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A bystander to the early morning assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson said he feared he would also be shot as he witnessed the gunman fleeing the scene. 'I heard the shot, and I looked around and saw a guy with a gun,' the witness said. 'He shot three times and then he started running.' He said he was 'scared' the gunman would turn on him as he was sat nearby in his car and watched 'the whole thing.' It comes as shocking surveillance footage obtained by DailyMail.com captured the CEO's last moments as the horror shooting unfolded in the...

LEDE: (Starts at 1:32) Speaker Johnson says US will not be sending 24 billion more dollars to the Ukraine money-laundering machine that FJB wants because he is no longer the President and the real President is Trump.

What happened inside a jail in South Florida made national headlines. Tonight for the first time we are hearing exclusively from both the mother and father. Investigative reporter Heather Walker is at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade. 7News broke this story back in January when the woman’s family wanted to know how this could happen here. The DNA results are in and the dad is another inmate. Daisy Link: “Hello.” For the first time, Daisy Link is talking about how she became pregnant in jail. In an exclusive interview with 7Investigates, the 29-year-old said even she...

A prominent South Florida rabbi is calling out the Fontainebleau at Miami Beach after claiming he was subjected to a verbal tirade in the hotel’s lobby on Sunday night. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who recorded the confrontation with his cellphone, said he was met with offensive remarks, including threats and derogatory language, an incident he says highlights the growing issue of antisemitism. “You like to kill babies…you know that,” a man can be heard saying in the video, followed by, “I will spit on your face right now, get out of the lobby right now.” The man also allegedly called Boteach...

Embattled Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faced furious residents at a town hall meeting over the migrant crisis as they called for Donald Trump to 'make an example' out of him. Johnson, 48, has endured a torrid tenure as Mayor since his election last year, with Chicagoans now sounding off on his handling of the migrant crisis and the huge taxpayer funds he has poured into the issue. A lawsuit earlier this year revealed that from August 2022 to June 2024, over 42,000 migrants entered Chicago, and Johnson spent a staggering $400 million tackling the influx - with a huge percentage...

A 72-year-old American man traveling on a Princess Cruise ship mysteriously vanished from the boat, prompting officials to believe he fell overboard at some point during the five-day voyage around Mexico. Authorities launched a search for the passenger after the Ruby Princess docked in San Francisco just before 7 a.m. Monday and crews realized the passenger was nowhere to be found onboard, the cruise line said. The man, who hasn’t been identified publicly, was traveling alone and is feared dead. “Princess worked throughout the day with local authorities. CCTV footage has also been extensively reviewed and the ship was searched...

The sculpture that fell over was one of the 19 “solemn sprite” statues that were replicas of pieces initially created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and artist Alfonso Iannelli in 1914. The replicas were given to the Arizona Biltmore in 1980s, according to the hotel’s website. The mythological “guardian” statues are meant to “watch over the land on which the Biltmore rests,” the website says.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared likely to uphold a state ban on certain gender transition care for minors, with a majority of conservative justices expressing concern about intervening in a bitter national debate over whether transgender young people should have access to the treatments. The justices were reviewing a Tennessee law that prohibits minors from using hormones and puberty blockers for gender transition.... Whatever the court decides will affect the law in Tennessee and the 23 other states that have banned similar treatments in recent years. Throughout the argument, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Brett M....

A grandmother looking for her lost cat apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned western Pennsylvania coal mine and rescuers worked late into the night Tuesday to try and find her. Bright lights illuminated snow flurries and various equipment at the site while crews worked above and below ground, video from the scene showed. Crews lowered a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole in Marguerite on Tuesday morning but it detected nothing. A camera lowered into the hole showed what could be a shoe about 30 feet (9 meters) below the...

Syrian rebel forces were on Wednesday within six miles of the central city of Hama, a city freighted with past horrors for antigovernment forces. Syria’s fourth-largest city might represent an even more significant fillip than the sudden capture last week of Aleppo — the country’s most populous city — in the civil war's most significant offensive in years and one that could dramatically shift the balance of the country's conflict. Despite the map of Syria having been repeatedly redrawn since 2011, Hama has never been in rebel hands. Insurgents and Turkey-backed fighters opposed to the government of Syrian President Bashar...

Joe Biden’s senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, according to senior Democrats familiar with the discussions. Biden’s aides are deeply concerned about a range of current and former officials who could find themselves facing inquiries and even indictments, a sense of alarm which has only accelerated since Trump last weekend announced the appointment of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel has publicly vowed to pursue Trump’s critics. The White...

Embattled Illinois Mayor Tiffany Henyard had an epic meltdown as the entire town voted her out of one of her positions. Henyard, dubbed America's so-called 'worst mayor', lost the Democratic nomination for Thornton Township supervisor on Tuesday night - a position she's held since 2022. The township's Democratic party held an intense caucus meeting in place of a primary election for the first time in three decades after state senator and Henyard's opponent Napoleon Harris chose to do so. The Dalton mayor, dressed in hot pink pants and a black winter coat, was seen yelling at Harris - who holds...

Max Boot’s biography Reagan — His Life and Legend will have an importance beyond its worth because its author, once a Republican in good standing, is now a prominent member of the anti-Trump intelligentsia. As a result, Boot, more than an average historian, betrays an agenda. We get a hint of Boot’s ulterior motive in the front matter with a quote from Sherwood Anderson, a now obscure novelist and short story writer, “All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built.” Tellingly, one of Anderson’s first efforts at writing was a book titled, Why I...

MSNBC president Rashida Jones is considering leaving the network after President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in to a second term in the White House as the left-leaning channel’s ratings crash, according to a report. Jones – who took the helm in 2021 and became the first black woman to lead a major national news network – is mulling an exit from the job early next year, according to a report by Oliver Darcy in his Status newsletter. The move would only come after Trump is sworn in to serve a second term as president on Jan. 20, Darcy reported, citing...

BREAKING: @EPA Advisor Admits ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump is Funneling Billions to Climate Organizations, “We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic” “It was an insurance policy against Trump winning.” “Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump Administration] come in ... it’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge.”

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was one of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Department of Justice when he was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday. Thompson — who was killed in what police called a targeted shooting outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown — exercised stock options and sold shares worth $15.1 million on Feb. 16, less than two weeks before news of the federal antitrust probe went public, according to a Crain’s New York Business report from April. ... Earlier this year, UnitedHealth was hit by one of the largest healthcare data breaches...

Paapa Essiedu is being eyed for the role of Professor Severus Snape in the upcoming “Harry Potter” TV series, Variety has confirmed with sources. According to sources, no deal is currently in place and Essiedu has not formally accepted the role. He is the latest actor to be mentioned for a role in the series. Variety previously reported that Academy Award winner Mark Rylance was in the running for the role of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Variety has reached out to HBO and Warner Bros. for comment and will update this story should they respond. SNIP

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Ablation, a procedure to treat abnormal electrical short circuits caused by a heart attack and is usually reserved for patients who do not improve with medication, may be a better first-line treatment for heart attack survivors experiencing dangerous rapid heartbeat episodes, according to late-breaking science. Ventricular tachycardia (VT), the most common cause of sudden cardiac death, is a fast heart rhythm that starts in the heart's lower chambers (ventricles). This rapid heartbeat prevents the heart's chambers from filling completely between contractions, which reduces blood flow to the rest of the body. To reduce the risk of death from VT, the...