Indianapolis 500 Fast Facts
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Read CNN's Fast Facts about the Indianapolis 500, known as "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."
May 30, 2021 - The 105th running of the Indianapolis 500 is scheduled to take place in front of approximately 135,000 fans, about 40% of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's capacity. August 23, 2020 - Takuma Sato wins the 104th Indianapolis 500. The race takes place with no fans in the stands due to the coronavirus pandemic. Sato also won in 2017.The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.