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"Li," from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying, "Frestration is mounting as the jud...

Clancy's murder trial and Massachusetts once again instructs the jury to keep deliberating."

The jury had sent Judge William Sullivan a note, though the content of that note is unknown.

Defense Attorney Kevin Reddington says one juror is refusing to follow the judge's instructions. "My motion is to remove this juror that refuses to listen to your instruction and reasonable doubt." But the Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Spriggs says the judges' questions to each juror on whether they were able to follow the law and giving instruction on reasonable

doubt was appropriate. "Do not have an objection to what the questions or the re-instruction." The jury has been deadlocked on whether Clancy should be held criminally responsible for killing her three young children in 2023. Her lawyer says no because she'd suffered postpartum psychosis and did not know what she

was doing.

The prosecution argues Clancy was in her right mind and should go to prison.

A new UN report warns the world is closed to crossing a dangerous climate change threshold and PR's Lawrence Summer reports. Countries agreed in 2015 to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which is 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.

Beyond that, the risks of a hotter planet get much worse.

It gets more intense, sea levels keep rising, and there are major impacts to crops. A new report from the United Nations Environment Program finds that countries have failed to meet that agreement. To limit the damage, a message from burning fossil fuels need to drop to zero, and carbon emissions may even need to be sucked out of the atmosphere.

Either way, the report warns that countries will need to prepare for worsening disasters due to climate change. Lauren Summer and PR News A new assessment of the deadly floods in Nepal and Tibet recently finds there are warning signs.

Days before part of a glacier collapsed into a valley. The section of ice was about 3,000 feet wide, sending a fast moving wall of water, ice, and debris, some 80 miles downstream. Trail blazing journalists and activist Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92. Steinem devoted her life to fighting for gender equality and instilled feminist ideals to

generations of women, who's in PR as Julianna Kim. Among her achievements, Gloria Steinem helped form the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971, the group focuses on recruiting, training, and endorsing women for public office. In an interview with NPR at the time, Steinem said, "Women helped men with their political campaigns for generations, yet their concerns remained underrepresented."

"We're not going to do that anymore. Let the male candidates do their own typing in mammographic and, you know, driving voters to the poll, we're going to work for each other now." Steinem's death was announced on her official Instagram account, it did not provide a cause of death.

Julianna Kim and PR news. From Washington, this is NPR. A tycoon from Malta has been acquitted of planning the 2017 murder of a prominent investigative journalist from the Mediterranean island nation. NPR's Johanna Kikis has details.

After Nekadawana Galizia spent years reporting on entrenched corruption in her native Malta, the smallest country in the European Union. She was killed by a car bomb in October 2017.

She anchored the most powerful people in Malta.

Her sister, Karin Vela, told NPR in 2018. "They want to shut her up. She obviously spoke truth to Palin. That was threatening to people in Palin." One of Malta's richest men, your gunfennec, was accused of master-minding Kadawana Galizia's

murder. His trial lasted two months. After he was acquitted on Wednesday, free press advocates around the world condemned the verdict. Kadawana Galizia's family said that Malta had failed her and urged prosecutors to pursue

corruption charges against Fennec. Johanna Kikisis and PR news. Mortgage rates throughout the highest level since July last year blamed in part on renewed defiding the Middle East, and PR Stephen Bassaha reports concerns over government debt or driving up the cost of home ownership, too.

According to Freddie Mac, the average 30-year mortgage is just over 6.7%. That means monthly payments for a typical new mortgage are well more than $100 more expensive than before the start of the US War against Iran. And another indirect factor affecting mortgages barring costs are going up as investors price in a possible interest rate hike this month from the federal reserve.

That's Stephen Bassaha, it's NPR. How do you handle really big emotions? It starts with emotional intelligence.

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B) is this emotion helpful or unhelpful for achieving my goal? If it's unhelpful, what am I going to do about it? Or what's my strategy for regulating it? The science of emotional regulation on shortwave.

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