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Holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy trial faced domestic violence allegation, but charge dismissed, records show

2026-09-13T15:15:00-0400 / CBS News

By Shanelle Kaul

Updated on: September 13, 2026 / 3:20 PM EDT / CBS News

The lone holdout juror in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy murder trial was accused of domestic violence in September 2021, according to the Brockton, Massachusetts, Police Department.

The police report says the juror’s 13-year-old nephew called 911 after he said his uncle and aunt got into an argument.

The report says that the juror, who has not been identified, allegedly grabbed his wife by the throat and threw her into a dresser.

The juror was subsequently charged with one count of domestic violence assault and battery. He pleaded not guilty.

The criminal charge was later dismissed, according to court records.

CBS News has reached out to the juror and his family members for comment, but has not yet heard back. CBS News is not publishing his name, as the court has not yet made the jury list public.

CBS News Legal Analyst Caroline Polisi said the real issue here is whether the juror lied when filling out the juror questionnaire.

“The test is whether he made purposeful misrepresentations during the jury selection process. If he did, that’s a crime,” she said, adding that “an arrest is not an automatic disqualification for serving on a jury.”

The juror court questionnaires are sealed as part of the official court record.

“It’s unlikely we will find out whether the juror made misrepresentations unless there is an official court-sanctioned inquiry,” Polisi said.

When asked what impact this could have had on this trial, Polisi said, “Typically this could be a reason to undermine a guilty verdict, but because in this case a mistrial has already been declared, it’s unclear how this will affect the case moving forward.”

Clancy admitted to killing her three children, but jurors were not able to agree on whether or not she should be held criminally responsible. Several jurors and the defense attorney indicated the jury was split 11 to 1 in favor of finding her not criminally responsible due to evidence of her mental illness.

On Sept. 4, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial after the jury said it was deadlocked three times.

District Attorney Timothy Cruz has not yet announced whether the state will be retrying Clancy. The next court hearing is scheduled for Sept. 29 at Plymouth Superior Court.

Transcript: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sept. 13, 2026

2026-09-13T12:10:00-0400 / CBS News

Updated on: September 13, 2026 / 12:58 PM EDT / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Sept. 13, 2026.

WEIJIA JIANG: We turn now to Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox. His new book is titled “Off Ramp: How to be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt.” He joins us from Salt Lake City. Good morning, Governor Cox.

GOV. SPENCER COX: Good morning, Weijia. It’s great to be with you again.

WEIJIA JIANG: Thank you for being here. Let’s start with AI because just this morning, House Speaker Mike Johnson said we don’t need everyone to panic and Congress should resist jumping in and imposing some sort of moratorium. But I wonder what role does the federal government need to be playing right now?

GOV. COX: Well, a much bigger role than the role that they’re actually playing. I don’t think the speaker has to worry at all about Congress not acting. That’s kind of all they do. They’re- they’re very good at that, and I think this is- this is a very important moment for- for all of us. We’ve seen the reports. We know what’s possible. The Hugging Face incident that you’ve already talked about should be very concerning to- to everyone, and- and the people that know the most about this are- are the most concerned right now. And I think that- that means that Congress actually should get together and at least have a conversation. I’m- I’m embarrassed by the- the response from Congress to just about everything in our country right now.

WEIJIA JIANG: And have you spoken to any members, any Republicans, about this lack of urgency?

GOV. COX: Yeah, so in the past- just in the past 48 hours, members of my team have reached out to a couple members of our delegation who share our concerns. We’re- we’re looking at, of course, at what- what Dario and and- and Sam and Elon have- have all been saying now, just in the last 24 hours. I think our thinking on this is- is kind of moving for sure. But it’s very clear, and we’ve known this now for- for a little while that- that the possibility of an existential event happening is- is growing and growing much more rapidly than anyone projected, and it’s- it’s really important that- that the government gets involved. And we- we can do this in the right way. I’m not saying a moratorium. I’m not saying shutting things down. Government doesn’t get this right often either, but we should be at the table working together, and that’s what we’ve done in Utah. We have a pro-human AI approach. We actually have these companies at the table with government working together on making sure we protect the public.

