Disturbing evidence emerges as accused Ivy League killer faces new charges in slaying
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old former Ivy Leaguer who allegedly abandoned a career in computer science to assassinate UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is facing increasing legal troubles as state and federal prosecutors continue to up the charges against him and reveal new evidence.
A new federal criminal complaint alleging charges of stalking, murder through use of a firearm and federal firearms offenses accuses Mangione of keeping a journal in which he outlined the deadly plot, mused about choosing a victim and patted himself on the back for continuing to research the target.
“This investor conference is a true windfall,” one of the entries reads, according to the affidavit. “And – most importantly – the message becomes self-evident.”
The new federal case brings the potential for the death penalty back into the equation, should Mangione be convicted. Mangione’s New York criminal defense attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, was reportedly caught off guard by the federal charges, and suggested the Manhattan DA’s office was also left in the dark by the Southern District. “Is there one case, two cases, two investigations? Is there a joint investigation? Frankly, I’ve never seen anything like that and what’s happening here,” Agnifilo said, the New York Post reported. “This is a highly unusual situation that we find ourselves in.”
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“Is there one case, two cases, two investigations? Is there a joint investigation? Frankly, I’ve never seen anything like that and what’s happening here.”
Mangione allegedly wrote about wanting to “wack” an insurance CEO and that he was “glad – in a way – that I’ve procrastinated, [because] it allowed me to learn more about UHC.”
He allegedly wrote that he chose to target the insurance industry because “it checks every box.”
Then he allegedly shot Thompson in the back outside a Hilton hotel in Manhattan, where UnitedHealthcare was slated to host its annual shareholder conference later that morning on Dec. 4.
“The radicalization that is taking place across our country, we cannot ignore,” NYC Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday after Mangione landed in Manhattan after being flown in from Pennsylvania. “When you see an incident that took place on our streets, when you witnessed the shooting that took place on a school campus, by now, a young girl that is the continuation of our young people are crying out for help. We have an obligation not only to make apprehensions after an incident of this magnitude, but to do far more to prevent.”
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Assistant FBI Director James Dennehy also slammed Mangione’s allegedly twisted morality.
“Luigi Mangione allegedly conducted the carefully premeditated and targeted execution of Brian Thompson to incite national debates,” he said in a statement. “This alleged plot demonstrates a cavalier attitude towards humanity – deeming murder an appropriate recourse to satiate personal grievances
The document includes surveillance images that purport to show the suspect approaching and fleeing the scene, the moment of the murder, and the suspected murder weapon and 3D-printed suppressor.
Read the federal criminal complaint
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The affidavit also alleges that Mangione wrote a letter addressed “to the Feds.”
“I wasn’t working with anyone,” the journal reads. “This was fairly trivial: Some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience.”
CAD is an acronym for computer-aided design. Social engineering is a technique that hackers use to trick people into divulging information to someone who isn’t authorized to receive it.
Mangione obtained both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania at the same time, then went on to work as a computer programmer before sources say he fell out of touch with his parents over the summer and resurfaced in New York City earlier this month in connection with the Thompson slaying.
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“P.S. you can check serial numbers to verify this is all self-funded,” the Feds letter continued. “My own ATM withdrawals.”
Investigators allegedly recovered about $10,000 in cash during Mangione’s arrest by police in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He denied it was his in court.
His defense team, however, argued that New York’s first-degree murder charge, which includes an allegation of terrorism, is an overreach. The federal charges go even further.
“The federal government’s reported decision to pile on top of an already overcharged first-degree murder and state terror case is highly unusual and raises serious constitutional and statutory double jeopardy concerns,” Agnifilo told Fox News. “We are ready to fight these charges in whatever court they are brought.”
The federal complaint repeats some details stated by Manhattan prosecutors and the NYPD and lays out a clear timeline.
Mangione allegedly came to New York from Atlanta, Georgia, arriving at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan around 10 p.m. on Nov. 24. The first place he went from there was to the Midtown Hilton hotel where the murder would take place, according to authorities. Then he took a cab to a hostel on the Upper West Side.
