Author: The Gazette
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Tesla urges Delaware Supreme Court to restore Musk’s $56 billion payday
By Tom Hals DOVER, Delaware (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package from Tesla should have been restored by a vote of the company’s shareholders last year, a Tesla attorney argued to the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday. One of the biggest corporate legal battles entered its final stage after a lower court judge rescinded…
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US Supreme Court conservatives appear willing to blunt key Voting Rights Act provision
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled their willingness on Wednesday during arguments in a case involving Louisiana electoral districts to undercut a key section of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 federal law enacted by Congress to prevent racial discrimination in voting. Arguments in the case…
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Salesforce CEO who backed National Guard deployment previously funded protest-industrial complex
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, a longtime Democratic mega donor, is backing President Donald Trump on sending in the National Guard to San Francisco, after helping to heavily fund what dark money watchdogs call the protest-industrial complex. In an interview with the New York Times last week, Benioff said Trump should deploy the National Guard to…
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Aid trucks roll into Gaza as dispute over hostage bodies is paused
By Steven Scheer and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Aid trucks rolled into Gaza on Wednesday and Israel resumed preparations to open the main Rafah crossing after a dispute over the return of the bodies of dead hostages that had threatened to derail the fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas. Israel had threatened to keep Rafah shut…
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LA County supervisors declare ‘immigration emergency’ after federal enforcement actions
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency due to illegal immigration enforcement activity initiated by the Trump administration. The decision grants the board the power to provide financial resources to immigrants who have allegedly suffered economic hardships due to illegal immigration enforcement efforts ordered by President…
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Hegseth warns Moscow US will ‘impose costs’ if Ukraine war does not end
By Andrew Gray and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Moscow on Wednesday that the United States and its allies would “impose costs on Russia for its continued aggression” if the war in Ukraine does not come to an end. “If we must take this step, the U.S. War Department stands…
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Yamaha Unveils MODX M Synthesizer: Elevating Expression for Musicians Everywhere
Yamaha Launches New MODX M Synthesizer Line
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Analysis-EU scramble for anti-Russia ‘drone wall’ hits political, technical hurdles
By Andrew Gray, Supantha Mukherjee and Max Hunder BRUSSELS/STOCKHOLM/KYIV (Reuters) -Just hours after some 20 Russian drones entered Polish airspace last month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it was time for Europe to build a “drone wall” to protect its eastern flank. Drone incidents over airports in Denmark and Germany in the…
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Trump suggests pulling World Cup games from Boston due to ‘unsafe conditions’
President Donald Trump turned his attention on Tuesday to criminal behavior in Boston after multiple deployments of National Guard troops to cities throughout the country to help reduce crime. Trump suggested he might order the removal of 2026 World Cup games from Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, home of the NFL’s New England Patriots. In…
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Analysis-China to keep its ‘all about production’ economic playbook as rivalry with US intensifies
SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Communist Party meets this month to map a five-year vision that prioritises high-tech manufacturing in its quest to upgrade its sprawling industries and project global power as its rivalry with the U.S. intensifies, analysts say. Known as a plenum, the meeting is also likely to pledge strong measures to lift household consumption…