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Newly released bodycam footage shows the arrest of Luigi Mangione, who has since pleaded guilty to murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Ali Bauman has more.

A Venezuelan alleged Tren de Aragua leader who became the FBI's first-ever cyber fugitive on its Ten Most Wanted list is back on U.S. soil after being captured overseas last month.

Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, 50, also known as "Prometheus" and "The Engineer," appeared in a Nebraska courtroom Friday to face charges tied to a multimillion-dollar ATM "jackpotting" scheme.

He pleaded not guilty to four federal conspiracy charges during his initial court appearance and will remain detained in Nebraska while awaiting trial, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

FBI Director Kash Patel touted Aguirre's return as the 10th Ten Most Wanted fugitive captured since the beginning of the Trump administration and the first cyber fugitive ever placed on the list.

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"Now he’s back in the United States to face justice," Patel said. "This FBI is running on supercharged horsepower — and there is nowhere on this planet criminals can hide."

Patel said the 10 captures are more than 2½ times the total recorded during the previous four years.

Aguirre was apprehended last month in Venezuela, and Patel subsequently told lawmakers the FBI had captured one of the nation's top fugitives.

The FBI previously told Fox News Digital that Aguirre led "a large international conspiracy to steal millions of dollars from financial institutions in support of the Tren de Aragua, through an ATM jackpotting scheme since at least 2024."

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An ATM "jackpotting" attack is a type of cyberattack in which criminals exploit vulnerabilities in an ATM, including through the use of malware, to force the machine to dispense cash, according to the DOJ.

Prosecutors say Canelon Aguirre developed malicious software and was one of the leaders of the alleged ATM jackpotting conspiracy.

The DOJ says the broader ATM jackpotting conspiracy has been linked to Tren de Aragua, which the U.S. has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

Attorney General Todd Blanche said DOJ has charged nearly 350 alleged TdA members and associates since the designation.

"The capture and arrest of Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre marks yet another success for the Homeland Security Task Force and Joint Task Force Vulcan," Blanche said. 

"We will continue to break up narcoterrorist finance networks, prosecute violent criminals, and keep American neighborhoods safe."

Aguirre faces four conspiracy counts involving bank fraud, bank burglary and computer fraud, money laundering and providing material support to terrorists.

The bank fraud conspiracy charge carries the highest maximum penalty at 30 years in prison, according to DOJ.

Fox News Digital's Robert McGreevy contributed to this report.

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Donald Trump’s White House expanded its press team Friday, tapping Real America’s Voice correspondent Beni Rae Harmony to be assistant press secretary.

The 24-year-old Harmony, who has served as Real America’s Voice’s White House correspondent since joining the conservative network in September 2025, confirmed her appointment on X Friday evening, after TMZ reported earlier that day that she had been scooped up to work for Trump.

“I’m excited to announce that I am joining the Trump Administration as Asst. White House Press Secretary,” she wrote. “It’s been an honor to report, travel and cover this historic administration as Senior White House Correspondent for Real America’s Voice. My goal has always been to ask the questions that matter to real Americans and make sure their voices are heard.”

“I’m incredibly grateful to President Trump for this opportunity and his trust,” she continued. “I’m looking forward to this next chapter – serving the American people and continuing to fight for the American Dream. America First.”

Harmony’s addition to the press team comes as the White House has yet to find a replacement for Karoline Leavitt, who stepped down as White House press secretary at the end of August.

Trump broke the news on Truth Social at the time, writing, “Our wonderful White House Press Secretary, and one of my most trusted aides, Karoline Leavitt, will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect!”

Leavitt welcomed her second child, a daughter named Viviana “Vivi” Riccio, in May 2026.

As Trump went on, he praised Leavitt’s work in the administration and said she would remain involved in his political operation after leaving the White House, writing, “Karoline will continue on as one of my TOP outside Advisors, and will remain an influential voice within the Republican Party as we head into the Midterms.”

Leavitt, 27, became the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary when Trump returned to office in January 2025. 

Following the news of her planned exit, Leavitt wrote on X, “The truth is since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary — and that is why I have ultimately made the bittersweet decision to depart the White House and embark on a new chapter in my life.”

Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials have stepped in to give press briefings as the press secretary position remains vacant.

The post Trump Finds New Assistant Press Secretary in Real America’s Voice Correspondent appeared first on TheWrap.

This article originally appeared on The Wrap at https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/politics/trump-names-assistant-press-secretary-beni-rae-harmony/

Security threats prompt US and Australia to suspend diplomatic operations in Brazil before pivotal election day.

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to attend next week’s marquee college football matchup between No. 7 Alabama and No. 2 Georgia.

Trump revealed his plans during a midterm campaign rally at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. The president is expected to be at Bryant-Denny Stadium when No. 7 Alabama hosts No. 2 Georgia on Oct. 10.

