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South Korea’s former defense minister, Kim Yong Hyun, attempted suicide while in detention over the president’s martial law declaration before officials stopped him.

This, as police raided President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office Wednesday amid the investigation into the president’s declaration.

The main liberal opposition Democratic Party plans to hold a second impeachment vote against Yoon on Saturday for his declaration to impose martial law after the first impeachment attempt failed last weekend.

Shin Yong Hae, commissioner general of the Korea Correctional Service, told lawmakers Wednesday at a parliament committee meeting that Kim attempted to kill himself overnight at a detention center in the capital of Seoul but that the attempt to end his life was unsuccessful after officials stopped him.

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Kim is listed in a stable condition.

Justice Minister Park Sung Jae also confirmed Kim’s failed suicide attempt during the parliament committee meeting.

Kim was detained early Wednesday after a Seoul court approved a warrant for his arrest on allegations of playing a key role in a rebellion and committing abuse of power. Kim was the first person formally arrested over the president’s Dec. 3 martial law decree.

A close associate of Yoon, Kim is accused of recommending martial law to the president and sending troops to the National Assembly to block lawmakers from voting on the motion. Lawmakers eventually managed to enter a parliament chamber, where they unanimously rejected Yoon’s decree, forcing it to be lifted just hours after it was declared.

Prosecutors have up to 20 days to decide whether to indict Kim in the case.

Cho Ji Ho, commissioner general of the National Police Agency, and Kim Bong-sik, head of the metropolitan police agency of Seoul, were detained over their actions during martial law on allegations of deploying police forces to the National Assembly to block lawmakers from voting.

SOUTH KOREA’S PRESIDENT YOON SURVIVES IMPEACHMENT ATTEMPT AFTER HIS PARTY BOYCOTTS VOTE

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP)

The country’s main law enforcement agencies are centering on whether Yoon, Kim and others involved in the martial law decree committed the crime of rebellion, for which a conviction carries a maximum sentence of death.

Yoon, a conservative, apologized on Saturday for the martial law declaration, saying he would not seek to avoid legal or political responsibility for the motion. He also said he would leave it to his party to lead the country through its political turmoil, “including matters related to my term in office.”

In declaring martial law, Yoon said he wanted to rebuild the country by eliminating “shameless North Korea followers and anti-state forces,” a criticism of his liberal rivals who control parliament.

Opposition parties and many experts say the martial law decree was unconstitutional. This was the first time martial law was imposed in South Korea in more than 40 years.

During a parliamentary hearing Tuesday, Kwak Jong-keun, commander of the Army Special Warfare Command whose troops were sent to parliament, testified that Yoon called him and requested that troops deployed at parliament “quickly destroy the door and drag out the lawmakers who are inside.”

Kwak said he did not follow Yoon’s order.

Participants gather to stage a rally demanding South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, in front of the headquarters of the ruling People Power Party in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP)

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Senior officer Kim Dae-woo of the military’s counterintelligence agency said at the same hearing that his commander, Yeo In-hyung, asked him if an army bunker in Seoul had space to detain politicians and other figures after martial law was declared. Yeo is considered a close associate of Kim.

If Yoon is impeached, his powers will be suspended until the Constitutional Court decides whether to remove him from office. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, the second in command in the South Korean government, would take over his presidential responsibilities.

Should the president be removed, an election to replace him must be held within 60 days.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

It is unlikely but not out of the question that Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, will face federal charges, and it is “fair to be concerned” that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will “mishandle this case,” former prosecutors told Fox News Digital.

Mangione was arrested by police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday morning after a five-day manhunt when a McDonald’s patron recognized his face from wanted posters.

On Tuesday, Mangione refused to waive his right to an extradition hearing in a Pennsylvania court, and his attorney said he intends to file a writ of habeas corpus challenging Mangione’s arrest. Bragg and Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks are working to get the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate to New York.

“There is no obvious hook for a federal murder prosecution,” James Trusty, who served as a prosecutor in Maryland for 27 years, told Fox News Digital, based on the publicly available details of the case. 

