1 week ago Luigi: The Making and the Meaning by John H Richardson review – sympathy for a devil?

This nebulous study of Luigi Mangione veers close to romanticising him as a latter-day Robin HoodOn 5 December 2024, the New York Times ran the headline “Insurance CEO Gunned Down In Manhattan”. The newspaper then noted that Brian Thompson was “shot in the back in Midtown Manhattan by a killer who then walked coolly away”. The murder in broad daylight was indeed both cold and shocking. But many Americans had a different response: for those who had been denied health insurance or faced exorbitant healthcase costs, the news felt cathartic. Social media blew up. One post read: “All jokes aside no one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That’s the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximize profits on your health.”Five days later, Luigi Mangione, a good-looking, 26-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate with a master’s in computer science, was apprehended at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He awaits tri...

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2 w. ago Jets star Kris Boyd was shot after argument about what he was wearing, NYPD says

A bullet travelled to the football star’s lung and is lodged in his pulmonary artery, according to police

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2 w. ago Jets’ Aaron Glenn confident Kris Boyd will ‘walk away’ from NYC shooting

Jets’ Boyd in critical but stable conditionGlenn: player ‘upbeat’, expected to recoverNYPD releases images of shooting suspectNew York Jets coach Aaron Glenn says he has spoken to Kris Boyd and is confident the cornerback and special teams standout will be OK after being shot in midtown Manhattan early Sunday morning.Glenn said the hospitalized Boyd was “upbeat” in their recent conversation. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Jets coach Aaron Glenn says Kris Boyd is in good spirits while recovering from shooting

New York Jets coach Aaron Glenn says he has spoken to Kris Boyd and is confident the cornerback and special teams standout will be OK after being shot and wounded in midtown Manhattan early Sunday morning

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2 w. ago NYPD releases first images of man suspected of shooting NFL star Kris Boyd in Midtown Manhattan

The New York Jets cornerback, 29, is in a critical but stable condition after being shot in the abdomen outside celebrity hotspot Sei Less shortly after 2am on Sunday morning.

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2 w. ago NYPD release first images of man suspected of shooting NFL star Kris Boyd in Midtown Manhattan

The New York Jets cornerback, 29, is in a critical but stable condition in Bellevue Hospital after being shot in the abdomen outside celebrity hotspot Sei Less shortly after 2am on Sunday morning.

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3 w. ago New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd critically wounded in Manhattan shooting

Multiple news outlets are reporting that New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd has been critically injured in a shooting in midtown Manhattan

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3 w. ago New York Jets star Kris Boyd in critical condition after being shot in New York City: reports

Authorities have not said what led up to the shooting

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3 w. ago NFL star Kris Boyd in 'critical condition' after being gunned down in New York

New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd has been left fighting for his life after he was shot in Manhattan's midtown, according to reports

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3 w. ago NFL star Kris Boyd, 29, fighting for his life after being shot in New York

New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd was shot during the early hours on Sunday morning in Manhattan and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he's fighting for his life

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3 w. ago Park Avenue review – Fiona Shaw is fearless in upmarket New York mother

Having left her husband, Shaw’s daughter moves in with her at the family’s Manhattan apartment and soon tensions arise – wry, sweet, melancholic but somewhat insubstantialFiona Shaw finds some tremendous form in this upmarket dramedy of mother-daughter tension and first-world problems, and Katherine Waterston is (as ever) really good. There’s plenty of amusement and wry, sophisticated sadness here, though co-writer and director Gaby Dellal has confected what is, in the end, a pretty middleweight movie.Shaw plays Kit, an elegant and wealthy widow living in a handsome apartment on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan, known for her witty disdain for those less stylish than herself and about to publish a memoir of life with her late husband, a collector of Chinese art. Out of the blue her grown up daughter Charlotte (Waterston) appears, having run out on her abusive rancher husband; she intends to stay for a while with her mother in her childhood Park Avenue home while she figures things o...

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