WEIJIA JIANG: Governor, we have so much more to talk to you about, but we have to take a quick break. We will be right back on Face the Nation.

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WEIJIA JIANG: Welcome back to Face the Nation. We return to our conversation with Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox. Governor, I want to turn to the midterm elections because we are still waiting for a final decision from the Supreme Court that could have a huge impact on mail-in ballots. In your state, 95% of voters used a mail-in ballot in the June primary elections, and I wonder- would the new postal service rules in the president’s executive order make it harder for people to vote?

GOV. COX: Well, it would certainly have an impact here in the state of Utah. Unlike many other states, we took about a decade to- to implement vote-by-mail. We have tremendous security measures in place, and we’re adding more all of the time. So, I understand some of the concerns that have been brought up, especially in other states. We do it very well here in the state of Utah, but we’ll- we’ll be prepared for- for whatever decision happens and make sure that- that we’re ready so that everyone gets to vote. Everyone who should be voting will be able to vote in Utah.

WEIJIA JIANG: Well, no matter how people vote, prices and inflation remains a essential issue for them. And we know that gas prices nationwide are still over $4 a gallon. Inflation is still at 3.4% and hourly wage averages drop slightly by 0.1%. Here is what President Trump had to say about affordability at the recent midterm convention.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They used the word affordability, right? Fake. They are so fake because it was them that caused the affordability, to use their word, crisis, and I’m bringing the prices way down.

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WEIJIA JIANG: The president’s message does not match what many Americans are feeling right now, and I wonder if this disconnect is going to hurt Republicans in November.

GOV. COX: Well, look, affordability has certainly been on the ballot now for- for several years. We- we understand that, and- and the- the conflict, the- the war that’s happening in Iran right now is, I mean, it’s no secret that that’s- that’s been really hard on gas prices. There are lots of other pieces of this that I think are important, and we appreciate the work that the administration has been doing to- to bring down housing prices. We have to build more. We really have to change the mentality. We need permitting reform. We’re getting a lot of that out of the administration, but again, we need Congress to act so that we can build the infrastructure that will help us bring down prices, especially around housing, which is still the- the- the- I think the worst part of the affordability crisis right now- is that we have an entire generation of young people that aren’t going to be able to afford a home, and you can’t start a family if you don’t have a home. There are just so many downstream effects on this. We- we have to be able to build again in this country. That’s happening now more than it has in the past, but Congress still has to get permitting reform done, and we’re very anxious and hopeful that Republicans and Democrats, by the way, who all agree on this. My Democratic colleagues, governors across the country, and in Congress believe in permitting reform for the first time in- in a generation at least. And so, we- we can get this done and- and show that America is back and that we can start building again.

WEIJIA JIANG: Well, one way President Trump wants to make ends meet a little bit easier is to give every American adult $5,000 if the Republicans win the midterms, and he says he doesn’t need Congress’s approval to do it as a fiscal conservative. What would you advise the president about this $1.2 trillion cost?

GOV. COX: Well, look, I think a lot of us are really worried. I know I have been for a long time about the- the national debt. We- we just passed the 40 trillion mark. It seems like that’s- that’s unsustainable. And we know we had an inflation crisis because of the, you know, the funds that were handed out during COVID, and that led to a significant spike in inflation that we’re still dealing with from the the past administration, from the Biden administration, where we saw inflation rates that we haven’t seen since I was five years old back in the, you know, the- the late 70s and the early 80s. So- so I’m- I’m very concerned about those inflationary pressures that- that we’re seeing. Again, I think there’s- there’s other things that we can do to help bring down prices. But- but I will also say, look, at- at a time when- I mean you’re going to talk about the polls later. The polls haven’t been great for Republicans heading into these midterms. Then- then the Democrats decide to go full socialist on us and- and- and really handed us Republicans a big win. And I think- I think that it’s going to be closer when it comes to the midterms. So I’m feeling much more bullish about- about our chances as we head into November.

