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☆ Prince Harry gets partial go ahead for Murdoch UK tabloid trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

LONDON, July 27 (Reuters) - Prince Harry can proceed with some of his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper arm but his allegations of phone-hacking were made too late, London's High Court ruled on Thursday. Harry is suing Murdoch's News Group Newspapers (NGN) over multiple acts of wrongdoing he says were committed on behalf of its tabloids, the Sun and the now-defunct News of the World, from the mid-1990s until 2016. NGN had argued during hearings in April that the claims should be struck out because they fell outside the six-year time limit for legal action to have been brought. Reporting by Michael Holden, editing by Sarah YoungOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Prince Harry, Rupert Murdoch's, Harry, NGN, Michael Holden, Sarah Young Organizations: London's, Murdoch's News Group, Sun, Thomson

☆ UK court dismisses 'deal' between royals and media in Prince Harry hacking case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Michael Holden | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

He casts the suits as a mission to hold tabloid executives to account for lying and covering up widescale wrongdoing. He blames intrusive media for wrecking some of his personal relationships and causing the 1997 death of his mother Princess Diana. Overall, Fancourt said it was difficult to say whether Harry or NGN had won. "I do not find this is a case where it's possible to say one party is clearly the successful party," Fancourt told the court. In June, he became the first senior British royal for more than 130 years to give evidence in court when he appeared as part of his lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers.

Persons: Harry's, Diana, Rupert Murdoch's, Harry, King Charles, Princess Diana, Meghan, NGN, Murdoch, Prince William, Timothy Fancourt, Fancourt, Thursday's, Camilla, Michael Holden, Bill Berkrot, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: Court, News Group, Sun, High Court, Buckingham Palace, NGN, Mirror Group Newspapers, Thomson Locations: London, Buckingham Palace, California, Paris, Buckingham, U.S, British

☆ What reset? DeSantis defiant while campaign braces for reality of his struggles
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Steve Contorno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

DeSantis’ remarks Monday in Tega Cay, South Carolina, were a near carbon copy of the speech he has delivered at campaign stops for weeks. Over the weekend, a spokesperson for DeSantis’ campaign confirmed to CNN it let go of some staffers, after Politico reported that “fewer than 10 staffers” in event planning were cut on Thursday. Over six weeks, DeSantis had spent $686,000 on travel including expenses for private jets, according to campaign finance records, and his payroll topped $1 million. “In the second quarter, we were a candidate for about five and a half weeks, our campaign raised $20.1 million dollars. Lu Aiken, a member of Republican Women Rising in South Carolina, said she was undecided but DeSantis was at the top of her list.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden, ” DeSantis, ’, CNN’s Jake Tapper, –, Donald Trump’s, DeSantis, Trump, we’ll, I’ll, Tapper, “, ”, Kim Reynolds, “ We’re, Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch’s, Lu Aiken, we’ve, Ron, ” Jonathan Sievers Organizations: CNN, Florida Gov, Politico, GOP, Trump, Iowa Republican Gov, Republican, Fox News, Disney, ” Republican, Republican Women Rising Locations: South Carolina, Delaware, Tega Cay, kickstart, Carolina, Iowa, Florida, Utah, Park City , Utah, “, United States, DeSantis, Trump, Weddington , South Carolina

☆ Llama copyright drama: Meta stops disclosing what data it uses to train the company's giant AI models
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The company didn't disclose what training data was used to train Llama 2. The AI industry typically shares many details of AI training data sets. One way to avoid the issue is to just not tell anyone what data you used to train your AI model. Until now, the AI industry has been open about the training data used for models. That last data set made up more than two-thirds of the information Meta used to train LLaMA.

Persons: Meta, Rupert Murdoch, Sarah Silverman's, OpenAI, Halimah DeLaine Prado, Meta's, Sharon Zhou Organizations: Publishers, Wall Street Journal, Big Tech, Microsoft, SEC, European Union, Google, Meta Locations: EU

☆ Tesla's board of directors will return $735 million on claims they were overpaid
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Tesla directors are returning $735 million to the company to settle a suit that claims they were overpaid. That includes $458.6 million in company shares and $276.6 million in cash, per court filings. That totals to around $735 million, consisting of $458.6 million in company shares and $276.6 million in cash. The $735 million settlement stems from a 2020 lawsuit, wherein Detroit's Police and Fire Retirement System accused Tesla's board members of overpaying themselves in the form of stock options from 2017 to 2020. Tesla directors denied those claims, arguing that the company saw rapid growth sent the stock soaring.

