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The holidays are for family, and we know that your pet is absolutely part of the family. Make sure your fluff gets their stocking stuffed with these gifts (and check out even more of our pet picks here).
When it comes to stylish dog accessories, Wild One’蝉 colorful harnesses, poop bags, leashes, and other essentials take the cake. You can’t go wrong with any of their fun colorways, and the Harness Walk Kit comes with everything you need for daily walks.
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Jamie Foxx used his new Netflix special to finally reveal shocking details behind a mystery illness that almost cost him his life last year. The Oscar winner credited his sister Deidra Dixon with rushing him to a hospital in Atlanta, where a doctor diagnosed him as having “a brain bleed that’蝉 led to a stroke.” They also said he would die without surgery, Foxx recounted in his special, Jamie Foxx: What Happened Was. He said the ordeal began with a headache, saying he’d asked a friend for an aspirin but ended up being “gone” for 20 days. “I don’t remember anything,” Foxx said. When he woke up on May 4, he said, he was in a wheelchair and unable to walk. Foxx also recalled his shock when friends told him what happened to him, joking: “Jamie Foxx don’t get strokes.” He continued his recovery at a rehab facility in Chicago. At the time of his illness, Foxx had been filming a Netflix movie in Atlanta—his daughter, Corinne, wrote on social media that her dad had suffered a “medical complication” but did not immediately disclose the severity of his emergency.
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Donald Trump took a jab at Justin Trudeau after the Canadian prime minister said Americans “are beginning to wake up to the reality” of the president-elect’蝉 plan to tax Canadian goods.
Trump has promised to sign an executive order on his first day in office imposing 25 percent tariffs on goods arriving from Canada and Mexico, supposedly in response to drugs and illegal migrant crossings.
During an event Monday, Trudeau acknowledged the tariffs would be “devastating” for the Canadian economy but pointed out they would wreak havoc on the U.S. too, as the taxes would be paid by American companies that would then pass on the costs to buyers.
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Merchandise bearing words written on the bullet casings found at the scene of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’蝉 killing are available to buy on online retail sites.
Everything from pint glasses and baseball caps to Christmas tree ornaments and a sweater with an image of a guillotine and the words “Deny, Defend, Depose” are being hawked online. The phrase might be a reference to the methods health insurers use to avoid paying claims.
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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’蝉 choice to lead the Pentagon, celebrated a “great meeting” with Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) Monday that gave new life to his hope of confirmation in Congress' upper chamber.
Trump World operatives apparently had an even bigger reason to exhale.
According to a report in Politico, the president-elect’蝉 team thought if Hegseth’蝉 bid was “sacrificed” to Ernst, it would cause a domino effect in the Republican ranks that could jeopardize the prospects of other controversial nominees, including Kash Patel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard.
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The 28 Days Later zombie franchise has always had a knack for blending tension and horror with mystery, and the newest installment appears to be no exception to the rule.
The trailer for 28 Years Later, which dropped Tuesday on YouTube, is leaving fans wondering if Cillian Murphy, the Oscar-winning actor who led the original film as Jim, is making an undead comeback.
Fans have been quick to notice the glaring absence of Murphy on the cast list, despite his credits as executive producer.
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Since mid-November, dozens of mysterious, huge drones have alarmed and panicked residents of New Jersey’蝉 Bergen County, flying overhead at night without explanation or any seeming origin.
One of those residents is Steve Doocy.
The Fox & Friends co-host and Bergen County resident revealed Tuesday that the mystery flying objects—which some New Jerseyans described as “car-sized”—have visited the airspace directly above his house.
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Jason Kelce was forced to backtrack when he called Arlington and Dallas, Texas the “b------e and armpit of America” on national TV.
The former Philadelphia Eagles center and Travis Kelce’蝉 brother had ESPN’蝉 Monday Night Countdown panel up in arms when he made the comments after a segment in which Mia Kimes, Dan Orlovsky, and Drew Carter, took part in an alt-cast of the Monday night game themed around The Simpsons.
In the animated segment, Kimes said the alt-cast was coming from the fictional town of Springfield which she described as “the armpit of America’蝉 b---crack,” in a reference to the legendary cartoon.
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The former Ivy Leaguer accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson played a video game with other college students in which they pretended to be assassins.
Luigi Mangione was a member of a Discord group at the University of Pennsylvania that played Among Us, which is based on the party game Mafia and involves gamers trying to work out who is the secret killer lurking among them.
Former UPenn student Alejandro Romero, who was part of the group, told NBC News that he was shocked to learn of 26-year-old Mangione’蝉 arrest at a McDonald’蝉 restaurant in Altoona, Pa, on Monday.
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A woman is dead after police in Georgia received an email from a Russian IP address claiming the sender had left a pipe bomb in Marjorie Taylor Greene’蝉 mailbox.
A police officer responding to the scene hit another car, killing its driver, the Republican congresswoman confirmed on X.
“I’m heartsick right now,” Greene wrote.
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On Monday night’蝉 broadcast of The Ingraham Angle, Fox News host Laura Ingraham took less than 30 seconds to condemn support for one alleged vigilante killer and offer up that another is being called a “hero.”
“The Instagram posts from nutbag people, which I was sent in the commercial break earlier: crazy,” she said, of online support for Luigi Mangione, who was charged with murder in connection with the killing of UnitedHealth Care CEO Brian Thompson on Monday. “Like he’蝉 cute and this and people celebrating this, this is a sickness. Honestly it’蝉 so disappointing, but I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.”
The host then immediately teed up the next segment to follow a commercial break: “Up next, the other big news out of New York, Daniel Penny. A lot of people think he’蝉 a hero and tonight he’蝉 not guilty.”
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Google has taken down scathing reviews of the McDonald’蝉 where the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was nabbed by cops on Monday.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was taken into custody at one of the fast food chain’蝉 restaurants in Altoona, Pennsylvania after an employee spotted him and alerted law enforcement, police said. Soon after, the suspect’蝉 online supporters unleashed a flood of fake reviews.
“This location has rats in the kitchen that will make you sick and your insurance isn’t going to cover it,” one review said.
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Jamie Foxx compared Sean “Diddy” Combs to the devil in a new Netflix special revealing his near-death experience after suffering a brain bleed and a stroke.
The actor and comedian struggled to hold back tears as he explained the mystery illness that left him unable to walk and needing emergency brain surgery.
“Your life doesn’t flash before your face, it was kind of oddly peaceful,” he told a hushed audience in Atlanta, the city where the medical drama unfolded in April 2023 while he was filming the movie Back in Action with Cameron Diaz.
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Tony Buzbee, the Texas-based attorney representing over 120 accusers of Sean “Diddy” Combs, has a new celebrity target in his sights.
Jay-Z (real name: Shawn Carter) was named over the weekend as one of three allegedly complicit celebrity participants in the rape of a 13-year-old girl at a post-MTV Video Music Awards party in 2000. The suit, first filed in October, originally only named Combs and referred to the other two celebrities present with pseudonyms. Buzbee, who represents the plaintiff in the suit, said that he’d requested a “mediation” with Jay-Z before naming him in the suit. The identity of a third female celebrity remains unknown.
According to The Blast, Jay wasn’t the only high-profile person Buzbee sent “demand letters” to, requesting that they settle out of court or risk being named in a lawsuit. Weeks before Jay-Z was named in the suit against Combs, Buzbee and his firm were sued for extortion by an unnamed John Doe, who we now know was Jay-Z himself.
