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Kyle Rittenhouse has been found not guilty on all charges in Kenosha shootings based on the fact that he was defending himself. Though as bad as that might seem I don't know all the evidence to the case and the family of one of the victims even said "'there is no accountability for the person who murdered our son'".  Though the source of this article is CNN which leans more to the left of the political spectrum there is no detectable bias and they simply provide the jurisdiction as long with some quotes from a victims family.

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'Self-defense is not illegal': Kyle Rittenhouse tells Fox News after not-guilty verdict

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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.

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Biden pardons two turkeys Peanut Butter and Jelly while having to apologize to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and husband Chasten because "two turkeys are the 'new Indiana power couple'", so they both had to be pardoned instead of just one being pardoned.

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Biden pardons turkeys Peanut Butter and Jelly ahead of Thanksgiving

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The turkeys weigh about 40 pounds each and were raised in Jasper, Indiana.

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Addresses the increasing violence against transgender people this year having the highest number of transgender deaths standing at 47 known deaths.

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On Saturday, Que Bell will help lead a vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual observance to honor the memory of transgender homicide victims that began in 1999.

Bell has led these vigils before. He is the executive director of the Knights and Orchids Society, a nonprofit group based in Selma, Alabama, that supports Black transgender, queer and gender-nonconforming people, and he has been an advocate for more than a decade. But this year will be different.

"​​This is literally the first time that I'll have to write down my best friend's name for a TDOR celebration," Bell said, using the initialism for Transgender Day of Remembrance. "It's really going to hit differently."

Bell's best friend, Mel Groves, died Oct. 11 after having been shot multiple times. Groves, 25, a Black transgender man, was studying plant and soil science at Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi. Just before he died, he was about to become the full-time community garden manager for the Knights and Orchids Society.

But on Saturday, Bell will light a candle in Groves' memory.

Groves is one of at least 47 transgender or gender-nonconforming people - and one of 28 Black trans people - to have died by violence in 2021, which has surpassed 2020 to become the deadliest year on record for trans people, according to the Human Rights Campaign, which has been tracking fatal anti-trans violence since 2013. A disproportionate number of the deaths have been in the Southeast.

State legislatures across the country this year have also considered a record number of anti-transgender bills - more than 100 - many of which target trans youths, specifically trans girls. Advocates say the rhetoric coming out of legislatures is connected to the violence, because it describes transgender girls as boys and vice versa and, in many cases, characterizes trans people as "predators" on sports teams or in bathrooms.

Transgender Day of Remembrance is also known as Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience - the latter part an effort to remind people that while trans people face disproportionate discrimination and violence, they are also leading grassroots efforts to make things better for their communities.

Bell said that he and Groves' friends and family ultimately want the person who killed Groves brought to justice but that he doesn't have confidence in the police investigation.

When the Jackson Police Department first reported on Groves' death, it used his legal name and misgendered him, causing local news outlets to repeat the mistakes. Groves' loved ones had to reach out while grieving his loss to ask news outlets to update their stories to reflect who Groves actually was. Some updated their stories; others said they couldn't change them without confirmation from law enforcement authorities or Groves' immediate family.

A week after Groves died, Jackson police provided the same statement to NBC News that they first issued, which used his birth name (also known as deadnaming) and misgendered him. The police department hasn't responded to a request for comment about whether it plans to update the statement.

Bell said police officials need to be more educated about what the trans community faces; otherwise, he said, they will be unable to solve the case. He recalled one officer's public statement that he would investigate Groves' death just like any other.

"That is totally avoiding the issue," Bell said. "I want you to be knowledgeable enough to know that, when something happens to trans people, how your department should be reacting to it and how you can help, versus being so defensive about acknowledging that this happened because it was a trans issue."

Bell said police need to understand that anti-trans violence is connected to discrimination and higher rates of homelessness, among other issues that trans people face, or "we're never going to be able to solve the problem."

Anti-trans fatal violence cases nationwide appear to have a lower average clearance rate - the percentage of cases in which someone has been arrested, charged and turned over to a court for prosecution - than fatal violence cases in general, said Brendan Lantz, an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at Florida State University.

Lantz and his research team at the university's Hate Crime Research and Policy Institute are creating the first database to track fatal violence against the transgender community. Although the Human Rights Campaign and other nonprofit groups track such deaths, the database Lantz's team is creating, which will date to 2012, also tracks characteristics of the offenses, victims' background information, perpetrators' information, handling by police departments (including whether victims were misgendered or deadnamed) and whether cases have been solved, among other information.

Preliminary data, which Lantz said are subject to change, show that the nationwide clearance rate for fatal anti-trans violence is about 44 percent, which is well below the national average of 60 percent to 70 percent.

Early patterns also show that there's "very likely a correlation between the prevalence" of deadnaming or misgendering by police and the likelihood of clearing a case, he said.

Evidence is important when police are trying to solve a homicide, he said, "and if we're not even using the correct name, obtaining that evidence isn't particularly easy to do, right?"

"Witnesses are less likely to come forward, and a lot of issues enter the equation," he said.

Transgender rights groups say anti-trans sentiment, reflected in bills considered in dozens of states, affects how trans people are treated, including by police. Police initially misgendered victims and used their birth names in reporting on 30 of the 46 known deaths, an NBC News analysis found.

Since 2013, about 80 percent of trans people in deaths involving trans people with available data were initially misgendered by the media or law enforcement, according to a report released Wednesday by the Human Rights Campaign. An NBC News analysis of this year's cases found that victims in 73 percent of investigations were misgendered or deadnamed by police, compared to 59 percent of cases in which someone was arrested and charged.

Trans advocates say some policymakers and national advocacy organizations are quick to suggest police reform as a solution.

But while many of them agree that improving police competence and investigations is important, they say the strategy addresses the issue only after the fact - when people have already died.

That leaves many in the transgender community feeling unsafe, which has led some of them to take their safety and well-being into their own hands.

"When you get tired of depending on a system to protect you that you know was not designed to protect you or to support you, you realize that you're literally wasting time and resources putting money into a system that is not going to change," Bell said. "So instead ... we decided to start investing in the things that we could tangibly change."

Advocates like Bell say community organizations should be given more resources and support, because they know how to best keep their people safe and help them thrive - by providing them with gender-affirming health care, as the Knights and Orchids Society does, or housing, as a number of trans-led groups across the country do.

Mariah Moore, a national trans rights activist and a co-director of the House of Tulip, a nonprofit collective creating housing solutions for trans people in Louisiana, said: "It's so important that we support community-led initiatives, because those folks leading those initiatives are actually folks who have that lived experience and are able to speak to the needs and actually distribute those resources directly to impacted community members."

Bell echoed that sentiment with respect to funding for nonprofit groups. He said that many people support and know of national advocacy organizations but that the groups aren't providing emergency housing or money for trans people.

"I'm committed to this work to always keep trans folks safe," he said, adding that he has been evicted twice in the past because he has provided a place for people experiencing homelessness to stay, some of them as young as 13.

"That comes out of a sense of survival mode," he said. "I don't have a lot, but what I do have I want to share with the folks who are like me who also don't have."

In neighboring Georgia, Toni-Michelle Williams, the executive director of the Atlanta-based Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative, a Black trans- and queer-led organization that builds community safety through organizing and leadership training, said the group has supported more than 160 people through its Taking Care of Our Own Fund, which provides funding for emergency bail, housing, health care and other needs.

The group provided the support with less than 3 percent of $15 million, Williams said, which represents this year's budget increase for the Atlanta Police Department.

"Just imagine what we could do for our communities - Black trans and queer folks, sex workers, formerly incarcerated people - with at least 3 percent of that funding," she said. "I definitely just want to encourage people to continue to push and to join our side around what it means to reallocate funding from these large institutions that have so many resources. Our communities are in need of them."

Looking ahead, Bell said he's determined "not to lose another Mel."

"I want to do everything I can to make sure that we don't have any more Mel Groves - that we don't have another person who slips through the cracks, that for whatever reason we have the resources to make sure that folks have a fighting chance," he said.

He added that he feels as though he has done a disservice to trans people who have been killed in the past. "Because what I don't want people to remember about Mel is that he was the 39th person murdered," Bell said. "And that's often what happens when we lose somebody, is that the tragedy of their death is highlighted over their legacy, their purpose and all the good things that they have contributed to the world during their time."

He wants people to remember that Groves was a promising scientist and that his professors bragged about him and his research after his death. He loved Nat King Cole, he had a smile that made people want to talk to him, and he always offered to share food with his friends.

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Transgender people in 'survival mode' as violence rises, anti-trans bills become law

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On Saturday, Que Bell will help lead a vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual observance to honor the memory of transgender homicide victims that began in 1999. Bell has led these vigils before.

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Austria is the first European country to implement a nation wide vaccine mandate and reenters a state of lockdown.

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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 requirement from February 1. Just under 66% of Austria's total population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, one of the lower rates in the European Union, where cases are surging.

The national lockdown - the first in Europe this fall - starts Monday and will last for 10 days minimum, and could be extended for a further 10 days, Schallenberg told reporters at a news conference in Vienna.

"We don't want a fifth wave. We don't want a sixth and seventh wave. We don't want to have this discussion next summer," Schallenberg said.

The move comes only days after Austria took the step, unprecedented in Europe, of imposing lockdown measures for all those age 12 and older who are not fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

Under those measures, which came into force on November 15, the unvaccinated were ordered to stay at home except for a few limited reasons, with the rules policed by officers carrying out spot checks on those who were out and about.

Vaccinations are currently recommended for everyone aged 12 and above in Austria. On Monday, a pilot scheme to vaccinate children aged five to 11 got under way in Vienna, the national capital.

Asked by CNN from what age the mandatory vaccination order would apply, the Austrian Chancellory said: "Details are still to come, from what age and when you are considered fully vaccinated."

Austrian Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein said Friday that schools and kindergartens would remain open during the upcoming national lockdown.

But Schallenberg said it was possible for parents to take their children out of school if they so wished. "This is always a challenge, for every family," he said. During the first Austrian lockdown, schools and kindergartens were closed.

Mückstein also urged the wearing of FFP2 masks in all enclosed spaces and said employees could request the option of working from home where possible.

Once the national lockdown is lifted, lockdown measures will remain in place for unvaccinated Austrians, Mückstein said, adding that everything needed to be done to avoid a "fifth wave."

Schallenberg had harsh words for anti-vaccination activists as he addressed the news conference Friday, saying they had acted irresponsibly.

"We have too many political forces in this country that are fighting against this [vaccination] vehemently, massively and publicly. That is irresponsible. This is actually an attack on our health care system," he said.

"And incited by these radical opponents of vaccination, by specious fake news, unfortunately too many of us have not been vaccinated. The consequence is overcrowded intensive care units and enormous human suffering."

Once it goes into effect in February, Austria's Covid-19 vaccination mandate will be the most stringent measure to control the coronavirus through vaccination yet seen in Europe.

In Italy, all workers are required to have a "green pass" - a health certificate that shows proof of either full vaccination, recent recovery from infection or a negative test within the previous 48 hours - or risk a fine and suspension without pay. People must also show their "green pass" to enter public places like theaters and cinemas.

However, only health care workers are required to be vaccinated.

Italy's government has credited the "green pass" strategy with boosting vaccination rates.

Neighboring Germany also announced plans Thursday to introduce targeted Covid-19 restrictions on the unvaccinated in order to tackle record levels of infections amid its fourth wave of the pandemic.

Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel described the country's Covid-19 situation as "dramatic" and "very worrying" at a news conference Thursday, following a meeting with Germany's 16 federal state leaders on stricter Covid-19 measures.

Merkel warned that intensive care unit beds were filling up much too quickly, adding it was "high time to take action."

