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
Sep 08 Mother of Georgia shooting suspect called school to warn of ‘extreme emergency,’ aunt says By Russ Bynum, Claire Rush, Associated Press The mother of the 14-year-old who has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of four people at his Georgia high school called the school before the killings, warning staff of an “extreme emergency” involving her son, a relative… Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch 3:13 News Wrap: Three Israelis fatally shot at bridge crossing between West Bank and Jordan In our news wrap Sunday, a Jordanian gunman killed three Israelis at a West Bank border crossing, the mother of the teen suspect in last week’s Georgia school shooting said she called the school to warn of an “emergency,” Ukraine… Continue watching
Sep 08 Watch 6:02 Restrictive abortion laws cause concerns about training for OB-GYN residents By Ali Rogin, Veronica Vela, Satvi Sunkara There has been a flood of state laws restricting abortion since the Supreme Court said access to the procedure was no longer a constitutional right. Those laws are affecting how medical residents in obstetrics and gynecology are trained in performing… Continue watching
Sep 08 Authorities search for suspect after multiple people shot along I-75 in Kentucky By Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press A manhunt was underway early Sunday as police searched for a gunman in a rural area of southeastern Kentucky near Interstate 75, according to authorities who said seven people were hurt in the shooting and a vehicle accident that accompanied… Continue reading