Luigi’s backpack, social media ban & woke fonts

Luigi Mangione’s backpack, Australia’s social media ban, woke fonts and other news stories from this week. More details on Mangione below, subscribe to our newsletter for a deeper dive into all these stories. Prosecutors are trying to re-enter Luigi Mangione’s backpack as evidence. Moments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear. The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to keep evidence out of his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan five days earlier. “It’s him, dude. It’s him, 100%,” an officer was heard saying on body-worn camera video from Mangione’s Dec. 9, 2024 arrest, punctuating the remark with expletives as the officer combing the bag, Christy Wasser, held up the magazine. Caption from article by Michael Sisak, Associated Press.