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The Ivy League graduate arrested on suspicion of assassinating the CEO of UnitedHealthcare took issue with two of the prosecutor’蝉 claims during his first court appearance on Monday night.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested earlier that day at a McDonald’蝉 in Altoona, Penn., carrying a backpack with a black 3D-printed pistol, silencer, loaded Glock magazine and fake IDs, according to the criminal complaint. Prosecutors believe he gunned down Brian Thompson outside an investors meeting in New York City last week.
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Donald Trump’蝉 comments during a Sunday interview with Meet the Press had the classic markings of a mob boss, according to The New Abnormal co-host Andy Levy on the latest episode.
Levy noted Trump’蝉 comments, where he said of former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and the Jan. 6 committee: “Honestly, they should go to jail.” When pressed by Welker if he would direct his FBI director or attorney general to “send them to jail,” Trump replied, “No, not at all. I think that they’ll have to look at that—I’m going to focus on drill, baby drill.”
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The writings 26-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly had on him when he was arrested as the prime suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson do not refer to his alleged victim by name or even as an individual person connected to a particular company.
“These parasites had it coming,” Mangione is said to have written.
Note the plural. Also note that when he was arrested at a McDonald’蝉 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday morning, Mangione allegedly also possessed what police believe was the ghost gun likely used to kill Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk last week.
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The main person of interest in the recent shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, now identified as Luigi Mangione, was apprehended and charged with murder on Monday. In her monologue reacting to the news, After Midnight host Taylor Tomlinson admitted that, like a lot of the internet, she too found the CEO assassin physically attractive.
“All of the other late night shows already covered the fact that everyone thinks the shooter is hot,” Tomlinson said, “But I feel confident that I’m the only late-night host who can honestly say: ‘Would.’”
Tomlinson admitted that one picture can be deceiving, however. She joked, “I’ve been on dating apps for a long time. I’m going to need to see four to six more photos. OK?”
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The mother of Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, reported him missing on Nov. 18, the New York Post reported Monday, citing sources in law enforcement. Mangione, 26, had not been in touch with family members after he had a back surgery months ago. His last known address was in Honolulu, Hawaii, police have said. A roommate of his there, R.J. Martin, told CNN that Mangione had mentioned having back problems. “When I first interviewed him, before he moved in, I remember he said he had a back issue, and he was hoping to get stronger in Hawaii,” he said, adding that even surfing caused extreme pain. Martin said that after the surgery, Mangione showed him an X-ray of screws that had been implanted in his spine. The banner image of Mangione’蝉 X account includes the same—or a similar—image. At the time of his capture, Mangione was in possession of writings critical of the health-care industry, according to authorities. At the scene of the killing, bullet casings were found reading “deny,” “defend,” and “depose”—a potential allusion to a book on controversial insurer tactics.
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Prosecutors in Manhattan charged Luigi Mangione with murder on Monday night, according to New York criminal court records. Mangione, 26, was charged with murder, as well as three weapons charges for possessing a loaded firearm and a silencer, and one charge for possession of a “forged instrument.” Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’蝉 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, earlier on Monday, and quickly identified as the suspected shooter of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Thompson was shot and killed in an apparently “targeted” attack last week in broad daylight outside a Manhattan hotel. Mangione is also facing multiple additional charges in the Keystone State, including carrying a gun without a license, tampering with records or identification, and providing false identification to law enforcement. Mangione was jailed in Altoona following an arraignment on Monday night, and will have to be extradited back to New York to face the murder charges. The Manhattan District Attorney’蝉 Office did not immediately return a request for comment from the Daily Beast.
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Former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has seemingly lined up his next gig.
President-elect Donald Trump’蝉 failed attorney general nominee is reportedly joining One America News Network (OANN) as an anchor, starting in 2025.
CNN National Correspondent Kristen Holmes reported the news Monday night on X, citing a source familiar with the matter.
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A former Trump administration official who allegedly was inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is working on Donald Trump’蝉 transition team, Politico’蝉 Daniel Lippman reported Monday, citing three people with knowledge of the situation.
Pete Marocco is handling personnel matters relating to national security, according to the outlet, which says two individuals have seen him in Florida at the transition team’蝉 headquarters.
In November, Marocco and his wife, Merritt, were alleged by Sedition Hunters, a group of citizen investigators, to have been inside the Capitol while Trump supporters sought to prevent the peaceful transition of power. Neither Marocco nor his wife have been charged, and the former Trump official reacted to the allegation in a statement to D Magazine, which read in part: “Petty smear tactics and desperate personal attacks by politicians with no solutions.”
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Luigi Mangione’蝉 family have broken their silence following his arrest on Monday in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. “Unfortunately, we cannot comment on news reports regarding Luigi Mangione. We only know what we have read in the media,” Nino Mangione, a Maryland state delegate and a cousin of Luigi’蝉, said in a statement on behalf of the family. “Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’蝉 arrest. We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved. We are devastated by this news.” The 26-year-old was taken into custody at a McDonald’蝉 restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon. He then had a preliminary arraignment Monday night at the Blair County Courthouse in Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania, where he was charged with five offenses, including carrying a gun without a license, forgery, and falsely identifying himself to the authorities.
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President-elect Donald Trump is advocating on behalf of his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, the former Republican National Committee co-chair who has been floated as a candidate to replace Florida Sen. Marco Rubio when he becomes secretary of state, according to a new report. The president-elect recently spoke with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis about his daughter-in-law, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources familiar with the conversation. The nomination is ultimately up to DeSantis, Trump’蝉 former adversary in the Republican primary. Lara, the wife of Eric Trump, resigned from her role at the RNC on Sunday night—a job she only started in March. Lara has repeatedly said she would accept the nomination in the month since her father-in-law’蝉 electoral victory. She previously explored the possibility of a Senate run in her home state of North Carolina back in 2022, multiple outlets reported at the time. Earlier on Monday, Lara again told the Associated Press that the Senate seat was “something I would seriously consider” should DeSantis tap her to finish the final two years of Rubio’蝉 term.
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One of the officers who helped bring in Luigi Mangione, the suspect in last week’蝉 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, had only been on the force for six months, he revealed during a press conference Monday.
Altoona Police Officer Tyler Frye, who was one of two responding officers to the Pennsylvania town’蝉 McDonald’蝉, said they each recognized the seated suspect once he pulled down his blue medical mask.
“We just didn’t think twice about it. We knew that was our guy,” Frye told reporters.
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Taylor Swift gave out a whopping $197 million in bonuses to everyone who worked on her almost two-year long Eras tour, People reports. Swift wrapped up her tour on Dec. 8 at the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver after kicking it off in Glendale, Arizona, in March 2023. The outlet reports that Swift gave out bonuses to everyone who worked on the colossal tour, including caterers, production crew, truck drivers, physical therapists, and hair and make-up teams. After her final show, the pop star’蝉 production company, Taylor Swift Touring, told The New York Times that a staggering total of 10,168,008 people attended the Eras Tour. It also sold $2,077,618,725 in total tickets, officially making it the bestselling tour of all time. “We have toured the entire world,” Swift said during her final concert. “We have had so many adventures. It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.”