Speaking Friday at a news conference in Berlin, acting Health Minister Jens Spahn described Germany as being "in a national emergency," adding "we will not break this wave with vaccinations alone."

Asked about the possibility of a lockdown for everyone, Spahn told reporters "we are in a situation where we cannot rule anything out."

Lothar Wieler, head of Germany's disease and control center, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), told reporters the country had never seen such high rates of infection as now in the whole of the pandemic.

For a twelfth day in a row, Germany has reported record new Covid-19 cases. The RKI on Friday reported 52,970 new cases within the past 24 hours. More than 98,000 people have died as a result of coronavirus in Germany, according to RKI data.

The country's current daily death rate stands between 200 and 300, Wieler said. However, due to Germany's record level of infections over the past 12 days, "the death rate is likely to increase over the coming days," he said.

France is also experiencing a rise in Covid-19 infection rates, but French President Emmanuel Macron has said a lockdown of the unvaccinated is "not necessary" given the country's Covid-19 strategy.

"The countries who are locking down the unvaccinated are those who don't have the 'health pass' in place," Macron said, in an interview with French newspaper La Voix du Nord published late Thursday.

France's "health pass" confirms the bearer's vaccination status or proof of a negative Covid test and has governed access to a wide variety of establishments in France since its introduction in July.

Ireland, which has one of Europe's highest vaccination rates, with 89.1% of people over the age of 12 having been immunized, imposed a midnight curfew on bars, restaurants and nightclubs from Thursday as the country faces a fresh wave of Covid-19 infections.

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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 requirement from February 1.

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An article addressing whether or not vice president Kamala Harris feels "misused by the Biden administration: "'No I, don't'". Fox news also goes on to talk about her low approval ratings of 28%.

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Vice President Kamala Harris, who has a habit of laughing when confronted by reporters, chuckled on Thursday when asked if she is being properly used by the Biden administration.

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos asked Harris, the subject of a recent scathing CNN report that outlined frustration and dysfunction in her office, if she feels "misused or underused" by the Biden administration.

"No, I don't," Harris responded as she laughed.

KAMALA HARRIS SPOKESWOMAN SLAMS CNN'S 'GOSSIP' REPORTING

"I am very, very excited about the work that we have accomplished but I am also absolutely, absolutely clear-eyed that there is a lot more to do and we're gonna get it done," Harris continued.

The CNN piece touched a nerve in the White House, with press secretary Jen Psaki tweeting out a defense of the vice president that appeared to be in direct response to the article. Harris' approval rating was a dismal 28% in one recent survey, a historically bad number for a vice president.

CNN COMMENTATORS FUME AFTER CNN REPORT ON KAMALA HARRIS OFFICE DYSFUNCTION: 'I HAD TO PUSH BACK HEAVILY'
Harris has been mocked by critics for laughing when faced with tough or uncomfortable questions in the past. In June, she famously laughed when NBC News anchor Lester Holt asked if she planned to visit the southern border of the United States amid an immigration crisis she was tasked with finding the root cause of.

Harris claimed "we have been to the border," seemingly referring to other administration officials, to which Holt responded that Harris, specifically, had not been to the border.

"And I haven't been to Europe. I mean, I don't understand the point you are making," she replied, laughing.

Harris also drew backlash in March when she found a question about whether or not she planned to visit the border hysterical.

"Not today," she quipped while cracking herself up.
Fox News' David Rutz and Brandon Gillespie contributed to this report.

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Kamala Harris chuckles when asked if she feels misused by Biden administration: 'No, I don't'

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Vice President Kamala Harris, who has a habit of laughing when confronted by reporters, chuckled on Thursday when asked if she is being properly used by the Biden administration. ABC News' George Stephanopoulos asked Harris, the subject of a recent scathing CNN report that outlined frustration and dysfunction in her office, if she feels "misused or underused" by the Biden administration.

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Talking about the 2.2 trillion dollar spending bill in which $555 million dollars would go towards fighting climate change. The article takes no sides and has no detectable biases showing both Democratic and Republican reactions the the bill passing. Democrat Nancy Pelosi claiming that the "'bill makes it happen for us in terms of preserving the planet'" while Republican John Barrasso claims that "'It includes higher taxes on American energy and higher prices for consumers'". Personally I am glad that the money is going into combating climate change so the problem doesn't get worse considering the fact we live in California an area prone to wild fires.

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House Passes the Largest Expenditure on Climate in U.S. History

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The $555 billion package is designed to lure the country away from fossil fuels. It faces an uncertain path in the Senate.

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This article focuses on the worry that the Democrats have about the 2024 election due to Biden's low approval ratings along with some democrats voicing there negative opinion on Joe Biden.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It was supposed to be a moment of triumph for Joe Biden.

The Democratic president had just signed into law the most significant infrastructure package in generations. And he had done it by bringing Democrats and Republicans together, just as he promised during last year's campaign. But when Biden arrived in New Hampshire last week to promote the $1 trillion package at the foot of a crumbling bridge, not all of his VIP guests were in the mood to celebrate.

"Democrats are concerned," former state House Speaker Steve Shurtleff, a longtime Biden supporter who attended the ceremony, told The Associated Press when asked about Biden's political standing. "I'm concerned about where we may be in another couple of years when people really start to gear up and start making trips to New Hampshire."

Shurtleff was openly saying what a growing number of Democrats have been whispering for months: Biden's political standing is so weak less than a year into his presidency that he may not be able to win reelection in 2024 if he were to run again. Such anxiety-fueled parlor games are common among Washington's political class, but this one has spread to the states and constituencies that will play a central role in the next presidential election.

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing her own political conundrum with polls suggesting she may be less popular than her unpopular boss. A dynamic leader who made history by becoming the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to step into her office, Harris has been given few opportunities by the Biden White House to shine.

She delivered her first solo speech to promote the new infrastructure law on Friday in Ohio's capital city, addressing a mostly empty union hall largely absent of political dignitaries at roughly the same time Biden was issuing the White House's annual turkey pardon in Washington.

"In America, we have the courage to see beyond the crisis - to believe that the future and a future we imagine is possible - and then, to build it," Harris said to a smattering of polite applause in Columbus.

At least for now, there's little to suggest the legislation, which will strengthen infrastructure in every state and potentially create hundreds of thousands of jobs, will quickly improve Democrats' political standing.

As Biden struggles, speculation has intensified about the short list of would-be successors should Biden not seek reelection, although the 79-year-old president has said publicly and privately that he will. The list is led by Harris, of course, but includes other 2020 presidential candidates such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. Just last week, Booker announced plans to appear at a party fundraiser next month in New Hampshire, which traditionally hosts the nation's first presidential primary election.

Booker's team sought to tamp down chatter that he was positioning himself to run in 2024, and allies say he is very close to Harris and would not challenge her in the event Biden retires. Still, the mere existence of such conversations so soon into a new presidency is unusual.

The frustrations boiling over now may be long forgotten by the time Biden - or another Democrat - leads the party in the 2024 presidential election. The truth is, no one knows what the standing of Biden or Harris will be next year, never mind in three years. While Biden's approval ratings are hovering in the low 40s, they are better than Donald Trump's at the same time of his presidency.

Barack Obama also faced headwinds at the end of the first year of his presidency. His party would go on to suffer historic losses in the 2010 midterm elections. But Obama recovered in time to win a second term. Bill Clinton similarly overcame setbacks, including a devastating midterm cycle in 1994, to win reelection in 1996.

Democratic strategist Bill Burton, who worked in the Obama White House, noted that any number of factors could completely upend the political climate, such as Trump's reemergence, a Supreme Court decision ending or dramatically limiting abortion rights, an improving economy and the end of the pandemic.

"There's such a unanimity around the idea that Democrats are completely doomed. These are the same people who brought us President Hillary Clinton," Burton said. "Maybe things aren't as bad as the entire chattering class seems to think they are."

The White House is working to quash speculation that Biden may not seek reelection in 2024 given his current struggles.

Noting that Biden has declared his intent to run publicly and privately, his aides say the Democratic National Committee and Biden's political team inside the White House are actively moving forward with the assumption he will seek a second term.

They believe Biden's position will improve as voters digest the new infrastructure law and the $2 trillion social spending and climate bill currently moving through Congress. Already, the DNC and its allies are focusing significant resources on selling the Democrats' accomplishments in key states before the 2022 midterm elections - states such as Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin that will also be top battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election.

Despite their optimism, tensions inside the White House are real as the new leadership team learns to work together.

Harris' allies are especially frustrated that Biden seems to have limited the vice president to a low-profile role with a difficult policy portfolio - led by voting rights and immigration.

She was traveling with reporters in Ohio on Friday when Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in last year's deadly shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice. But she had to wait until Biden had addressed the case before she could weigh in, saying "the verdict really speaks for itself."

And when she delivered her speech on the infrastructure law, there was little sign of Democratic enthusiasm.

The crowd of invited guests barely filled one-quarter of a local union hall. Almost none of Ohio's top Democrats attended the event, including Sen. Sherrod Brown or the high-profile Democrats running for governor. Rep. Joyce Beatty, who represents the district where Harris spoke, was the only member of Congress in attendance.

"Because of our work together, America is moving forward," Harris declared, explaining that the infrastructure law would "make the most significant investment to fix our road and bridges in 70 years."

But just as in New Hampshire, the White House's message was clouded by frustration over Biden's presidency.

Ohio Democrat Nina Turner, who served as co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, said "very little has changed" for the poor and middle-class since Biden replaced Trump. The infrastructure bill does not change that, she said, and she blasted Biden's social spending package as "build back less better."

"The question becomes, 'Why am I helping you to hold to power, when the power you have right now you're not using on my behalf?'" Turner said of Biden. "That's called insanity - asking me to vote for you, asking the Black community to come out for you in 2022 or 2024 when you ain't doing nothing in 2021."

Indeed, Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist who attended the White House signing ceremony for the infrastructure bill, warned that Biden was approaching "the red zone" with Black voters.

At the end of the infrastructure event, Sharpton said he urged Biden to use his bully pulpit to fight harder to enact a policing overhaul and protect voting rights that are under attack in Republican-led states.

"They've got to between now and the end of January crank it up or they're going to have real problems," Sharpton said.

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Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth contributed to this report.

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Biden's political standing fuels Democratic worry about 2024

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Some Democrats have begun saying out loud what others are saying privately - that Joe Biden's political standing is so weak less than a year into his presidency that he may not be able to win reelection in 2024 if he were to run again

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Fox News covers the responses on Democratic politicians Buttigieg comenting "'there’s just a lot to be upset about, a lot to be concerned about, but we’ll move forward as a country'". There is no bias in this stroy it is just showing their responses.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that there's "a lot to be upset about" following the not-guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

Buttigieg was asked by NBC News anchor Chuck Todd to weigh in on the case, which concluded Friday after a jury acquitted Rittenhouse in the fatal shooting of two men during a riot last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
KYLE RITTENHOUSE FOUND NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN KENOSHA TRIAL

"Look, there's a lot of pain in this country, and that pain and that frustration was aroused by the entire case, including the verdict," Buttigieg said. "And for a lot of us, there's just a lot to be upset about, a lot to be concerned about, but we'll move forward as a country.

"The president continues to believe and this administration continues to believe in America and we've got to continue working to bring Americans together," he said.

Buttigieg's comments on the trial were similar to those of President Biden, who said in a statement Friday that the verdict "will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included."

The president said the jury's decision must be respected despite his personal feelings on the matter.

"I ran on a promise to bring Americans together, because I believe that what unites us is far greater than what divides us," Biden said. "I know that we're not going to heal our country's wounds overnight, but I remain steadfast in my commitment to do everything in my power to ensure that every American is treated equally, with fairness and dignity, under the law."

