Amidst his daughter Hannah’s healthcare struggles, Armando Niedermeier-Rubio has secured an extension on his visa.

The “90 Day Fiancé” celebrity took to Instagram this past Sunday with the good news, writing, “Approved ✅. My Humanitarian Visa has been extended for another 30 days!

“This extension allows me to stay in Arizona with Hannah as she continues her medical treatment. Most importantly, I can remain by her side, alongside my husband, Kenny Niedermeier, as she makes her road to recovery over the next month at least 🙏🏻,” he added.

Armando expressed his heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) @cbpgov over the weekend for handling his case with empathy and treating him with respect and kindness.

He offered a “very special thank you” to Representative Adelita Grijalva for her extensive support and advocacy on his behalf, and acknowledged his immigration attorney’s efforts as well.

“Thank you for working tirelessly every step of the way, specially as this process continues,” he wrote. “Finally, a huge thank you to every single one of you who have prayed for @hannah_rubio_ , shared our story, sent encouraging messages, and supported our family.”

The reality star, 37, concluded, “Your love has carried us through the hardest days of our lives. This approval to remain at my daughters side is one more answered prayer, thank you ❤️‍🩹 Please keep Hannah in your prayers as she continues healing.”

When Hannah was transferred from Mexico to an Arizona medical facility — and then airlifted to a Phoenix ICU — to treat a brain bleed earlier this month, Armando was turned away at the border.

While he attempted to request a temporary humanitarian visa, he was told by a US Customs and Border Protection supervisor that those hadn’t been granted since 2025.

As Armando’s attorney pursued a separate emergency request, his partner stayed at the teen’s side.

“Every parent wants to be at their child’s bedside when they’re sick, and not being able to hold her hand or comfort her has been the hardest thing I’ve ever experienced,” Armando wrote. “I am doing everything within my power to be reunited with her.”

He reunited with his family members on July 18 after being granted an emergency humanitarian visa.

He announced two days later that Hannah had been released from the hospital — only for her to be readmitted due to “worsening of her physical symptoms.”

She, notably, had been experiencing partial blindness, facial drooping and weakness.

Hannah, who is taking preventative medication for brain swelling and seizures, is in “good spirits” despite being rushed back to the emergency room.

“The doctors have been running test[s] and scans and will know more soon,” Armando wrote via Instagram on Friday.

Growing tensions are sparking concerns over the potential merging of conflicts in Ukraine and Iran, following a Ukrainian missile strike on an Iranian ship. This incident has stirred unease between the two regions.

Iran has sharply criticized Ukraine for the weekend attack, insisting that the target was a commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea. The assault resulted in the death of one sailor and left another injured, according to Tehran’s statements.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, confirmed the strike and claimed that the Iranian ship was implicated in transporting Russian military goods. This assertion drew a strong response from Iran’s diplomatic leader.

Abbas Araghchi took to X to express his outrage, stating, ‘Zelensky has attacked an Iranian commercial vessel, resulting in the death of a sailor.’

‘An overt violation of the UN Charter, executed under Israeli influence to embroil Europe in their war strategy. In conversations with EU representative Kaja Kallas and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, I emphasized that Kyiv’s actions must not go unanswered,’ he asserted.

Tehran decried the attack on its vessel as an act of aggression. It said it would defend its national interests and security, while accusing Kyiv of seeking to expand the war in Ukraine.

It came after Zelensky said on Saturday he would share evidence with the US showing Russia is assisting Iran in targeting US bases in the Middle East through satellite surveillance.

Taking to X, the Ukrainian leader wrote: ‘Since the beginning of July, we have recorded active Russian satellite surveillance of the Gulf states and U.S. military facilities located there.’

‘These images subsequently appear in Iran. At the same time, there is a clear correlation between Russia’s satellite imagery of these sites and Iranian strikes – both before the attacks, in preparation for them, and afterward, to assess the damage inflicted.’

The new developments follow months of speculation that the two conflicts are intertwining.

Iran has claimed it is not involved in Russia’s war on Ukraine, although Kyiv has said Tehran is supplying drones to the Kremlin.

The Islamic Republic also called on European countries to hold Ukraine accountable.

The strike fuelled speculation in Tehran that it was intended as a warning that Iran’s Caspian coastline is vulnerable and could be used as leverage in future negotiations with the US, according to the Financial Times.

Although the Caspian Sea lies more than 600 miles from the front line in Russia’s war with Ukraine, Kyiv has steadily expanded its long-range drone capabilities, allowing it to strike targets deep inside Russian territory. 

