Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a busy Manhattan sidewalk, will appear in court on Friday in New York City. The prosecution and defense are expected to give updates on the status of the case Friday.

Luigi Mangione has a court date in his murder trial Friday for allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to the state charges of murder and terrorism.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage from New York City, where Luigi Mangione is set to appear in court for the first time since December. Mangione, 26, faces murder and terror charges over the death of Brian Thompson, who was the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Thompson, a father of two, was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel in December.

Hadi Matar was found guilty on Friday of attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie in an onstage stabbing attack at a New York arts institute in 2022.

A New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage has been convicted of attempted murder.

The decision was reached after the eight day trial of Hadi Matar, who is accused of stabbing the author in 2022 more than a dozen times as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.