The wife of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson said on Wednesday that her husband had received threats before he was gunned down on the streets of New York City in what authorities are saying appeared to be a “brazen targeted attack.” Paulette Thompson told NBC News in a phone call shortly after her husband’s death that she didn’t know the details of the threats against her husband, but guessed it could have been over “lack of coverage.” UnitedHealthcare is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest companies in the world and the biggest health care conglomerate in the U.S., according to CNBC. “There had been some threats. Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details. I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him,” she said. The health insurance CEO’s wife added, “I can’t really give a thoughtful response right now. I just found this out and I’m trying to console my children.” A law enforcement official confirmed that Thompson had received multiple threats before he was killed and authorities are investigating the source and nature of them, The New York Times reported. The suspect is still at-large. According to the NYPD, “every indication is that this was a premeditated, pre-planned, targeted attack.” Thompson was on his way to the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan — where his company was holding its annual Investor’s Conference — when he was shot multiple times just after 6:45 am by a suspect wearing all black with a backpack and holding a handgun. A person familiar with the investigation told CNBC that it appears the suspect used a gun with a silencer. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The shooter fled on foot before getting onto an electric city bike and riding into Central Park, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny. The last known location of the suspect was in Central Park, and Kenny said the city e-bikes have GPS locators on them. Kenny added that authorities still do not know the motive for the shooting. Police are offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who has information on the suspect.

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday morning that he has selected Peter Navarro to serve as his Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing. “During my First Term, few were more effective or tenacious than Peter in enforcing my two sacred rules, Buy American, Hire American,” Trump posted on social media. “He helped me renegotiate unfair Trade Deals like NAFTA and the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), and moved every one of my Tariff and Trade actions FAST.” Trump said Navarro’s skill set is a perfect match for the position, which will harness his policy knowledge, analytic skills, and media prowess. “Peter is not just a superb, Harvard-trained Economist, he is a noted author of more than a dozen bestselling books on strategic business management and unfair Trade,” Trump added. “He did a superb job for the American People in my First Term. Peter will do even better as Senior Counselor to protect American Workers, and truly Make American Manufacturing Great Again.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Trump said that the 75-year-old had been “treated horribly by the Deep State” over the last few years, a reference to Navarro being incarcerated for four months because he refused to cooperate with the Democrat-led House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot. After Navarro was released five months ago, he gave a fiery speech at the Republican National Convention after receiving nearly a minute-long standing ovation. “The January 6 committee demanded that I betray Donald John Trump to save my own skin,” Navarro said. “I refused.”

A new trailer for Disney’s live-action “Snow White” just dropped, and it’s getting a lot of negative attention from fans. One of the biggest criticisms has to do with the computer-generated imagery (CGI) portrayal of the seven dwarfs. Even overseas outlets are ripping on the trailer, with a writer from The Guardian calling it “hauntingly bad” and “the ugliest thing ever committed to screen.” Most of those complaints revolve around the appearance of the CGI characters. “It treats the animals that Snow White finds in the woods with the same photorealistic CGI that was used in the most recent Lion King remake, which has the effect of transforming helpful woodland creatures into literal vermin. And then there are the dwarves. My God, the dwarves,” the writer continues. “The new Snow White dwarves look like someone has snuck into Disneyland, grabbed the statues from Snow White’s Enchanted Wish and wrapped them in human flesh, as a serial killer would with a gift for their mother. They look like something a seaside caricaturist would draw of someone they openly hated. They look like animatronic figures that were struck by lightning and came to life before the fire was put out. They look like someone has shaved the Sonic the Hedgehog from that first Sonic the Hedgehog trailer that everyone hated,” The Guardian writer says, adding that they serve as “nightmare fuel.” Reactions on social media are not much better.  “Are you honestly telling me that disney executives saw footage from the live action snow white movie and thought ‘yeah those dwarves look great, no notes’…Yikes,” one person shared on X.  CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “They look so fake to me,” another wrote. “This is the CGI dwarves that Disney will have in the new adaptation of Snow White? This movie is going to bomb so hard that it will make the Hindenburg look like a small camp fire,” another agreed. Rumor has it that live actors were originally cast as the dwarfs, but that plan was scrapped during filming when photos of the diverse group were leaked and mocked on social media. Actor Peter Dinklage, who has dwarfism, also denounced the film in the early stages. “Literally no offense to anything, but I was sort of taken aback,” he said during a podcast interview in 2022. “They were very proud to cast a Latin[a] actress as Snow White, but you’re still telling the story of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’ Take a step back and look at what you’re doing there. It makes no sense to me. You’re progressive in one way, but you’re still making that f***ing backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together. Have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soapbox? I guess I’m not loud enough.” Since its beginning, “Snow White” has been plagued by controversy, thanks in part to lead actress Rachel Zegler’s negative remarks about the fairytale and other inflammatory statements. Her comments have inspired many fans to boycott the film.  

"He also recognizes that digital assets & other innovations are crucial to Making America Greater than Ever Before," Trump added.

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Canada will be limiting its number of immigrants over the next two years, not putting a freeze on the acceptance of immigrants. 

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There is no evidence of Wilson having a brother-in-law by this name.