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slots app ALTOONA, Pa. — After UnitedHealthcare’s CEO was gunned down on a New York sidewalk, police searched for the masked gunman with dogs, drones and scuba divers. Officers used the city's muscular surveillance system. Investigators analyzed DNA samples, fingerprints and internet addresses. Police went door-to-door looking for witnesses. When an arrest came five days later, those sprawling investigative efforts shared credit with an alert civilian's instincts. A Pennsylvania McDonald's customer noticed another patron who resembled the man in the oblique security-camera photos that New York police had publicized. Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry speaks during a press conference regarding the arrest of suspect Luigi Mangione, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pa., in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) Luigi Nicholas Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family, was arrested Monday in the killing of Brian Thompson, who headed one of the United States’ largest medical insurance companies. He remained jailed in Pennsylvania, where he was initially charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police. By late evening, prosecutors in Manhattan had added a charge of murder, according to an online court docket. He's expected to be extradited to New York eventually. It’s unclear whether Mangione has an attorney who can comment on the allegations. Asked at Monday's arraignment whether he needed a public defender, Mangione asked whether he could “answer that at a future date.” Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after the McDonald's customer recognized him and notified an employee, authorities said. Police in Altoona, about 233 miles (375 kilometers) west of New York City, were soon summoned. This booking photo released Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections shows Luigi Mangione, a suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Pennsylvania Department of Corrections via AP) They arrived to find Mangione sitting at a table in the back of the restaurant, wearing a blue medical mask and looking at a laptop, according to a Pennsylvania police criminal complaint. He initially gave them a fake ID, but when an officer asked Mangione whether he’d been to New York recently, he “became quiet and started to shake,” the complaint says. When he pulled his mask down at officers' request, “we knew that was our guy,” rookie Officer Tyler Frye said at a news conference in Hollidaysburg. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Manhattan news conference that Mangione was carrying a gun like the one used to kill Thompson and the same fake ID the shooter had used to check into a New York hostel, along with a passport and other fraudulent IDs. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Mangione also had a three-page, handwritten document that shows “some ill will toward corporate America." An NYPD police officer and K-9 dog search around a lake in Central Park, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) A law enforcement official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity said the document included a line in which Mangione claimed to have acted alone. “To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone,” the document said, according to the official. It also had a line that said, “I do apologize for any strife or traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.” Pennsylvania prosecutor Peter Weeks said in court that Mangione was found with a passport and $10,000 in cash — $2,000 of it in foreign currency. Mangione disputed the amount. Thompson, 50, was killed last Wednesday as he walked alone to a midtown Manhattan hotel for an investor conference. Police quickly came to see the shooting as a targeted attack by a gunman who appeared to wait for Thompson, came up behind him and fired a 9 mm pistol. Investigators have said “delay,” “deny” and “depose” were written on ammunition found near Thompson’s body. The words mimic a phrase used to criticize the insurance industry. A poster issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows a wanted unknown suspect. (FBI via AP) From surveillance video, New York investigators gathered that the shooter fled by bike into Central Park, emerged, then took a taxi to a northern Manhattan bus terminal. Once in Pennsylvania, he went from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, “trying to stay low-profile” by avoiding cameras, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said. A grandson of a wealthy, self-made real estate developer and philanthropist, Mangione is a cousin of a current Maryland state legislator. Mangione was valedictorian at his elite Baltimore prep school, where his 2016 graduation speech lauded his classmates’ “incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things.” He went on to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science in 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania, a spokesperson said. “Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,” Mangione’s family said in a statement posted on social media late Monday by his cousin, Maryland lawmaker Nino Mangione. “We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved.” An NYPD police officer and K-9 dog search around a lake in Central Park, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) Luigi Nicholas Mangione worked for a time for the car-buying website TrueCar and left in 2023, CEO Jantoon Reigersman said by email. From January to June 2022, Mangione lived at Surfbreak, a “co-living” space at the edge of Honolulu tourist mecca Waikiki. Like other residents of the shared penthouse catering to remote workers, Mangione underwent a background check, said Josiah Ryan, a spokesperson for owner and founder R.J. Martin. “Luigi was just widely considered to be a great guy. There were no complaints,” Ryan said. "There was no sign that might point to these alleged crimes they’re saying he committed.” At Surfbreak, Martin learned Mangione had severe back pain from childhood that interfered with many aspects of his life, from surfing to romance, Ryan said. “He went surfing with R.J. once but it didn’t work out because of his back," Ryan said, but noted that Mangione and Martin often went together to a rock-climbing gym. NYPD officers in diving