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Tensions flared in court this morning as a deadlocked jury returned for a seventh day of deliberations
“in the Lindsey Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts.”
The stalemate led to a sharp exchange between Judge William Sullivan and Defense Attorney Kevin Rettington, Rettington asked the judge to dismiss one juror who the jury for person told the judge were fuses to follow instructions on reasonable doubt." Judge Sullivan declined. "You did a yesterday, you did a soft, you didn't do it for us fully and I'm asking
to make you win for us." "What do you want me to do? I want you to get a brass band, I read the instruction as written by the SJC. The fact that I perhaps didn't give it my full inflection, I'm sorry about them, I'm not an actor.
I've just given the instructions."
"Well, my point, Judge, simply, is that you're kind of glossing over the issue."
The defense argues Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis and is not criminally responsible for killing her three children.
“Prosecutors argue she understood what she was doing, the judge could declare a "mistrial"”
if the unanimous verdict is not reached. The Trump administration says construction will soon begin on a triumphal art near Arlington National Cemetery and PR's Emily Fang reports who was announced by Interior Secretary Doug Bergum despite ongoing lawsuits. "Three veterans in an architectural historian argue the 255-foot gilded arch would disrupt
sightlines between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery and that the White House needs congressional approval for construction." Bergum wrote excavation work would begin in the next two weeks anyway. The arch is among several building projects the administration has championed the capital, including a planned golf course that would limit the public's access to a public park along
the Potomac River and possibly demolishing the Kennedy Center. A massive new White House ballroom is also facing a lawsuit, but as with the arch, the Trump administration appears intent to build it faster than the courts can reach a decision on its legality.
“Emily Fang and peer news Washington stocks open next after a better than expected, jobs”
reports this morning and PR's Scott Horsley reports. The new report from the Labor Department shows U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs last month, that's better than many forecasters had expected, and job gains for June and July were also revised up. Restaurants and bars led the hiring last month with 59,000 jobs added, public schools
also added jobs reversing much of a big drop the month before. The unemployment rate held steady in August at a low 4.1% even as hundreds of thousands of people join the workforce. With the job market looking to be on solid ground, the Federal Reserve can focus its attention on next week's inflation report, as it decides whether to raise interest rates later this
month. After the jobs report, investors raise the likelihood of a September rate hike to about 60%. Scott Horsley and peer news Washington. This is NPR. The British government is reiterating its sovereignty over the Faulkland Islands, which
lie about 300 miles east of Argentina in the South Atlantic. The islands are a British territory and Britain and Argentina fought a war over them more than 40 years ago. The President Trump is casting doubt over whether he thinks the islands should stay British.
As NPR's law and fair reports from London. In an national address, Argentinian President Havier-Milais had wings of change, favor Argentina's claim to the Faulklands. That's after President Trump suggested that because he found Britain unhelpful to him in the Iran War, the U.S. might not come to the defense of Britain's living in the Faulkland
Islands if Argentina were to invade. No invasion looks imminent, but Milais had hill-imposed sanctions. On British and Israeli companies drilling for oil off the Faulklands, the British government says Faulklanders have the right to self-determination and to exploit their own natural resources. The islands have been British for nearly 200 years in a 2013 referendum more than 99%
of the island's residents voted to remain a British territory, Lauren Freyer and Piano's London.
Venus and Serena Williams are returning to the U.S. open doubles court tonight for the first
time in four years. The sisters have lined up 14 grand slam doubles titles together including two with the U.S. open. Tonight's match marks and other high-profile return for one of the most successful doubles teams in tennis history.
On Wall Street, the Dow was down 216 points. I am Mr. Johnston and PR News in Washington. This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, Democratic Socialists are having a moment. What's their goal? The goal being to eventually reline the Democratic Party to perhaps someday develop an independent
party, but we recognize that in the United States there's just a two-party system. How Democratic Socialists are staking out political territory.