He checked in under the fake name “Mark Rosario,” according to court documents, showed a fake ID and paid cash. However, when a clerk at the hostel asked him to take off his mask so she could see his face, he did – in front of a surveillance camera. That image circulated widely after the NYPD asked for the public’s help identifying a suspect and ultimately led to Mangione’s arrest.
The entire rest of the time he spent in New York, the suspect “consistently kept his mask on…including while inside the hostel.”
On the day of the murder, Dec. 4, Mangione allegedly left the hostel carrying a gray backpack and riding an electric bike around 5:35 a.m. Police used multiple surveillance cameras to track his route from the Upper West Side to the Midtown Hilton.
Around 5:41 a.m., Mangione was allegedly seen walking near the crime scene and making a purchase at a nearby coffee shop.
“On at least one occasion, prior to the murder, the Shooter was depicted using a cellphone,” according to the affidavit.
At around 6:45 a.m., Thompson arrived outside the hotel. Mangione had allegedly been waiting for nearly an hour. He allegedly gunned down the victim, fled on foot to West 55th Street, got on the electric bike and rode north. He disappeared into Central Park for an unspecified time period and emerged near West 77th Street and Central Park West, riding the bike but without the gray backpack.
Just before 7 a.m., he ditched the bike, and within minutes hailed a taxi that drove him to the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal in Upper Manhattan. A surveillance camera in the taxi took a picture of his masked face.
Surveillance video shows a gunman step out from between two parked cars, walk up behind Thompson and shoot him from behind, striking him in the back and the leg. Thompson’s expected presence at an investor conference scheduled for 8 a.m. that morning had been public information.
Police recovered spent shell casings and at least one live round with the words “deny,” “delay” and “depose” written on them – a possible reference to a book that was critical of the insurance industry.
“I respectfully submit that MANGIONE is the Shooter who shot and killed the Victim on December 4, 2024,” an FBI agent wrote in the affidavit. “Additionally, the Notebook entries, the Feds Letter, the Shooter’s apparent surveillance of the Midtown Hotel on November 24, 2024 and December 4, 2024, and the Shooter’s use of countersurveillance techniques and escape from New York City all suggest that the Shooter undertook extensive efforts to identify the Victim, place the Victim under surveillance, and track the Victim’s whereabouts in the time period leading up to the murder.“
The federal charges include two counts of stalking, travel in interstate commerce and use of interstate facilities, murder through use of a firearm and a federal firearms offense. They come shortly after Mangione was indicted on first- and second-degree murder and domestic terror charges in New York.
“Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was handling three of the biggest trials in the country: the Trump hush money case, Daniel Penny, and Mangione, but Trump’s newly appointed Attorney General and Manhattan U.S. Attorney will be swooping in shortly,” said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor who now runs a private practice that frequently places him on the opposite side of insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare in court.
“Federal charges change the game. New York doesn’t have the death penalty, but the federal government does. The feds may be trying to send a message to Mangione to take a plea to take the death penalty off the table.”
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Speaking after Mangione’s first appearance in federal court, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Edward Kim said that, at least for now, he expects the state case to proceed before the federal one.
“They can talk all they want about ‘parallel cases,’ but as a practical matter, that’s not going to work,” said Paul Mauro, a former NYPD inspector who has been closely following the case. “And while DOJ is reportedly going to allow the Alvin Bragg case to go first, let’s see if that holds post-Jan. 20.”
That’s when President-elect Trump will take office, along with a change in Justice Department leadership.
Authorities in New York and Pennsylvania have both condemned widespread online support for Mangione, who is accused of sneaking up on a father of two and shooting him from behind with a handgun and homemade silencer.
“Luigi Mangione is now formally charged and indicted for murder, and let me be perfectly clear, in the nearly two weeks since Mr. Thompson’s killing, we have seen a shocking and appalling celebration of cold-blooded murder,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters Wednesday. “Social media has erupted with praise for this cowardly attack.”
