Clinicians are taking a closer look at two familiar hormones
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor |
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Good morning! It’s Saturday. Here are today’s top stories. |
- The judge in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, who killed her three children in 2023, declared a mistrial on Friday after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
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A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing the U.S. Postal Service from implementing a regulation that tightens rules around mail-in voting.
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The U.S. economy reversed a summertime hiring slowdown as August payrolls accelerated at their best pace since March. Last month’s nonfarm payrolls surged by 162,000, far higher than the consensus estimate of 56,000, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics—a government agency tracking jobs, inflation, and wages.
- U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will be presenting a peace proposal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine during upcoming visits to Moscow and Kyiv, according to President Trump.
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🍵 Health: Alzheimer’s may be the brain’s energy crisis.
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Serotonin is often called the “feel-good” hormone, and melatonin is best known for regulating sleep.
But could these two hormones also play a role in influencing the shape of the spine? A small but growing number of clinicians and physical therapists think so. Our health reporter Zena le Roux spoke to a physical therapist whose scoliosis patient was back to riding horses on her farm after nutritional and movement therapy. |
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Defendant Lindsay Clancy watches jurors enter the courtroom, as the jury resumes deliberations, in Plymouth Superior Court, in Plymouth, Mass., on Sept. 4, 2026. (Greg Derr/Pool via Reuters) |
The judge in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, who killed her three children in 2023, declared a mistrial on Sept. 4 after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict. Judge William Sullivan had earlier paused a formal mistrial ruling to give Clancy’s defense attorneys an opportunity to file an emergency appeal with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The appeal was denied, following a brief hearing.
In an emergency hearing via Zoom on Friday afternoon, the defense had asked the state’s top court to order the judge to remove a holdout juror or inquire into their ability to apply the law. Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz told reporters that his team had not yet decided whether to pursue a second trial. The next hearing in the case is set for Sept. 29.
“Children were murdered, and it’s our job to seek justice,” he said. “I appreciate the fact that there are strong feelings and opinions tied to this case. However, our job is to set aside our feelings and focus solely on the facts.”
The mistrial ruling came after the deadlocked jury entered its seventh day of deliberations following a nearly six-week trial.
Earlier in the day, the judge rejected a request by the defense to dismiss one juror who refused to side with his 11 colleagues. On Thursday, the jury foreperson sent a note to the court, and, according to defense attorney Kevin Reddington, it indicated that one juror was not properly applying the concept of reasonable doubt.
Sullivan told the court on Friday that a relevant case says “the discharge of a deliberating juror is a sensitive undertaking, fraught with potential error.” Since the holdout juror had not refused to deliberate and was not physically sick or unwilling to follow the rules, there was no reason to dismiss him, Sullivan said.
After deliberating briefly, the jury foreperson reported in a note that “with a heavy heart” the jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict. (More) |
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House Committee on Rules chairwoman US Representative Virginia Foxx, Republican from North Carolina in Washington, on September 2, 2026. (Kent Nishimura / AFP via Getty Images) |
- Thirty-three House Democrats joined all but two Republicans on Sept. 3 to pass a bill that would strip federal student aid from colleges and universities that commercially boycott Israel.
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The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party said China uses commercial vessels to collect intelligence and advance military objectives, as new allegations involving Chinese state-owned shipping giant COSCO drew renewed scrutiny in Washington.
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An attorney representing Maria Bartiromo said that the longtime cable news host was not fired from Fox News, a day after the network announced she would be leaving the company. “The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false,” a spokesperson for attorney Bryan Freedman, Bartiromo’s attorney, said in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times.
- President Donald Trump said on Sept. 4 that MAGA Inc., his Super PAC, was allocating as much as $500 million for the midterm elections.
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The U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency stay preserving discounted advertising rates for political party committees through the November midterm elections.
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An auto industry alliance is urging Congress to permanently ban Chinese connected vehicles and related technology from the U.S. market, citing national security and economic concerns.
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Supreme Court justices turned away a challenge to New York’s COVID-19 mandate for healthcare workers.
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A district judge ruled that New Jersey can continue restricting federal immigration officers from using state property for immigration enforcement-related purposes.
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MORNING READ: A 10-foot shipping container rises from the Painted Desert in northern Arizona on a 100-degree morning in early July. What began as a tribute to a former CEO has become a place of reflection and renewal for those facing major life transitions. | - A horde of rogue OpenAI agents took over a German website earlier this year and used it as a message board to communicate with other artificial intelligence agents, according to a new investigation.
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Federal auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into whether Tesla properly certified its new Cybercab for use on public roads.
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A federal grand jury indicted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Christian Castro, for allegedly lying to authorities about details that led up to the shooting of an illegal Venezuelan national earlier this year in Minnesota.
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The Treasury Department building is pictured at dusk in Washington on June 6, 2019. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo) |
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Norway’s $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund has proposed trimming its holdings of global government bonds, including U.S. Treasury securities.
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The U.S. Treasury Department unveiled new economic sanctions against the Turkish bank Golden Global Yatirim Bankasi Anonim Sirketi, alleging the institution has provided a financial lifeline to Iran.
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Argentina threatened sanctions against British oil companies involved in the development of oil fields near the Falkland Islands, which are claimed by both nations.
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Volkswagen won board approval for a restructuring plan that includes cutting about 50,000 additional jobs worldwide and simplifying its vehicle lineup, as Europe’s biggest automaker seeks to improve profitability.
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- Let Americans Build, Work, and Trade Free of Bureaucrats—by Joel Salatin (Read)
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Don’t Carve Your Pumpkin, Eat It—by Jeffrey A. Tucker (Read)
- Hydrogen: Energy’s Version of Waiting for Godot—by James Varney (Read)
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How to Tackle Domestic Extremists’ Foreign Enablers—by Daniel McCarthy (Read)
- You Can Deport the Farmworker. You Can’t Deport the Cost.—by Mollie Engelhart (Read)
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Cottage cheese pancakes… is that really a thing? Yes, says Jennifer Segal. And if you still think it sounds like sacrificing flavor for health, you couldn’t be more wrong, she says. Sure, the cottage cheese gives it an on-trend protein kick, but more importantly it adds a tang and richness you won’t get from your usual pancake recipe. |
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