Vice President Harris and other Democrats in Congress also weighed in. Harris said the verdict "speaks for itself" and that "it's clear, there's still a lot more work to do."
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"The judge. The jury. The defendant. It's white supremacy in action. This system isn't built to hold white supremacists accountable," Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., tweeted. "It's why Black and brown folks are brutalized and put in cages while white supremacist murderers walk free. I'm hurt. I'm angry. I'm heartbroken."

Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., took to Twitter and said a "heartbreaking verdict is a miscarriage of justice" and "sets a dangerous precedent which justifies federal review by DOJ."

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Buttigieg reacts to Rittenhouse not-guilty verdict: 'There's just a lot to be upset about'

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that there's "a lot to be upset about" following the not-guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Buttigieg was asked by NBC News anchor Chuck Todd to weigh in on the case, which concluded Friday after a jury acquitted Rittenhouse in the fatal shooting of two men during a riot last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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Pregnant Women Shot Dead in Philadelphia.

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Pregnant Women Shot Dead in Philadelphia.

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The fatal shooting of a 7-month pregnant woman in Philadelphia Philadelphia is in its record for the number of homicides. authorities suspect that this was a targeted homicide and are offering a $50,000 dollar reward for any information that could lead to an arrest. A police officer found 11 shell casings on the ground.

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Doctors were unable to save her unborn child, police said.

A pregnant woman unloading gifts from her own baby shower was fatally shot outside a Philadelphia home Saturday night in what police said they suspect was a "cowardly" targeted shooting.

The slaying of the 32-year-old woman, who was seven months pregnant, comes as Philadelphia broaches a record year for homicides.

The name of the expectant mother was not immediately released. Police officials said she was taken to Einstein Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. Doctors were unable to save her unborn child, police said.

On Sunday, investigators were working to identify a suspect or suspects as well as uncover a motive for the killing.

"The person who did this couldn't be more cowardly," Deputy Police Commissioner Christine Coulter told ABC station WPVI in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said the city is offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest, he announced Sunday morning.

Coulter said the shooting unfolded around 8:30 p.m. in northeast Philadelphia when the woman returned home from her baby shower and was unloading gifts from her Kia Soul parked outside her home near the intersection of Palmetto and Benner streets in the Lawncrest neighborhood.

A police officer on patrol two blocks away heard gunfire and discovered the pregnant woman outside her home suffering from gunshot wounds to her head and stomach, authorities said.

At least 11 shell casings were collected by investigators at the scene, according to police.

"When I look at this situation, it looks like someone was targeting her, looking for her," Coulter told WPVI.

At the start of the weekend, Philadelphia police had investigated 491 homicides in 2021, a 13% increase from the same time span in 2020, according to a grim tally from the city's Office of Controller. In 2020, the city recorded 499 homicides, one short of a record for homicides in the nation's sixth-largest city set in 1990.

At least 397 of the homicides this year were the result of shootings and another 1,582 people have survived being shot in Philadelphia this year, according to the Office of Controller.

Lawncrest resident Tom McDonald said his wife heard the gunshots that killed the pregnant woman he described as "a nice person up and down the street."

"With this (that) just happened right here at the end of my block ... enough is enough," McDonald told WPVI. "It's time for the city to do something. Everybody is getting fed up. We (are) tired of it."

Coulter said the city and the police department are "doing what we can." She added, "We can't stop people who are intent on shooting somebody."

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Pregnant woman shot dead while unloading gifts from her own baby shower in Philadelphia

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Doctors were unable to save her unborn child, police said. A pregnant woman unloading gifts from her own baby shower was fatally shot outside a Philadelphia home Saturday night in what police said they suspect was a "cowardly" targeted shooting. The slaying of the 32-year-old woman, who was seven months pregnant, comes as Philadelphia broaches a record year for homicides.

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Canadian Oil Pollution Threatens their live in the Forest

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Canadian Oil Pollution Threatens their live in the Forest

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Big Oil companies like ExxonMobil and Suncor moved closer and closer to Jean L’Hommecourt’s cabin a cabin that was once miles away from civilization. Along with this their digging for oil is creating tar sands which are damaging and poisoning the local wild life. The amount of tar sand created by the oil companies covers more ground than New York city does and each year they get closer to Jeans home.

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Indigenous groups say Big Oil’s pollution threatens their existence in Canadian forest

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The companies’ energy-hungry extraction of the tar sands in Alberta has made the oil and gas sector Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Santa Anna Winds to hit Southern California the Hardest.

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Santa Anna Winds to hit Southern California the Hardest.

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Strong Santa Ana winds are expected to come Wednesday and during Thanksgiving. According to the weather service, some places like loss Angles are expected to reach a Wind speed of "55 mph". All this wind has put some areas in Southern California in "'Red Flag Warning [which] will have an increased risk for fires with rapid spread, long range spotting, and extreme fire behavior". There is no detectable bias in this news story for it is just stating the facts of the Sana Anna winds hitting California, but I will have to say that I am a little worried about this due to Californias record for having devastating fires.

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Strong Santa Ana winds and low humidity throughout Southern California are expected to taper off by Monday, but another system will blow through the region starting Wednesday and linger for a gusty Thanksgiving morning on Thursday.

A red flag warning went into effect at 9 a.m. Sunday and will expire at 3 p.m. on Monday, which will coincide with a wind advisory, according to the National Weather Service. The current Santa Ana wind event whipping through the Los Angeles basin is forecast to peak on Sunday.

Wind gusts could reach 55 mph in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties. Forecasts show isolated winds in canyons and higher elevation passes of up to 60 mph. Wind gusts will begin to taper off heading into Monday, about 10 to 15 mph less than Sunday, forecasters said. Humidity throughout most of Southern California will bottom out due to the strong winds, reaching the single digits in some parts of the basin, including Anaheim, San Bernardino, Riverside and Lake Elsinore. This will create critical fire weather conditions with dry brush ready to ignite.

"Areas in a Red Flag Warning will have an increased risk for fires with rapid spread, long range spotting, and extreme fire behavior, especially considering the dry fuels in place across the region," the weather service said.

The red flag warning will stretch from Santa Barbara across Los Angeles County and into Orange County and all along the coast. Tuesday will see a break in wind gusts for most of the region, but they are expected to start up again by Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

"By late Wednesday morning or early afternoon, we start to see another Santa Ana event that goes through at least Saturday and will reach its peak in the evening or Thanksgiving morning," said Stefanie Sullivan, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego.

This week's Santa Ana event is forecast to be weaker than the winds that whipped through the region on Sunday. It's still too early to tell if conditions will require another red flag warning, but without any rain in the forecast it's likely to be a dry holiday break next week.

Temperatures in the L.A. basin will reach the low 80s on Sunday and begin to taper off starting Tuesday but are expected to heat up again starting Thursday. Conditions are warmer and drier than average. Moving into December, forecasts show above-average temperatures for most of Southern California and a low chance of rain, according to the weather service.

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Southern California to host Thanksgiving Santa Ana winds, bringing fire concerns

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Strong Santa Ana winds and low humidity throughout Southern California are expected to taper off by Monday, but another system will blow through the region starting Wednesday and linger for a gusty Thanksgiving morning on Thursday. A red flag warning went into effect at 9 a.m. Sunday and will expire at 3 p.m.

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Workers Hayes and Goldberg quit working at Fox News for amplifying "'false claims and bizarre narratives of Donald Trump'". The breaking point was Fox News promoting a three-part show that included many conspiracy theories on the Capital riot.

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Two Fox News contributors have quit the network over Tucker Carlson's Patriot Purge, a documentary about the deadly Capitol attack.

In an open letter, Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg said: "Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis. But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible.

"A case in point: Patriot Purge, a three-part series hosted by Tucker Carlson."

As Hayes and Goldberg noted on the Dispatch, an outlet they founded in 2019, Patriot Purge showed on the Fox Nation streaming service but was promoted on Fox News.

The three-part series recycles conspiracy theories about the Capitol attack, in which supporters of Donald Trump attacked Congress on 6 January in an attempt to overturn his election defeat by Joe Biden.

Hayes and Goldberg, formerly writers with the Weekly Standard and the National Review, said the series was "presented in the style of an exposé, a hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism. In reality, it is a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery and damning omissions."

Goldberg told the New York Times he and Hayes had stayed on at Fox News in the hope it would recover independence from Trump.

But as goes the Republican party, so goes Fox News. In their resignation letter, Hayes and Goldberg wrote: "Over the past five years, some of Fox's top opinion hosts amplified the false claims and bizarre narratives of Donald Trump or offered up their own in his service. In this sense, the release of Patriot Purge wasn't an isolated incident, it was merely the most egregious example of a longstanding trend."

Goldberg told the Times the Carlson documentary was "a sign that people have made peace with this direction of things, and there is no plan, at least, that anyone made me aware of for a course correction.

"Now, righting the ship is an academic question. The Patriot Purge thing meant: OK, we hit the iceberg now, and I can't do the rationalisations any more."

Fox News did not comment. The Times said a spokeswoman "sent data showing that [political] independents" watch the network.

NPR cited five sources "with direct knowledge" as saying Hayes and Goldberg's resignations "reflect larger tumult within Fox News over Carlson's series ... and his increasingly strident stances". The same report named Bret Baier and Chris Wallace as senior anchors whose objections "rose to Lachlan Murdoch", the chairman and chief executive of Fox Corporation.

Murdoch did not comment. Last week his father, Rupert Murdoch, said it was "crucial that conservatives play an active, forceful role in ... debate, but that will not happen if President Trump stays focused on the past. The past is the past, and the country is now in a contest to define the future."

But Carlson dominates primetime. He told the Times the resignations of Hayes and Goldberg were "great news" and said: "Our viewers will be grateful."

Carlson is due on Monday to broadcast an interview with Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old who was found not guilty on all counts on Friday, in his trial for shooting dead two men and wounding another during protests for racial justice in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.

Carlson has also made a documentary with Rittenhouse, an enterprise Rittenhouse's lawyer has said he opposed.

Hayes told the Times he had been disturbed when a man at a recent event staged by Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump group, asked: "When do we get to use the guns?"

"That's a scary moment," Hayes said. "And I think we'd do well to have people who at the very least are not putting stuff out that would encourage that kind of thing."

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Two Fox News contributors have quit the network over Tucker Carlson's Patriot Purge, a documentary about the deadly Capitol attack. In an open letter, Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg said: "Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis.

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95% of federal workers are in compliance with Biden's vaccine mandate and at least 90% have gotten all their doses. For those who are refusing vaccination will be educated on how vaccines work and their benifits.

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95% of the federal workforce is in compliance with President Biden's vaccine requirement for employees of the federal government, a senior administration official said Monday.

Nov. 22 marked the deadline for more than 3.5 million federal employees to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19, after the president's September executive order mandated those individuals be vaccinated.

A senior administration official told Fox News Monday that the Biden administration has achieved 95% compliance across the federal government-meaning that employees have had at least their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, or have pending or approved exception or extension requests.

The official said that more than 90% of those employees have had at least one shot, with "the vast majority of those employees being fully vaccinated."

"These numbers make one thing perfectly clear: vaccination requirements work," the official said, adding that the Nov. 22 deadline "is not an end point," noting that officials continue to see federal employees providing their information and getting vaccinated.

The official added that agencies within the federal government will continue to process and review the information about employee vaccinations, as well as requests for legally required exceptions or extensions due to documented medical necessities.

"For the small percentage of employees who have not complied, or who do not have a pending or approved exception or extension request, agencies are beginning an education and counseling process, followed by additional enforcement steps over time if needed," the official said.

"There won't be disruptions to government services and operations," the official continued, adding that "at each step of this process we'll see even more employees getting vaccinated."