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Jay Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, has made his first public appearance after being accused of a raping a 13-year-old alongside disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs during a VMA afterparty in 2000, which both men have denied. The rapper attended the premiere of Mufasa: The Lion King alongside his wife 叠别测辞苍肠é and their 12-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy, who respectively voice characters Nala and Kiara in the film. His mother-in-law, Tina Knowles, was also in attendance. The family smiled and posed together for pictures on the red carpet, with Carter also being seen throwing up a peace sign in a video captured by The Hollywood Reporter. In a lengthy statement released on Sunday, The Blueprint rapper called the allegations “idiotic” and vowed to not give the plaintiff “ONE RED PENNY.” First filed in October, the suit accused Combs and Carter of drugging and raping an unidentified teen at a VMA afterparty in 2000, while an unnamed female celebrity (dubbed only as Celebrity B) watched. Combs has previously denied all accusations made against him.
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— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 10, 2024
Pennsylvania law enforcement have disclosed that the suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’蝉 murder, Luigi Mangione, traveled between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh after fleeing from New York last week—and even made several “stops in between.”
Speaking at a news conference Monday, Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police described Mangione’蝉 movements as “security conscious” and said that he seemed to be “avoiding detection.”
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President-elect Donald Trump nominated Harmeet Dhillon as assistant attorney general for civil rights, he announced Monday.
“Throughout her career, Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our cherished Civil Liberties, including taking on Big Tech for censoring our Free Speech, representing Christians who were prevented from praying together during COVID, and suing corporations who use woke policies to discriminate against their workers,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
A 2020 Trump campaign legal adviser who begged for the Supreme Court to intervene in the presidential election over baseless claims of fraud, Dhillon’蝉 track record indeed falls squarely on the side of conservative causes.
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Lawyers for Jay-Z, the rapper born Shawn Carter, argued that the anonymous victim who accused the hip-hop legend of raping her when she was 13 alongside disgraced music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs should be required to identify herself for the lawsuit to move forward.
The shocking sexual assault allegations against Carter, 55, were revealed after his name was added to a civil lawsuit filed by an alleged victim of Combs, the founder of Bad Boy Records who is facing numerous federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
The suit was filed by Tony Buzbee, a Texas attorney representing a number of people who say they were sexually assaulted and/or drugged by Diddy since his rise to fame in the 1990s. In this particular case, a woman accused both Carter and Combs of drugging and raping her at an afterparty following the 2000 Video Music Awards. The victim stated she was 13 at the time.
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Something happened to Luigi Mangione in 2023.
He had been the valedictorian of his private Maryland high school—Gilman, where annual tuition is currently $35,000—graduating in 2016. He was strong, good-looking, and smart: a golden son in a sprawling Baltimore family whose wealth had been built by his grandfather, Nicholas Mangione Sr.
The dynasty’蝉 business interests ranged from hotels and country clubs to a radio station and a care facility for seniors that most recently declared $36 million in annual revenue. Luigi was, among dozens of Nicholas’ grandchildren—there were already 37 in 2008—the heir to his grandfather’蝉 empire.
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The man arrested in connection with UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’蝉 killing last week looked directly into the camera for his mugshot after being taken into custody in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Monday. Luigi Mangione was photographed after being escorted by cops to his preliminary arraignment in Hollidaysburg, less than 10 miles from the city of Altoona, where he was taken into custody. He was seen in the mugshot wearing a black scarf and coat, flashing a steely-eyed stare at the camera. After a tip from a McDonald’蝉 worker in the city, police closed in and arrested Luigi Mangione. He has been charged with five crimes, including carrying a gun without a license, forgery, falsely identifying himself to the authorities and possessing “instruments of crime,” according to The New York Times. “Responding officers questioned the suspect, who was acting suspiciously and carrying multiple fraudulent IDs as well as a U.S. passport,” New York City Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters Monday. “Upon further investigation, officers recovered a firearm on his person, as well as a suppressor, both consistent with the weapon used in the murder.” He later posed for a booking photograph at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Huntingdon in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
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A Democratic state representative in Florida announced she was switching to the Republican Party just over a month after getting reelected—fortifying the GOP’蝉 considerable grasp on the state’蝉 legislature. Rep. Susan Valdés, who was recently re-elected in November for her final term representing parts of the Tampa metropolitan area, announced her party switch in a post on X on Monday, insisting she would not “waste my final two years in the Florida Legislature being ignored in a caucus whose leadership expects me to ignore the needs of my community.” Valdés’ departure from the Democratic Party comes only one week after she lost an election for chair of the Hillsborough County Democratic Party, Florida House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell said in her own statement slamming the move as a “bait-and-switch.” Before the election in November, Valdés was an outspoken critic of President-elect Donald Trump and attended local events for Kamala Harris, the Tampa Bay Times reported. She even penned an op-ed in the newspaper only a year earlier comparing the Republican-lead government of Florida to the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba. Valdés seemed to address some of this disconnect in her statement on Monday, telling her constituents “I know I won’t agree with my fellow Republican House members on every issue, but I know that in their caucus, I will be welcomed and treated with respect.”
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Luigi Mangione, the person of interest arrested in connection with the grisly killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week in New York City, was escorted to his preliminary arraignment in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania in handcuffs alongside a squad of police officers from multiple departments.
In the first footage published since his identification as a suspect in Thompson’蝉 shooting death last Wednesday outside of a Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan, the steely-eyed 26-year-old was taken out of a car by officers and into the courthouse for his initial appearance.
Shortly after Mangione’蝉 arrival, a criminal complaint cited by The New York Times indicated he had been charged with five crimes in Pennsylvania, including carrying a gun without a license, forgery, falsely identifying himself to authorities, and possessing “instruments of crime.”
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A former classmate of Luigi Mangione said he “almost had a heart attack” after finding out the 26-year-old was arrested Monday on suspicion of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
“He would be the last one I would think would do something like this,” Freddie Leatherbury, who attended the Gilman School—an all-boys private institution in Baltimore—with Mangione told The Baltimore Sun shortly after his arrest. “He was a nice kid.”
Police in Altoona, Pennsylvania took Mangione into custody Monday after a McDonald’蝉 employee recognized him and called local police.
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Rupert Murdoch lost his initial bid to amend his family trust to cede power over his vast media empire to his eldest son Lachlan, according to The New York Times.
Washoe County Probate Commissioner Edmund Gorman wrote that both Murdochs acted in “bad faith” to strip control over the trust from three of Rupert Murdoch’蝉 other children—James, Elisabeth, and Prudence.
He also blasted the pair’蝉 “carefully crafted charade” as an attempt to “permanently cement Lachlan Murdoch’蝉 executive roles.”
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In an all-too-poised appearance on Fox & Friends last week, Penelope Hegseth sought to distance herself from herself.
The mother of president-elect Donald Trump’蝉 choice for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, Penelope listened intently as host Steve Doocy read excerpts from a scathing email she had sent her son in April 2018. (The New York Times had published the email a few days prior, a flashpoint in Hegseth’蝉 already-controversial nomination.)
In blunt language, Penelope accused her son of being a liar, a cheater, and “an abuser of women.” Doocy ended his recitation with the devastating quote: “We are broken by your behavior and lack of character.”
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In his high school valedictorian speech, suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione described his class of 2016 as “inventive in both imagination and initiative.”
The 26-year-old was identified as the police’蝉 person of interest in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Monday, after being spotted in a McDonald’蝉 in Pennsylvania.
New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters that Mangione was carrying a weapon similar to the one used in the fatal shooting when he was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
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Worried loved ones reached out to the Ivy League graduate named as a person of interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’蝉 killing days before the executive was executed outside of a New York City hotel.
One of Luigi Mangione’蝉 loved ones shared a message on X to let him know that he cared about him and “missed him” on Nov. 25, a day after the shooter was believed to have arrived in Manhattan on a Greyhound bus.
