Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with shooting of United Healthcare CEO Bryan Thompson, will fight his extradition to New York and is expected to plead not guilty to charges against him there, his lawyer told reporters on Tuesday. Mangione was first charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police in Pennsylvania late on Monday after being recognised in a McDonalds.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said she was physically accosted on Capitol grounds Tuesday night, and the suspect has since been arrested. The U.S. Capitol Police said that just before 6 p.m. the office of a member of Congress, later identified as Mace, reported an incident in the Rayburn House Office Building. House division officers and agents with the Threat Assessment Section of the police department tracked down the suspect, identified as 33-year-old James McIntyre of Illinois.

Long before the shooting, before the manhunt and before the arrest of Luigi Mangione in connection with the killing of a health care executive, the Mangione name was well-known around Baltimore. The Mangiones, fueled by the competitive, combative spirit of their immigrant patriarch, built a formidable family business that made them a force in local politics and charity.

TAIPEI, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Taiwan's defence ministry reported a spike in Chinese military activity around the island on Wednesday, including 53 military aircraft, with Taiwan on high alert over Beijing's latest pressure campaign. China's military has yet to comment and has not confirmed it is carrying out any military exercises. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, had been expected to launch drills to express its anger at President Lai Ching-te's tour of the...

Following the anti-government rebels’ rapid advance that made President Bashar al-Assad depart from Syria, Austria has enacted significant changes to its asylum policies concerning Syrian nationals. Visegrád24 posted that Austria’s caretaker government is planning to halt the processing of current Syrian asylum applications and to reassess previously granted asylum statuses. Additionally, family reunification programmes for Syrian refugees have been suspended.

The collapse of the Assad regime has prompted a punishing military response from Israel, which has launched airstrikes at military targets across Syria and deployed ground troops both into and beyond a demilitarized buffer zone for the first time in 50 years. The Israeli military on Tuesday said it had carried out about 480 strikes across the country over the past two days, hitting most of Syria’s strategic weapon stockpiles, while Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israeli navy had...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Tuesday plans to list monarch butterflies as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, marking a critical step in preserving the pollinators. What Are Wildlife Officials Saying? This decision follows years of advocacy by environmental groups alarmed by the butterfly's dwindling numbers, largely attributed to climate change and habitat loss. Wildlife officials plan to add the monarchs, known for their distinctive orange-and-...

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that the federal government has been weaponized to spy on Americans' bank accounts and financial transactions.  "We know in 2023 [that] 14,000 different individuals in the government [about] three million times in one year......14,000 individuals did over three million searches of this database of information on Americans banking habits," Jordan said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. 

The fallout from South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief imposition of martial law continues amid reports of his office being raided and his former defense minister attempting suicide.  Police searched the president’s office on Wednesday as part of an investigation into his six-hour martial law declaration last week, which has sparked a massive political turmoil in the country, according to a report from local news agency Yonhap.