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However, Trusty said, evidence for potential federal charges could be found on Mangione’s laptop that was seized upon his arrest.

Although federal authorities can hand down murder charges, Trusty said “the types of things that could make it go federal is if [the murder] was in conjunction with organized crime, drug trafficking or a hate crime, which has a more narrow definition than just ‘I hate insurance companies,’” Trusty said.

Members of the Altoona Police Department wrote in a criminal complaint obtained by Fox News Digital that they found a “black 3D-printed pistol and a black silencer.” Possessing such a “ghost gun” – a home-cooked weapon that is unserialized and therefore untraceable – is a federal offense, former Joint Terrorism Task Force head and Port Authority Chief Security Officer John Ryan told Fox News Digital.

UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO MURDER SUSPECT LUIGI MANGIONE COMPLAINED ABOUT BACK SURGERY BEFORE SLAYING

This view shows the SCI Huntingdon State Correctional facility in Huntingdon, Pa., on Dec. 10, 2024. Luigi Mangione is being held at the detention center. (David Dee Delgado for Fox News Digital)

But sentencing for such a charge would amount to a far shorter sentence than a murder charge at a state level, Trusty said, likely just a year behind bars. 

“If there’s something like a ghost gun that becomes a separate standalone federal case, you could do that as a matter of a ‘safety net’ to say, ‘We’re going to get something out of this [prosecution],” Trusty said. 

Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy wrote in a Monday National Review article that he has misgivings about Bragg prosecuting Mangione’s case. 

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Luigi Mangione (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

“Can Alvin Bragg – the paragon progressive prosecutor who seems to regard the streets of New York as if they popped out of Howard Zinn’s revisionist American history textbook – be trusted to prosecute a radical leftist for carrying out a ‘direct action’ against a capitalist oppressor?” McCarthy wrote.

McCarthy, also a former prosecutor, wrote that it would “not surprise [him] if President-elect Donald Trump’s Justice Department nominees and the State Department “[take] a hard look at the Travel Act, an old standby in organized-crime prosections” to take the case out of Bragg’s hands.

A conviction for a federal charge also carries the possibility of a death sentence; capital punishment in New York was outlawed in 2004.

UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying suspect Luigi Mangione is shown at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., on Dec. 9, 2024. (Pennsylvania State Police)

But Trusty said this outcome was “highly unlikely.” Even if Mangione didn’t act alone, there would need to be some evidence that he was “part of an entity that commits crimes” for the Travel Act to apply.

“Think the Mafia, MS-13, Tren de Aragua,” Trusty said. “Even someone that helped him in an active conspiratorial role does not create a federal hook.” 

Mangione could have been charged with murder by federal authorities if Thompson had been murdered on federal property, Trusty said, but that is not the case.

Trusty said it is “fair” for McCarthy to have misgivings about Bragg’s potential handling of Mangione’s case.

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“I think Bragg has shown a proclivity towards political-minded prosecution decisions,” he said. “Charging Daniel Penny 11 days after the event was immediately a bad sign that he was listening to political voices and not doing a thorough investigation to determine what the facts are and what is a just result.”

“To add to that, his unprincipled prosecution of President Trump after he and the [State Department walked away from a Michael Cohen-led case] is another bad sign,” he said. “It is fair to be concerned that he will mishandle this case, perhaps by allowing politics to be injected into the decision-making process instead of being a professional prosecutor.”

Donald Trump is making a deliberate effort to soften his tone.

Or is he?

I’ve given this a lot of thought, having interviewed Trump twice this year, including two weeks before the election. He was focused and substantive, trying to reach a more independent audience, and while he took some campaign-style shots, he was relatively restrained by Trumpian standards.

Now that he’s the de facto president, I saw a similar Trump on display in the “Meet the Press” interview. Kristen Welker’s follow-ups must have annoyed him, because he told her she had asked “nasty” questions.