WEIJIA JIANG: Governor, let’s talk about your new book about political polarization. You call for Americans to disagree better. You write about the hours after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and you urged Americans to find an off-ramp, or it’s going to get much, much worse, you warn. Here’s what the president and vice president said at the midterm convention this week.

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DONALD TRUMP: They’re not socialists. They’re not democrats. They’re communists. We will reject these radical left lunatics. We will demolish the extremists, fanatics, lunatics, and criminals who want to destroy our country- they want to destroy the country.

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: The Democrats are the party of hatred.

CROWD: Devil!

VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: They’re the party that despises America and the people who built it.

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WEIJIA JIANG: Does this language help America find an off-ramp, Governor?

GOV. COX: Well, I- you know, I wish you had cherry picked some- also some clips from- from the left saying similar things about Republicans. This is the- this is the nature of the discourse right now in- in our country, and we just, you know, we just- we just commemorated sadly- it’s been a year since Charlie Kirk was assassinated right here in Utah, you were front and center for another attack against the- the president. You were on stage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I- you- you spoke very eloquently afterwards about what that- what that felt like. What I do is I talk about all the political violence that we’ve seen, the significant increase over the past 10 years, threats against member of- members of Congress has- has increased tenfold- have increased tenfold in the past 10 years. Not a 10% increase, a 10 times increase, and that’s what I’m- I’m so concerned about. We should be able to have policy differences. We should be trying to persuade- we should be very passionate about our beliefs and pointing out the things we disagree with in our opponents- that is fair game. It always has been. In fact, it’s critical to our country’s survival. But- but- but I’m not- I’m not a huge fan of- of name-calling and–

WEIJIA JIANG: Governor–

GOV. COX: –and just again, the- the attacks that we- we- we place on each other.

WEIJIA JIANG: Governor, I’m not a huge fan of cutting you off, but I’m sorry, we have to go, and I appreciate your time this morning. Thank you so much.

GOV. COX: Thanks, Weijia.

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Political debate over AI intensifies amid warnings about ‘catastrophic risk’

2026-09-13T17:22:37.247Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/13/politics/ai-washington-regulation-politics-obama-trump

The debate around artificial intelligence is ramping up in Washington, with Democratic lawmakers sounding alarms on the dangers they say the technology poses and Republican leaders suggesting those concerns are inflated and secondary to winning the AI race with China.

Some Democratic lawmakers last week pressured House Speaker Mike Johnson to reconvene the chamber immediately to work on AI regulation, citing what they describe as the “catastrophic risk posed by advanced artificial intelligence.” But the Louisiana Republican on Sunday resisted those calls, instead saying industry leaders should meet with lawmakers to find “balance” in any potential guardrails.

“If Congress just races in and does some sort of emergency session to try to regulate AI, we will lose the race to China, and that is a threat to every single American,” Johnson said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Meanwhile, former President Barack Obama told Democrats to make artificial intelligence regulation a central part of their agenda during a private fundraiser Thursday, warning that the technology could be dangerous “if we don’t get on top of it.”

In a fireside chat with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Obama said whoever runs in the 2028 presidential election should have a “very clear plan” on AI, adding that he saw the need for a “blueprint” on AI guardrails even at the end of his presidency a decade ago.

“Certainly, if I were running for president next year, this would be one of my central agendas, and I would have a very clear plan, and I would talk about this, and I would say, ‘Here’s our plan for safety, here’s our plan for making sure our kids are not corrupted by this,’” he said, per excerpts of the remarks provided to CNN by his office. Obama’s remarks were first reported by the New York Times.

