Germany rejected allegations that it’s facilitating acts of genocide in Gaza at UN court, prosecutors urged the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claims in election subversion caseUber and Lyft have planned to exit Minneapolis in May over a city council ordinance requiring drivers to be paid at a higher rate. Livy Dunlap has today’s News in :90.
Several people were killed after a single-engine plane crashed in Tennessee, tensions are on the rise between Germany and Russia after a recording of German Military officers discussing the use of long-range missiles leaked and the Minnesota House passed a change meant to allow school resource officers to use prone restraints on students. Eli Bieber has today’s News in :90.
Vladimir Putin used a major patriotic holiday Monday to again justify his war in Ukraine, the man behind the wheel of a car that barreled through crowds of pedestrians in New York City’s Time Square is heading to trial after various delays and the Automotive Competition and Stomp N Shake Cheer clubs are the newest clubs at St. Thomas. Zachary Knapp has today’s News in :90.
The World Press Institute will resume its 57th annual journalism fellowship program on March 18, which will house journalists at St. Thomas for three weeks before the fellows travel around the United States, ending May 21.
St. Thomas College of Arts and Sciences dean Yohuru Williams steps down, Democratic presidential candidates face off in Las Vegas and a mass shooting happened in Frankfurt, Germany. Reporter Joey Swanson has today’s News in :90.
The Berlin Wall came down in 1989, and it came down once again at the sixth annual German Fall Lecture hosted by the St. Thomas German Program and sponsored by the German federal embassy Monday night at Woulfe Alumni Hall.
St. Thomas is asking students to think about their own personal safety plans in case of emergencies, an Olmsted County jury will resume deliberations in the retrial of a Rochester man accused of fatally shooting a 17-year-old boy, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman is making clear that Germany will approve a further delay to Britain’s departure from the European Union. Kat Barrett has today’s News in :90.
Officials have returned a painting looted by the Nazis to the heirs of a Jewish French politician and resistance figure who was executed during World War II.
This is News in :90 for Monday, Nov. 9, 2015.
A commemorative event was held in Woulfe Alumni Hall to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Germany.
The St. Thomas German Club celebrated the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Thursday outside the Anderson Student Center.
The German Club is hosting events from October through early December to educate students about the fall of the wall’s effect on the rest of the world.
