BOULDER, Colo. — A mentally ill man who killed 10 people at a supermarket in 2021 was convicted Monday of murder and faces life in prison.

Defense attorneys did not dispute that Ahmad Alissa, who has schizophrenia, fatally shot 10 people including a police officer in the college town of Boulder. But he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, with the defense arguing that he couldn’t tell right from wrong at the time of the attack.

In addition to 10 counts of first-degree murder, the jury found Alissa guilty on 38 charges of attempted murder, one count of assault and six counts of possessing illegal, large-capacity magazines.

First-degree murder carries a mandatory life sentence in Colorado. Sentencing in the case was to occur later Monday, during which victims and family were expected to address the court.

Alissa did not visibly react as the judge began reciting the guilty verdicts. He sat at a table with his attorneys and appeared to trade notes with the defense team, speaking quietly at times with one of his attorneys.

Judge Ingrid Bakke had warned against any outbursts. There were some tears and restrained crying on the victims’ side of the courtroom as the murder convictions were read.

The courtroom was packed largely with victims’ families and police officers, including those who were shot at by Alissa. Several members of Alissa’s family sat just behind him.

Alissa started shooting immediately after getting out of his car in a King Soopers store parking lot in March 2021. He killed most of the victims in just over a minute and surrendered after an officer shot him in the leg.

Mental illness is not the same thing as insanity, and prosecutors had to prove that Alissa was sane. Colorado law defines insanity as having a mental disease so severe that it’s impossible for a person to tell right from wrong.

Boeing strike: Boeing said Monday it made a “best and final offer” to striking union machinists that includes bigger raises and larger bonuses than a proposed contract that was overwhelmingly rejected.

The company said the offer includes pay raises of 30% over four years, up from the rejected 25% raises.

About 33,000 machinists began their walkout Sept. 13. The company introduced rolling furloughs of thousands of managers and nonunion employees last week to cut costs during the strike.

The strikers face their own financial pressure to return to work. They received their final paychecks last week and will lose company-provided health insurance at the end of the month, Boeing said.

The company said its new offer is contingent on members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers ratifying the contract by late Friday.

The union, which represents factory workers who assemble some of the company’s best-selling planes, said it is reviewing the offer.

2020 ‘Trump Train’ verdict: A federal jury in Texas cleared a group of supporters of Donald Trump supporters and found one driver liable Monday in a civil trial over a convoy that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus days before the 2020 election.

The two-week trial in Austin centered on whether the actions of the “Trump Train” participants amounted to political intimidation. Among those aboard the bus was former Democratic lawmaker Wendy Davis, who testified that she feared for her life while a convoy of Trump supporters boxed in the bus along Interstate 35.

The jury awarded $10,000 to the bus driver.

No criminal charges were filed against the six Trump supporters who were sued by Davis and two others aboard the bus. Civil rights advocates hoped a guilty verdict would send a clear message about what constitutes political violence and intimidation.

New president in Sri Lanka: Marxist politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in Monday as Sri Lanka’s ninth president in an election that saw voters reject an old guard accused of leading the country into economic crisis.

Dissanayake, 55, who ran as head of the National People’s Power coalition, defeated President Ranil Wickremesinghe, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and 35 other candidates in Saturday’s election.

The election came as the country seeks to recover from a severe economic crisis that led to shortages of such essentials as foods, medicines, cooking gas and fuel in 2022, triggering massive protests that forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and resign.

In a brief speech after the swearing-in, Dissanayake pledged to work with others to take on the country’s challenges.

His first major challenge will be to act on his campaign promise to ease the crushing austerity measures imposed by Wickremesinghe under a relief agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

Cholera in Sudan: Cholera is spreading in war-torn Sudan, killing at least 388 people and sickening about 13,000 over the past two months, health authorities said, as more than 17 months of fighting between the military and a notorious paramilitary group show no sign of abating.

The disease is spreading in areas devastated by recent heavy rainfall and floods, especially in eastern Sudan, where millions of people displaced by the war sheltered.

The cholera casualties included six dead and 400 sickened over the weekend, according to Sunday’s report by the Health Ministry. The disease was detected in 10 of the country’s 18 provinces; a previous major outbreak left at least 700 dead and about 22,000 sickened in less than two months in 2017.

Tropical weather: Hurricane watches were issued Monday for parts of Cuba and Mexico as a cluster of storms south of the Cayman Islands was expected to strengthen into a major hurricane while moving north toward the U.S., forecasters said.

The disturbance is forecast to become Hurricane Helene on Wednesday as it approaches the Gulf Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency in 41 counties Monday as a result of the expected storm.

The cluster of storms was about 105 miles southwest of Grand Cayman on Monday. It had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and was moving north-northwest at 7 mph. Up to 8 inches of rain is forecast for western Cuba and the Cayman Islands.

Up to 6 inches of rain is forecast for the Southeast U.S. starting Wednesday, threatening flash and river flooding.

Helene would be the eighth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.