Mangione was taken to a Manhattan federal court after arriving in New York. His lawyers declined to comment after the hearing.
“Respectfully decline to make any comment at this point,” Friedman Agnifilo told reporters. “Mangione appreciates support.”
Pentagon admits it’s been giving reporters false information for months
The Pentagon says there are 2,000 U.S. troops deployed in Syria, more than double what officials with the Department of Defense have been telling reporters for months.
“We have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately 900 U.S. troops deployed to Syria,” Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Ryder told reporters during a press briefing on Thursday. “In light of the situation in Syria, and in significant interest, we’ve recently learned that those numbers were higher.”
Ryder asked to look into the numbers and said he learned on Thursday that there are about 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria.
“It was explained to me these additional forces are considered temporary rotational forces that deploy to meet shifting mission requirements, whereas the core 900 deployers are on longer term deployments,” he continued. “As you know, for many of our deployments, numbers will fluctuate from time to time, but given that this number is significantly higher than what we’ve been briefing, I wanted to let you know, as soon as I found out this information.”
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The lead spokesman said there are diplomatic and operational security considerations with deployments and the numbers of troops associated with those deployments, as was the case with Syria.
Ryder noted that the troops were in Syria before the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad – who fled to Russia earlier this month and ended a nearly 14-year struggle to maintain power in his country – and help augment the defeat of ISIS mission.
After learning of the fluctuation in number of troops, Fox News’ Pentagon correspondent Jennifer Griffin pressed Ryder about the correction to the number of troops and timing.
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“This is more than double the number of troops that we’ve been told for quite some time. So, are we talking about this has been going on for months? For Years?” Griffin asked. “Is this something that just happened this summer? We need a time frame.”
“Yeah, I think it would probably be fair to say at a minimum, months,” Ryder said. “I’ll go back and look. But it’s…yeah, it’s been going on for a while.”
The news of additional troops in Syria comes as interest in the region is exceptionally high, especially after the fall of Assad.
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Attacks by the Turkish military on Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have increased since the Syrian president fled to Russia on Dec. 8. In an interview with Fox News this month, Gen. Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the SDF, warned that if his Kurdish fighters have to flee, ISIS would return.
He also said half of his fighters guarding the ISIS camps had to withdraw.
“All of the prisons still are under our control. However, the prisons and camps are in a critical situation because who is guarding them? They are leaving and having to protect their families,” Gen. Mazloum said. “I can give you one example like the Raqqa ISIS prison, which contains about 1,000 ISIS ex-fighters. The number of guards there have diminished by half which is putting them in a fragile position.”
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Fox News previously reported that the U.S. had 900 troops in Eastern Syria, but now that number is about 2,000, and they would likely have to withdraw if the allied Kurdish fighters retreat under attack from Turkey’s military, which views the Kurds as a terrorist threat.
Democrat-run state restricts egg sales as price of breakfast staple flies higher
Nearly all eggs sold in Michigan starting before the New Year must come from cage-free birds, even as egg prices continue to climb.
Michigan lawmakers modified the Animal Industry Act in 2019, requiring shell eggs from chickens, ducks and other fowl, sold in the state to be from cage-free housing systems, starting Dec. 31, 2024.
The new law, though, does not apply to the sale of shell eggs produced on a farm with less than 3,000 egg-laying hens, nor does it apply to liquid or cooked eggs.
But for those farms affected, the law prohibits business owners from selling eggs from an egg-laying hen if care cannot be provided while standing within the hens’ usable floor space.
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The law also states that chickens are not to be confined or tethered in a way that prevents them from lying down, standing up, fully extending their limbs or turning around freely.
Most of the guidelines for cage-free eggs were established in the United Egg Producers 2017 rules, which set the standards for how much area must be provided in order for eggs to qualify as cage-free.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the new law.
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The news comes as egg prices continue to rise, and industry experts project that these higher costs will persist into 2025, especially if Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as “bird flu” infections, continues.
Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute Sector Manager Kevin Bergquist said egg prices have been elevated since 2023 due to the combination of seasonal price increases during the holidays and disruption in egg supply due to bird flu.
Prices over the past year have “generally” remained above 2023 prices and even “often exceeded egg prices from 2022, which was when HPAI really caught the egg market,” according to Bergquist.
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Wholesale egg prices, which jumped nearly 55% in November, do not necessarily reflect consumer egg prices at the grocer, which can vary widely.
According to the Consumer Price Index, grocery prices rose 0.5% in November, with four of the six major grocery store food groups rising in cost. Eggs showed the largest increase by a wide margin.
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Prices for meat, poultry, fish, and eggs rose 1.7% in November, but prices for eggs rose 8.2%.
DNC fundraiser shuts down ‘delusions’ of VP Harris making political comeback
DNC fundraiser Lindy Li tore into Democrats’ “delusions” about a Kamala Harris political comeback on Thursday, amid party buzz of the vice president staging a 2026 gubernatorial or 2028 presidential run.
“This is not what America wants. November 5th was a decisive defeat for the Democratic Party. She lost every single swing state. It wasn’t a squeaker like it was in 2016. This was a resounding defeat and, right now, Kamala Harris is indulging in delusions of running for governor of California, possibly in 2026 or even president again in 2028. America has said, ‘We don’t want to be coconut-pilled. We do not want Kamala Harris. We don’t want failed border policies,’ and I feel like I’m liberated, and I can finally tell the truth that the Democrats completely failed on the border,” Li said on “America’s Newsroom.”
Li’s rebuke comes after DNC Executive Board member Yvette Lewis said Wednesday she would be “on board 100 percent” with whatever Harris decides to do in the future, calling her a “phenomenal candidate” despite her crushing Electoral College loss to President-elect Trump.
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Li told Bill Hemmer she has been ostracized by fellow Democrats for speaking out about the state of the party after the election, particularly citing the moment she said the Democratic Party was plagued by the “stench of loser.”
“I lost tens of thousands of followers because I dared to tell the truth. Because in a cult, you can’t tell the truth. You can’t ask any questions, but I’m done with that,” she said.
“I’m probably going to get canceled again for what I am about to say — men are men and women are women, and it’s an issue when men are trouncing women in women’s sports. This should not be a controversial take. This is common sense, and the American people understand that the Democratic Party, they exist in their ivory towers that are so far removed from reality, and these ridiculous [culture] wars are not what Americans care about.”
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Democrats are now working to recalibrate and assess what went wrong during the 2024 election cycle. Many members of the party, like Li, have blamed “out of touch” messaging for the loss.
“We care about bread and butter issues. We care about putting food on the table, sending our kids to school, strong borders, not having millions of people rush to the border, and I’m a naturalized immigrant myself. Just because you care about these issues doesn’t make you a sexist, racist,” she said.
Some former aides say that Harris has limited time and political capital to decide whether she wants to run for office again.
“She doesn’t have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months,” one former Harris campaign aide told Politico. “The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships.”
“There will be a desire to hear her voice, and there won’t be a vacuum for long,” a person close to Harris reportedly said.
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Patient receives cross-species transplant — and miraculously walks out of hospital days later
An Alabama woman has successfully received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health.
This was the seventh pig organ transplant completed by NYU Langone surgeons.
Towana Looney, 53, miraculously walked out of the hospital just a few days following the procedure.
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In an NYU Langone press conference, Looney expressed feeling “overjoyed” and “blessed to have received this gift – a second chance at life.”
“I want to give courage to those out there on dialysis,” she said.
Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst and NYU Langone clinical professor of medicine, joined “America Reports” on Wednesday to share how this should bring hope for the future of transplant medicine.
“We have a great shortage of body organs,” he said. “And even if we get people to donate, we’re still going to have a big shortage … so we’ve got to do something.”
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“We can bio-engineer them, or we can use them from other species, [which is] called xenotransplant.”