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During the campaign, such episodes were overshadowed by Trump’s rock-n-roll rallies, where he’d ramble on about the great Hannibal Lecter or Arnold Palmer’s genitalia. But his declaration on NBC that he also wants to represent those who didn’t vote for him is a long way from his 2017 “American carnage” inaugural address.

And yet, the president-elect has also mastered the art of saying things that can be interpreted two ways, or sending not-so-coded messages.

The Washington Post editorial board, not a big fan, says Trump “tried to sound a conciliatory tone” with Welker, backed by substance.

Trump declared he wouldn’t oust Fed chief Jerome Powell, and wants to work with Democrats to protect the Dreamers. Trump said he “would not restrict the national availability of abortion medication, and that the United States will ‘absolutely’ remain in NATO, as long as other member states spend what they have pledged on defense.” 

And why shouldn’t he appear more reasonable? He’s got the job he believes was unfairly taken from him. He can’t run again. He knows his first term was savaged by the left-leaning media establishment. If he can have a more successful second term – after turning on some top aides in the last go-round – he could modify history’s verdict.

And that brings us to the question of retribution. He said on NBC that the best retribution is success, the same line he used with me. On “Meet the Press” he even retracted a campaign declaration that he would name a special prosecutor to go after Joe Biden. 

BIDEN, TRUMP BOTH RIP DOJ AFTER PRESIDENT PARDONS HUNTER

When Welker asked whether he’d order the Justice Department, which he sees as having persecuted him, to investigate Biden and his administration, Trump gave a response that I doubt he would have offered in the first term.

No, he said, that would be up to his attorney general and FBI director, which will definitely be Pam Bondi and probably Kash Patel. Would he tell them to do it? Nope.

It’s called distancing.

Now one could argue that he was in effect suggesting they do it by announcing it on national television. But I’m sure they knew his views anyway. 

Trump’s one misstep on NBC was lashing out at members of the House Jan. 6 Committee. He said Liz Cheney “did something that’s inexcusable, along with [Bennie] Thompson and people on the Un-Select Committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” Trump told moderator Kristen Welker, arguing without proof that they “deleted and destroyed” testimony. “Honestly, they should go to jail.”

So that was a gift to his critics, enabling most journalists to lead with him wanting the lawmakers behind bars. By the way, their investigation and hearings are protected by the Speech and Debate clause, which gives the members immunity.

This mellowed-out “Trump 2.0” reared his head during a Meet the Press interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker. (Screenshot/NBC)

Trump senior adviser Jason Miller told CNN that his boss’ words had been taken “out of context,” that he “wants everyone who he puts into key positions of leadership … to apply the law equally to everybody,” mentioning Bondi and Patel.

In a similar vein, Trump has mainly avoided attacks on individual journalists, this after saying he would reach out to even hostile outlets. But he made an exception and mocked Maggie Haberman of the New York Times when she co-authored a couple of stories he didn’t like.

So will we be getting Trump 2.0, or Trump 1.0 with plenty of fancy packaging?

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Veteran Trump watchers know that he can slip off the high road when he gets angry, that it’s not just about mass deportations, slashing inflation and drill, baby, drill. 

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But I still believe we’re seeing a more disciplined, restrained and moderate Trump so far. He campaigned on shaking things up, so there are plenty of clashes to unfold. What’s fascinating is that he’s already essentially running the country while Biden has faded and, since the pardon fiasco, is refusing to talk to the press.

A Las Vegas man who was captured on video leaping over a courtroom bench and desk and attacking a judge was sentenced Tuesday to serve at least 26 years behind bars.

Deobra Redden, 31, was ordered to serve between 26 and 65 years in a Nevada prison for the Jan. 3 attack on Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus, according to KLAS-TV.

Redden pleaded guilty but mentally ill in September to attempted murder and other charges shortly after Holthus, 62, testified that she feared for her life when Redden jumped over her 4-foot-high bench and landed on her.

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The attack happened as Holthus was preparing to deliver Redden’s sentence in a separate felony battery case.

