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  • Rupert MurdochLaw

    Murdoch calls Trump’s Epstein suit ‘affront’ to free speech

    By Erik Larson and Bloomberg
  • The Georg Maersk, left, and Colorado Express container ships at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, US, on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. A US trade provision dating to the 1930s, which eventually cleared the way for more than a billion small parcels each year, ended Friday. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEconomy

    US trading partners ‘dazed and confused’ after tariff court loss

    By Erik Larson, Laura Curtis, and others
  • Lara Trump and Eric Trump attend U.S. President Donald Trumps address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC.Finance

    Trump company sues ‘woke’ Capital One for canceling accounts

    By Erik Larson and Bloomberg
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin (C).Politics

    Russia’s president Putin hasn’t been much of a globetrotter over the last few years as he’s wanted in over 123 countries

    By Erik Larson and Bloomberg
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump faces huge losses as he flogs commercial real estate properties in the teeth of a brutal market

    By Erik Larson and Bloomberg
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump’s lawyers admit he doesn’t have cash to pay $454 million verdict: ‘properties would likely need to be sold to raise capital’

    By Patricia Hurtado, Erik Larson, and others
  • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JANUARY 27: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at Big League Dreams Las Vegas on January 27, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Trump is campaigning in Nevada ahead of the state’s Republican presidential caucuses on February 8. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)Finance

    Most of Trump’s cash stockpile is at risk from possible $450m dual verdicts in E. Jean Carroll and New York business fraud cases

    By Erik Larson and Bloomberg
  • Jeffrey McConney, controller for the Trump Organization, center, at New York State Supreme Court in New York, US, on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Donald Trump is facing off against New York Attorney General Letitia James in a contentious civil trial that threatens his control over his real estate empire in the state. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Trump’s corporate controller tells court he included fake mansions and valued rent-stabilized apartments as market rate when calculating boss’s net worth

    By Erik Larson, Patricia Hurtado, and others
  • MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA – AUGUST 4: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Alabama Republican Party’s 2023 Summer meeting at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel on August 4, 2023 in Montgomery, Alabama. Trump’s appearance in Alabama comes one day after he was arraigned on federal charges in Washington, D.C. for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. (Photo by Julie Bennett/Getty Images)Politics

    Donald Trump engaged in ‘persistent and repeated’ fraud by inflating assets by $2.2 billion, New York’s attorney general alleges

    By Erik Larson, Patricia Hurtado, and others
  • Martin Shkreli, former chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, exits federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Shkreli, notorious for raising the price of a potentially life-saving drug by 5,000 percent, was found guilty Friday of defrauding investors in two hedge funds and in Retrophin Inc., a pharmaceutical company he co-founded. Shkreli was convicted of three of eight charges, including securities fraud. Photographer: Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHealth

    Ex-‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli is now living in Queens on $2,500 a month after nearly 7 years in prison

    By Erik Larson, Patricia Hurtado, and others
  • Florida, St Cloud, Harmony, planned community, new single family home available sign. (Photo by: Jeff Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Politics

    Chinese citizens sue Florida over ban from buying homes that they say ‘casts suspicion over anyone of Chinese descent’

    By Erik Larson and Bloomberg
  • Hootan Yaghoobzadeh, co-founder of Staple Street Capital, during a news conference outside Delaware Superior Court in Wilmington, Delaware, US, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Fox News agreed to settle a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems Inc. alleging the network defamed it by airing bogus claims that it rigged the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    The big winner from Fox’s $787.5 million settlement is a private equity firm that stands to make a 1,500% return

    By Erik Larson and Bloomberg
  • Rupert MurdochPolitics

    With Rupert Murdoch likely to be first called to testify about Fox News lies, settlement talks are suddenly getting serious, sources say

    By Jef Feeley, Erik Larson, and others
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump rape trial roiled by disclosure that accuser got funding from LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman

    By Erik Larson, Zoe Tillman, and others
  • Politics

    Rupert Murdoch can be compelled to testify in Dominion defamation trial that could cost Fox $1.6 billion

    By Erik Larson, Hadriana Lowenkron, and others