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Testimony resumes in Ahmaud Arbery murder trial after defense attorney’s comments spark outcry

By Mallika Kallingal, Devon Sayers and Alta Spells, After a day of explosive comments from a defense lawyer about who should attend the murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery, two new witnesses are expected in court on Friday, including a police officer who was in touch with the man who owned a home under construction that has been a focus of the case. Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. are accused of chasing Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, in vehicles and killing him on February 23, 2020, in Brunswick, Georgia. Defense lawyers have argued that they were attempting to make a

FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid leader who freed Nelson Mandela, dies at 85

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By Rob Picheta, FW de Klerk, the last leader of apartheid-era South Africa who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela after working to end racial segregation in the country, has died at 85, his foundation said on Thursday. De Klerk released Mandela, his subsequent successor, from prison and laboriously negotiated with him a transition to democracy, ending a decades-long segregationist system that kept South Africa’s White minority in power over the Black majority for generations. The two men shared the peace prize in 1993 for their work to end the policy, but de Klerk — who had served in governments

Public allowed to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for first time in nearly 100 years

By Veronica Stracqualursi, For the first time in nearly a century, members of the public will be able to walk on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier plaza and lay flowers before the sacred memorial site in Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday and Wednesday. It’s the first time in 96 years that visitors have been allowed to approach the Tomb, according to Karen Durham-Aguilera, the executive director of Army National Military Cemeteries and Arlington National Cemetery. The rare chance for the public to get close to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier falls on its centennial commemoration. “The next two days will

Veterans exposed to burn pits will get expanded health care support, White House says

By Paul LeBlanc, The Biden administration on Veterans Day announced a series of new support options for veterans who had been exposed to “contaminants and environmental hazards,” such as burn pits, while serving. The steps, which the White House detailed in a fact sheet, seek to “improve our understanding of the health effects of military-related exposures, educate providers and veterans about these exposures, and provide timelier access to health services and benefits for individuals who were exposed.” Burn pits were used to incinerate all sorts of waste, hazardous material and chemical compounds at military sites throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. Eighty-six percent of post-9/11 veterans

Biden administration announces deal to provide J&J Covid-19 vaccine to people in conflict zones and humanitarian settings

By Arlette Saenz, Kate Sullivan and Jennifer Hansler, The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a new deal it brokered with Johnson & Johnson and the global vaccination program called Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access, or COVAX, to provide J&J’s Covid-19 vaccine to people in conflict zones and other humanitarian settings where government vaccine campaigns cannot reach. “We’re eager for people in these difficult circumstances to get protection against Covid-19 as soon as possible,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a Covid-19 event. Prior to this agreement, J&J’s vaccine doses could only be used in official vaccination programs run by other governments. The Johnson

How does vaccination for kids change Thanksgiving? An expert weighs in

By Katia Hetter, As children ages 5 to 11 years old began receiving the Covid-19 vaccine last week, families across the country have been breathing a great sigh of relief. Their younger kids will soon be much better protected against the coronavirus. But will it be in time for Thanksgiving? Will we be able to get together more easily because more kids are vaccinated? What precautions should we take? What if travel is required? And what about the kids who are too young to be vaccinated? I spoke with our expert, CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen, who is an emergency physician

Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, On Tuesday, a proposal to fundamentally restructure the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 was soundly defeated, a setback that even many Democrats acknowledged could be laid at the feet of the “defund the police” movement that some within the party embraced last summer. “I think allowing this moniker, ‘Defund the police,’ to ever get out there, was not a good thing,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) told The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel on Thursday. That’s a remarkable turnaround from how politicians — in and out of Minnesota — acted in the immediate aftermath

‘We’re not just somebody to look at.’ Sidelined groups complain of racial tokenism at COP26 climate talks

By Ivana Kottasová, There’s a small desk right at the back of the largest room at the COP26 conference in Glasgow. It sits well behind the rows of seats reserved for world leaders and international organizations, right underneath a huge EXIT sign, behind observing journalists. The label on the desk reads “Indigenous Peoples Organizations.” The United Nations Conference of the Parties, or COP, is supposed to be an inclusive forum on climate, bringing together global leaders, NGOs, activists and civil society groups. The UK, which is hosting the summit in Scotland, promised “the most inclusive COP ever.” But to some of the

‘A great lion with a big heart’: Former presidents and dignitaries pay tribute to Powell

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Gen. Colin Powell was remembered Friday as a patriotic statesman who served his country in peace and war at a funeral service that was marked not only by its reverence for the former secretary of state but by a bipartisan attendance of former presidents and dignitaries who paid tribute to the late giant of Washington. While much was made of his leadership and life of public service in tributes to Powell, friends and family shared personal anecdotes and mourned him as a family man and “a great lion with a big heart.” Powell died on October 18 from complications from Covid-19 at

DOJ opens environmental justice probe of Alabama health departments, the first under 1964 law

By Christina Carrega, The US Department of Justice has launched an investigation into whether the Alabama Department of Public Health and the Lowndes County Health Department have put Black residents at a higher risk of disease by failing to properly rid their communities of raw sewage. This is the first environmental justice investigation the Justice Department has conducted under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits recipients of federal funding from engaging in discrimination. Lowndes County is between Selma and Montgomery. Residents of the area, historically called “The Black Belt,” are predominately Black and have a median income

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