The chief executive of one of the United States’s largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed outside a New York Hilton hotel in an apparently targeted hit Wednesday. Brian Thompson was shot just before 7 am outside the hotel in the Midtown district of Manhattan. Police are searching for the killer.
Police hunt for US healthcare executive’s masked killer after New York attack
Author of children’s grief book convicted of husband’s murder
Loisa Lane
Kouri Richins, who wrote a children’s book about grief, was found guilty of murdering her husband with fentanyl.
Commission resists overhaul of carbon pricing amid soaring oil prices
Iris East
EUROPE MORNING BRIEFING
Today, the European Commission maintains its stance on carbon pricing.
Energy tax cuts are being proposed amid rising oil prices, despite