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Lindsay Clancy appeared in court Tuesday for a status hearing in her murder case after a Massachusetts state judge declared a mistrial earlier this month.

Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, argued that she be found not guilty based on the “total and complete lack of evidence” beyond a reasonable doubt that she murdered her three children.

Reddington said there is “no evidence” that Clancy admitted to killing her children and that prosecution did not show probable cause.

“This entire case is based on speculation,” Reddington said. “Where is the admission? Where did she say that she did this?”

The prosecution rebutted Reddington’s claim and Judge William Sullivan said he would consider both sides.

Clancy’s murder case ended in a mistrial earlier this month after a jury couldn’t come to a unanimous decision on whether the former nurse should be held criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) unloaded on Jack Smith as he expressed his disgust at the former special counsel obtaining the phone records of several Republican senators.

Kennedy grilled Smith as he testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, and argued it was unconstitutional for him to access GOP lawmakers’ phone tolls as part of his criminal investigation into President Donald Trump’s attempt to reverse the 2020 election result.

Among a series of colorful analogies, Kennedy alleged that “anybody who knows a law book from a J. Crew catalog knows that this violates the Constitution.”

At the end of his questioning, the Louisiana senator blurted out: “You make me want to throw up in my mouth.”

Smith explained earlier in the hearing that the phone records corroborated evidence that Trump and his co-conspirators “were seeking to exploit the violence on January 6th in furtherance of their criminal scheme.”

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A Massachusetts court will hold a hearing on Nov. 2 to investigate the holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, which resulted in a hung jury.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington filed a motion calling for an inquiry into the man, who has publicly identified himself as Michael Desronvil, after his fellow jurors accused him during the trial of refusing to follow the judge’s orders.

Reddington, in a “limited inquiry” motion filed last week, has sought information about the juror’s background, potential criminal history and cell phone use during the trial.

Michael Burry, the investor famous for predicting the collapse of the U.S. housing market in 2007, said he’s putting short positions on key AI stocks as he feels the bubble “may burst sooner than later.”

“Fundamentally, I am moving timelines up,” Burry wrote in his Monday investment newsletter. “As such, I want more leverage in my short positions. Better timelines make leverage more palatable.”

Burry added he believes “the bubble in AI may burst sooner than later.”

Former special counsel Jack Smith explained during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday why he obtained lawmakers’ phone records during the course of his criminal investigation of President Donald Trump’s attempt to undo the 2020 election result.

“With respect to the toll records regarding the evening of January 6, those records corroborated evidence that we had that the president, President Donald Trump, and his co-conspirators were seeking to exploit the violence on January 6th in furtherance of their criminal scheme,” Smith said.

“They were taking the fact that law enforcement officers had been brutally assaulted at this institution, and using that to seek to delay the proceedings further in violation of the law,” Smith said.

Trump had incited a mob attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and after his supporters stormed the building and interrupted the certification of the 2020 election result.

Republicans have claimed Smith’s investigation violated their rights as members of Congress and portrayed his investigation as a partisan witch hunt.

Speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, former special counsel Jack Smith launched a barely-veiled attack on President Donald Trump’s revenge tour as he warned that the “rule of law faces challenges unlike any we have experienced in our lifetime.”

In his opening statement, Smith told lawmakers that “individuals are threatened with criminal prosecution because they are perceived to have opposed the president,” and that “predetermined outcomes increasingly seem to take precedence over the Justice Department’s long-standing core values and traditions.”

“History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once; it’s often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it,” he added.

Reuters last year documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership.

Smith continued that he had been threatened with jail by Trump but that he remains “confident that the rule of law will endure because so many continue to uphold it faithfully each day throughout our legal system.”

Smith led investigations into Trump’s efforts to reverse his election loss and his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

Both investigations resulted in felony indictments, but Smith abandoned the cases after Trump won back the White House in 2024.

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." pic.twitter.com/mayJkIrQYY

Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology.

The company’s IPO prospectus, reviewed by Reuters, highlights risks associated with its AI models, which it said could exhibit “self-preserving behaviors,” including attempts to “resist shutdown,” to “conceal or manipulate information” and behavior “resembling blackmail.”

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A Make America Health Again summit is kicking off in Washington, D.C., today, with guests including famed boxer Mike Tyson and British comedian Russell Brand, who is currently facing rape charges in the U.K.

The all-day event is scheduled to cover topics including psychedelic medicine, athletics, AI and healthcare, and America’s food supply, while Brand will personally moderate a talk on Medicare and Medicaid services with former TV host-turned U.S. health official Dr. Mehmet Oz, according to the event’s website.