Concerns over the rapid acceleration of AI reached a fever pitch after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote in a 3,800-word essay Saturday that the race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown. The call to action came after an OpenAI test model breached the Hugging Face online platform, deepening concerns about cybersecurity.

In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Saturday, Amodei called on industry leaders to work together to avoid “the wrong paths” and the possibility of AI harming humanity.

One Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, resigned from the firm over worries that the industry wasn’t doing enough to prevent AI from destroying humanity by the end of the decade.

Obama said Democrats need a plan to get their agenda on AI underway should they win the House majority in this year’s midterms.

Speaking to Jeffries, who is presumed to be speaker of the House should Democrats prevail in November, Obama said, “Once you are speaker, I would strongly urge that the Democrats put together a framework for a very public conversation, and you can break it out into three or four or five issues.”

Obama stressed that the framework should be centered on the reality that the technology can’t be stuffed “back into a box.”

“This is something that is moving very fast in private hands, and if we don’t get on top of it, I think can be dangerous. If we do get on top of it, I do think it’s beneficial,” Obama said, laying out examples of AI’s potential use in drug development and finding pathways to a clean energy future.

“We don’t want to shut off those opportunities, but we have to understand that this is a tool,” he said.

Jeffries agreed with the former president in a statement provided to CNN on Sunday.

“President Obama is correct that decisive action must be taken on Artificial Intelligence,” he said, adding, “In the majority, we will move urgently on this issue with a legislative response that recognizes the importance of American companies continuing to lead in the Artificial Intelligence area, while putting in place meaningful guardrails that protect the American people from bad actors and the very real damage that can be done to humanity.”

Jeffries also accused Republicans of having “abdicated their responsibility to govern” and said Democrats “will not repeat their error.”

A source familiar with Obama’s thinking said the former president sees Amodei’s letter and similar reaction from other tech moguls as an encouraging development.

But President Donald Trump waved off their concerns, saying he is not worried about any existential threat posed by AI, focusing instead on the US winning in its development of the technology over China.

“We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way,” Trump said to reporters at the Amgen Irish Open on Sunday.

About the concerns expressed by Democrats and others over the technology, the president said, “I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up, and they’re bringing up things that won’t happen.”

One of Trump’s top economic advisers, Kevin Hassett, also rejected the calls for slowing the technology down, saying on Sunday the bigger concern is a scenario in which a “malevolent actor has access to an AI that’s better than the one we have that can protect us.”

Hassett, the National Economic Council director, said on “State of the Union” the White House may hold meetings this week about addressing Amodei’s concerns, but he did not specify whether Trump had floated greater safeguards.

“I have concerns that if we don’t win AI, we’re going to be put in a very bad position,” Hassett said. “We are leading China right now.”

CNN’s Alison Main and Molly English contributed to this report.

Trump tells Zelenskyy to stop doing ‘one thing’ during attacks on Russia

US diesel prices climbed above $6 per gallon on Friday, a record high

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President Donald Trump has a blunt message for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Kyiv continues targeting Russia: Stop hitting its diesel refineries.

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President Donald Trump has a blunt message for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Kyiv continues targeting Russia: Stop hitting its diesel refineries.

Trump made the remarks Sunday while attending the Irish Open at his golf club in Doonbeg, Ireland, after a reporter asked whether he had spoken with Zelenskyy following a recent conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters.

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FILE – President Donald Trump said he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about the issue, noting there are other targets the country could focus on.(Getty Images)

Trump said Ukraine could continue pursuing other targets inside Russia but urged Zelenskyy to steer clear of the country’s diesel infrastructure.

“Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel because he’s causing a shortage of diesel,” Trump said. “This isn’t done by the Middle East. This is done by what’s happening with Russia and Ukraine.”

The president said he had already spoken directly with Zelenskyy about the issue.

“So we spoke to Mr. Zelensky about it. There are plenty of other targets,” Trump said. “Don’t hit diesel fuel because that’s hurting the world. We don’t want him to hit diesel fuel. He’s hitting diesel refineries.”

