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a mistrial Friday in the case against Lindsey Clancy. Clancy was facing charges of murdering
“her three young children in 2023. Debra Becker of Member Station, W. B. U. R. Covered the trial”
and Plymouth, Massachusetts, and she says it's not clear just what lies ahead for Clancy." 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, but he did say his office is charged with seeking justice for the three children that Lindsey
Clancy admitted that she killed in 2023. "That's Debra Becker of Member Station W. B. U. R. with that report. Clancy's lawyers say postpartum psychosis left her unable to control her behavior or understand that it was wrong." A federal judge in Boston has again blocked the U.S. Postal Services plan to follow an order by President Trump, that order seeks to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election.
As NPR's Hansi Law Wong reports, the Supreme Court is already set to review the Postal Services plan. The ruling by U.S. District Judging Year to Wani effectively extends an earlier
“court order stopping the U.S. Postal Service from moving head with key parts of its plan.”
We should note U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR. The Postal Services plan involves delivering mail-in ballots only to people on voter lists that the states would have to turn over to the mail agency, just to Wani found that plan is likely illegal, because U.S. P.S. has no authority to control voting by mail. While the legal fight continues, mail-in voting for the midterm general election has officially
started with North Carolina just beginning to send out its absentee ballots. On Zila Wong and PR News. Diesel prices have hit an all-time high, the national average for a gallon now stands at $5 and 85 cents, and as NPR will a Rubin reports, and that's up more than $2 since the eve of the Iran War.
Much of our supply chain runs on diesel, trucks, trains, tractors, nearly 90 percent of
school buses, so when the price of diesel goes up, it hurts across the economy, and the price has been going up for several reasons. One, the straight-of-formus, not much oil is getting through. Two, countries around the world have scaled back their exports of diesel. Three, jet fuel. The war drove up the price, so refiner's made more of it, and we got less diesel. Finally, reason for, Ukraine has been firing at Russian refineries, taking many offline.
It all adds up to a perfect storm, which could spill over into the price of food, the price of heating oil, and much of what gets shipped, which could mean an expensive few months to come. Will a Rubin and Periase? On Wall Street, all three indices closed lower on Friday, the S&P 500 was down by 29 points. This is NPR News. The Trump administration Friday imposed sanctions on a Turkish financial institution,
official say it's part of an overall effort to cut critical financial lifelines for the Iranian
government. The sanctions are part of a new administration effort called Operation Economic Outcast. The U.S. also targeted parts of an Egyptian banks operations last week. Colorado's governor and a congressman are demanding the federal government stop rounding up wild horses by helicopter in the state. As Colorado Public Radio's esteemed SEG reports, almost 900 wild horses were recently captured in a remote part of
that state. Democratic congressman Joan Aguiz says he was horrified by videos of the recent round-up 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 round-ups. But the Bureau of Land Management says these round-ups are needed to keep the horses from damaging the land and to stop them from starving on a drought-stricken range. The next round-up
in the state is scheduled to begin September 10th. From PR News, I'm Steena Sieg, in Grand Junction, Colorado. Former Cowboys running back em at Smith is being sued by a Native American investment company over claims that Smith and his business partners
misappropriated a two and a half million dollar loan. The loan was supposed to fund a
windfire project in Texas. In the suit filed this week, the company claims that the money was instead used to repay an investor in a previous deal he had with Smith. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News.
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