The official added that the administration hopes that the implementation of the vaccine requirement in the federal workforce "can serve as an example for other businesses of every size to move forward with similar measures that will protect their workforce, protect their customers, and protect our communities."

Meanwhile, the Office and Management and Budget on Wednesday plans to release a summer chart with agency data to date regarding the percentage of employees at each agency who are in compliance with the requirement- meaning they are vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine or have a pending or approved exception or extension request.

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95% of the federal workforce is in compliance with President Biden's vaccine requirement for employees of the federal government, a senior administration official said Monday. Nov. 22 marked the deadline for more than 3.5 million federal employees to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19, after the president's September executive order mandated those individuals be vaccinated.

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Covid rates in Europe are rising and to combat this nation tightens its Covid regulations. In protest to this people protest against it some people protest because of far-right political conspiracy theories or because they are tired of the regulations that they had have to deal with for two years.

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Austria leads in imposing tough new rules, as Europe fights resistance to vaccines and restrictions. Soon, a German official warned, almost everyone will be "vaccinated, recovered or dead."

Saltzburg, Austria, on Monday. The country went into its fourth nationwide lockdown and will make Covid-19 vaccines compulsory. Credit... Laetitia Vancon for The New York Times

BRUSSELS - Austria went into a major lockdown on Monday to try to break the strong fourth wave of Covid spreading across Europe, while the German health minister, Jens Spahn, warnedthat by the end of this winter "just about everyone in Germany will probably be either vaccinated, recovered or dead."

"Immunity will be reached," Mr. Spahn said at a Berlin news conference. "The question is whether it's via vaccination or infection, and we empathetically recommend the path via vaccination."

European governments are toughening their measures against Covid in the face of soaring infection rates - more than two million new cases each week, the most since the pandemic began - and popular resistance, with violent protests over the weekend in numerous countries.

Tens of thousands of people protested official crackdowns and vaccine requirements in Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland and Croatia, with scattered violence and police use of tear gas and water cannons. Some protesters were organized by far-right parties, but many were simply fed up with almost two years of intermittent state controls over their lives in the name of public health.

Ahmed Aboutaleb, the mayor of Rotterdam, where some of the worst protests erupted, called them an "orgy of violence" and said football hooligans were believed to have been involved.

Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, defended the right to demonstrate. "But what I will never accept is that idiots use sheer violence against the people who work for you and me every day to keep this country safe under the guise of: 'We are dissatisfied.' "

Europe is once again the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, accounting for more than half the world's reported Covid deaths this month, according to the World Health Organization. The four countries with the world's highest rates of reported new cases in the past week are Austria and three that border it, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic; 27 of the top 29 are in Europe.

With vaccination rates lagging and winter approaching, more governments are ringing alarm bells.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told her Christian Democratic party on Monday that the situation is "highly dramatic" and that the latest surge is worse than anything Germany had suffered so far.

In what may be her last month as chancellor, as a new government is being formed, she warned that hospitals would soon be overwhelmed unless the fourth wave of the virus is broken, and called on Germany's 16 states to enforce even tighter restrictions to block the spread.

Germany, like many European countries, is at the same time pressing for citizens to get booster shots. But it faces a dwindling supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which was partly developed in the country.

While the European Medicines Agency is poised to approve the vaccine for use on children ages 5 to 11 this week, first doses for children are not scheduled to be delivered to European Union countries until Dec. 20, Mr. Spahn said.

On Thursday, 553,000 vaccines were administered in Germany in one day, a daily total not seen since early August. Three quarters of those shots were boosters, according to the health ministry.

Neighboring Austria on Monday began its fourth lockdown, one of the few in Western Europe since vaccines became widely available. Most stores, restaurants, sporting venues and cultural institutions shut, leaving the streets cold and quiet in the weeks before Christmas.

The lockdown, which only allows people to leave home to go to work or to procure groceries or medicines, will last at least 10 days and as many as 20 and comes after months of struggling attempts to halt the contagion through widespread testing and partial restrictions.

Austria has also announced that vaccination will be compulsory as of Feb. 1 - the first Western country to take that step, and one of only a handful around the world. Some critics, including the editorial board of the Financial Times, have called it too high a price in terms of individual freedom, and a sign of political failure.

Opposition to the measures has been led in Austria by the far-right Freedom Party, the third-largest in Parliament, which has been amplifying conspiracy theories about the vaccines, spreading doubt about their effectiveness and promoting ivermectin, a drug typically used to treat parasitic worms, mostly in horses, that has repeatedly failed against the coronavirus in clinical trials.

Alexander Schallenberg, Austria's chancellor, said he originally had opposed compulsory vaccination, but "we have too many political forces, flimsy vaccine skeptics and spreaders of fake news in this country."

On Saturday, some 40,000 Austrians marched in Vienna to protest the new measures.

France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion. Proof of vaccination or a recent negative test is required to patronize restaurants and cinemas, which has encouraged many reluctant French to get vaccinated without a national mandate. But anti-vaccination groups remain active in France, as well.

About 68 percent of Germans and 66 percent of Austrians have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and hospitals are mostly filled with those who have not been vaccinated at all. Early in the pandemic, scientists thought 70 to 80 percent vaccination might be enough for a population to reach "herd immunity." But the virus is now so widespread, with new variants arising and some vaccinated people suffering "breakthrough" infections, that many experts say herd immunity is unattainable.

Vaccination rates in most of Western Europe are higher, but the levels in Eastern Europe are far lower - from 59 percent in the Czech Republic to 24 percent in Bulgaria.

Belgium is highly vaccinated, at 75 percent, but a rise in cases has caused the government to impose tighter restrictions, including more working from home and wider mandatory mask wearing. That prompted a protest in Brussels on Sunday of an estimated 35,000 people near the European Union headquarters. Some protesters threw stones and set fires, the police made more than 40 arrests, and three officers were hurt.

Alexander de Croo, the prime minister of Belgium, called the violence "absolutely unacceptable." Like Mr. Rutte, he said Belgians were free to protest, but that "the way in which some demonstrators behaved had nothing to do with freedom." He continued: "It had nothing to do with whether vaccination was a good thing or not, this was criminal behavior."

In Greece, the government said on Monday that unvaccinated people would be barred from indoor spaces, including restaurants, cinemas, museums and gyms. Vaccination certificates for those older than 60 will be valid for only seven months, with people then required to get booster shots to maintain validity.

In Slovakia, the country's prime minister, Eduard Heger, announced a "lockdown for the unvaccinated" from Monday. Slovakia and the Czech Republic banned unvaccinated people from restaurants, pubs, shopping malls, public events and stores, except for those selling essential goods.

The W.HO. chief for Europe, Hans Kluge, earlier this month blamed the region's woes on insufficient vaccination despite the availability of vaccines, and said that the continent could see half a million more deaths by February.

"We must change our tactics, from reacting to surges of Covid-19 to preventing them from happening in the first place," he said.

Melissa Eddy contributed reporting from Vienna and Christopher F. Schuetze from Berlin.

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As Covid Sweeps Europe Again, Nations Tighten Rules and Protests Erupt

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Austria leads in imposing tough new rules, as Europe fights resistance to vaccines and restrictions. Soon, a German official warned, almost everyone will be "vaccinated, recovered or dead."

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The BLM movement has distanced itself from Kyle Rittenhouse after he made a public statement in an interview with Tucker Carlson claiming that he "'support[s] the BLM movement'". BLM making a response calling Kyle a "'racist/terrorist'" on twitter.

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Black Lives Matter (BLM) distanced themselves from Kyle Rittenhouse on Monday after he expressed support for the movement.

The group linked to an article about Rittenhouse's interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson. In it, Rittenhouse said: "I'm not a racist person. I support the BLM movement. I support peacefully demonstrating."

In response, BLM tweeted "Alexa play: I don't f--k with you," and a gif with the acronym "IDFWU." It was referencing the Big Sean song carrying that title.
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Rittenhouse was recently found not guilty on all charges related to his conduct during a racially charged protest in Wisconsin last summer. The verdict has prompted left-wing commentators to suggest that it was another triumph of White supremacy within the justice system.

In another tweet, BLM described Rittenhouse as a "little racist/terrorist" who "represents the exact kind of white-supremacist vigilante violence that we've seen before."
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Rittenhouse told Carlson that he isn't a racist person and that his case wasn't about race.

"This case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do with race. It had to do with the right to self-defense," he said.

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BLM disses Kyle Rittenhouse after he says he supports movement: 'I don't f--- with you'

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Black Lives Matter (BLM) distanced themselves from Kyle Rittenhouse on Monday after he expressed support for the movement. The group linked to an article about Rittenhouse's interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson. In it, Rittenhouse said: "I'm not a racist person. I support the BLM movement. I support peacefully demonstrating."

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Oxnard Police are investigating the shooting of a teenage boy on Saturday night. The shooting occurred "just before 11 p.m. at an apartment complex on the 2400 block of Alvarado Street in Oxnard". There is no detectable bias it is just presenting the news while leaving a tip-off line. Though the teenager is stable in the hospital this does worry me a great deal because this happened in our city and not states across like in Wiscinson.

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OXNARD, Calif. - The Oxnard Police Department is investigating after a teenage boy was found shot late Saturday night.

The shooting happened just before 11 p.m. at an apartment complex on the 2400 block of Alvarado Street in Oxnard.

Responding police found evidence of a shooting and learned that a teenage boy had been shot in the upper body at the apartment complex. The teen was transported to the hospital in a personal vehicle before police arrived on scene.

Evidence was collected and the investigation was handed over the the Oxnard Police Department's Violent Crimes Unit.

The teen is currently in stable condition at the hospital, police said.

Anyone with information about this shooting or other crime in the City of Oxnard is urged to call the police department at 805-385-7600. You can also report suspicious activity on the department's website.

Anonymous tips can be made through Ventura County Crime Stoppers.

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OXNARD, Calif. - The Oxnard Police Department is investigating after a teenage boy was found shot late Saturday night. The shooting happened just before 11 p.m. at an apartment complex on the 2400 block of Alvarado Street in Oxnard.

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Darrell Brooks charged with 5 accounts of intentional homicide after driving through a Christmas parade in Waukesha. Along with the 5 deaths there are 40 injuries. The suspect has a long criminal record dating back to 1999.

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WAUKESHA, Wis., (CBS) - Darrell Brooks, 39, was charged with five counts of murder after he allegedly plowed through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday, killing at least five and injuring dozens more.

He is expected in court at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
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Brooks, who has a lengthy criminal record, was taken into custody near the scene after a Waukesha police officer opened fire to try to stop the vehicle, authorities said. Officially, Brooks was charged with five counts of intentional homicide, which is the legal equivalent of first-degree murder in Wisconsin, and carries a life sentence upon conviction.
At least five people died and 40 were injured when the red Ford Escape drove into the parade route and ran over several marchers, including members of a high school marching band.
In the moments before the incident, police received a call of a domestic disturbance, possibly involving Brooks. Police Chief Dan Thompson said police didn't even have time to respond to that call and fully investigate before Brooks allegedly drove onto the parade route. He said this was not an act of terrorism.
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Online court records showed Brooks has two open criminal cases in Milwaukee County. And at least six other convictions for violent behavior. One of the pending cases involves Brooks allegedly running over a woman with an SUV.

CBS 2 learned that Brooks was charged with resisting or obstructing an officer, bail jumping, recklessly endangering safety, disorderly conduct and battery on Nov. 5. According to the criminal complaint, Brooks hit a woman, who was the mother of his child, with his fist and then ran over the woman in a maroon Ford Escape, similar to the vehicle used in Sunday's rampage. He pleaded not guilty to counts 1, 4 and 5. This appears to be a domestic violence case because one of the court entries says two women filed for a no contact order, which the court put into effect. On Friday. he posted $1,000 cash bail.

