MONACO (AP) — AC Milan and new coach Ruben Amorim will play two English opponents in the Europa League after being drawn Friday to host Sunderland and play at Bournemouth.
Amorim lost the 2025 Europa League final during a mostly unhappy 14-month spell at Manchester United that ended in January.
Milan also will host Benfica – the team it beat in the 1990 European Cup final – at San Siro in the eight-game league phase.
Juventus was drawn against two Spanish opponents, Real Sociedad and Celta Vigo, and will travel to a neutral venue to play Hapoel Beer-Sheva of Israel.
Hapoel Beer-Sheva must travel to the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Turkey to play AZ Alkmaar, Union Saint-Gilloise, Bournemouth and Besiktas.
Crystal Palace, which won the third-tier Conference League last season, finally gets to play in the Europa League one year after its entry was blocked by UEFA because it shared ownership links with Lyon through United States businessman John Textor.
Lyon will now host Palace in the competition after Textor cut ties with the French club, which is owned by another American, Michele Kang.
Celtic hosts Marseille and gets two trips to Portugal, against Benfica — where the Scottish champion won the 1967 European Cup — and second-tier Torreense, surprise winner of the Portuguese Cup.
Bayer Leverkusen, which lost the 2024 final after going unbeaten in both the league and Europa League until then, was drawn to face French teams Marseille and Lyon.
Europa League games start Sept. 16-17 and the eighth and final round is played Jan. 28. The final in May is played at Eintracht Frankfurt's stadium.
The 36 teams will share a UEFA prize money fund of 565 million euros ($658 million).
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Juventus's Bremer pretends to clean the shoe of teammate Francisco Conceicao after scoring his team's first goal during the Serie A soccer match between Frosinone and Juventus at the Benito Stirpe stadium, in Frosinone, Italy, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. ( Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)
Bournemouth's Evanilson, front, challenges for the ball with Manchester City's Abdukodir Khusanov during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Bournemouth in Manchester, England, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)
Milan's head coach Ruben Amorim smiles prior to the Serie A soccer match between Torino and Milan at the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino in Turin, Italy, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026 (Marco Alpozzi/LaPresse via AP)
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are expected to return to court Friday morning at 9 a.m. ET in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they must decide whether to hold the former labor and delivery nurse criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023.
While both sides agree she killed her children, Clancy’s attorneys argued she suffered from postpartum psychosis, with Kevin Reddington saying “ lousy medical care ” exacerbated her condition. Plymouth County prosecutors argued she intentionally planned the killings and that the nation’s healthcare system is “ not on trial here.”
Postpartum psychosis is estimated to afflict 1 to 2 per 1,000 women after delivery. Experts at the Cleveland Clinic describe it as a mental health emergency affecting someone’s sense of reality. It can happen to anyone after giving birth, but the chances are higher for people with certain mental health conditions. Though most people with postpartum psychosis don’t harm their children, mothers with severe cases may try to do so, and also may try to harm themselves.
Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org.
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Jurors must decide whether Clancy committed first-degree murder in each child’s death. The charge, which requires proof of premeditation and malice, carries a sentence of life without parole.
If jurors acquit her of that charge, they must consider lesser charges.
If the jury finds Clancy not guilty, a judge can order an evaluation. If she is found mentally ill and a danger to herself or others, the court can commit her to a state mental hospital for six months. She would be assessed annually, but could remain hospitalized for the rest of her life.
If she is no longer considered dangerous or suffering from a mental illness, Clancy would be discharged.
By LAURA UNGAR
Postpartum psychosis is estimated to afflict only 1 to 2 per 1,000 women after delivery. Experts at the Cleveland Clinic describe it as a mental health emergency affecting someone’s sense of reality.
It can happen to anyone after giving birth, but the chances are higher for people with certain mental health conditions. In a journal article on the subject in 2023, researchers at the Medical University of Lublin in Poland said about half of people with postpartum psychosis have a previous history of psychiatric problems and the most common risk factor associated with the condition is bipolar affective disorder, which causes extreme mood swings.
Though most people with postpartum psychosis don’t harm their children, mothers with severe cases may try to do so, and also may try to harm themselves.
Experts say it’s important to seek immediate help if you or your partner or family member show signs of postpartum psychosis.
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The trial hinges on Clancy’s mental health and whether she understood that killing the children was wrong.
Prosecutors contend she did and that she acted intentionally. They noted she was involved in everyday activities the day of the killings, such as taking her children to the doctor and playing with them in the snow. The prosecution claims she deliberately sent her then-husband on errands to get him out of the house, and prosecutors have questioned the seriousness of her suicide attempt.
Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, maintains she was so mentally ill that she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible for the killings. According to her defense, she had bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis and, ultimately, it led her to believe she heard a voice telling her to kill the children so she could end her own life.
In diary entries Clancy wrote in the months before the killings, she described feeling anxious, overwhelmed, preoccupied with the details of her infant’s care, beset by “brain fog,” and “desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone.”
Both the prosecution and the defense have drawn on expert testimony to support their contrasting views of Clancy’s mental state at the time of the killings.
One forensic psychiatrist, testifying for the defense, said Clancy was “clearly psychotic” and held a delusional belief that her children would be better off dying with her than being left behind. The prosecution’s experts agreed that she had serious psychological problems, but said she wasn’t psychotic. They also questioned Clancy’s account of being commanded by a voice and asserted that she knew right from wrong and had control of her behavior.
Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is in the hands of a jury after a month of searing testimony about the deaths of her three children in 2023 and the psychiatric problems she experienced before she killed them.
Closing arguments concluded Thursday in the case, which has sparked debate online and demonstrations outside the courthouse over maternal well-being and the mental health system.
The jury deliberated Thursday afternoon and will resume at 9:30 a.m. on Friday.
A packed courtroom gallery listens during closing arguments in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Lindsay Clancy waits for the jury to leave and start deliberations during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
