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Kenosha, Wisconsin, and neighboring cities are on edge, as the two-week long trial of Kyle Rittenhause is reaching its conclusion. Many are still recovering from the unrest from 1.5 years ago. Charlie De Mar reports from Kenosha.
Closing arguments are set to begin Monday in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial. Prosecutors and defense attorneys were in court Friday hashing out the details for next week's jury instructions. Rittenhouse is accused of killing two people and injuring a third during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year. Steven Wright, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor, joins CBSN to discuss the proceedings.
A jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will hear closing arguments Monday in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. He is charged with shooting three men at a protest, killing two. CBS News' Bradley Blackburn joins CBSN AM to discuss the latest.
The defense team in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial called a "use-of-force" expert to the stand Thursday. The 18-year-old is claiming self-defense in the shootings that killed two men and wounded a third at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. CBS News legal contributor Rebecca Roiphe joins CBSN to discuss the latest.
Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand in his murder trial and broke into tears as he testified. Nancy Chen, who has been following the trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has the latest.
CBS News correspondent Nancy Chen reports on the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with killing two people and wounding another at a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Yesterday the 18-year-old testified he was acting in self-defense, and CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman joined CBSN to discuss the impact.
Kyle Rittenhouse took the witness stand Wednesday in his homicide trial to give his account of what happened the night he shot three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a night of unrest in the summer of 2020. Two of the people the then-17-year-old shot died, and Rittenhouse's defense team said he feared for his life and was acting in self-defense. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson, a Loyola Law School professor, joined CBSN to discuss.
The prosecution in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial could soon wrap up their case. Rittenhouse was 17 when he shot and killed two people and wounded another during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The lone survivor, Gaige Grosskreutz, took the stand Monday. CBS News correspondent Nancy Chen joins CBSN with the latest on the trial.
The only victim who survived a Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooting last year testified in court Monday. The defense maintains Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in self defense. Nancy Chen reports.
The killing of Joseph Rosenbaum has emerged as one of the most crucial and disputed moments of the night.
A juror in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was removed from the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse after trying to make a joke about the deadly police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Jurors peered at infrared video made by an FBI surveillance plane from almost 9,000 feet above the spot where the teen fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum.
A friend of Kyle Rittenhouse testified that the Illinois teen told him he had to fire gun because "people were trying to hurt him."
Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. He's accused of shooting and killing two people and injuring a third during a protest last year. Kirk Burkhalter, a professor of law at New York Law School joined CBSN's Elaine Quijano to discuss.
Rittenhouse claims he acted in self-defense, his lawyers may refer to them as "arsonists," "looters," or "rioters," if in fact, they participated in those activities.
The lawsuit says police "deputized these armed individuals, conspired with them, and ratified their actions by letting them patrol the streets, armed with deadly weapons, to mete out justice as they saw fit."
Police said Sunday evening that a person of interest is in custody.
The shooting of Blake, captured on bystander video, turned the nation's spotlight on Wisconsin during a summer marked by protests over police brutality and racism.
In a virtual court hearing on Wednesday, prosecutors and Rittenhouse's attorney agreed to delay the start of the trial to give them more time to prepare.
Even though Mr. Trump was not at the inauguration, he is still in the hearts and minds of many Americans who are having a hard time accepting President Joe Biden. Kenosha is a microcosm of a country divided. Erin Moriarty went back to visit some voters CBS News first met four years ago.
"We are going to file a civil rights excessive use of force 1983 civil rights lawsuit against the Kenosha Police Department," Crump said on CBSN Wednesday.
The Kenosha, Wisconsin district attorney's office has announced it will not bring charges against Officer Rustin Sheskey in the shooting of Jacob Blake. NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson joined CBSN to talk about the decision.
The district attorney's office in Kenosha, Wisconsin, announced Tuesday that it will not file charges against Rusten Sheskey, the White police officer who shot Jacob Blake, an African American man, several times in the back on August 23, leaving Blake paralyzed from the waist down. CBS News correspondent Mola Lenghi joins Anne-Marie Green on CBSN AM with more from Kenosha.
A Wisconsin prosecutor declined to charge the officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back last year during a domestic dispute call. The officer claimed self-defense in the struggle with Blake. Mola Lenghi reports.
Kenosha, Wisconsin, is on edge after prosecutors announced the officer who shot Jacob Blake will not face criminal charges. Mola Lenghi reports.
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French Gates wrote in a post that she's moving onto "the next chapter" of her philanthropic work.
The tariff on electric vehicles from China is currently 25%.
On the stand, Michael Cohen told jurors about the decade he spent working for Trump as his self-described "fixer" and attorney.
Sai Kandula acknowledged he had deliberately slammed into a security bollard in a failed attempt to seize power at the White House and install a dictatorship aligned with Nazi beliefs.
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A 16-year-old boy carrying a gun opened the back door of a packed church, but was immediately confronted by and escorted away by parishioners.
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The forecasted conditions come after a weekend of jaw-dropping northern lights seen as far south as Florida and as "magnetically complex" sunspots bigger than Earth continue to emit solar flares.
Geomagnetic storms can affect infrastructure, but may also bring an expanded viewing of the aurora borealis.
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