A Manhattan federal judge on Friday ruled that prosecutors would not be able to seek the death penalty at the trial of Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old man accused of assassinating UnitedHealthcare's chief executive in 2024. The judge, Margaret Garnett of Federal District Court, said the case would still proceed to trial on two other counts, which carry a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole, in the killing of the executive, Brian Thompson. But she dismissed two charges, including one that carried the death penalty, she said in a 39-page opinion...

A judge ruled Friday that federal prosecutors can't seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is charged with gunning down a UnitedHealthcare executive in Midtown Manhattan. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett threw out a charge that was the basis for the Justice Department to seek a death sentence against Mangione. Garnett said the killing of Brian Thompson outside a hotel in December 2024 was clearly a crime of violence, but she said murder charges can rarely be brought under federal law, and only under very specific circumstances that prosecutors hadn't met in the Mangione case...

Luigi Mangione won't face the death penalty for allegedly executing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Friday — dealing a blow to the Justice Department. The 27-year-old accused killer will still face the possibility of life in prison without parole if convicted of fatally shooting Thompson in a December 2024 targeted hit on a Midtown sidewalk. But Judge Margaret Garnett threw out the charges against Mangione that could have led to a rare death penalty trial in New York...

Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is the "ultimate virtual universe" where users can "be anything you can imagine," according to the platform's website. Recently, some young users have been imagining themselves as Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Some users have donned ICE gear and carried out "raids" on a popular roleplaying game within Roblox. Other young people on the platform have taken to the virtual streets with signs in their avatar's hands in protest, expressing sentiments like "We hate ICE" (all signs are free of expletives, of course, which are banned on Roblox)...

Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman (KBS) said in a private briefing on Friday in Washington that if President Trump doesn't follow through on his threats against Iran, the regime will end up stronger, four sources in the room tell Axios. Why it matters: This is a reversal from the public Saudi talking points cautioning against escalation and from the deep concern Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) expressed to Trump three weeks ago...

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Friday to pass a major funding package consisting of five regular appropriations bills and a two-week stopgap measure for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but the legislation won't become law before parts of the government shut down at midnight. The 71-29 vote caps a week of Senate drama after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, sparking a public backlash against the tactics of federal immigration enforcement officers and pushing Democrats to oppose the DHS funding bill that was part of a six-bill funding package...

Billionaire Elon Musk exchanged emails with Jeffrey Epstein about visiting the financier's private Caribbean island, according to newly released documents that include correspondence from 2012 and 2013. The emails show Epstein discussing potential travel arrangements to Little Saint James, an island he owned in the U.S. Virgin Islands that later became the focus of numerous allegations of sexual abuse...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services against Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz after a video of his visit to Los Angeles. On Thursday evening, Newsom announced that his office was filing a civil rights complaint with HHS, accusing Oz of discrimination, The Associated Press reported. According to the complaint, Newsom's office argued that Oz, in a video, "spewed baseless and racially charged allegations" that risked chilling participation in hospice and home care programs among the Armenian community...

The economy remains among the top concerns for Americans. As a result, the Trump administration and lawmakers from both parties are competing to show voters how their side is helping address the affordability issue. CBN News traveled to Texas to meet HUD Secretary Scott Turner and visit a faith-based transitional housing development. Jericho Village is a new housing community in Wylie, Texas. It got its start when Reverend Janet Collinsworth saw a huge need for providing housing and transitional services to single women, moms and their children. She explains, "When our women come to us. One of our biggest deficits is that they don't have a support system, They don't have social capital. If they did, they would be with their families. And so, in that, we designed Jericho intentionally to build community."...

The Justice Department on Friday announced the long-awaited release of an enormous tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files, spanning more than 3 million pages, which it said fulfilled its obligations under transparency legislation passed last year by Congress. The volume of documents related to the late convicted sex offender means sorting through everything is going to take some time. But here are some early takeaways: