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(NEW YORK) -- Luigi Mangione is facing a second-degree murder charge in New York City in connection with the brazen shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan as new details emerge about the suspect and a potential motive, according to police.When 26-year-old Mangione was arrested on Monday he had "written admissions about the crime" with him, according to the New York arrest warrant.Mangione had several handwritten pages on him that expressed a […]

Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Donald Trump's impending inauguration as the next president does not impact his $454 million civil fraud judgment, a lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a letter to the president-elect's lawyer Tuesday.Trump and his adult sons liable owe approximately $490 million including interest in their civil fraud case after a judge ruled last year that they repeatedly inflated Trump's net worth to […]

(LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, Pa.) -- Police in Pennsylvania are searching for the gunman wanted for killing a young man and critically wounding his mother during a home invasion in an upscale Philadelphia suburb, officials said.Bernadette Gaudio, 61, and her son, Andrew Gaudio, 25, were both shot multiple times at their home in Lower Merion Township around 2:20 a.m. Sunday, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said.Bernadette Gaudio managed to call […]

(NEW YORK) -- The carbon footprint from the travel industry is growing at rates never seen before, according to new research.An increasing demand for international travel over the past decade has led to higher rates of carbon dioxide emissions every year, according to a paper published in Nature Communications on Tuesday.Greenhouse gas emissions from international tourism are growing at a rate of 3.5% every year -- about twice as fast as the […]

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and praise for the attack on social media, law enforcement is on high alert as calls for threats against health care executives and their families become "widespread," according to a Colorado law enforcement bulletin obtained by ABC News.The bulletin warned that Thompson's killing may be used as "messaging and propaganda" to share the techniques and tactics for targeting […]

(NEW YORK) -- Luigi Mangione is facing a second-degree murder charge in New York City in connection with the brazen shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan as new details emerge about the suspect and a potential motive, according to police."We do have a lot of evidence in this case," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told ABC News' "Good Morning America" on Tuesday."When he was found he was in […]

(NEW YORK) -- As Luigi Mangione was handcuffed and placed under arrest in Pennsylvania on Monday, police searched the backpack he'd been carrying and found what they described as a loaded 3D-printed firearm, a suppressor and a single loose bullet."Officers located a black 3D-printed pistol and a black silencer," wrote Tyler Frye and Joseph Detwiler, members of the Altoona Police Department, in a criminal complaint. They described the weapon as […]

A brush fire that broke out on Monday evening in Malibu Canyon has led to authorities issuing mandatory evacuation orders in parts of southern California as the fire rapidly spread, authorities said. (KABC) (LOS ANGELES) -- A brush fire that broke out on Monday evening in Malibu Canyon has led to authorities issuing mandatory evacuation orders in parts of southern California as the fire rapidly spread, authorities said.The fire began […]

(NEW YORK) -- A University of Pennsylvania graduate has been charged with murder in the targeted attack of Brian Thompson, the CEO of major insurance group UnitedHealthcare who was fatally shot outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel ahead of an investor conference, according to the NYPD.Luigi Mangione was charged in the fatal shooting after he was arrested Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after an individual at a McDonald's recognized him from the […]