Persons: Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Rupert Murdoch's, James Murdoch, Elon Musk's, Kimbal Musk –, Tesla's, Tesla Organizations: Elon, Service, Oracle, Delaware Chancery, Reuters, Detroit's Police Locations: Wall, Silicon, Delaware

☆ Fox News’ new prime time lineup shows Rupert Murdoch can’t quit Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The influential Fox News lineup, which debuts Monday night, is made up of Trump mouthpieces — personalities who have willfully spread propaganda and misinformation on behalf of Trump during his years in the White House. With the surprise firing of Tucker Carlson from the 8pm perch this spring, Murdoch had the opportunity to reshape Fox News prime time. Winding back the Republican Party to a previous era may be impossible, even for Murdoch. Even if Youngkin did enter the race, Murdoch surely knows that his odds of dethroning Trump would be slim. Which may explain his decision to go with a prime time lineup that has reliably championed Trump.

Persons: Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Murdoch, Trump, MAGA, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, Murdoch’s, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Glenn Youngkin, Youngkin, dethroning Trump Organizations: CNN, GOP, Fox News, Republican Party, Trump, Republican, Florida Gov, Virginia Gov

☆ Fox News paid a record-breaking sum to settle Dominion's defamation lawsuit. Smartmatic could get even more money.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The settlement Fox News may pay to Smartmatic could be around $1 billion, experts say. Disney's $177 million settlement for the infamous "pink slime" lawsuit in 2017 dropped to second place. Experts told Insider that the $787.5 million settlement is a strong benchmark for Smartmatic — and that Smartmatic will likely get more. Either way you slice it, using those baseline numbers brings you above the $787.5 million figure Fox paid to settle Dominion's lawsuit. "It's hard to extrapolate from the Dominion case in part because it never got litigated," Hans said.

Persons: Smartmatic, Erik Connolly, Connolly, Donald Trump, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Joe Biden, Powell, Giuliani, Fox, Clay Calvert, James Goodale, Smartmatic's, Rupert Murdoch, Victoria Jones, Calvert, Erik McGregor, Hans, Goodale, Plimpton, De, Murdoch Organizations: Fox News, Dominion, Dominion Voting, Trump, Fox, American Enterprise Institute, New York Times, Fox Corp, Getty, Cornell Law, Debevoise Locations: cahoots, Delaware, New York, Washington ,, Africa, Europe, Smartmatic, Fox News's, York

☆ A Pro-Trump Crowd, Sensing Disloyalty, Drowns Out Dissent
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Neil Vigdor | More About Neil Vigdor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Not long ago, the names on the marquee would have been right at home on Fox News: Stephen K. Bannon, Tucker Carlson and Roger J. But Fox News ousted Mr. Carlson three months ago, and Mr. Bannon, Mr. Stone and a boisterous pro-Trump crowd at the Turning Point Action Conference were eager to take shots at the conservative network, arguing that it has not been sufficiently supportive of former President Donald J. Trump as he seeks to regain the office he lost in 2020. At the two-day gathering, with thousands of pro-Trump activists in attendance this weekend in South Florida, jeers flew on Sunday at the mention of Rupert Murdoch, the Fox media mogul, as well as Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Persons: Stephen K, Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Roger J, Stone, Mr, Carlson, Donald J, Trump, jeers, Rupert Murdoch, Kevin McCarthy Organizations: Fox News, Fox, Trump, Conference Locations: South Florida

☆ The Murdochs are starting to lose faith in Ron DeSantis' chances of crushing Trump: 'They are transactional and can smell a loser a mile away'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Murdochs are starting to lose faith in DeSantis' chances of beating Trump, per Rolling Stone. "They are transactional and can smell a loser a mile away," a source from Fox told Rolling Stone. Ron DeSantis' chances of beating former President Donald Trump, Rolling Stone reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the situation. A source from Fox told Rolling Stone that both the Murdochs and Fox News' top executives don't think DeSantis' prospects of clinching the Republican nomination are great. A senior Fox source told Rolling Stone that Rupert Murdoch's "understandable worry is that we may end up stuck with Trump anyway."

