"Li" from NPR News, "Unlocks me" saying, "A Massachusetts jury is still at an
impasse over weather to hold linsey clancy criminally responsible for killing her children in 2023.
“For a second time a sent the judge a note today telling him they could not reach a unanimous”
decision and the judge once again told them to keep at it. He read the special set of instructions known as a two-y Rodriguez charge and challenging jurors to re-examine their positions with the goal of agreeing on a verdict. If that does not work, the judge could then declare a mistrial. The prosecution argues Clancy was in her right mind when she killed her children, but
her lawyer says Clancy suffered postpartum psychosis and needs psychiatric help, not prison. The cost of health benefits keeps going up and you survey of employers finds that twenty- twenty-seven is going to see the biggest increase since 2003. Here's NPR Sidney Lupkin.
Every year the consulting firm, Marsh, conducts the national survey of employer-sponsored health plans. And this year, it found that the cost of health benefits per employee is expected to go up
“by an average of eight percent next year.”
That's the biggest increase in twenty-four years and it's well above inflation. To save money, employers will be looking to cut benefits and make changes like adding higher deductibles to employee plans. The situation will likely also result in higher premium costs for employees. According to the survey, the rise in health benefit costs is partially driven by the fact
that more people are taking GLP one drugs for weight loss, Sidney Lupkin and PR News. As oral leaders gathered for the G-27 in Asheville, North Carolina, an international financial group warned about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence to global markets, more from NPR's General Clawflin. While the war in Ukraine and ongoing trade battles between the U.S. and Canada made headlines
during the G-27 summit this week, the looming danger of increasingly advanced AI models also featured heavily on the program. Ahead of the discussions, members of the financial stability board, an international
“body that monitors global markets, warned that the speed of digital attacks in the age”
of AI could undermine confidence in the stability of highly interconnected global financial systems. The authors suggest firms will need to patch vulnerabilities much faster and prepare for the possibility of breaches impacting large swaths of the financial system at once. Meanwhile, tech companies urge global leaders not to restrict innovation due to what they described as theoretical harms, General Glawflin and PR News.
President Trump's defending the latest wave of U.S. strikes on Iran. "We had a last night because they took a shot at us in Jordan at our base in Jordan. We knocked all of them down." Both sides again traded fire, Iranian State TV reports a U.S. also bombed civilian sites, including a wedding party, U.S. Central Command says it is aware of the reports
and that civilians are never deliberate U.S. military targets.
This is NPR. About 5,000 American service members are getting some R&R in Thailand. After spending a record 250 plus days at sea, much of that time was in the Middle East's part of the U.S. war against Iran. U.S. S.A. Abraham Lincoln's extended deployment raise concerns about supply shortages and
declining mental health among crew members. After brief stay in eastern Thailand, the Lincoln will resume its journey home to San Diego. A new spider species has been discovered in Idaho. Lauren Patterson from Boise State Public Radio reports on how the discovery highlights a unique ecosystem in the northern part of the state.
The small, nickel-sized brown arachnid was found in the remote mountains of the Nespers Clearwater National Forests. Graduate student Arnaut Coletayu Mascade found the spider along the lock saw river. The genus known as Hexura is usually found in the northwest and parts of Canada.
It had never been seen here before.
The paper detailing the new findings outlines how conservation action is needed to secure the survival of the species that is only found in damp, conifer forest in the Rocky Mountains of northern Idaho. The research team has named the spider Hexura Vandal, honoring the University of Idaho's mascot.
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