NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Luigi Mangione has escaped the death penalty. The accused killer’s life will be spared after federal prosecutors said Friday they will not appeal a judge’s ruling to quash capital punishment against him. In a letter, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District said it accepts U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett‘s Jan. 30 decision to dismiss a death penalty-eligible murder charge against Mangione, who is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson Dec. 4, 2024. Despite not being tried on murder charges, Mangione still faces two federal stalking charges. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Sept. 8.  Opening statements will begin in October.Mangione, 27, also faces life in prison at a separate murder trial in state court slated to begin in June. He has pleaded not guilty to Thompson’s killing. To charge Mangione with the federal count of murder through use of a gun, prosecutors need an underlying crime of violence, Garnett said in her January ruling. POLICE SERGEANT DENIES HEARING LUIGI MANGIONE MOTHER’S ALLEGED DAMNING STATEMENT ABOUT CEO KILLING Garnett wrote that she was bound by Supreme Court precedent.”Over the course of the last two decades or so, the Supreme Court has embarked upon a…

A West Point cadet used artificial intelligence to create a nude image of a woman and threatened to release it if she did not respond with explicit photos. In return, he received a general court-martial that ended with his dismissal from the Army.During a judge-alone trial at West Point earlier this month, former cadet Cayden Cork pleaded guilty to charges tied to the manipulated image and his extortion attempt, according to the Army. A charge sheet provided by the United States Military Academy alleges that in 2024 Cork used AI to alter a publicly-available photo of the victim, creating a fake image that looked like the victim, posed without clothes. It says that Cork later called and texted the victim, asking her “how accurate is this?” The charge sheet alleges that in September of that year, he threatened to make a doctored image public if she did not heed his request to “send an ass pic.” The victim’s name was redacted from the charge sheet. Cork was convicted of one specification of extortion and one specification of indecent conduct, violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice under Articles 127 and 134, the Academy said this week, adding that the…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  Negotiations with Iran have reached a breaking point just as a parade of 6 planets is appearing in the night sky and a major blood moon eclipse is approaching next week. The skeptics will continue to insist that this is “just a coincidence” even as the missiles start flying. The third round of talks between the United States and Iran has ended in Geneva, and they produced nothing. The U.S. wanted Iran to transfer all enriched uranium out of the country, to cease all future uranium enrichment, to destroy all Iranian nuclear facilities, and to agree that all restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program will be permanent. It is being reported that Iran flatly rejected all of those proposals… In Geneva talks, Iran rejected the idea of transferring uranium stockpiles abroad, and objected to ending uranium enrichment, dismantling its nuclear facilities and permanent restrictions on its program, The Wall Street Journal reported citing people familiar with the talks. In addition, the Iranians would not even talk about any restrictions on their ballistic missile program or their support for terrorist proxies throughout the Middle East. On top of everything else,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An angel dad whose daughter was killed by an illegal immigrant is decrying lawmakers for refusing to stand in support of American citizens during Tuesday’s State of the Union.During the address, President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to stand if they agree that the first duty of the American government is to protect its own citizens rather than illegal immigrants. While Republicans erupted in a standing ovation, the majority of the Democratic side of the chamber remained seated.Joe Abraham, whose daughter Katie Abraham was killed by an illegal immigrant in January 2025, said the moment showed that families like his have become invisible.”At the State of the Union, you can’t stand up for some of these simple ideals? It’s so odd to me,” Abraham said Friday on “The Riley Gaines Show.” “I don’t really understand exactly what’s going on, but we’ve got some evil folks running things,” he added.His daughter and her friend were killed when a Guatemalan national who was in the United States illegally struck their car while driving about 80 mph. The driver had been previously deported and was using multiple aliases to obtain a driver’s license.Since his daughter’s death,…

