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More than 10 expert witnesses testified for both the defence and the prosecution, including some who clashed with lawyers over Clancy’s mental health. Over the course of her treatment, Clancy was put on over a dozen medications, and sought help from a suicide hotline and the emergency room. Clancy’s team tried to convince jurors she had postpartum psychosis, a rare condition in which postpartum women can experience mania, depression or a mixture of both. Clancy claims she experienced hallucinations and delusions.One day in the courtroom grew particularly heated as one of Clancy’s psychiatrists, Jennifer Tufts, testified for the prosecution that…

Karl Johnson has had a whirlwind three months.Before May, he was a businessman who would drive around his home city of Wakefield wishing the potholes could be fixed.After standing for Reform UK in the local elections, the keen musician found himself the leader of Wakefield Council after his party won 58 of the 63 seats on offer and ended decades of Labour majority rule.It hasn’t all been plain sailing – already two councillors, Steve Lewis and Rhys Carr, have left Reform to sit as independents, and a third, Nick Farmer, has been suspended by the party.It is now 100 days…

The UK Foreign Office has been asked to intervene to secure the release of a British-Egyptian woman who it is claimed has been arrested in Cairo because of her sister’s political activism.Eman el-Shazly, a 45-year-old based in Birmingham, was arrested on 16 August while visiting Egypt. Her lawyers say she has been detained in an attempt to silence her sister Mona, a relentless and harsh critic of the Egyptian government on her UK-based YouTube channel.Her two brothers have already spent three years in jail and, in May, were rearrested. They were previously held in pre-trial detention, facing charges of “promoting…

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday night, citing a source familiar with the matter. Business Insider, which first reported over the weekend that Hugging Face was fielding takeover interest, reported Wednesday night that the talks — which would value the company at more than $13 billion — had not yet produced a signed agreement and could still atomize. TechCrunch reached out earlier to both Nvidia and Hugging Face for comment, and neither has yet responded. (Nvidia’s silence is particularly noteworthy here as the company has moved quickly in the past to address…

Houston-based healthcare management and operations company Nutex Health Inc. (NASDAQ: NUTX) has suffered a data breach that could involve sensitive information.  Nutex Health is a healthcare services and operations company that operates micro-hospitals, specialty hospitals, and outpatient departments. The company revealed in an SEC filing this week that it recently detected unauthorized access to its network. Hackers accessed and exfiltrated files stored on some servers, including information that may be confidential or private. Nutex is now trying to determine whether information related to patients, employees, providers, business and financial operations, and intellectual property was stolen. “As of the date of…

Bitcoin is no longer oversold but there’s still time to buy, according to Fairlead Strategies’ Katie Stockton.  Speaking on Tuesday to CNBC, the financial research firm’s managing partner said that Bitcoin cleared its 200-day moving average back in May, meaning that a potential breakout could be coming.  Bitcoin started rallying last week on news that the Treasury would at least double the size of its liquidity-support buyback operations. It’s up over 22% over a seven-day period, and was recently trading for $78,915. The coin traded above $81,000 on Monday.  JUST IN: Fairlead Strategies founder tells CNBC Bitcoin is “not over…

As the 2026 El Niño strengthens in the equatorial Pacific, satellites are capturing the first major signs of disruption to the marine food web. According to by NASA’s Earth Observatory observations, satellite measurements show a substantial drop in surface concentrations of chlorophyll across the Central Pacific compared with neutral conditions in June 2025. Chlorophyll is the pigment that helps plants absorbs sunlight to generate energy, and its reduction indicates a decline in phytoplankton, the base of the ocean’s food webs. Hyung-Gyu Lim, an associate professor of oceanography at Chonnam National University in South Korea, told Mongabay by email…

It was in the summer of 2004 that I stopped understanding my own people. I was standing on a sweltering market square in Aschersleben, the town where I was born, picturesquely situated on the northern edge of the Harz mountains. A large crowd of angry people had gathered in front of a stage to protest about the welfare reforms (or, as many saw them, welfare cuts) introduced by the Social Democratic-Green coalition government under chancellor Gerhard Schröder. They chanted “We are the people!”, waved handpainted placards and seemed utterly beside themselves.I had gone to secondary school nearby, volunteered at the…

Claim: In late August 2026, the White House posted a “Magic Deportation Bus” graphic to social media, referencing the 1990s educational cartoon “The Magic School Bus.” Rating: In August 2026, social media users shared (archived) an apparent screenshot of an Instagram post by the White House the depicted “The Magic Deportation Bus” in a spoof of the 1990s educational cartoon “The Magic School Bus.” Users highlighted the image purportedly uploaded by the White House on Instagram (archived), TikTok (archived), Facebook (archived) and X (archived). Snopes readers searched the site wondering whether the White House really posted the image. The claim…

The rediscovery of the Altalena has revived an old Israeli fault line, but beneath it lies a broad consensus on Jewish supremacy, occupation and military force.Published On 27 Aug 202627 Aug 2026Share Israel is not heading for civil war on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoOn August 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood outside the Etzel Museum on Tel Aviv’s seafront after the wreck of the Altalena was discovered. The ship, which belonged to the right-wing Zionist paramilitary organisation Etzel, was shelled by the newly formed Israeli military in 1948. Netanyahu promised to raise it from the seabed and turn it…