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☆ Forget Elon Musk’s record pay package from Tesla. More could be on the way.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —Tesla shareholders on Thursday confirmed they want Elon Musk to get a massive record pay package for running Tesla for the last six years. “The chancellor found a number of defects in the process.”But Tesla shareholders also approved moving Tesla’s state of incorporation to Texas, partly in reaction to the Delaware decision. “What we recognized in 2018 and continue to recognize today is that one thing Elon most certainly does not have is unlimited time,” Tesla board chair Robyn Denholm wrote to Tesla shareholders ahead of the most recent vote. Ark Invest has a five-year target price for Tesla shares at $2,600 a share. Not everyone on that list got there through packages of stock options.

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“Had to do something crazy — it’s my hometown!” Keys said as the cameras followed her walking out of the auditorium at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center. A video screen onstage cut to Jay-Z, the Brooklyn-born rapper and mogul, as he performed from the curved marble staircase just outside the auditorium. Keys was seen joining him. There was a reason Jay-Z never appeared on the Tonys stage except in video form, though. (New York Magazine reported earlier that the segment had been pretaped.)

Persons: Alicia Keys, “, ” Keys, David H, Keys, Jay Organizations: Jay, of, Koch, Lincoln Center, New York Magazine Locations: New York City, Brooklyn

After 23 years, Braun announced the end of his management career. He described himself as "a father first, a CEO second, and a manager no more." Scooter Braun at Crypto.com Arena on December 6, 2023. Allen Berezovsky/Getty ImagesNearly one year after Bieber, Lovato, Grande, and more severed ties with Braun, the mogul said his time as a manager had come to an end. So for my entire adult life I played the role of an artist manager on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Persons: Braun, Scooter Braun, Allen Berezovsky, Bieber, Lovato, Yael Cohen, he'd Organizations: Crypto.com Arena Locations: America

☆ West Bengal, India: Train collision kills at least five in eastern India, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“Five passengers have died and 25-30 injured in the accident,” Darjeeling police superintendent Abhishek Roy told reporters from the crash site. People gather around the wreckage of a train after a collision in West Bengal, India on June 17, 2024. But decaying infrastructure is often cited as a cause for traffic delays and numerous train accidents. More than 16,000 people were killed in nearly 18,000 railway accidents across the country in 2021, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. Most railway accidents were due to falls from trains and collisions between trains and people on the track.

Persons: Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Roy, ” Roy, Banerjee, ”, Narendra Modi Organizations: CNN, West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee . Disaster, Kanchenjunga Express, India, National Crime Records Locations: India, Kolkata, Silchar, Assam, Siliguri, Darjeeling, New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, Odisha

☆ Washington Post CEO Will Lewis faced with new allegations of phone hacking
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Citing a former co-worker of Lewis’, a private investigator and its own investigation of newspaper archives, the New York Times said Lewis used phone and company records that were “fraudulently obtained” through hacking and paying sources for information. A spokesperson for the Washington Post told CNN Lewis declined to comment. The Washington Post did not respond to CNN with regard to these allegations. “It’s as bad as I’ve ever seen it, truly,” one staffer said earlier this month, noting that the Washington Post has hit “rough patches” before but that the stormy atmosphere hanging over the outlet is unprecedented. In an opinion piece for the Guardian on Wednesday, Sullivan wrote that firing Lewis and finding a new CEO is “the cleanest, best move” Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos could make.

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☆ Election Updates: Trump heads to Michigan, fresh from a birthday in Florida.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

He looked genuinely upset earlier this week when his supporters sang an early “Happy Birthday” to him at a rally in Las Vegas. The Biden campaign hit back with an email on Mr. Trump’s birthday, reminding voters that he had fallen asleep at his own trial, a case that resulted in felony convictions. Images of Mr. Trump playing golf and sitting behind the resolute desk were painted into the icing. “I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down,” Mr. Trump said then. At the rally in Las Vegas, Mr. Trump had, in a rare moment of introspection, riffed about his old age.