FILE – Trump said the military strikes are exacerbating a global diesel shortage.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Trump’s remarks come as Ukraine has targeted Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure with long-range strikes, part of Kyiv’s effort to hamper an industry that provides revenue and fuel for Moscow’s war effort. Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago.

The strikes have put pressure on Russia’s fuel supplies, prompting rationing in parts of the country and a Russian ban on diesel exports in July. The disruption has also added pressure to global diesel supplies, which have faced additional strain amid reduced oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

Diesel prices in the U.S. climbed above an average of $6 per gallon on Friday, reaching a record high.

FILE – Diesel prices reached a record high in the U.S. on Friday.(Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Russia has intensified its aerial attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks, including strikes involving ballistic missiles and drones, while Ukraine has continued targeting sites inside Russia.

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Russian and Ukrainian officials reported another round of large-scale drone attacks overnight into Sunday, with casualties reported on both sides.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Iran meeting with Gulf countries to discuss Strait of Hormuz deal without the US

2026-09-13T16:00:29.379Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/13/politics/iran-gulf-countries-strait-of-hormuz

Gulf diplomats and Iranian officials will meet Monday to discuss an Omani plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz to regular tanker traffic, but a critical player won’t be at the table: the United States.

Despite shipping traffic remaining depressed, President Donald Trump has insisted the state of the waterway is acceptable for now with the US military escorting oil tankers.

But the meeting on Monday underscores that — despite active efforts to develop alternative corridors for passage through the strait — countries in the region are unwilling to accept the status quo as the new normal. After months of private discussions on a complicated possible legal framework to reopen the strait that could allow Iran and Oman to collect fees, diplomats are hopeful the gathering could create some momentum for a deal.

“There is no imminent breakthrough expected, but resolving the strait issue is the most pressing issue, so we need to start somewhere,” a regional source said.

The possibility of Iranian tolls is still widely rejected, but there is a willingness to consider voluntary contributions for directing passage through the strait, the sources said. The Omani legal framework includes voluntary payment for providing navigational safety and environmental protection, according to three sources familiar with the plans.

Trump administration officials have privately told those in the Gulf region that they want to refocus any future US-Iran negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program and not reopening the strait, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

“I’m not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday night, after Iran retaliated following US strikes. “I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing.”

One goal for the Monday meeting is to agree on maps for routes going through the strait, one of the sources said. Still, the likelihood of the Gulf Corporation Council countries and Iran getting behind a comprehensive plan to open the waterway will be virtually impossible without the US at the table. But the administration did not seek to oppose the gathering, maintaining that they will closely monitor discussions.

“The United States is in close communication with all of our regional partners and will remain so before, during, and after the meeting. Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz and never will,” said a US official.

While the US initially underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the strait in response to the US and Israel launching combat operations earlier this year — a strategic error that Tehran has capitalized on by leveraging its ability to threaten commercial shipping and prolong the war — American forces believe they have now reached a point where they, militarily, have the upper hand in the waterway, a different US official said.

“We don’t want to talk about the strait, and that is the position of the administration right now — we’re only going to talk to you if you want to talk about nuclear file,” the official said.

Iranians have signaled to regional players that they would be open to nuclear negotiations with the US when the strait issue is resolved, including lifting the US blockade, the regional source said. As a result, getting the ball rolling on a framework to reopen the waterway is likely a critical step to pave the way for nuclear negotiations and an overall end to the war.

The possibility of mandatory fees or tolls for tanker traffic will be a major sticking point. Before the conflict broke out, the waterway was open to commercial traffic without any required charges. And in the early days of the conflict, the US and regional players were adamant about one thing: The postwar status of waterway could not include new fees, especially fees that would financially benefit Iran.

Now, after months of surging global energy prices and intensive work on a legal framework to reopen the strait, the absolutist nature of this sentiment has faded, according to multiple European and Gulf diplomats.

