Luigi Mangione to return to court following plea talks
Luigi Mangione appears at an evidence suppression hearing at Manhattan Supreme Court on May 18, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Jeenah Moon-Pool/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Accused killer Luigi Mangione is due back in Manhattan federal court Monday after talks to resolve his case with a guilty plea stopped without a deal.
Mangione, who has pleaded not guilty to federal charges he stalked UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson before shooting and killing him in December 2024 in Midtown Manhattan, is scheduled to stand trial in federal court in early 2027.
Ahead of Monday’s hearing, defense attorneys and federal prosecutors discussed a possible plea deal, sources told ABC News, but the talks stopped without one. It’s not clear how close to a deal they came or whether they will try again. Criminal defendants can change their plea before or during trial.
On Monday, the parties are expected to discuss plans for a trial, including the questionnaire prospective jurors will complete before in-person voir dire questioning.
Mangione has also pleaded not guilty to state charges he murdered Thompson and is scheduled to stand trial in New York State Supreme Court in September.
Defense attorneys recently gave notice that they intended to mount a psychiatric defense to the state charges, arguing Mangione experienced an extreme emotional disturbance prior to shooting Thompson, but they quickly withdrew the notice before a deadline to turn over his psychiatric records.
A school bus full of children was involved in a four-vehicle crash in Winter Haven, Fla., on Oct. 5, 2026. (Polk County Sheriff’s Office)
A school bus filled with children rolled over in a multi-vehicle crash Monday morning in central Florida, killing two and injuring dozens of others, according to authorities.
The bus was traveling to a high school and carrying 39 passengers, including 37 high schoolers, the bus driver and the driver’s 9-year-old daughter, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a press conference Monday morning.
Two people died in the crash, including a tenth-grade girl on the bus and the driver of a Jeep involved in the crash, Judd said.
The student was identified at a press conference on Tuesday as Adinaluz Prieto Oyola, 16, and the Jeep driver as Deshawn Smith, 26.
Five to seven trauma alerts were issued and 35 people went to the hospital, including one who was in critical condition Monday, according to Judd.
Officials said three individuals were still in the hospital receiving medical treatment as of Tuesday and are expected to be released.
The crash occurred in Winter Haven, Florida, and was reported at about 6:15 a.m. on Monday, according to authorities.
Video footage played at the press conference on Tuesday shows the school bus was driving in its lane when a white Chevy Malibu traveling the opposite direction drifted over the center line for unknown reasons, hitting the bus, Judd said. This caused the bus to crash into a silver Jeep head-on, he said.
Another vehicle was involved, bringing the total to four vehicles impacted by the crash, officials said.
Maria Jimenez, a 23-year-old nursing student, was driving the Chevy Malibu that crashed while on her way to work, Judd said Tuesday. Jimenez fully cooperated with authorities and told them she does not remember the crash, Judd said.
“It was a horrible crash,” Judd said. “It was a terrible, tragic morning.”
Emergency helicopters flew some victims to the hospital, while others left in ambulances or private vehicles, according to the sheriff’s office.
Video footage shows Jessica Dye, the bus driver, pinned against the seat inside the bus. Despite suffering injuries herself, Dye managed to release herself and immediately helped students to safety, officials said.
Judd said Dye had no realistic opportunity to regain control of the bus after being hit and was traveling in her lane under the speed limit at the time of the crash.
Smith, the driver of the Jeep, was also traveling under the speed limit on his way to work when his vehicle was hit, officials said.
Judd said no criminal charges are being filed at this time.
Three students from the bus were airlifted to the hospital, 22 students were driven by another bus to the hospital, four students were transported by their families to the hospital, and seven students plus the bus driver and his daughter were taken to the hospital by ambulance, according to Judd.
High schoolers called their families on their cell phones to notify them of the crash as officials worked after the incident to reunite students with their families, officials said.
Traffic homicide investigators responded at the scene on Monday.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Winter Haven Fire, Winter Haven Police, Haines City Police, Polk County Fire Rescue and Polk County Public Schools responded to the crash.
The investigation is ongoing as of Tuesday.
“It’s an incredibly tragic event that took place this morning,” Fred Heid, Polk County Public Schools superintendent, said on Monday. “We drill for this with our students intentionally so that they know how to evacuate a bus in the event of an accident, and we are very, very fortunate today that more students were not seriously injured, including the driver.”
Newark Liberty International Airport Terminal B. (Getty Images stock photo/Visual Aviaton)
(NEW YORK) — Flyers across the United States are facing massive disruptions to their travel plans on Monday after equipment outages stopped flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania, with no estimated time for resuming.
More than 600 flights have been canceled nationwide and another 4,000 are delayed on Monday, with Newark hit the hardest.
The issues began when a circuit blew at a Philadelphia air traffic control facility Monday morning, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said. When the backup system went into place, officials discovered the backup line in New Jersey had been cut, Bedford said.
