NPR News: 09-05-2026 3PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Linda Kenyon. Rescue's continuing a poll 10 days after devastating floods hit the country. A woman was pulled from her destroyed home. Separately a joint rescue team of Nepalese military personnel and South Korean disaster experts rescued a man from a hydropower tunnel. At least 1,300 people were killed in the flood that struck on August 26th, an estimated 5,000 people remained missing. The murder case against Massachusetts woman Lindsey Clancy has ended in a mistrial. Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to try her again. Pryanka Dayall and Makluski from Member Station WBUR has the details. After six days, the jury remained deadlocked. Clancy's defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, argued she was not responsible for killing her children because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. Reddington said one juror stood in the way of a not guilty verdict.

1:04This is one individual. It was 11-1 from an acquittal and one individual who recognized that there was reasonable doubt and refused to apply the law. District Attorney Tim Cruz said he was thinking of the victims. This was and has always been about getting justice for those three little babies. Both sides returned to court at the end of the month. For NPR News, I'm Pryanka Dayall Makluski in Boston. The case has brought issues of maternal mental health to the forefront. California's Attorney General is investigating open AI over how its systems hacked into another artificial intelligence company. As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, more than a dozen other states are also probing the incident. California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office says state investigators are examining the hack of startup Hugging Face, which was breached by rogue open AI bots. Bonta tells NPR to statement that California authorities are weighing the AI industry's compliance with consumer protection, data security, and criminal laws.

2:04Montana, Alabama, and several other states have launched similar probes. Open AI's agents went haywire and autonomously hacked into hugging faces systems during a cyber security test. The episode is spark calls from state and federal lawmakers for greater oversight of the rapidly advancing frontier of AI development. Separately, open AI has announced its most powerful system yet, known as Astra. The company says it has beefed up guardrails. Bobby Allen and Pryanka News. The hacking incident of Hugging Face occurred in July this year and was described by open AI as an isolated incident. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been meeting today with US envoys Steve Whitkopf and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin. The talks are aimed at ending Russia's war against Ukraine. The Kremlin had ordered a three-day halt on strikes against Kiev while the Americans are in the region. You're listening to NPR. President Trump's push to rename Lake Ontario is Lake America has unexpectedly helped revive

3:07one of the internet's oldest mapping brands. The Kuest says more than two million people have downloaded its app since it refused to make the change. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports, MapQuest says new users appear to be sticking around. The company remains at number one on Apple's free app chart ahead of chat GPT and TikTok Pro after saying it will continue using the name Lake Ontario. General manager Doug Berger says the attention has translated into more than just downloads. People installing the app on their phone has surpassed two million since last week. It's not just people downloading the app to protest. They're actually using it for their daily navigation. Berger says the challenge now is turning an unexpected viral moment into a permanent comeback for the 30-year-old mapping service. Windsor Johnston NPR news. Romanian prosecutors have indicted social media influencer Andrew Tate on charges including

4:11trafficking minors and money laundering. His brother Tristan Tate also is implicated. The charges stem from an investigation that began with their arrest in Bucharest in 2022. Authorities alleged the brothers co-wurst victims into producing pornographic material for their online business. The Tate's who are dual US British citizens have denied the allegations. I'm Linda Kenyon, NPR News in Washington. As the political landscape shifts beneath our feet, we're all vulnerable to a well-funded distraction economy determined to take our eye off the bomb. Our weekly politics series, if you can keep it, is here to help where our focus is not the horse race, but the state. We tackle the big political stories of the day and why they matter for our democracy. And me Todd Zwilland. And me Jen White on the 1A podcast from WAMU and NPR.