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Luigi Manjoni has pleaded guilty to federal stocking charges in the New York courtroom today
“connected to the shooting depth of United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson.”
And Pierce Brian Man was in the courtroom and has more. Speaking in federal court, Luigi Manjoni told the judge, "I knew what I was doing." He said, "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died. And the judge asked Luigi Manjoni how he pleaded." Manjoni said guilty, "Sensing in this case is now set for December according to the judge.
The prosecution has recommended a sentence that would be more than 20 years behind bars. But the judge said repeatedly that the exact penalty that she hands down could be very different." In Pierce Brian Man reporting from New York, federal regulators have opened a probe into
so-called "Mention Markets."
As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, "It's a type of prediction-market betting that allows people to wager on the words spoken by the president, executives, and sportscasters during life and even sometimes pre-recorded events."
“"Mention markets have surged in popularity on sites like calcium, polymarket, despite”
critics who say the markets are easy to rig." Now the commodity future-straining commission has opened a review of this type of betting, as regulators determine if the markets are susceptible to manipulation. That's according to two sources with direct knowledge of the probe who are not authorized to speak publicly. In response, calcium has removed all mentioned markets for sports,
where people were able to bet on whether a sportscaster would say things like MVP, or jumpshot, or over time. The new review follows the revelation that President Trump's teleprompter operator had been profiting off the president's words on calcium. Bobby Allen and PR News. Five years ago, the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, vanquishing Western-backed Afghan forces as US forces withdrew nearly two decades after it
first invaded, and if yours dear Hadid has more. The Taliban's unexpectedly swift seizure of Afghanistan hastened the US withdrawal, leading to thousands of Afghans trying to flee. Afghanistan is now far more peaceful, but desperately poor.
Some half of the population of 40 million people need aid, millions are hungry,
but the US and much of the West have dramatically reduced aid. And hundreds of Hell clinics have shudded this year, meaning women and babies are now more likely to die. The Taliban have imposed increasingly hard-line rules. Most girls cannot attend school after grade six, cannot work in most professions, and have little right to leave a violent spouse. Adding to the crisis,
Iran and Pakistan have expelled some six million Afghans overwhelming services in an already devastated country. Dear Hadid and PR News, Preliminary closing numbers on Wall Street that out on 107 NASDAQ down 73 as in P500 down 13. This is NPR News. Record-breaking downpours outside Tokyo have caused widespread flooding
and killed at least six people. If yours Anthony Cune reports from Seoul that the severe weather also disrupted transportation during the peak holiday travel season. Some parts of Chiba prefecture outside Tokyo saw three times more rain in half a day, than they usually see for the whole month of August according to Japan's meteorological agency. A evacuation orders were issued for more than a hundred thousand residents.
About 40% of the prefecture's cities and towns were flooded, more than 20,000 households lost power. Trains and highways were shut down and thousands of travelers were stranded at Navitai International Airport which serves the capital. Several of those who died were found on flooded roads or trapped and submerged cars. This happened as the country celebrates the Obon Festival when many Japanese travel to their hometowns join festivals and prepare special
foods. Anthony Cune in PR News, Seoul. Shoppers cut back on spending last month. The commerce department says retail sales fell a sharper than expected six tenths of a percent in July, the largest monthly drop in more than a year and it follows spending increases in April and May. This is people cut back on spending on cars, gas stations, grocery stores and electronics,
spending a clothing stores and restaurants rose last month. In Italy authorities recovered three paintings by Renhua, Susanna, and Matisse worth millions that were stolen earlier this year from a private museum. Officials say they were discovered during a search without giving additional details that theft happened last March and local media say that these snatched the paintings in less than three minutes. You're listening to NPR News.
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