreatic cancer. It's one of the most stubborn forms of the deadly decision, and Piers Yukina Guchip has
more. Nearly 70,000 patients get diagnosed with pancreatic cancer every year, and for a very long time, drug makers considered it intractable. The pancreas is location deep in the abdomen makes cancers they're difficult to spot and easy to spread.
But revolution medicines, molecularly engineered a drug called Diraccin Rasmid that could target the most common form of the cancer. It works by essentially turning off abnormal growth signals in a gene called K-RAS that dries most pancreatic cancers, in clinical trials the drug nearly doubled median survival to 13.2 months.
Based on promising results, the FDA earlier this year expanded access to the drug prior to granting it full approval. Yukina Guchip and PR news.
The impact of Meta's more than $17 billion settlement with a group of states is expected
to take time as the tech guide works to follow through on commitments of putting in stronger measures to protect underage social media users. Yesterday Meta agreed to demand the resolve of lawsuit that alleged social media platforms were intentionally designed to add children and teenagers acclaim Meta denied a trial in California.
Now it has agreed to a series of safeguards which include blocking children from the apps from midnight to 6am. You're listening to NPR News. Hey, you know that nagging voice in your head, the one telling you to put the phone down and stop doomsgrowing while it's time.
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