News Wrap: Bondi directs federal prosecutors to pursue death penalty for Luigi Mangione
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | In the day's other headlines, Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the accused shooter of United Healthcare CEO. |
| 0:11.2 | That is in line with President Trump's day one executive order compelling DOJ to seek capital punishment whenever possible. |
| 0:19.0 | Mangioni faces both state and federal murder charges. |
| 0:22.5 | His state trial is expected to go first and would carry a maximum punishment of life in prison. |
| 0:27.7 | President Trump's first term saw more federal executions than under any president in modern |
| 0:32.7 | history. His predecessor, Joe Biden, prohibited federal executions. |
| 0:43.4 | In Lithuania, the fourth and final U.S. Army soldier who went missing in Lithuania last week, |
| 0:45.8 | along with three others, has been found dead. |
| 0:51.3 | Their armored vehicles submerged in a swamp during a training exercise near the Belarus border, |
| 0:55.0 | spurring a difficult week-long recovery operation. The U.S. Army is notifying next of kin and investigating what caused the incident jointly with Lithuanian authorities. |
| 1:02.0 | In the Middle East, Israel struck the Lebanese capital of Beirut today for the second time since a ceasefire with Hezbollah |
| 1:09.0 | took effect last November. |
| 1:14.4 | It hit a building in the city's southern suburbs, killing four people. |
| 1:20.5 | Israel says its target was a Hezbollah member who was helping to plan an attack against Israeli civilians. |
| 1:24.0 | Residents of the area say the strike came without warning. |
| 1:29.4 | We were sleeping. We hear a sound and a powerful strike hit. |
| 1:31.7 | My daughters asked me what was going on. |
| 1:33.5 | I told them, don't be afraid. |
| 1:35.9 | You can't tell a child these are strikes. |
| 1:37.1 | They've lived through them. |
| 1:39.1 | We asked around what had happened. |
| 1:41.9 | They said the strike hit our neighbor next to us. |
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