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By Joseph Ax, Rich McKay and Brad Brooks for Reuters Luigi Mangione is escorted from the Blair County Court House in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, after an extradition hearing on Tuesday. Photo: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters via CNN Newsource In the days since Luigi Mangione was charged with murder for gunning down a top health insurance executive, more than a thousand donations have poured into an online fundraiser for his legal defence, with messages supporting him and even celebrating the crime. In New York, "Wanted" posters with the faces of chief executives have appeared on walls. Websites are selling Mangione merchandise, including hats with "CEO Hunter" printed across a bullseye. And some social media users have swooned over his smile and six-pack abs. Mangione has been charged with mu...

By Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes for CNN Donald Trump signals to the crowd after an attempted assassination at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in 2024. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP Donald Trump once publicly speculated that Time would never name him the news magazine's "Person of the Year." Now, the honour will be bestowed on him twice. Time will name Trump as this year's choice on Thursday, recognising the president-elect as the individual or group deemed to have wielded the greatest influence on global affairs "for good or for ill." To celebrate the unveiling of the magazine cover, Trump will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Trump sat for a wide-ranging interview with the magazine last month. Time decl...

By Dalia Faheid, Michelle Watson, Bonney Kapp, John Miller and Dakin Andone, CNN The 3D-printed gun that healthcare CEO killing suspect Luigi Mangione had when he was arrested this week in Pennsylvania matches three shell casings found at the crime scene in Midtown Manhattan, the New York Police Department commissioner said Wednesday, as authorities continue to investigate the motive for the killing. Also, Mangione's fingerprints match those investigators found on items near the scene of the December 4 assassination of the UnitedHealthcare chief, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a public event. Three 9 mm shell casings from the crime scene had the words "delay," "deny" and "depose" written across them, one word per bullet, NYPD's Chief Detective Joseph Kenny has said. Police have been l...

Chinese president Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump Photo: AFP US President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration next month, CBS News reported on Wednesday, citing multiple sources. According to the CBS report, Trump invited Xi in early November, shortly after the election, sources said, but it was not clear whether he has accepted the invitation. A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately comment. In addition to Xi, the president-elect's team has raised the possibility of hosting other leaders at the Capitol on 20 January (US time). Hungary's far-right leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has a warm relationship with Trump and visited him at Mar-a-Lago this week, is "still considering" whether to...