Patrick Clancy said he believes he did “the best I could” to support his former wife, Lindsay, as she struggled with her mental health before the deaths of their three children.

The 38-year-old father said he carries the pain of losing his children “every day” in an interview with 60 Minutes, scheduled to air in full Sunday evening.

In a preview of the widely anticipated broadcast, CBS correspondent Ross Douthat asked Clancy whether he believed the tragedy might have been avoided if he had responded differently.

“I think I did the best I could with what I had at the time,” Clancy replied. “I live with the outcome. I live with it every day.”

Lindsay Clancy acknowledged fatally strangling the couple’s three children—5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan—inside their Massachusetts home in January 2023.

She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Her closely watched murder trial ended in a controversial mistrial earlier this month after jurors reached an 11-1 deadlock.

Clancy, who testified during the trial, has since remarried fertility doctor Rachel Danis, 37. He now lives in New York City, while Lindsay remains confined in a psychiatric facility.

Danis appeared alongside Patrick in the 60 Minutes interview. In an earlier-released segment, she said the real story surrounding the children’s deaths had become “twisted” under the intense public scrutiny surrounding the case.

Clancy agreed to the interview after largely avoiding the spotlight throughout Lindsay’s trial. Douthat told viewers they would see “a portrait of Patrick’s life in the aftermath of this incredible tragedy.”

“I think from the beginning, he’s been focused on trying to make sure that the memory of his children stays alive and stays close to the center of this story,” Douthat said.

“Obviously, there’s been so many debates, so much controversy about all of the different issues around this story.”

Danis told Douthat that she met Patrick after the children’s deaths. “I was just a girl that met a guy running in Central Park on a really cold Saturday,” she said.

She described Patrick, also 38, as “the most selfless father and supportive partner.”

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The couple married in April during an intimate ceremony at the historic Ladies Pavilion overlooking The Lake in Central Park. They later celebrated with relatives and friends at the nearby Sarabeth’s restaurant.

In an earlier promotional clip for the interview, Clancy said he speaks to his late children as he searches for a way to cope with their deaths.

When asked what he tells them, he answered: “‘Help me’… All the time.”

The interview comes after Patrick faced a barrage of sickening threats and accusations by online sleuths during the trial, including some who callously accused him of killing his own children despite Lindsay confessing to the crime. 

In a statement through his lawyer after Lindsay’s mistrial, he promised ‘consequences’ for true crime creators who made baseless and cruel allegations.

‘Over the past months, Patrick Clancy and his family have been subjected to a relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign,’ the statement read.

‘This campaign of misinformation has been launched and promoted by minor celebrities, so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists who appear intent on boosting their own social media profiles and potential profit by publishing what they know to be outright falsehoods that Patrick was somehow involved in the death of his young children and other vile claims.’

Patrick said at the time that the ‘insatiable media coverage’ had created a ‘fever pitch’ of allegations and scrutiny on him, while he continues to deal with the unimaginable loss of his children at the same time.

‘(This) has resulted in real-life threats to his reputation, livelihood, and life,’ his attorney said in his statement.

‘Patrick has no choice but to address this situation – with the clear goal of stopping injurious behavior, creating accountability for lies that are self-serving to the perpetrators, and being able to return his attention to what matters: preserving the memory of Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy and supporting other women facing perinatal mental health challenges.

‘Enough is enough – this spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods must stop.

‘Those responsible should understand that there will be consequences, and every appropriate measure will be pursued to hold them accountable, including legally. Law enforcement has been notified.’

After Clancy’s high-profile murder trial ended in a deadlock, prosecutors are yet to say if they intend to retry her for murder or offer her a plea deal.

DELPHI, Ind. — A man sentenced to 130 years for the murders of two Indiana teenagers is asking an appeals court to vacate his convictions. Richard Allen’s attorneys argue that he confessed during a severe psychological crisis and that he was wrongly prevented from presenting evidence suggesting the girls were killed by unidentified people as part of a pagan ritual.

A jury convicted Allen in 2024 in the deaths of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, who were known as Abby and Libby. The killings in the small town of Delphi remained unsolved for more than five years before Allen’s arrest, drawing intense attention from true-crime followers.

The Indiana Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear an hour of arguments in Allen’s case on Monday.

Prosecutors maintain that several of Allen’s incriminating statements came before he displayed signs of mental illness and continued after his condition improved. They also argue that, even without the confessions, the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support the guilty verdicts.

