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Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Supreme Court for a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, December 2, 2025. Curtis Means | Via ReutersA New York state court judge on Monday blocked prosecutors in the murder trial of Luigi Mangione from using some of the evidence from his backpack when he was detained by police at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, on the heels of the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan.Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Gregory Carro said that because the backpack was not sufficiently in Mangione’s control when Altoona police were detaining…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Shakira has scored a big win in a protracted battle against Spanish tax authorities who were ordered to return €55mn in unlawful penalties that the Colombian pop star had been forced to pay.Spain’s National High Court on Monday annulled a decision by the tax agency in a case about whether Shakira was a tax resident in the country in 2011, saying it had failed to prove its claims and levied sanctions that were “contrary to the law”.The singer-songwriter, who was in a…

Workers install roofing on a home under construction in Vacaville, California, US, on Thursday, June 26, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesHigher mortgage rates, rising gas prices and continued economic uncertainty over the war with Iran are all still weighing on potential homebuyers. Builders, however, are feeling slightly better about their businesses, seeing a potential late spring surge.After a sharp drop in April, homebuilder sentiment in the market for single-family homes rose 3 points in May to a readout of 37 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. Housing economists had expected…

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | ReutersWhen Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees about his plan in late 2022 to lay off 11,000 employees, in cuts that would later expand to 21,000, he was contrite in admitting that he overhired during the Covid pandemic.”I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that,” Zuckerberg said in a message to staffers in November of that…

US President Donald Trump (R) and his son Eric Trump (L) depart the White House en route to Charlottesville, Virginia on April 10, 2026, in Washington DC. Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump, his two eldest sons, and the Trump Organization dropped their $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, according to a court filing in Miami federal court.The filing did not say what led to the surprising move, which came on the heels of controversy over reports that the Department of Justice was negotiating a settlement with Trump that could see the federal…

LONDON – Global oil stockpiles are plummeting and inventories may not recover until December 2027, strategists warn, with physical shortages potentially looming over Europe by the end of this month.Jeff Currie, executive co-chairman at Abaxx Commodity Exchange, said that physical shortages could hit Europe “any day now,” and the severity of the ongoing supply crunch is not yet reflected in oil prices or policymakers’ remarks. Speaking with CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” Monday, Currie said that oil supply concerns will intensify as inventories are depleted, adding that once the shortages hit, prices will go “non-linear.” “Then we find out what the…

Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesNextEra Energy will buy Dominion Energy in an all-stock deal valued at nearly $67 billion, uniting two leading players in the race to meet growing electricity demand from data centers that run artificial intelligence. Dominion is the utility responsible for powering the world’s largest data center market in Northern Virginia. It has a market cap of more than $50 billion.NextEra is the biggest renewable energy developer in the United States. The Florida-headquartered power company is also the largest utility in the S&P 500 at a market cap of more than $190 billion.The deal will…

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In early February, the next V3 booster successfully passed pressure testing. After it was moved to the launch pad, SpaceX planned to ignite 10 engines up to full power. But just after ignition, due to an automatic abort from the ground systems, a hard shutdown was commanded. This ended up damaging half of the Raptors. Then, in mid-April, the company moved this booster with a full complement of 33 engines to the launch pad for another static fire test. This time, a ground-side sensor reported an issue with pressure in the manifolds, which distribute propellant to the vehicle. This may…