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mistrial in the case of Lindsey Clancy. The defense argued she was not criminally responsible
“for killing her three children due to severe postpartum psychosis. After a week of deliberation”
stirs were deadlock and say one member was a holdout, Clancy's lawyer Kevin Reddington wanted that juror replaced but Judge William Sullivan refused. Deborah Becker from Member Station WBUR has more on what's next." The district attorney has to decide if there will be another trial and whether it will be on the same charges. Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz says he hasn't decided yet, said no announcement
is going to happen today. But he did say his office is charged with seeking justice for the three children that Lindsey Clancy admitted that she killed in 2023. Deborah Becker reporting Judge Sullivan said a hearing for September 29 then Clancy went back to a mental health facility that she's been in for the past three years.
“"I do watch dog report concludes that former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez Dreamer”
oversaw a "toxic intimidating and humiliating work environment and engaged in numerous violations of department policy." The report from the department's Office of Inspector General includes allegations that she engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a member of her security detail. It also says she violated policy by combining personal and official travel drinking alcohol during working hours while mocking those who abstained, directing staff to
perform personal tasks for her and failing to report gifts through appropriate channels. The Supreme Court handed a win to Republicans today, ruling that political parties and party committees can by campaign ads at the same discounted rates as candidates. Empires mom Javed has more. "The justice is cleared the way for parties and party committees
“to pay lower candidate level adrates. The court wrote the discount is necessary to quote”
"reach the electorate in the critical weeks leading up to the midterms. It's a fight that
began in March when the federal communications commission expanded who could receive the lowest rates. Those previously only went to candidates. Some Democrats, including Georgia Senator John Ossof, challenged the new policy while a lower court agreed with the Democrats the Supreme Court overturned that ruling. This is a win for the Republican Party which holds far more money in its party committees than an individual candidate accounts. Maham Javed and PR news."
The job market rebounded last month as employers added 162,000 jobs in August, higher than economists were expecting. The Labor Department says the unemployment rate is unchanged at 4.1%. You're listening to NPR News. An ice officer has been ordered released from federal custody after pleading not guilty to lying to investigators about the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the immigration
crackdown in Minnesota last winter. The federal indictment on seal today accuses Christian Castro, a falsely telling investigators that he was attacked with a broom and a shovel before opening fire, injuring Julio Caesar Sosa Salis, in January. Castro was shackled at his wrists, waist, and feet during a brief hearing in Texas's federal court after he turned himself in
last night, bond was set at $75,000. Major storms caused a billion dollars worth of damage
in Hawaii this spring. Now the island's date is contending with a series of hurricanes. Hawaii Public Radio Savannah Haram and Pope has more. Hawaii was still recovering from bad to bad spring storms when Hurricane Lala's sides wiped the state in August. Emergency officials are working to telly the losses from Lala so far they've assessed more than $83 million in damage. Now Hurricane Loll is expected to bring more rain to the island's early next week.
Climate scientist Adam Smith trats major weather events which are occurring more frequently. Back in the 1980s the United States would go roughly three months between billion dollar disasters in the last decade it's closer to every three weeks. He says with climate change, more states
may have multiple billion dollar disasters in one year, making it harder to recover.
Friend PR News, I'm Savannah Haram and Pope, and I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. There's something wrong with the plumbing in Cincinnati. Billions of gallons of raw sewage ends up in waterways every year and for some, that raw sewage is a lot closer to home. When it's coming out of the drain down there it's sewage. The stench was terrible. Listen to the back-up podcast from the NPR network and Cincinnati Public Radio.
