Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel on 4 December, the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, said on Tuesday. Bondi said she ordered prosecutors to seek execution for Luigi Mangione, 26, because – as she put it – he carried…
Two almost lifesize sculptures of a man and woman, who was believed to have been a priestess, have been found during the excavations of a huge tomb in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The detailed funerary relics adorned the tomb containing several burial niches built into a wide wall in the necropolis of Porta…
Louisiana voters soundly rejected four constitutional amendments championed by the Republican governor, Jeff Landry, related to crime, courts and finances. Voters said no to each amendment by margins exceeding 60%, according to preliminary results the secretary of state’s office released after voting concluded on Saturday evening. Landry and his allies had crisscrossed the state in…
The Italian defence company Leonardo has been given a £165m contract extension by the British government for its work maintaining the Royal Navy’s fleet of 54 Merlin helicopters, in an sign of the impact of the UK’s commitment to ramp up defence spending. Keir Starmer’s government, which is planning to increase military spending to 2.5%…
A man has been shot dead by police responding to reports of a person carrying a firearm at Milton Keynes railway station, Thames Valley police said. The force said: “Officers from Thames Valley police and British Transport police were called to reports of a man carrying a firearm at Milton Keynes railway station, Elder Gate,…
The European Union has a “strong plan” to retaliate against tariffs imposed by Donald Trump but would prefer to negotiate, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has said. Trump, who has upended eight decades of certainties about the transatlantic relationship since taking office, has threatened tariffs on goods from around the…
A NEWSMAX television crew member steam irons a backdrop during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on Saturday, February 24, 2024. Tom Brenner | The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty Images Shares of conservative cable channel Newsmax soared more than 40% in early trading Tuesday, a day after…
OpenAI has raised $40bn (£31bn) through fundraising led by the Japanese group SoftBank, in a deal that values the ChatGPT developer at $300bn. OpenAI said the funding round would allow the company to “push the frontiers of AI research even further”. It added that SoftBank’s support would “pave the way” towards AGI, or artificial general…
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wait for U.S. President Donald Trump to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on March 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is headed to Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach, Florida for the weekend. Andrew Harnik | Getty…
The chief executive of Channel 4 said that artificial intelligence companies are “scraping the value” out of the UK’s £125bn creative industries, and urged the government to take action. Alex Mahon told MPs that if the government pursues its proposed plan to give AI companies access to creative works unless the copyright holder opts out,…
