Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Winter Johnston.
Jory deliberations resumed this morning for a sixth day in the Lindsey Clancy murder trial
in Massachusetts.
“Jory's appeared to be deadlocked over whether she was criminally responsible for killing”
her three young children. Deborah Becker from Liber Station, W.B.U.R. in Boston, has been following the trial. Judge William Sullivan told the jurors that they know the case best and should try to reach consensus. "There is no reason to suppose that the case will ever be submitted to 12 persons more
intelligent, more impartial, or more competent to decide it." These are sort of a final step before a mis-trial might be declared and that's according to John Thompson, a criminal defense attorney who's not involved in this case. Deborah Becker from Liber Station, W.B.U.R. reporting, Lindsey Clancy does not deny killing the children in 2023.
Her attorney says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, prosecutors argue she knew which she was doing.
“Chevron has announced its doubling its production in Venezuela over the next five years,”
but his NPR's Julia Simon reports the new oil would have implications for the environment. He's Chevron assets in Venezuela are some of the most planet-heating oil assets on Earth says Bosch Amadovi, political science professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. This expansion is effectively a carbon bomb, and so if Chevron does produce this field,
that's roughly 52 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, additional.
He says that's equivalent to the emissions of about 12 million, gas powered cars. Chevron did not respond to a request for comment. The Chevron announcement comes as the United Nations says the world has passed a dangerous threshold for global warming. Julia Simon and Pierre News.
New York City is banning the use of artificial intelligence in elementary and middle schools.
“NPR's Sequoia Corrillo reports the move comes, whose more schools were assessed the technologies”
role in the classroom. More than 900,000 students will head back to class next week in New York City public schools. A new ban on generative AI will apply to many of them. Pre-K students through eighth grade will not be allowed to use or be taught with any software or teaching tools that use the technology.
The ban is not final, mayors are on Mamdeni announced it as a one-year moratorium, while the city spends the year figuring out the impacts of AI on younger students. School students will also be required to take a twice yearly AI literacy training to help them think critically about the technology. Sequoia Corrillo and Pierre News.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. If a girl judge in Maryland has blocked the Trump administration's latest effort to restrict birthright citizenship, the court issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday citing the Supreme Court's rejection of an earlier attempt by the White House, the order will remain blocked while a class action lawsuit moves forward.
The Trump administration is backing open AI in its copyright fight with the New York Times. The case centers on the use of the Times' content to train open AI's large language models. NPR's David Folganflick reports the Justice Department says the outcome could affect the US leadership in artificial intelligence.
The New York Times struck a deal last year with Amazon, allowing that digital titan to feed Times' content into its AI systems. But the Times' alleged vast copyright infringement by OpenAI, which has no such deal. OpenAI has said, quote, "It would be impossible to train today's leading AI models without using copyrighted materials, but the company argues it transforms the content legally."
As far from the first litigation involving the Times' Trump and the administration, the
President privately filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the Times' over its coverage,
for its part that Times' is suing the Pentagon over restrictions on reporting. David Folganflick and PR News Tropical Storm Edward has weekend after dumping nearly two feet of rain across parts of Texas, following Landfall near the border with Louisiana this week, or then 50,000 utility customers remain without power.
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