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☆ Martin Starger, Influential Shaper of TV and Movies, Dies at 92
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Martin Starger, who as a senior executive at ABC in the 1970s helped bring “Happy Days,” “Roots,” “Rich Man, Poor Man” and other shows to the small screen — and the network nearly to the brink of No. 1 in prime time — before turning to producing movies, most notably Robert Altman’s “Nashville,” died on May 31 at his home in Los Angeles. His death was confirmed by his niece, Ilene Starger, a casting director. Mr. Starger joined ABC in the mid-1960s and rose to positions of increasing importance, culminating in his promotion to president of ABC Entertainment in 1972. He was culturally ahead of his audience but was pragmatic in his programming choices, but ever striving for better.”

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☆ Trump's Boeing 757 isn't the perfect private jet, but it's perfect for him
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Benjamin Zhang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The point of a private jet is to save its occupant time and increase their productivity. AdvertisementThe old (top) and new (bottom) paint jobs on Trump's Boeing 757 private jet. AdvertisementTrump onboard his Boeing 757 private jet. But what stands out the most about the Boeing 757 is that it's the muscle car of the airline world. Trump's Boeing 757 before receiving a new livery in 2022.

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☆ Warner Bros. has 'very tough situation' in the near-term, says media mogul Tom Rogers
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWarner Bros. has 'very tough situation' in the near-term, says media mogul Tom RogersHosted by Brian Sullivan, “Last Call” is a fast-paced, entertaining business show that explores the intersection of money, culture and policy. Tune in Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. ET on CNBC.

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☆ Why Donald Trump loves his Boeing 757 private jet even though almost everyone else ditched the plane
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Benjamin Zhang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementThere's a common saying in the business-aviation industry: The private jet isn't a luxury; it's a time machine. The point of a private jet is to save its occupant time and increase their productivity. AdvertisementThe old (top) and new (bottom) paint jobs on Trump's Boeing 757 private jet. AdvertisementTrump aboard his Boeing 757 private jet. But what stands out the most about the Boeing 757 is that it's the muscle car of the airline world.

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☆ Fox board members subpoenaed in Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit over 2020 election lies
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Jon Passantino | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Four Fox Corporation board members have been subpoenaed in voting technology company Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over its airing of 2020 election lies, alleging executives at the right-wing cable channel’s parent company knew it was spreading false claims. In a court filing Monday, Smartmatic subpoenaed the four board members — Anne Dias, Charles Carey, Roland Hernandez, Jacques Nasser — over Fox News’s repeated airing of bogus conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. “Smartmatic plans to pursue Fox’s board members as well to determine why they allowed the company’s most valuable asset, Fox News, to spread disinformation about the 2020 election.”New York Judge David Cohen had previously ordered Fox Corporation to turn over documents related to the board members in the case. Rupert Murdoch, the right-wing media mogul who founded Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, was also deposed late last year. Fox News has previously denied defaming anyone and claimed that Smartmatic’s lawsuit is an assault on the First Amendment.

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☆ How 'X Factor' judge Simon Cowell wound up broke and living with his parents at 30 — then became a music mogul and TV star
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Simon Cowell ended up broke at the age of 30, but rebounded to become a TV star and music tycoon. The "America's Got Talent" and "The X Factor" celebrity told the story on a new podcast. Cowell compared smartphones to toasters and regretted not owning the rights to the One Direction name. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementSimon Cowell went from a broke 30-year-old living with his parents to a music mogul and TV star.

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CNN published a 2016 surveillance video showing Combs physically assaulting his former girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, at the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles. The Washington, DC-based historically Black college or university said it will disband its scholarship program in Combs’ name. The US Department of Homeland Security’s investigative arm launched a federal probe into Combs and allegations of sex trafficking. Meanwhile, investigators are preparing to bring Combs’ accusers before a federal grand jury in New York, sources familiar with the probe told CNN. Combs recently sold a majority stake in media company and television network Revolt, which he founded in 2013, the company said.

