should follow california on this issue. kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. hey there. thank you so much for joining me on this july 4th holiday weekend. i m safra sidner. we begin with controversial supreme court rulings that will have a broad impact across the country. the nation s highest court started off this week by gutting affirmative action in college admissions. by a 6-3 vote, the supreme court ruled that colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a basis for admission. the conservative court dropped two more landmark rulings on friday. in one case the court said with a christian web designer in colorado who refuses to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings out of her first amendment rights. the court also blocked president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. the plan aimed to forgive up to $20,000 in relief tole the millions of americans. in response, president biden is laying out a new plan to help those struggling with their loan
here in the uk, specifically either a member of the armed forces or a police officer. in the written base of plea it said you had only carried out a terrorist activity here if your plans to go to syria to join isis were frustrated. the prosecution does not accept that part of the base of plea. both the prosecution and defence agreed that this aspect of the base of plea does not make any difference to sentencing in this case, as on any view you accept you had an intention to commit both terrorist acts and that you made preparations towards the commission of both types of terrorist act. from what has emerged from the police investigation it is clear that you are someone who developed and entrenched islamist extremist mindset, extreme anti western views and you intended to commit terrorist acts both in the uk and overseas. secondary school you are someone who dabbled in drugs and where your behaviour became more aggressive you were expelled from school and attended an education
doesn t face any prison time. for has the jury found him guilty of raping miss carroll but found he defamed her and sexually abused her. for that, the jury has ordered him the pay $5 million in damages. we ll take you through these two stories and indeed how they link up in a political sense a little later this hour. let s first get the latest on this e. jean carroll case. bryan llenas in new york with the latest. good afternoon. in less than three hours, this jury came to their decision remarkably quick considering that they were considering ten different issues whether former president trump was liable. this jury found that former president trump was and is liable of battery, more specifically of sexually abusing and forcibly touching e. jean carroll in a new york city department store in 1996. they also found him liable for defamation founding that he maliciously smeared carroll s reputation. that did harm to her professionally and personally and asked to award her with
policing is a big family of people who know at some point they may be asked to make a sacrifice. but you never wish or hope that it actually happens. and tonight, this tragedy, there are some broken hearts that will take a long time to grieve. todd: hundreds of police officers gathering on the sheet to carry the body of their colleague. the department calling it a tremendous loss. we will try to get through this, it is a difficult time for chicago police department. we are heartbroken, this young officer we had five years on this department had a bright future ahead of him. and this is something that no family should have to face. todd: investigators reviewing body cam footage of the the suspect is shut in critical condition. ashley: the officer s death comes as chicago police chief david brown announced her resignation after lori lightfoot s laws. the head of the u.s. attorney s office in chicago john also resigning. lightfoot failed to secure enough votes for the
here at home, that midair scare onboard a cross-country united flight from san diego to newark. a lithium battery catching fire. passengers screaming, air traffic control radioing the pilots, saying they could not hear them. we have new reporting tonight, the u.s. navy off the east coast and what they ve now discovered. parts of that suspected chinese spy balloon and what it reveals. and the unmanned underwater vehicles examining the wreckage for explosives. a way for the chinese spy balloon to self-destruct. martha raddatz with new reporting. just moments ago, the first look tonight at what president biden will tell the american people later this evening. the address in prime time, the state of the union here on abc. the president before congress and the country, and mary bruce live at the white house. there is also breaking news from memphis at this hour in the tyre nichols case. we have new reporting tonight. what one of the officers allegedly did. pierre thomas is h