UPDATE: Clancy mistrial, Kyiv attack, data center backlash

Hi, I'm Carmel Crimmins in Dublin. And I'm Christopher Walgesper in Chicago. It's Friday, September 4th. Today, the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has ended in a mistrial. U.S. job growth climbed in August, boosting expectations of a rate hike. NVIDIA makes a $13 billion bet on open AI models. And Texas Republicans revolt against data centers. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, 7 days a week. Fan Duel is now available everywhere in the U.S. So you can get in on the sports action no matter where you are, including these places. Make this your most rewarding season ever with Fan Duel. Age and location restrictions apply. Product availability varies by market. See FanDuel.com for eligibility. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, charged with the killing of her three young children, has ended in a hung jury. Under the statute and the case law, I don't feel I have any choice but to declare. Missed trial. Judge William Sullivan declared the missed trial after the jury deliberated for a week without reaching a verdict. Clancy admits to the murders. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, argues the killings occurred while she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. He filed an emergency appeal to compel jurors to continue deliberating. That appeal was denied. The trial has stirred debates about how women's postpartum mental health is treated in the United States. U.S. job growth surged in August, with the job market adding 162,000 positions. That's nearly triple what economists expected. Unemployment held steady at 4.1%. The report is boosting rate hike expectations for the U.S. Central Bank's September meeting. The employment gains were driven by a rebound in leisure and hospitality, as well as local government education jobs. But the strength comes as. Mortgage rates hit a one-year high above 6.7%. And that's raising concerns about further strain on the housing market if the Fed hikes rates. While markets are anticipating a rate hike, President Trump is demanding a cut. In a Truth Social post, Trump has threatened to cut off trade with countries where the U.S. runs a trade deficit. That is, unless the Fed lowers interest rates. He says high rates put America at an unfavorable. unfair disadvantage, and he wants the U.S. to have the lowest rate of any country in the world. Now, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has said he will guide the Central Bank and set monetary policy independent of what the White House demands. Nine days underground and still alive. A man is rescued from a flooded hydropower tunnel in Nepal, one of two workers pulled out. The first survivor is rescued from the hydropower tunnel. Since a catastrophic glacier collapse swept through the valley, killing more than 1,200 people. Sanjay Sa and Kabir Maharajan are among 900 workers believed to be trapped in the hydropower tunnels. Both men have been airlifted to hospital in Kathmandu. A Russian drone has struck Ukraine's SBU security service headquarters in central Kiev, injuring more than a half-dozen people. Ukraine's president. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls it a major escalation. Heavy black smoke rose in Kiev's central city as the attack on the security service struck close to St. Sophia Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the four and a half years of war, it's been rare for Ukrainian government buildings to be damaged in strikes. The SBU has been behind some of Ukraine's most ambitious operations against Russia, including the Crimea bridge bombings. And drone strikes deep in Russian territory. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance says the government is investigating an airstrike that Iranian officials say hit a wedding party in Iran, killing four people and wounding dozens. The United States never targets civilians in combat. We never will do that. We never have done that. And unfortunately, obviously, sometimes things happen. But in this particular case, I don't think that we have any information one way or the other. A Reuters investigation finds the strike was likely a direct hit by a U.S. munition, based on analysis by four independent weapons experts. On Thursday, a funeral was held in Iran for victims of the attack. A backlash against AI data centers is creating an unexpected political split in the Republican Party, especially in Texas. Governor Greg Abbott once touted the state as the epicenter of AI development. Now he's calling for new restrictions. Attorney General Ken Paxton has also shown. The shift away from President Trump's pro-AI agenda comes as more residents raise concerns about rising power costs, water use, and the impact these massive facilities can have on local communities. That pressure is putting some of the world's biggest tech companies on the defensive, despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build political support. Reuters reporter Dawn Kopecky has more. This is a sea change for data centers. This is a sea change for. For big tech. It's a wake-up call to that industry. And you're seeing not just socialist Democrats, I mean, you're seeing Greg Abbott in Texas, the Texas Republican governor, very conservative governor, and his views on data centers are more in line with Bernie Sanders and AOC than they are with Trump in the White House. And so they're going to have to pause. They're going to have to take a look. They're going to have to spend more resources, not just in lobbying politicians, but in actually giving money back to communities. So you are seeing that with Google and Meta and some other companies that have rolled out development programs, jobs training programs, and other things to benefit local communities. But a lot of Republican strategists. A lot of Republican strategists we spoke with said it's two years too late. FanDuel is now available everywhere in the U.S. Make this your most rewarding season ever with FanDuel. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. The explosive growth of data centers has certainly been good news for NVIDIA. And now the chipmaker is making one of the biggest deals in its history. NVIDIA will buy AI developer platform Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion. The acquisition gives the company something it increasingly wants. Direct access to a huge community. And the company is one of the largest AI developers. That's particularly important as some of its biggest customers, including Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft, develop their own chips. CEO Jensen Wang says Hugging Face will remain an open platform. Tech reporter Stephen Nellis has more. Hugging Face is one of the central places that AI development has taken place over the past few years. And that's because it's the central place where people go to share the code for their open-source software, tweak it, share it back with other developers, and push the entire field forward as a community. Now, you might be wondering, how does Hugging Face make money? Well, it charges a subscription to host that code securely and for other features and things like that. Now, why would NVIDIA want it? Well, NVIDIA is best known for making AI chips, but it's actually also a huge player in AI software. It gives away a ton of AI software for free for the pretty simple reason that if you have great software sitting there for free, you're more likely to want to buy NVIDIA's chips. Versus competing chips from another company like Intel or AMD. Stephen says the deal also has geopolitical implications for the U.S. and China. China has been making big waves in recent years by releasing some of its best and most compelling AI as free open-source models. Most of the leading AI technology from the U.S. comes from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic that are closed-source. NVIDIA is trying to make a big bet on U.S.-based open-source, and this will be pushing that forward. Now, the big. The big question is whether the two countries, the U.S. and China, will continue to pursue their strategies and how. But either way, NVIDIA is going to be a big player by becoming both a huge provider of the chips and hardware, and now a huge repository of open-source AI software. A federal grand jury has indicted ICE agent Cristian Castro, and he's back in custody after being released from jail a week ago. Prosecutors say Castro shot and wounded Venezuelan migrant Julio Cesar Sosa-Celas in Minnesota, then lied to investigators, claiming he was attacked with a snow shovel and a broom. The charge. are an extraordinary step by the Justice Department, the first known prosecution of a federal immigration officer involved in the Minneapolis operation. Castro has been suspended by the Department of Homeland Security. He already faces state charges and a separate civil rights investigation is underway. And it's also embarrassing when people hear that you live on Trump. John Germano, a resident on Trump Avenue in the Ottawa neighborhood of Central Park. The street name was chosen when Donald Trump was best known as a New York City real estate developer. But now he's U.S. president, he's hitting Canada with tariffs and just signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America. The message from some Canadians? Anything you can do, we can do too, according to Ottawa City Councillor Riley Brockington. And he does not deserve to have his name associated with any street in Ottawa, let alone anywhere in Canada. Renaming Trump Avenue could take up to a year, but residents say they're taking immediate steps to protest the U.S. I haven't traveled there since this last administration came in. I don't feel inclined to go down there so much anymore. I've found a lot of, you know, fun places in Canada to visit and, you know, overseas and whatnot. That's Dave Samodlenko, and he's not the only one. Visits from Canada to the U.S. declined by over 10% in the first three months of the year compared to a year earlier. For more on any of the stories from today, as well as more analysis and news shaping our world, check out reuters.com or the Reuters app. There's a link in the description to download it and start getting pure news straight from the source. Don't forget to follow us on your favorite podcast player. And if you're listening on a smart speaker, just ask for the latest news from Reuters seven days a week.