“We won’t accept something that was not there before, but there could be symbolic new rules that allow both sides to save face from both sides,” said a European diplomat briefed on the Omani proposal.

Trump administration officials have reviewed the plans being drafted by Oman in recent months, sources said, but they have not publicly signed onto the framework. Instead, Trump and members of his administration continue to claim that the US is the only player that can facilitate an open waterway.

“We are the only country in the world that can ensure, as you heard the president say, the control over the Strait of Hormuz,” Vice President JD Vance said last week.

In recent weeks, the number of oil tankers moving through the strait has greatly increased due to US military escorts enabling passage, though commercial ships continue to be struck by Iranian attacks as they attempt to transit.

There are questions, however, around how long the US military can credibly maintain its substantial commitment of ships and resources to aid in moving ships through the Strait.

The US Navy has successfully escorted as many as 40 commercial vessels on a given day, but the complexity of those operations underscores how Iran still poses a real threat to those ships and the American military personnel tasked with protecting them.

As a result, US diplomats and regional sources privately concede that the Gulf effort to develop a framework to reopen the strait is a necessary endeavor — even if the US is not at the table for the first meeting.

The administration has also sought to downplay just how vital the waterway may be in the years to come, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently claiming the strait will become “like a worthless piece of water” within two years.

While regional players and US officials say resiliency in developing alternative routes for energy exports has been impressive, they argue that finding a long-term solution for the strait should remain a priority. The need to develop that plan is even more necessary given recent Houthi military successes that have threatened passage out of the Red Sea, the sources said.

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Election chaos in this red state just got even stranger for Republicans after Supreme Court ruling

2026-09-13T12:34:12-04:00 / Fox News

The ruling could affect more than 1 million voters and gives Democrats a better chance of holding Emanuel Cleaver’s seat

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Published September 13, 2026 12:34pm EDT

Missouri governor blasts court decision blocking state’s congressional map

A major midterm shakeup unfolds as the Missouri Supreme Court blocks the state’s new congressional map despite its use in primaries where over 1.2 million citizens voted. Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss the ruling, which President Trump called a ‘dark day.’

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Republicans suffered a fresh blow in Missouri after the Supreme Court blocked a congressional map that could have helped the GOP gain another House seat in November.

The ruling, handed down last week, means Missouri will use its 2022 congressional map instead of the new boundaries backed by President Donald Trump and Missouri Republicans.

Missouri held its August primary under the new map, meaning candidates won their party nominations based on one set of district boundaries. But those boundaries will change before the November election, when Missouri is expected to return to its 2022 map.

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People opposed to a congressional redistricting plan rally outside the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026.(AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

Typically, states redraw their congressional and state legislative districts once every decade after the Census to account for population changes and ensure that each district has roughly the same number of residents.

The new map would have shifted parts of Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City district into more Republican-leaning areas, making the seat more competitive.

Republicans hoped the changes would help them win seven of Missouri’s eight House seats in the November midterm elections. The GOP currently holds six of the state’s eight seats, while Democrats hold two.

Missouri must now use the 2022 map, which keeps Cleaver’s district more favorable to Democrats.

The maps show how Missouri’s congressional districts changed between 2022 and 2025, including the expansion of the Kansas City-area 5th District into more Republican-leaning rural parts of the state.(Missouri Office of Administration/Amanda Macias/Fox News Digital)

The Supreme Court’s decision came after more than a year of legal battles over which congressional map Missouri should use.

Missouri held its August primary under the new map, but the state will use its 2022 district boundaries for the November general election. That means some voters could be assigned to a different congressional district in November than the one in which they voted during the primary.

The change could affect more than 1 million voters, or nearly one-fourth of Missouri’s electorate, according to an Associated Press estimate.

The conflicting court orders have added to the confusion, with the November election just weeks away. Candidates and election officials must now adjust to the 2022 boundaries.