In 2011 Brooks was found guilty on a resisting/obstructing an officer charge.

In 2010, he was found guilty on strangulation and suffocation felony charges in Wood County.

In 1999, he was found guilty on substantial battery-intend bodily harm, a felony.

Brooks was also a convicted sex offender, stemming from a case in Nevada about 15 years ago. He got a 15-year-old girl pregnant in Sparks, Nevada when he was 24, authorities said. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation. On June 23, 2016, he was arrested in the same town for failing to register as a sex offender. He bailed out on that charge and never appeared in court. He has had an active warrant from Nevada since then. The police department in Sparks, NV told CBS 2 the warrant was specific to Nevada and not other states. However, it's unclear if authorities from Nevada and Wisconsin had previously communicated about the warrant, and whether authorities in Wisconsin were aware of it. CBS 2 has contacted the Milwaukee County Distract Attorney's Office and the Milwaukee Police Department with questions.

In 2003 he pleaded guilty to a charge of misdemeanor resisting arrest.

In 2005 he got brief prison time for obstructing a police officer, also a misdemeanor.

The Milwaukee County District attorney's office has opened an investigation into such a low bail "in light of the nature of the recent charges and pending charges against Mr. Brooks,' according to a memo released Monday and obtained by CBS 58 reporter Kristen Barbaresi.
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CBS 2 found records for another ongoing case from July, 2020. According to that criminal complaint, Brooks got into a physical fight with a relative over a cell phone and fired a gun at the relative and a friend who were leaving in a vehicle. He was charged with two counts of recklessly endangering safety with use of a dangerous weapon, and possession of a firearm/convicted of felony. He pleaded not guilty in this case.

Thompson gave no immediate details about any possible motive.

Photos posted by CBS 58 show the red Ford Escape parking in a driveway in the 300 block of Maple Avenue.

Photos appear to show the red SUV involved in the Waukesha Holiday Parade incident. Follow updates here: https://t.co/sjcTvuk2Du pic.twitter.com/hfN0avE9Hp

- CBS 58 News (@CBS58) November 22, 2021

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Suspect In Waukesha Christmas Parade Tragedy, Darrell Brooks, Charged With Murder; He Has Long Criminal Record

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WAUKESHA, Wis., (CBS) - Darrell Brooks, 39, was charged with five counts of murder after he allegedly plowed through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday, killing at least five and injuring dozens more. He is expected in court at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

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Brain Laundrie number one suspect for Gabby Petito's disappearance and death has been has been found with a fatal "self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head".

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Brian Laundrie died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, lawyer says

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Brian Laundrie died from a gunshot wound to the head and his manner of death was a suicide, according to a statement from the Laundrie family attorney.

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New documents show that Jeffrey Epstein was too much of "a 'coward'" to kill himself. Though the official documents say that he killed himself by hanging documents between him and his phycologist reveal that he had "'no interest in killing myself". This along with the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death only adds more evidence to the theory that Jeffrey didn't kill himself.

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The financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein told a psychologist he was too much of "a coward" to ever kill himself, two weeks before he was found dead in his jail cell in a death that was ruled a suicide.

The claim was contained in a detailed analysis of Epstein's final days compiled from more than 2,000 pages of never-before-seen documents and jail records obtained under freedom of information laws and published by the New York Times on Tuesday.

Epstein hanged himself at the Metropolitan correctional center in Manhattan in August 2019, while awaiting trial on new charges of trafficking teenage girls.

According to the Times, he attempted suicide one month earlier, when he was discovered unconscious on the floor of his cell with a strip of bedsheet around his bruised neck.

But the records reveal that Epstein told a jail psychologist "I have no interest in killing myself," claimed he was living "a wonderful life" despite his incarceration, and said he was "a coward" who could not stand pain.

"I would never do that to myself," Epstein said.

Conspiracy theories that Epstein was killed have swirled in the more than two years since his death. FBI and justice department investigations have not concluded.

The Times investigation, however, paints a picture of a master manipulator creating "illusions until the very end, deceiving correctional officers, counselors and specially trained inmates assigned to monitor him around the clock".

The wealthy one-time associate of powerful people including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump repeatedly assured those around him he had plenty to live for while also hinting at despair, according to the documents, which cover the last 36 days of his life.

The act was so convincing to jail and federal officials, the newspaper reported, that complacency set in and mistakes were made, allowing Epstein to kill himself despite being considered a suicide risk.

On the night he died, the Times reported, Epstein told warders he wanted to call his mother. In fact she was long dead and he instead called his girlfriend. Staff allowed him to remain alone in his cell that night, despite an explicit order to assign a cellmate.

The documents reveal more details of Epstein's final weeks, including day-to-day routines that involved lengthy meetings in the jail's conference center with his lawyers, and complaints about living conditions.

The meetings, the Times said, allowed Epstein to avoid his "dank and dirty" cell, which he complained had a noisy toilet. He did not like wearing his orange jumpsuit, which he said led to him to being treated as "a bad guy". He had trouble sleeping and suffered from numbness in his right arm.

Despite those issues, the report says, Epstein talked openly with psychologists and inmates and "spoke of his interest in physics and mathematics and offered tidbits of investment advice".

Epstein also "reminisced about socialising with celebrities", the Times said. It also said prison notes do not name any such famous associates.

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Jeffrey Epstein documents reveal master manipulator who claimed he couldn't kill himself

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A food drive gave out thousands of turkeys at College Park in Oxnard for the holidays. Many families are grateful for this event some families even count themselves as "'blessed'".

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A food distribution event at College Park in Oxnard Monday featured a few surprise guests and gifts.

Food Share, the regional food bank, added thousands of turkeys into boxes this week and a Los Angeles Rams defensive lineman made an appearance at the special distribution.

About 300 vehicles lined up shortly after 11 a.m. for the weekly distribution as volunteers prepared for the mass distribution by registering attendees before the noontime opening. The turkeys weren't announced beforehand, but families were notified there would be "special" additions during Monday's event.
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Volunteers bustled around the site using forklifts to organize the thousands of boxes and placing boxes trunks. Refrigerator trucks were also on hand to keep the turkeys cold in Monday's warm sunny weather.

At noon, hundreds of people drove through four fast-moving lanes for Thanksgiving meal essentials. The boxes, one for each vehicle, weighed about 10 pounds with enough food for at least two families.

More than 600 families regularly attend the weekly food drive, said Food Share's Marketing Director Vivien Minton. This was the first time Food Share distributed turkeys for Thanksgiving.

Mark Agor, 29, of Oxnard said he was grateful for Food Share.

"It's been a struggle with COVID," Agor said. "They've been consistent, and the food's been great."
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The nonprofit food bank prepared 3,000 boxes with turkeys and additional Thanksgiving dinner classics such as stuffing mix, mashed potatoes, gravy and more to people who attended. Fresh produce, such as asparagus, was also distributed.

The Caswells, David, 54, and wife Delia, 56, normally attend Food Share's Port Hueneme site. They described themselves as "blessed" to receive the turkey.

"We hope they do it again next year," Delia said.

About 10 staff members and 56 community volunteers, including some from the California Air National Guard, were onsite to help load food into cars, register attendees and manage traffic.

Sebastian Joseph-Day, a defensive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams, also stopped by to support the community event. He was placed on injured reserve earlier this month.

"No one should ever go hungry," Joseph-Day told reporters.

The team's mascot also rooted on visitors at Monday's distribution.

Minton noted the event took about two months to organize all the logistics for the distribution from putting the boxes together, gathering volunteers and other arrangements. It was a "community effort," she said.

Food Share covered up to 60% of the cost of Monday's event. The remainder of support came from the cities of Oxnard and Port Hueneme, The Los Angeles Rams, Vons and other partners, according to the Oxnard-based nonprofit.

"We feel happy to be able to serve the community," Minton said.

During COVID-19, Food Share began pop-up pantries to help families in need through out Ventura County. Food Share serves an estimated 140,000 people on a monthly basis.
Cytlalli Salgado is a breaking news reporter for the Ventura County Star. She can be reached by calling 805-437-0257 or emailing cytlalli.salgado@vcstar.com.
"We're truly thankful to every individual and organization that has supported our efforts," Monica White, CEO of Food Share, said in a news release.

For information to volunteer or donate visit foodshare.com or call 805-983-7100.

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A food distribution event at College Park in Oxnard Monday featured a few surprise guests and gifts. Food Share, the regional food bank, added thousands of turkeys into boxes this week and a Los Angeles Rams defensive lineman made an appearance at the special distribution. About 300 vehicles lined up shortly after 11 a.m.

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On Wednesday the Supreme Court will take up the case that will determine abortion rights on a Nationwide level. Mississippi seeks to repeal the Roe V Wade law that allows women to have the decision whether or not they want an abortion or not. If repealed "'almost half the states in America would strictly limit abortion and perhaps ban it altogether". There is a slight bias in this news story favoring the side of the Roe V Wade law staying intact, but for the most part, it presents the consequences if the Rode V Wade law were to be repealed and the public opinion most who want the law to stay intact. For me would like if the right to get an abortion stays intact because it allows people who want to get an abortion to get one and the people who don't want one to not get one. Denying a medical service to women is not the right thing to do because if abortion isn't freely available in a safe and clean environment it will encourage people to travel long distances to get an abortion or go to back street doctors where the environment isn't as safe as a hospital. This is comparable to the prohibition of 1922 when the U.S made alcohol illegal their intent was to stop people from drinking but all that did was make people drink in secret and sometimes drink poorly made moonshine which was deadly to consume. If abortion gets made illegal the same thing will happen but this time there will be higher stakes as this involves the death of the woman seeking an abortion.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday will take up the most important showdown over abortion rights in at least three decades, a direct challenge out of Mississippi to Roe v. Wade's landmark holding that the Constitution provides a right of access to abortion.

It's the case opponents of abortion have long sought and advocates of abortion rights have dreaded, coming before a strongly conservative lineup of justices. Three were appointed by then-President Donald Trump, who said he would choose nominees willing to overturn Roe.

"If Roe is reversed, almost half the states in America would strictly limit abortion and perhaps ban it altogether," said Nancy Northup, the president and chief executive of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which supports abortion rights.

The court has yet to rule in a separate case on a Texas law known as S.B. 8 that bans abortion after about the sixth week of pregnancy. The justices must decide whether two lawsuits challenging the unique structure of that law, which delegates enforcement to private lawsuits, can proceed.

The issue of whether the Constitution provides a right to seek an abortion is not before the court in the Texas challenges, but it is squarely presented in Wednesday's case.

At the heart of it is a Mississippi law - passed in 2018 but blocked by the lower courts - that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, allowing them only in medical emergencies or cases of severe fetal abnormality. Supporters say the law is intended to regulate "inhumane procedures" and argue that a fetus is capable of detecting and responding to pain by that point.

The case presents an attack on the court's landmark Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973 and a follow-on decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey about two decades later. The court held that a state can impose some restrictions on abortion provided they do not present an "undue burden," but cannot ban the procedure before fetal viability, generally considered to be 23 to 24 weeks into the pregnancy.

Mississippi said it must be free to take account of advancements in medical knowledge that would shift the point of viability earlier in the pregnancy. But abortion rights advocates said viability, defined as the time at which a life could be sustained outside the womb, has remained the same since Roe was decided.

In its submissions, Mississippi said the Supreme Court made a fundamental error in its landmark abortion rulings, arguing, "Nothing in constitutional text, structure, history, or tradition supports a right to abortion."

The state also said the court was wrong to rule that state laws outlawing abortion violated a woman's right to privacy. "Nowhere else in the law does a right of privacy or a right to make personal decisions provide a right to destroy a human life," it said in its brief to the court.

