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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot Wednesday morning outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel, according to the NYPD. A United Healthcare spokesperson told CBS News the incident occurred during the company’s investors conference.

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New York prosecutors say Trump’s criminal conviction should stand: “President-elect immunity does not exist”

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New York prosecutors say President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House should not undermine the decision of 12 jurors who found him guilty of dozens of felonies in May, telling the judge overseeing the case that the conviction should stand.

“This Court should reject [Trump’s] motion to ‘immediately’ dismiss the indictment and vacate the jury’s guilty verdict based on the outcome of the recent presidential election,” prosecutors wrote in their filing, which was made public Tuesday. “There are no grounds for such relief now, prior to defendant’s inauguration, because President-elect immunity does not exist.”

Soon after Trump’s election in November, his defense lawyers promised to urge Justice Juan Merchan to toss his indictment in the “hush money” case and set aside the verdict. They made their motion on Dec. 2, hinging their push to discard the will of 12 jurors who sat for the seven-week trial on an unlikely subject: President Biden’s son, Hunter. Trump’s attorneys said the announcement of Hunter Biden’s controversial pardon echoed Trump’s complaints about his prosecution, claiming it was politically driven.

Prosecutors did not mention either Biden or the pardon in their response filing.

They hit back against the core of Trump’s effort to set aside his conviction. Trump’s lawyers — two of whom are slated to take on senior roles in the Justice Department after Trump’s inauguration — have argued that it would be unconstitutional for an incoming president to carry the burden of a guilty verdict reached before his election.

“[Trump’s] suggestion that his subsequent election ‘superseded’ the jury’s verdict is deeply misguided,” prosecutors wrote. “As this Court carefully and correctly instructed the jury, it was the empaneled jurors who were ‘deciding whether the Defendant is guilty or not guilty’ because only these jurors — not the general electorate — heard all the evidence in this trial.”

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Former President Donald Trump walks out of court and toward the media following the verdict in his “hush money” trial in New York on Thursday, May 30, 2024.

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Prosecutors argued Trump’s lawyers are trying to “effectively extend the period of [Trump’s] immunity to a time before his presidency, by wiping out the effects of an indictment and jury verdict that took place before he was even reelected President.”

Trump’s sentencing has been postponed three times since his conviction in May. It was initially scheduled for July 11, but Merchan pushed that date back so Trump’s attorneys could file a separate motion to dismiss following a landmark Supreme Court ruling. The nation’s highest court concluded in early July that former presidents could not be charged for official acts, and evidence related to their official work as president could not be used as evidence against them.

Merchan has not ruled on that motion. He postponed the second sentencing date, Sept. 18, after Trump’s lawyers argued it was too close to the election. After Trump’s election victory on Nov. 5, they demanded a Nov. 26 sentencing date be postponed so they could file the new motion to dismiss the case, revolving around his return to the White House.

Bragg’s office said in its filing it would be open to postponing sentencing and other proceedings until after Trump’s term in office, which ends in 2029.

“If [Trump] is not sentenced before his inauguration, there is also no legal barrier to deferring that sentencing until after the end of his presidency,” they wrote.

The judge’s decision will be the latest moment in the case to set a historical precedent. Trump was the first person to be elected president after being convicted of crimes. When the unanimous jury concluded in May he was guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records, he became the first former president ever convicted of crimes. In March 2023, Trump became the first former president ever indicted when a grand jury concluded he should be charged.

The case focused on a coverup of a “hush money” payment to an adult film star. Trump authorized a scheme to conceal reimbursements to a lawyer who made the payment days before Trump’s first election.

Trump pleaded not guilty in the case and has promised to appeal his conviction.



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Another infant dies in listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat meat and poultry products

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A second infant has died in an 8-state listeria outbreak related to recalled Yu Shang Food ready-to-eat meat and poultry products, according to federal health officials. The products were sold online and at retail locations nationwide, according to federal health officials.

Nineteen cases are confirmed, with 17 hospitalized, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its latest update. States with confirmed illnesses include: California, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Tennessee. 

Seven of the illnesses are related to pregnancy, the CDC stated.

In California, a mother and her twins were sick and both infants died, but because listeria was found only in a sample from the mother and one twin, only the mother and one twin are included in the confirmed cases in the outbreak. 

In Tennessee, a mother and her infant were sick and the baby died. 

Sick people’s samples were collected from Oct. 24, 2021, to Oct. 28, 2024, the agency said.

The outbreak might be higher than reported, the CDC said, because people who have gotten sick may not have gotten tested for listeria. It takes 3 to 4 weeks to determine if someone was part of an outbreak. 

Listeria can be especially harmful to pregnant people, people age 65 or older, and those with weakened immune systems. 

People stricken in the outbreak reported buying their food from multiple stores and online where Yu Shang food products are sold. 

Those with recalled products should throw them out or return them, officials urged. Produced before Oct. 28, 2024, the recalled products involve those with “Yu Shang” or “Yushang” (establishment number “P46684” or “EST. M46684”) on the label.

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Image of recalled Yu Shang Food ready-to-eat meat and poultry product.

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Spartanburg, South Carolina-based Yu Shang Food in late November recalled roughly 72,240 pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products, expanding its prior recall of 4,589 pounds of product. 

Here are the names of the recalled Yu Shang Food products, according to a list updated by the USDA:

  • Japanese Chasu Pork Belly
  • Braised Pork Belly in Brown Sauce
  • Seasoned Pork Feet
  • Seasoned Pork Hock
  • Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Head
  • Yushang Brand Cooked Chicken
  • Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Neck
  • Bazhen Seasoned Whole Chicken
  • Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Tongues
  • Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Wings
  • Chinese Brand Chicken Feet
  • Yushang Sausage Made with Pork and Chicken
  • Seasoned Pork Tongues
  • Seasoned Chicken Quarter Leg
  • Braised Beef Shank
  • Braised Chicken Szechuan Pepper Flavor
  • Yu Shang Brand Cooked Pork Hock
  • Seasoned Pork Snout Meat
  • Spicy Pork Ear
  • Spicy Chicken Gizzards
  • Spicy Pork Feet
  • Lambs Head Soup (frozen)
  • Chinese Brand Spicy Chicken Feet
  • Beef Tendon, Shank and Tripe with Chili Sauce
  • Brand Cooked Chicken Livers
  • Pickled Chicken Feet
  • Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetables



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President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, met Monday with Sen. Joni Ernst as he continues to push for support ahead of his confirmation hearing. CBS News congressional reporter Nikole Killion has more.

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