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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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A weekend Base jumping accident in a Utah canyon killed two people, one of them a daredevil athlete best known for performing onstage with Madonna at the 2012 Super Bowl, authorities said.

The sheriff’s office in Grand county, Utah, confirmed one of the dead was Andy Lewis, an extreme athlete known for feats in Base jumping, a dangerous sport that involves parachuting to the ground after jumping from a tall fixed object such as a building, a bridge or a desert cliff overlooking a deep canyon.

Lewis was also a prominent figure in the niche sports of slacklining and tricklining, which combine elements of high-wire walking with aerial acrobatics – sometimes at perilous heights.

Lewis went from obscure athlete to overnight celebrity when he appeared onstage in Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl half-time show. Dressed in a Roman toga, Lewis bounced and executed tricks on his inch-wide line like it was a trampoline while Madonna sang behind him.

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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become overrun with algae just days after the landmark underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation that painted the pool's basin "American Flag Blue," a dark navy, ahead of Independence Day.

Crews clean up algae that began to grow in the Reflecting Pool days after the Trump administration’s at least $13 million renovation project that repainted the surface “American Flag Blue” on Monday, June 15, 2026.

People walk along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool where algae has begun to bloom following the completion of recent renovations on June 14, 2026 in Washington, DC. The reflecting pool construction project started in April and work was completed last week as part of President Donald Trump's plan ahead of the nation's 250th anniversary.

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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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