6 h. ago Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty as US prosecutors seek death penalty for CEO killing

Some Americans have cheered the suspect, saying he shone a spotlight on steep US healthcare costs and the power of health insurers.

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4 d. ago Vietnam tycoon on death row has life sentence cut to 30 years in laundering case

Truong My Lan’s life sentence for laundering billions was shortened on Monday – but she still faces the death penalty in a separate case.

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5 d. ago Man who fatally shot 23 at Texas Walmart set to plead guilty to murder nearly 6 years on

Patrick Crusius expected to receive life sentence with no possibility of parole for the 2019 racist attack near the US-Mexico border.

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8 d. ago Student pleads guilty to using fake US degree to get into University of Hong Kong

Magistrate says Li Sixuan’s actions will lead ‘inevitably’ to jail time when the 28-year-old mainland Chinese student is sentenced on May 8.

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2 w. ago American in Thailand pleads guilty to threatening to kill US Senator Thom Tillis

Eric Charles Welton, who was angry over too many unsolicited political emails, faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

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2 w. ago Hong Kong handyman sentenced to 1 year in jail for seditious social media posts

Chow Kim-ho pleads guilty to one count of knowingly publishing seditious publications under Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.

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3 w. ago Luigi Mangione faces death penalty for premeditated murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO

The US Attorney General directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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3 w. ago Prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione, UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect

US Attorney General Pam Bondi called the killing of Brian Thompson a ‘premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America’.

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4 w. ago Man who hit girlfriend in head tells Hong Kong court he didn’t intend to kill

‘I plead not guilty to murder, but I plead guilty to manslaughter,’ defendant says.

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