suits search a lake in Central Park, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) Mangione left Surfbreak to get surgery on the mainland, Ryan said, then later returned to Honolulu and rented an apartment. Martin stopped hearing from Mangione six months to a year ago. Although the gunman obscured his face during the shooting, he left a trail of evidence in New York, including a backpack he ditched in Central Park, a cellphone found in a pedestrian plaza, a water bottle and a protein bar wrapper. In the days after the shooting, the NYPD collected hundreds of hours of surveillance video and released multiple clips and still images in hopes of enlisting the public’s eyes to help find a suspect. “This combination of old-school detective work and new-age technology is what led to this result today,” Tisch said at the New York news conference. ___ Scolforo reported from Altoona and Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Contributing were Associated Press writers Cedar Attanasio and Jennifer Peltz in New York; Michael Rubinkam and Maryclaire Dale in Pennsylvania; Lea Skene in Baltimore and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher in Honolulu. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!SINGAPORE: After alighting from my app-hailed ride and breezing through the automated biometric immigration channel at Changi Airport, I decided I needed a local food fix before boarding my flight. So I made a beeline for the nearest food court, where my appreciation for Singapore’s smart city aspirations quickly evaporated. The food court itself was relatively empty, but at its entrance where there were four self-ordering touchscreen kiosks, were long, slow-moving queues comprising harried airport staff, curious tourists, and hungry local travellers. Stuck in line, I had plenty of time to arrive at the realisation that the kiosks offered too much choice. The dozen food stalls sold eight or more dishes each, each dish customisable to a granular level. The designers of the interface clearly knew local hawker fare like the back of their hands. While useful for regular customers or those familiar with local fare, many tourists can’t tell a laksa from a lamian, or a prata from a pappadum. I’m sure they would have navigated a similar kiosk at McDonald’s with ease, but the sheer number of unfamiliar options at these kiosks seemed to unnecessarily complicate the ordering process. And so, the befuddled foreigners ahead of me took 15 minutes to swipe and scroll their way through each stall’s menu, while Google-ing on their smartphones to research and confer on what certain dishes were. They took another five minutes to order a plate of chicken rice, and five more to pay by credit card. In the meantime, several hungry folks had given up queuing and left. Any local hawker worth their salt would have manually rung up, collected payment for, and served 20 plates of food within that time frame. BAD TASTE When it was my turn, I ordered my mushroom minced meat noodles in one minute (dry instead of soup, mee pok over kway teow, mee kia or mee sua, extra chilli and vinegar, no extra egg, liver or pork balls) – because I knew exactly what I wanted. My heart was also set on a kopi c kosong – black coffee with evaporated milk and no sugar – but it took me five minutes of scanning all 12 stalls’ menus before realising that not a single drink option was to be found. I found this odd, but paid anyway and entered the food court to wait for my noodles. Once inside, I finally spotted a sign right in front of the drinks stall: “Please order your drinks from the drink stall inside the food court”. Shouldn’t that sign have been outside or indicated somewhere on the terminal displays? That experience left a bad taste in my mouth – and it wasn’t my noodles. Isn’t technology supposed to make our lives better and easier? It seems to me that digital solutions in daily life should simplify tasks, rather than make things more complicated because of poor planning or user design. Perhaps operators of food courts that see heavy tourist footfall could have one dedicated terminal marked “This kiosk accepts foreign credit card payment”, programmed to feature a fixed number of popular local dishes for tourists, such as chicken rice, laksa, prata and so on, with brief but eloquent descriptions of each dish. This approach would not only help tourists make quicker decisions, it would also improve customer satisfaction and reduce the chances of them walking away due to confusion or long wait times, potentially increasing revenue for hawkers and food court operators. TECH SOLUTIONS, OR TECH PROBLEMS? The lack of user consideration in tech solutions isn’t noticeable only in airport food courts. How many times have you argued with your rideshare driver about the best route to take to your destination? Online maps sometimes have no real-time idea that certain roads have closed or opened, or that off-road detours allow you to dodge traffic build-ups at popular junctions. Attempts to notify drivers of these are often shut down with a flat “Err I dunno, I just follow GPS”. This year’s SimplyGo debacle is still fresh in many minds, whereby the LTA had to reverse their decision to phase out the older ticketing system following widespread complaints. I’m still annoyed that since giving up my EZ-Link card, I don’t know how much I’m paying for each train or bus ride. It’s not that I find public transport unaffordable; nor am I the penny-pinching sort. It would just be nice to be able to immediately see if I’d been charged S$500 to travel from Novena to Orchard due to some unexpected tech glitch, and report it right away. At supermarkets, I notice that the holdups at checkout counters and self-service kiosks are usually caused by people trying to make payment with app-based vouchers or loyalty points. At restaurants, has anyone ever experienced a situation where after scanning the QR code menu and placing your order, you realise only half an hour later that you’d somehow missed an extra step to double or triple confirm your orders, leaving it unprocessed in the system? Even familiar household gadgets have become too smart for our own good. Imagine dumping yoghurt and berries into your new blender to whizz up a quick breakfast smoothie, but the blender’s smartphone app has hung, and the blender itself doesn’t even have a physical on/off button – and you’re