Amazon shuts construction site after 7th noose found
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Amazon is closing a warehouse construction site in Windsor, Connecticut, until at least next week, after the discovery of a seventh noose at the site. In the meantime, the state's NAACP chapter is demanding that law enforcement step up efforts to find those behind the incidents.
"We are concerned about the workers here," Scot X. Esdaile, president of the Connecticut NAACP, told a televised news conference. A piece of rope with a loop at the end was found hanging over a beam at the site on Wednesday, weeks after the first noose at the site was found and reported on April 27, with five more ropes fashioned as nooses subsequently found.Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife are making end-of-life preparations for their 3-year-old son after he was found unconscious in a creek, a close family friend said in updates posted on social media and confirmed to CBS affiliate KUTV. The boy had been playing on his tractor before he ended up in the water and a mile downstream.
The launch of Boeing's star-crossed Starliner spacecraft on its first piloted test flight is slipping to at least June 1 to give engineers more time to assess a small-but-persistent helium leak in the capsule's propulsion system, and its potential impact across all phases of flight, NASA announced Wednesday.
Washington — As former President Donald Trump's "hush money" criminal trial in New York proceeds to closing arguments next week, the legal focus is moving south. His attorneys and longtime aide Walt Nauta appeared before Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon, where they sparred with prosecutors during two contentious, day-long hearings on Wednesday.