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Suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO struggles, shouts while entering courthouse ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO struggled with deputies and shouted while arriving for a court appearance in Pennsylvania a day after he was arrested at a McDonald’s and charged with murder. Luigi Nicholas Mangione emerged from a patrol car, spun toward reporters and shouted something partly unintelligible while deputies pushed him inside Tuesday. At the brief hearing, the defense lawyer informed the court that Mangione would not waive extradition to New York but instead wants a hearing on the issue. Mangione was denied bail. Brian Thompson, who led the United States’ largest medical insurance company, was killed last Wednesday as he walked alone to a Manhattan hotel for an investor conference. Key details about the man accused of killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO The 26-year-old man charged in last week’s killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in New York City has appeared in a Pennsylvania courtroom. Luigi Nicholas Mangione was arrested Monday after a worker at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, notified police that he resembled the suspect in the killing last Wednesday of Brian Thompson. While being led into court to be arraigned Tuesday, Mangione shouted something that was partly unintelligible but referred to an “insult to the intelligence of the American people.” During the hearing, Mangione was denied bail and his attorney said Mangione would not waive extradition. DA suggests unusual idea for halting Trump’s hush money case while upholding his conviction NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are trying to preserve President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction as he returns to office, and they're suggesting various ways forward. One novel notion is based on how some courts handle criminal cases when defendants die. In court papers made public on Tuesday, the Manhattan district attorney’s office proposed an array of options for keeping the historic conviction on the books. The proposals included freezing the case until he’s out of office, or agreeing that any future sentence wouldn’t include jail time. Another idea: closing the case with a notation that acknowledges his conviction but says that he was never sentenced and that his appeal wasn’t resolved because of presidential immunity. There's no immediate response from Trump's lawyers. Middle East latest: Israel bombs hundreds of sites across Syria as army pushes into border zone Israel says it bombed more than 350 military sites in Syria during the previous 48 hours, targeting “most of the strategic weapons stockpiles” in the country. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the wave of strikes was necessary to keep the weapons from being used against Israel following the Syrian government’s stunning collapse. Israel also acknowledged its troops were pushing into a border buffer zone inside Syria, which was established after the 1973 Mideast war. However, Israel denied its forces were advancing Tuesday toward the Syrian capital of Damascus. Life in the capital was slowly returning to normal. People celebrated for a third day in a main square, and shops and banks reopened. Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump's mass deportation effort JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Governors and lawmakers in Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid President-elect Donald Trump's effort to deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally. A growing number of states are proposing legislation to give local law officers the power to arrest people in the country illegally. Other legislation filed ahead of next year's sessions would require law enforcement agencies to notify federal immigration officials when they take someone into custody who is in the country illegally. This is even if the charges are unrelated to their immigration status. Some Democratic-led states already are talking about how to resist some of Trump's immigration policies. Task force probing attempts to kill Trump urges Secret Service to limit protection of foreigners WASHINGTON (AP) — A task force looking into the assassination attempts against Donald Trump during his presidential campaign is recommending changes to the Secret Service. These include protecting fewer foreign leaders during the height of the election season and considering moving the agency out of the Department of Homeland Security. The 180-page report was released Tuesday. It constitutes one of the most detailed looks so far into the July 13 assassination attempt against Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania and a second one in Florida two months later. South Korea's ex-defense minister is formally arrested over brief imposition of martial law SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's previous defense minister has been formally arrested over his alleged collusion with President Yoon Suk Yeol and others in imposing martial law last week. Kim Yong Hyun resigned last week and has been detained since Sunday. He is the first person arrested in the case. Prosecutors have up to 20 days to determine whether to indict him. A conviction on the charge of playing a key role in rebellion carries the maximum death sentence. Kim is accused of recommending martial law to Yoon and sending troops to the National Assembly to block lawmakers from voting on it. Homes burn as wind-driven wildfire prompts evacuations in Malibu, California MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of Southern California residents are under evacuation orders and warnings