Both teams are undefeated and considered national championship contenders. The game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET and air nationally on ABC.

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The SEC rivals met twice last season. Alabama earned a 24-21 regular-season victory in Athens before Georgia responded with a dominant 28-7 win in the SEC Championship Game. Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart improved to just 2-7 against the Crimson Tide with the conference title victory.

Trump also attended the teams’ memorable 2024 meeting in Tuscaloosa, when Alabama built a 28-point lead and held on for a 41-34 victory. He watched that game from a suite alongside several prominent Republican figures.

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Next week’s visit will mark Trump’s third trip to Bryant-Denny Stadium for a football game. He also attended Alabama’s 46-41 loss to LSU in 2019 and returned to the university to deliver its commencement address in May 2025.

Trump has made frequent appearances at major sporting events throughout his second term. His Alabama visit will come only two weeks after he attended Texas’ 20-17 victory over Tennessee at Neyland Stadium, where Air Force One performed a low-altitude flyover before kickoff.

Trump also attended the College Football Playoff National Championship in January, Game 3 of the NBA Finals in June and the FIFA World Cup final in July, where he participated in the trophy ceremony.

In 2025, Trump became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl. He also appeared at the Daytona 500, the U.S. Open men’s final, the Ryder Cup, the Army-Navy game and multiple UFC events.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday appointed Letitia James as special prosecutor for the investigation into the alleged rape at a Cornell University frat house in 2024. CBS News' Lilia Luciano has more.

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The race for control of the Senate is changing in the final weeks before the midterms, with the GOP defending several traditionally red-leaning states.

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The failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee on Wednesday has added new fuel to the longstanding debate over the death penalty in the United States. It has also drawn new scrutiny to the question of whether lethal injection, the nation's primary method of execution for the past 40 years, is truly a "more humane" alternative to other ways of putting someone to death.

Pike was given a death sentence in 1996 after being convicted of killing her classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in an attack she carried out with her then boyfriend. After 30 years on death row, and a last-minute legal battle that temporarily delayed her execution, Pike was scheduled to be put to death on Wednesday night. 

However, the two doses of pentobarbital she was given proved not to be fatal. According to witnesses, Pike remained alive and snored loudly for 40 minutes after the drugs were administered. Eventually, the execution was called off and she was taken to the hospital for treatment. 

Pike's attorney Randy Spivey reported Thursday afternoon that she was in critical condition and receiving "life-saving care." She was unconscious and placed on a ventilator in the hospital, according to a filing by her legal team on Friday.

Spivey admonished the state for going forward with lethal injection despite his warnings ahead of time that a blood-clotting disorder called thrombocytosis "would cause her to suffer an agonizing death." Pike's attorneys had asked the courts to permit her to die by hanging, but the request was denied. 

"The state of Tennessee has shown once again that they are not capable of carrying out an execution consistent with basic human dignity," he said. "Last night was not just inefficient, it was cruel and it was torturous. It was also predictable."

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee suspended all other executions in the state and called for a "comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred."

Pike is the first person in modern U.S. history to survive the administration of lethal injection drugs, according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Seven other attempted lethal injections have failed, but in each case, the execution was called off due to difficulties finding a vein to administer the drugs. 

The doctor who administered Pike's failed execution was reportedly involved in the state's previous botched lethal injection earlier this year.

Lethal injection has been by far the most common form of execution in the United States since it was first introduced in the early 1980s, thanks largely to the view that it provides the quiet, non-violent death that other methods do not. But Pike is just one of many examples that contradict that belief, showing that lethal injections can sometimes be complex, error-prone and at times cause extreme suffering.

A 'more humane' execution

For centuries, executing someone inherently meant subjecting them to a violent death, either through hanging, the electric chair, firing squad or the gas chamber. 

It wasn't until the 1970s, in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling barring "cruel and unusual punishment," that states began seeking less violent methods of executing prisoners.

The first law legalizing lethal injection was introduced by an Oklahoma lawmaker who opposed the death penalty entirely, but felt the state should at least find an alternative to what he called the "dirty deed" of electrocuting a person to death. Supporters of legalizing lethal injection described it as a "more humane" alternative to electrocution. The first lethal injection was carried out in 1982 in Texas. Injection soon became the primary method of execution throughout the country.

Nearly 90% of the 1,693 executions carried out in the United States over the past 50 years have been by lethal injection. Lethal injection is the primary execution method in 25 of the 27 states that allow the death penalty. Only nine states use the electric chair or gas chamber. 

Christa Gail Pike on April 12, 2012.Dipti Vaidya-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images/Reuters'A circus of suffering'

For decades, the primary approach was to inject the condemned person with a three-drug cocktail designed to put them to sleep, paralyze them and then stop their heart. In theory, this would mean that they died without experiencing any pain.

