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Attorneys for Luigi Mangione will pursue a mental health defense at his upcoming murder trial in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, the judge overseeing the case revealed at a pretrial conference Wednesday.

Justice Gregory Carro ordered material be unsealed related to Mangione’s defense that he was extremely emotionally disturbed when he allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown in 2024.

Carro instructed Mangione’s attorneys to turn over to prosecutors the name of the mental health expert they relied on as well as any report they draw up related to a mental health defense.

More...Carro said defense attorneys need to let prosecutors know the “malady” that their expert says Mangione was allegedly suffering that may have led him to kill Thompson.

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Daveigh Chase, the young actress best known for "The Ring" and "Lilo & Stitch," has reportedly died. She was 35.

According to TMZ, Chase died Tuesday, June 16, from meningitis and an infection in her blood, her boyfriend Roy Hernandez told the outlet. TMZ reports she was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital earlier this month for malnutrition.

That same year, she terrified horror fans as the long-haired, rubber-jointed Samara in "The Ring," who iconically crawls out of a television set in order to claim her victims. Her bone-chilling performance earned her the MTV Movie Award for best villain, beating out the likes of Daniel Day-Lewis, Mike Myers, Willem Dafoe and Colin Farrell in her category.

USA TODAY has reached out to Chase's representative for comment.

Chase had her big-screen breakthrough at age 10 costarring as Jake Gyllenhaal's younger sister, Samantha, in the 2001 psychological thriller "Donnie Darko." She continued to find success as a voice actress: playing the young heroine Chihiro in the English-language dub of Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away," and the misfit Lilo in Disney's 2002 animated hit "Lilo & Stitch."

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It’s no longer a dream. 

This will really still be there when Knicks fans wake up. This is actually reality. This is forever. 

For multiple generations, this was only something Knicks fans could see when they closed their eyes and let their minds wander. It was a ghost of the past – 53 years to be exact. It was a hypothetical.

Jalen Brunson had a look in his eye that was visible even from the stands. 

It was noticeable everywhere in the arena.

He was in the middle of one of the great Finals performances in NBA history. He knew it. His teammates knew it. The Spurs knew it. 

Everyone knew it. And there was nothing anyone could do to stop it until it was over. Until the final score read Knicks 94, Spurs 90 and the celebrations began Saturday night at the Frost Bank Center. 

Until the Knicks were officially champions.

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Two-time Nascar Cup Series champion Kyle Busch has died at 41 after being hospitalized with a severe illness, Nascar said in a Thursday statement.

“We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup champion and one of our sport’s greatest and fiercest drivers. He was 41 years old,” the racing organization wrote on social media. “We extend our deepest condolences to the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and the entire motorsports community.”

No cause of death was given.

Busch’s family had announced his hospitalization earlier on Thursday, saying he wouldn’t compete as planned at this weekend’s Nascar race in Charlotte, North Carolina.

During a Nascar Cup Series race on 10 May at Watkins Glen, Busch radioed in to his crew requesting medical aid from Dr Bill Heisel and a “shot” after the race. According to the TV broadcast, Busch had been struggling with a sinus cold that was exacerbated by the intense G-forces and elevation changes at the upstate New York road course.

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The two teenage assailants responsible for a mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, California, rushed toward the mosque “fully armored” with handguns and rifles, authorities said.

A security guard shot and struck one of the shooters, according to members of the mosque – but the attacker continued charging. The guard – Amin Abdullah – also alerted administrators of the school at the Islamic Center, telling them to go into lockdown, before he was shot and killed. “If it was not for him … The carnage would be much worse,” said imam Taha Hassane. “He sacrificed his life.”

Two other victims – identified by the Islamic Center as Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad – had been on the phone calling the police, when they were killed. A witness shared details of what he saw transpire in an Instagram post from the Islamic Center. Police rushed to the scene and ultimately found the suspected shooters near the masjid, dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

The Islamic Center called the three victims “three heroes martyred” and have started a fundraiser for their families and for others impacted by the mass shooting.

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Ted Turner's legacy as a businessman and outspoken environmentalist will continue after his death at 87.

Turner died "surrounded by his family" Wednesday, May 6, his company Turner Enterprises announced in a news release obtained by USA TODAY. The mogul, who used his massive media fortune to uplift causes, including United Nations refugee and children programs and conservation efforts, is survived by his five children, fourteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

The maverick businessman earned his fortune by turning a financially struggling Atlanta TV station into a media empire around CNN, the first 24-hour cable news station, as well as his celebrated ownership of the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks.

Here's who Turner is leaving his legacy to, and just how much the late business titan was worth upon his death.

Ted Turner was not married at the time of his death. The businessman was married three times: to Judy (Nye) Turner in the '60s, with whom he had daughter Laura and son Robert Edward "Teddy" IV; Jane Smith Turner from 1964 to 1980, with whom he had his three remaining children, Beau, Rhett and Jennie; and, perhaps most famously, to actress Jane Fonda, from 1991 to 2001.

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