Persons: DeSantis, Rolling, Rupert Murdoch, Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, Rolling Stone, Stone, Rupert Murdoch's, he's, Doug Heye, Ron DeSanctimonious Organizations: Trump, Fox, Service, Florida Gov, Rolling, Fox News, Republican National Committee, Stone, Twitter, Gov, Republican Locations: Wall, Silicon, Florida

☆ Even Fox News and the Murdochs are turning on DeSantis after his rough campaign start
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The GOP presidential hopeful's own super PAC has been blunt about his campaign's struggles. According to reports in Rolling Stone and The New York Times, Rupert Murdoch and his influential News Corp empire are souring on the governor. "They are transactional and can smell a loser a mile away," an unnamed Fox insider told Rolling Stone, referring to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, and top Fox News executives. You should be my governor," Fox News host Sean Hannity once beamed to DeSantis during the pandemic, The Times pointed out. These subtle shifts, Rolling Stone reported, are no accident.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Rupert Murdoch, Stone, Rupert, Lachlan Murdoch, Glenn Youngkin, Youngkin, DeSantis, Trump, Anthony Fauci, Sean Hannity, romped, Maria Bartiromo, what's, He's Organizations: Florida Gov, The News Corp, Service, Gov, GOP, The New York Times, News Corp, Fox, Fox News, The Times, Virginia Gov, Murdoch, New York Post, Wall Street, Post, Yahoo Finance, Fox Corporation Locations: Florida, Wall, Silicon, Rolling, Virginia, DeSantis, Iowa, Wells

☆ Former Fox executives say they regret helping Rupert Murdoch birth ‘disinformation machine’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Three former high-ranking Fox executives are blasting Rupert Murdoch for Fox News’ role spreading disinformation in the public discourse. In a joint statement published Wednesday, the executives — Preston Padden, Ken Solomon, and Bill Reyner — expressed profound regret for their roles helping Murdoch build Fox in its early days. It’s only the latest lawsuit Fox News has faced for advancing false election conspiracy theories after Donald Trump was defeated at the ballot box in 2020. In that same month, Fox News also settled an election-related lawsuit with a Venezuelan businessman who had sued the network. Fox News is also facing another major defamation lawsuit from voting technology company Smartmatic, which is suing the network for $2.7 billion.

Persons: Rupert Murdoch, — Preston Padden, Ken Solomon, Bill Reyner —, Murdoch, Padden, Solomon, Reyner, “, ” “, Fox, ” Padden, —, Ray Epps, Tucker Carlson, It’s, Donald Trump, Abby Grossberg, ”, Epps Organizations: CNN, Fox, Fox News, Federal Communications Commission, Murdoch’s Fox News, FBI, Dominion Voting Systems, Capitol Locations: Washington, Arizona, Venezuelan

In March, as Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida laid the groundwork for his presidential run, he joined the Fox News host Brian Kilmeade to play a nationally televised game of catch on his hometown baseball field outside Tampa. The questions Mr. DeSantis faced were as relaxed as the tosses. “Locker room gets you ready for the press, right?” Mr. Kilmeade asked. Four months later, with Mr. DeSantis’s campaign having failed to immediately catch fire against Mr. Trump, Fox News is not taking it quite so easy on Mr. DeSantis anymore.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Brian Kilmeade, DeSantis, “, Kilmeade, Donald J, Trump, Rupert Murdoch, DeSantis’s Organizations: Fox News, ”, Republican Party, Mr Locations: Florida, Tampa

☆ DeSantis donors privately worry about campaign as Florida governor lags in 2024 polls
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis waves to a crowd at a campaign event on June 2, 2023 in Gilbert, South Carolina. "He has a tremendous record as governor of Florida, and our country would be well-served by him as president," Griffin said then. Braman's company, Braman Motors, contributed $100,000 to the state-based DeSantis PAC, as well, according to the records. Andrew Romeo, a spokesman for the DeSantis campaign, did not deny any element of this story. "You could wallpaper the governor's residence with the amount of premature political obituaries written about Ron DeSantis.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, They're, Trump, DeSantis, Ken Griffin, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Sen, Tim Scott of, Nothing's, Zia Ahmed, Griffin, Semafor, Norman Braman, Clive Fields, Robert Bigelow, Braman, Marco Rubio, Fields, Griffin's, Andrew Romeo, Joe Biden, Romeo Organizations: Florida, Florida Gov, Fox Corp, News Corp, Trump, Citadel, GOP, South Carolina Gov, New, New Jersey Gov, Politico, New York Times, Republican, Philadelphia Eagles, Braman Motors, PAC, CNBC Locations: Gilbert , South Carolina, Florida, New Jersey, Tim Scott of South Carolina