Brand in two weeks heads to court in London to face charges of rape, indecent assault, oral rape and two counts of sexual assault connected to alleged attacks on multiple women dating back more than 25 years. He has pleaded not guilty.

Tuesday’s MAHA event will wrap up with an “exciting announcement” by the wife of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., actress Cheryl Hines, followed by a “fireside chat” with Vice President JD Vance and Kennedy.

Lindsay Clancy is returning to court on Tuesday for the first time since the judge declared a mistrial in the case after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be held criminally responsible for the murders of her three children.

The hearing is expected to determine what’s next in the case that has gripped the nation’s attention.

The defense, which argued that Clancy was suffering for postpartum psychosis and wasn’t given adequate attention by healthcare providers, has focused on the lone juror who wouldn’t come to an agreement with his 11 fellow members on the Massachusetts mother’s criminal responsibility, asking the judge to investigate his conduct.

That juror, Michael Desronvil, has been accused by some other members of the jury of refusing to follow the law on reasonable doubt and wanting to find Clancy guilty.

Prosecutors have so far not revealed whether they plan to retry Clancy.

Iran’s currency fell to a new record low on Tuesday, with traders in Tehran exchanging more than 2.5 million rials to the U.S. dollar in a stark reflection of how the war in the Middle East has steadily eroded the Iranian economy.

The latest decline came just 27 days after the rial hit its previous record of 2.2 million to the dollar on Sept. 2. The currency has repeatedly reached new lows since the war began in February.

Meanwhile, Iran’s top diplomat said indirect negotiations with the United States aimed at reopening the critical Strait of Hormuz have become “more serious,” while the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ chief spokesman spokesman Gen. Hossein Mohebbi on Tuesday called on Americans to take to the streets and protest the conflict.

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President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will hold a meeting with top AI executives at the White House on Tuesday afternoon just hours after OpenAI announced it was suspending the release of its newest model over safety concerns.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman as well as CEOs Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Sundar Pichai of Google, Alex Karp of Palantir and Jensen Huang of Nvidia are all expected to be in attendance, per Politico.

Axios noted that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, xAI CEO Elon Musk and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, are also among the 31 guests to have RSVP’d to the event.

The meeting comes amid new scrutiny into AI companies following warnings about the risks of the technology and growing calls for regulation.

Just Monday, OpenAI announced it was pulling the rollout of GPT-6.1 Astra, its newest model, over safety issues raised during internal testing.

“Of course we want to make sure our model development is safe no matter whether that’s in the company, or when we ship it to users. But when we ship it to users, we have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment,” Saachi Jain, OpenAI’s head of safety systems, told The Wall Street Journal.

Experts, including some of the top AI executives in the country, have sounded the alarm on AI, calling for a global slowdown in model development.

“We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain,” Amodei said earlier this month.

Trump, who appears to disagree with Amodei’s assessment in brushing off such concerns, had dinner with the Anthropic CEO on Sunday. Amodei also held a meeting with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday night.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said investigators have identified a “new possible ransom note” related to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.

“The PCSD/FBI Guthrie Task Force was recently made aware of a new possible ransom note related to the Nancy Guthrie investigation,” the department said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday. “Investigators are also aware of social media comments regarding the note and are looking further into the information to determine its credibility.”

The statement comes nearly eight months after Guthrie, the mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from home near Tucson, Arizona.

In July, the department released two ransom notes originally sent to a Tucson news station in the immediate aftermath of her disappearance in hopes that a member of the public would identify the writing style.

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Three news outlets that President Donald Trump abruptly banished from White House grounds this month asked a federal court to block the ban until the case is resolved, saying the administration has “persisted in unpredictably and inconsistently implementing its ban” despite a judge’s restraining order — including selectively barring CNN from White House pool duties.

“The White House’s words and actions leave little doubt that it will immediately reinstitute a complete ban of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO if allowed the opportunity,” lawyers for CNN, MS NOW and Politico wrote in a filing late Monday.

”Because the ban is an unlawful assault on the most fundamental First Amendment freedoms and will inflict irreparable harm on Plaintiffs and the public if not restrained, this Court should preliminarily enjoin its enforcement pending the resolution of this case,” the filing said.

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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led the two high-profile federal criminal cases against Donald Trump that were dismissed following Trump’s 2024 election victory, is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

Smith, a frequent target of Trump, has previously testified twice before the House Judiciary Committee.

“I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the president or others,” Smith will tell senators, according to a copy of his prepared remarks obtained by The New York Times. “If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.”