After inflicting heavy damage on Russia’s oil infrastructure and contributing to fuel shortages, that capability is increasingly being viewed as a potential factor in the wider confrontation involving Iran.

Hamidreza Azizi, an Iran expert at the SWP Berlin think-tank, outlined several possible explanations for Ukraine’s strike on the Iranian-linked vessel. 

Writing on X, he said one possibility is that Kyiv wanted to reinforce its value as a strategic partner to Washington, which continues to supply crucial military support, including Patriot air defence systems. 

According to Azizi, such an operation would not have been possible without approval from the US and its Western allies.

Another interpretation is that the US and Israel encouraged Ukraine to increase pressure on Tehran because they feared direct attacks on Iranian infrastructure could provoke retaliation against key economic assets across the region. 

A third possibility, wrote Azizi, is that the strike was linked to threats made by Yemen’s Houthi rebels against shipping in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a route that Saudi Arabia has relied on to export oil while avoiding the Strait of Hormuz.

The expert also suggested Tehran is concerned that Ukrainian intelligence services could back ethnic insurgent groups inside Iran, mirroring Kyiv’s alleged support for opposition forces in Syria during the campaign against Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

In response, Iran could target vessels linked to Ukraine in other maritime routes or strike Ukrainian infrastructure directly. 

Tehran could also formally recognise Crimea and the Donbas as Russian territory.

‘In any case, what is clear is that Iran’s war is becoming increasingly intertwined with two other conflicts: the Saudi-Houthi confrontation and the Russia-Ukraine war,’ Azizi warned.  

‘With each passing day, the war is evolving into an increasingly complex, multidimensional, and international conflict.’

The growing overlap between the conflicts has prompted some analysts to argue that the distinction between them is beginning to disappear. 

William Spaniel, associate professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh, said earlier this year that the blurred front lines had ‘effectively merged the Russia-Ukraine war and the Iran war into a single conflict’.

‘We are still not at a true world war as there is no one actor fighting on two fronts simultaneously like the United States during World War II,’ he said. 

‘But it is further connecting the battlefield outcomes, and it will have longer-lasting implications for how the battle lines are divided.’

Ukraine’s years of fighting Iranian-designed Shahed drones have also strengthened its position with Gulf states. 

Zelensky has used that experience to present Ukraine as a provider rather than simply a recipient of military assistance, offering low-cost, battlefield-tested technology to countries looking to bolster their own defences.

Kyiv is now exporting not only interceptor systems, but also software, electronic warfare equipment and maritime drones.

Speaking to The Guardian in April, Orysia Lutsevych, head of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House, said that Ukraine’s expanding security relationships in the Gulf had strengthened its standing with Washington, countering Donald Trump’s repeated claim that Kyiv had ‘no cards’ in its war with Russia.

‘Ukraine is trying to show that our cards are about being a very robust, agile, fast-adapting and producing economy that can both defend against Russia and also defend other countries through weapons system sales,’  Lutsevych said.

She argued that those Gulf partnerships could also become an important source of investment for Ukraine’s defence industry.

‘Ukraine has production capabilities but not enough investment. It can produce more, but it doesn’t have enough orders or capital,’ Ms Lutsevych said. ‘So this actually comes as a great opportunity to use these production facilities.’

Fiona Hill, who served as a Russia adviser during Trump’s first administration, argued that if cyber warfare, hybrid operations and other forms of so-called grey zone conflict are included, a global conflict has effectively been underway for some time and has intensified since the outbreak of the Iran war.

‘I think it meets that threshold for a system-changing war,’ said Hill, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. 

‘There’ll be all kinds of new configurations of countries that will have sprung up.’

She warned that disruptions to oil and fertiliser supplies could draw more countries into the conflict, while raising questions about whether China might seek to exploit Washington’s focus on the Middle East by increasing pressure on Taiwan.

‘We’ve got a ‘four horses of the apocalypse’ going here … and I just feel that people are sleepwalking into it’.

After Ukraine’s strike over the weekend, the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Ukraine’s chargé d’affaires in Tehran to convey its protest over what it described as a ‘hostile and criminal’ attack. 

Government news agency IRNA reported that during the meeting, Iran stressed that ‘the Islamic Republic will firmly defend its security and national interests and will not leave attacks on the lives and property of its citizens unanswered’.

