CEO of UnitedHealth's UNH.N insurance unit, Brian Thompson, was fatally shot in Manhattan on Wednesday in what police said is a targeted attack, Bloomberg and Reuters reported. Thompson, 50, arrived at the Hilton in midtown Manhattan around 6:40 am for an investor conference. The New York Post said that Thompson was shot in the chest by the suspect, described by police as a white man wearing a cream jacket with a black face mask and a gray backpack. He fired multiple times from a distance at Thompson and reportedly used a silencer.
The election count does not make sense. Will the results be contested? Take the gloves off President Joe Biden! Where did 20 million democratic votes disappear to?
More Trump lies and threats. They will never stop! Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has sought to clarify details of a conversation she had with US President-elect Donald Trump, after the two leaders offered differing accounts of the call. Following Wednesday's call, Trump said Sheinbaum had "agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border". This prompted Sheinbaum to say she had merely reiterated Mexico's position, which she said was "not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and people". The call followed Trump's announcement on Monday that, upon taking office in January, he would slap an across-the-board tariff of 25% on Mexico and Canada, and a 10% tariff on China.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to attack decision-making centres in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with the country's new ballistic missile, Oreshnik. Putin was speaking during a visit to Kazakhstan, hours after Russia launched a “Comprehensive” strike on Ukraine’s energy grid overnight, leaving more than one million people without power. There were no fatalities. "It was a response to continued attacks on our territory by Atacms missiles," Putin said. Ukraine used Atacms and Storm Shadow missiles to strike inside Russian territory last week for the first time since the full-scale invasion of February 2022, following approval by the Western suppliers, the US, the UK and France.
A fired-up Vice President Kamala Harris adopted a rapid-response mentality to seize on the key issue of abortion rights this week. Referring to people behind abortion bans as “these hypocrites,” she argued at a hastily arranged campaign event in Atlanta that some US communities now dealing with abortion bans have for years been neglected on the subject of maternal care.
“Where ya been?” she asked. The pivot to an intense focus on abortion rights evolved over the course of the week after the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica published a report on two Georgia women who died as a result of delayed medical care linked to the state’s abortion ban.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, have raised more than $10 million since the Minnesota governor was announced as Harris’ VP pick Tuesday morning, according to the campaign. Harris campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt touted it as “one of the campaign’s best fundraising days this cycle.” The campaign also said it expects Tuesday’s joint rally in Philadelphia to be the largest event to date for the Democratic presidential nominee. Harris and Walz are expected to be introduced at 5:30 p.m. ET, and the duo will hold their “first virtual grassroots fundraiser” following the rally.
Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday will lean on his personal biography and seek to draw contrasts between the Democratic ticket and former President Donald Trump in his first stump speech as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate. Walz will detail his rural upbringing in Nebraska, his Minnesota values and his experience as a teacher, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks, introducing himself to voters – many of whom are learning about him for the first time. “I was born in West Point, Nebraska, and lived in Butte, a small town of 400 where community was a way of life. Growing up, I spent summers working on the family farm. My mom and dad taught us to show generosity toward your neighbors and to work for the common good,” he will say, according to the excerpts.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin abruptly revoked a plea deal for the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks and his co-conspirators, and he relieved the overseer in charge after years of effort to reach an agreement to bring the cases to a close. In a surprise memo quietly released Friday night, Austin said the responsibility for such a significant decision “should rest with me.”
Only two days earlier, the Pentagon announced that it had reached a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, more commonly known as KSM, and two other defendants – Walid Bin ‘Attash, and Hawsawi – accused of plotting the attacks. The memo, addressed to Susan Escallier, the convening authority for military commissions who runs the military courts at Guantanamo Bay, said the defense secretary would immediately withdraw her authority in the cases and “reserve such authority to (himself).”
First lady Jill Biden offered her “congratulations” to Gov. Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen, after Vice President Kamala Harris choose him as her running mate, elevating the former teacher, congressman, Army National Guard veteran and Governor of MN and the First Lady of MN to the Democratic ticket.
Jill Biden herself served as second lady when the president was then Vice President Joe Biden. The first lady has made some public appearances, including at the Paris Olympics, but has largely stayed out of the spotlight since President Biden bowed out of the 2024 race.
The US State Department called allegations of sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees by Israeli soldiers “horrific” and said Israel must investigate “swiftly” and “fully,” according to a State Department spokesperson. “There ought to be zero tolerance of any sexual abuse, rape, of any detainees, period,” said State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller at a press briefing.
The statement comes after Israeli media obtained leaked surveillance video that allegedly showed Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman base in Israel’s Negev desert.
On June 5th, 2024, the first period of luminosity production at the LHC came to an end and we began our second machine development (MD) session.
As the agency explores more of the Moon than ever before under the Artemis campaign, NASA will celebrate the 55th anniversary of the first astronauts landing on the Moon through a variety of in-person, virtual, and engagement activities nationwide between Monday, July 15, and Thursday, July 25.
Law that bars people who are the subject of domestic violence restraining orders from owning weapons is upheld.
What is the federal law at the center of the Supreme Court’s latest abortion case?
