Friday, April 2, 2021

The first full week of the trial against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was full of emotion, medical details and an examination of the police's use of force policy. Dozens are dead after a train derailed on the east coast of Taiwan. And, college enrollment is falling dramatically, new data from the National Student Clearinghouse shows a 10% drop.

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