Meanwhile, as Iran’s foreign ministry threatened to respond, some Iranians took to social media to call for retaliation using the country’s Kheibar Shekan ballistic missiles.

Several users criticised what they described as the Foreign Ministry’s ‘weak diplomacy’.

One comment read: ‘As long as this weak diplomacy remains in government, every fox will see itself as a lion against us.’

Other users highlighted the range and capabilities of Iran’s missile arsenal, arguing that Tehran should demonstrate its deterrence.

A threatening message on Telegram read: ‘A gentle reminder to Mr. Zelensky: All of Ukraine is within reach of Iran’s ballistic missiles, including super-heavy Khorramshahr -4.’

MIAMI — In a significant legal showdown, lawyers representing the controversial social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will engage in discussions with U.S. federal prosecutors in Miami on Monday. The key agenda includes outlining a strategy for a complex and potentially lengthy extradition battle to the United Kingdom, where serious allegations of rape and sex trafficking have been leveled against the brothers.

The upcoming status conference is expected to establish a timeline for critical legal proceedings, such as setting a date for a bond hearing. This meeting will also determine deadlines for the submission of legal documents and schedule a formal extradition hearing. The Tates, who were briefly seen in court following their arrest on July 18, may soon know what lies ahead in their legal journey.

Monday’s conference will proceed without the Tates’ presence, as their legal team announced on Friday that the brothers have opted not to attend. Currently, they remain in close proximity to the courthouse, held in federal custody.

Renowned for their promotion of wealth, male supremacy, and controversial views on misogyny, the Tates have carved out a unique niche as divisive figures in the digital landscape. Once professional kickboxers, the brothers, who hold dual citizenship in the United States and the United Kingdom, boast millions of followers and are outspoken advocates of former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Despite their public displays of support, the White House has made it clear that the Tates should not anticipate presidential intervention in their extradition case. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt firmly dismissed any notion of interference on Thursday, reinforcing the administration’s stance on allowing the legal process to unfold independently.

“No, we’ve already answered that question,” Leavitt said.

The Tates’ attorney, Joseph McBride, said after last week’s hearing that they should remain in the U.S.

“We are of course objecting to extradition because Andrew and Tristan are innocent,” McBride said. “They’ve never done nothing wrong. They shouldn’t be extradited for crimes they did not commit.”

McBride said the extradition attempt is politically motivated and suggested the case involved former British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision to step down, though he provided no details.

Prosecutors in Britain said the new charges relate to four new accusers and were brought after authorities received evidence from police in Bedfordshire, in southeastern England. The allegations, which span from 2010 to 2017, include rape, assault, trafficking and offenses relating to “indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.”

McBride said none of the latest accusers have been identified.

The brothers are already charged with rape, bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain relating to three other accusers in the U.K. between 2012 and 2015.

The new allegations are the latest in a long-running international legal saga involving the Tates that has spanned the U.S., Britain and Romania. The brothers have repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

The brothers moved to Romania in 2016 and were arrested there in 2022, accused of participating in schemes to lure women for sexual exploitation. They denied those allegations, and the Romanian case hasn’t gone forward because of legal and procedural problems.

Travel restrictions were lifted last year, and they flew to Florida.

Andrew Tate, 39, became known a decade ago when he was a contestant on the U.K. reality television show “Big Brother.” He was booted from the show when a video appeared to show him assaulting a woman.

He has amassed over 10 million followers on X but has been banned from other platforms, including YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, for violating hate speech guidelines. He has made widely condemned comments, such as saying women who are sexually assaulted should bear some responsibility for the attacks and sharing graphic descriptions of how he might attack women.

The Tate brothers have consistently denied allegations of abuse and human trafficking, claiming their violent and misogynistic statements have been taken out of context or were intended as jokes.

Look up!

As the calendar flips towards the end of July, prepare for a celestial spectacle with two incredible meteor showers set to illuminate our skies.

The Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids are primed to dazzle stargazers as they reach their peak brilliance consecutively from July 28 to 31.

Meteor showers occur when Earth’s journey around the sun crosses paths with a trail of debris left by passing comets or asteroids.

During these cosmic intersections, these remnants—affectionately dubbed space debris—ignite and descend through our atmosphere, resulting in the radiant streaks and fiery bursts that captivate us and spark our imaginations.

First to show up and show out this month are the Southern Delta Aquariids.

Active for around six weeks, from mid-July to late August, the Southern Delta Aquariids are born to burn from the short-period comet 96P/Macholz, which orbits the Sun once every 5.27 years.