“Thinking of you and prayers everyday in your name,” wrote user @Collin30923201P on Nov. 25. “Know you are missed and loved.”
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That’蝉 a damning look into the mindset of Mangione, who was arrested in western Pennsylvania on Monday morning. Authorities have suggested he may soon face charges in connection to Thompson’蝉 cold-blooded slaying on a Manhattan sidewalk last week that experts say was likely tied to the gunman’蝉 disdain for the U.S. health insurance industry.
Mangione, 26, had an online presence that suggested he was sympathetic to the work of radicals. Most notably, Mangione “liked” online quotes from the infamous “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, who terrorized the U.S. for decades and wrote that technology was destroying the environment and human freedom.
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叠别测辞苍肠é’蝉 mom Tina Knowles claimed to have been the victim of a social media hacker. The pop superstar’蝉 mother raised eyebrows by “liking” an Instagram post reporting that her son-in-law Shawn Carter (better known as Jay-Z) had been named in a rape lawsuit involving a 13-year-old and incarcerated former mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. The Knowles matriarch was screenshotted having tapped the heart icon on the post by ABC7 Chicago, which had a photo of Combs and Jay-Z with the headline, “Jay-Z, Diddy Named In Lawsuit Alleging Rape of Girl, 13.” Page Six was able to verify that Knowles’ official Instagram account had liked the post, but could not reach her for comment. Knowles later took to Instagram claiming she was hacked. She wrote: “As you all know, I do not play about my family. So if you see something uncharacteristic of me. Just know that it is not me!” Knowles has supported her daughter’蝉 marriage to the rapper in the press for years. It also follows the infamous Knowles family elevator fight in 2014, in which 叠别测辞苍肠é’蝉 sister Solange attacked the rapper in an elevator with 叠别测辞苍肠é present. That incident was never addressed publicly by Jay-Z or the family. Jay-Z has responded to the rape allegations in the new lawsuit, however, with a public statement in which he called the suit a “blackmail attempt” by the plaintiff’蝉 lawyer, Tony Buzbee, and vehemently denied the claims.
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Whether it’蝉 from staying up far too late, allergies, awkward sleeping positions, dehydration, or our bodies engaging in the mysteries of their natural rhythms, waking up with puffy eyes and facial swelling is not my favorite way to face the day. While there are plenty of accessories and potions promising to help with facial puffiness—believe me, I walk around with gold-hued eye masks and an ice roller every morning—it’蝉 not easy to find an at-home remedy that actually works.
Just a few months ago, TheraBody released what can only be described as a magical wand for tired eyes and swollen skin, and we’ve been obsessed ever since with this less-than-ten-minute tool that says goodbye to puffiness and hello to natural radiance. The portable TheraFace Depuffing Wand, $149, is designed with warm and cool settings to help promote fluid drainage while boosting circulation to the skin for an instant glow.
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The person of interest in the UnitedHealthcare CEO’蝉 killing was carrying a note that said “these parasites had it coming” when he was nabbed, a bombshell report said Monday.
Ivy League graduate Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a McDonald’蝉 worker spotted him eating. When cops searched him they found a ghost gun made on a 3-D printer and a manifesto railing against “corporate America.”
CNN reported that he was carrying a note that said, “I do apologize for any strife or trauma but it had to be done. These parasites had it coming. I acted alone. I’m self-funded.”
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Pope Francis has sparked a new wave of concern for his health after appearing with a black bruise and a swollen neck at a Vatican event. Francis, who turns 88 later this month, appeared at the ceremony Saturday to appoint new cardinals. The Vatican later said in a statement that Francis had a minor fall and hit his chin on the bedside table. At the ceremony, the pontiff did not appear affected by the injury. He has struggled with health issues in the past and currently uses a wheelchair because of knee and back pain. He was hospitalized earlier this year due to breathing issues and also underwent surgery to repair an abdominal hernia. Francis’ predecessor, Pope Benedict, relinquished his post in 2013 at the age of 85, citing declining health. Benedict was the first pope in 600 years to resign.
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Whoopi Goldberg told viewers they should take a beat in between hand wringing over everything Donald Trump says he’ll do when he takes office and Jan. 21. But her co-host Ana Navarro argued that now isn’t the time to kick back on Monday’蝉 The View.
After discussing Trump’蝉 latest grift—his Fight, Fight, Fight fragrances—and his use of First Lady Dr. Jill Biden’蝉 photo to hawk it, Goldberg announced she doesn’t care about his selling “that stinky stuff,” and she’蝉 determined to chill on Trump’蝉 antics until after Christmas.
“He does this to keep you all in a panic,” Goldberg said on the show Monday. “He does it to make y’all do this [wringing her hands], and talk about him, and [say] ‘It’蝉 so terrible.’ But all we have to do from now until January 21st is be with our families, be with our kids, do our jobs, make sure our checks don’t bounce, make sure we are taking care of ourselves and our families. Whatever he’蝉 gonna do, he’蝉 gonna do,” she continued.
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The person of interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’蝉 killing has been identified as a 26-year-old computer whiz who graduated as valedictorian from his Maryland prep school.
Luigi Mangione, of Towson, Md., was carrying a weapon similar to the one used in the fatal shooting of Thompson when he was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters.
“At this time, he is believed to be our person of interest in the brazen, targeted murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, last Wednesday in midtown Manhattan,” Tisch said at a press conference Monday.
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A criminology student in the U.K. was jokingly asked by his professor if he was planning a murder before he allegedly killed a woman at random on a beach, a court has heard.
Nasen Saadi, 20, would allegedly badger his professor at Greenwich University in London with questions about crime, and a police search of his personal computer later found searches including “why is it harder for a killer to be caught if he does it in another town” and “which is the deadliest knife.”
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Giorgia Meloni’蝉 friendship with Elon Musk is paying off.
The far-right Italian premiere continued her charm offensive of the MAGA universe, using the opening of Notre Dame as an opportunity to pal around with Donald Trump and their mutual friend Musk.
“I was with her a lot,” Trump told the New York Post after dining with Meloni during a reception for world leaders. “We got along great,” he added, saying Meloni was a “real live wire” with “a lot of energy.”
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Travel can be a total pleasure, bringing you to exciting and beautiful new places, reuniting you with friends from days gone by, and expanding your understanding of other cultures and the wider world itself. But frequent travel, especially mandatory travel for work, can be something of a drag.
Air travel can be a painstaking process, what with the commute to the airport, the snail’蝉 pace of the security line (not to mention the rather degrading security checks themselves), the frequent delays, the hours spent sitting, the stale air and the jet lag.
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Friends star Lisa Kudrow didn’t find it natural to be “friends” with her five co-stars in the popular TV series right away.
During a sit-down with Dax Shepard on Armchair Expert, Kudrow explained that the six cast members “worked hard at being friends.” The payoff was the chemistry between Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Courtney Cox, and the late Matthew Perry that fans love about the show. But Kudrow admitted on the podcast that the “six-way relationship took some work.”
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A private funeral was being held on Monday for murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as police detained a suspect in the case, a source familiar with the family’蝉 plans told NBC News. The suspect was first caught on surveillance cameras in Manhattan, and had evaded a massive police search. However, Pennsylvania police said they had detained a 26-year-old who was caught with a gun similar to the one used in the shooting. Investigators believe he was in the city for 10 days before the shooting, at one point lifting his mask to speak to a hostel employee. A photo from the camera capturing that moment has been circulated worldwide.
