Sep 09 Watch 7:16 News Wrap: Jury selection begins for 3 former officers charged with killing Tyre Nichols In our news wrap Monday, jury selection began in the trial of three former officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, wildfires in the western U.S. prompted tens of thousands of people to evacuate, the Israeli military ordered… Continue watching
Sep 09 Watch 5:43 Why a warning from the suspect’s mother wasn’t enough to stop the Georgia school shooting By William Brangham, Karina Cuevas New details are emerging in the deadly shooting at a Georgia high school that took the lives of four people and injured nine others. The mother of the 14-year-old suspect reportedly contacted the school 30 minutes before the shooting began… Continue watching
Sep 09 Watch 6:15 House GOP blames Biden for chaotic Afghan exit while ignoring Trump administration’s role By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn House Republicans blamed the Biden administration for the chaotic and deadly U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, accusing the White House of ignoring Afghan, allied and military advice and conducting a subsequent coverup. The White House called the report partisan… Continue watching
Sep 09 Watch 6:26 In ‘Hope for Cynics,’ researcher explores how seeing the good in others is good for you By Amna Nawaz, Simon Epstein, Alexa Gold At Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory, scientists have spent years studying kindness, connection and empathy. But those can all seem in short supply at a time of deep divisions. But the head of that lab offers a data-driven reason to be… Continue watching
Sep 09 Jury selection begins for federal civil rights trial into fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols By Adrian Sainz, Associated Press Nichols was pulled over in January 2023 and ran from police after he was yanked out of his car. Officers caught up with Nichols and pummeled him in a Memphis neighborhood, police video showed. Continue reading
Sep 09 Harvey Weinstein moved from jail to NYC hospital for emergency heart surgery, reps say By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press Weinstein, 72, was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan from the Rikers Island jail complex late Sunday “due to severe medical conditions,” his publicist Juda Engelmayer and prison consultant Craig Rothfeld said. Continue reading
Sep 09 Google faces another antitrust trial a month after its search engine was declared a monopoly By Matthew Barakat, Associated Press One month after a judge declared Google’s search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant is defending against another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company. Continue reading
Sep 09 Jury selection in trial for 3 former Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death set to begin By Adrian Sainz, Associated Press Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith have pleaded not guilty to depriving Nichols of his rights through excessive force and failing to intervene and obstructing justice through witness tampering. Continue reading
Sep 09 Authorities vow relentless search as manhunt for interstate shooter enters third day in rural Kentucky By Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press Joseph A. Couch has been named a suspect in the shooting. Continue reading
Sep 08 Wildfire burning east of Los Angeles forces evacuations and threatens 35,000 structures By Eugene Garcia, Trân Nguyễn, Associated Press An out-of-control wildfire in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles threatened ten of thousands of buildings and forced hundreds of residents to flee Sunday amid a days-long heat wave of triple-digit temperatures. Continue reading