The incident was captured by courtroom video, showing Holthus falling back from her seat against a wall as Redden jumped over her bench and grabbed her hair, knocking an American flag onto them. Holthus suffered injuries but was not hospitalized.

LAS VEGAS COURTROOM ATTACK HIGHLIGHTS ISSUE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST JUDGES, EXPERTS SAY

Defendant Deobra Redden, who was captured on video attacking a Las Vegas judge in January, appears in court as Judge Susan Johnson instructs attorneys before Redden’s trial at the Regional Justice Center, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP)

Redden was not taking his prescribed medication to control his diagnosed schizophrenia when he carried out the attack, according to his defense lawyer, Carl Arnold.

Arnold said when Redden entered his guilty plea in September that it “reflects a delicate balance between accepting responsibility for a regrettable incident and recognizing the impact of Mr. Redden’s untreated mental illness at the time.”

Redden said in court Tuesday that he did not intend to kill Holthus, according to KLAS-TV.

District Judge Mary Kay Holthus becomes emotional as she testifies against Deobra Redden during Redden’s trial at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP)

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“I’m not making excuses for my actions, but I’m saying I’m not a bad person and I know that I did not intend to kill Mary Kay Holthus,” he told the court.

Redden will be eligible for parole sometime after 2050.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

U.S. Navy destroyers shot down Houthi missiles and drones for the second time in a month, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Tuesday.

The USS Stockdale (DDG 106) and USS O’Kane (DDG 77) successfully defeated a range of Houthi-launched weapons while transiting the Gulf of Aden on Dec. 9 and 10, the Navy said.

The ships were escorting U.S. owned and operated merchant vessels when they successfully engaged and defeated multiple one-way attacks, uncrewed aerial systems and one anti-ship cruise missile.

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This attack marks the second in a month, with the first taking place from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1 when the ships defeated an Iran-backed Houthi attack.

US NAVY SHIPS REPEL ATTACK FROM HOUTHIS IN GULF OF ADEN 

“These actions reflect the ongoing commitment of CENTCOM forces to protect U.S. personnel, regional partners, and international shipping, against attacks by Iran-backed Houthis,” the command said in a statement.

The attacks took place while the vessels were transiting the Gulf of Aden from Dec. 9 to Dec. 10, CENTCOM said. (U.S. Central Command)

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American personnel were not injured, CENTCOM added, and there were no injuries or damage to the ships.

The attacks against shipping are ongoing and Houthi militants vow to continue until Israel ends its campaign in Gaza.

Boxer Angela Carini won her eighth Italian women’s title Sunday, marking a comeback after withdrawing against a controversial opponent at the Paris Olympics. 

“Tonight was my revenge,” Carini told reporters after the match, via The Telegraph, months after she was beaten in the face in front of a global audience by an athlete whose birth gender has been questioned.

Carini, 26, withdrew from her bout against Algeria’s Imane Khelif in Paris after several powerful blows to the head. Khelif’s inclusion at the Olympics was the biggest controversy of the Paris games after the Algerian had failed gender eligibility tests to compete in other international women’s boxing events. 

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Khelif was disqualified from the 2023 International Boxing Association (IBA) World Championships, and IBA President Umar Kremlev said the boxer had “XY chromosomes,” which are associated with biological males. 

Carini abandoned her match against Khelif after just 46 seconds.

“I got into the ring to fight,” Carini said in Paris, via Italy’s ANSA. “I didn’t give up, but one punch hurt too much. And, so, I said ‘enough.'”

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Algeria’s Imane Khelif, right, defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in their women’s 66-kilogram preliminary match at the 2024 Summer Olympics Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris.  (AP Photo/John Locher)

Carini previously told reporters her objective in the Olympics was to win a medal for her late father.

Khelif won gold in Paris and wasn’t the only boxer to win a women’s gold who has been disqualified for failing gender eligibility tests. Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting also won gold in another women’s weight class in Paris, prompting similar outrage. 

The International Olympics Committee (IOC) defended Khelif and Yu-ting’s inclusion in the women’s events until the very end. 