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☆ Mike Lynch, U.K. Tech Mogul, Is Acquitted of Fraud
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Michael J. De La Merced | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Mike Lynch, a British software mogul who was once one of his country’s most celebrated chief executives, was acquitted of fraud on Thursday in San Francisco federal court, clearing him of charges that he had led one of the biggest frauds in the technology industry. A jury found him not guilty of falsely inflating revenue at Autonomy, the company he founded and led, when he sold it to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion in 2011. Mr. Lynch, 58, who faced decades in prison, had initially been charged with 16 counts of fraud and conspiracy, though one fraud charge was eventually dismissed. Thursday’s verdict, coming after a monthslong trial in California, is a milestone in Mr. Lynch’s decade-long odyssey to clear his name.

Persons: Mike Lynch, Lynch Organizations: Autonomy, Hewlett, Packard, Mr Locations: British, San Francisco federal, California

CNN —William Lewis, the new publisher and chief executive of The Washington Post, reportedly tried to kill a story about his alleged involvement in a UK phone hacking scandal coverup, offering an NPR reporter an interview in exchange for squashing the forthcoming article. The decade-old UK scandal that engulfed right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s “News of the World” tabloid, was revived in recent years in a new lawsuit filed by Prince Harry and other notable figures including Guy Ritchie and Hugh Grant. Despite Lewis’ attempt to squash the story, NPR published the article in late December under the headline “New ‘Washington Post’ CEO accused of Murdoch tabloid hacking cover-up,” featuring a 2011 photo of Lewis with Murdoch. According to the Times, Lewis told Buzbee the story didn’t warrant coverage in the newspaper. Days later, when the judge in the UK case allowed allegations about Lewis to be included in the lawsuit, the Post published another story naming him.

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☆ Analysis: Voters reject Modi’s vision for one-party state in India’s 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

According to most polls, India’s election was a foregone conclusion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing, Hindu-nationalist alliance was expected to secure a supermajority – and with it the power to enact radical change unopposed. To Modi’s critics and opponents, India was on the fast track to becoming a de-facto one-party state. Going into this election, Modi had set a goal of winning 400 seats in the lower house of parliament, or Lok Sabha. The BJP’s inability to secure an outright majority “pricks the bubble of Modi’s authority,” wrote political scientist Pratap Bhanu Mehta Tuesday night.

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☆ India elections: Modi declares victory but party faces shock losses in parliament and will need coalition
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

While final votes are still being tallied, India’s election authority has confirmed that the NDA coalition had secured the majority needed with 272 seats. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he arrives at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in New Delhi, India, on June 4. Adnan Abidi/ReutersSupporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate as they learn early election results on June 04, 2024 in Bengaluru, India. Preliminary results also suggest they have chipped away at BJP seats, including in some of the ruling party’s traditional strongholds. “He comes from a poor background and that helps him understands the people of India,” Varanasi BJP president Dileep Patel previously told CNN.

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☆ Who will win India’s general election and become the new prime minister? Votes get counted in world’s largest election
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Some 642 million people cast their vote in the world’s largest election, as swathes of the country was blanketed in searing heat, making people sick and killing dozens. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows his ink-marked finger after casting his vote outside a polling station in Ahmedabad, India, on May 7, 2024. The leader of the party that wins a majority will become prime minister and form a ruling government. His BJP centered its manifesto on job creation and anti-poverty programs, with a focus on women, the poor and farmers. He’s promised to turn India into a developed nation by 2047 and transform the country into a global manufacturing hub.

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☆ Billionaire media magnate Rupert Murdoch marries at 93
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —Right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch tied the knot Saturday for the fifth time, according to British tabloid newspaper the Sun. The Sun, which is owned by Murdoch, released photos of the 93-year-old Australian billionaire alongside his 67-year-old wife, retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova, at his vineyard in Bel-Air, California, where the ceremony took place. Zhukova is the mother of Russian American art collector Dasha Zhukova, the former wife of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. Murdoch sat for decades at the helm of Fox Corporation and News Corp, two media companies with outlets that include the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and Fox News. In March 2023, Murdoch proposed to Ann Lesley Smith but the engagement was called off two weeks later.