The radiant point of this shower is in the constellation Aquarius, hence the name.

The peak for this shower, i.e., when we can expect to see the most meteors per minute, is in the evenings of July 28th and July 29th, when it will be possible to see as many as 15 meteors per hour.

Bear in mind that these streaks are typically faint, with weak trails, and visibility will be compromised this year by the light of the moon in its waxing gibbous phase.

However, the Southern Delta Aquariids have been known to surprise viewers; in 1977 and 2003, the showers produced “outbursts,” meaning a stronger-than-usual show is possible this month.

Under clear skies and away from the maddening glare of light pollution, both of these showers will be visible to the naked eye.

Experts recommend giving yourself about 30 minutes for your eyes to adapt to the dark.

While many people will reach for a telescope or binoculars, it is better to take in the entire sky rather than a small part by lying flat on your back halfway between the horizon and the middle of the sky above you and 45 degrees from Aquarius.

The Southern Delta Aquariids are best viewed in the Southern Hemisphere or along southern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

If you fail to catch (pun intended) these showers, fear not; the Alpha Capricornids are closing out the month with a star show on July 30 and July 31

The Alpha Capricornids are the byproduct of the comet 169/NEAT that orbits the Sun once every 4.2 years. Their radiant point, or place in the sky from which they appear to originate, is, as the name implies, in the constellation of Capricorn.

The Alpha Capricornids are not a prolific shower (they only produce five meteors per hour at their peak), but what they lack in number, they make up for in strength as they shine exceptionally bright against the night sky.

This shower should be visible from both hemispheres, and, as with the Southern Delta Aquariids, hopeful sky watchers should seek out clear, dark skies.

Start your viewing around 10 P.M., and if you want to see as much of the show as possible, keep an eye on the sky until dawn breaks.

Meghan Markle recently revealed to viewers of MasterChef Australia that when her children, Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, ask for dessert, she encourages them to ‘pick’ fresh fruit from their own garden.

In an episode aired in Australia on Sunday, the 44-year-old Duchess of Sussex spoke fondly about the expansive garden at their extravagant £23 million Montecito estate, describing it as a ‘nice luxury’.

The former star of Suits shared how she is nurturing healthy habits in her children by guiding them to choose ‘a nice piece of fruit’ after dinner, enhancing their meals with nature’s bounty.

‘The kids are great eaters, we’re very fortunate in that regard,’ Meghan expressed to judges Jean-Christophe Novelli, Poh Ling Yeow, and Sofia Levin.

‘They get very involved, particularly with the garden,’ Meghan explained further. ‘It’s such a wonderful luxury to have so much space and access to fresh ingredients to cook with.’

‘If they say “Mama, can I have dessert?”, we say “If you can pick it, you can have it,”‘ Meghan said with a flourish, when Sofia interjected with: ‘You can’t pick chocolate!’

‘No, you can’t pick chocolate, but you can pick a nice piece of fruit,’ Meghan retorted, before seemingly backtracking to clarify ‘we always have a nice, as my husband would say, pud’.

Meghan has previously revealed Archie and Lilibet, who were recently reunited with their grandfather King Charles in the UK, sell produce from their garden at a local farmer’s market so that they understand the ‘value of things’.  

In an interview with British-born fashion entrepreneur Emma Grede, the Duchess said she tries to keep her children grounded by getting them to do gardening, admitting they are ‘very lucky’ to live in a ‘privileged’ home.

Meghan was one of the guests on Emma’s ‘Aspire with Emma Grede’ podcast last June, when she revealed: ‘We grow a lot of veggies. We sometimes do a little farmers’ market stand.’

The Duchess also revealed that she and Harry want Archie and Lilibet to know the value of money.

She said: ‘There’s a cost and a price for things, and I think that’s key for children to understand, especially children who are very lucky to have a home that has privilege, you need to know that just like manners, and taking care of the things around you, there is a value on things.

‘Gardening is really, really so great for children because it teaches them patience and teaches them to value and appreciate their food.’

Elsewhere during Meghan’s MasterChef guest spot yesterday, the Duchess shared that Prince Harry, who surprised Meghan with a FaceTime call while she was judging the final dishes, is ‘a real meat and potatoes guy’.

When asked about his spice tolerance, Meghan confirmed the duke can ‘handle a really good curry’. 

The moment on Sunday night’s episode came when series judge Jean-Christophe asked Meghan about the dish she loves cooking at home most. 

