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Domestic violence allegations raise questions about holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy trial

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/domestic-violence-allegations-raise-questions-holdout-juror-lindsay-cl-rcna597315

The NBC10 Boston Investigators are uncovering new details about the lone holdout juror from the Lindsay Clancy murder trial.

Court documents and interviews with family members reveal a history of domestic violence allegations. We discovered a pending eviction case tied to months of not paying rent.

The NBC10 Boston Investigators also found an active restraining order against him, while he was listening to evidence in the case.

Those details raise questions about the jury selection process and how the Plymouth County resident was picked for the high-profile case that ended in a mistrial.

NBC10 Boston has repeatedly attempted to contact the juror at home, where his landlord is currently trying to evict him.

We are not identifying him at this time because he has chosen not to speak publicly and the jury list is currently impounded. However, we wanted to share the details that experts say should have raised red flags about how he filled out his juror questionnaire.

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Gayle King floored when told Lindsay Clancy holdout juror is black: ‘I have to sit with that for just a second’
https://nypost.com/2026/09/11/us-news/gayle-king-floored-when-told-lone-lindsay-clancy-holdout-was-only-black-juror/

"CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King was stunned when a juror in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy trial revealed the holdout was the lone black person on the 12-person panel.

During a discussion on the demographic details of the nine female and three male jurors that failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the triple murder trial, Paula Devlin explained how 11 members of the panel were white and just one was a person of color.

“Was the person of color a woman or a man?” King, 71, interjected during the Friday interview.

When Devlin, 65, confirmed the juror in question is a man, King quizzed, “Is the holdout juror… a person of c– a black man?”

Devlin answered in the affirmative, and King reiterated, “A black man is the holdout juror?” to which Devlin replied, “Yes.”

Visibly shocked, King said, “Woah, I have to sit with that for just a second,” and took a pause before continuing the interview.


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President Donald Trump has been accused of bribery and vote buying online after he offered $5000 dividend checks to American adults if Republicans won the midterms.

“I will give $5,000 to every adult if we win,” Trump said and the excerpt of his speech was shared widely online.

One page sharing the video wrote “Trump attempts to bribe people to vote for Republicans in the midterms.”
Trump's $5000 check promise sparks backlash

Several critics were quick to point out that Trump was offering money for votes essentially, ahead of the midterms. “Today Trump tried to buy the midterms by offering all voters a $5,000 bribe in exchange for their votes, provided they spend the cash in the U.S. Since the Fed will have to print the money, the result would be massive inflation, well in excess of anything experienced under Biden,” American stockbroker Peter Schiff noted.

Another remarked “lol. trump openly bribing people to vote for republicans. $5k per person if republicans hold the house and the senate?”. Yet another criticized the president, saying “That's $2 trillion of taxpayers' money in freebies - the Venezuela model. In a real democracy, this is vote-buying, and he would be banned from contesting.”

One person further explained "A sitting US president publicly promised tonight every adult a $5,000 "Trump dividend" if Republicans win full control of Congress, running directly into severe legal and structural barriers. The primary legal threat is 18 U.S.C. § 600, which criminalizes promising government benefits made possible by Congress as a reward for supporting a political party. Tying the money to GOP control fits § 600 far more closely than a standard tax-cut pledge. Vote-buying statutes like 18 U.S.C. § 597 and 52 U.S.C. § 10307(c) also apply."


https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/trump-bribery-vote-buying-5k-dividend-check-offer-at-rnc-meet-ahead-of-midterms-sparks-massive-backlash-101789012172813.html

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Saudi Arabia shut down its crucial East-West crude oil pipeline as a precautionary measure after multiple attacks, the kingdom’s Energy Ministry said Friday in a statement.

The pipeline was targeted in the Riyadh and Madinah regions on Thursday morning, the ministry said. Multiple people were injured in the attacks, it said.

Emergency teams were deployed to secure the pipeline and assess its safety, the ministry said. “Any further developments will be announced in due course,” it said.

The Saudis have relied on the East-West pipeline to bypass the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran war. Riyadh has redirected millions of barrels of crude oil exports per day through the pipeline to the Red Sea.

The Saudis did not say who was behind the attacks or whether the pipeline suffered significant damage. However, Iran-allied Houthi militants in Yemen have escalated strikes on Saudi Arabia this week.

