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Suspect, charged with four federal counts, faces separate state charges over death of Brian Thompson in ManhattanLuigi Mangione was indicted on Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last year, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty.The indictment returned by a grand jury in Manhattan federal court also charges Mangione with two counts of stalking and a firearms count. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-luigi-mangione-charges Author : Guardian staff and agencies Publish date : 2025-04-17 23:05:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Activists had called for the firm’s boycott after it announced a roll back of diversity, equity and inclusion effortsOn Thursday morning, Rev Al Sharpton met with Brain Cornell, the Target CEO, to discuss the fallout from the company’s decision to walk back its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts earlier this year. The meeting happened in New York at Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) headquarters, and also included the NAN national board chair Dr W Franklyn Richardson and the NAN senior advisor Carra Wallace.In January, activists in Minnesota called for a boycott of Target following the Minneapolis-based company’s decision to

Police took one suspect into custody shortly after reported gunfire at Florida State University in TallahasseeA mass shooting on Thursday on the Florida State University campus sent several people to a nearby hospital, a medical center spokesperson said, with at least one person reported dead.Local reports in the early afternoon spoke variously of at least six people hurt and taken to hospital, with further details and confirmation being sought from the authorities. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/fsu-tallahassee-florida-state-university-shooting Author : Marina Dunbar and agencies Publish date : 2025-04-17 18:48:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Trump called for university to lose tax-exempt status after it defied him; federal law bars president from requesting the IRS investigate or audit specific targetsDonald Trump’s administration will ask a US federal appeals court on Thursday to pause a judge’s ruling lifting access restrictions the White House imposed on the Associated Press (AP) for referring to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage.The Trump administration has argued that the lower-court ruling, which mandates AP journalists be granted access to press events in the White House, infringes on the president’s ability to decide whom to admit to sensitive spaces. The White