Michael Jordan has testified in a landmark NASCAR antitrust case, stating he felt compelled to sue to force changes in a business model he believes shortchanges teams and drivers. Jordan, co-owner of 23XI, joined Front Row Motorsports in the lawsuit against NASCAR. He aargued for a more equitable revenue split similar to the NBA. Heather Gibbs, co-owner of Joe Gibbs Racing, also testified, highlighting the pressure teams face under the current system.
Michael Jordan testifies at NASCAR antitrust trial, says 'someone had step forward and challenge the entity.'
Minutes after police approached Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, he told an officer he didn’t want to talk. But police continued asking questions, and he continued answering during nearly 20 minutes before police informed him of his right to remain silent. That's according to video and testimony at a court hearing Thursday for Mangione. He's charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York street one year ago. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges. As Thursday marked the anniversary of Thompson's death, UnitedHealthcare lowered the flags at its Minnesota offices in his memory.
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith for a closed-door interview later this month even though he had earlier volunteered to appear for an open hearing about his prosecutions of President Donald Trump. The committee’s Republican chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, directed Smith in a letter dated Wednesday to appear for a private deposition on Dec. 17 as part of the panel’s investigations into the prosecutor’s work. A lawyer for Smith says the prosecutor offered nearly six weeks ago to appear before the committee in an open hearing but would nonetheless appear as scheduled for the deposition.
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Video played in a New York court shows how police approached, arrested and searched Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s. Those moments underlie key questions about what evidence can and can’t be used in the case surrounding the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year. Mangione has pleaded not guilty. Altoona, Pennsylvania, officers’ body cameras captured the roughly 20 minutes between police approaching Mangione at the restaurant and telling him he had the right to remain silent. Mangione’s lawyers want to keep his alleged statements to law enforcement out of his eventual trial. The defense also wants to suppress items that authorities said they seized from his backpack. A hearing on their requests continues Thursday and probably into next week.
Luigi Mangione has appeared in court seeking to bar evidence from his state trial over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Among the evidence the 27-year-old Mangione’s lawyers want to prevent the Manhattan district attorney’s office from presenting to jurors is a handgun that prosecutors say matches the one used in the Dec. 4, 2024, killing and a handwritten notebook in which they say Mangione described his intent to “wack” a health insurance executive. Court officials say the hearings could take more than a week, meaning they would extend through Thursday’s anniversary of the attack. Mangione, the Ivy League-educated scion of a wealthy Maryland family, was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after the killing.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel's president for a pardon during his ongoing corruption trial. His office on Sunday confirmed the request was submitted to the president's legal department. The president's office called it an “extraordinary request” with “significant implications.” Netanyahu faces charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. But he hasn't been convicted. He denies the allegations and calls the trial a witch hunt. The request follows U.S. President Donald Trump's urging for a pardon. Legal experts say the request can't stop the trial. Opposition leaders oppose the pardon without an admission of guilt and withdrawal from political life.
Newly released transcripts of private interviews with a senior U.S. Border Patrol official and other authorities leading the immigration crackdown in the Chicago area reveal tense exchanges. The transcripts show leaders dodged questions about high-profile uses of force noted in a federal judge's blistering opinion earlier this month. Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol leader behind the operation that has netted more than 3,000 arrests since September, sat for the sworn deposition over three days in late October and early November. He left Chicago this month to oversee a similar operation in North Carolina.
A federal judge has given the Justice Department a day to say what materials it plans to make publicly available from the file it built to prosecute Ghislaine Maxwell in the sex trafficking case brought against her after financier Jeffrey Epstein died. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in Manhattan on Tuesday said the government's description of the materials must be sufficient in detail to meaningfully inform victims who do not know what investigative materials were subject to secrecy before. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after her 2021 conviction. Epstein's 2019 death behind bars while awaiting trial was ruled a suicide.