The jury, anonymous and sequestered until they reach a verdict, spent just a few hours on their task Monday after the day was mostly consumed by closing arguments.
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Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most lopsided presidential election after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won, died Monday. He was 93.
Carrying a small piece of fabric from the first aircraft to gain flight in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the helicopter Ingenuity flew on Mars Monday morning, the first flight on another planet.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday they will send investigators to Spring, Texas, to look into the fiery Saturday night crash. Two men were killed.
A former FedEx employee who fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis never appeared before a judge for a hearing under Indiana’s “red flag” law after his mother called police last year to say her son might commit “suicide by cop,” a prosecutor said Monday.
Police say a former sheriff’s deputy wanted in the shooting deaths of 3 in Austin, Texas, has been taken into custody.
The triumph was hailed as a Wright Brothers moment. The mini 4-pound copter named Ingenuity, in fact, carried a bit of wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer.
Officer Derek Chauvin “had to know” he was squeezing the life out of George Floyd as the Black man cried out over and over that he couldn’t breathe and finally fell silent, a prosecutor told jurors Monday.
The U.S. cleared the 50% mark just a day after the reported global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million.
Interim Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacon said the suspect, Stephen Broderick, was considered armed and dangerous.
The suspect had been asked to leave the bar, but returned and opened fire, Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth said.
He said he believed that federal regulators could bring the shots back with restrictions based on age or gender or with a blanket warning.
Suspect Brandon Scott Hole, 19, legally bought the rifles in July and September of last year, officials with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said.
The police commission on the Hawaii island of Kauai has suspended the police chief without pay for five days for making discriminatory comments after an investigation found he mocked people of Asian descent.
The widowed British monarch, setting an example amid the coronavirus pandemic, sat alone at the ceremony, dressed in black and with her head bowed in prayer.