Persons: Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch, Elena Zhukova, Dasha, Abramovich, Lachlan, Zhukova, Jerry Hall, Ann Lesley Smith Organizations: New, New York CNN, Sun, Air, Fox Corporation, News Corp, Street Journal, New York Post, Fox News, New York Times Locations: New York, Bel, Air , California, Zhukova, Russian

☆ Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: What we know and where it goes from here
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Lisa Respers France | Josh Campbell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Months after singer Cassie Ventura filed suit against her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, his life looks very different. But the video could become evidence in an ongoing federal investigation related to Combs and allegations of sex trafficking. Members of law enforcement are seen outside of Sean "Diddy" Combs' home in Los Angeles on March 25, 2024. Sean "Diddy" Combs with Cassie Ventura attend the premiere of 'The Perfect Match' at the Arclight Theatre in Los Angeles in 2016. An aerial image of Sean "Diddy" Combs' home in Los Angeles on March 25, 2024.

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☆ Aston Martin gets a boost from Formula 1 and new high-performance models
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Robert Frank | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"We're now at a really transitional moment, with an inflection point for this company," Stroll told CNBC. Aston Martin has overhauled and improved manufacturing, shored up its financials to make investments in the future, and is now launching a fleet of new products defined by high-performance and luxury finishes. Aston Martin has teased a new super-powered V-12, expected to be called Vanquish, later this year. The $800,000 Aston Martin hybrid Valhalla. Courtesy: Aston Martin

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But in closing arguments, one of Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors said that Mr. Cohen had told his lies for Mr. Trump. After the election, Mr. Pecker testified, Mr. Trump summoned him to Trump Tower. The ShowdownEven that did not prove that Mr. Trump had falsified records to disguise his reimbursement of Mr. Cohen. Mr. Trump washed his hands of Mr. Cohen, who turned on the man he had once idolized. Mr. Blanche also argued that Mr. Cohen had profited from his hatred for Mr. Trump with two books and a lucrative podcast deal.

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☆ Sean ‘Diddy Combs’: A federal grand jury may soon hear from accusers
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | Josh Campbell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Federal investigators are preparing to bring accusers of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs before a federal grand jury, two sources familiar with the probe tell CNN — signaling the US Justice Department is moving toward potentially seeking an indictment of Combs. Combs has been named in eight civil lawsuits since November – seven directly accusing him of sexual assault. One of the eight lawsuits, filed by former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, has been settled. Now, additional sources told CNN that the majority of the plaintiffs who have filed civil suits against Combs have been interviewed by federal investigators. Federal investigators are now “digging deeper,” and some of the accusers have been questioned numerous times, a source said.

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☆ India’s election campaign turns negative as Modi and ruling party embrace Islamophobic rhetoric
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is increasingly resorting to overtly Islamophobic language during his election campaign, critics and observers say, as he seeks a third straight term governing the world’s most populous nation. It’s coming directly from the prime minister. The BJP did not respond to a request for comment on the rhetoric being used by party leaders during this campaign. The prime minister has set an ambitious target for his alliance to win 400 seats in the country’s Lok Sabha, or lower house of Parliament, in this election. BJP party spokespeople subsequently said Modi was talking specifically about undocumented migrants.

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☆ Modi’s latest campaign message to supporters: ‘God has sent me’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a new message for supporters on the campaign trail: God has chosen him. “This is why I have dedicated myself to God.”Modi continued: “God doesn’t reveal his cards. This, he added has “rallied his base who feel pride in such religiosity.”India is a deeply religious country. “(He is) the first prime minister, they say, to be unashamed about this faith,” Sinha said. It ignited widespread anger among Muslim leaders and opposition politicians and calls for election authorities to investigate.

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