Ten backcountry skiers are missing following an avalanche in the Castle Peak area of the Sierra Nevada in northern California on Tuesday, while a search and rescue operation is underway amid "highly dangerous" conditions, according to authorities. The group of 16 skiers, including four ski guides and 12 clients, encountered the avalanche, with six people surviving and awaiting rescue at the site, the Nevada County Sheriff's Office reported.
The avalanche was reported midday Tuesday. Authorities have not released the names of the missing skiers. The sheriff's office stated that the search and rescue operation is ongoing, but conditions are challenging.
In other news, students wounded in a 2024 mass shooting at a Georgia high school testified on Tuesday in the murder trial of the alleged gunman's father. The students recounted the horror they endured on Sept. 4, 2024, at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, according to ABC News. Judge Nicholas Primm ordered the media not to show the students' faces during the televised trial.
Also on Tuesday, a federal judge declared a mistrial in the case of nine alleged Antifia members charged in connection with the ambush shooting of a police officer at a Texas U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center. The mistrial was declared due to a T-shirt worn by one of the defense attorneys, depicting civil rights icons, according to Fox News. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman cited the shirt worn by attorney MarQuetta Clayton under a blazer as the reason for the mistrial.
In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed to raise property tax rates by nearly 10 percent on Tuesday, a measure he is preparing as a last resort if he cannot persuade Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise income taxes on the wealthy, according to the NY Times. The suggested 9.5 percent increase would affect more than 3 million single-family homes, co-ops, and condos, and over 100,000 commercial buildings. Mamdani acknowledged that the proposal would affect working- and middle-class New Yorkers, but stressed that it was not his first choice.
Finally, US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson died aged 84 on Tuesday morning surrounded by relatives, according to a statement released by his family. Jackson, the founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, died "peacefully," the family said. Tributes poured in for the prominent activist who twice ran to be Democrats' presidential nominee, including from former President Barack Obama, according to BBC World.
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