The state said Allen acknowledged being on the trail near the spot where one of the girls recorded a brief video of a suspicious man saying, “Down the hill.” Prosecutors argued that allowing a defense expert to testify about a possible pagan ritual would have transformed the proceedings into a sideshow.

Investigators found the girls’ bodies down a steep slope from an abandoned railroad trestle along a hiking trail outside Delphi on Feb. 13, 2017. The eighth graders had been dropped off in the area but never reached the place where they were supposed to be picked up.

Both teenagers had suffered fatal cuts to their throats, and several branches lay across their bodies. One girl was nude, while the other was dressed in the first victim’s clothing. Authorities found no evidence of sexual assault.

Prosecutors said Allen used a gun to force the girls away from the trail. They said he initially confessed to intending to rape them, but changed his plan after a passing van appeared and then killed them. An expert also testified that an unspent bullet recovered between the bodies had been “cycled through” Allen’s handgun.

At trial, defense attorneys emphasized that no witness directly identified Allen as the man seen near the trail that afternoon. They also said investigators found no fingerprint, DNA or other forensic evidence connecting him to the crime scene.

Allen spent his time awaiting trial in solitary confinement. He denied involvement for months, but his lawyers said the prolonged isolation caused a dramatic decline in his mental health. They argued that Allen eventually became so psychologically impaired that he convinced himself he had committed the killings and confessed repeatedly.

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“Allen lost forty pounds, was unable to care for himself, was tased, his face was black and blue and at times bleeding, and he was poisoned by fecal matter and toilet water,” attorneys Stacy Uliana and Mark Leeman wrote in their brief.

Prosecutors countered that Allen’s statements began as he reviewed evidence in the case, including details about the girls’ bodies.

“The discovery materials forced Allen to face the horrifying evidence of what he did … images and events he had been able to ignore and repress over the five years in which his guilt had gone undiscovered,” Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita wrote in a brief filed by his office.

Allen’s trial lawyers sought to call an expert who would testify that the killings resembled a ritual sacrifice carried out by people who worshipped Odin, the king of the gods in Norse mythology.

The proposed testimony was expected to link the bodies’ positioning, the branches placed on them, the outdoor setting and the knife wounds to alleged pagan rituals.

Prosecutors argued that the expert had only a limited number of examples and that defense lawyers should not be permitted to present a theory unsupported by adequate evidence.

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It was a doomsday scenario built around one of Earth’s most powerful volcanic systems.

UK scientists have outlined an apocalyptic timeline describing what could happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano were to erupt on a massive scale.

“A super-eruption on this scale would be a threat to civilization as we know it,” the researchers wrote in a recent article for The Conversation.

The volcanic system lies beneath the 30-by-45-mile Yellowstone Caldera and is among the most closely monitored geological formations on the planet. Scientists define a supereruption as an event that ejects more than 230 cubic miles of magma, rock and ash.

Yellowstone has produced three such eruptions over the past 2.1 million years, the most recent occurring 631,000 years ago. That event killed all life within hundreds of miles, spread ash across North America and triggered consequences that were felt around the globe.

Human ancestors had not yet reached North America at the time, so no people witnessed the disaster. Scientists warn, however, that a future eruption could pose a grave threat to modern civilization.

To estimate the potential devastation, the researchers examined how nations have responded to major disasters in recent decades. The team was led by Ilan Kelman, a disasters professor at University College London, and Matthew Blackett, a reader in physical geography and natural hazards at Coventry University.

“What follows is a thought experiment into what might happen in the worst-case scenario,” they wrote.

About one month before the eruption, seismologists would detect a sharp rise in earthquakes, prompting officials to move the volcano alert level from “normal” to “advisory.”

Three weeks before the projected eruption, the unrest would intensify. Earthquakes would become shallower, while geysers and other hydrothermal features grew increasingly unpredictable.

A week later, experts would announce an 85% to 92% chance of a catastrophic eruption within three weeks, raising the alert level to “watch.”

Authorities would also establish an evacuation zone extending 62 miles, or 100 kilometers, beyond Yellowstone National Park. The area would encompass roughly 200,000 residents, many of whom would flee across international borders.

On eruption day, magma would enter Yellowstone’s hydrothermal system, blasting “superheated steam, mud and shattered blocks of rock” miles into the sky. Hours later, gas-rich magma would break through the surface, producing an enormous eruption column that could rise 31 miles, or 50 kilometers, into the atmosphere.