Smith’s testimony is expected to focus on his investigation into the president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election result as a judge previously blocked the release of the second part of the special counsel’s report which focused on the findings of his probe into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the ranking member of the panel, skewered Republicans on the committee for failing to press for the release of the full report.

“If this hearing was really about getting answers, Committee Republicans would be doing everything they could to obtain a copy of Volume II and urge the Department of Justice to allow Smith to discuss his investigation,” Durbin said Monday.

The hearing titled “Oversight of Jack Smith’s Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans and Related Matters” is expected to be contentious as the panel’s chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). accuses Smith of mistreating GOP lawmakers.

“If Jack Smith did that to Democrats, you’d never hear the end of it,” Grassley said in a statement.

In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday night, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a “foreign actor” was involved in the incident that unfolded over the weekend at a U.K. air base operated by the U.S. Air Force.

“It’s one that clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor,” Rubio told Hannity of the incident without offering further details.

Rubio went on to warn Iran and any other countries that there would be “repercussions” if they even tried to attack the U.S.

“In the case of Iran, for example, who have openly threatened to attack American interests globally, we’re going to always take that very seriously,” Rubio said.

The five men arrested early Sunday at RAF Fairford on suspected explosives and terrorism offenses were released on bail on Monday “under stringent conditions,” the head of U.K. Counter Terrorism Policing, assistant commissioner Laurence Taylor, said.

“But be assured, we are considering this from every possible angle, including that this may be actively committed by proxies or individuals either knowingly or unknowingly working on behalf of a foreign state,” Taylor added.

SECRETARY RUBIO: We are dealing with elements in the world, in the case of Iran for example, who have openly threatened to attack American interests globally. We're going to always take that seriously. pic.twitter.com/PSj6SofIsH

Dennis Haskins, an actor known for playing Mr. Belding on the popular sitcom “Saved By The Bell,” has died, according to reports from ABC News and TMZ. He was 75.

“It’s a tragic loss. Everyone loved Mr. Belding and those of us who got to know Dennis, loved him even more. He was a great person, and he loved, I mean absolutely LOVED his fans. He always had time for them, no matter what,” Haskins’ agent Jay Schachter told both publications.

No cause of death was released.

Haskins played the school principal on “Saved By The Bell” and returned to the role for “Saved by the Bell: The New Class.” He also had a wide array of credits in other shows, including “The West Wing,” “Mad Men” and “How I Met Your Mother.”

President Donald Trump was personally involved in pushing and shaping the taxpayer-funded ads that have sparked bipartisan backlash in recent days, according to a CNN report that cited an anonymous source familiar with the matter.

Trump helped drive the campaign and picked the images and videos used, the publication reports.

Lawmakers and ethics experts have raised concerns that the ads violate policies barring the use of government funds for propaganda, while the White House has claimed the ads are public service announcements.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Trump’s role in the campaign.

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A group of UN human rights experts on Monday sounded the alarm about the effects of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy.

“The harms caused by this US Government scheme are no longer hypothetical,” the experts said. “The arrangements are triggering a cascade of human rights violations, increasing risks of torture and ill-treatment and enforced disappearance.”

In its bid to crack down on immigrants in the U.S., the Trump administration has deported roughly 23,000 people to 29 countries and territories that are not their home country, according to the experts’ press release. These deportations have put people at risk of a host of harms, including trafficking, lack of access to healthcare and inadequate access to legal counsel.

“At gravest risk are children, women, persons with disabilities, victims of trafficking, LGBT persons, human rights defenders, stateless persons and other people in extremely vulnerable situations,” according to the experts.

The administration, which is actively fighting limits on these deportations that have been imposed by the courts, has previously argued that they are an “essential tool” in its immigration enforcement efforts.

DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment

A company-initiated recall was ordered this month for thousands of bottles of blood pressure medication, per the FDA.

The recall applies to roughly 13,500 bottles of chlorthalidone tablets manufactured by India-based Inventia Healthcare Limited. According to the recall alert, the affected drug has issues with dissolving at a standard rate, which could reduce the amount absorbed.

Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.

But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming years, according to the prospectus.

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A federal judge ruled Monday that FEMA can’t withhold anti-terrorism funds from local communities that refuse to change their election laws.

D.C. District Court Judge Amir H. Ali ruled the Department of Homeland Security couldn’t withhold 20% of counterterrorism grants for local communities that didn’t comply with certain election requirements.

“The statute does not authorize FEMA to withhold counterterrorism grants until states and high-risk urban areas achieve policy objectives on their own dime,” Ali wrote in his ruling.

FEMA announced in June that it would penalize communities that didn’t comply with specific conditions, including comparing voter rolls to a federal citizenship database and manually auditing at least 5% of all ballots.

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