By Nadine Schmidt and Stephanie Halasz, CNN Austria is going back into a national lockdown and plans to become the first country in Europe to make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for all eligible people as the nation’s coronavirus crisis deepens, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced Friday. Schallenberg said his government would look to impose the national vaccine
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By Devon M. Sayers, Ryan Young and Jason Hanna, CNN A defense attorney for one of the three men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing asked prosecutors for a plea deal and was declined, an attorney for Arbery’s mother told CNN. “Prosecutors shared with” Arbery’s mother that defendant William “Roddie” Bryan Jr.’s lawyer “asked for a
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By Elizabeth Joseph and Alexandra Field, CNN The parents of a 19-year-old Pennsylvania man who was suffering a mental crisis when he was shot and killed by police while holding a gun are calling for an independent investigation into the events that led to his death. Christian Hall was in the middle of a mental
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By Ray Sanchez, Eric Levenson and Brad Parks, CNN Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who killed two people and shot another during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was acquitted Friday of first-degree intentional homicide and four other felony charges. Rittenhouse, wearing a dark jacket with a burgundy tie and shirt, stood behind the defense table as each
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By Amir Vera, CNN Closing arguments for the civil case involving the organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, concluded Thursday, and a jury must now decide whether the organizers of the rally engaged in a conspiracy to commit violence and other harmful activities. Fourteen people and 10 White supremacist and nationalist
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By Ray Sanchez, Eric Levenson and Omar Jimenez, CNN Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial in Wisconsin was highlighted by the emotional testimony of the 18-year-old man whose actions as a minor have become emblematic of a divided America. Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges by a jury Friday related to the unrest that followed the police
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By David Williams, CNN Bettina Lerman was on a ventilator for weeks after getting Covid-19 and hadn’t responded to doctors’ efforts to wake her from a coma when her family made the difficult decision to take her off of life support. They made funeral arrangements and picked out her casket and headstone as they prepared
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN Before retiring as vice premier, Zhang Gaoli was the face of China’s organizing efforts ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics. As the head of a government working group on the Beijing Games, Zhang inspected venue construction sites, visited athletes, unveiled official emblems, and held meeting after meeting to
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By Eric Cheung, CNN In just five years, Lin Fei-fan went from charging into Taiwan’s legislature and occupying the building with hundreds of students to a senior job for the island’s ruling party. But his story could have been very different if he lived in Hong Kong, where student activists once brought the financial hub
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By Eric Cheung and Will Ripley, CNN Taiwan on Thursday showed off its newest military hardware — upgraded F-16 fighter jets that would be at the heart of the island’s defense in the event of an air attack from China. The F-16s screamed across the sky at Chiayi Air Base on the island’s southwestern coast
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, Mark Morales and Amir Vera, CNN The jury in the civil trial against organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, will begin their second day of deliberations Monday morning. Jurors finished their first day Friday without reaching a verdict. The Unite the Right rally was held over two days
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By Erin Burnett, Rhea Mogul, Helen Regan and Nectar Gan, CNN China is facing pressure from the United Nations over Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai’s whereabouts as the organization called for an investigation into her allegations of sexual assault. Peng, who is one of China’s most recognizable sports stars, has not been seen in public
Continue Reading By Devon M. Sayers, Ryan Young and Jason Hanna, CNN A defense attorney for one of the three men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing asked prosecutors for a plea deal and was declined, an attorney for Arbery’s mother told CNN. “Prosecutors shared with” Arbery’s mother that defendant William “Roddie” Bryan Jr.’s lawyer “asked for a
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By David Williams, CNN Bettina Lerman was on a ventilator for weeks after getting Covid-19 and hadn’t responded to doctors’ efforts to wake her from a coma when her family made the difficult decision to take her off of life support. They made funeral arrangements and picked out her casket and headstone as they prepared
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the James Webb Space Telescope launches in December, astronomers around the world are expecting to find the unexpected, said Sara Seager, astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The space observatory will be able to look into the distant universe as well as observe objects in our
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By Sonia Moghe, Brynn Gingras, Ray Sanchez and Lauren del Valle, CNN Two men convicted of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X were exonerated during a court hearing Thursday after a half-century effort to clear their names. New York County Supreme Court Administrative Judge Ellen Biben granted the motion to vacate the convictions of Muhammad
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By Eric Levenson, Brad Parks, Brian Stelter and Carma Hassan, CNN The jury in Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial concluded its third day of deliberations Thursday without a verdict in a day that featured the judge’s decision to ban MSNBC from the courtroom for allegedly following a jury bus. The 12-person jury, made up of five
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By Jay Croft, CNN A sister and friend of an Oklahoma death row convict spared from execution say they now will work to get the man released from prison. “We were overjoyed,” Antoinette Jones told CNN’s “New Day” on Friday morning. “We still have to get his freedom.” She is the sister of Julius Jones,
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By Camilo Rocha, Juliana Koch and CNN’s Jaide Garcia Deforestation in the Amazon increased by 33% in the first ten months of 2021, compared to the first ten months of 2020, a new analysis shows. The analysis published Wednesday by the Institute for Man and the Environment of the Amazon (Imazon), an independent Brazilian research
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By Dakin Andone, CNN The death sentence of Julius Jones was commuted by Oklahoma’s governor Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, stopping his impending execution. Jones had been scheduled to be executed Thursday afternoon for the murder of Paul Howell in 1999. Jones, however, says he is innocent. Gov. Kevin Stitt
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