☆ Elizabeth Holmes now has a shorter prison sentence, but she'll still owe victims $452 million along with her former Theranos partner. She might never have to fully pay up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A federal court ordered Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani to pay $452 million. Defendants hit with such orders to pay victims may see it come out of any eventual wages they earn. So how will Holmes and her former business partner Sunny Balwani navigate a $452 million restitution order? Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes arrives at federal court with her partner Billy Evans on November 18, 2022. According to the restitution order, Holmes and Balwani are responsible for $125 million in restitution to Murdoch, $40 million to Walgreens, and $14.5 million to Safeway.

Persons: Elizabeth Holmes, Sunny Balwani, Rupert Murdoch, Holmes, Daniel Richman, Evan Gotlob, Saul Ewing, Billy Evans, Justin Sullivan, Justice Department's, It's, Balwani, Insider's, Murdoch, Gotlob, There's Organizations: Morning, News Corp, Walgreens, Safeway, Forbes, Federal, Office, Columbia Law School, Justice, US, Prosecutors Locations: California, Arizona, Manhattan, Boston, Northern California

☆ Layoffs at Dow Jones have Wall Street Journal staffers on edge as the newsroom expects more cuts and changes under top editor Emma Tucker
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dow Jones laid off 10 people on the business side in late June. Wall Street Journal insiders are prepping for a content overhaul and potential cuts later this summer. A steady drip of layoffs continues at Dow Jones, which laid off another 10 people in the last week of June. The roles were mostly finance, sales, and marketing people who work across Dow Jones properties, which include The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch. The Journal newsroom has largely been spared, but EIC Emma Tucker is conducting a sweeping content review.

Persons: Dow Jones, Almar Latour, Emma Tucker, Tucker, Rupert Murdoch's, she's, Liz Harris, Taneth Evans —, Charles Forelle, Karen Pensiero, Neal Lipschutz, Jason Anders, Thorold Barker, Kristina O'Neill, Sarah Ball, She's, Bernard Arnault, There's Organizations: Wall Street Journal, Dow, Street, MarketWatch, News Corp, Sunday Times, . Magazine Locations: Dow Jones, London, Europe, Middle East, Africa

☆ BBC sex photo claims are 'rubbish', young person's lawyer tells broadcaster
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - Allegations that an unnamed BBC presenter paid a young person to pose for explicit photos are "rubbish", a lawyer acting for the young person has told the broadcaster in a letter. The presenter, who has not been named by the BBC or the Sun newspaper, was suspended on Sunday following the claims. The BBC reported on Monday, however, that a lawyer for the young person had written to the broadcaster stating that the allegation was "rubbish". The lawyer said the young person sent a denial to the Sun newspaper on Friday evening, when it first published the allegation, saying there was "no truth" to it, the BBC said. BBC News said it did not know the identity of the young person and had not spoken directly to them, nor had it seen the Sun's evidence.

Persons: Rupert Murdoch's Sun, It's, Paul Sandle, Kate Holton, Peter Graff, Christina Fincher Organizations: Sun, BBC, Monday, Metropolitan Police, Thomson Locations: England

☆ Prince Harry fights for trial in hacking case against Murdoch's UK group
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) - Prince Harry on Wednesday fought to take his phone-hacking lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper arm to trial, asking London's High Court to let him rely on an alleged "secret agreement" between Britain's royal family and the publisher. David Sherborne, representing Harry, argued there was clear evidence of an agreement between NGN and the royal family, which meant Harry was unable to bring his lawsuit earlier. Harry also said his attempts to progress his case against NGN, with the backing of the late Queen Elizabeth, were stonewalled by NGN and royal aides. Sherborne argued in court filings on Wednesday that NGN had not provided any evidence from Brooks and Thomson "despite their evidence having been identified as critical". He became the first senior British royal to appear in a witness box for more than 130 years when he gave evidence in his MGN lawsuit last month.

