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Luigi Mangione has been indicted for homicide as an act of terrorism for the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO. The costs have been filed within the New York State Supreme Court docket. If he’s discovered responsible, he may face life in jail with out the potential for parole. He additionally faces eight prices associated to felony possession of a weapon and felony possession of a cast instrument.

• 🎧 With regards to why the killing was known as terrorism, Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg stated in a press convention the act was meant to evoke terror. Public help round Mangione has erupted on social media and has included GoFundMe fundraisers, which have been taken down. NPR’s Sarah Ventre says one website experiences it has raised almost $150,000 as of this morning. Mangione has a preliminary listening to scheduled for tomorrow for his prices in Pennsylvania, which embrace forgery, carrying a firearm with out a license and giving false identification to regulation enforcement.

The price of borrowing cash may turn out to be a bit of bit cheaper this afternoon. The Federal Reserve is holding its final assembly of the yr. Policymakers are anticipated to decrease their benchmark rate of interest by 1 / 4 share level. A charge minimize would come at a time of declining but sticky inflation and uncertainty in regards to the incoming Trump administration.

• 🎧 This might be the third charge minimize since September, leaving charges a share level decrease than in the summertime, NPR’s Scott Horsley tells Up First. Excessive rates of interest assist to curb inflation, however they will also be a drag on the economic system. Markets are betting the Fed will decrease rates of interest. Horsley says after that, we could see the central bank take a break and see how issues play out. As we speak, Fed policymakers may even supply a forecast of the place they suppose rates of interest are going by subsequent yr. Economists say President-elect Donald Trump’s insurance policies may make inflation worse.

The police’s identification of the Wisconsin college shooter as a 15-year-old lady has sparked conversations about who commits some of these crimes. She shot eight folks, two fatally, after which killed herself. Whereas college shootings are a widespread subject within the U.S., data shows that female shooters — at faculties and typically — are comparatively uncommon.

• 🎧 Troubled females usually tend to internalize emotions than males, leading to extra melancholy, anxiousness and self-harm, Jillian Peterson, the chief director of the Violence Prevention Challenge Analysis Middle at Hamline College, tells NPR’s Katia Riddle. Age can be an element. Peterson says 15 is a sensitive time when executive function is not very well developed for women and boys. Though there are patterns of conduct round mass shootings, the vast majority of troubled adolescents do not commit them. Prevention methods are essential and might usually overlap with suicide prevention.

Should you or somebody could also be contemplating suicide, contact the 988 Suicide & Disaster Lifeline by dialing or texting 9-8-8.

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The Netflix actuality sequence Love Is Blind forged sees singles match up after days of courting whereas separated by a wall. The Nationwide Labor Relations Board says the present’s forged members needs to be thought-about staff.

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A primary-of-its-kind labor motion argues that individuals of Netflix’s actuality present Love is Blind are staff and needs to be eligible for fundamental labor protections below federal regulation. In a criticism issued final week, the Nationwide Labor Relations Board discovered the present’s producers misclassified the contestants as individuals. The criticism calls for his or her reclassification as employees and compensation for any misplaced wages whereas on the present.

• 📺 The labor motion filed may result in large adjustments to actuality reveals — on and off display. If contestants are acknowledged as staff, it might permit them to type or be part of a union.
• 📺 The criticism comes after a number of former contestants on the present described poor remedy they confronted whereas filming, together with allegations their bodily security was in danger.
• 📺 The trail to an industry-wide actuality TV union is an uphill battle, in line with creator Brian Moylan. He says turnover ranges on most unscripted reveals current a barrier for castmates to band collectively. Contestants may be seen as disposable to casting administrators and producers.
• 📺 A listening to for the NLRB criticism is scheduled for April 2025. A decide will resolve if the manufacturing corporations violated labor regulation.

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Cymbalsmith Peter Nelson works on a cymbal on a lathe on the Zildjian cymbal manufacturing unit in Norwell, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

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Zildjian cymbals may be heard in all the things from rock music to promoting jingles. The Zildjian household has been making their well-known cymbals with a secret course of for greater than 400 years. For the reason that Seventies, the Avedis Zildjian Co. has operated below the radar in Norwell, Mass. Many individuals have but to study that an industrial manufacturing unit outdoors of Boston designs, casts, blasts, rolls, hammers, buffs and checks not less than one million Zildjian cymbals a yr. Andrea Shea at NPR community station WBUR was in a position to go to the manufacturing unit. Here’s a peek inside and what she learned in regards to the world’s oldest cymbal firm.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Charlie Baker, the president of the NCAA, testifies earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee throughout a listening to about legalized sports activities playing.

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1. NCAA President Charlie Baker expressed help on Capitol Hill yesterday for federal rules round sports activities playing, together with a ban on “prop bets” in faculty sports activities.
2. Do you will have go-to surprising recipes and components for cooking in the course of the vacation season? If that’s the case, NPR wants to hear from you.
3. Supreme Court docket Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made her Broadway debut on Saturday night time with a cameo in the romantic comedy musical & Juliet.

This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.