Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday to federal charges connected to the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to NBC News. Any plea could affect his separate New York state murder case, where jury selection is set to begin next month.
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Senate Democrats are pressing Pentagon leaders for answers about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln after reports of shortages, plumbing issues and mental health crises during a record stretch at sea. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said concerns about the carrier have been “completely misrepresented.”
Arjun Aravind, 17, pleaded not guilty to killing his mother and younger brother at their Acton, Massachusetts, home and was ordered held without bail. Prosecutors said investigators found recent internet and ChatGPT searches involving fictional scenarios about killing family members.
U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee called a settler siege of Palestinian homes in Qusra a “horrific act of terror.” Families said they were cut off from food, water and supplies before Israeli forces dismantled two nearby illegal outposts.
Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled to carry out lethal injections Thursday, which would be the first time since 2010 that three U.S. executions occur on the same day. The cases involve separate murders in 1985, 2003 and 2021.
A single ticket sold in Illinois won Wednesday’s $1.04 billion Powerball jackpot after matching all five numbers and the Powerball. The prize was the eighth-largest in Powerball history and can be taken as a $450.5 million lump sum before taxes.
A baby boy with hypoplastic left heart syndrome was born to an Alaska surrogate in Texas amid a legal fight over his care. A Texas court ordered lifesaving treatment and barred the child from being taken out of state.
Police say a 41-year-old Minnesota man killed his wife and 7-year-old daughter at a Hopkins home day care, then died by suicide. Hours later, a 78-year-old close relative was found stabbed to death in nearby Burnsville in what investigators believe was a connected killing.