now officially running late. Stories abound on the internet of smart-home owners losing their smartphones and finding themselves unable to operate their lights, air-conditioning, doors or blinds. Many people have been successfully nudged to be more physically active thanks to activity trackers like Fitbits – but cases of orthosomnia are also on the rise, a condition where users get so obsessed with their tracker’s sleep data that they develop sleep disorders. HOW TO MAXIMISE REWARD AND MINIMISE RISK? Some mishaps are downright horror stories. Last month in Toronto, four passengers involved in a car crash died in their burning Tesla after its electronic doors would not open allegedly due to power failure from the crash. (There are manual release levers tucked away somewhere – something that most Tesla owners, let alone passengers in a state of panic or immediate peril, aren’t likely to remember.) I’m not such a Luddite that I believe tech is going to destroy us all. I appreciate how my smartphone connects me to people, goods, services, information and entertainment. And I have high hopes for artificial intelligence in healthcare, especially as healthcare systems in Singapore and all over the world continue to be stretched beyond their capacities. But if the point of tech is to benefit humanity, then it should be designed in a way that maximises said benefits without causing undue disamenities. Tracy Lee is a freelance lifestyle writer based in Singapore.

Gemini Daily Horoscope Today, December 25, 2024 predicts growth and successBy Tim Starks December 5, 2024 Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel presented draft regulations Thursday to fellow commissioners that would for the first time require telecom companies to upgrade cyber defenses under a federal wiretapping law, or face fines. The draft rules are a response to alarming breaches of telecom providers by Chinese government hackers known as Salt Typhoon . The breaches have drawn scrutiny on how those hackers exploited the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), the means by which telecom carriers are obligated to provide law enforcement access to their systems. “The cybersecurity of our nation’s communications critical infrastructure is essential to promoting national security, public safety, and economic security,” Rosenworcel said in a statement. “As technology continues to advance, so does the capabilities of adversaries, which means the U.S. must adapt and reinforce our defenses. “While the Commission’s counterparts in the intelligence community are determining the scope and impact of the Salt Typhoon attack, we need to put in place a modern framework to help companies secure their networks and better prevent and respond to cyberattacks in the communications sector in the future,” she said. The potentially yearslong intrusions of at least eight U.S. telecom companies have spurred Hill briefings , a looming Cyber Safety Review Board probe , upcoming congressional hearings and exclamations that the breaches amount to the worst telecom hack in U.S. history, in addition to global ramifications. Under the rules that would take effect immediately, commissioners “may choose to vote on them at any moment,” according to an FCC fact sheet . Specifically, the FCC declaratory ruling “creates a legal obligation for telecommunications carriers to secure their networks against unlawful access and interception” under CALEA, the FCC fact sheet explained. Multiple lawmakers have called on the FCC to take action similar to what Rosenworsel proposed under CALEA on Thursday. The FCC also circulated a notice of proposed rulemaking Thursday for an annual cybersecurity risk management plan certification process. The commission has two more scheduled open meetings before the second Trump administration begins. While the 2024 Republican platform discussed the need for minimum cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure, some Trump-aligned parties have suggested he is less likely to welcome cyber regulations than the Biden administration, which has embraced them more vigorously than past administrations. On Wednesday, prior to the proposal of the new rules, Republican FCC chair nominee Brendan Carr commented on the need for action in response to Salt Typhoon. “The Salt Typhoon intrusion is a serious and unacceptable risk to our national security. It should never have happened,” he said on X . “I will be working with national security agencies through the transition and next year in an effort to root out the threat and secure our networks.” Neither Rosenworcel nor Carr had previously committed to the idea of FCC cyber rules tied to CALEA. Jonathan Spalter, president and CEO of USTelecom – The Broadband Association, provided this statement when asked about the FCC proposal. “Securing our networks from cyber threats is a dynamic and evolving process that broadband providers take extremely seriously, harnessing cutting-edge technologies to defend our nation’s critical connectivity infrastructure in the face of military-grade aggression by foreign adversaries,” he said. “Ensuring the security of our customers is our top priority and we will continue to work side-by-side with intelligence agencies, law enforcement and other government partners to identify and address the root causes of cybersecurity incidents.”, /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc. (NYSE: NREF) (the "Company") today announced a dividend for its 8.50% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (NYSE: NREF PRA) of per share. The dividend will be payable on , to stockholders of record at the close of business on . NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc., is a publicly traded REIT, with its common stock and Series A Preferred Stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "NREF" and "NREF PRA," respectively, primarily focused on originating, structuring and investing in first-lien mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, convertible notes, multifamily properties and common equity investments, as well as multifamily and single-family rental commercial mortgage-backed securities securitizations, promissory notes and mortgage-backed securities. More information about the Company is available at . Prosek Partners for NexPoint View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc. Get local news delivered to your inbox!