The Trump administration on Friday ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology and imposed other major penalties, culminating an unusually public clash between the government and the company over AI safeguards.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he was designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, a move that could prevent U.S. military vendors from working with the company.Hegseth’s remarks, delivered in a social media post, came shortly after the Pentagon’s deadline for Anthropic to allow unrestricted military use of its AI technology or face consequences — and nearly 24 hours after CEO Dario Amodei said his company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Defense Department’s demands.RELATEDCalling the company “Leftwing nut jobs,” President Donald Trump said Anthropic made a mistake trying to strong-arm the Pentagon. Trump wrote on Truth Social that most agencies must immediately stop using Anthropic’s AI but gave the Pentagon a six-month period to phase out the technology that is already embedded in military platforms.At issue in the defense contract was a clash over AI’s role in national security. Anthropic had said it sought narrow assurances from the Pentagon that Claude won’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons.…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Friday said he was ordering every federal government agency to stop using Athropic AI immediately.”THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military,” Trump began in a lengthy Truth Social post Friday afternoon.He added, “The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.”The president said he would immediately direct every federal agency to stop using Anthropic technology. “We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again!” he continued.There will be a six-month phase out period for agencies such as the Department of War, he added.”Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has replaced the director of Defense Department-run schools for military children. Defense officials announced Feb. 20 that Beth Schiavino-Narvaez will step down from her role as director of the Department of Defense Education Activity on March 6. Paul Craft, a retired Army colonel, will step into the role effective March 9. No reason was given for the change. But in announcing the appointment of Craft to the position, Hegseth stated, “He is the right leader to swiftly reorient [DOD] towards patriotic values and classical learning, consistent with the Department’s focus on merit, standards, and excellence.”Some military family advocates contacted by Military Times said military families are watching this transition closely.“Secretary Hegseth has said the system will be reoriented toward ‘patriotic values’ under this new leadership. But military kids don’t need to be taught patriotism; it’s their lived experience every day alongside their parents in uniform,” said Libby Jamison, a founding member of Military Families for Free Expression, a nonpartisan coalition of military-connected families working to protect free expression and opposing censorship in their communities.“If anything, they are the ones who could teach the rest of us what patriotism looks like in practice. What military-connected students do…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Virginia State Senate and its Democratic majority may have voted themselves a nearly 300% pay increase if a provision inserted into their final budget survives the House reconciliation process and reaches Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s desk.The development comes as Spanberger has centered her campaign on “affordability,” with Richmond Democrats echoing that they are working to improve their constituents’ personal finances.Virginia’s legislature itself was founded as a part-time, gentleman’s chamber, where lawmakers would return to their dayjobs when Richmond wasn’t holding session. Proponents of raising the current 1988-established salary of $18,000 for senators and $17,640 for delegates say the structure restricts who can afford to serve as a lawmaker today. Lawmakers also qualify for a $237 per diem, mileage reimbursements, and coverage of office, meeting and other expenses.Senators’ new salary would be $50,000.Republicans were quick to criticize the final budget, with the Virginia Senate Minority Caucus saying in a statement that “teachers got a 3% raise, but Democrats give themselves 300%.””The affordability hoax just gets worse and worse,” the caucus said, adding that the chamber’s majority killed a repeal of the car tax — something GOP gubernatorial nominee Winsome Sears ran on —…

Scouting America will alter several policies at the urging of the Pentagon, including one targeting transgender youths, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday as he pushes a campaign against military support for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.Some of the changes mirror what the organization suggested to the Pentagon in January, including discontinuing its Citizenship in Society merit badge, introducing a Military Service merit badge and waiving registration fees for the children of military personnel.Under Hegseth, the Pentagon has taken aim at the military’s partnership with Scouting America, decrying its historic rebrand in 2024 from the Boy Scouts of America and other changes in recent years that he sees as part of “woke culture” efforts that he wants to root out.Hegseth said in a video posted on X that Scouting America will require its members to use their “biological sex at birth and not gender identity.” He said applications will list only options for male and female and the one checked must match the applicant’s birth certificate. The group would clarify that youths of opposite genders assigned at birth cannot share bathrooms, tents or other similar spaces, he said.Hegseth said the Pentagon will “vigorously review” the changes Scouting America has made…