a subtle message shift, but a strong message from secretary of state tony blinken saying that far too many palestinians have been killed. and senator joe manchin says he is not running for re-election and threatening the democrats chances of keeping control of the senate next year and stoking speculation of a third-party presidential run. and dispatching alerts across the country with letters sent to election offices in six states and workers finding fentanyl in one office. john and sara are off today. i m kate bolduan with omar jimenez. this is cnn news central. this morning, secretary of state tony blinken says that israel must do more to protect palestinian civilians and seen as one of the most direct condemnations so far of the civilian death toll of the hamas-israel war. and this as strikes hit a hospital in gaza. watch this. explosions were seen near two hospitals where israel says that hamas has placed some of the headquarters underneath in tunnels. just a few m
as pleasure mounts for a cease-fire, secretary of state antony blinken says far too many civilians have been killed in gaza. in the meantime, a mass exodus of palestinians trying to escape the violence. we re live from israel with the latest ahead. and after the u.s. downed a spy balloon and encountered several dangerous military jet maneuvers over the south china sea, president biden and president xi jinping of china will meet face to face for the first time in over a year, all in hopes of breaking the ice between the two world powers. but will it move the needle? and new york appointing its first ambassador to loneliness. we ll explain why. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. it has been another bloody and violent day across gaza as israel s war on hamas intensifies. and a warning some of what you re about to see is graphic, you may find it disturbing. stunning new video showing the aftermath of
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misdemeanor. so there are many rioters who were convicted of misdemeanors, these petty offenses, essentially for trespassing at the capitol, domestic disturbance types of crimes. and judges in the dc district court, the trial level court chose to sentence them quite harshly because they wanted to both put them in jail and also give them probation, so they would stay in the system, and now an appeal s court says we don t think that s the law. it will be on hold. there could be further appeals. but that s really something to watch. something to keep an eye on. kate bolduan, thank you so much. jim? new cnn exclusive reporting now on one of the alleged architects of the trump 2020 fake electors plot. attorney kenneth chesebro and where exactly he was on january 6. remember chesebro is one of the unindicted coconspirators in the special counsel s federal election case. he s also charged himself in the georgia case. and now cnn has identified chesebro on video following conspiracy theori
be locked down so that donald trump and others can t talk about it publicly or release it before a trial and possibly infringe upon his ability to have a fair trial. trump s team is saying, free speech. we should be able to talk about this. we should be able to only have a small subset of that under a court order that would say you can t disclose it before trial. that s what s before the judge right now. the justice department came back last night in a filing and essentially said, there s no law or even purpose for donald trump to be out there wanting to talk about evidence before trial that he hasn t seen yet. but, you know, this has been a lot of discussion back and forth where they re sharing each other s social media posts, they re talking about politics. so the judge stepped in last night and said, we re going to have a hearing. we re going to have it before friday. let s figure out a time and date to do that. and so, we re going to have to wait and see what the judge does here, b