Siegel commended Looney on her “incredible” journey, which began when she donated her own kidney to her mother 25 years ago.
“She is looking for any other possibility, any other chance, at having a normal life again.”
Looney then developed a rare complication while pregnant, according to Siegel, which led to kidney failure.
NYU Langone Transplant Institute Director Dr. Robert Montgomery called Looney a “hero” while speaking to Siegel in a separate interview.
“She gave the gift of life to her mother,” he said. “She’s someone who already paid a really significant price for an incredible act of generosity.”
“She is looking for any other possibility, any other chance, at having a normal life again.”
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Montgomery shared that he thinks Looney will “change the face of transplantation.”
According to Siegel, Montgomery is one to know about the struggle of waiting for a donated organ, since he himself had a heart transplant after surviving 30 cardiac arrests.
“My epiphany in living through that – and realizing that I probably wouldn’t live through it – was that we needed another source of organs,” said Montgomery, noting that “far less” than 1% of people who die every year are eligible to be an organ donor.
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“At the same time, the number of people who can benefit from an organ transplant continues to increase,” he added.
Out of the seven pig organ transplants that have been performed at NYU Langone, Siegel confirmed that “this one worked” to the extent that Looney was able to walk out of the hospital.
Montgomery explained to Siegel that this is because the kidney had been modified with 10 genetic modifications.
The “key” now, according to the doctor, is to focus on immunology to help ensure that Looney’s immune system doesn’t reject the kidney.
“That’s why going forward, in the future, this is going to be a big deal when we get past the rejections,” Siegel added.
“This is the future.”
Out of the 100,000 people awaiting an organ transplant each year, 80,000 of them are waiting for kidneys, according to Siegel, but this type of transplant could also extend to hearts and livers.
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“This is the future,” he said.
The accessibility of lab-manufactured, or bio-engineered, organs is “much farther away” than xenotransplantation, which is “in front of us now,” Montgomery added.
Discount retailer announces ‘going out of business’ sales at its remaining locations
National retailer Big Lots, which is based in Columbus, Ohio, announced Thursday that it will begin having Going Out of Business (GOB) sales at all of its remaining stores.
The retail chain also announced it does not anticipate completing a previously announced asset purchase agreement with Nexus Capital Management and will continue working toward an alternative sale with either Nexus or another company. Big Lots, Inc. hopes to have the sale completed by early January.
With no deal set, the company will begin GOB sales to protect the value of its estate.
“We all have worked extremely hard and have taken every step to complete a going concern sale,” Big Lots’ President and CEO Bruce Thorn said. “While we remain hopeful that we can close an alternative going concern transaction, in order to protect the value of the Big Lots estate, we have made the difficult decision to begin the GOB process.”
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Big Lots did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ questions and a request for comment on the matter.
Big Lots launched Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in early September to help facilitate the sale of “substantially all” of its assets to its “stalking horse bidder” Nexus Capital Management.
The discount retailer said at the time that its board had concluded “entering into the Sale Agreement with Nexus, and initiating a court-supervised sale process, is the best path forward to maximize value and ensure continued operations.” Nexus must be the winning bidder of a court-supervised auction for the transaction to close.
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Prior to filing Chapter 11, Big Lots told the SEC it planned to close 35-40 stores, which quickly grew to hundreds. The retailer operates around 1,400 stores across the U.S. and employs over 30,000 workers.
In the Chapter 11 filing in September, Big Lots said there would be additional store closures, and in October, it announced another 50 stores would be shuttering.
The discount retailer is known for selling home goods, furniture, seasonal decorations and other products.
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In the second quarter, Big Lots generated $1.05 billion in net sales, an over 8% decline compared to the same three-month period last year. Its quarterly net loss was nearly $238.46 million.
Nick Jonas sparks social media fury with response to Elon Musk’s X post
Singer-songwriter Nick Jonas stirred reactions for what many X users interpreted as support for Elon Musk, after posting a picture of the multi-billionaire entrepreneur and incoming DOGE co-chair along with the caption, “Take us to the Year 3000.”
