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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World leaders rushed to congratulate Republican Donald Trump after he claimed victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in the US presidential election, which would cap a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House reut.rs/3NY78vo
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy: 'I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the “peace through strength” approach in global affairs. This is exactly the principle that can practically bring just peace in Ukraine closer' reut.rs/3UHeXcp
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: 'Congratulations on history's greatest comeback! Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America' reut.rs/4fhyxEs
The US Justice Department has opened 12 investigations into possible civil rights abuses by police departments since Democratic President Joe Biden took office, but has not secured even one binding settlement to implement reforms in any of them 1/9 reut.rs/40mKyni
After winning office following a wave of mass protests in 2020 over police killings of Black people, the Biden administration highlighted 'pattern or practice' investigations of alleged systematic civil rights violations by state or local police as critical to police reform 2/9
Attorney General Merrick Garland got off to a swift start, in April 2021 launching investigations into the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments, which became the focus of widespread protests after white police officers killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor 3/9
Cyprus has activated a mechanism to allow third-country nationals evacuating the Middle East safe passage, officials said, with the plan coming into play as regional airports close following Iran's missile attacks on Israel 1/5 reut.rs/3ZOMAfR
One country has sought Cyprus's assistance for the evacuation of civilians, and Cypriot authorities had offered facilities to nine others, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said. He did not identify the countries 2/5
‘If, as a result of yesterday's developments, airports in the region shut, the (evacuation) plan comes into play,’ Kombos said, referring to Tuesday’s missile attack by Iran on Israel 3/5
The US government's first-ever negotiated prices for prescription drugs are still more than double on average, and in some cases five times what drugmakers have agreed in four other high-income countries 1/5 reut.rs/3AQ7gto
This is the first time Medicare, which covers more than 67 million people, has disclosed drug prices, usually hidden behind a system of rebates and discounts. The lower prices will result in savings of $6 billion in 2026 when they take effect 2/5
A Reuters review of available maximum prices set by other wealthy nations — Australia, Japan, Canada and Sweden — show they have negotiated far lower prices for the same drugs 3/5
Threats. Surveillance. Doxxing. Swatting. Here's why some Sikhs in the US and Canada fear Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is trying to silence them ⬇️ 1/6reut.rs/4fFgF78
California's first Sikh American assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains says someone took photos of her home, broke into her mailbox 2/6
Bains is pushing for legislation to give law enforcement training and tools to address harassment by foreign governments 3/6
Kamala Harris is preparing for the fight of her life, if her inner circle is anything to go by 1/9 reut.rs/3LQ8kjh
The vice president has surrounded herself with a group of tested operators, many of them Black women who have been involved in Democratic politics for decades, as she gears up for a brutal three months of campaigning before the November 5 election 2/9
US Senator Laphonza Butler of California, for one, struck a bullish tone this week when asked on MSNBC about the prospect of Harris facing a barrage of sexist and racist attacks. 'Bring it,' she said. 'Because we are not new to this' 3/9