An intense manhunt led to the arrest on Monday of Luigi Mangione, 26, at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Mangione, who has been charged with murder in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was denied bail and is expected to fight extradition to New York.
After a 14-year civil war and more than a half-century in power, the Al-Assad regime in Syria fell. Syrian rebel forces swept across the country and entered Damascus with little to no resistance as the Syrian Army melted away. President Bashar Al-Assad, Syria's ruler for 24 years, fled the country. Russian state media has said that he is in Moscow.
No one seems to know where the mysterious drones flying over the Northeast are coming from. The unexplained aerial phenomenon is prompting lawmakers to call for answers — with some, including President-elect Donald Trump, urging residents to shoot them down.
Elsewhere, Trump's future presidential library is getting a hefty boost in the form of $15 million from ABC News after the network settled a defamation lawsuit over host George Stephanopoulos' on-air remarks.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office is suing a New York physician for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas resident through telemedicine, in what may be the first lawsuit of its kind. The lawsuit signals a potential new front in the fight over abortion access.
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