Meghan replied: ‘It’s a tough one because I have a lot of palates to appease. My husband, being from the UK, loves a lot of meat, potatoes, cream sauce.

‘As a California girl, I like a grilled fish, grilled meats, citrus. I just like using lots of really pure natural herbs and spices. I like heat in my food, anything with spices.’

After trying a contestant’s celeriac-based dish, Meghan, who refers to Prince Harry as ‘H’, said: ‘I mentioned my husband was a real meat and potatoes guy. This feels like the most elegant, elevated version of that. H would love this dish.’  

A producer then said: ‘Sorry to interrupt. We’ve had a phone call to the studio,’ as Meghan proceeded to FaceTime Harry as a treat for the Australian viewers. 

In what has been labelled by fans as a ‘cringe’ cameo, Meghan said: ‘My husband’s here,’ prompting cheers and shocked faces from contestants.  

‘G’Day! What’s going on? Have I interrupted something important here?’ Harry joked.

‘Well, we are actually in the middle of tasting all the dishes. We have four incredible cooks here! It’s amazing, they are so talented!’ Meghan replied.

‘I can see the chandeliers in the background; they look very nice… wonderful!’ Harry said.

He then asked to see the contestants’ dishes and Meghan panned the camera over them.

‘I wish you could try these. These dishes are fantastic,’ she cooed, before showing him the food. Harry signed off by telling her to enjoy it, adding: ‘Very sorry to disturb.’

During last night’s episode, contestants were asked to transform one of Meghan’s handpicked ingredients into a dish ‘fit for a duchess’. 

The ‘bounty’ included Australian honey, macadamia nuts, citrus, edible flowers and celeriac, as well as Brussels sprouts when Meghan boasted Archie and Lilibet had no problem eating the divisive food. 

‘My kids eat Brussels sprouts,’ Meghan told the judges, before Levin added ‘that’s impressive’. 

The Duchess, whose Netflix series With Love, Meghan was recently nominated for a Daytime Emmy, also had a few words of wisdom for the contestants as she acknowledged ‘there is a lot of pressure in this kitchen’.

‘I don’t like to cook that way, I like to cook in a really relaxed fashion,’ she said. ‘So, all I can say to the competitors was to just remember to have fun, to keep a sense of humour about it, and to cook from the heart.’

Meghan added that ‘food and cooking are how I show my nurturing and love for my friends, family and my kids’ in another sweet nod to her and Prince Harry’s children. 

She told the contestants: ‘The hope is that you’ll really hone in on one [item] as your hero item. These are all things that, for me, feel really nostalgic. And I love if there’s a connection that you can find when, as you’re cooking something, you ask: what is the story behind it? It almost feels like an heirloom, right? What is something from your family or from a memory, something sentimental that we can also taste as we taste your dish?’

Meghan has said her love of good food and Australia were the two reasons she chose to be a guest judge on the country’s biggest cooking show.

‘What attracted me to the MasterChef Australia kitchen? Two things: my love of food and my love of Australia. It was an easy yes,’ she said in a press release announcing the broadcast date.

‘It’s such a great show. I’m just really honoured that I was asked to be here with you and to be able to judge some of these meals.’

Meghan earned a surprise Daytime Emmy nomination for her Netflix cooking series With Love, Meghan, eight years after she reportedly ‘politely turned down’ an invitation to the awards.

She launched the first series on the streaming platform in March 2025, alongside unveiling her lifestyle brand As Ever.

A second series and Christmas special followed, with the mother-of-two offering hosting tips and cooking lessons from a rented multimillion-dollar mansion near the Montecito home she shares with Harry.

This article includes discussions on suicide. If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by calling 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial has been finalized, marking a significant step in the case of the Massachusetts mother charged with murdering her three children. Her defense argues that extreme postpartum psychosis drove her to the tragic acts within the family’s home.

This diverse jury, comprising 12 women and six men, was finalized in Plymouth Superior Court on Thursday, setting the stage for opening arguments to commence on Monday. The trial will primarily focus on determining Clancy’s legal liability for her actions rather than the fact that she caused the children’s deaths.

Clancy, once a labor and delivery nurse at the renowned Massachusetts General Hospital, maintains her innocence against charges of multiple counts of murder and strangulation. These relate to the deaths of her children: Cora, who was 5 years old, Dawson, aged 3, and Callan, just 8 months old.

Her attorneys do not dispute that she killed the children but plan to argue that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis and lacked criminal responsibility. Prosecutors allege the killings were intentional and carefully planned.

“It is usually a hard battle to win,” criminal defense attorney and Fox News contributor Donna Rotunno told News Media of the defense’s insanity bid. “But given the fact that she has such a documented history of treatment and going to doctors and being diagnosed and seeking out more treatment when she wasn’t doing well, I think she can lay the groundwork for it.”

Rotunno said Clancy’s attorneys are likely to emphasize that her condition allegedly continued to deteriorate even as she sought medical help.

“She continued to get worse. She continued to seek treatment,” Rotunno said, pointing to reports that Clancy discussed hearing voices and was prescribed several medications before the children’s deaths.

Clancy’s prior work as a nurse could cut both ways at trial. Prosecutors may argue that her medical background made her more capable of understanding her treatment and actions, but Rotunno said the defense could use the same fact to demonstrate the severity of her alleged psychosis.

“She was a nurse and still so out of it that she didn’t know she shouldn’t be taking all this stuff,” Rotunno said. “That, to me, doesn’t play into the intention on this. It’s the total opposite.”

Authorities said Patrick Clancy left the family’s Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023, to pick up takeout food and an item from a pharmacy.

While he was gone, prosecutors allege, Lindsay Clancy used exercise bands to strangle the children before jumping from a second-story window in an apparent suicide attempt.

The fall left her paralyzed, and she now uses a wheelchair.

Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead after being taken to a Plymouth hospital. Callan was flown to Boston Children’s Hospital and died several days later. The medical examiner determined that Cora and Dawson died from asphyxia and that Callan died from complications of asphyxia.

Clancy’s mental condition in the months and weeks before the killings are expected to become the central battleground at trial.

Her attorneys say she sought help repeatedly as she struggled with depression, sleeplessness, suicidal thoughts and voices urging her to harm herself and the children.

If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

She was admitted to a psychiatric hospital weeks before the deaths and was prescribed several medications as providers attempted to treat her worsening symptoms.

According to lawsuits filed by Lindsay and Patrick Clancy against her medical providers, she heard a voice on the day of the killings telling her it was her “last chance” to kill the children and herself.

The lawsuits accuse her providers of failing to properly diagnose, treat and monitor a severe postpartum psychiatric condition.

Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan ruled Friday that the media and public may not record, display, reproduce or distribute Patrick Clancy’s initial 911 call or autopsy photographs of the children.

The ruling came after Patrick requested that the evidence be shielded by media dissemination.

Reporters may also describe what is heard or shown in court but cannot broadcast or publish the recording or images themselves, according to the two-page order.

The privacy dispute produced a heated courtroom exchange Thursday after the jury was seated.

Patrick Clancy asked Sullivan to limit the public and media’s ability to record, broadcast or distribute his initial 911 call, family and crime-scene photographs of the children, autopsy images and the clothing the children were wearing.

His attorney, David Meier, said the request was not intended to close the courtroom, prevent jurors from seeing the evidence or interfere with either side’s case. Instead, he argued that allowing the materials to circulate online would cause lasting emotional harm to Patrick Clancy.

Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, supported Patrick’s request and accused prosecutors of planning to present the evidence in a manner designed to “inflame” the jury.

“Even though we’re in a court, let’s talk a little bit about humanity,” Reddington said. “Let’s talk a little bit about how we should try this case.”

Reddington said Patrick had suffered “one of the worst tragedies that anyone could ever suffer” and was attempting to rebuild his life.

“How that guy is still not an emotional basket case is beyond me. But nevertheless, he is trying hard to move on with his life. He has, as the court is aware, divorced. He’s remarried. He has a family. He has his extended family,” he said.

Reddington accused the prosecution of trying “to put a circus in front of this jury” and later called its approach “reprehensible.”

“The district attorney wants to put that guy on the witness stand and show little onesies with bodily fluid of his child?” he said.

Sullivan interrupted and reminded Reddington that the issue before the court was whether the media could record or distribute the evidence, rather than whether prosecutors could introduce it at trial.

Sprague began responding that the defense wanted to “rush past what happened to these children” and “whitewash away what happened,” but Sullivan cut off the exchange.

Reddington argued that calling one first responder after another would produce cumulative testimony intended primarily to stir jurors’ emotions.

“The Commonwealth did not choose the number of victims. The defendant did,” Sprague responded. “The Commonwealth did not choose the ages of the victims. The defendant did.”

Opening statements are scheduled for Monday morning at 9 a.m.