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Daniel Penny was acquitted of all criminal charges after the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on the subway—a case that sparked a debate on New York City’蝉 mental health resources and public safety. The jury acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide, after throwing out the manslaughter charge on Friday when the jury twice couldn’t come to a unanimous verdict. The charge of criminally negligent homicide would’ve put Penny behind bars for four years; the manslaughter charge had a maximum of 15 years. Penny, a former Marine, put Neely, who was homeless at the time, in a chokehold for six minutes after Neely said, “someone is going to die today,” in May 2023. No witness testified that Neely touched or made any move towards another passenger, though many testified that they were afraid of Neely during his rant. He did not have a weapon on him. Prosecutors noted that Penny kept Neely in the chokehold even after the passengers had left the train. But jurors sided with Penny’蝉 defense—that he was justified in protecting his fellow passengers in the face of an erratic homeless man, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and previously had over two dozen encounters with the police. The defense also questioned if it was the chokehold that killed Neely.
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A cop love triangle ended in disaster after an officer reportedly walked in on his colleague wife with a fellow policeman. Master Sgt. Emmanuel de Asis, 55, was reportedly shot dead Nov. 28 at the house of Lt. Col. Rhoderick Pascua in Taguig, Philippines. Pascua reportedly caught his wife, who is also a police officer, and De Asis in the throes of an extramarital affair. Pascua admitted fatally shooting De Asis in front of his wife before buring his remains in the Pascua family’蝉 yard. Colleagues found De Asis’ remains last week. The plot thickened when the victim’蝉 son, also a police officer, said the killing had been planned for months. Police Capt. Peter de Asis stated that his father had been set up and had actually been abducted and tortured. “I will use all my trainings and skills as a qualified special forces operator to hunt all of you. My whole family will not stop until you are all inside a prison cell,” he declared in a Facebook post Friday.
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— Karen De Guzman (@_KarenDeGuzman) December 8, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump launched a baffling claim Monday that "Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the Popular Vote in future Elections." In a post on his Truth Social network, he added: “They want all future Presidential Elections to be based exclusively on the Electoral College!” In fact, the popular vote has in recent decades heavily favored Democrats and, this year, Trump became the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years. Democratic candidates have won the popular vote in five of the seven presidential elections in the 21st Century, losing two of those elections to Republicans who got fewer votes on a national level. Not only is there no Democratic effort to shore up the Electoral College, many prominent Democrats—including the party’蝉 2016 nominee for president Hillary Clinton, who won more votes than Trump but lost the Electoral College—have argued in favor of a popular vote for president. It is very likely that Trump and George W. Bush, who lost the 2000 popular vote to Al Gore, would have never been elected president were it not for the Electoral College.
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Tulsi Gabbard’蝉 nomination as Donald Trump’蝉 director of national intelligence had largely gone under the radar, with critics taking aim at Pete Hegseth and Matt Gaetz.
But now she’蝉 the latest Trump administration pick to come under scrutiny over her colorful past.
With questions being raised about her links with Russia and Syria, the former Hawaii congresswoman met with senior Republicans on Capitol Hill on Monday in a bid to shore up her support.
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Zachary Levi told Bill Maher he wasn’t “canceled” by Hollywood despite his public support of President-elect Donald Trump. And the Real Time host didn’t take the news well.
On the latest episode of Maher’蝉 Club Random, Maher told the star of Harold and the Purple Crayon, “You got canceled,” after he endorsed Trump and moderated an event with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard in September.
“Hollywood is a very, very liberal town and this very well could constitute career suicide,” Levi predicted at the time. But so far at least, he said it hasn’t turned out that way.
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Only Murders in the Building landed Golden Globe Award nominations for its three big stars—Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez—on Monday. But missing from the list was their supporting co-star Meryl Streep, who failed to extend her streak as the most nominated actor in the award show’蝉 80-year history. Streep, who plays Short’蝉 on-screen (and possibly off-screen?) love interest, earned her 33rd Golden Globe nomination last year for Best Supporting Actress on the Hulu comedy. Gomez was a double nominee for her role in the Netflix film Emilia Pérez, which led in overall nominations with 10, followed by The Brutalist with seven and Conclave with six. Other big snubs included directors John M. Chu for Wicked: Part One and Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two. Pamela Anderson was a surprise Best Actress nominee for The Last Showgirl, which the Baywatch star is hoping could lead to an Oscar nomination in the new year.
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Hope Walz claimed Joe Rogan fans are a relationship “red flag.” The 23-year-old daughter of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, shared her dating tip for screening men online with her nearly 200,000 followers on TikTok. “A litmus test for me and my friends for like years now has been if the guy we’re talking to follows Joe Rogan on Instagram, they’re a red flag and we should probably stop talking to them,” Walz said on Saturday. “And the times when they do follow him on Instagram and we haven’t stopped talking to them... it’蝉 never ended well.” Rogan, a popular and controversial podcaster, hosts an eponymous show. Men make up 80 percent of his listeners. Walz’蝉 anti-Rogan rule, she alleged has “never failed” her and her friends. “If they follow him we’re like, yeah, this person probably isn’t a great person and probably our values don’t align so we’re gonna move on from that. And honestly it’蝉 worked out well for all of us.” Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Rogan hosted Donald Trump on his show, alongside a slew of MAGA loyalists. Ultimately the podcaster endorsed Trump over Kamala Harris and Walz’蝉 father.
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A handwritten manifesto that railed against healthcare companies was found in the possession of a man who was detained by police on Monday in connection to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
That bombshell revelation came five days after the 50-year-old Thompson was gunned down on a busy Manhattan street as he walked to a meeting.
The person of interest, identified by reports as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, was taken to a police station for questioning in the area of Altoona, Pennsylvania—about 280 miles away from New York City. He has not been formally charged.
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The co-hosts of Fox & Friends expressed indignation at Meet the Press host Kristen Welker on Monday because she didn’t begin her interview with President-elect Donald Trump with a softball question about his accomplishments.
Noting that “everyone’蝉 got their own styles,” co-host Brian Kilmeade said he “would never start an interview after an historic election” and not ask Trump about his path to victory after the 2024 vote.
On Monday’蝉 broadcast of the Fox News chat show, he even began to sketch out what he believed was the appropriate question to kick off with: “‘You have overcome four or five indictments and two impeachments, people thought you were done, to win a contested primary, do you believe that you have won the biggest comeback in American—give me something to start with and then you go down [to other issues]."
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A macabre torture machine used to crush bodies has been discovered in a Syrian prison nicknamed the “human slaughterhouse.”
Video of the “iron press” was posted online as rebels freed inmates from Sednaya Prison near Damascus, the capital of Syria.
The hydraulic press was filmed along with ropes and bags allegedly used to dispose of the remains.
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A famously lanky English soccer legend has cast his verdict on Barron Trump’蝉 skills after a clip of the 18-year-old playing went viral again. Peter Crouch became a household name in England for his exploits on the pitch, and for his comical appearance. Crouch, now retired, towered over his opponents quite like a young Barron, who was seen playing the sport in a resurfaced clip that is doing the rounds again. In it, Barron—who is now 6-foot-9, dwarfs the other kids on the pitch as he shows off an impressive array of skills. On X, Crouch shared the clip Sunday and simply said: “Baller.” Barron is reportedly soccer mad, and instead of boozing and chasing girls at college he spends his time playing the soccer game FC25, formerly known as FIFA. He also rubbed shoulders with another former England star, Wayne Rooney, when the Manchester United legend was managing D.C. United in the MLS. “(Donald) asked me to give his son football lessons,” Rooney said.