The apparent play on a 2006 Jonas Brothers hit song came in response to Musk commenting on an older GIF featuring the band rotating a coffee table with the caption “My, how the tables have turned” in reference Musk made to a story about Tesla’s success since President-elect Donald Trump’s win.
The presumption of support for Musk drew ire from many on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, though Jonas never explicitly voiced support for Musk’s ideas.
“I hope one day your daughter meets a man who treats her like Elon and the rest of his friends treat women. Let’s see how supportive you are then,” one critic wrote.
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Another X user posted a screenshot from her device, showing Musk’s X account was blocked, but Jonas’ response to his tweet was visible.
“I’ll have to block you too, sorry,” she wrote.
A third commentor demanded that Jonas delete the post “now,” writing, “this man is horrible and even if this was meant as just a joke, it’s not funny.”
Widespread remarks similarly called for Jonas to take down the post or reflect on how his response to Musk impacted his fans.
An overwhelming number of X users rushed to Jonas’ defense, slamming the critics for overreacting, reading between the lines and feeding into cancel culture. Even some who dislike Elon Musk came to his defense.
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One X user wrote, “You can think Elon has good ideas and is a visionary AND still disagree with him sometimes same with Trump., They both used to be democrats. Maybe we should all collectively chill and stop being so polarizing.”
Another commenter cited the wave of criticism as evidence of “why Trump won.”
“They’ll try to mob and guilt you for something as simple as tweeting at Elon. The left is so far gone and out of their minds,” they added.
A third chimed in with, “Amazing how many people are legit offended by this post. No one got emotional about Elon talking to Cenk Uygur, or replying to John Fetterman. Do y’all ever consider that you act a lot like zealots in a cult?”
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Sources close to Jonas reportedly told the Daily Mail, “Nick is not going to waver from his post on Elon Musk nor will he double down, and doesn’t plan on deleting it. He thinks many are taking things a little overboard in how they are reacting to it all… For Nick, there are a lot more important things to worry about than dealing with online trolls over what he thought was a fun and non-drama filled post.”
“Support or not, Nick was trying to be clever over making some type of statement or announcement of support, but on the internet, you can’t do anything without getting attacked. This will pass and Nick has already moved on from whatever controversy this somehow has made.”
Fox News Digital reached out to a representative for Jonas for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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Arizona NFL star’s priceless reaction to learning just how cold upcoming game could get
The Arizona Cardinals could be bracing for some cold weather as they head to Charlotte, North Carolina, this weekend amid a late push to make the playoffs, and Kyler Murray had a very relatable reaction when asked by reporters about it.
Fresh off of snapping a three-game losing streak with a win over the New England Patriots, Murray sat down with the media on Wednesday to discuss the team’s next challenge: playing in the cold.
Murray initially seemed indifferent about playing in the cold – that is until he found out just how cold it could get.
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“No, I mean I’ve played in cold weather before. I don’t know, how cold is it supposed to be?”
One reporter responds, “35 or 40” degrees.
“S—,” Murray said with a laugh.
According to FOX Weather, the mild temperatures in Charlotte are expected to dip before Sunday’s game against the Panthers with a high of 40 and a low of around 20 degrees.
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The temperatures are nowhere near the frigid temps that some teams can experience playing in places like Green Bay or Buffalo this time of year, but for a team out of Arizona – it could certainly be a factor.
The Miami Dolphins failed to shut down the narrative surrounding warm-weather teams playing in the cold when they fell 30-17 to the Packers in Green Bay last month.
“Obviously, they’re coming from Miami, it’s hot there, and then when you come here and play in that cold weather, you get affected by it,” Packers safety Xavier McKinney said after the game. “So I think it affected everybody on that team.”
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The Cardinals making the playoffs isn’t impossible, but it is a tall ask. They’ll have to win out the season and claim the division to earn a wild-card spot.
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