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Month: October 2023

Jury deliberations resume in the trial of 2 officers charged in Elijah McClain’s death

KMGH, COLORADO COURTS, AURORA POLICE DEPARTMENT, MCCLAIN FAMILY PHOTOS, CNN By Andi Babineau and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Jury deliberations resumed Wednesday in the trial of two Colorado police officers who arrested Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after being subdued by police and injected by paramedics with ketamine.

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Republicans nominate Steve Scalise to be House speaker but struggle to unite quickly and elect him

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Deeply divided Republicans nominated Rep. Steve Scalise on Wednesday to be the next House speaker but struggled to quickly unify and elect the conservative in a public floor vote after the historic ousting of Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the job. In private

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Republicans are divided on far-right move to remove McCarthy as House speaker, an AP-NORC poll shows

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The unprecedented ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has left no consensus among Republicans about whether his removal was the right move as the party struggles to coalesce around a new leader, according to a new poll. Only one-quarter of Republicans say they approve

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Climate change can have ‘lifelong impacts’ on young people’s mental health, report says

By Giri Viswanathan, CNN (CNN) — Climate change can play a major role in affecting young people’s mental health, according to a new report from the American Psychological Association. Written in collaboration with the climate advocacy organization ecoAmerica, the report documents how environmental events linked to climate change – including weather disasters, extreme heat and

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Children found ‘butchered’ in Israeli kibbutz, IDF says, as horror of Hamas’ attacks near border begins to emerge

CNN By Muhammad Darwish, Nic Robertson, Artemis Moshtaghian, Amir Tal, Ivana Kottasová and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Kfar Aza, Israel (CNN) — Bodies of Israeli residents and Hamas attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after the Palestinian militant group launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel. Hamas

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Children found ‘butchered’ in Israeli kibbutz, IDF says, as horror of Hamas’ attacks near border begins to emerge

By Muhammad Darwish, Nic Robertson, Artemis Moshtaghian, Amir Tal and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Kfar Aza, Israel (CNN) — Bodies of Israeli residents and Hamas attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after the Palestinian militant group launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel. Hamas sent waves of heavily

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‘They have made those sacrifices’: Israel-Hamas war claims the lives of several journalists reporting from the raging conflict

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Some journalists are making the ultimate sacrifice while covering the war between Israel and Hamas. At least seven journalists have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Hamas launched its brazen assault on Saturday, according to press freedom groups and media reports. That number could rise even further in

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