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills have announced their uniform combination for their Sunday Night Football game. The Bills on social media on Wednesday said they will don their traditional white helmets, blue jerseys, and white pants when they host the San Francisco 49ers. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:20 p.m. Sunday at Highmark Stadium. The game will be aired on NBC and Channel 2. The Bills are 5-0 when wearing that uniform combination this season, most recently beating the Kansas City Chiefs two weeks ago. While many NFL teams reveal classic or alternate uniform combinations for a game or two well before the season begins, the Bills usually announce what they will wear days ahead of each game. If you're superstitious in any way, we are keeping track of the Bills record in various jersey combinations this season. Here's the standings after 11 games: See you on Sunday night. 💯 @DeltaSonicWash | #SFvsBUF pic.twitter.com/kk22t4svxC

Experts Predict Record Snowfall for Pacific Northwest: Here's How To Make the Most of This Ski SeasonMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguayans will return to the polls on Sunday for a second round of voting to choose their next president, with the conservative governing party and the left-leaning coalition locked in a close runoff after failing to win an outright majority in last month's vote. The election has turned into a hard-fought race between Álvaro Delgado, the incumbent party's candidate, and Yamandú Orsi from the Broad Front, a coalition of leftist and center-left parties that governed for 15 years until the 2019 victory of center-right President Luis Lacalle Pou. It oversaw the legalization of abortion, same-sex marriage and the sale of marijuana in the small South American nation. Orsi's Broad Front took 44% of the vote while Delgado's National Party won just 27% in the first round of voting Oct. 27. But the other conservative parties that make up the government coalition — in particular, the Colorado Party — notched 20% of the vote collectively, enough to give Delgado an edge over his challenger this time around. Congress ended up evenly split in the October vote. Most polls have shown a virtual tie between Delgado and Orsi, with nearly 10% of Uruguayan voters undecided even at this late stage. Analysts say the candidates' lackluster campaigns and broad consensus on key issues have helped generate extraordinary voter indecision and apathy in an election dominated by discussions about taxes and social spending but largely free of the anti-establishment rage that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere. Get the latest breaking news as it happens. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy . “The question of whether Frente Amplio (the Broad Front) raises taxes is not an existential question, unlike what we saw in the U.S. with Trump and Kamala framing each other as threats to democracy," said Nicolás Saldías, a Latin America and Caribbean senior analyst for the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit. “That doesn't exist in Uruguay.” Both candidates are also appealing to voter angst over a surge in violent crime that has shaken a nation long regarded as one of the region’s most safe and stable. Supporters of Broad Front coalition presidential candidate Yamandu Orsi campaign one day ahead of the presidential run-off election, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. Credit: AP/Natacha Pisarenko Delgado, 55, a rural veterinarian with a long career in the National Party, campaigned on a vow to continue the legacy of current President Lacalle Pou — in some ways making the election into a referendum on his leadership. He campaigned under the slogan “re-elect a good government." While a string of corruption scandals briefly tainted Lacalle Pou's government last year, the president — who constitutionally cannot run for a second consecutive term — now enjoys high approval ratings and a strong economy expected to grow 3.2% this year, according to the International Monetary Fund. Delgado served most recently as Secretary of the Presidency for Lacalle Pou and promises to press on with his predecessor's pro-business, market-friendly policies. His coalition would likely continue pursuing a prospective trade deal with China that has raised hackles in Mercosur, an alliance of South American countries that promotes regional commerce. Orsi, 57, a former history teacher and two-time mayor from a working-class background, is widely seen as an heir to iconic former President José “Pepe” Mujica, a former Marxist guerilla who boosted Uruguay's profile as one of the region's most socially liberal and environmentally sustainable nations during his 2010-2015 term. Frente Amplio presidential candidate Yamandu Orsi holds his closing rally ahead of the presidential run-off election in Las Piedras, Uruguay, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. Credit: AP/Matilde Campodonico “He was born from ordinary workers," Mujica said in a closing campaign ad for Orsi. “He represents, precisely, the average type of what Uruguay is.” Promising to forge a “new left” in Uruguay, Orsi has proposed tax incentives to lure investment and industrial policy to boost Uruguay’s critical agricultural sector. He has also floated social security reforms that would buck the demographic trend in lowering the retirement age but fall short of a radical overhaul sought by Uruguay's unions. The contentious plebiscite on whether to boost pension payouts failed to pass in October, with Uruguayans rejecting generous pensions in favor of fiscal constraint. “This is a normal election, which is rare,” said Saldías. “It's indicative of Uruguay’s strength as a democracy.”

