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Here’s what’s on the radar today: the Lindsay Clancy child-murder trial ends in a mistrial, Mamdani releases long-hidden 9/11 air-quality files, and more.
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On this day in 1947, what insect in a Harvard computer popularized the word "bug"?(answer revealed below!)
(hint: winged stowaway)
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Mother chargedafter Clancy mistrial. ⚖️Files revealpost-9/11 asbestos findings. 🏛️Twelve nations sanctionWest Bank settlements. 🌎
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The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children, ended in a mistrial after a lone juror would not join the other eleven. Her defense argued she was suffering severe postpartum psychosis.
Prosecutors said she was well enough to plan the killings. The hung jury leaves no verdict, and a retrial could struggle to find impartial jurors given the case’s intense national attention.
**A troubling echo:**On the day of the mistrial, an Illinois mother who had closely followed the Clancy case was charged with murdering her two-year-old son. Prosecutors say she texted friends about the trial hours earlier. Her attorney says she, too, was in a psychotic episode.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is publishing over 170,000 pages of long-withheld records on air quality around ground zero, kept from the public for a quarter-century in 68 boxes.
The documents show that for months after the towers fell, officials kept finding asbestos up to half a mile away even as the city called the air safe. Advocates say thousands later fell ill, and the files could aid victims seeking compensation.
**The backlash:**The release is timed to Friday’s 25th anniversary. A petition with over 100,000 signatures, backed by former Governor George Pataki and Rudy Giuliani, urges Mamdani to skip the memorial. He says he will attend without speaking, to honor the families. Trump is holding a separate Pentagon ceremony.
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Today’s Poll:Buried BriefingsMore than 170,000 pages of long-withheld records detail air quality around Ground Zero after 9/11. The release is renewing questions about what officials knew, when they knew it, and the health effects that followed.
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Twelve countries, including the UK, France, and Canada, imposed sanctions on illegal West Bank settlements, with Britain announcing a ban on imports of settlement-made goods.
The UK foreign secretary accused extremist settlers of ethnic cleansing and warned that settlement expansion is ending any hope of a two-state solution. Sweden, Ireland, Spain, and Norway joined the coordinated move, one of the largest against settlement trade.
**Israel’s response:**Foreign Minister Gideon Saar rejected the accusations as lies from a hostile government. Israel moved to close Britain’s East Jerusalem consulate, ended UK training for Palestinian police, and dropped Britain from a Gaza coordination mission. Analysts note the sanctions are largely symbolic, since settlements export little. The US alone backed Israel.
🏺 Customs: Ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows when their pet cats died as a sign of mourning. Even grief had fashion rules.
🦥 Animals: Sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes by slowing their heart rate. Somehow they're better at this than dolphins.
**🍟Food: **In the 1830s, ketchup was briefly sold as a medicine for ailments like diarrhea and indigestion. Before it became a burger topping, it had a surprisingly ambitious medical career.
🤯 WTF: Horses can't vomit. A powerful muscle at the entrance to their stomach prevents food from coming back up. Nature really committed to the one-way system.
TODAY’S QUIZ ANSWER:
A moth
On September 9, 1947, engineers on Harvard’s Mark II computer found a moth stuck in a relay and taped it into the logbook, noting the first actual case of a bug being found. Grace Hopper helped popularize “bug” and “debugging” in computing. The term for a mechanical glitch predated her, but the moth made it famous. That logbook, moth included, now sits in the Smithsonian.
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