Friday, June 10 top news
Hi. Today is Friday, June 10. I am taking Alex’s place today. Ready for the top news briefs?
Jan 6. Committee holds first hearing
The House committee investigating the Jan 6. attack on the Capitol held their first hearing on Thursday night.
They showed video clips of an interview with Bill Barr, who was the attorney general during the time that Trump lost the 2020 election. Barr said he tried to tell Trump that his claims of fraud was bull****.
The committee showed that Trump remained stubborn in the idea that the election had massive fraud. He tweeted on December 18 that there would be a big protest on January 6 and that it would be “wild.”
The committee showed how Trump turned his focus on Vice President Mike Pence to make him the scapegoat for failing to overturn the election.
The committee said they have evidence that Trump did not want the Capitol riot to stop and agreed with the mob that Pence deserved to be hanged.
The committee showed new video footage of about two hundred members of the Proud Boys marching to the Capitol before Trump gave his speech on January 6 and of them breaking through the Capitol police lines at the same time that Trump was giving his speech.
The committee plans to hold more hearings this month and promised new evidence.
Grand Rapids cop charged with second-degree murder
In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a police officer was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Lyoya. The officer’s name is Christopher Schurr.
Two months ago, Schurr pulled over Lyoya for having an improper vehicle registration. Lyoya walked out of the car and walked away as the officer shouted for him to stop. The two got into a struggle that ended with the officer shooting Lyoya in his head while he was lying face-down on the ground.
Schurr will appear before a judge today. His second-degree murder charge means he faces life in prison if he is convicted.
Man trying to enter school killed
According to local news, the incident occurred Thursday morning in Gadsden, Alabama. The local sheriff said a concerned citizen called 911 after noticing a man trying to get inside Walnut Park elementary school and attempting to break in vehicles in the parking lot around 9:30 a.m.
Police alerted the school resource officer and the sheriff said the school resource officer went outside to check on the situation. The officer found the person and started engaging in a conversation with him, which led to a physical altercation.
The altercation ended after the man was shot and killed. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) later identified him as 32-year-old Robert Tyler White of North Carolina. The sheriff said the suspect never made it inside the school, where kids were participating in summer school. All doors to the school were locked.
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International travelers to the US no longer need to take COVID-19 test
The Biden administration is lifting pre-departure COVID-19 testing requirements for international travelers to the United States, according to a senior White House official. The administration is expected to announce Friday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will not require travelers to test negative for Covid-19 before entering the US. The move will go into effect at midnight on Sunday.
The CDC determined it was no longer necessary based on the science and data. The official added that CDC will reassess its decision in 90 days and if officials decide they need to reinstate it, because of a concerning new variant, will do so.
98 million-year-old dinosaur vertebra discovered in Egypt
The well-preserved neck vertebra from a carnivorous dinosaur that lived about 90 million years ago was unearthed by an Egyptian-led team of researchers in the country’s Western desert.
The fossil belongs to an Abelisaurid theropod, a species that lived during the Cretaceous period which began 145 million years ago and ended 66 millions years ago, according to researchers. It is the oldest known fossil of the species in northeastern Africa.
One of the team members said, “It’s the first time we discover here a meat-eating dinosaur in over a century…teams from Pennsylvania previously found fossils of plant-eating dinosaurs in the same area. We found other things but we are not making further announcements for the time being.
That is all the top stories for today and have a good weekend. Stay with the light!
Jan 6. hearing:
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/10/jan-6-committee-plan-trump-culpability
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/jan-6-hearing-takeaways-thursday/index.htm
Grand Rapids cop:
Gadsden:
https://www.gadsdentimes.com/story/news/2022/06/09/police-incident-walnut-park-school/7567393001/
https://www.al.com/news/2022/06/shooting-outside-gadsden-school-leaves-suspect-dead.html
CDC:
Egypt fossil: