UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was walking into a popular New York hotel to prepare for an investors meeting when he was brazenly gunned down by a man who appeared to have been waiting for his arrival, and even left a chilling message on the bullet casings used in his murder. Now, days later, a 26-year-old has been charged following a multistate manhunt that ended at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s — and with two critical pieces of evidence: a ghost gun and a manifesto. Luigi Nicholas Mangione was arrested and charged with murder Monday. Here’s what we know about him and what investig ..read more

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. players of the online video game Fortnite could be entitled to a refund after the Federal Trade Commission says users were unlawfully charged for “unwanted purchases.” According to an announcement, the FTC is sending 629,344 refunds totaling more than $72 million to Fortnite players in the U.S. after the FTC said consumers were “tricked” by the video game maker, Epic Games. The $245 million settlement was first announced in December 2022, the announcement said, claiming Epic Games “allowed children to rack up unauthorized charges without parental involvement.” The ..read more

Jamie Foxx has opened up in a new Netflix special about the illness that left him hospitalized last year and unable to remember a 20-day period from April to May 2023. Foxx, 56, revealed in his Netflix special — “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…” released on Dec. 10 — that he suffered “a brain bleed that led to a stroke.” The news of Foxx’s “mystery illness,” as he referred to it in the special, first broke in April 2023, when his daughter Corinne Fox shared a statement announcing her father had been hospitalized after experiencing a “medical complication.”  ..read more

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from a Maryland real estate family charged with murder in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s death, left writings that say in part, “frankly these parasites had it coming,” referencing the healthcare industry, a senior law enforcement official briefed on the case confirmed to NBC News. The senior official said Tuesday the three-page document also allegedly includes claims Mangione acted alone in the killing of the 50-year-old executive, who was gunned down as he walked to a Manhattan hotel where UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHea ..read more

Iconic 1990s and 2000s rock band System of a Down will play three massive stadium shows as part of a limited tour in 2025, and Chicago’s Soldier Field is one of them. According to an announcement from Live Nation, the performances will take place Aug. 31 at Soldier Field, Aug. 28 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford New Jersey, and Sept. 3 at Rogers Stadium in Toronto, Ontario. Soldier Field’s show will feature Avenged Sevenfold, the announcement said. According to Live Nation, Korn will perform with System of a Down in New Jersey, and Deftones will perform with the band in Toronto. Special g ..read more

Noticeably cooler weather moves into the Chicago area Tuesday, followed by a blast of Arctic air and wind chills as low as -20 degrees. “It’s back,” NBC 5 Meteorologist Alicia Roman said, of the Arctic air mass moving back in. Tuesday’s high temperature of 39 degrees hit at about midnight, Roman said, with temperatures expected to hover in the low-to-mid 30s for the rest of the day. Overnight and into Wednesday, temperatures will get even lower, Roman said, with highs in the 20s and flurries added into the mix. According to Roman, snowflakes beginning in the west will move eastward through the ..read more

The family of Luigi Nicholas Mangione, the 26-year-old man suspected in the brazen Manhattan killing of United Healthcare’s CEO, released a statement after Mangione on Monday was arrested and charged with murder. “Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,” the statement, posted to X by Nino Mangione said. According to his profile on X, Nino is a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates and Baltimore County. “We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved,” the statement continued. The full statement can be found below ..read more

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has undergone emergency surgery to drain a bleed on his brain. The leftist leader, 79, underwent the procedure after an MRI scan showed an “intracranial hemorrhage,” according to an Associated Press translation of a medical note published on his official X account Tuesday. The surgery was successful and Lula is “well” and currently being monitored in the intensive care unit of Sirio Libanes hospital in Sao Paulo, in southeastern Brazil, a translation of the medical note said. He was transferred from the capital Brasilia, where on Mon ..read more

Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News. In the game, called “Among Us,” some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players. Alejandro Romero, who attended the University of Pennsylvania with Mangione and was a member of the same Discord group, said he was shocked when news broke on social media that Mangione had ..read more

Authorities arrested a suspect and charged him with murder in the brazen Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after a quick-thinking individual at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s spotted a man who officers found with a gun, mask and writings linking him to the deadly shooting. The chance sighting at the fast food restaurant in Altoona led to a dramatic break in a challenging but fast-moving investigation that captivated the public in the five days since the shooting that shook the business world. Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate ..read more