Let's get to this morning's need to know headlines everyone
yesterday,
former President Donald Trump was indicted for his attempt to
overturn the 2020 election and block the transfer of power.
The four felony charges include conspiracy to defraud the
United States and obstruction of an official proceeding.
Here's what special prosecutor Jack Smith said about these charges.
The attack on our nation's capital on January 6th 2021
was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.
As described in the indictment. It was fueled by lies,
lies by the defendant
targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the US government.
The nation's process of collecting counting and certifying
the results of the presidential election.
The indictment focuses on Trump's unlawful attempts to stop
the certification of the 2020 election on January 6,
citing multiple co conspirators who allegedly helped the
former president spread misinformation about the election results
and attempt to stop the process. Trump is due in court tomorrow in Washington.
This is the third criminal indictment for the former president.
We will have much more on this coming up in just a few minutes
elsewhere ahead of firefighters in California and
Nevada battled the fire worlds yesterday.
That's a vortex of smoke and flames as they attempted
to contain a massive wildfire in the Mojave National Preserve.
The York fire spans over 80,000 acres making it
the biggest in California that we've seen this year.
As of yesterday, rainfall helped get about a quarter of the blaze under control.
And along the US Canadian border,
another wildfire triggered evacuation warnings over the weekend.
The Eagle Bluff fire currently spans 15,000 acres in the US and is 0% contained.
So we'll have more on these fires coming up a little bit
later in the show and the suspect in multiple murders at Long Island's
Gilgo Beach appeared in court yesterday, suspect Rex
Heman did not speak during this very brief hearing.
The focus of the court date was discovery as prosecutors walked
through over 2500 pages and four hard drives worth of evidence.
That evidence includes hours of video
footage and photos taken from investigations of
Hoer's
home and office.
Homans attorney said that his client maintains his innocence will
not accept a plea deal and plans to go to trial
Hoer's
next pretrial court appearance is scheduled for September 27.
And the suspect in the fatal stabbing of the cash app founder,
Bob Lee is going to stand trial for murder.
A judge determined yesterday
tech consultant Mima
Moi's defense argued in favor of a lesser manslaughter charge
arguing that the evidence didn't indicate that crime was premeditated.
The defense claims surveillance video showed the
two men seemed amicable together on the
night of the murder saying that Lee's death could only have resulted from a
sudden heat of passion quarrel
in his decision. The judge cited expert testimony that Mai's
DNA was present on the night that killed Lee
and Mai's
next court appearance is scheduled for August 15.
An FBI led sweep targeting sex traffickers
has rescued more than 200 victims of trafficking
and found 59 missing Children.
The FBI announced the results of the nationwide enforcement campaign yesterday.
An investigation called Operation Cross Country.
The agency worked with state and local police departments as
well as the National Center for missing and exploited Children
to help identify and find the victims.
194 people suspected of child sexual
exploitation and human trafficking were arrested.
68 of those arrests were suspected sex traffickers
elsewhere,
hundreds of childbirth units have shut down at
us hospitals over the past five years.
That's according to a report published yesterday by the nonprofit March
of Dimes which has been tracking the closure since 2018.
About 300 birthing units have closed since then.
And the report found more than 5.6 million women live in
counties with little to no access to maternal health care.
Found that more than a third of us counties were maternity care deserts and
Ohio had the most women impacted by overall reductions in access to care.
Lizzo has been sued by three former dancers who have accused the singer of
sexual harassment and alleged she and her
production company created a hostile work environment.
The lawsuit filed yesterday in Los Angeles claims Lizzo pressured dancers
to engage with nude performers in Amsterdam's red light district.
It also claims Lizzo reportedly shamed one of
them for gaining weight before firing them.
One of the judges on Lizzo reality show,
Lizzo watch out for the big girls is also
accused of imposing her Christian beliefs on dancers.
Lizzo representatives have not yet responded to these allegations.
Hannah, well, no one won the mega millions jackpot last night.
Again, the jackpot now climbs to an estimated 1.25 billion
lottery players will have another chance to win in the next drawing on Friday.
The last mega millions win happened on April 8
with the lucky winner taking $20 million home in Syracuse, New York
mega millions winners can opt to collect a lump sum
payment which after taxes comes out to about 527 million
or choose to collect payments annually over 30 years.