MISSOURI HIGH COURT BLOCKS GOP-BACKED CONGRESSIONAL MAPS AHEAD OF MIDTERMS; TRUMP BLASTS ‘RIDICULOUS’ RULING

The Supreme Court blocked Missouri from using a GOP-backed congressional map that could have helped Republicans gain a House seat in November.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The Supreme Court did not explain its reasoning in the brief order.

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Amanda Macias covers the intersection of business, economics and politics, with a focus on how policy decisions shape markets, businesses and American workers.

Americans’ increased belief in voter fraud is a scary prospect in 2026

2026-09-13T18:00:29.070Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/13/politics/voter-fraud-polling-trump

President Donald Trump messing with the 2026 midterms beforehand — as he’s trying to do by sharply restricting mail ballots — is only part of the potential threat he’s posing to US elections.

The other is his demonstrated tendency for claiming elections have been stolen after the fact, which resulted in the largest attack on the US Capitol in 200 years.

New polling suggests Trump has kept that soil fertilized with a large portion of the country. Indeed, the president on Friday posted on social media the 5-year-old video of him telling January 6, 2021, rioters to go home and repeating his false claim that he won in 2020.

And amid his repeated claims of widespread voter fraud, the polling suggests that soil might be even more fertile than its been in recent years, which is a scary prospect.

A Quinnipiac University poll shows a majority of registered voters (51%) are at least “somewhat concerned” that there will be widespread voter fraud in the upcoming election.

That’s actually 10 points higher than the same question in a poll conducted just before the 2022 midterm election.

The percentage today who say they are “very concerned” (29%) is also double-digits higher than it was four years ago (18%).

And the rise is overwhelmingly due to — no surprise — Republicans. The percentage who are at least “somewhat concerned” has risen from 59% to 74%, and the percentage who are “very concerned” has gone from 24% to 40%.

So even though 2022 was only a little removed from the fiasco after the 2020 election — in which large swaths of Trump’s base embraced his baseless claims of a stolen election, and some of them attacked the Capitol — concern about voter fraud is actually higher on the right today than it was back then.

(There has also been a small rise in concern among Democrats, but two-thirds of them say they are not that concerned.)

And this is not the only evidence that a large percentage of the electorate is primed to believe voter fraud could be a significant problem in 2026.

An AP-NORC poll released last week showed the percentage of Americans who trusted government certifications of election results at least “quite a bit” dropping from 40% in 2024 to 34% today.

A March poll conducted for NPR and PBS by Marist College found that 50% of Americans said voter fraud was likely in the 2026 elections. That’s similar to the 52% who said so in January 2020, a year before the Capitol attack. (There was a slight drop in those who called it “very likely,” though.)

Republicans were also more likely to rank voter fraud as the biggest threat to American elections (57%) than they were six years ago (47%).

And a Reuters-Ipsos poll in April showed a pretty substantial belief in what is arguably Trump’s biggest voter fraud hobbyhorse these days: the baseless claim that many undocumented immigrants are voting in US elections.

The poll showed 46% of Americans, including 82% of Republicans, agreed that US elections include a “large number” of illegal votes by noncitizens.

And a 53% majority, including 83% of Republicans, were at least “somewhat concerned” about fraudulent mail-in or absentee ballots.

On both questions, only between 21% and 26% of Americans strongly embraced those positions. But there was another quarter of the population that was at least inclined toward them.

And that’s the danger here: a small but passionate group of people truly embraces the cause, just like they did after the 2020 election, while others who might not feel as strongly go along for the ride.

If there’s good news for our democracy, it’s that large numbers of Americans appear to be approaching Trump’s specific claims with at least a modicum of skepticism.

After his July primetime address full of unproven claims about foreign election interference and a supposed coverup, Quinnipiac found that registered voters said 66%-24% that he had not provided sufficient evidence to prove his claims.

Similarly, the AP poll this week showed 60% of Americans trust Trump to provide accurate information about the outcome of the 2026 election “only a little” (16%) or “not at all” (44%). Just 17% trust him at least “quite a bit.”

