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Photos of suspect Vance Boelter are seen on a wanted poster. Image: FBI via AP
United States

FBI posts US$50,000 reward for suspect in Minnesota lawmaker’s assassination

Ex-House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed, while State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were wounded.

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Israel

Israel blames Europe after embassy staff shot dead in US

Crime

Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty as US prosecutors seek death penalty

United States

Jury finds New York Times did not libel ex-Alaska governor Sarah Palin

Palin says death threats against her increased after the paper published an editorial with an error that it corrected 14 hours later.

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin leaves federal court in New York on Tuesday. Photo: AP
Crime

Man who fatally shot 23 at Texas Walmart to plead guilty to murder 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.

Crime

Florida State University shooting: 2 dead, 4 wounded; suspect in custody

Police said the 20-year-old suspected gunman, believed to be a student at the university, is the son of a sheriff’s deputy.

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Fame and celebrity

Who is Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife Jillian Lauren – who just got shot?

Lauren – who wrote Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer – was shot by police in LA this week, before being arrested and released on a US$1 million bond.

Meet Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife, bestselling author Jillian Lauren – who was shot by police in LA this week. Photos: @jillianlauren/Instagram
United States

‘JFK’ director Oliver Stone calls for reinvestigation of Kennedy assassination

Thousands of pages of government documents related to the US president’s shooting were released on Trump’s orders last month.

Millionaires and billionaires

Prosecutors to seek death penalty for US CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione

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

United States

3 teens killed, 15 others injured in New Mexico mass shooting

Between 50 and 60 shell casings were found, suggesting multiple shooters and multiple weapons within two opposing groups.

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Crime scene technicians work at the scene of a mass shooting in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Saturday. Photo: The Albuquerque Journal via AP
United States

Police arrest US hospital worker who shot colleague in car park

The shooting occurred at Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital in a northern suburb of Detroit in Michigan state.

Police respond to the scene of a shooting at Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital in Troy, Michigan. Photo: via AP
Crime

Judge rules US spa shooter’s statements post-arrest can be used in death penalty trial

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty and a hate crimes sentencing enhancement for 2021 killings.

Crime

US Secret Service shoots armed man near White House while Trump out of town

Agents had been warned by local police of a ‘suicidal’ person travelling to Washington.

Obituaries

Clint Hill, Secret Service agent who tried to shield JFK, dies at 93

Hill was praised for his actions in Dallas on November 22, 1963 but for decades blamed himself for Kennedy’s death.

Secret Service Agent Clint Hill pushes Jacqueline Kennedy back in her seat as he attends to President John F Kennedy. Photo: AP
Crime

Police arrest apparent leader of cultlike group linked to multiple US killings

The Zizians have been tied to the killing of a US Border Patrol agent in January and five other murders in Vermont, Pennsylvania and California.

Jack LaSota, top left, and her alleged associates. Photo: AP
Donald Trump

Trump picks an agent who covered him in shooting to lead Secret Service

Sean Curran was part of Donald Trump’s security detail during an attempted assassination in Pennsylvania last July.

Crime

US teen kills female student then shoots himself at Nashville high school

Police are examining online writings and social media posts connected to the shooter as they work to establish a motive.

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United States

10 wounded in shooting outside New York City nightclub, suspects flee

At least three gunmen fired more than 30 shots at a crowd of people waiting outside Queens club holding memorial for slain teen.

The nightclub Amazura, in the Queens borough of New York. Photo: AP
United States

Isis-inspired driver expressed desire to kill before deadly New Orleans rampage

Suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar was killed in a firefight with police, but authorities do not think he was acting alone.

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Social media

Letters | Is Luigi Mangione a folk hero, really?

Readers discuss the fandom around the American suspect in a shooting, and the reality of life on the BN(O) visa scheme.

Donald Trump

Trump blasts Biden for commuting nearly all US federal death sentences

The US president-elect vowed to pursue the death penalty against ‘violent rapists, murderers and monsters’.

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US president-elect Donald Trump speaks at AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday. Photo: AP
United States

Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murder in United Healthcare CEO’s death

Luigi Mangione faces 11 state charges, including murder and terrorism. The maximum New York sentence is life without parole if convicted.

Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson, at New York Supreme Court on Monday. Photo: Reuters
United States

‘Who’s next?’: misinformation and online threats after US CEO slaying

Brian Thompson’s murder has unleashed pent-up anger towards America’s health insurance companies.

Crime

Mangione faces new murder charge that could put death penalty on the table

Federal charges could allow prosecutors to pursue capital punishment, despite it being having been abolished for decades in New York.

Crime

US CEO shooting suspect Mangione charged with killing as an act of terrorism

The alleged gunman was already charged with murder, but the terror charge is new, and is based on a law passed after the 9/11 attacks.

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Luigi Mangione is led into the Blair County Courthouse for an extradition hearing on December 10, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Photo: TNS
Crime

Motive for Wisconsin school shooting was a ‘combination of factors’: police

The authenticity of a ‘manifesto’ said to be written by Natalie Rupnow, 15, who killed a teacher and fellow student, has not been confirmed.

Worshipers at Blackhawk Church gather to pray for victims and survivors of a shooting at Madison’s Abundant Life Christian School on Monday. Photo: Reuters
Crime

Teen girl shoots dead a fellow student and teacher at Wisconsin school

Police chief says shooter shot herself dead after rampage at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison.

Hong Kong society

Outside In | US insurer murder a warning as Hongkongers worry about medical bills

City’s situation is not as extreme but the private sector is out of reach for too many and wait times in the public sector can be painfully long.

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