In order to change the circuit in Philadelphia, Bedford said the airspace in the Northeast would be closing for at least 30 minutes, and ground stops were expanded to include New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport as part of the work.
Airspace has since reopened at JFK and LaGuardia, but officials said the fix to replace the circuit in Philadelphia has not worked, leaving operations still halted at Philadelphia and Newark’s airports, with no time estimate for when they’ll resume.
The outage caused a ripple effect across the Northeast and the U.S., diverting some flights and canceling and delaying others.
United Airlines, which has one of its hubs at Newark Airport, said the “FAA technology outage is affecting all airlines in the Northeast.”
“Flights that had been destined for Newark have either been held at their departure airport or diverted to alternative airports,” United said in a statement. “Once the FAA outage is resolved, we will work to safely get our customers to their destinations, and have issued a travel waiver to give our customers flexibility to manage their travel plans.”
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
ABC News’ Jason Volack contributed to this report.
This photo shows the former Chi Phi fraternity house in Ithaca, where a former Cornell University student alleges that she was drugged and gang-raped in 2024. (ABC News)
(NEW YORK) — As prosecutors reopened an investigation into a former Cornell University student’s allegations of being drugged and gang-raped at a fraternity house in 2024, a state-mandated survey of undergraduate students revealed that more than one-third of undergraduate women said they had experienced sexual assault during their time at the Ivy League university.
According to the school’s 2025 Survey of Sexual Assault and Related Misconduct (SARM), 35% of undergraduate women at the Ithaca, New York, school reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact involving force or incapacitation since entering Cornell. Among undergraduate men, 8% said they experienced the same.
“Despite a long history of actions to address sexual assault, culminating in Cornell’s Sexual Violence Framework … rates of sexual assault remain persistently high,” according to a summary report released in March by the Cornell University Presidential Task Force on Campus Sexual Assault (TFSA).
The report also found that alcohol played a part in “the majority of reported incidents,” with the perpetrator having consumed it prior to the incident in 62% of cases and the victim having done so in 55% of incidents.
“In 50% of cases, respondents reported being conscious but incapacitated by alcohol or drugs during all or part of the incident,” according to the report, with 19% saying they were “passed out or unconscious for some or all the time.”
Reported instances of sexual assault were significantly higher among Cornell undergraduate women who were “Greek-affiliated” compared to those who were not: 52% to 29%, respectively, according to the report.
“If there’s one takeaway from all of this, it’s that we know for certain that sexual assault is underreported,” Jennifer Simmons Kaleba, vice president of communications for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), the nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization, told ABC News.
“Whether the numbers grew 2%, 3%, something like that, the reality is it’s probably much higher than that,” Kaleba said.
Kaleba said her group, which runs a national sexual assault hotline, estimates that 1 in 6 freshman women experience sexual assault in their first year of college, and that 1 in 4 undergraduate women and 1 in 14 undergraduate men experience rape or sexual assault by force or incapacitation before they leave school.
Tompkins County, New York, District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said this week that his office is reopening an investigation into the 2024 alleged “gang rape” of a former female student by seven former and current members of the Chi Phi fraternity after the alleged victim, identified only as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit earlier this month, sparking outrage when news of the suit became public.
Cornell’s Chi Phi chapter was barred from campus after the Oct. 19, 2024, rape allegations were made. Trey Robb, the interim executive director of Chi Phi fraternity, said in a statement that all the accused members were kicked out of the Cornell chapter within three days of Jane Doe filing her police report in 2024.
Three of the defendants named in the suit have denied the allegations through their attorneys.
“Any suggestion that the University did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false,” Cornell said in a statement Monday, in part.
In an earlier statement, Cornell said it conducted a thorough Title IX investigation of Jane Doe’s allegations. “At its conclusion, the hearing panel issued a range of sanctions, which included expulsions and suspensions from Cornell,” the university’s statement said.
Van Houten said in a statement that his office is considering whether to bring criminal charges related to the incident, though he said the allegations in the civil complaint are “dramatically different” than the woman’s statement to police two years ago. He further said that his office did not bring charges in 2024 because the woman’s statement to Cornell police officers at the time did not allege she was drugged without her knowledge or that she did not consent to engage in sexual activities.
“It’s our intention to present the case to the Tompkins County grand jury with Jane Doe’s cooperation,” Van Houten told ABC News. “We want to reexamine whether there’s additional evidence that we were not aware of in November of 2024, that exists now that would change our assessment of the case and would result in the grand jury finding that there was criminal conduct.”
Kaleba told ABC News that some victims of sexual assault often do not recall exact details of what occurred to them until years later.
“One of the first things that people will say on the hotline is, ‘I think something happened,'” Kaleba said. “And so what we want is some black-and-white narrative that says everybody absolutely recognizes what sexual assault is and it’s this and it’s that, and the victim must also know exactly what happened to them and retell it to the detail with exactly the right emotion for the remainder of their lives.”
“That is profoundly unrealistic and another avenue to blame victims,” according to Kaleba.
