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Prepare for Chris Rock to make historical past.

The comic will take the stage on Saturday evening to carry out “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage,” the primary ever stay world streaming occasion for Netflix.

The efficiency will mark Rock’s sixth standup particular and his second for Netflix after 2018’s “Tamborine,” directed by Bo Burnham.

Netflix has launched a 30-second teaser for the extremely anticipated standup set through which Rock is alone in a dressing room, staring right into a mirror, when a voice proclaims, “Chris, they’re prepared for you.”

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“The Present Earlier than the Present” and “The Present After the Present,” that includes a few of Rock’s comic mates, will stream round his efficiency.

The particular will possible mark the primary of possible many stay occasions to return on Netflix, and Rock is predicted to handle being slapped ultimately yr’s Academy Awards. The particular airs practically a yr after the incident.

The pre-show begins at 9:30 p.m. ET and Rock goes stay at 10 p.m. ET. The post-show will observe his efficiency.

You simply want a Netflix account (or somebody’s password.)

The pre-show might be hosted by Ronny Chieng, Arsenio Corridor, Leslie Jones and Dean Cole. Extra performers are anticipated to shock viewers.

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Amy Schumer, Cedric the Entertainer, Ice-T, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Matthew McConaughey, Sir Paul McCartney, Sarah Silverman and Wanda Sykes are all set to make appearances.

David Spade and Dana Carvey will host the post-show, alongside Corridor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and JB Smoove.

The comic will take the stage on the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, MD.

“Chris Rock: Selective Outrage” streams Mar. 4 on Netflix.

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Police say UnitedHealthcare's CEO was likely killed with a ghost gun. What are they?

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Police say UnitedHealthcare's CEO was likely killed with a ghost gun. What are they?

A no guns allowed sign is posted at the 54th Street entrance to the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel in New York, where Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot last week.

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Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was carrying a “ghost gun” at the time of his arrest, authorities said.

The 26-year-old was “in possession of a ghost gun that had the capability of firing a 9 millimeter round” when he was arrested in Altoona, Penn., on Monday, New York Police Department (NYPD) Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a press briefing.

The NYPD said the gun, which is “consistent with the weapon used in the murder,” may have been made on a 3D printer.

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“I have no tolerance, nor should anyone, for one man using an illegal ghost gun to murder someone because he thinks his opinion matters most,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said on Monday.

Ghost guns, also known as privately made firearms, are assembled by their owners, either from scratch or through weapon parts kits. They are not marked with serial numbers, making them easy for criminals to acquire and difficult, if not impossible, for law enforcement to trace.

The Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said in 2022 that within the previous five years, it was only able to successfully trace 0.98% of suspected “ghost guns” back to their individual purchaser.

Over the last decade, a growing number of ghost guns have been recovered from crime scenes across the U.S., worrying many authorities. They have been used in homicides, domestic violence, robberies, killings of law enforcement officers, mass shootings and school shootings, including one that wounded two kindergarteners at a Northern California religious school last week.

The advocacy organization Everytown for Gun Safety has called them “the fastest growing gun safety problem in the country.”

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While it is legal in the U.S. to build a firearm for personal use, the Biden administration, as well as more than a dozen states, have tried with varying degrees of success to regulate ghost guns.

Here’s what to know.

How are ghost guns made?

There are several main methods for assembling a ghost gun, a process that gun control advocates say can take less than an hour and costs only a few hundred dollars.

One is to use a 3D printer — with the instruction manuals and videos easily available online — to create some or most of the parts from scratch.

People can also buy the necessary components online, either piece by piece or all together in what are called buy-build-shoot kits.

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‘Buy-build-shoot kits are weapon parts kits that are essentially pre-manufactured, [disassembled], complete firearms (a firearm in a box),” the U.S. Department of Justice says.

It was legal for retailers to sell those kits without running background checks until 2022, when the Justice Department passed a rule aimed at curbing the growing use of ghost guns in crimes.

How prevalent are ghost guns?

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Ghost guns seized in federal law enforcement actions are displayed at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives field office in California in 2022.

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Ghost guns have been around in the U.S. at least since the 1990s, but have proliferated over the last decade or so.

The ATF says it received approximately 45,000 reports of suspected ghost guns recovered by law enforcement in criminal investigations between January 2016 and December 2021. Of those investigations, 692 involved homicides or attempted homicides.

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Data from the bureau shows the number of suspected ghost guns rising steadily each year over that period, from 1,758 in 2016 to 19,344 in 2021.

State- and city-specific data also sheds light on the growing prevalence of ghost guns in recent years.

California data released in October shows that 8,340 ghost guns were recovered in the state in 2023, compared to just three in 2013.

Philadelphia police recovered 575 ghost guns in 2022, reporting a 311% increase in their use since 2019. The NYPD reported that officers seized 463 ghost guns in 2022, up from 263 the previous year.