And the state said there is no force to the argument that the rulings should be allowed to stand because the nation has come to rely on them as precedent, a legal principle known as stare decisis. The abortion rulings "placed this court at the center of a controversy that it can never resolve," it said.

As a fallback, Mississippi said if the court chooses not overrule Roe and Casey, it should at least say that banning abortion after 15 weeks does not unduly burden the right to the procedure, since most abortions are performed by that point, and Mississippi's only abortion provider does not offer the procedure after 16 weeks of pregnancy.

The Center for Reproductive Rights, representing opponents of the law, said in its briefs that "because pregnancy so intensely impacts a woman's bodily integrity, her liberty interests are categorically stronger than any state interest" until the point of viability.

Nearly 1 in 4 American women decide to end a pregnancy during their lives, and tens of thousands seek abortion after 15 weeks, the group said.

"Two generations, spanning almost five decades, have come to depend on the availability of abortion, and the right to make this decision has been further cemented as critical to gender equality," it said.

The state "does not meaningfully engage with the personal autonomy and bodily integrity interests that underpin constitutional protection for the right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy," the group added.

As for abortion after 15 weeks, the procedure at that stage is sought by about 100 patients a year from the Mississippi providers, it said.

The group also said the Supreme Court has been through all of this before, because it was repeatedly asked to overrule Roe and to abandon the viability analysis. Any decision now to uphold the state's ban after 15 weeks "would signal that anything goes - or at least that any ban would have a chance of surviving in court," it said.

In its brief, the Biden administration leaned heavily on the stare decisis argument.

"Roe's central holding remains clear and workable, and it has only been further reinforced by intervening legal and factual developments," it said. "And the passage of another three decades means that every American woman of reproductive age has grown up against the backdrop of the right secured by Roe and Casey, which has become even more deeply woven into the nation's social fabric."

The case has attracted intense interest, with more than 140 friend-of-court briefs submitted by organizations ranging from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, backing Mississippi, to the Young Women's Christian Association, on the side of the abortion providers. The Susan B. Anthony List, which opposes abortion, launched a $2.5 million TV and digital advertising campaign in the days leading up to Wednesday's oral arguments.

In a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted in early November, 60 percent of respondents said the Supreme Court should uphold the Roe decision, while 27 percent said the court should overturn it. The results, the poll said, reflect "attitudes that are consistent in polls dating to 2005."

The court is expected to issue its ruling by early July.

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Supreme Court to take up Mississippi challenge to Roe v. Wade

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday will take up the most important showdown over abortion rights in at least three decades, a direct challenge out of Mississippi to Roe v. Wade's landmark holding that the Constitution provides a right of access to abortion.

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Oroville declares itself a monarchy in response to Covid-19 mask mandates and vaccine mandates claiming that these mandates are infringing on their individual rights. Though the gesture is "'mostly symbolic'" this is still wild.

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OROVILLE, Calif. (TND) - A town in northern California has declared itself a "constitutional republic", presumably to avoid having to comply with federal and state COVID rules. Oroville, California'scity council voted 6-1 to approve the declaration at the beginning of November, according to meeting notes.

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This news article follows the cases made in front of the Supreme court on weather Roe v Wade (right for women to get an abortion) should be reduced or overturned completely and the power to regulate abortion rights be give back to the states.

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What we covered here

The conservative-leaning Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a Mississippi abortion case that could result in the repeal of Roe v. Wade - the 1973 landmark decision legalizing abortion nationwide prior to viability.

The court seemed poised to uphold the state law that bars abortions after 15 weeks, but the fate of Roe. v. Wade is less certain.

A Supreme Court decision that overturns the ruling could bring abortion bans to as many as half the states in the country already expected to prohibit the procedure.

Our live coverage has ended. See how the arguments unfolded in the posts below.

The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to uphold a Mississippi law that bars abortion after 15 weeks, but it is less clear if there is a clear majority to end the right to abortion nationwide, although conservative justices expressed skepticism about the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

The dispute represents the culmination of a decades-long effort on the part of critics of the landmark opinion that legalized abortion nationwide to return the issue to the states, a move that would almost immediately eviscerate abortion rights in large swaths of the South and the Midwest.

What the justices said: Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to be looking for a middle ground to allow states to ban abortion earlier - moving up the viability line from the current 22 to 23 weeks - but leaving in place some remnants of a woman's right to end a pregnancy. He said 15 weeks was not a "dramatic departure" from viability.

Another key justice, Brett Kavanaugh, however, noted that even if the issue were returned to the states, abortion would still be available in some of those states. He conceded that supporters of abortion rights have a "forceful argument" but asked if there were two interests at stake, why the court should be the arbiter.

The court's other four conservatives were clearly critical of 1973's Roe v. Wade and 1992's Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which enshrined the right to abortions nationwide. Sixty percent of Americans say Roe should be upheld, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted in November.

Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor spent several minutes attacking the arguments of Mississippi's solicitor general, strenuously arguing that a woman's right to an abortion has been on the books for nearly 50 years and had been repeatedly reaffirmed. She suggested that if the court were to overturn the decision now despite the fact that "15 justices over 50 years" have reaffirmed the decision, it would suggest the change was solely due to the new composition of the court.

Why this matters: The very fact that the current court, with its solid six-member conservative majority, agreed to even consider a state law that bars abortion long before viability suggests that the court - bolstered by three of former President Donald Trump's appointees - is poised to scale back court precedent if not reverse it outright. Already, in a separate dispute, the court is considering a Texas law that bars the procedure after six weeks and the justices have allowed that law to remain in place for three months, rendering Roe a dead letter in the country's second largest state.

What happens next: This week, the nine justices will sit alone in a conference room and go over the case. They'll go in order, with Chief Justice John Roberts explaining his vote and reasoning, then following by seniority: Clarence Thomas (conservative), Stephen Breyer (the senior liberal), Samuel Alito (conservative), Sonia Sotomayor (liberal), Elena Kagan (liberal), Neil Gorsuch (conservative), Brett Kavanaugh (conservative) and Amy Coney Barrett (conservative).

The senior justice in the majority and minority will get to choose who writes the opinion, a process that will take months, with plenty of drafts going back and forth between chambers, and rarely, a vote change.

As oral arguments about Mississippi's abortion law wrapped up, outside the Supreme Court anti-abortion and pro-abortion supporters agreed that no matter what decision is made, communities of color will be affected.

Mavourene Robinson, who stood outside the court with dozens of other anti-abortion supporters, says that the idea that having abortions will reduce poverty across the country is not accurate.

"What we have lost in this argument is that disproportionately, Black and brown babies are aborted, and we think abortion will end poverty but if you look at the data what has happened over the centuries or decades, it hasn't ended poverty, it actually has made our communities less powerful than they would be had they had those babies," Robinson said.

The Mississippi law that the justices heard today doesn't allow women to have abortions after 15 weeks.

Mary Beth Style, who is a pregnancy counselor and anti-abortion, says women really don't want to have abortions, they "feel that they have not choice" and are "pushed against the wall to do that."

"We need to have services for women," Style said.

Trish Gallagher said that the decision that the justices will have to make will not be an easy one, but regardless, women will continue to get pregnant, and abortions will happen anyway like they use to 50 years ago - by going to other countries or risking their life with a hanger.

"I'm on the pro-choice side because it's my body, my choice," Gallagher said. "Timing is key when you have a baby," and if a woman isn't ready to have one she shouldn't be forced to have one, "it's her body."

Latice Hicks, who is anti-abortion from Kansas City, Missouri, says that being in Washington, DC, for the oral arguments was more important to her as a Black woman.

"Abortion has been targeted against the African American race as we all know there are Planned Parenthoods in the Black community which is to stop and stump the growth of the Black community," Hicks said.

President Biden declined to say if he was concerned the Supreme Court would roll back abortion rights after oral arguments Wednesday indicated the court was likely to uphold a Mississippi law that bars abortion after 15 weeks.

"First of all, I haven't - I didn't see any of the debate today, the presentation today," Biden told reporters at the White House.

"And I support Roe v. Wade, I think it's a rational position to take, and I continue to support it," he said.

More on the Roe V. Wade decision: The 1973 ruling guaranteed a woman's right to obtain an abortion nationwide, using a trimester approach.

For the first trimester of pregnancy, the court said the abortion decision should be left to the woman and her physician; for the second trimester, a state could regulate the abortion procedure in ways reasonably related to the woman's health; for the final trimester, after fetal viability, the state could promote its "important and legitimate interest in potential life" and ban abortion except when necessary for the woman's life or health.
CNN's Dan Berman and Ariane de Vogue contributed reporting to this post.

The arguments presented by the Mississippi solicitor general and the questioning by the recently appointed conservative Supreme Court justices are an example of a "very strategic legal strategy and political strategy that has been in the work for decades," said CNN's Dana Bash.

"This is the long game exemplified. Because conservatives have been pushing, pushing, pushing to pack the courts on the lower levels and, of course, ultimately the Supreme Court," Bash said.

She added that many conservatives continue to support former President Donald Trump because of his appointments to the Supreme Court.

"If you want to know politically why so many conservatives to this day stick by Donald Trump, it's because of what we heard in the court today, the questioning by his three nominees were exactly what they were going for. We don't know how they're going to decide. But certainly they left some very big bread crumbs as to where they're headed," Bash explained.

The oral arguments have concluded, and the Supreme Court will now take the case under consideration.

This week, the nine will sit alone in a conference room and go over the case.

They'll go in order, with Chief Justice John Roberts explaining his vote and reasoning, then following by seniority: Clarence Thomas (conservative), Stephen Breyer (the senior liberal), Samuel Alito (conservative), Sonia Sotomayor (liberal), Elena Kagan (liberal), Neil Gorsuch (conservative), Brett Kavanaugh (conservative) and Amy Coney Barrett (conservative).

All justices have publicly described this process as orderly and collegial.

Remember, their views are often known going in and what's going to matter is the language in the final opinion. The senior justice in the majority and minority will get to choose who writes the opinion, a process that will take months, with plenty of drafts going back and forth between chambers, and rarely, a vote change.

Most famously, Roberts changed his vote to uphold Obamacare in 2012, after initially deciding to kill it.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett returned to a theme she has asked repeatedly about during today's hearing, asking how the growing availability of adoption - via so-called "safe haven" laws - changes the reliance interest.

US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said that there is "nothing new." Her question wraps up Prelogar's argument period and Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart, when stepped up for a brief rebuttal, seized on Barrett's question.

He said the rise of "safe haven" laws relieve a "huge burden."

Stewart finished his rebuttal without any additional questions from the court.

The hearing ended after the rebuttal, having lasted just under two hours.

Chief Justice John Roberts asked another question suggesting he is looking to find a way to uphold the 15-week abortion ban without reversing Roe v. Wade outright.

He returned the discussion to the reliance interests, and asked US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration's top lawyer before the Supreme Court, whether her reliance interest arguments were as strong when considered just against a 15- week ban, rather than a law that prohibition abortion outright.

Prelogar said if that the court were to rule the way Mississippi is asking it to - by reversing the liberty interest or leaving it up the air - states would rush to limit abortions much earlier than 15 weeks into the pregnancy.

"The thing that is at issue before us today is 15 weeks," Roberts shot back.

US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration's top lawyer before the Supreme Court, is arguing against the court disrupting Roe v. Wade, saying people have relied on the right to an abortion for nearly 50 years.

"Nearly half of the states already have or are expected to enact bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy, many without exceptions for rape or incest. Women who are unable to travel hundreds of miles to gain access to legal abortion will be required to continue with their pregnancies and give birth with profound effects on their bodies, their health, and the course of their lives," Prelogar said.

"If this court renounces the liberty interest recognized in Roe and reaffirmed in Casey, it would be an unprecedented contraction of individual rights and a stark departure from principles of stare decisis," she continued.

