Kyle Rittenhouse, now 18, is on trial for killing two men and wounding a third with a military-style rifle during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin reut.rs/31MnjqB 1/10
Here's a look at how things unfolded that day 👇. The following is based on court testimony, drone footage and videos from Aug. 25, 2020 2/10
During the day, Rittenhouse helps clean graffiti off a school. That same day Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, is released from a Milwaukee hospital where he had been admitted after a suicide attempt 3/10
Around 10 p.m., video shows Rittenhouse with a rifle standing with other armed men near a used-car dealership. Rittenhouse testified he was asked to help guard the business due to the threat of looting and arson 4/10
Around 10:45 p.m., another video shows Rittenhouse asking police officers for water. One officer says: 'We appreciate you guys. We really do’ 5/10
Around 11:45 p.m. Rosenbaum chases Rittenhouse into a used-car lot as Rittenhouse yells ‘Friendly, friendly, friendly.’ Rosenbaum throws a plastic bag containing toiletries at Rittenhouse 6/10
Just minutes later, after stumbling to the ground, Rittenhouse fatally shoots Anthony Huber, a 26-year-old who swung a skateboard at him 7/10
After Huber was shot, Gaige Grosskreutz stops moving toward Rittenhouse and put his hands in the air. He was holding a handgun. When Grosskreutz resumes advancing, Rittenhouse shoots him, severing most of his bicep 8/10
Rittenhouse walks toward police with his hands up and the rifle slung across his body. Police order him to get out of the way, one officer pepper sprays Rittenhouse when he approaches the window of the car.
Police then drive off, believing the active shooter was elsewhere 9/10
At around 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 26, Rittenhouse, accompanied by his mother, turns himself into a police station in his hometown of Antioch, Illinois reut.rs/31MnjqB
Key moments in the U.S. murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse reut.rs/3HaVWXv 10/10
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Hopes for a swift end to the Middle East war faded after President Trump vowed more aggressive strikes on Iran, in an eagerly anticipated address that disappointed investors hoping for clearer signals of a way out reut.rs/4saxdZF
President Trump staunchly defended his handling of the month-old US-Israeli war on Iran in a prime-time address, saying the US military was nearing completion of its mission while also reinforcing his threats to bomb the Islamic Republic back to the Stone Age. Here are some key takeaways reut.rs/4v6TytU
President Trump said that other countries should guard the Strait of Hormuz, calling on Japan, France, South Korea and China to take up the task.
Iran warned it would strike energy and water infrastructure across the Gulf if US President Trump follows through on his threat to attack its electricity grid, raising fears of mass disruption in a region heavily dependent on desalination for drinking water reut.rs/4rN5spS
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to chair an emergency meeting on the economic fallout from the war in Iran on March 23, with finance minister Rachel Reeves and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey in attendance, the government said reut.rs/4bVXNAR
Israeli army vehicles and soldiers were deployed near Lebanon's border as Hezbollah continued launching rocket attacks into Israel.
Israel said it launched a pre-emptive attack against Iran, pushing the Middle East into a renewed military confrontation and further dimming hopes for a diplomatic solution to Tehran's long-running nuclear dispute with the West reut.rs/3N9KHGD
A source told Reuters that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was not in Tehran and had been transferred to a secure location reut.rs/4qXOjcz
The Israeli military announced the closure of schools and workplaces, with exceptions for essential sectors, and a ban on public airspace
The US attacked Venezuela and deposed its long-serving autocratic President Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump said. Follow for live analysis and reaction ⬇️ reut.rs/3Ne4l3T
The US hasn't made such a direct intervention in its backyard region since the 1989 invasion of Panama to depose military leader Manuel Noriega over similar allegations reut.rs/4slJZpu
Venezuelans gather in Santiago to celebrate news of a US military operation to capture President Maduro reut.rs/4qv0Q7w
US President Donald Trump is hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss Trump's 21-point Gaza peace proposal. Follow our live coverage here: reut.rs/3ILqBQQ
Israeli tanks thrust closer to the heart of Gaza City in the hours before Trump was due to host Netanyahu at the White House, where the US president has promised 'SOMETHING SPECIAL' in his latest bid to end the war reut.rs/46KJcEL
The meeting comes after several Western countries recognized Palestinian statehood, saying it is necessary to preserve a two-state solution to the long Israeli-Palestinian conflict reut.rs/4nZfbrQ
BREAKING: Israel's defense minister Israel Katz said he had instructed the Israeli military to 'respond forcefully to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire with high-intensity strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran.' Follow Reuters live coverage: reut.rs/4ehxCEo
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said he had ordered the military to strike Tehran in response to what he said were missiles fired by Iran in a violation of the ceasefire announced hours earlier by US President Donald Trump reut.rs/40lIJpU
However, Iran's ISNA student news agency said reports that Iran had fired missiles at Israel after the ceasefire took effect were false reut.rs/3THNTsw