Who brazenly killed a health insurance CEO in NYC? The search continues
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
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The search continues for the shooter in this week's brazen New York killing.
Three U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Texas have been charged in an alleged human smuggling operation involving noncitizens.
It's been a historic week for Bitcoin.
USA TODAY Personal Finance Reporter Daniel de Visé discusses what it really means to live paycheck to paycheck.
China's ban on exports of gallium, germanium and more could cost the U.S. billions.
USA TODAY National Correspondent Elizabeth Weise talks about the return of wolves to California.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, ad-free right now. |
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| 0:12.3 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Friday, December 6th, 2024. |
| 0:17.8 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:25.6 | Today, the latest following this week's shooting of a healthcare CEO. Plus we check in with Bitcoin during a historic week for cryptocurrency and wolves are making a big comeback in California. |
| 0:33.6 | After United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on a New York City sidewalk this week, police have still not found the shooter as of early this morning. |
| 0:44.0 | But they did release photos yesterday of a person wanted for questioning. |
| 0:47.9 | The two surveillance pictures show a person of interest without a face mask wearing a hooded jacket similar to one worn by the masked person captured on photos and videos from Wednesday morning's shooting outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. |
| 1:01.1 | In a statement accompanying the photos made public yesterday, the New York Police Department wrote that the shooting does not appear to be a random act of violence, but rather a targeted attack. |
| 1:10.7 | Near the hotel investigators |
| 1:11.9 | discovered a cell phone. They'd begun to analyze forensically, as well as three bullet casings |
| 1:16.7 | inscribed with the words, deny, defend, and depose. Multiple news outlets reported yesterday. |
| 1:23.3 | Those terms have been associated with insurance company's strategies for rejecting claims, |
| 1:28.3 | but police have said they are still working to determine the shooter's motive. |
| 1:32.0 | For more on this story and a closer look at how the shooting took place, |
| 1:35.4 | we have a link in today's show notes. |
| 1:37.7 | And for all the latest on the search for the shooter, stay with usat today.com. |
| 1:45.5 | Three U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Texas have been charged in an alleged human smuggling |
| 1:50.4 | operation involving non-citizens from Mexico and Guatemala, according to federal officials. |
| 1:56.2 | Per a Justice Department news release, Amelia Mendoza-Lopez, Anhel Palma, and Enrique Hauregui are all U.S. |
| 2:02.6 | soldiers stationed at Fort Cavazos north of Austin. On November 27th, a U.S. Border Patrol agent |
| 2:08.1 | stopped a vehicle in Presidio, Texas, but the car fled as the agent approached the passenger |
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