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Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty in federal case: Report

Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty in federal case: Report

Published by Sam Flores

Luigi Mangione during a pretrial hearing at New York State Supreme Court in New York, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. David Dee Delgado | Bloomberg | Getty Images Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday in his federal criminal case, where he is charged with stalking in connection with his alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan street in 2024, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing sources. Mangione is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Friday for a pretrial conference with Judge Margaret Garnett, which was requested in a court filing on Tuesday by both prosecutors and defense lawyers. He is separately charged in New York state court with murdering Thompson and other counts. If Mangione does plead guilty in the federal case, his attorneys are expected to argue that he cannot be prosecuted for murder in the state case because of New York’s double jeopardy law, The Times noted in its report Thursday. A spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to …

Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty in New York federal case

Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty in New York federal case

Published by Sam Flores

Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday to federal charges in connection with the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, according to sources familiar with the matter. The expected plea change comes less than a month before Mangione, 28, is scheduled to go to trial in a state murder case in connection with the fatal shooting of Thompson, 50, a father of two. Luigi Mangione was meeting with his lawyers Thursday morning at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in advance of Friday’s federal court hearing in Manhattan, according to a source familiar with the matter. Lawyers for Mangione declined to comment. The Justice Department and a court spokesperson also declined to comment. It is unclear if Mangione will plead guilty to one or both of the two stalking-related charges in his federal case. While details of Mangione’s plea are not immediately clear, he could reverse his decision at any time, even during the hearing. Sources familiar with Friday’s planned federal court hearing stressed that plea negotiations are ongoing …

FlightAware drops federal lawsuit against Kalshi after seeking emergency court relief

FlightAware drops federal lawsuit against Kalshi after seeking emergency court relief

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FlightAware has voluntarily dismissed its federal lawsuit against prediction market operator Kalshi just one day after filing the case, bringing the litigation to an abrupt halt while preserving its ability to sue again in the future. The notice of voluntary dismissal was filed August 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. FlightAware ended the case without prejudice under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(i), a rule that allows plaintiffs to withdraw an action before defendants file an answer or motion for summary judgment. The dismissal applies to every defendant named in the lawsuit: Kalshi Inc., KalshiEX LLC, Kalshi Klear Inc. and Kalshi Klear LLC. The filing does not explain why FlightAware chose to withdraw the case and makes no reference to any settlement or agreement between the parties. The lawsuit had been filed only a day earlier and sought emergency relief over Kalshi’s flight cancellation prediction markets. FlightAware leaves the door open to sue Kalshi again In its complaint, FlightAware accused Kalshi of using its flight-tracking data and trademarks …

Trump slams NYC pied-à-terre tax, eyes federal block

Trump slams NYC pied-à-terre tax, eyes federal block

Published by Sam Flores

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 19, 2025 shows Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani on October 19, 2025 in New York City and US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, October 24, 2025. Angela Weiss, Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried New York City’s pied-à-terre tax and said he is exploring whether the federal government “has any legal right to avert this disaster, before it is too late.” The tax on nonprimary residences of wealthy owners “doesn’t work in America, and must be stopped, NOW!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. Trump’s vow to seek federal intervention against the tax, which was pushed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and passed by the New York State legislature in late May, came one day after a Staten Island judge temporarily blocked the new policy. New York City government quickly filed a motion to seek an appeal of that order, placing the judge’s order on hold. Mamdani’s office did not respond to CNBC’s request …

U.S. Senate passes short-term funding bill to avert federal shutdown

U.S. Senate passes short-term funding bill to avert federal shutdown

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The U.S. Capitol in Washington, July 22, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Republican-led U.S. Senate passed a temporary measure to fund federal agencies through December 11 on Saturday, in a move intended to avert a crippling federal government shutdown weeks before the November midterm elections. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed its own short-term funding measure last month. The two chambers will have to resolve their differences before President Donald Trump can sign it into law before current funding expires on September 30 — less than five weeks before the November 3 congressional elections. Democrats said the Senate version, in contrast to the House version, would prevent the Trump administration from reallocating funding to border security from other programs. It also includes language to allow funding adjustments for housing and food assistance programs. The Senate measure would also temporarily block the White House budget office from implementing a new rule giving political appointees control over hundreds of billions of dollars in grant money. Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google …