as firefighters battle a wind-driven wildfire in Malibu. The flames burned near seaside mansions and Pepperdine University, where students sheltering at the school’s library on Monday night watched as the blaze intensified. Officials on Tuesday said a “minimal number” of homes burned, but the exact amount wasn’t immediately known. More than 8,100 homes and other structures are under threat, including more than 2,000 where residents have been ordered to evacuate. Pepperdine University on Tuesday morning said the worst of the fire has pushed past campus. It was not immediately known how the blaze started. More beans and less red meat: Nutritionists weigh in on US dietary guidelines Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils and cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables. That's advice from a panel of expert nutritionists charged with counseling the U.S. government about the next edition of the dietary guidelines. The panel did not weigh in on the growing role of ultraprocessed foods that have been linked to health problems or alcohol use. But they did say people should continue to limit added sugars, sodium and saturated fat in pursuit of a healthy diet. Tuesday’s recommendations now go to federal officials, who will draft the final guidance set for release next year. Trustee over Infowars auction asks court to approve The Onion's winning bid A trustee who oversaw the bankruptcy auction of Alex Jones’ Infowars is asking a judge to approve The Onion’s winning bid for the conspiracy-filled platform. Trustee Christopher Murray took the stand Tuesday in the second day of testimony at a hearing where a judge is scrutinizing the satirical news outlet’s winning offer. He told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston that he was there asking a court to approve the sale of Infowars’ parent company to The Onion’s parent company. It is not clear how quickly Lopez will rule. The Onion wants to turn Infowars’ website and social media accounts into parodies.Trump asks Supreme Court to delay TikTok ban so he can weigh in after he takes officeThe United States is one of the only countries in the world where people change their clocks twice per year. United States President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will endeavour to end daylight saving time, the practice of moving clocks forward during the summer to take advantage of longer daylight hours. In a social media post on Friday, Trump said that the conservative Republican Party would “use its best efforts” to end the practice, which he criticised as inefficient. “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” he wrote. “Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.” Trump is set to be sworn into office on January 20, and his incoming administration includes several members who vocally oppose daylight saving time. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, for instance, has made multiple pushes in Congress to end the clock-switching practice, including one as recently as this year . In 2022, his bill, the Sunshine Protection Act, passed the Senate before ultimately failing to gain traction in the House of Representatives. Rubio, who has been tapped to serve as Trump’s secretary of state, has called daylight saving time a “stupid practice”. Meanwhile, two close Trump allies — entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — openly weighed nixing daylight saving time on the social media platform X earlier this year. Responding to a user’s complaint about daylight saving in November, Musk wrote , “Looks like the people want to abolish the annoying time changes!” Ramaswamy quickly chimed in : “It’s inefficient [and] easy to change.” Under Trump, the two businessmen have been tasked with leading a yet-to-be-established, nongovernmental body called the Department of Government Efficiency, which will provide advice on how to streamline federal regulations, spending and bureaucracy. But previous efforts to eliminate daylight saving time all have fallen flat. The practice was first instituted in the US in 1918, as a means of preserving energy during World War I. The law mandating daylight saving was later repealed in 1919, shortly after the war ended. But in 1942, after World War II began, the practice remerged “to promote the national security and defense”. Ever since, the merits of daylight saving have been consistently debated in US politics, on both sides of the aisle. Some argue the practice of switching the clocks back and forth negatively affects human sleep patterns, resulting in increased risks for health problems like heart attacks. But a 2024 study from the Mayo Clinic says the threat to heart health is “likely minimal”. Nowadays, most Americans turn their clocks back one hour in early November and forward one hour in mid-March. What’s known as “daylight time” therefore runs from March to November, during the warmer, summer months in the US. “Standard time”, by contrast, runs during the winter, from November to March. Only two states opt out of this practice: Arizona and Hawaii. Still, many Americans support no longer having to switch time frames twice per year. More than 60 percent of people say they would like to see the changing of the clocks eliminated, according to a 2023 survey conducted by the research firm YouGov. About 50 percent of people support making daylight time — and the later sunrises and sunsets that accompany it — permanent. About 32 percent, by contrast, support making standard time, which comes with earlier sunrises and sunsets, permanent. Most countries have no such practice, and some medical associations have said that making standard time permanent would align more closely with the natural cycle of the sun and people’s sleeping needs.

