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Police arrested 26-year-old Luigi Mangione yesterday and charged him with homicide for the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Thompson was gunned down in New York Metropolis final week. After he was killed, NYPD obtained a surveillance photograph exhibiting a part of the suspect’s face, which was showcased nationwide. Police took Mangione into custody after he was recognized at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s and reported to authorities.

• 🎧 Mangione was allegedly carrying an unlawful firearm, false paperwork and different proof linking him to Thompson’s loss of life, NPR’s Brian Mann tells Up First. The motive behind concentrating on Thompson so intentionally is unclear for the time being. NYPD’s Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney mentioned Mangione was carrying a three-page handwritten doc that may detail some of his alleged motives.
• ➡️ Mangione got here from an prosperous household and was well-educated. He was valedictorian on the non-public Gilman Faculty in Baltimore after which attended the College of Pennsylvania, the place he studied pc science and synthetic intelligence. Here’s what else we know about him.
• ➡️ Learn extra about what comes next in the case.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the witness stand in the present day in his corruption trial. It is the primary time within the nation’s historical past {that a} sitting prime minister is testifying as a defendant in courtroom. Netanyahu is dealing with fees of bribery, fraud and breach of belief in three separate instances. He’ll testify three days every week for six hours a day for a lot of weeks.

• 🎧 Netanyahu is testifying in an underground fortified courtroom for safety causes because the nation is in the midst of a warfare, says NPR’s Daniel Estrin, who’s one flooring above him in Tel Aviv. Police began investigating Netanyahu in 2016, and in a press convention final evening, Netanyahu mentioned he’s been waiting eight years for this day to have the ability to current the reality. Netanyahu is accused of utilizing his affect to assist media figures’ enterprise pursuits. In trade, he allegedly obtained tens of 1000’s of {dollars} price of champagne and cigars. Within the two different instances, he is accused of allegedly serving to media moguls with their enterprise pursuits in an effort to work out offers for flattering information protection of their shops. Netanyahu has denied these allegations.

Jay-Z is reportedly taking authorized motion in opposition to an legal professional after being accused in a civil lawsuit filed Sunday of raping a 13-year-old woman with Sean “Diddy” Combs at an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty in 2000. The rapper is the most recent movie star to be linked to allegations in opposition to Combs. The lawsuit is considered one of greater than a dozen filed by Texas legal professional Tony Buzbee in opposition to Combs.

• 🎧 Jay-Z shouldn’t be dealing with any legal fees as that is a part of a civil swimsuit in opposition to Combs, NPR’s Isabella Gomez Sarmiento says. Jay-Z issued an announcement to NPR saying the claims are fully false. He publicly known as Buzbee an “ambulance chaser in an affordable swimsuit” and mentioned he was attempting to blackmail him to extort settlement money. Jay-Z has filed a movement to dismiss the nameless lawsuit or to have the plaintiff’s identification disclosed. Buzbee has insinuated that different celebrities might have been concerned within the Combs’ alleged crimes and could also be named in future lawsuits.

At present’s hear

Dolly Parton performs on stage at ACL Dwell throughout Blockchain Artistic Labs’ Dollyverse occasion at SXSW through the 2022 SXSW Convention and Festivals in Austin, Texas.

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Dolly Parton performs on stage at ACL Dwell throughout Blockchain Artistic Labs’ Dollyverse occasion at SXSW through the 2022 SXSW Convention and Festivals in Austin, Texas.

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Dolly Parton actually does all of it. One mission stands out amongst her lengthy record of accomplishments: her dedication to selling youngsters’s literacy. She additionally loves Christmas and her French bulldog, Billy the Child. She has mixed these pursuits in her new youngsters’s e book, Dolly Parton’s Billy the Child Comes Residence For Christmas, by which her canine sidekick should determine between fame and household through the vacation season. Parton joins Morning Version to speak in regards to the e book, her love for the vacation and extra. Listen to what she had to say here.

Deep dive

A recall discover citing listeria contamination dangers is posted subsequent to Boar’s Head meats in a Safeway retailer in San Rafael, Calif., in July, because the deli meat firm expanded its recall of ready-to-eat meat and poultry merchandise.

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A number of high-profile meals remembers have occurred this yr. On that record: A lethal listeria outbreak amongst Boar’s Head deli meat and an investigation into cucumbers contaminated with salmonella. Even earlier than the Boar’s Head recall, a Gallup ballot discovered Individuals’ confidence within the authorities’s capability to make sure a protected meals provide had sunk to a file low.

• 🥒 Meals remembers fell sharply through the COVID-19 pandemic, however they’re now rising. The Meals and Drug Administration says 1,908 merchandise have been recalled within the fiscal yr that led to September — the very best since 2019.
• 🥒 Day-to-day meals dealing with habits might help to restrict the danger of foodborne sickness, says Linda Harris, a meals scientist on the College of California, Davis.
• 🥒 Rinsing contemporary, uncooked greens and fruit below operating water might help take away microorganisms from the floor.
• 🥒 The CDC says within the U.S., 31 pathogens — micro organism, viruses and parasites — have been generally linked to foodborne hospitalizations and deaths. The three micro organism that trigger probably the most hospitalizations and deaths annually are salmonella, listeria monocytogenes and E. coli.

Learn how the federal government traces outbreaks and get more tips on dealing with meals safely.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

American poet Yolanda Cornelia ‘Nikki’ Giovanni leans on her desk beside a typewriter, in entrance of a wall embellished with pictures, 1973. (Picture by Hulton Archive/Getty Photographs)

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1. Famend poet and Black arts motion icon Nikki Giovanni died yesterday on the age of 81, following her third cancer diagnosis, in keeping with an announcement from good friend and writer Renée Watson.
2. A brand new nationwide monument in Pennsylvania will inform the story of the lots of of boarding faculties the place tens of 1000’s of American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children were sent for assimilation.
3. Six years in the past, Clara Temple was in first grade, making an attempt to order lunch from the cafeteria for the primary time. She did not know her pupil ID quantity to enter into the keypad. She panicked and felt embarrassed; nevertheless, a cafeteria employee, her unsung hero, swooped in and rescued her.

This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.