Persons: Prince Harry, Rupert Murdoch's, London's, Harry, King Charles, NGN, Harry's, NGN's, Hugh Grant, David Sherborne, Prince William's, William, Queen Elizabeth, Rebekah Brooks, Robert Thomson, Sherborne, Brooks, Thomson, Sam Tobin, Devika Organizations: Wednesday, Murdoch's News Group, Sun, Buckingham Palace, NGN, Royal, News, News Corp, British, Mirror Group, Thomson Locations: Buckingham, British, NGN, Buckingham Palace

☆ Firefighters say cocaine was found in the White House, according to a report
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A white powder was found inside the White House late Sunday, which led to a temporary closure. Firefighters identified the material as "cocaine hydrochloride," the Washington Post reported. The Secret Service told Reuters an "unknown" item was indeed found there. The material was found in the West Wing, the spokesperson added, which is a part of the White House connected to the executive mansion, where the president lives. According to the Washington Post, a Washington DC firefighter on the hazardous materials team said the test results for the substance showed "a yellow bar saying cocaine hydrochloride."

Persons: —, Joe Biden, David, Narendra Modi, Jane Fraser, M, Ralph Lauren, Rupert Murdoch's Organizations: House, Firefighters, Washington Post, Service, Reuters, The Washington Post, Secret Service Uniformed Division, Secret Service, Wing, Washington DC, Apple, Google, White, Indian, Citigroup

☆ Rupert Murdoch Can Do Whatever He Wants. It’s Becoming a Problem. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( William D. Cohan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Mr. Murdoch’s heir apparent, Lachlan, defended Fox and the Dominion settlement when speaking to investors on May 9. Contrast Mr. Murdoch with, say, Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank. Does anyone at Fox or News Corp hold Mr. Murdoch accountable in the same way? One way to rein in Mr. Murdoch may lie with Smartmatic. Smartmatic, or even the recently filed shareholder lawsuit against Fox, could end up pressuring Fox, and indirectly News Corp, to scrap their dual-class stock structures.

Persons: Murdoch’s, Lachlan, ”, “, ” Ms, Minow, Roberts, Shari Redstone, Murdoch, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, Joaquin Duato, Johnson, Dimon, he’s, Duato Organizations: Fox, Fox News, Fox Corporation, Comcast, Paramount Global, JPMorgan, Mr, News Corp Locations: America

☆ More layoffs have hit Dow Jones, and The Wall Street Journal's newsroom sees changes ahead, including cuts, under top editor Emma Tucker
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dow Jones laid off 10 people on the business side last week, the latest in ongoing reductions. Wall Street Journal insiders are prepping for a content overhaul and potential cuts later this summer. A steady drip of layoffs continues at Dow Jones, which laid off another 10 people in the last week of June. The roles were mostly finance, sales, and marketing people who work across Dow Jones properties, which include The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch. The Journal newsroom has largely been spared, but EIC Emma Tucker is conducting a sweeping content review.

Persons: Dow Jones, Almar Latour, Emma Tucker, Tucker, Rupert Murdoch's, she's, Liz Harris, Taneth Evans —, Charles Forelle, Karen Pensiero, Neal Lipschutz, Jason Anders, Thorold Barker, She's, Bernard Arnault, There's Organizations: Wall Street Journal, Dow, Street, MarketWatch, News Corp, Sunday Times Locations: Dow Jones, London, Europe, Middle East, Africa

☆ A French Newsroom on Strike After Appointment of ‘Far-Right’ Editor
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Liz Alderman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In its 75-year history, Le Journal du Dimanche, France’s leading Sunday newspaper, has almost never missed publication. But its operations ground to a halt this week after an editor with a far-right track record was abruptly appointed just ahead of a takeover of the paper by the French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, prompting a mass walkout by journalists and igniting a firestorm in French media and political circles. Mr. Bolloré, an industrialist often described as France’s Rupert Murdoch, has been steadily building a conservative media empire, anchored by a Fox-style news network, CNews. The appointment of the editor, Geoffroy Lejeune, who was formerly at a far-right magazine that was fined for racist insults, raised concerns that one of France’s most prominent newspapers could be transformed into a right-wing platform. The paper did not publish Sunday, only the second time since its founding in 1948, and on Thursday evening the website was still leading with news from last week.