A Dua Lipa fan claims to have been injured in a horrific pyrotechnic accident at a recent concert in Malaysia. The British hitmaker is currently on her Radical Optimism tour and is partway through the Asian leg, which commenced on November 5 in Singapore. Less than a month in to her run of concerts, which won't conclude until October 2025, a fan has claimed to have been injured at a concert. In a post on social media site Reddit, the fan shared a photo alongside their claims of what happened after one of her Axiata Arena shows last weekend (November 23 and 24) in Kuala Lumpur. They asked the social media site's users whether they could be compensated for their alleged injury. The Dua Lipa fan wrote: "I got hit in head by some pyrotechnical metal tube at Dua Lipa’s concert in Malaysia today." READ MORE - Conor McGregor and Dee Devlin: Net worth, huge house and why they'll never split READ MORE - Gladiator II star Paul Mescal reveals why he has to 'quit the internet' and social media Fellow Dua fans on the forum replied with advice for the poster, who went on to describe in more detail what allegedly happened in the comments. Thanking others for their support, the fan claimed they were back at their hotel, after having seven stitches and a CT scan. The fan claimed that "two guys" paid their 2712 Maylasian Ringgit (£482.10) medical bill. The fan wrote: "Two guys came and start talking about compensation for hotel, concert tickets, flight. I told them I’m not ready to talk about that and need to talk to my embassy, lawyer and maybe police. A showed them that post. They paid my hospital bill cause I have no such money for that. I don’t wanna ruin Dua Lipa’s reputation. It’s not fair and I against that Better Call Saul moves. I just want my fair compensation for near death experience ('lucky' me — this 5-7 kg tube didn’t fell by sharp side on me)." The fan goes on to claim: "So, after paying my hospital bills one of them asked to hide that post, but I refused. Also I refused to be taken to hotel by one of them. I get their numbers and said that maybe we will talk tomorrow." Later on in the post, the fan added that it was confirmed to them by "some stadium authority (I guess)" that nothing except medical bills would be paid for. There is no confirmation as to whether the pyrotechnics were part of the show, or if they were set off by crowd members”. A Live Nation spokesperson told The Mirror : “ We’ve asked for detailed information from the vendor involved on how this occurred, and of course wish both fans involved a speedy recovery.” Dua has previously come up against a similar situation, following a gig in July 2022, when "unauthorised" fireworks were set off in the crowd, causing injury to fans. The 29-year-old was forced to issue an apology to gig-goers, which read: "Last night, unauthorised fireworks went off in the crowd during my set in Toronto. Creating a safe and inclusive space at my shows is always my first priority, and my team and I are just as shocked and confused by the events as you all are. "There is an ongoing investigation into the events being conducted, and everyone involved is working hard to find out how this incident occurred. Bringing this show to life for my fans has been such an amazing experience, and I’m so deeply sorry for anyone who was scared, felt unsafe, or whose enjoyment of the show was affected in any way. All my love, Dua." Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok , Snapchat , Instagram , Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and Threads . Join the Irish Mirror’s breaking news service on WhatsApp. Click this link to receive breaking news and the latest headlines direct to your phone. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don’t like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you’re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice .