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1 Suspect Who Killed United Healthcare CEO On The Run
At 6:45 am yesterday morning, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was headed to an investor conference in New York City when a gunman approached him from behind and fired several shots; Thompson was pronounced dead at a local hospital about a half-hour later. Police say the gunman arrived at the location about five minutes before Thompson did and said in a press conference yesterday that the killing was a “premeditated, preplanned, targeted attack.” Talking to NBC News, his wife Paulette Thompson said “there had been some threats” against her husband, saying “Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details. I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him.” Despite those comments from his wife, the motive for the killing of Brian Thompson was still unknown as of last night.
2 Two Students Shot, Suspected Gunman At California Christian School Dead
Two kindergarten students at a Christian grammar school in Northern California were shot yesterday by a gunman who then died from what’s believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The two boys who were shot, ages 5 and 6, were taken to the hospital and were in “extremely critical condition” as of last night according to Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea. According to Honea, the suspected shooter had met with a school administrator earlier in the day to talk about enrolling a student at the school, a meeting described as “cordial.” The sheriff said the shooter had been identified, and he may have targeted the school because of its affiliation with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
3 White House Official Says Chinese Hack Of Cellphones Bigger Than First Believed
You may have heard that a Chinese hacking campaign has been spying on texts and calls through at least eight major telecommunication company’s customers, including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies, but now we know it’s a bigger problem than first thought. A top White House official told NBC News yesterday that the hacking is much bigger than previously revealed to the public, and includes “dozens of countries around the world” according to Anne Neuberger, a deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology at the National Security Council. During the press call, Neuberger and other officials said they don’t believe that any of the US telecoms have eliminated the threat completely, which has led to advice from the FBI that people should use encrypted channels to communicate for now. The FBI says it’s in the process of notifying Americans whose calls it believes were compromised, but doesn’t plan to notify everyone. An official said the “Salt Typhoon” attack was mainly interested in call records of people in the Washington, D.C. area. In a statement, China said it “firmly opposes the US’s smear attacks against China without any factual basis.”