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Deadly currents of searing gas, ash and rock would race across the landscape, killing as many as 1,000 people immediately. Farmland across several states would be destroyed, while electricity and water infrastructure suffered widespread disruption.

Within three days to a week, much of North America would be plunged into darkness. Billings, Montana, could be buried beneath three feet of ash, as supply chains, sewage networks, heating systems and mobile phone services began to fail.

After two weeks, ash would clog roads, overwhelm drainage systems and force the closure of airports, railways and farms. The US, Canada, Mexico and most Caribbean and Central American nations would declare states of emergency.

Four to six months later, respiratory illnesses would place hospitals under enormous pressure. Damage to North American agriculture would also send food prices soaring worldwide.

Combined with a banking crisis, those disruptions would push the global economy into recession.

A decade after the eruption, people around the world would have adopted a more agrarian way of life, while those still eating meat would increasingly depend on hunting. Even so, widespread starvation and mass migration would remain unavoidable features of the crisis.

The researchers estimate that, after the immediate destruction and long-term consequences were taken into account, “there could be 0.7-1.3 billion premature deaths due to the eruption and its impacts.”

The one silver lining is that in the past, “this unstoppable power of volcanism changed the planet, but did not end humanity – or come close to doing so.”

Thankfully, a Yellowstone eruption isn’t eminent by any means. Based on the prior three eruptions, there has been an average of around 725,000 between events, meaning we technically have 100,000 years to go before the next one.

And, as the USGS experts pointed out, “this is based on the average of just two time intervals between the eruptions, which is meaningless.”

Plus, even if the caldera does go off again, it might not even be large as the most recent volcanic eruption at Yellowstone, “a lava flow that occurred 70,000 years ago.”

Nonetheless, they point out that “volcanoes do not work in predictable ways and their eruptions do not follow predictable schedules.”

Donald Trump’s appearance at the United Nations General Assembly in New York will not receive coverage from the leading U.S. television networks on Monday, after broadcasters united in protest over the White House’s decision to bar CNN and MS NOW.

Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC—outlets that make up the television news pool—said they would not send camera crews or reporters to cover the president’s scheduled events.

As a result, Trump’s visit to New York for the UN General Assembly is expected to go without live or recorded coverage on the major broadcast networks.

Real America’s Voice, a conservative media outlet, plans to stream the United Nations event. Hearst, meanwhile, will cover Trump’s activities at the White House for local television audiences.

Bryan Boughton, Fox News’ Washington bureau chief, confirmed Monday morning that no television news personnel would be assigned to the UN under the pool arrangement.

“This is to advise that, effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President,” Boughton wrote in an email.

“This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place.”

The broadcasters have not said when their regular pool coverage of the president will resume.

CNN had been scheduled to provide the television pool crew on Monday. That plan changed after Trump barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.

The White House’s official daily schedule, distributed Sunday, confirmed that no television pool would operate Monday, effectively removing CNN’s scheduled assignment.

Trump has also warned that the New York Times and Washington Post could face similar action.

The president banned the outlets on Friday, accusing them of being “fake news” and criticizing their reporting on his administration.

Vice President JD Vance defended the move Monday, describing it as a matter of “basic fairness.”

“They can still report. They still have access to free speech. They’re just not going to get an office in the White House anymore,” Vance said.

Reporters from the barred organizations who arrived at the White House over the weekend saw some of their press credentials revoked.

The major television networks responded by backing the affected outlets and issuing a strongly worded statement condemning the president’s decision.

‘The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government,’ they said in a statement. ‘No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.’

When pressed for comment, the White House responded with a social media post from the president published earlier on Monday morning. 

‘The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish,’ Trump wrote. ‘It is instituting an assault on the fake news, something that has grown like Cancer in our beloved United States of America.’

‘It is corrupt, purposeful, pervasive, fully coordinated, and totally out of control. It is a threat to our National Security, and must be stopped, now!’ 

The three media outlets Trump targeted, CNN, MS NOW and Politico, announced they would combat the administration in court over the ban. 

‘This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes,’ they said in a statement released on Monday. 

‘Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists’ credentials because it objected to our reporting,’ the statement continued.

‘Left unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the public’s right to independent journalism free from government interference.’

The White House also published a cryptic social media post on Monday with a TV showing static with the caption: ‘Something’s coming. Stay tuned.’