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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan.

President Trump is signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.

NPR's Liz Baker reports in Rochester, New York, beachgoers there greeted the news with tuition and defiance. "It's a windy day, so only a few people are out on the sandy beach of Lake America." "That's not what it's called. It's called the Concertion."

From the boardwalk, D-Luv and Skyhouse look north to the Canadian side of the lake and the Canadian side of the trade war.

"I think Trump is just pissed off what I'm going to try to be funny."

Political science major Abby Opel says she wanted to laugh at first, but it symbolizes how our relationship with Canada is going down the drain and for no reason. "It won't really make a difference," says Michael Alacla, just like Trump's renaming of another body of water.

"People are always going to call it the Gulf of Mexico.

People are always going to call it Lake Ontario." After all, the order only applies to the federal government. Liz Baker and Pure News, Lake Ontario, beach, New York. The jurors in the Plymouth, Massachusetts murder trial of Lindsey Clancy began their first day of deliberations Thursday.

Their scheduled to resume those discussions in the morning. Their deciding whether Clancy had lost your grip on reality due to mental illness and postpartum psychosis, or whether she was in control of herself when she killed the three children in January of 2023. Deborah Becker with Member Station W.B.U.R. is there."

Defense Attorney Kevin Reddington said Lindsey Clancy was experiencing postpartum psychosis, and

should not be held criminally responsible for strangling her three children who were five years old, three years old, and eight months old. Now postpartum psychosis is a potentially dangerous psychiatric emergency that can be treated, but is often misdiagnosed. Clancy did not testify in her own defense, she has pleaded not guilty.

Federal safety regulators say that defective radio transmissions may have played a part in a mishap earlier this month between a passenger jet and Marine One. President Trump was on board the helicopter at the time, and PR's Joe Hernandez has more on the story. One afternoon in early August, Marine One lifted off near the White House around the

same time that an envoy air flight took off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in nearby Arlington, Virginia. The National Transportation Safety Board says there may have been a breakdown in communication between the military and air traffic controllers at the airport. According to the agency's preliminary report, Marine One radioed the airport twice to notify

controllers they were about to take off.

One transmission wasn't received, and the other was unreadable. One week earlier, the military and air traffic control officials at the airport had met to discuss communication issues. The NTSB says it is continuing to investigate. Joe Hernandez and PR news.

And from Washington, this is NPR. Three journalists who were fired last week from the military news outlets, stars, and stripes Thursday filed a federal lawsuit, accusing the defense secretary Pete Heggseth and the Pentagon of illegally taking their jobs.

The three say the Trump administration is violating their first amendment rights to free speech

to speak out against government interference in the work. The lawsuit claims the three were fired because of the reporting about deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Scientists are interested in tracking how warmer weather is reaching the Arctic and contributing to melting glaciers, but those frigid areas can be tough to reach.

These NPR's Rachel Carson reports scientists have managed to get there with a little help from NOR walls. The scientists outfitted six NOR walls with temperature and salinity sensors to collect data in the Arctic. Mads Peter Heidi Jorgensen is a study author and marine biologist at Greenland Institute

of Natural Resources. He says the data showed signs of warmer water from the Atlantic around major glaciers in East Greenland. Even the most remote glaciers in the parts of the Sculpture Sound Bureau system were also affected by the Atlantic water.

He says this is a sign that the impacts of warming sees extend even to these very hard-to-reach areas. The findings were published this week in the journal Science Advances, Rachel Carlson and PR News. President Trump is in use and later today he will be at the Johnson Space Center to present metals to the four astronauts to an April orbited the moon, this is NPR.

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