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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2026
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In today’s newsletter: How prosecutors in the Lindsay Clancy case may have undermined their own argument. Measles cases in the U.S. reach a 35-year high. And meet the University of Tennessee’s new mascot.
Here’s what to know today.
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Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder trial ended in a mistrial yesterday after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict, despite a last-minute appeal by her attorney to prevent the outcome.
Plymouth County prosecutors must now decide whether to retry Clancy before a new jury on first-degree murder charges or pursue lesser charges. Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, said yesterday he was ready to return to court as soon as possible to argue the next steps.
The jury was tasked with deciding whether Clancy, 36, should be convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three young children. Prosecutors argued that she deliberately planned the killings. But by acknowledging that Clancy was struggling with her mental health, they may have strengthened a key argument made by the defense, legal experts said.
NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos said the outcome was “no surprise.” Veteran Boston defense attorney Brad Bailey called the first-degree murder charge “an overcharge,” a view shared by Heather Cucolo, a professor at New York Law School.
So why did prosecutors charge Clancy with first-degree murder rather than pursue lesser charges? The jury may have been a factor.
Read the full analysis here.
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Since the start of the Iran war, President Donald Trump has sounded definitive about its endgame. But when reporters asked him yesterday when he expects the war to end, Trump told them in the Oval Office: “I don’t know. I can’t tell you.” In other words, the war Trump has repeatedly claimed to have won is settling into a low-boil conflict that the White House acknowledges could continue for the foreseeable future.
The Iranian regime has so far shown a willingness to absorb periodic U.S. bombing raids and economic pressure while demonstrating that it can rattle energy markets and its Gulf neighbors with attacks of its own. Now the Trump administration is trying to “economically asphyxiate” Iran, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put it — but that strategy could take time to work.
The challenges facing the U.S.’s economic pressure campaign.
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A federal judge temporarily blocked a bid by President Trump for the U.S. Postal Service to exert control over mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, who previously blocked a related effort on mail voting, found the new Postal Service rule dictating how mail-in ballots can be sent is likely unlawful and unconstitutional and that the rushed time frame being pushed by the administration will make voter disenfranchisement “practically inevitable.”
The action comes a day after the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to override a temporary order that Talwani issued last week halting the rule.
The latest on the case.
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- A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to identify the people who came up with the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund as part of his settlement with the IRS.
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U.S. measles cases hit a 35-year high of 3,134 cases as outbreaks grow in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio.
Two people with measles have died in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, including a 6-week-old baby girl, the county coroner said. At least 115 more people in the state have been diagnosed with measles in the last week, the health department said.
Wisconsin has 144 cases, up from 26 a month ago. And 129 cases are now in Ohio, up from just over 60 in the same time period. Experts say the true number of people who have contracted measles across the country is undoubtedly much higher, because many cases go untested.
What else to know about the outbreaks.
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- Redoing the reflecting pool
- Building a White House ballroom
- Renaming the Kennedy Center
- Making a National Garden of American Heroes
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When fans tune into the University of Tennessee’s football games this season, they’ll notice a familiar face: the program’s mascot, a bluetick coonhound named Neyland, aka Smokey XII (he goes by both). But this isn’t the same dog they’ve seen roam the field in past years. In fact, he’s the 12th canine mascot in the school’s history, hence the name. NBC News NOW correspondent Priscilla Thompson and producer Juliette Arcodia went to the Knoxville campus to learn about what it takes to prepare Smokey XII for his first season with the Volunteers. With more than 100,000 screaming fans, booming sound effects and bright fireworks during night games, it won’t be easy.
— Greg Rosenstein, sports editor
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- A New Hampshire man who nearly died two years ago could now have “decades” left after surviving a record 271 days with a transplanted pig kidney before he received a human kidney.
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- Maria Bartiromo’s lawyer said that the Fox News anchor was not fired from the company.
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- For subscribers: The Oscars season used to unofficially begin with Telluride Film Festival, happening this weekend. But with some big titles skipping festivals altogether, are the events losing their pull?
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