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The attorney representing suspected UnitedHealth CEO assassin Luigi Mangione told reporters in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday afternoon that he stands behind his client pleading not guilty — and has not seen any evidence tying him to the crime.

This comes even as Mangione was apprehended at a McDonald's after reportedly trying to use a fake ID, had a ghost gun and a manifesto that stated, "these parasites had it coming" and "it had to be done."

A man who leaped over a bench and beat a 62-year-old Las Vegas judge during a court appearance has been sentenced to decades in prison, according to a report.

Deobra Redden, 31, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to attempted murder in September stemming from the Jan. 3 attack on Las Vegas District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus.

Sen. Bernie Sanders won reelection last month and thinks this will be his last term, according to a report.

The fiery independent Vermont lawmaker, asked whether his fourth Senate term would be his last, told Politico: "I’m 83 now. I’ll be 89 when I get out of here. You can do the figuring. I don’t know, but I would assume, probably, yes."

Jim Comey, the former head of the FBI whose time was marked by his high-profile investigation of Hillary Clinton, delivered an impassioned message to his old colleagues on Tuesday night — and turned to philosopher Marcus Aurelius to do so.

Comey made the remarks in a post on his Instagram account, where he encouraged his former FBI colleagues to resist taking “anyone’s side,” and reminded them: “You will be okay in the long run.”

President-elect Donald Trump demanded that his $454 million civil fraud case be nullified after he was elected president, but the New York attorney general has rejected him.

Tristan Snell, former prosecutor for the New York attorney general's office, posted the update Tuesday evening on Bluesky, citing the refusal to stand down.

A Department of Homeland Security agent in Salt Lake City, Utah, has been arrested and faces federal charges of drug dealing, reported FOX13's Adam Herbets.

"David Cole is charged with dealing bath salts. There is another suspect in this case who is currently only being identified as PERSON A," reported Herbets. "A confidential source reported Cole and PERSON A, who also works as a special agent. The source says the bath salts came from HSI evidence. Prosecutors say they dealt bath salts once or twice a week starting in April 2024, profiting up to $300K."

In February 2024, the Hawaii Supreme Court was highly critical of views on the Second Amendment expressed by the U.S. Supreme Court's far-right justices. And two of those justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, expressed their indignation in an opinion released on Monday, December 9.

According to Slate legal expert Mark Joseph Stern, "It now appears the critique has gotten under some justices' skin. In an opinion on Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Samuel Alito, railed against the Hawaii Supreme Court's top-to-bottom evisceration of his own gun rights opinions. But Thomas and Alito protest too much: Their grousing is pure projection, accusing the Hawaii Supreme Court of committing the same sins at the heart of their own Second Amendment rulings."

Las Vegas telemarketing company chief Richard Zeitlin was given 10 years in prison after being found guilty of a fraudulent fundraising campaign he ran with computers that mimicked human voices.

Zeitlin tried to get money out of people for Vietnam veterans, police dogs, breast cancer victims, missing children, kids with cancer and disabled children, David A. Fahrenthold and Camille Baker reported in The New York Times.

A State Department agency that fights to disrupt disinformation abroad could shut down just as Donald Trump is set to return to the White House.

The Global Engagement Center learned over the weekend that the latest National Defense Authorization Act did not include a multi-year extension for the unit, the Guardian reported Tuesday. The threat to its funding can only be addressed through an act of Congress, which could develop another route for an extension by Dec. 24, the report said.

A federal judge delivered a huge win to the departing Biden administration on Tuesday, ruling in favor of the Federal Trade Commission's action against the merger of the Kroger and Albertsons supermarket chains, reported the Wall Street Journal.

“Evidence shows that defendants engage in substantial head-to-head competition and the proposed merger would remove that competition,” Judge Adrienne Nelson ruled.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump continues to work on filling his Cabinet, but he's also considering major policy initiatives that he hopes to push through Congress when he arrives in Washington.

Among those is building more monuments.

An aide and two lawyers representing President-elect Donald Trump were each charged with 10 additional felonies in a scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Wisconsin.

According to The Associated Press, Wisconsin attorney Jim Troupis, campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro, and Mike Roman, election day director for Trump, were initially charged with a felony count of forgery in June.