Elon Musk will receive $29 billion in Tesla shares, a payment expected since 2018, after a Delaware judge blocked it on the grounds that the board was not impartial, shareholders were misinformed and the reward was excessive.
The co-owner of Trump Burger, a recently opened restaurant in Houston, Texas, displaying strong patriotism towards Donald Trump, finds himself in an ironic situation, to say the least.
HOUSTON: “The owner of Trump Burger arrested by ICE and now faces deportation.” (H/T @patriottakes.bsky.social )
He is now facing deportation after being arrested by ICE, as part of the new immigration policies put in place by the Trump administration.
According to several local newspapers, Roland Mehrez Beainy, a 28-year-old man from Lebanon, had been living in the United States since 2019 on a visitor’s visa that expired last February.
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He was reportedly arrested by ICE in May and has since been engaged in a deportation process.
If he thought the opening of the region’s fourth Trump Burger restaurant would keep him safe, Roland Mehrez Beainy was soon disillusioned.
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ICE designated him in a statement as an “illegal alien” placed in immigration proceedings for failing to leave the country after his visitor’s visa expired.
Donald Trump must add one more defeat to the long list of lawsuits he has filed in recent months, as a federal judge has just dismissed his $50 million lawsuit against famed Watergate journalist Bob Woodward.
The famed journalist had published the audio of nearly 20 interviews with the president.
In 2023, Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against Bob Woodward and the Simon & Schuster publishing house, which in 2022 had published a series of interviews with him in audiobook form entitled The Trump Tapes.
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Donald Trump argued that these recordings violated his copyright, claiming that he had granted these interviews to Woodward solely for the book Rage, a bestseller released in 2020.
According to The Daily Beast, a federal judge appointed by George W. Bush sided with Bob Woodward, pointing out that Woodward had never agreed to restrictions on the use of the interviews with Trump, which had been conducted transparently and officially recorded.
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The judge dismissed the lawsuit, finding that Trump had failed to demonstrate any intent to co-write between himself and Woodward, or that he held any copyright to the audiobook.
Donald Trump has purchased more than $100 million in U.S. corporate and government bonds since January, even though he is the sitting president, NBC reports.
The documents show that Trump began the bond-buying spree one day after being sworn in on Jan. 20 and include debt sold by companies, local governments and entities that could be directly impacted by his sweeping agenda. He made about 690 purchases from Jan. 21 through Aug. 1.nbcnews.to/4oJO8ln
These transactions – nearly 700 in just a few months, according to NBC News – cover sectors directly affected by his own policy decisions.
Among his purchases are bonds issued by Apple, JPMorgan Chase, Amazon and Goldman Sachs, but also by cities such as New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, as well as hospitals, public schools and electric utilities.
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Officially, they pass through a family “trust”, but Trump still benefits financially.
In the U.S., there are no strict laws preventing this kind of blatant conflict of interest, allowing him to act with impunity.
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This latest episode illustrates once again how American institutions are turning a blind eye to Trump’s dubious practices, as is a good part of the electorate.
In a post on Truth Social in the middle of the night, President Donald Trump reacted furiously to a rumor that was visibly haunting him at 2 a.m., that NBC reportedly intended to extend Seth Meyers’ contract to continue hosting Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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Trump launched his late-night post on his social network by denouncing “a sick rumor” claiming that NBC would like to extend the contract of Seth Meyers, whom he portrays as one of the least talented late-night hosts.
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“There is a sick rumor going around that Fake News NBC extended the contract of one of the least talented Late Night television hosts out there, Seth Meyers,” the president wrote.
Trump continues in his message by insulting Meyers: “He has no Ratings, Talent, or Intelligence, and the Personality of an insecure child.”
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Trump then questions why NBC would do this, and says he’ll make it his mission to find the answer: “So, why would Fake News NBC extend this dope’s contract. I don’t know, but I’ll definitely be finding out!!!”.
And yet… Seth Meyers has already extended his contract with NBCUniversal… in May 2024.
A contract that ensures he’ll remain at the helm of Late Night with Seth Meyers until 2028, or for the duration of Donald Trump’s second term as president.
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Several observers have pointed out this contrast, reminding us that, rather than ranting on socials, the 79-year-old president would do better to go and rest at night.
K-Pop Demon Hunters confirmed its huge success with a special event on August 23 and 24, shown in over 1,700 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, where it raked in nearly $22 million and topped the North American box office!
“KPop Demon Hunters” became an unexpected juggernaut this summer, and is on its way to reaching the cultural resonance of Disney movies like “Encanto” and “Frozen.” But its popularity hasn’t been limited to children. Parents are eagerly watching the film, too.
After conquering Netflix as soon as it was released, becoming the hit of the summer without anyone even seeing it coming, the K-Pop phenomenon Demon Hunters is making a name for itself on Spotify thanks to its soundtrack, and now in cinemas too.
The film, which blends a fantasy universe with musical performances, captivated a vast community of fans around the world over the summer.
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On Spotify, the soundtrack was a runaway success, making the album the must-have of the season.
The song Golden became the summer’s biggest hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Global 200 and dominating the charts in fourteen countries, including the U.S., the U.K. and South Korea.
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It also topped the Spotify charts, topping the US daily chart and remaining number one worldwide.
At the same time, the film confirmed its huge success with a special event on August 23 and 24, shown in over 1,700 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, where it raked in almost $22 million and topped the North American box office.
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This theatrical triumph, the first of its kind for a Netflix production, demonstrates K-Pop’s ability to cross borders and establish itself as a global cultural phenomenon.
Netflix announced that this animated musical is now the most popular film in the platform’s history in the English-language category, dethroning Red Notice, with a total of 236 million views.
The House Republican Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the estate of Jeffrey Epstein to obtain certain documents, as well as the now infamous “birthday book” prepared by Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s 50th birthday.
The House Oversight Committee has deepened its probe into the federal government’s investigation of the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, issuing a subpoena to his estate for an array of documents.
And according to The Wall Street Journal, the book contains a mysterious message from Trump…
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According to CNN, a letter from Republican Chairman James Comer to Epstein’s estate indicates that, according to several reports, the estate is in possession of the famous “birthday book”.
This book, prepared by Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s birthday in January 2003, is said to contain messages from several of his close friends and family.
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The committee is seeking, among other things, in this subpoena documents such as Epstein’s will, financial records and confidentiality agreements he signed.
It is also asking for any documents or records that could reasonably be interpreted as a potential list of clients involved…
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The committee’s request comes after the Trump administration handed over the Epstein files, but several members of a bipartisan committee, eager to make the records public, say they essentially contain only documents already available and would represent only about 1% of what the government actually holds.
Part of this committee, as well as several observers, accuse the administration of withholding information, especially since we learned a few weeks ago that a campaign to black out and trace Trump’s name had been carried out by the FBI a few months ago.
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The House Republican Oversight Committee seems determined to get to the bottom of the Epstein affair, despite the Trump administration’s attempts to block it. With this new subpoena, it is also setting a September 8 deadline for Epstein’s estate to hand over all documents.
According to Wired, thousands of migrant children have reportedly been entered into an FBI criminal DNA database under a policy instituted in 2020, during the Trump administration’s first term.
NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”
According to the most recent data from the first quarter of 2025, there has been a marked increase in DNA collections, bringing to over 1.5 million the number of migrants whose DNA would have been collected by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) since the program was launched.
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Among them, migrant children, sometimes as young as 4 years old, have also been involved, with over 133,000 DNA samples recorded, according to estimates reported by Wired.
These data were integrated into the permanent CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) database, usually used in criminal investigations to compare DNA samples taken from crime scenes or from people convicted of serious offences.
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According to Wired, of more than 133,000 young migrants under the age of 21, 230 were children under the age of 13, some as young as 4, and more than 30,000 were aged between 14 and 17, all permanently added to the criminal DNA database.
After the landmark 2023 settlement forcing Fox News to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million for disseminating false information about the 2020 presidential election, a similar new court case has just concluded.
The multimillion-dollar settlement came as President Donald Trump continued to make false claims about voting machine fraud.
This time, conservative TV network Newsmax is being forced to pay a hefty sum, as it is also accused of intentionally spreading false claims about Dominion’s voting machines during the same election.
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Newsmax has agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67 million in installments over three years, far less than the $1.6 billion claimed in the original complaint in 2021.
Newsmax explained that it had agreed to a settlement on the grounds that it would not have received a fair trial, while continuing to deny that its reporting had been defamatory.
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In September 2024, the channel had already reached a similar agreement with Smartmatic for $40 million.
It’s also worth remembering that three close Trump allies have been sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems: Rudy Giuliani, whose proceedings have been suspended due to bankruptcy and no trial date has been set, Sidney Powell, who reached an out-of-court settlement in June 2024 for a confidential amount.
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Mike Lindell, sentenced in June 2025, was forced to pay $2.3 million.
While France has launched a criminal investigation into billionaire Elon Musk’s social network X, Musk is denouncing a political plot via the platform’s official accounts.
French authorities have launched a politically-motivated criminal investigation into X over the alleged manipulation of its algorithm and alleged “fraudulent data extraction.” X categorically denies these allegations.
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The Global Government Affairs account, managed by X, claims that the proceedings are entirely politically motivated and rejects the request for access to the platform’s algorithm.
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Musk’s app claims in its statement that such a request threatens its users’ rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
For their part, the French authorities justify their investigation with suspicions of manipulation of X’s algorithm for the purposes of “foreign interference”, in alleged violation of French law.
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Prosecutors opened the investigation to determine whether X had broken the law by modifying its algorithms and fraudulently collecting data from its French users.
X accuses the French experts involved in the investigation of having, in the past, run campaigns encouraging users to leave the platform, such as “HelloQuitteX” or “Escape X”.
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Elon Musk’s company says this raises serious concerns about the impartiality, fairness and political motivations of the proceedings.