"The court has never revoked a right that is so fundamental to so many Americans and so central to their ability to participate fully and equally in society," Prelogar told the justices.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett have asked relative softballs of Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart and been tough on Julie Rikelman, a lawyer representing Jackson Women's Health Organization.

Barrett asked about "safe haven laws," and women's ability to give up children for adoption.

Thomas, who has lobbied to overturn Roe v. Wade for years, has been direct in asking if there's a constitutional basis for allowing abortion.

The court's three liberals are expected to absolutely vote to uphold Roe.

But Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh may be searching for a middle ground.

Roberts suggested the court could look at Mississippi's 15-week law as a new viability standard, rather than Roe and Casey, which is over 20 weeks. And Kavanaugh, meanwhile, has asked to confirm that Mississippi isn't asking the court to outright prohibit abortion, a way to say it's not overturning Roe while limiting access.

Kavanaugh asked another set of questions suggesting he is inclined to rule with Mississippi and even go as far as reverse Roe.

In broad strokes, he sums up Mississippi's argument asking the court to interpret the Constitution as neutral on abortion, and to return the issue to state or Congress. He asked Rikelman to respond.

Then he asked a question about stare decisis, ticking off several "consequential" decisions - including on school segregation, voting rights, and business regulations - where the court overturned precedent.

If the court had listened to the arguments that it should adhere to precedent in those cases, "the country would be a much different place," Kavanaugh said.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor shot back at Kavanaugh's question that cited several court decisions that overturned precedent. Most of those cases, Sotomayor said, were "us recognizing and overturning state control over issues that we said belong to individuals."

Breyer also took issue with the list of cases Kavanaugh cited.
CNN's Tierney Sneed contributed reporting to this post.

What we covered here

The conservative-leaning Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a Mississippi abortion case that could result in the repeal of Roe v. Wade - the 1973 landmark decision legalizing abortion nationwide prior to viability.

The court seemed poised to uphold the state law that bars abortions after 15 weeks, but the fate of Roe. v. Wade is less certain.

A Supreme Court decision that overturns the ruling could bring abortion bans to as many as half the states in the country already expected to prohibit the procedure.

Our live coverage has ended. See how the arguments unfolded in the posts below.

The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to uphold a Mississippi law that bars abortion after 15 weeks, but it is less clear if there is a clear majority to end the right to abortion nationwide, although conservative justices expressed skepticism about the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

The dispute represents the culmination of a decades-long effort on the part of critics of the landmark opinion that legalized abortion nationwide to return the issue to the states, a move that would almost immediately eviscerate abortion rights in large swaths of the South and the Midwest.

What the justices said: Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to be looking for a middle ground to allow states to ban abortion earlier - moving up the viability line from the current 22 to 23 weeks - but leaving in place some remnants of a woman's right to end a pregnancy. He said 15 weeks was not a "dramatic departure" from viability.

Another key justice, Brett Kavanaugh, however, noted that even if the issue were returned to the states, abortion would still be available in some of those states. He conceded that supporters of abortion rights have a "forceful argument" but asked if there were two interests at stake, why the court should be the arbiter.

The court's other four conservatives were clearly critical of 1973's Roe v. Wade and 1992's Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which enshrined the right to abortions nationwide. Sixty percent of Americans say Roe should be upheld, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted in November.

Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor spent several minutes attacking the arguments of Mississippi's solicitor general, strenuously arguing that a woman's right to an abortion has been on the books for nearly 50 years and had been repeatedly reaffirmed. She suggested that if the court were to overturn the decision now despite the fact that "15 justices over 50 years" have reaffirmed the decision, it would suggest the change was solely due to the new composition of the court.

Why this matters: The very fact that the current court, with its solid six-member conservative majority, agreed to even consider a state law that bars abortion long before viability suggests that the court - bolstered by three of former President Donald Trump's appointees - is poised to scale back court precedent if not reverse it outright. Already, in a separate dispute, the court is considering a Texas law that bars the procedure after six weeks and the justices have allowed that law to remain in place for three months, rendering Roe a dead letter in the country's second largest state.

What happens next: This week, the nine justices will sit alone in a conference room and go over the case. They'll go in order, with Chief Justice John Roberts explaining his vote and reasoning, then following by seniority: Clarence Thomas (conservative), Stephen Breyer (the senior liberal), Samuel Alito (conservative), Sonia Sotomayor (liberal), Elena Kagan (liberal), Neil Gorsuch (conservative), Brett Kavanaugh (conservative) and Amy Coney Barrett (conservative).

The senior justice in the majority and minority will get to choose who writes the opinion, a process that will take months, with plenty of drafts going back and forth between chambers, and rarely, a vote change.

As oral arguments about Mississippi's abortion law wrapped up, outside the Supreme Court anti-abortion and pro-abortion supporters agreed that no matter what decision is made, communities of color will be affected.

Mavourene Robinson, who stood outside the court with dozens of other anti-abortion supporters, says that the idea that having abortions will reduce poverty across the country is not accurate.

"What we have lost in this argument is that disproportionately, Black and brown babies are aborted, and we think abortion will end poverty but if you look at the data what has happened over the centuries or decades, it hasn't ended poverty, it actually has made our communities less powerful than they would be had they had those babies," Robinson said.

The Mississippi law that the justices heard today doesn't allow women to have abortions after 15 weeks.

Mary Beth Style, who is a pregnancy counselor and anti-abortion, says women really don't want to have abortions, they "feel that they have not choice" and are "pushed against the wall to do that."

"We need to have services for women," Style said.

Trish Gallagher said that the decision that the justices will have to make will not be an easy one, but regardless, women will continue to get pregnant, and abortions will happen anyway like they use to 50 years ago - by going to other countries or risking their life with a hanger.

"I'm on the pro-choice side because it's my body, my choice," Gallagher said. "Timing is key when you have a baby," and if a woman isn't ready to have one she shouldn't be forced to have one, "it's her body."

Latice Hicks, who is anti-abortion from Kansas City, Missouri, says that being in Washington, DC, for the oral arguments was more important to her as a Black woman.

"Abortion has been targeted against the African American race as we all know there are Planned Parenthoods in the Black community which is to stop and stump the growth of the Black community," Hicks said.

President Biden declined to say if he was concerned the Supreme Court would roll back abortion rights after oral arguments Wednesday indicated the court was likely to uphold a Mississippi law that bars abortion after 15 weeks.

"First of all, I haven't - I didn't see any of the debate today, the presentation today," Biden told reporters at the White House.

"And I support Roe v. Wade, I think it's a rational position to take, and I continue to support it," he said.

More on the Roe V. Wade decision: The 1973 ruling guaranteed a woman's right to obtain an abortion nationwide, using a trimester approach.

For the first trimester of pregnancy, the court said the abortion decision should be left to the woman and her physician; for the second trimester, a state could regulate the abortion procedure in ways reasonably related to the woman's health; for the final trimester, after fetal viability, the state could promote its "important and legitimate interest in potential life" and ban abortion except when necessary for the woman's life or health.
CNN's Dan Berman and Ariane de Vogue contributed reporting to this post.

The arguments presented by the Mississippi solicitor general and the questioning by the recently appointed conservative Supreme Court justices are an example of a "very strategic legal strategy and political strategy that has been in the work for decades," said CNN's Dana Bash.

"This is the long game exemplified. Because conservatives have been pushing, pushing, pushing to pack the courts on the lower levels and, of course, ultimately the Supreme Court," Bash said.

She added that many conservatives continue to support former President Donald Trump because of his appointments to the Supreme Court.

"If you want to know politically why so many conservatives to this day stick by Donald Trump, it's because of what we heard in the court today, the questioning by his three nominees were exactly what they were going for. We don't know how they're going to decide. But certainly they left some very big bread crumbs as to where they're headed," Bash explained.

The oral arguments have concluded, and the Supreme Court will now take the case under consideration.

This week, the nine will sit alone in a conference room and go over the case.

They'll go in order, with Chief Justice John Roberts explaining his vote and reasoning, then following by seniority: Clarence Thomas (conservative), Stephen Breyer (the senior liberal), Samuel Alito (conservative), Sonia Sotomayor (liberal), Elena Kagan (liberal), Neil Gorsuch (conservative), Brett Kavanaugh (conservative) and Amy Coney Barrett (conservative).

All justices have publicly described this process as orderly and collegial.

Remember, their views are often known going in and what's going to matter is the language in the final opinion. The senior justice in the majority and minority will get to choose who writes the opinion, a process that will take months, with plenty of drafts going back and forth between chambers, and rarely, a vote change.

Most famously, Roberts changed his vote to uphold Obamacare in 2012, after initially deciding to kill it.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett returned to a theme she has asked repeatedly about during today's hearing, asking how the growing availability of adoption - via so-called "safe haven" laws - changes the reliance interest.

US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said that there is "nothing new." Her question wraps up Prelogar's argument period and Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart, when stepped up for a brief rebuttal, seized on Barrett's question.

He said the rise of "safe haven" laws relieve a "huge burden."

Stewart finished his rebuttal without any additional questions from the court.

The hearing ended after the rebuttal, having lasted just under two hours.

Chief Justice John Roberts asked another question suggesting he is looking to find a way to uphold the 15-week abortion ban without reversing Roe v. Wade outright.

He returned the discussion to the reliance interests, and asked US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration's top lawyer before the Supreme Court, whether her reliance interest arguments were as strong when considered just against a 15- week ban, rather than a law that prohibition abortion outright.

Prelogar said if that the court were to rule the way Mississippi is asking it to - by reversing the liberty interest or leaving it up the air - states would rush to limit abortions much earlier than 15 weeks into the pregnancy.

"The thing that is at issue before us today is 15 weeks," Roberts shot back.

US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration's top lawyer before the Supreme Court, is arguing against the court disrupting Roe v. Wade, saying people have relied on the right to an abortion for nearly 50 years.

"Nearly half of the states already have or are expected to enact bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy, many without exceptions for rape or incest. Women who are unable to travel hundreds of miles to gain access to legal abortion will be required to continue with their pregnancies and give birth with profound effects on their bodies, their health, and the course of their lives," Prelogar said.

"If this court renounces the liberty interest recognized in Roe and reaffirmed in Casey, it would be an unprecedented contraction of individual rights and a stark departure from principles of stare decisis," she continued.

"The court has never revoked a right that is so fundamental to so many Americans and so central to their ability to participate fully and equally in society," Prelogar told the justices.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett have asked relative softballs of Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart and been tough on Julie Rikelman, a lawyer representing Jackson Women's Health Organization.

Barrett asked about "safe haven laws," and women's ability to give up children for adoption.

Thomas, who has lobbied to overturn Roe v. Wade for years, has been direct in asking if there's a constitutional basis for allowing abortion.

The court's three liberals are expected to absolutely vote to uphold Roe.

But Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh may be searching for a middle ground.

Roberts suggested the court could look at Mississippi's 15-week law as a new viability standard, rather than Roe and Casey, which is over 20 weeks. And Kavanaugh, meanwhile, has asked to confirm that Mississippi isn't asking the court to outright prohibit abortion, a way to say it's not overturning Roe while limiting access.

Kavanaugh asked another set of questions suggesting he is inclined to rule with Mississippi and even go as far as reverse Roe.

In broad strokes, he sums up Mississippi's argument asking the court to interpret the Constitution as neutral on abortion, and to return the issue to state or Congress. He asked Rikelman to respond.

Then he asked a question about stare decisis, ticking off several "consequential" decisions - including on school segregation, voting rights, and business regulations - where the court overturned precedent.

If the court had listened to the arguments that it should adhere to precedent in those cases, "the country would be a much different place," Kavanaugh said.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor shot back at Kavanaugh's question that cited several court decisions that overturned precedent. Most of those cases, Sotomayor said, were "us recognizing and overturning state control over issues that we said belong to individuals."

