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Federal court records confirm that Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty if convicted for murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and federal firearms charges carrying the possibility of execution were dismissed. What is left are stalking charges that carry a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole. People fixating on the death penalty …
Trump just announced a 250% tariff on pharmaceutical imports. “We want pharmaceuticals made in our country,” he told CNBC. The plan starts with a small tariff, then jumps to 150%, then 250% within 18 months. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/trump-says-pharma-tariffs-could-eventually-reach-up-to-250percent.html India and China are the top two drug suppliers. India shipped $9.8 billion in meds to the U.S. last …
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by Chris Black You can’t just put brown people in prison. Not after all they’ve been through during the Crusades, and what not. Remix: Despite 34-year-old Berhan S. breaking into the Protestant school in the multicultural Berlin neighborhood of Neukölln and stabbing two little girls, his crime will go unpunished. Instead, the courts have ruled …