NPR News: 09-03-2026 4PM EDT

0:00Lie from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Frustration is mounting as the judge in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Massachusetts once again instructs the jury to keep deliberating. The jury had sent Judge William Sullivan a note, though the content of that note is unknown. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington says one juror is refusing to follow the judge's instructions. My motion is to remove this juror that refuses to listen to your instruction and reasonable doubt. But the assistant district attorney Jennifer Sprags says the judges questions to each juror on whether they were able to follow the law and giving instruction on reasonable doubt was appropriate. Do not have an objection to what the questions or the re-instruction. The jury has been deadlocked on whether Clancy should be held criminally responsible for killing her three young children in 2023. Her lawyers says no because she'd suffered postpartum psychosis and did not know what she was doing. The prosecution argues Clancy was in her right mind and should go to prison.

1:04A new UN report warns the world is close to crossing a dangerous climate change threshold NPR's Laurence Summer reports. Countries agreed in 2015 to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which is 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. Beyond that, the risks of a hotter planet get much worse. Norms get more intense, sea levels keep rising, and there are major impacts to crops. A new report from the United Nations Environment Program finds that countries have failed to meet that agreement. To limit the damage, emissions from burning fossil fuels need to drop to zero, and carbon emissions may even need to be sucked out of the atmosphere. Either way, the report warns that countries will need to prepare for worsening disasters due to climate change. Laurence Summer and PR News. A new assessment of the deadly floods in Nepal and Tibet recently finds there were warning signs. Days before part of a glacier collapsed into a valley. The section of ice was about 3,000 feet wide, sending a fast-moving wall of water, ice,

2:04and debris, some 80 miles downstream. Trailblazing journalists in activist glory as Steinem has died at the age of 92. Steinem devoted her life to fighting for gender equality and instilled feminist ideals to generations of women. Here's NPR's Julianna Kim. Among her achievements, Gloria Steinem helped form the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971. The group focuses on recruiting, training, and endorsing women for public office. In an interview with NPR at the time, Steinem said women helped men with their political campaigns for generations, yet their concerns remained underrepresented. We're not going to do that anymore. Let the male candidates do their own typing and mimion-grafting and, you know, driving voters to the poll. We're going to work for each other now. Steinem's death was announced on her official Instagram account. It did not provide a cause of death. Julianna Kim, NPR News. From Washington, this is NPR. A tycoon from Malta has been acquitted of planning the 2017 murder of a prominent investigative

3:07journalist from the Mediterranean Island Nation. NPR's Joanna Kisses has details. Half-Nakeda-Wanna Galizia spent years reporting on entrenched corruption in her native Malta, the smallest country in the European Union. She was killed by a car bomb in October 2017. She angered the most powerful people in Malta, her sister Karin Vella told NPR in 2018. They wanted to shut her up. She obviously spoke truth to the power that was threatening to people in power. One of Malta's richest men, Yorgan Fennek, was accused of masterminding Katawanagalitsia's murder. His trial lasted two months. After he was acquitted on Wednesday, free press advocates around the world condemned the verdict. Katawanagalitsia's family said that Malta had failed her and urged prosecutors to pursue corruption charges against Fennek. Joanna Kisses and NPR News. Morgan Dreyts, Surat the highest level since July last year, blamed in part on renewed

4:07fighting the Middle East. NPR Steven Bessahar reports concerns over government debt are driving up the cost of home ownership too. According to Fennek, the average 30-year mortgage is just over 6.7%. That means monthly payments for a typical new mortgage are well more than $100 more expensive than before at the start of the U.S. war against Iran. And another indirect factor affecting mortgages, borrowing costs are going up as investors price in a possible interest rate hike this month from the Federal Reserve. Fets Steven Bessahar, NPR. This week on Newsmakers, after more than a decade in comedy, I wasn't sure that we would get here. Robbie Hoffman is fearless. I had a small feeling I wasn't sure. And fully herself. My line, Lord. Hello. You can go out and flash. Well, I'm not home now. I'm doing something. We plunge into comedy and success with Robbie Hoffman on NPR's Newsmakers.