AMNA NAWAZ: We start the day's other headlines in Massachusetts.

The defense rested its case in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the mother charged with strangling and killing her three young children.

Clancy's lawyers argue she should not be held criminally responsible because she suffered from postpartum psychosis.

Prosecutors say the killings were planned.

WOMAN: It should not take tragedy for people to start paying attention to mental health.

AMNA NAWAZ: Yesterday, hundreds of Clancy supporters wore pink and gathered outside the courthouse.

Many said they hope the case raises awareness about how the mental health system treats women.

Prosecutors also began calling rebuttal witnesses today, with closing arguments expected next week.

The editor in chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him, along with the newspaper's publisher and a reporter.

Erik Slavin tells the Associated Press that he was dismissed for insubordination after saying in an interview that any form of censorship would -- quote -- "constitute a red line."

The military newspaper is partly funded by the Pentagon, but has a long history of editorial independence.

It was one of the first outlets to report on living conditions aboard the USS Lincoln during the carrier's extended deployment to the Middle East.

Communities along the East Coast were cleaning up today after powerful storms lashed the region.

In New York City, water seeped into the subway after heavy rains there.

At Atlantic Beach on Long Island, a powerful waterspout tornado came roaring ashore, destroying beachfront clubs.

It was the first confirmed tornado in Nassau County in five years.

Local officials say it was impossible to predict.

BRUCE BLAKEMAN (R), New York Gubernatorial Candidate: It's not something that you plan for.

Tornadoes form in an instant.

And in this case, it started off over the ocean, worked its way over the land here in Atlantic Beach.

And, luckily, there were no other tornadoes that popped up.

MAN: I retreated into my bathroom, and all you could hear was just a train noise.

AMNA NAWAZ: Farther south, a suspected tornado tore through Delaware's capital of Dover, tearing off roofs and leaving a trail of debris, while in Jersey City, New Jersey, emergency crews rescued nearly 70 people trapped in their cars by floodwaters.

So far, there have been no reports of serious injuries in any of these locations.

President Trump announced a pause on ground beef tariffs today in an attempt to lower prices for consumers.

Trump posted on social media that the U.S.

will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of beef to be imported over the next 90 days without triggering higher tariff rates.

He also said there's a commitment that it will be sold at 25 percent below current market prices, though he didn't say which companies had agreed to do so.

Ground beef prices were up around 10 percent in July compared to last year.

Federal health officials are warning of another food poisoning outbreak related to contaminated produce.

This time, it's alfalfa sprouts.

The FDA and the CDC confirmed that 55 people have fallen ill across 15 states with either salmonella or E. coli or, in rare cases, both.

They add that the real number is likely higher.

At least four people have been hospitalized.

Officials link the outbreak to Minnesota grower Everything Sprouts, which also sells its alfalfa sprouts under the brand name Calco.

Consumers are advised not to eat the sprouts.

No deaths have been reported.

A court in Hong Kong convicted two former organizers of the city's annual Tiananmen Square vigils on national security charges.

Lee Cheuk-Yan and Chow Hang-tung were charged in 2021 with inciting subversion, which they denied.

Lee has appeared on this program a number of times, including in 2021 after he'd been convicted in a separate case.

LEE CHEUK-YAN, Former Member, Hong Kong Legislative Council: That's what their grand plan is, to frustrate the people to such an extent that either you emigrate to elsewhere, and, if you stay on, you have to have the risk of being arrested.

AMNA NAWAZ: Today's conviction is just the latest brought under a China-imposed law that's effectively crushed Hong Kong's once thriving pro-democracy movement.

Lee and Chow face up to 10 years in prison and will be sentenced at a later date.

In Alaska, federal investigators say a small plane crashed during its second attempt to land in heavy fog at a remote military airport, killing all eight people on board.

The National Transportation Safety Board says the pilots couldn't see the runway at the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport about 450 miles west of Anchorage.

Officials say they were relying entirely on instruments.

Two pilots and six passengers died.

The airport was built in the 1950s and is used to monitor the skies off Russia, North Korea, and China.

An investigation is ongoing.

On Wall Street today, stocks ended a shaky week with some decent gains.

The Dow Jones industrial average tacked on more than 500 points, or about 1 percent.

The Nasdaq rose nearly half-a-percent.

The S&P 500 posted just its second gain in the past six sessions.

And Nancy Kissinger, foreign policy specialist and wife of the late former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died.

She was a longtime aide to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who introduced the pair.

After their marriage in 1974, Nancy Kissinger traveled widely with her husband on his diplomatic missions.

Politically savvy herself, she was a fierce defender of his polarizing foreign policy decisions.

The Kissingers later became fixtures of Manhattan's elite social scene.

Her family says she died at their home in Connecticut yesterday.

Nancy Kissinger was 92 years old.

Still to come on the "News Hour: we speak with a U.S.

ambassador about growing tensions among Israel, Syria, and Turkey; David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart weigh in on the week's headlines; and actor Poorna Jagannathan joins our podcast to talk about Hollywood's ongoing struggle with diversity and representation.