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Fox shares drop on end to Murdoch family succession drama

Fox dropped 5.3% after said they’ve reached of the 94-year-old mogul’s media empire after his death. The agreement ensures that there will be no change in direction at Fox News.

The deal creates a trust establishing control of the Fox Corp. for , Rupert’s who has been running Fox in recent years, along with his younger sisters, Grace and Chloe. Their older siblings, Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch and James Murdoch, give up any claims to control of Fox in exchange for stock currently valued at $3.3 billion, according to The New York Times, which first reported news of the deal.

It ends a drama that has been like a real-life version of HBO’s “Succession,� only with huge financial implications and an impact on U.S. politics. Fox and its conservative opinion as the go-to network for Trump and his team to spread news.

US job market was much weaker than thought in 2024 and this year

Adding to concerns about the health of the nation’s economy, the Labor Department reported Tuesday that employers added 911,000 fewer jobs than originally reported from April 2024 through March.

These so-called benchmark revisions are issued every year. The preliminary numbers are intended to better account for new businesses and ones that had gone out of business. Final revisions come out early the next year.

When last year’s revisions showed 818,000 fewer jobs from April 2023 through March 2024, Trump declared the numbers had been rigged to conceal economic weakness and help Democrats in the 2024 election. However, he did not explain why the government revised them downward before voters went to the polls.

AP investigation: US tech companies enabled China’s ‘digital cage’

American tech companies played a far greater role in designing and building the Chinese surveillance state than was previously known, an Associated Press investigation has found.

They sold billions of dollars of technology to the Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, and that such tools were being used to , and .

It’s a cautionary tale for other countries at a time when the use of surveillance technology worldwide is rising sharply, including in the United States. Emboldened by the Trump administration, U.S. tech companies are more powerful than ever, and from new surveillance technologies.

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Surveillance technology has spread around world — including the US

China has used what it learned from the U.S. to turn itself into a surveillance superpower, selling technologies to countries like Iran and Russia. Surveillance tech also now includes artificial intelligence systems that in its war against Hamas. And the Trump administration uses AI to help track and detain migrants in the U.S.

“Because of this technology … we have no freedom at all,� said Yang Caiying, now in exile in Japan, whose family in China has been trapped in an increasingly tight noose of surveillance. “At the moment, it’s us Chinese that are suffering the consequences, but sooner or later, Americans and others, too, will lose their freedoms.�

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‘Chipocalypse’ is now ‘Operation Midway Blitz’

Blasting what it calls in Chicago and Illinois, the Trump administration said its latest effort targets people without legal permission to live in the U.S. who have criminal records. Its announcement of included mugshots of 11 foreign-born men it said should be deported.

, who has been locked in a with Trump for days, and Mayor Brandon Johnson have the state and city’s sanctuary laws, which bar coordination between local police and immigration agents. They're accusing Trump of using scare tactics, particularly with in the nation’s third-largest city.

Democrats release suggestive letter to Epstein

Trump denies he signed it, and Republicans are supporting this claim after Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on social media of a for Jeffrey Epstein in a birthday book.

The president has said he did not create the drawing of a curvaceous woman it includes. Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, over a report that described such a page in detail.

AP analysis: Presidentials taking longer to approve disaster aid

Disaster survivors are having to wait longer to get aid from the federal government, according to of decades of data. On average, it took less than two weeks for a governor’s request for a presidential disaster declaration to be granted in the 1990s and early 2000s. That rose to about three weeks during the past decade under presidents from both major parties. It’s taking more than a month, on average, so far during Trump’s current term, the AP found.

The delays mean individuals must wait to receive federal aid for daily living expenses, temporary lodging and home repairs. Delays in disaster declarations can also hamper recovery efforts by local officials, uncertain whether they will receive federal reimbursement for cleaning up debris and rebuilding infrastructure. The AP collaborated with Mississippi Today and Mississippi Free Press on the effects of these delays for this report.

“The federal government has turned its back on its own people,� said Bob Griffin, dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany in New York. “It’s a fundamental shift in the position of this country.�

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said Trump is making sure federal tax dollars “are spent wisely to supplement state actions, not replace them.�

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