Public Comment Closing on Federal Plans for Space Launch, Recovery Along the Outer Continental Shelf

Public Comment Closing on Federal Plans for Space Launch, Recovery Along the Outer Continental Shelf

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Since March 2025, some Native cultural artifacts and sacred sites have been left vulnerable after Congress rescinded reporting requirements for development proposals on the Outer Continental Shelf. Developers are no longer required to conduct archaeological surveys for proposed projects along the 3.2 billion acres of marine territory while the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) explores the potential for space launch and recovery infrastructure on the Outer Continental Shelf. “It feels very sad and violating,” said Katrina Thompson-Upton, Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation, and co-founder of Northwest American Indian Coalition (NAIC). Thompson-Upton’s traditional lands along the coast of Northern California would be impacted by the development of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). “We did not glacier here, so we were not under ice,” Thompson-Upton said. “There’s a lot of older places in our area, and that extends well out into what is now underwater on the coast on the shelf out there.” Because of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), federal agencies are required to consider the impacts of any federally funded, permitted, or licensed …

Federal Prosecutor Who Was Fired Over Years-Old Blog Posts Critical of Trump Sues Justice Department

Federal Prosecutor Who Was Fired Over Years-Old Blog Posts Critical of Trump Sues Justice Department

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prosecutor fired last year over critical comments he had written as a private citizen about President Donald Trump sued the Justice Department on Friday, saying his termination violated his First Amendment rights. Will Rosenzweig was two weeks away from trying a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud case when a blog he had written years earlier covering a broad range of topics was publicized online by a conservative political commentator who also included a screenshot of Rosenzweig’s LinkedIn account and tagged senior Justice Department officials for their awareness. Less than three hours after the post, the lawsuit says, Rosenzweig received an email signed by then- Attorney General Pam Bondi informing him that he had been fired. The news came as Rosenzweig was out of town with his family observing the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana. A lawsuit filed in federal court in Miami, where Rosenzweig worked as a federal prosecutor for five years, seeks reinstatement to the job as well as backpay and a court order declaring his firing unlawful. The complaint says …

GAO finds Elon Musk’s DOGE inflated claims on federal government savings

GAO finds Elon Musk’s DOGE inflated claims on federal government savings

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Elon Musk listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 11, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Elon Musk’s DOGE promised to slash $2 trillion in federal spending and to make the federal workforce lean and efficient. But even the cost savings it has claimed in an online “Wall of Receipts” of the smaller amount of $110 billion didn’t check out, according to a report the Government Accountability Office published Thursday. The GAO evaluated $110 billion of savings DOGE claimed on a website with its “Wall of Receipts” from cuts including federal contracts, grants and leases. The GAO said it found multiple “issues limiting the transparency and reliability of these reported savings.” Including additional categories beyond contracts, grants, and leases, DOGE tallied $215 billion in cuts, the GAO said. The findings further undercut claims by Musk and President Donald Trump that they have made meaningful cuts in government spending and call into question the effects of the DOGE effort that slashed federal spending with …

KTLA-TV owner Nexstar violated court order, a federal judge finds

KTLA-TV owner Nexstar violated court order, a federal judge finds

Published by Sam Flores

A federal judge blasted KTLA-TV Channel 5’s owner, the Texas-based Nexstar Media Group, on Thursday for violating a court order and for failing to disclose key information. U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley found that Nexstar’s actions violated terms of an April preliminary injunction that was designed to prevent the media company from moving forward with its $6.2-billion takeover of rival TV station group Tegna Inc. and meddling with its management. The judge called Nexstar’s actions “brazen.” He demanded the company begin submitting monthly reports and said a special master would be appointed to help manage the antitrust case and monitor Nexstar for compliance. And Tegna’s recently constituted board — filled with high-level Nexstar officials — must be dissolved. A Nexstar spokesman wasn’t immediately available for comment. Nexstar unveiled its Tegna takeover a year ago. At the time, TV stations were lobbying the Federal Communications Commission to relax station ownership rules, a move that occurred Thursday in a split decision. Last spring, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and seven other state attorneys general challenged Nexstar’s …