The former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, has lauded Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s courage in preventing the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, from making Rivers State, his private estate. According to Odili, Fubara summoned an unusual fortitude to confront the craving by Wike to capture Rivers state through ferocious, but unnecessary political war. He noted that sometimes, crisis was a necessary enabler in government. Odili spoke at a Christmas night of songs organised by him in honour of Fubara and his family. He stated that as a family, he, his wife, and his children, decided to host the Rivers State Governor and his family to a night of varieties of sing-song and other activities in appreciation of “the fortitude and sterling leadership qualities he has demonstrated”. Odili explained that it is now over 12 months, since the 25th October, 2023, when a fierce existential fight, though unnecessary, was waged against Fubara over the soul of Rivers State. He said that with assuring fortitude, “Governor Fubara confronted the challenge, prevented the quest by one man to capture the State as a private estate, emancipated Rivers people, steadied governance and made civil servants and Rivers people happier as it used to be until he left office in 2007.” Responding, Fubara said that God has proved Himself worthy as the ultimate liberator of the state and its people because He ensured total triumph over the political crisis and those behind it. Fubara stated that while the political antagonism lasted, God gave him a new perspective on leadership, adding that with the strength of support from Rivers people, he stopped seeing the crisis as a problem but as a necessary enabler in governance. “And not just because I want to accept it, I get stronger in this course every day when I look at the support I am getting from the true Rivers people,” he said. READ ALSO : Fubara, Diri ‘resolves’ Bayelsa, Rivers oil well dispute “So, it is not me being strong. My strength is drawn from everyone of you that is here. You gave me the encouragement; you do the work for me; you make the calls for me. So, why won’t I stand up for you. “But we also believe strongly that the ultimate game changer, the ultimate liberator, and the ultimate fighter still remains God Almighty. And because we have Him on our side, victory is assured.” Fubara said God is in control of the affairs of the state, adding that as they look forward to a very prosperous 2025, they should be assured that it will be better than what had been experienced. He assured of the determination of his administration to make every succeeding year in the State better with remarkable records of progress, stressing that the excitement experienced among Rivers people during the Christmas celebrations is indicative of a brighter future ahead. Fubara, who vowed to continue to do what is right, said it is also delighting to see true leaders of the State and well-meaning Rivers people standing on the right side of history despite the pressures to surrender to tyranny and oppression. “We will remember that what we are doing here today is a shift job, and that one day, our time will be up, and we’ll leave for another person to take over,” he said. “And what is important is to allow the machine to keep running effectively, so that when the other person comes, he continues with that steam for progress in the State. So, I thank everyone of you for your support.” Also speaking, Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Victor Oko-Jumbo, recalled how the crisis that erupted in the assembly swept them off their feet but quickly added that the encouragement from Fubara, emboldened him and a few others to stand up for the truth to liberate the State. READ ALSO : Court bars Wike, others from Abuja disputed land In his speech, Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Simeon Amadi, said he least expected to have remained a chief judge, just as he did not expect the Governor to last in office up until now given the political crisis, but noted that God has turned the crisis as a liberation fight, and assured that he will continue to be on the right side in defence of the State. Also speaking, former Minister of Transport, Dr Abiye Sekibo, who noted that the gathering was a roll call of the political family of Dr Peter, said Governor Fubara had sufficiently blended traits of Dr Odili’s leadership style with his, and steered the course of governance successfully, making the people of State proud of him as a worthy son. Chairman, Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC); Justice Adolphus Enebeli (rtd), thanked the Odilis for organising the family reunion, and lauded the Governor and his family for showing unassuming humility and honouring the invitation, while also thanking genuine elders and leaders of the State for joining in the celebration.Cannabis Stocks Feel The Burn: Matt Gaetz Bows Out As Trump's Attorney General Nominee