>https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/saudi-arabia-shut-down-east-west-crude-oil-pipeline.html

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> 9/11/2026 (September 11th)
Remember this day? In pastel now!

Pure Matt Drudge: “The morning after the night before”
> https://newrepublic.com/post/215324/trump-falls-asleep-september-11-ceremony
Trump’s approval rating did not go up past the lame 33% mark he’s been at.
> https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3965
Democrats likely to regain the House.
> https://votehub.com/2026-forecast/house/
Coin toss for the Senate.
> https://votehub.com/2026-forecast/senate/
Houthis escalate Trump’s war.
> https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthis-iran-mokha-mandeb-shipping-saudi-025d052a14d9481258d51009a76d0bd6
Houthis advance to Red Sea island making a choke point there.
> https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/iran-houthis-mokha-red-sea-yemen.html

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Thune ready to have ‘conversation’ with Fetterman about joining GOP — as Dems rage against RNC ‘stunt’
https://nypost.com/2026/09/10/us-news/thune-ready-for-conversation-with-fetterman-about-joining-gop-as-dems-rage-against-rnc-stunt/

DALLAS — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told The Post in an exclusive interview Thursday that he’s willing to woo Sen. John Fetterman to join his conference after the Pennsylvania Democrat made a surprise virtual appearance at the Republican convention.

“If and when he is ready to have that conversation, we are certainly ready to have it,” the Republican leader said. “It’s going to be increasingly hard for him to have a home in a Democratic Party that is so far out of step with his core values, and I think that you know what he said yesterday reflects that.”

“I don’t push him on it,” Thune added, speaking on the sidelines of the Republican midterm convention in Dallas the morning after Fetterman appeared on the jumbotron to express support for fellow Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick, a Republican.

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) dismissed the video endorsement as a “stunt,” before taking aim at Fetterman’s “work ethic” and claiming the senator was “just not present” in his official duties.

“My constituents are livid. Those who went out and knocked doors for him are absolutely livid,” Dean said.

Fetterman took the rare step of praising McCormick, who at one point might have been his 2022 opponent, at the Republican convention as questions swirl about whether he will change his party registration — or be ousted in the future by a primary challenger from his own party.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/trump-says-war-iran-will-end-after-election-day-rcna596950

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Charlie Kirk has been transformed into an internet laughing stock, with his legacy destroyed by grifters and his wife.

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/07/charlie-kirk-internet-meme/

In the year since he was gunned down at an event at Utah Valley University, the Turning Point USA founder has gone from a man cut down in his prime to a recurring internet meme, complete with an AI-generated song, “We Are Charlie Kirk,” which hit No. 1 on Spotify’s Viral 50 U.S. ranking. Audio of his killing became a TikTok sound for girlie outfit transformation videos; he’s been inserted into movies like “Avatar” and “The Odyssey”; he’s been AI’d into Studio Ghibli-style art, the final scene of “The Sopranos,” and the video game “Grand Theft Auto.” Even the moment of his death has gotten the meme treatment, with parodies depicting him with Jeffrey Epstein and Benjamin Netanyahu.

The ridicule comes as a product of the American right’s insistence that Kirk’s violent death be taken seriously. They fought back hard against the meme-making and serious critique alike, weaponizing the conservative college-whisperer’s death to broadly crack down on free speech.

President Trump and his allies almost immediately blamed Democrats and “the radical left,” without evidence, for Kirk’s assassination. At the Department of Defense, Secretary Pete Hegseth promised to investigate whether members of the armed forces were inadequately mournful and terminate them. The State Department revoked visas of noncitizens who “celebrated” Kirk’s death. Local cops got in on the civil rights-bashing fun, too: A Tennessee man was arrested for posting a meme in the wake of Kirk’s death, amid a wave of firings in the state on similarly unstable grounds.

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/days-before-oct-7-uae-leader-warned-netanyahu-hamas-was-planning-war-but-pm-did-nothing-with-the-info-report/

Sebastian Scheiner, Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90/ File, AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Some 10 days before Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally warned by the leader of the United Arab Emirates that Hamas was planning a major offensive move against Israel, but did not update Israeli security leaders and did nothing with the information, according to a report on Tuesday.