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Khelif later filed a lawsuit against multiple people, including Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling, who criticized the athlete and the IOC for the inclusion, alleging sex-based “acts of aggravated cyber harassment.” 

Khelif threatened another lawsuit in November against a French journalist over a report that alleged the boxer had testicles.

“We will meet with the French journalist in court,” the Algerian athlete said via NDTV.

Carini previously said she wanted to “apologize” to Khelif for the withdrawal that brought negative attention to the Algerian. 

Angela Carini of Italy before a women’s 66-kilogram preliminary round match against Imane Khelif of Algeria at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at North Paris Arena Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)

“All this controversy makes me sad,” Carini said, via the BBC. “I’m sorry for my opponent, too. If the IOC said she can fight, I respect that decision.”

Carini gave Khelif the cold shoulder after the fight and said she regretted it.

“It wasn’t something I intended to do,” Carini said. “Actually, I want to apologize to her and everyone else. I was angry because my Olympics had gone up in smoke.”

Still, Carini felt that some sense of “revenge” was fulfilled Sunday. 

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The former roommate of Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, said he “feels strange” about the Ivy League graduate’s arrest because he knew someone who was “completely different.”

R.J. Martin told “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Tuesday that he was roommates with Mangione for six months at Surfbreak Coliving in Honolulu, a self-described “co-working space for remote workers and digital nomads.”

“The entire time that he [Mangione] lived at Surfbreak, he was a great community member. He kind of followed by our values and our ethics to leave things better than you found them. He was always contributing, taking care of other people. And even after he moved out, he came and hung out and contributed to the community, spearheaded a book club,” said Martin. 

He added that the two became close friends, worked out together and played volleyball together.

“He’s the kind of guy who was doing his best to take care of himself despite having some severe back pain and a, you know, a severe issue,” Martin told Fox News host Jesse Watters.

UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO MURDER SUSPECT LUIGI MANGIONE COMPLAINED ABOUT BACK SURGERY BEFORE SLAYING

Composite image of Luigi Mangione with inset of the shooting of Brian Thompson 

Mangione was arrested by police at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania and held on a slew of charges before New York prosecutors filed a second-degree murder charge against him late Monday night in the shooting death of Thompson. 

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning last week. (Photo Credit: Businesswire | NYPD Crimestoppers)

Martin said he suggested his former roommate and other book club members read Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, explaining that at the time, it was a sort of a “half joke.” 

Mangione reportedly described Kaczynski’s writings as “interesting,” although Martin denied turning the 26-year-old toward the notorious murderer.

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“I feel strange because he was a great friend and I consider him a close friend and that somebody who would assassinate somebody is completely incompatible with the person that I lived with, the person that I cooked meals with, the person that, you know, was part of book club and other activities with,” Martin said. “It’s like two completely different human beings.”

Fox News host Jesse Watters offers his criticism of the current state of the Democratic Party, and their perceived reliance on identity politics, failure to connect with average voters and financial troubles following Vice President Kamala Harris’ election loss.

JESSE WATTERS: After raiding Trump’s house, staging a coup and pardoning Hunter, they lost whatever moral high ground they claimed to have had… It’s more than just an issue of not trusting Democrats. Americans can’t even hear them because their delivery vehicles broken. Kamala’s campaign guy says the party structure, it’s basically a tear down… Democrats are alone and now they’re broke. Kamala blew through 2 billion and left her party in debt. So the donors turned into tightwads. Joe might never break ground on his presidential library. And now we’re hearing he’s canceled from the speaking circuit. Biden already has one foot out the door at this point. He’s more worried about his own legacy than he is about mending fences. Sources inside the Biden world say Biden doesn’t think he owes anything to a party that launched a mutiny against his presidential bid. Today, the big guy came out and took a victory lap for Bidennomics.

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If Bidennomics was so great, why’d the Democrats get wiped out? Biden’s leaving and the top three words that voters used to describe him ‘old, falling and inflation.’ That’s according to a survey by the Daily Mail. The party elders are toast. Biden’s going to live in disgrace in Delaware.