“They are extremely dangerous and we must do more on the federal level to clamp down on the availability of ghost guns,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at Monday’s briefing.

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How are ghost guns regulated?

Private U.S. citizens are allowed to build guns for personal use under the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Even so, some state and federal authorities are taking steps to crack down on ghost guns.

Fifteen states have passed laws to regulate them, with many requiring serial numbers and background checks for component parts, and others — including New York — going a step further by requiring ghost guns to be reported to authorities.

In 2022, a Justice Department rule took effect that made weapons parts kits subject to the same regulations as traditional firearms, including requiring commercial sellers to become federally licensed, mark certain parts with serial numbers and run background checks on purchasers.

The rule also aims to regulate some of the ghost guns already in circulation, by requiring federally licensed dealers and gunsmiths to put serial numbers on any guns they take into inventory that don’t already have them, before selling them to another customer.

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“If you commit a crime [with a] ghost gun, not only are state and local prosecutors going to come after you, but expect federal charges and federal prosecution as well,” President Biden said that year.

Kit manufacturers and sellers challenged the rule in court, arguing the ATF exceeded its authority. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the rule to remain in place pending litigation and heard the case in October.

It has not yet made a decision, though NPR’s Nina Totenberg reported that the justices seemed inclined to side with the Biden administration.

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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in intensive care after brain surgery and is recovering “well”, the government announced on Tuesday.

The 79 year old, commonly referred to as Lula, underwent a craniotomy procedure to drain a haematoma on his head after an MRI scan showed an “intracranial haemorrhage”, according to a medical note shared by the government.

The injury related to a fall at home on October 19 and Lula had been suffering headaches, the note said.

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The surgery was “uneventful”, the note added, and Lula was being monitored in intensive care at the Sírio-Libanês hospital in São Paulo. Doctors will hold a press conference at 9am local time on Tuesday. 

Lula cancelled his attendance at the Brics summit in Russia in October, citing health reasons. His surgery comes at a challenging moment for his presidency after he returned to power for a third term last year, with a pledge to lift welfare spending and expand the role of the state.

His administration has sought to reassure investors over his plans by promising to eliminate Brazil’s so-called primary budget deficit, which does not include debt interest payments. However, it has already watered down its own targets for achieving a surplus from next year onwards.

The Brazilian real hit an all-time low last month, falling below six to the US dollar, because of mounting concerns over the country’s public finances. On Tuesday it was flat in early trading at 6.08 per US dollar.

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Luigi Mangione, alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer, charged with murder in New York

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Prosecutors in New York City charged accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione with murder late Monday night, according to online court records.

The 26-year-old was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon (loaded firearm), possession of a forged instrument and criminal possession of a weapon (firearm silencer) in the brazen Dec. 4 shooting death of Brian Thompson.

Thompson, 50, was shot from behind on the sidewalk outside a NYC Hilton hotel before a shareholder conference. He was appointed the CEO of the company in April 2021.

Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday after a five-day nationwide manhunt for Thompson’s killer.

UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO MURDER SUSPECT ARRESTED AT PENNSYLVANIA MCDONALD’S

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A still image from video shows Luigi Mangione, 26, being taken into a Pennsylvania courthouse Monday evening after being questioned in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Fox News)

Rookie Altoona police officer Tyler Frye took Mangione into custody after an employee and a customer at a McDonald’s in the town thought he looked like the suspect on a wanted poster and called authorities.

When officers approached Mangione, who was wearing a mask and a beanie and working on a laptop in the back of the restaurant, and asked him to remove his face covering, they recognized him as the suspect wanted for questioning in Thompson’s murder.

During that encounter, he allegedly handed over a fake ID, gave a phony name, and “became quiet and started to shake” when asked if he’d recently been to New York.

He was also allegedly in possession of writings criticizing the healthcare industry and a ghost gun similar to the one believed to have been used to kill Thompson.

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Luigi Mangione was charged with multiple crimes, including first-degree murder, in New York City late Monday night in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Altoona police initially took Mangione into custody on charges unrelated to Thompson’s murder – possession of an unlicensed firearm, providing false identification to police and forgery.

WHO IS LUIGI MANGIONE, SUSPECT IN UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO MURDER? 

Mangione graduated top of his class from the elite Gilman School in Baltimore, and even delivered the commencement speech at his 2016 graduation, according to video of the ceremony.

“He seemed like a smart kid, he was always doing the right thing, it seemed like,” a former classmate, who was shocked by the arrest, told Fox News Digital Monday. “Wasn’t crazy.”

He then graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in engineering and was part of the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society for Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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A photo obtained by Fox News Digital shows Luigi Mangione.

A photo obtained by Fox News Digital shows Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

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Mangione is expected to be extradited to New York as early as Tuesday.

Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Brooke Curto contributed to this report.

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