An Emirati source familiar with the conversation confirmed the Haaretz newspaper’s report to The Times of Israel later Tuesday, and said the warning came during a phone call between the two leaders.

The UAE itself declined to confirm or deny the report, issuing a statement that noted “open lines of communication” with Israel through which “all relevant intelligence has been and continues to be communicated.”

Netanyahu’s office issued a statement Tuesday evening saying that “the press reports are false. No warning was given to the Prime Minister from the United Arab Emirates before October 7. If there was any relevant information, it was passed through intelligence channels between the two countries.”

The Haaretz report cited a new book, “Kidnapped: 843 Days of Abandonment,” by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, based on interviews with dozens of sources including senior officials in Israel and around the world. It said three senior foreign officials were updated on the contents of the 45-minute phone call at the end of September, and it cited a Palestinian adviser to Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed who emigrated from Gaza to the UAE and had direct knowledge of the conversation.

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grindr crashes during the Republican mid term convention after nude pictures of Hasan prominently displayed

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/grindr-crashes-in-dallas-after-huge-surge-in-activity-at-the-republican-national-convention/ar-AA2bWVdu

Grindr, the world's largest LGBTQ+ dating app, reportedly went down as the Republican National Convention's midterm event began on Wednesday.

According to Downdetector, the app reported several outages just as the conservative event kicked off at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. The highest number of reported outages appeared to occur in and around the Dallas area.

A similar incident was reported during the 2024 RNC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "If that's the case, it aligns with Grindr activity during previous national conventions," the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

Former Republican New York Congressman George Santos jokingly called the RNC the "Grindr Super Bowl" in a video posted to X. "Let me tell you something, just come out the closet, boys. Come on, it’s fun! You can be gay and conservative."

"But, look, Grindr’s already outing you anyway based on the hits, and guess who’s in town? It’s all you conservatives. Bye!" In the same video, Santos said he met his husband, Matt Gerard, on Grindr. "I'm openly gay, no qualms about it, proud conservative Republican."

After the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, a Vice article cited Grindr data showing that user traffic in the area around the convention's main hub increased by 66%. Other Grindr hotspots like Times Square, Capitol Hill, Disneyland, and South Beach, Florida, saw no comparable increase in user traffic at the time, according to the outlet.

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https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-907896

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>Trump Floats Renaming New Mexico as ‘New America,’ Prompting Pushback
>The suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the president’s efforts to alter geographic names.

https://archive.is/20260907120929/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/us/politics/trump-rename-new-mexico.html


>President Trump appeared to suggest on Sunday that New Mexico should be renamed “New America,” prompting swift backlash from the state’s Democratic leaders over his latest effort to put an American stamp on geographic names.
>On social media, Mr. Trump shared an image of a map of New Mexico with the word “Mexico” crossed out with a red X and replaced with “America.” The White House re-shared the image shortly after on its official X account.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117225349620809512
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2096657477928448250
>The president posted again several hours later, with what appeared to be an A.I. video of him placing a label with the word “America” over “Mexico” on a “Welcome to New Mexico” road sign.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117226720070374585

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https://www.wired.com/story/a-us-census-report-on-noncitizen-voting-used-bad-data-to-reach-faulty-conclusions/

>A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions
Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/09/08/white-house-removes-controversial-tetris-style-game-from-arcade-website/

>Four of the games on the White House’s arcade website were still available to play as of Tuesday afternoon, including apparent clones of “Flappy Bird” and “Snake,” but the Tetris-style game entitled “Build the Wall” was nowhere to be found.

>It was not immediately clear why the White House removed the game, although the Tetris Company has successfully sued imitators in the past.

>The Tetris Company previously stated it was “not involved” in the game’s production and takes copyright infringement “very seriously,” shortly after the arcade website was unveiled.

>The White House and Tetris did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Forbes.

The White House released a collection of MAGA-themed online arcade games last week, which featured Trump-approved messages modeled after classic games. These include “Flappy Bill,” an apparent riff on the classic mobile game “Flappy Bird,” and “Rio Run,” which is reminiscent of the “Snake” games that came programmed into Nokia cell phones. The White House also released videos previewing the site featuring vintage logos for Xbox, Sega and Pac-Man, among other iconic gaming brandings. So far, no games publishers have announced copyright challenges against the website.