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— Defiant World (@DefiantWorld) December 6, 2024
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’蝉 assassin appears to have a penchant for subliminal messages.
Dr. Carole Lieberman, a prominent psychiatrist and trail expert, told the Daily Beast she believes the still-anonymous killer intentionally left behind a pair of clues—including inscribed shell casings and a backpack stuffed with monopoly money—to send a message about why he carried out the cold-blooded act.
“The monopoly money conveys messages, both that UnitedHealthcare is a ripoff that steals money from patients in order to pay its executives millions, and that it is itself a monopoly,” Lieberman told the Daily Beast. “He may have planned to scatter the monopoly money around the CEO’蝉 body after he shot him, but he forgot to take the bills out of his backpack.”
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Two other CEOs have been threatened following last week’蝉 killing of UnitedHealthcare boss Brian Thompson, the head of a group representing New York City’蝉 business community said Monday.
With the health insurance executive’蝉 killer still at large, Kathryn Wylde—the president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City nonprofit—revealed the alleged threats in a CNBC interview. “I have heard of two incidents just over the weekend where CEOs have received—one anthrax, one a package threatened to be a bomb that had some of the same language about ‘defy’ and ‘depose,’” she said.
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‘Polarization’ is officially Merriam-Webster’蝉 2024 word of the year, in a not-so-subtle nod to the U.S. in the wake of the election. The American publisher revealed the choice to AP ahead of the official announcement. “Polarization means division, but it’蝉 a very specific kind of division,” Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’蝉 editor at large, told the title. “Polarization means that we are tending toward the extremes rather than toward the center.” Merriam-Webster’蝉 choice is backed by the huge search traffic its site receives, and this year the data suggested that people wanted the exact definition of the word—especially in the lead-up to Donald Trump’蝉 election win. The site’蝉 own definition reads: “Division into two sharply distinct opposites especially: a state in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society no longer range along a continuum but become concentrated at opposing extremes."
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Disaffected Democrats, including some from within his own administration, are furious with President Joe Biden for shrinking into a political non-entity since his party was walloped in last month’蝉 election, according to multiple reports.
“He’蝉 been so cavalier and selfish about how he approaches the final weeks of the job,” a former White House official told Politico.
The outlet—which spoke to nearly two dozen officials, including current and former White House staffers—reported that, since the Nov. 5 vote, Biden has mostly avoided unscripted events and press questions while neglecting to address policy matters on Capitol Hill and Democratic Party.
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A Haitian gang leader ordered more than 110 people to be massacred for “witchcraft” after his child got sick and later died over the weekend, a human rights group reported.
Monel “Mikano” Felix gave the order for the killings, which were carried out with knives and machetes, after a Voodoo priest told him elderly people in Port-au-Prince’蝉 notorious Cité Soleil slum had cursed the child, the National Human Rights Defense Network told Reuters.
At least 60 people were killed on Friday and another 50 on Saturday, all over the age of 60, the human rights group said. Felix’蝉 child died on Saturday afternoon.
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President-elect Donald Trump was on a charm offensive in the city of love, as he checked in on the United Kingdom’蝉 royals and even complimented Prince William’蝉 dashing appearance while on international duty in Paris.
Trump represented the U.S. on the world stage as he visited the Notre-Dame Cathedral in the French capital to mark its reopening after it was decimated by a blaze five years ago.
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Vice President-elect JD Vance’蝉 mother pleaded with her son’蝉 Ohio hometown last week to officially recognize him for winning the second-highest office in the land—only to come up against a divided city council and concerns about her son’蝉 hardline MAGA views.
“I am just here because I am JD Vance’蝉 mother and, as you know, he is our new vice president-elect and he thinks of Middletown as his home,” Beverly Aikins, Vance’蝉 mother, told the Middletown City Council on Tuesday, Dec. 5.
“I still live here and his sister still lives in Middletown. He’蝉 got two nieces who live here and I just think it would be nice if we could acknowledge that this is his hometown and put up some signs.”
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A massive stratovolcano in the Philippines has erupted Monday, spewing out a smoke column 10,000 feet high, after a raft of volcanic earthquakes. People living within 3.7 miles of Kanlaon volcano, located in the central provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental, have been evacuated from their homes. About 54,000 people could be affected by the eruption, according to Reuters. The 8,000-foot volcano had been threatening to blow since its last eruption in June, and the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has now raised its alert level to its third highest stage. The agency called the incident an “explosive eruption.” Pyroclastic flow has been observed moving down the volcano’蝉 south-eastern section. Several volcanic earthquakes rocked the area in the lead up to the blast at around 3pm. Canlaon City Mayor Jose Chubasco Cardenas has warned residents to prepare for forced evacuations as government offices shut and a curfew is implemented. A liquor ban has also been put in place.
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Brandi Glanville has revealed a scary medical theory about her swollen face.
The 52-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum claims doctors told her that it may have been caused by “a parasite that jumps around my face.”
Posting a photo of her disfigured features on X, formerly known as Twitter, Glanville said other physicians put it down to “stress-induced edema.”
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A would-be hijacker flying with his wife and two kids assaulted a flight attendant as he allegedly made a mad dash for the controls on a commercial flight in Mexico. The man, named only as Mario, was flying from El Bajio in the country’蝉 south to Tijuana near the border with California when he suddenly made a beeline for the cockpit in a bid to reroute the Volaris plane to the U.S., the airline said. Thankfully, crew and passengers managed to subdue him and the pilot issued an alert before the aircraft was landed at the International Airport of Guadalajara in central Mexico. The 31-year-old suspect claims he had received a death threat in which he was warned not to travel to Tijuana. It is unclear at the time of writing whether the man was armed, but he was handed over to authorities in Guadalajara as the flight continued without him to its final destination. “All passengers, crew and aircraft are safe,” Volaris said.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to have changed her tune when it comes to powerful men accused of sexually abusing and trafficking young girls.
“As far as P Diddy and now Jay Z being accused of raping children, I personally believe pedophiles should receive the death penalty if found guilty,” Greene (R-FL) wrote Sunday on X, formerly Twitter. “You rape a child, you drug and forcefully rape a child, you traffic children and sell them for sex, you should face the most severe consequences.”
Bad Boy Records founder Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held at New York’蝉 Metropolitan Detention Center while he awaits trial on federal charges for sex trafficking and racketeering. More than 150 alleged victims—many of them men and boys—have come forward, filing about two dozen civil suits against the disgraced rapper.
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Tom Brady busted out his Bill Belichick impression on this weekend’蝉 FOX NFL Sunday, mocking the idea of his former coach taking a job at the head of an NCAA program. The former Patriots coach has reportedly had two interviews with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to coach the Tar Heels, CBS Sports reported after the second meeting last Thursday. But in a segment with his former teammates Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman, the trio of former Patriots all immediately said they could not imagine their former coach in the role. “[Belichick] getting out there on the recruiting trail and dealing with all these college kids, that would be priceless,” Brady said. “Could you imagine Bill on a coach, recruiting an 18-year-old?” Edelman asked. “Listen, you don’t really want to come here, and we don’t really want you anyway,” said Brady, impersonating his famously dour former coach. “I mean, I guess you could come. We’ll figure out if you’ll play.” Not to be outdone, Gronkowski also offered his impression of the former Patriots coach dealing with college athletes. “If you bring your parents and use them as a third party, you’re gone. You’re off the team. We’re direct.”
