Rittenhouse, now 18, is charged with fatally shooting Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, as well as injuring Gaige Grosskreutz, amid civil unrest in Kenosha in August 2020.
He pleaded not guilty to all charges, testifying he acted in self-defense.
Unflattering videos of Rittenhouse won't be considered by the jury.
Prosecutors wanted to present two videos taken of Rittenhouse in the weeks leading up to the shooting, arguing they provided "crucial insight" into his state of mind in summer 2020.
Prosecutors argued at the time that the CVS video showed Rittenhouse "fervently sought to insert himself as an armed vigilante into situations that had nothing to do with him."
Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder disagreed in both instances.
Rittenhouse's defense attorneys called upon a use-of-force expert, John Black, to testify about his analysis of the shootings, but the jury won't consider his testimony about whether Rittenhouse reasonably feared for his life.
The Republican furor over ‘critical race theory’ — a college-level concept that isn’t taught in K-12 schools — caught many in the education world by surprise.
Now education leaders are pushing back against misinformation.⬇️
When Angela Grunewald first heard complaints about “critical race theory,” the superintendent of Edmond Public Schools in Oklahoma had to Google the term to learn its meaning.
Jury selection in two of the most high-profile murder trials in the country, the Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases, resulted in mostly-white juries.
Legal experts told Insider how this happened, and why the jury selection system is imperfect. ⚖️
White teenager Kyle Rittenhouse faces homicide charges after killing two people and injuring a third during unrest tied to the shooting of a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer.
Meanwhile, three white men in Georgia are facing murder charges in connection with the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man whose family says he was out for a jog.
The largest reservoir in the US is drying up. The water there has dropped more than 140 feet in the last two decades.
But the US isn’t the only country experiencing abnormally dry weather conditions.
All around the world, severe droughts are happening 1.7 times more often than in 1850-1900.
So what’s causing this drought, and what could be the long-term damage?
It has to do more with temperature than less rainfall. Even though precipitation was actually above average in many parts of the US this summer, record rain can’t stop high temperatures from evaporating more water.
When the murders of Indigenous people were covered, the news reports were "overly graphic" compared to white people, Wyoming Survey and Analysis Research Scientist Emily Grant, who worked on the report, told @WPR.
Mina Sohail opened Simple Cafe in Kabul to give women a safe space to mingle. But since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan again, women say they're no more protected today than in 2001.
We followed Mina for a day before the Taliban retook Kabul.
Mina designed Simple Cafe in the heart of Kabul to give women a safe space to go with no restrictions. That means no required head covering and the freedom to come alone and mingle with men.
Mina never would have been able to own her own business under Taliban rule.
Half of Mina's employees are female. She knows how hard it is for them to find work in Afghanistan, where only 22% of women have jobs — one of the lowest rates in the world.
MMA fighters in Afghanistan were already getting death threats before the Taliban took back power in the country. We followed two star fighters as they continued training in midsummer even as the Taliban approached Kabul.
Since the US first announced it would withdraw from Afghanistan, targeted killings of journalists, activists, and religious minorities have been on the rise. And now, there’s fear that athletes could be next. businessinsider.com/resurgent-tali…
During the Taliban's rule, between 1996 and 2001, the armed group allowed some sports, but with heavy regulations on attire and with breaks for prayer. businessinsider.com/resurgent-tali…