Luigi Mangione disappeared for months before CEO shooting
Luigi Mangione disappeared for months prior to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and his loved ones made frantic efforts to locate him by contacting old friends and making cries on social media.
Friends have been finding it difficult to process the news since his detention. “He was the kind of person that you would know was going to do great things,” someone added. “It’s just utterly heartbreaking to think that he could have been an assassin and heartbreaking to know that his life is essentially forever over or altered in unimaginable ways.”
Mangione has hired a well-known lawyer from New York to defend him against the murder allegations against Thompson. For seven years, Karen Friedman Agnifilo served as the Manhattan district attorney’s office’s chief assistant district attorney.
The week that changed Syria
Syria was known for conflict, violence, and the family dynasty inflicting it on its own people for over ten years. Then everything changed in the blink of an eye.
President Bashar al-Assad left the country a week ago after rebels took over Damascus. Since then, Syrians have peeled back the curtain on Assad’s brutal tyranny and destroyed statues of him.
While thousands of people have been released from cruel jails, countless more have been left to look for their loved ones at the infamous locations. One of the many noteworthy developments in the urgent search for missing American Austin Tice was the discovery of another American, Travis Timmerman, a pilgrim.
Timmerman’s discovery was like having a rehearsal… of what it’s going to actually feel like when Austin is walking free, according to Debra Tice, the mother of the journalist who has been missing since he was arrested in Syria in 2012. She made her statement on NBC News Meet the Press on Sunday.
As Syria moves from a militant insurgency to a more legitimate governing authority, Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed one week after Assad’s downfall that the United States has had direct contact with Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), which the United States still formally regards as a terrorist organization.
South Korean president impeached
Due to his unsuccessful attempt to implement martial law, lawmakers voted on Saturday to impeach South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
According to the motion, Yoon’s proclamation was unlawful and unconstitutional since he disregarded procedural procedures and there were no indications of a national emergency. 204 to 85 was the vote.
“This is only the beginning,” stated Park Chan-dae, the Democratic Party’s floor leader, the biggest opposition party. “We will conduct a thorough investigation of people involved with the martial law.”
Following the vote, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo took over as interim president, and Yoon was immediately suspended from state duties. Until the Constitutional Court rules, which has six months to decide whether to uphold the impeachment action, Yoon will continue to serve as president.
No answers for mystery drones as officials request help
New York Stewart International Airport’s runways were briefly shut down on Friday because to the overwhelming confusion and annoyance surrounding the enigmatic drone sightings along the East Coast.
“This has gone too far,” an announcement from Governor Kathy Hochul read. According to her, she gave the New York State Intelligence Center instructions to look into the drone sightings thoroughly and work with federal law enforcement to deal with them.
Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, the Senate majority leader, asked for the delivery of a drone detection system to New Jersey and New York. “Multiple drones flying together can confuse a traditional radar system, and that’s why, again, this new technology can really get us the answers that we need,” he stated to reporters on Sunday.
Local officials’ monitoring operations in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, were directly accessible to NBC News, which also used police thermal cameras to see multiple fast-flying objects on Friday that seemed to be traveling far more quickly than commercial jets.
Sightings have been recorded for about a month, but no definitive answers have been found. “Realistically, once we find out where they’re coming from or where they’re going, we’ll have a better idea of who’s doing it,” said an investigator.
Meet the Press
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a prominent Trump ally, stated bluntly in an interview with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker on Sunday that he does not agree with President-elect Donald Trump’s assertion that members of the House Jan. 6 Committee ought to be imprisoned.
President Joe Biden should think about preemptive pardons for the seven House Democrats and two House Republicans, then-Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, according to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who called the threat to imprison the committee members “a ridiculous statement.”
This is the essence of authoritarianism. “That’s the essence of dictatorship,” Sanders stated.
The entire interview is available to view here.
Politics in brief
Pelosi recovering: Following an injury she suffered in Luxembourg while on a congressional tour, former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had hip replacement surgery in Germany.
Trump settlement: In order to resolve a defamation lawsuit that Trump filed against ABC News for remarks made by anchor George Stephanopoulos, the network will pay $15 million to Trump’s presidential foundation.
Pardon issues: Both supporters and detractors worry that Trump has not studied the specifics of the extensive inquiry into the Capitol attack as he gets ready to grant pardons to the rioters who were killed on January 6.
Culture fighter tapped: The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has been proposed to be led by Republican attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who is well-known for supporting conservative causes and serving as the GOP national committeewoman for California.
A Democrat considers his loss: Sen. Bob Casey, one of Pennsylvania’s longest-serving senators, believes that Trump’s “strong” campaign was a contributing factor in his narrow defeat.
A box office surprise
Ten years after its premiere, Christopher Nolan’s science fiction epic “Interstellar” has achieved another significant box office triumph with its IMAX re-release. With all IMAX screenings selling out, the movie, which starred Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey, made $4.5 million last weekend over 166 screens.
Some viewers who missed “Interstellar” in theaters the first time have been eager to experience the complete cinematic experience, and Nolan has developed a devoted following over the years.
“A friend told me I can’t experience it on a TV screen or a laptop screen,” stated another. “It just does not compare.”
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