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— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) December 8, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump used an image of himself and first lady Jill Biden attending the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris over the weekend to hawk the latest line in his seemingly never-ending list of Trump-branded products. Taking to Truth Social on Sunday, Trump announced the launch of his new line of perfumes and colognes, dubbed, “Fight, Fight, Fight,” because, according to Trump, “they represent us WINNING.” The product’蝉 website, states: “This scent is your rallying cry in a bottle.” The photo of Biden and Trump was taken during a ceremony to mark the re-opening of the landmark in central Paris on Dec. 7. The first lady, sitting one seat away from Trump, can be seen talking to him, with what appears to be a smile on her face. In the caption of the Trump post, it reads, “A FRAGRANCE YOUR ENEMIES CAN’T RESIST!” Biden has so far made no comment on Trump’蝉 post, though Trump told the New York Post that the chat between the pair was, “very nice. She couldn’t have been nicer.” He added: “She was very nice and we had a very nice conversation.” Trump’蝉 cologne—or women’蝉 perfume—retails at $199 a bottle.
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Lara Trump, the wife of Donald Trump’蝉 third child, Eric, announced her resignation as co-chair of the Republican National Committee Sunday night—prompting a new round of speculation over her political future.
The 42-year-old posted on X Sunday night that “serving as the @GOP co-chair throughout the course of the most consequential election in American history has truly been the honor of my life.”
The news was initially reported by the Associated Press, which noted the former television producer was looking into a number of potential roles within the new Trump administration.
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Backlash continued to build over the weekend against UnitedHealthcare following the shocking assassination of CEO Brian Thompson and a subsequent rant by parent company UnitedHealth’蝉 CEO Andrew Witty, during which he defended the insurer’蝉 practices as justified in order to prevent “unnecessary” care.
In response, a flood of social media users shared stories about how the insurer denied them coverage for what it deemed “unnecessary” care.
Witty last week sent staff a video message condemning the “vitriolic” commentary on social media following Thompson’蝉 death. The message was only sent to employees of the multinational insurance giant, but a video recording was leaked and published by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein on Friday.
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Since becoming one of the nation’蝉 most wanted people, the assassin who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has left behind a trail of cryptic clues that has at times felt like a storyline straight out of a Batman comic.
But law enforcement experts consulted by the Daily Beast said Sunday that the evidence overwhelmingly points toward a profile of the suspect as a competent—and supremely motivated—killer who intended to convey a larger message with the high-profile murder.
On the morning of Dec. 4 at around 6:40 a.m., a yet-to-be identified suspect shot Thompson outside of the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where the longtime health-care executive was scheduled to attend an investors meeting.
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Senator Mitch McConnell took a subtle jab at President-elect Donald Trump during a speech on Saturday night.
Speaking at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Kentucky senator claimed that current “influential voices” were forgetting the threat of China and Russia and neglecting the history of the Cold War.
“Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America’蝉 place,” McConnell said per Politico which also wrote that he received a “standing ovation” after his speech. “But let’蝉 be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline,” referring to Trump’蝉 slogan and seemingly taking a swipe at the president-elect.
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Free agent Juan Soto landed the most lucrative deal in professional sports history on Sunday, reaching agreement on a gigantic 15-year, $765 million deal with the New York Mets, according to ESPN.
With his decision to play in Queens until 2040, the one-time New York Yankee broke the hearts of Bronx Bomber fans everywhere while obliterating previous MLB pay records and sending shockwaves through the sports world.
At only 26, Soto surpasses Shohei Ohtani’蝉 10-year, $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Mike Trout’蝉 12-year, $426.5 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels.
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President-elect Donald Trump has named his personal lawyer, Alina Habba, as counselor to the president.
In a Truth Social post published Sunday night, Trump described Habba as a “tireless advocate for Justice, a fierce Defender of the Rule of Law, an invaluable Advisor to my Campaign and Transition Team” while announcing her new role in the White House.
“She has been unwavering in her loyalty and unmatched in her resolve,” the president-elect continued. “Standing with me through numerous ‘trials,’ battles, and countless days in Court. Few understand the Weaponization of the ‘Injustice’ System better than Alina, who has fought relentlessly against the full force of Lawfare with courage and an unshakable commitment to Justice.”
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Jay-Z vehemently denied accusations that were made public Sunday alleging the now-55-year-old raped a 13-year-old girl at a post-VMAs party alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000. In a statement to the Daily Beast via a publicist for the rapper, whose real name is Shawn Carter, Jay-Z claimed he was the victim of a “blackmail attempt” from the lawyer who filed the suit, Tony Buzbee. “What he had calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle,” the rapper wrote. “No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose you for the fraud you are in a VERY public fashion. So no, I will not give you ONE RED PENNY!!” Jay-Z claimed his “only heartbreak is for my family” and while not mentioning 叠别测辞苍肠é by name, he added, “My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people. I mourn yet another loss of innocence. Children should not have to endure such at their young age. It is unfair to have to try to understand inexplicable degrees of malice meant to destroy families and human spirit.” He finished: “I look forward to showing you just how different I am.” Buzbee, in his own statement to the Daily Beast, said, “The pleading speaks for itself. This is a very serious matter that will be litigated in court.”
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Influencer Breckie Hill has denied the internet-fueled rumors that she got with Barry Keoghan while he was dating Sabrina Carpenter. Last week, it was reported that Keoghan and Carpenter broke up after a year of dating. A source told People magazine that “they are both young and career-focused, so they’ve decided to take a break.” The internet remained rife with speculation on the reason behind the couple’蝉 split however, with one rumor claiming that Keoghan cheated on the singer with Hill. The influencer has since addressed the online speculation sharing in a TikTok posted Saturday, “To put it simply for you all, no, I did not get with Barry. I have never even encountered this man in my life.” She continued, “The only time I’ve seen him is on my TV screen from watching Saltburn.” Keoghan notably deactivated his Instagram page Friday night, citing hateful messages as a reason in a statement he posted on Twitter. “The messages I have received no person should ever have to read them,” the actor wrote. “Absolute lies, hatred, disgusting commentary about my appearance, character, how I am as a parent, and every other inhumane thing you can imagine.”
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Jay-Z, the legendary rapper whose real name is Shawn Carter, was accused in a lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl at a party following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards alongside the disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The bombshell allegations were revealed after Carter’蝉 name was added to one of several lawsuits filed over the last year from alleged victims of Diddy, the founder of Bad Boy Records.
Diddy is also facing federal charges for sex trafficking and racketeering, and is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting a trial in 2025.
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Katie Holmes is defending her daughter Suri Cruise against claims that she became a millionaire when she turned 18 via trust fund.
The actor posted a screenshot on Instagram of a Daily Mail article that read: “Suri Cruise the millionaire! Tom Cruise’蝉 trust fund has ‘kicked in’ and mom Katie Holmes has one for her too.”
On the screenshot, Holmes wrote that it was “completely false.”
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Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has clapped back at President-elect Donald Trump after he threatened to imprison her and other members on the congressional committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots.
In an interview on NBC’蝉 Meet The Press that aired Sunday morning, Trump claimed that Cheney, along with a “committee of political thugs” deleted all the evidence from their investigation.
“Cheney did something that’蝉 inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” the President-elect said, referring to Mississippi Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (the committee’蝉 chairman). “They deleted and destroyed all evidence.”
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Comedian Bill Burr had some choice words to say on the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
In the latest episode of his joint podcast with comedian Paul Virzi, Anything Better?, Burr weighed in on the reaction to Thompson’蝉 killing, noting his confusion over people questioning the suspect’蝉 motive.
