"Lie from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst, a judge has declared a m...
in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman who admitted to killing her three
children.
“Priyaka Dale McClusky, from Member Station WPUR, has more."”
After deliberating for almost 40 hours, the jury of nine women and three men said they remained deadlocked. Clancy's defense attorney Kevin Reddington told Judge William Sullivan that based on a note from the jury, "Just one member of the panel was holding out and preventing a verdict of not guilty."
"Even though they have agreed and expressed doubt, they are refusing to apply the law as you've given it." Reddington has argued Clancy should not be held responsible for killing her children.
Korra, Dawson, and Kalin, because she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis.
Prosecutors didn't say whether they would pursue a new trial. For NPR News, I'm Priyanka Dahal McClusky, in Boston. The Trump administration is taking the unprecedented stop of making state lists of adult
“citizens ahead of the midterm elections.”
As NPR's Jude Jofi block reports, the plan was outlined in an executive order president Trump signed in March. The executive order tasks the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security administration with compiling the citizenship list and giving them to states at least 60 days before an election, which is now.
But according to court filings, the Trump administration will not meet that deadline,
but still plans to release the citizenship list before the midterm.
The nonprofit electronic privacy information center is suing to stop the plan from going forward. Arguing it violates federal law, including the Privacy Act. It also argues the data the federal government has are not accurate, and lawyers on the case were in the plan could lead to chaos and potentially voters disenfranchised.
Jude Jofi block and Pair News. And as the 2026 campaign season to the midterm elections next fall ramps up, candidates are spending more on advertising, and the new analysis shows more of those political commercials are being made using AI. And here's Jeff Brumfield has more.
And analysis from the Wesleyan Media Project found a minimum of 164 ads so far at this election cycle that were made or enhanced using artificial intelligence. Like this ad from earlier this year depicting Virginia Governor Abigail Spamberger as an arsonist. The ad shows an AI Spamberger playing with matches and pouring gasoline, but Wesleyan
analysis found far more Republicans than Democrats used AI in their ads. A patchwork of state laws regulates AI's use in political advertising and what if any
“disclosures candidates must include Jeff Brumfield and PR news?”
And you're listening to NPR news from Washington. Colorado's governor and congressmen are demanding that the federal government stop rounding up wild horses by helicopter in the state. Colorado Public Radio Steena Sig reports nearly 900 wild horses were recently captured in a remote part of the state.
The Democratic congressman, Jonah Goose, says he was horrified by videos of the recent roundup during which nine horses died. Wild horses are part of the spirit of the American West and I've long believed that the BLM needs to curb the inhumane ways in which they are conducting these roundups. But the Bureau of Land Management says these roundups are needed to keep the horses from
damaging the land and to stop them from starving on a drought-stricken range. The next roundup in the state is scheduled to begin September 10th. From PR news, I'm Steena Sig, in Grand Junction, Colorado. The WNBA says Commissioner Kathy Engelbert is retiring at the end of the year. Under her leadership, the league has achieved an unprecedented growth, but Engelbert also
face criticism from some players that includes complaints about her response to political protests over transgender women playing sports, along with compensation issues officiating and her response to harassment and racism online. She was appointed in 2019 and during her tenure with the WNBA, well, it's been seeing big spikes in TV viewership attendance along with corporate sponsorship and franchise valuations.
I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR 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 re-align the Democratic Party to perhaps some day develop of an independent party, but we recognize that in the United States they're just as a
two-party system. How Democratic Socialists are staking out political territory.