But the procedure is also much more complex than some other execution methods, which increases the chances that something can go wrong. Between 1982 and 2010, there were 75 botched injection executions that featured "unan­tic­i­pat­ed prob­lems" or "unnec­es­sary agony for the pris­on­er," according to research by Amherst College professor Austin Sarat. Lethal injections face complications at a significantly higher rate than any other execution method.

There's also growing evidence that lethal injection may not provide a peaceful death even when everything appears to go right. In 2020, NPR looked at the autopsies of more than 200 people who had died by lethal injection. It found that the overwhelming majority of their bodies showed signs that the prisoners likely endured what one medical expert described as "a cir­cus of suf­fer­ing" before dying that wasn't visible to witnesses.

More than 20 pharmaceutical companies have also refused to have their products used in executions, which has left states struggling to find the drugs they need to perform lethal injections. In some cases, they have experimented with unproven alternatives, with disastrous results.

An Oklahoma prisoner named Michael Lee Wilson said he could feel his "whole body burning" as he was being executed using a controversial drug cocktail in 2014. There have also been instances of prisoners gasping for air, heaving and coughing, convulsing and being subjected to "three hours of pain" before finally dying.

Other methods are gaining support

Mounting awareness of the shortcomings of lethal injection has led to calls for the revival of execution methods that had previously been largely abandoned. 

"While there should be a thorough review of what happened and why the process failed, the answer is simple: bring back the electric chair and deliver justice for these victims swiftly," Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn, the current GOP nominee to become Tennessee's next governor, wrote on social media Thursday. 

Some legal scholars have made the case that firing squads, for all of their brutality, may be the least inhumane way to put someone to death. That includes liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote in a 2015 opinion that "such visible yet relatively painless violence may be vastly preferable to an excruciatingly painful death hidden behind a veneer of medication."

Early last year, a convicted murderer in South Carolina named Brad Sigmon became the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. in more than 15 years. The state carried out two more firing squad executions before the end of the year. All three inmates chose to die by firing squad. Sigmon's lawyers told the Associated Press that he chose to die by firing squad to avoid the "monstrous" results of a botched lethal injection. 

Five other states also allow the use of firing squads. That includes Idaho, which recently made it the state's primary method of execution. The Department of Justice announced in April that it would add the firing squad to its list of potential execution methods in federal death penalty cases. 

Another novel execution method, nitrogen gas, was used for the first time in Alabama in 2024.

Though research suggests these other methods are less prone to error than lethal injections, there are still many examples of how things can go horribly wrong. 

Past electrocutions have involved inmates catching fire or surviving multiple waves of shocks before dying. 

Mikal Mahdi, a man who was killed by a firing squad last year, appeared to suffer tremendously before dying. He reportedly cried out after being shot, groaned twice and continued to breathe for more than a minute before falling motionless. A later autopsy showed that only two of the three bullets that were fired at Mahdi hit him, and neither of them struck his heart as intended.

The first person executed with nitrogen gas spent two minutes making "thrashing spasms and seizure-like movements" before falling still and wasn't declared dead until 10 minutes later. A later execution using the same method took more than 30 minutes to take effect and involved the inmate taking a long series of "heaving breaths."

It's unclear whether Wednesday's botched lethal injection will lead Tennessee to consider other execution methods in the future. 

This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/christa-pikes-botched-execution-fuels-questions-over-whether-lethal-injection-is-the-more-humane-way-to-put-people-to-death-192059157.html

G7 countries have agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after an export ban threat by Donald Trump.

Pittsburgh Penguins player Andrei Kuzmenko returned to the team on Friday after taking some time in the wake of his father's tragic death in a bear attack last month in Siberia.

Now, the 30-year-old, who is in his first season with the Penguins, has decided to honor his father, Alexander, by switching his jersey number.

Kuzmenko addressed the media at the team's practice facility ahead of Saturday's game against the Montreal Canadiens.

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An impressively composed Kuzmenko, given the circumstances, told the media that he wanted to speak to them because he understood that reporters have a job to do.

From there, he explained the circumstances of his father's death, which occurred on a fishing trip.

"My father go permit fishing with friends, and he stayed in the water," he said. "And bear (stand) behind him and attack. And my father fight (the) bear one hour, 10 minutes and he still lived after two days."

He also thanked everyone for the support he received in the wake of the tragedy.

As for his sweater number, Kuzmenko had worn No. 96 in all of his previous NHL stops with the Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings.

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Upon signing with the Penguins, Kuzmenko was preparing to use No. 10.

Now, he will wear No. 62, which, according to the Associated Press, carries a lot of personal significance.

His late father was 62 years old at the time of his death, while his mother was born in 1962.

Kuzmenko spent time in the KHL before arriving in the NHL ahead of the 2022-23 season, and has gone on to play in 271 games. In that time, he has racked up 182 points (85G, 97A).

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