Persons: France’s, Vincent Bolloré, Bolloré, Rupert Murdoch, Geoffroy Lejeune, ”, Lejeune Organizations: Fox, France’s, Journalists Locations: France, Le Monde

☆ DeSantis is now a millionaire. Unfortunately, he still has student loans to pay off.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

DeSantis made over $1 million for his book advance when he wrote "The Courage to Be Free." Ron DeSantis almost quadrupled his net worth in a year, thanks to a seven-figure payday from his bestselling memoir, "The Courage to be Free." A year earlier, DeSantis' net worth was nearly $319,000. The lift in salary was largely thanks to a $1.25 million book advance DeSantis got from Broadside Books, the conservative arm of HarperCollins Publishing that is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Since filing his last financial disclosure, DeSantis lowered the amount he owes on his student loans slightly, from $21,284.92 to $18,628.66.

Persons: DeSantis, they've, —, Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden's, Donald Trump, Trump, “, Joe Raedle, Casey DeSantis, Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence, GOP Sen, Tim Scott of, Sen, Elizabeth Warren of, he'd Organizations: Be, Service, Gov, Broadside Books, HarperCollins Publishing, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, Republican, Trump Organization, Forbes, New York Times, Ivy League, Navy, Associated Press, Florida Gov, House, Museum, Federal, Commission, Trump, GOP, Democratic Locations: Florida, Florida's, Beach , Florida, Orange, Pinellas Park , Florida, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Dunedin , Florida

☆ Harry was 'prime target' for phone-hacking, prince's lawyer tells court
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON, June 28 (Reuters) - Prince Harry was a "prime target" for the tabloid press and must have been a victim of phone-hacking, his lawyer told London's High Court on Wednesday as the trial in the British royal's lawsuit against a newspaper publisher nears its end. MGN, owned by Reach (RCH.L), is fighting the lawsuit and says there is no evidence for the accusations. The claimants' lawyer, David Sherborne, told the court on Wednesday that the case against MGN was "inferential", stressing that phone-hacking and other unlawful information gathering was a covert practice. But, he added, the court could find that Harry was a victim of phone-hacking because of the prevalence of the practice at MGN newspapers and the level of press interest in the prince. "The newspapers regarded him as a prime target, perhaps one of the most prime targets, in the sense of royal stories drive newspaper sales," Sherborne said.

Persons: Prince Harry, David Sherborne, MGN, Harry, Sherborne, Andrew Green, Rupert Murdoch's, voicemails, Piers Morgan, Morgan, Duke of Sussex, Green, Sam Tobin, Alex Richardson Organizations: London's, Group, Daily, Sunday, MGN, Reach, Buckingham, Thomson Locations: British

☆ Trump is the only Republican who will lose to Biden in 2024, Paul Ryan says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday he believes the 2024 Republican presidential nominee will "for sure" be able to unseat President Joe Biden — unless that person is former President Donald Trump. "It's a disaster if we nominate Trump," Ryan, who also serves on the board of Fox News' parent company, told CNBC's "Squawk Box." Cheney is right that Trump "could win," Ryan said, but "I think we lose with him." "I think we're much more likely to lose — we haven't won anything with him since he first won in '16," Ryan said of Trump. "I'm for anybody not named Trump," he added, "because I think we beat Biden for sure if we nominate a Republican not named Trump."

Persons: Paul Ryan, Joe Biden —, Donald Trump, Trump, Ryan, CNBC's, Liz Cheney, Cheney, haven't, Biden, Rupert Murdoch, Fox Organizations: Republican, Fox News, GOP Trump, Trump, Fox Corp

☆ See photos of tech's elite all dressed up at the White House
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Grace Mayer | Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Some of the tech and business industries' top CEOs attended a White House dinner Thursday. Take a look at the CEOs and industry giants who made the guest list and dressed up in their finest. The White House invited leaders from across the tech and business industries for a dinner held for Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi's visit to Washington. The visit has been a crucial one for Biden, as the White House looks to build closer ties with India. Here's a look at the CEOs and industry giants who made the guest list and dressed up in their finest.

Persons: OpenAI, India Narendra Modi's, Biden, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tesla, Dana White, James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's, Jane Fraser, Adena Friedman, Deven Parekh, Hemant Taneja, Catalyst, Ralph Lauren, M, David Calhoun, Larry Culp, Doug McMillon Organizations: White, Apple, Google, Morning, Microsoft, White House, Meta, Twitter, UFC, Citigroup, Nasdaq, Insight Partners, Boeing, Electric, Walmart Locations: Washington, India, China, Taiwan

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