“I was sitting there reading an article, and a guy was like, ‘Oh my god, he’蝉 such a great guy, He had a wife and kids, and he’蝉 such a great guy,’” Burr began. “And then you find out, he and the other guys he’蝉 working for are getting sued for $121 million for dumping a stock and not letting the other people know,” referring to a Department of Justice investigation into Thompson for alleged insider trading. “It’蝉 like, there’蝉 your motive,” Burr continued.
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Donald Trump’蝉 daughter-in-law, Lara Trump has insisted it’蝉 her resume that qualifies her for the Florida Senate seat that will be vacated by Secretary of State pick Marco Rubio – not her last name.
In an interview with Howard Kurtz on Fox News, the Republican National Committee co-chair said she would be honored to take a seat in the US Capitol’蝉 Senate chamber.
“Certainly, we’ve all had the opportunity over the past nine years to fully involve ourselves in politics, to understand the American people, what they want, and we’ve all been residents of the state of Florida now for over three years,” she said. “If that’蝉 something that’蝉 put in front of me, it would be a true honor.”
]]>Shares in the parent company of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson have plummeted, as his murder prompted renewed scrutiny of the industry and outrage over the state of US healthcare.
UnitedHealth Group’蝉 stock fell 5 percent on Friday alone, bringing its weekly loss to 10 percent. That wiped roughly $56 billion from the company’蝉 market capitalization.
After-hours trading continued to dip, dropping 5 percent on Sunday after a video leaked UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty, Thompson’蝉 boss, slamming industry critics on social media as “vitriolic” and “not in tune with reality.”
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Even middling songs can’t seem to stop Moana 2. The Disney sequel won the box office for the second week in a row, earning $52 million over the post-Thanksgiving weekend. It’蝉 the largest total ever for the post-holiday weekend, besting Disney’蝉 own Frozen 2 ($35.1 million) for the crown. Wicked followed its fellow musical for the No. 2 title, earning $34.9 million throughout the weekend. The film, the first in the two-part tale, became the highest-grossing Broadway musical adaptation of all time. Gladiator II completed the trifecta for a second week in a row, earning $12.4 million. The weekend also saw the return of Christopher Nolan’蝉 Interstellar, which played in various IMAX theaters for its 10th anniversary. The film scored at No. 6 for the weekend with $4.5 million.
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President Joe Biden gave a promising update on journalist and Marine Corps veteran Austin Tice who was kidnapped while reporting in Syria in 2012.
“We believe he’蝉 alive,” the president told reporters on Sunday.
“We think we can get him back, but we have no direct evidence of that yet,” he continued.
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Expelled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’蝉 whereabouts have been revealed after fleeing Syria. Assad, along with his family, have arrived in Moscow on Sunday and granted asylum, according to the TASS news agency, which received the information from a Kremlin source. “Assad and his family members have arrived in Moscow. Russia, for humanitarian reasons, has granted them asylum,” the source said. In Syria, celebrations are taking place after rebels captured the capital of Damascus, triggering the collapse of Assad’蝉 government and the end of his 24-year reign. Assad left with his wife and two children, their location remaining unknown until now. “At long last, the Assad regime has fallen. This regime brutalized and tortured and killed literally hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrians. The fall of the regime is a fundamental act of justice,” U.S. President Joe Biden said after the overtaking. “It’蝉 a moment of historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a better future for their proud country. It’蝉 also a moment of risk and uncertainty as we all turn to the question of what comes next.”
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President-elect Donald Trump promised on Sunday to deport U.S. citizens as part of his quest to expel all undocumented immigrants, describing them as collateral in his sweeping immigration plans.
Trump told Meet the Press‘ Kristen Welker that he wanted to avoid the family separation scandal that plagued his first administration. But to do so, he said, will require mixed-immigration families—those with undocumented immigrants with children who are U.S. citizens—to leave together.
“I don’t want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back,” he said.
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A Democratic National Committee member shocked NewsNation host Markie Martin when she complimented Department of Defense pick Pete Hegseth.
Lindy Li, who is a member of the party’蝉 finance committee, hailed him as a fellow Princeton alumnus and joked that producers had made a mistake in booking her for the Friday appearance to oppose his selection.
Hegseth, a former Fox News host and army officer, has been mired in scandal in recent days over claims of having a drinking problem, financial mismanagement and other allegations involving treatment of women. He has denied the claims.
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A popular LA radio host has died at 44 years old, loved ones said. Robin Ayers, a personality on KBLA 1580 Talk, died on Thursday, according to fellow broadcaster Tavis Smiley.Her cause of death has not been released. “Robin was a bright light. You could see her radiant smile through the radio.
We all respected her immense talent, loved her jovial spirit, celebrated her love of family, and honored her faith in God," Smiley wrote on X. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Robin’蝉 entire family, most especially her husband Rob and her twin daughters Brooklyn and Madison.” On Friday, KBLA Talk 150 opened up phone lines and listeners could call in and talk about Ayers and their memories of the star, who was also an entertainment reporter. Prior to being a host for “The RA Report with Robin Ayers,” she was a stylist in Hollywood for 15 years. Her last Instagram post showed Ayers spending time with her family in New York City, where they celebrated Thanksgiving and her twin daughters' 18th birthday.
Hiring is underway for Donald Trump’蝉 coming administration as MAGA hopefuls have begun submitting their resumes to serve the president-elect. Aside from proving their technical qualifications, however, candidates allegedly must also demonstrate their allegiance to Trump in interviews with his most loyal acolytes.
Several MAGA insiders including Charlie Kirk, have been tasked with screening prospective hires for senior posts inside the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies.
Kirk, a right-wing activist, pro-MAGA podcaster and the founder of Turning Point USA, is part of a personnel team led by Sergio Gor, who runs the publishing company for Trump’蝉 books and ran a multimillion-dollar super PAC that supported the president-elect. Since the election, Kirk’蝉 influence appears to be growing, having become one of an exclusive few from whom Trump seeks advice.
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Stephen Miller, an influential adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, has revealed that the incoming administration will close the border down and begin mass deportations of illegal immigrants on the first day in office.
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News on Sunday, the immigration hardliner, who is Trump’蝉 pick for his deputy chief of staff for policy, said there will be unprecedented investment into stopping immigration.
He described how Republicans in Congress such as Lindsey Graham were preparing a full funding package that would be the “most significant border security investment in American history.”
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Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominee for surgeon general, accidentally knocked over a gun when she was 13 years old, causing it to fire and fatally shoot her father in the head.
The full details of the 1990 incident, which Nesheiwat had only partially disclosed, was revealed in a New York Times report on Friday.
She has cited the tragic incident as inspiring her to go into medicine, but without mentioning her direct role, the newspaper reported.
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Mariah Carey shut down rumors that her new Christmas video was generated by artificial intelligence, claiming bad lighting and red lipstick were to blame for the odd visuals. Carey, who filmed a Christmas-themed video thanking her fans, had commenters questioning if the video was actually real with one user writing, “that is AI for sure!!” Another chimed in, “Definitely AI. It’蝉 always something off with the eyes.” The clip, which celebrated the 30th anniversary of her album, “Merry Christmas,” was made for Spotify Wrapped, and shown to users who counted Carey as one of their most-listened artists. Carey responded to the backlash from the video, saying it was the red lipstick and lighting throwing viewers off. “Bad lighting and a red lip have you all thinking this is AI?? There’蝉 a reason I’m not a fan of either of those things,” she wrote on X. One fan responded, “It must be hard being so gorgeous that nobody believes you’re real.”
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