Ashley Southall

Dec 11, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Ashley Southall |Maria Cramer

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was found with a notebook that detailed plans for the shooting, according to two law enforcement officials. The notebook described going to a “bean-counter” conference and killing an executive, the officials said. “What do you do? You wack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention.

Dec 11, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Ashley Southall |Maria Cramer |Jacob Geanous |Megan Tomasic

The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has mesmerized a deeply polarized nation that shares a collective frustration over dealings with health insurance companies. On social media, some people have cheered for the gunman and expressed little remorse over the death of Thompson, 50, a father of two boys from Maple Grove, Minnesota, with some painting him as the villain in a national health care crisis.

Dec 11, 2024 | nytimes.com | Ashley Southall

For Rastafarians like Richard Chung, a leather craftsman with a bundle of salt-and-pepper dreadlocks, marijuana has long been both sacred and a livelihood. Those dual uses made Rastafarians instrumental in building New York's illegal cannabis market, and made them frequent targets of the police. Mr. Chung, now 70 and known by his spiritual name, Ras Opio, was arrested several times over the decades that he sold weed.

Oct 24, 2024 | gvwire.com | Ashley Southall

NEW YORK — In the middle of a Donald Trump photo-op at a barbershop in the Bronx last week, a half-truth emerged from the scrum and gathered steam in the ensuing days of relentless campaign coverage. But the statement in this case didn’t come from Trump. It was a barber whose words, edited and condensed for television, would spark a social media frenzy. The barber, Javiel Rodriguez, Jr., told Trump that he was concerned about the rising cost of energy.

Oct 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Ashley Southall

In the middle of a Donald J. Trump photo op at a barbershop in the Bronx last week, a half-truth emerged from the scrum and gathered steam in the ensuing days of relentless campaign coverage. But the statement in this case didn't come from Mr. Trump. It was a barber whose words, edited and condensed for television, would spark a social media frenzy. The barber, Javiel Rodriguez, Jr., told Mr. Trump that he was concerned about the rising cost of energy.