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Paula Devlin, one of the other jurors, told CBS Mornings that the panel had spent several days trying to convince Desronvil to change his mind.”We all worked together to convince ourselves once we got to that point where it was 10 to 2,” she said.The jury foreperson, a retired fifth-grade teacher, described not being able to reach a verdict as “awful” and an “emotional rollercoaster”.She told NBC that Desronvil had “admitted he had reasonable doubt”, but as she started filling out the verdict sheets, he apparently said: “But I’m still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason…

America’s centuries-old conflict with wolves took another turn earlier this month when President Donald Trump ordered the animals be stripped of federal protections across several U.S. states, claiming the action will provide economic relief for ranchers.  Alongside a suite of regulatory reviews to “promote financial viability” for ranchers, Trump ordered the Interior secretary to begin the process of removing gray and Mexican wolves from the endangered species list, and directed the Agriculture secretary to encourage states to make it easier for ranchers to shoot wolves. But an Inside Climate News review of state and federal data indicates that wolves account…

King Frederik X of Denmark has opened the first full-scale CO2 storage site in the EU, led by INEOS Energy, with partners Harbour Energy and the Danish North Sea Fund (Nordsøfonden).Source: INEOS Project Greensand was in December 2022 granted an exploration permit for the injection and storage of up to 15,000 tons of CO2 in Nini West over a four-month period. This was followed by a world first on March 8, 2023, with the first-ever injection of CO2 in the North Sea. INEOS, the day-to-day operator, and its partners reached the final investment decision (FID) in December 2024 to invest in the Greensand Future…

Landmark legislation designed to alert consumers to where their drugs were made is headed for a full Senate vote, but safety experts say the transparency bill has been stripped of two of its most critical provisions. The Clear Labels Act was introduced earlier this year by Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., after lawmakers and drug safety experts called for more transparency in the industry. Last year, a ProPublica investigation revealed that the U.S. kept importing generic drugs from foreign factories after inspectors had identified quality and safety lapses at the sites, including leaks, mold and contaminated water.…

LONDON—AI agents are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions and accomplish goals set by humans. Stringer/Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images Are China’s Rare Earths Really a Potent Weapon? Daniel Gros The available evidence indicates that Chinese rare-earth export restrictions would cost the…

Posts shared online falsely claim the online bank Monzo has “officially” launched its own online slots platform.A spokesperson for Monzo has confirmed that this is not a genuine casino site from the company and said the posts were allowing individuals to “take advantage of our much-loved brand to trick people”. The posts often use the real Monzo logo to give the false impression that the business has launched its own casino. However, none of them link to the company’s real website.One post uses an image of a woman holding a large cheque in front of a ‘Monzo slots’ stand, which…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has stirred up more controversy than most things in the past five years. Ever since the introduction of accessible generative AI in 2022, institutions, universities, students, scholars, activists, cognitive specialists, public policymakers and members of the public have all been divided over the ethics of its use. As of the beginning of this month, even the founders of AI companies have taken the same stance. Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, released an essay calling on AI companies to slow the development of their most advanced models, as the safeguards currently in place are unable to keep…

Canada and the US are locked in an escalating trade dispute, with each side imposing tit-for-tat tariffs after bilateral talks collapsed last month.”Today our societies are being battered by new storms,” Carney said during his address, naming them as climate change, “the erosion of democratic norms” and the “weaponisation of trade”.”Economic integration is now being weaponised, tariffs being used to exert pressure,” he said.”Financial mechanisms have been used for coercion. Supply chains constitute weak points to be exploited.”He said a Canada-EU alliance would create a “beacon for other democracies”, while stressing the two sides were not seeking to form a…

Former cabinet minister and Labour Party deputy leader Lord Tom Watson has become a senior vice president at US tech firm Palantir.Announcing his appointment on X, Lord Watson said Palantir was “the most interesting company on the planet, doing work of real consequence”.He said the company had “challenges” and that while some criticism was “propaganda” there were “legitimate questions about large technology companies and sovereign control”.Green MP Sian Berry said: “This is yet another example of the corrosive revolving door between politics and big business lobbying that has no place in public life.” She added: “Palantir, with its work for…

18 September 2026Compared with July 2026:median consumer perceptions of inflation over the past 12 months were unchanged, while median expectations for inflation increased across all horizons;expectations for nominal income growth over the next 12 months were unchanged, as were expectations for spending growth over the next 12 months;expectations for economic growth over the next 12 months were unchanged, while the expected unemployment rate in 12 months’ time decreased;expectations for growth in the price of homes over the next 12 months were unchanged, as were expectations for mortgage interest rates in 12 months’ time.InflationIn August the median rate of perceived inflation…