Breyer also took issue with the list of cases Kavanaugh cited.
CNN's Tierney Sneed contributed reporting to this post.

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December 1, 2021 Roe v. Wade goes before the Supreme Court

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What we covered here The conservative-leaning Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a Mississippi abortion case that could result in the repeal of Roe v. Wade - the 1973 landmark decision legalizing abortion nationwide prior to viability. The court seemed poised to uphold the state law that bars abortions after 15 weeks, but the fate of Roe.

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The Omicron variant has been detected in San Francisco. People are urged to quarantine if they display symptoms. Scientists still are unsure weather the current Covid vaccines will be as effective as the Delta variant.

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The omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in California, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday.

The CDC said in a statement that the California and San Francisco Departments of Public Health confirmed the case in a traveler who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22. The person tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday.

"The individual, who was fully vaccinated and had mild symptoms that are improving, is self-quarantining and has been since testing positive," the statement read.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Wednesday at a news conference that, to his knowledge, the person had not received a booster dose of vaccine.

Fauci said it is another example of the importance of not only vaccination, but also boosting. Even though the vaccines were did not originally target variants such as delta or omicron, "you get spillover protection even against a variant that the vaccine wasn't specifically directed at."

"If you're eligible for boosting, get boosted right now," Fauci advised.

The omicron variant, which was first detected globally in southern Africa last week, has a high number of mutations that suggest it may spread just as or more easily than the delta variant, which currently accounts for 99.9 percent of Covid-19 cases in the U.S.

Still, scientists have cautioned that it's still unclear whether omicron is more dangerous than other versions of the virus that has killed more than 5 million people worldwide. It is also unknown how well our vaccines and treatments would work against the variant.

The World Health Organization saidMonday that the global risk of the new variant is "very high."

"Omicron's very emergence is another reminder that although many of us might think we're done with Covid-19, it's not done with us," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, told a special session of the World Health Assembly.

The U.S. last week restricted travel from South Africa and seven neighboring countries. The CDC has also announced that anyone traveling from those areas will be required to provide their names and contact information while they remain in the U.S.

The variant has been detected in the U.K., the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Australia, Israel and Hong Kong, among other countries.

While world leaders and health experts are urging people to get vaccinated as soon as possible, some countries are struggling to inoculate their populations due to lack of access.

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First U.S. case of omicron variant is found in California

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The omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in California, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday. The CDC said in a statement that the California and San Francisco Departments of Public Health confirmed the case in a traveler who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22.

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Parents of school shooter charged with involuntary manslaughter.

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The parents of Michigan school shooter are being charged with involuntary manslaughter after not taking disciplinary action against their child after strange behavior reported. In a meeting 3 hours before the school shooting the parents decided not to take disciplinary action even though not known at the time that he had the gun he would use in the school shooting in the backpack he took with him in the meating.

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Hours after a prosecutor announced involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old accused of killing four fellow students at a Michigan high school, authorities said Friday that the parents are missing.

A vehicle matching the description of the black Kia Seltos connected to James and Jennifer Crumbley was found late Friday in Detroit, which is about 40 miles from Oxford, the scene of the deadly shooting on Tuesday, officials said.

A police perimeter was set up but law enforcement have not yet located the Crumbleys, who are considered fugitives, Detroit police spokesperson Rudy Harper told CNN.

The US Marshals Service is helping local authorities search for the couple and has offered a reward of up to $10,000 for information that could lead to their arrest.

A law enforcement official told CNN the parents withdrew $4,000 from an ATM in Rochester Hills, Michigan, on Friday. Rochester Hills is about 10 to 15 miles from Oxford.

Law enforcement had been able to track the couple's whereabouts by cell phone pings but can no longer do so as the couple's cell phones are turned off, the official said.

The source did not specify when the phones were turned off.

Prosecutors were worried about the couple evading law enforcement because they didn't have ties to their community, and officials had trouble locating the Crumbley couple once their son was being arraigned, the source added.

The parents' arraignment had been scheduled for late Friday afternoon. But as of Friday evening, the parents were still missing, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office in Michigan.

Undersheriff Michael McCabe told CNN a sergeant with the county's fugitive task force had spoken with one of the attorneys, who said she had not talked with the parents.

The undersheriff said he is confident the couple will be found, and it's a "matter of when."

In earlier twist, two attorneys who say they represent the couple released a statement saying the Crumbleys had left town for their safety and are returning for an arraignment.

"On Thursday night we contacted the Oakland County prosecutor to discuss this matter and to advise her that James and Jennifer Crumbley would be turning themselves in to be arraigned," the statement from attorneys Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman said. "Instead of communicating with us, the prosecutor held a press conference to announce charges."

The statement added: "They are not fleeing from law enforcement despite recent comments in media reports."

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Sheriff Michael Bouchard told CNN that law enforcement had not talked with the Crumbleys, but their attorney had told officials if there were charges she would make arrangements for them to be arrested.

He said the attorney had attempted to reach the parents by phone and text without success.

When asked by CNN whether the parents are missing, Bouchard said, "correct."

"If they think they are going to get away, they are not," he said.

The couple weren't under surveillance until "it got closer to last night" when charges were pending and detectives began the process of monitoring them, Bouchard said. There was no early surveillance on them before that because no charges were pending.

Every available resource is dedicated to locating them, the sheriff said, adding people should not approach the couple. US Marshals and the FBI are involved in the search for the Crumbleys, according to Bouchard.

"The USMS Detroit Fugitive Apprehension team is working in conjunction with the Oakland County Sheriff's Office on the search," the agency said in a tweet.

The sheriff's office had released a statement which said the Crumbleys might be driving a black 2021 Kia Seltos with the Michigan license plate number DQG 5203.

Page Pate, a Georgia criminal defense attorney, cautioned the parents might not be on the run.

"I have been in this position before, representing someone who's just been charged with a crime," Pate told CNN. "They tend to panic, and when they panic, they do stupid stuff."

Pate said the parents might be looking for another lawyer, someone who will give them the answers they want to hear.

"You're like, 'I don't want to be charged. I don't want to go to jail,' and you try to find someone else," he said.

In this rare instance of charging parents, prosecutors will try to prove the parents of suspected shooter Ethan Crumbley were criminally negligent and contributed to a dangerous situation that resulted in the deaths of four teenagers Tuesday.

"It's been a devastating week for us," Oakland County District Attorney Karen McDonald said at a press conference. "There are other individuals who contributed ... and it's my intention to hold them accountable as well."

The shooting claimed the lives of Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Justin Shilling, 17.

Mother called pistol 'his new Christmas present' on social media, prosecutor says

McDonald said James Crumbley bought the gun four days before it was used in the shooting. His son Ethan was with him and later posted on social media about the gun, calling it "my new beauty."

Jennifer Crumbley also posted about the gun on social media, calling it "his new Christmas present," McDonald said.

The mother took Ethan to a shooting range the weekend before the shooting, a law enforcement source told CNN Friday.

As of Friday evening, CNN could not get in touch with employees at the shooting range the source thinks the pair visited, or the listed business owner.

The sheriff as said the boy could not legally own the gun or carry it to most places - with rare exceptions such as shooting ranges.

Ethan Crumbley has been charged as an adult with terrorism, murder and other counts in the rampage north of Detroit that also left seven people wounded. The shooting was the deadliest at a US K-12 campus since 2018 and the 32nd such attack since August 1.

Lt. Tim Willis, head of the special investigations unit at the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, said officers were planning to arrest the parents.

Addressing reporters, McDonald said she was charging the parents in part to make a point about the responsibility of gun ownership, but the facts of the case were egregious on their own.

"I'm angry as a mother. I'm angry as the prosecutor. I'm angry as a person that lives in this county," she said. "There were a lot of things that could have been so simple to prevent and, yes, there was a perfectly executed response, and he was apprehended immediately, and we have great law enforcement and good training.

"But as I said before, four kids were murdered, and then seven more injured, so, yes, I think we should all be very angry."

Prosecutor outlines a chilling progression of events

McDonald said a teacher saw Ethan Crumbley searching ammunition on his cell phone during class the day before the shooting and reported it to school officials. The school contacted Jennifer Crumbley via voicemail. Officials also sent an email but received no response from either parent, McDonald said.

"Jennifer Crumbley exchanged text messages about the incident with her son on that day, stating, quote, 'LOL, I'm not mad at you. You have to learn not to get caught.' End quote," McDonald said.

The day of the shooting, a teacher found a note on Ethan Crumbley's desk that alarmed her so much she took a picture of it on her phone, McDonald said. The note included a drawing of a semiautomatic handgun pointing at the words, "The thoughts won't stop. Help me," she said.

Another section was a drawing of a bullet with the words "Blood Everywhere" written above it. Between the drawing of the gun and the bullet is one of a person who seems to have been shot twice and is bleeding, McDonald said.

"Below that figure is a drawing of a laughing emoji," McDonald said.

Also found on the note, according to McDonald: "My life is useless" and "The world is dead."

James and Jennifer Crumbley were "immediately summoned to the school," McDonald said. A counselor met with the parents and the boy, who had altered the drawing by scratching out the drawings of the gun and bloody figure, along with the words, according to McDonald.

The parents were told to get their son into counseling within 48 hours, McDonald said. Neither parent asked their son to see the gun or "inspect his backpack for the presence of the gun which he had with him," according to McDonald.

The parents left school and the boy was sent back to class.

When news broke about the shooting, according to McDonald, Jennifer Crumbley sent her son a text: "Ethan, don't do it." James Crumbley called 911 to report a gun was missing and his son might be the shooter.

McDonald said investigators found the gun used in the shooting had been stored unlocked in a drawer in the couple's bedroom.

School officials: No disciplinary action was needed.

When the meeting was held before the shooting, no disciplinary action was warranted, the school district superintendent said Thursday.

"No discipline was warranted. There are no discipline records at the high school," Tim Throne, the superintendent of the Oxford Community Schools, said Thursday in a video statement. "Yes, this student did have contact with our front office. And yes, his parents were on campus November 30th."

There is a "strong possibility" Crumbley had the gun he allegedly used in the shooting in his backpack during the meeting, McDonald told CNN Thursday night.

The school's video surveillance cameras will let investigators "really map out exactly and literally watch what the perpetrator did" from that meeting through the shooting and being taken into custody, Bouchard, the Oakland County sheriff, told CNN on Friday morning.

The shooter had the gun "on his person or in his backpack or somehow secreted" it away from a school location, he said.

Another warning sign had come Monday - the day before the shooting - when a different teacher "saw and heard something that she felt was disturbing" related to Crumbley's conduct in the classroom, Bouchard said. School officials held a counseling session with Crumbley about the behavior in question, and his parents were notified by phone, Bouchard added.

Crumbley's defense attorney asked the court Wednesday to enter a not guilty plea on his client's behalf. CNN is trying to reach a new attorney for Ethan Crumbley.

School is like a 'war zone,' superintendent says

Two days after the deadly attack, Oxford High School is "like a war zone," Throne told his community from the school in the 13-minute video posted on YouTube.

"This high school is a wreck right now," he said, adding repairs could take weeks.

Throne commended students and staff for how they handled an active shooter threat, during which some administrators performed CPR and students used desks and chairs to barricade themselves inside classrooms for protection.

More than 100 calls to 911 were made to report the shooting as police rushed to the school at 12:52 p.m. local time, Bouchard said. Within "two to three minutes" of officers' arrival, the shooter had surrendered.

"I believe they literally saved lives, having taken down the suspect with a loaded firearm still in the building," the sheriff said.

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Hours after a prosecutor announced involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old accused of killing four fellow students at a Michigan high school, authorities said Friday that the parents are missing.