Indeed, the further away we got from the 2020 election, the more that even Trump’s election-denying supporters acknowledged there wasn’t actually solid evidence that the election was stolen.

And if Trump remains even more unpopular than he was when he lost the 2020 campaign — as he is now — perhaps fewer people will be inclined to truly embrace his claims of another stolen election.

But despite Trump’s tortured history of barking up this tree, three new polls show half of Americans or more are at least a little on board with the concept of significant voter fraud in the 2026 election.

And the GOP writ large also quickly embraced baseless suggestions of fraud after this year’s Los Angeles mayoral primary didn’t go their way.

It’s all rather inauspicious, given the recent history of elections that don’t go Trump’s way. And it’s worth paying attention to.

Trump says he’ll consider whether to release more 9/11 records

2026-09-13 19:04:11 UTC / Reuters

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SHANNON, Ireland, Sept 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President ​Donald Trump on ‌Sunday said he would consider a ​request from ​relatives of those killed ⁠in the ​September 11 attacks ​to release more records about the event.

“I’m ​going to ​look at it when ‌I ⁠get back,” he told reporters in Ireland before ​boarding ​a ⁠plane to fly back ​to the ​United ⁠States.

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Trump says he’ll remove tariffs on Irish whiskey

2026-09-13 3:37 PM ET / CNN

By Kit Maher

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PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2026, 3:37 PM ET

President Trump says he will “take the tariffs off of Irish whiskey”

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President Trump says he will “take the tariffs off of Irish whiskey”

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Dublin—

On foreign land but home turf, Donald Trump presented the Irish Open trophy to Shane Lowry at the president’s Doonbeg golf course. He also presented a farewell gift: the elimination of tariffs on Irish whiskey.

“I want to mention one thing. Taoiseach and I talked about it, and Shane talked about it, and everybody’s been bugging me. They’re saying, ‘Would you do me a favor? It’s so unfair what’s going on. Could you possibly take the tariffs off of Irish whiskey?’” Trump said.

“And I said, on behalf of the United States of America, I am going to take the tariffs off,” Trump said, as the crowd erupted.

While not a drinker himself, Trump presented the show of good faith at the end of his quick visit to Ireland — where he made controversial comments voicing support for Irish unification, met with Irish President Catherine Connolly and Taoiseach Micheál Martin, and became the first sitting president to attend the Irish Open.

Irish whiskey faces a 10% tariff, the Trump administration imposed on most imports from the European Union. The president made a similar concession after King Charles and Queen Camilla’s state visit in April, removing tariffs on UK whiskey, which includes Scotch.

CNN has reached out to the US trade representative for more information, including when the tariffs will be removed.

With the tariffs announcement, Trump appeared to generate a rosier headline from his trip to Ireland, after being met by pushback from the UK government a day earlier for saying Irish unification would be “fantastic.”

Trump said Saturday that he discussed trade with Martin at their bilateral meeting and emphasized the US’ “big relationship with Ireland,” which he said will “continue stronger than ever.”

The relationship between the two countries was also something Martin emphasized during his own remarks at the trophy presentation.

“The Trump family in particular have invested very heavily in the recent decade in this golf course, making it an exceptional and one of the great key golf courses now anywhere in the world,” Martin said of Doonbeg.

“In many ways, the last four days reflects also the very strong relationship, the strength of an enduring relationship between the United States of America and Ireland. We are tied together by history, by family, by friendship,” he added.

During Trump’s trip, the president was far removed from the streets, where protests broke out Saturday in Dublin and in the Doonbeg and Shannon area. He spent the weekend at his own golf club — greeted with chants of “U-S-A” in the packed members bar on Saturday night and cheered on while presenting the trophy on Sunday.

“We’re so proud of the whole Doonbeg, and, frankly, Ireland itself has been so incredible, so inviting,” Trump said.