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Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to state murder charges that describe him as a terrorist.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) filed a lawsuit against the House Ethics Committee on Monday. The Committee subsequently released a report on its investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct and illegal drug use.

President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences for 37 out of the 40 federal inmates on death row, commuting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over power to President-elect Donald Trump in January.

The Congress was scrambling to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday, hours after more than three dozen Republicans rejected a demand by President-elect Donald Trump to use the measure to lift the nation's debt ceiling.

The White House is abandoning its plan to cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans. This is the Biden administration's first step in scrapping pending regulations and unfinished rules across several agencies in its final days.

U.S. Central Command said that U.S. forces killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif. This happened in a precision airstrike on Thursday.

A state appeals court on Thursday removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election case against Donald Trump and others. The new ruling means it will be up to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia to find another prosecutor to take over the case.

The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO will return to New York to face murder charges after agreeing to be extradited during a court appearance in Pennsylvania where he was arrested last week after five days on the run.

Workers at seven Amazon facilities went on strike on Thursday in an effort by the Teamsters to pressure the e-commerce company for a labor agreement during a key shopping period.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Wednesday to hear a bid by TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance to block a law intended to force the sale of the app by Jan. 19 or face a ban on national security grounds.

Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) reaffirmed his innocence in a statement on social media Wednesday. He responded to earlier reports that the House Ethics Committee had voted to release the investigation into the former congressman.

President-elect Donald Trump is suing the Des Moines Register for alleged election interference, according to the court filing. The lawsuit names the register and top pollster J. Ann Selzer over the newspaper's final presidential election poll.

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told CNN that investigators are looking into online posts and a possible manifesto that the shooter may have left behind, trying to determine what prompted her to kill herself after shooting a classmate and a teacher in a school classroom.

Russia opened an investigation on Tuesday into the killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who was chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops.

Together with President-elect Donald Trump, SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son announced a $100 billion investment in the United States over the next four years during a visit to Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Monday.

Syria's former President Bashar al-Assad has issued his first statement since being toppled from power, saying he was evacuated to Russia from the Hmeimim air base on Dec. 8 as it came under drone attack after leaving Damascus that morning with rebel fighters closing in.

Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered an injury on a trip to Luxembourg and has been admitted to a hospital for evaluation, her office said in a statement on Friday.

Vice President-elect JD Vance has invited Daniel Penny to Saturday's Army-Navy game as a private guest. Penny was acquitted on Monday in a New York City subway death case. Vance and Penny will watch the game at Northwest Stadium in Maryland at 3 p.m. ET.

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty mourned the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday. He said he understood public frustrations with what he called the "flawed" health care system in the United States.

President-elect Donald Trump has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for the second time. Time says that since he started running for president in 2015, it's likely that no single person has played a larger role in changing the course of politics and history than Trump.

President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of around 1,500 individuals, marking the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history. 39 people who were convicted of non-violent crimes are also being pardoned.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is testifying before a House committee on Wednesday on the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. 13 U.S. service members were killed during the withdrawal, when ISIS-K suicide bombers attacked Abbey gate at Kabul airport.

The Supreme Court is allowing investors to proceed with a class-action lawsuit against microchip company Nvidia. The justices dismissed Nvidia's appeal to shut down the lawsuit.

The suspected killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was arrested on Monday, ending a five-day manhunt. Police say Luigi Mangione was apprehended in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He was found with a ghost gun, fake IDs, and evidence linking him to the New York shooting. NTD discusses the situation with Mike Leon, an NTD contributor and the host of the ‘Can We Please Talk’ podcast.

President Bashar al-Assad’s Prime Minister has agreed to a peaceful transfer of power after rebels seized the Syrian capital of Damascus. The rebel sweep ends a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and caused one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times. For analysis, NTD sits down with Kervin Aucoin. He's a former lead ISR coordinator for the U.S. Army in Europe.

Google says it cracked a key challenge in quantum computing that experts have been working on for almost 30 years. The company says the breakthrough in quantum error correction was achieved with its latest quantum chip, named 'Willow.'