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Taylor Swift is backing Donald Trump's latest bid for the White House, at least according to the former president. Openly obsessed with the superstar performer, Trump took to his Truth Social on Sunday to claim the endorsement of Swift. Related Stories …

HBO’s Succession looks more and more like the House Of Murdoch, where Patriarch Rupert is fighting with three of his adult children over who will control the family media empire when he passes. An irrevocable trust in place for years would hand control to four of them — Lachlan, James, Elisabeth and…

July in full swing sees top media executives and an impressive political cohort gathered at a storied mountain resort to hike, chat and whitewater raft. The elixir of relaxed proximity distilled in Sun Valley’s rustic woods is credited with hatching a number of consequential deals over the…

The White House is slamming the New York Post for pushing out a video on social media, and later a cover story, claiming that President Joe Biden wandered off as he and other world leaders watched a skydiving demonstration at the G7 summit in Italy. The Post video came with the message, “President…

Rupert Murdoch has married for the fifth time, wedding Elena Zhukova at his Californian vineyard. Pictures of the couple have been released to Murdoch’s own Sun newspaper following the ceremony which took place Saturday afternoon.Elena Zhukova's wedding dress was designed by New Zealand-born…

Prince Harry will not be able to expand his phone hacking lawsuit against News Group Newspapers to include Rupert Murdoch and Piers Morgan, the UK’s High Court has ruled. Mr Justice Fancourt ruled on Tuesday that individual allegations against Murdoch and Morgan were not “material” to the case, which…

2nd UPDATE 1:56 PM: Not for the first time, Donald Trump made someone cry today. Hope Hicks wept on the stand today in the hush money trial of her former boss moments after a prosecutor had finished questioning her about her dealings with Trump and Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen. Finished talking to…

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UPDATE, 2.58am, April 18: Hugh Grant has explained his decision to settle in his privacy case with the publisher of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun, saying civil litigation rules in the UK forced his hand. In a thread on social media, he wrote: “I don't want to accept this money or settle. I would…

The family of former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is calling out an organization which had been entrusted to hand out a yearly award in her name. Last week, the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation announced that Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Martha Stewart, Michael Milken and Sylvester Stallone…

Fox Corp. COO John Nallen says the company is “much more focused on growing the business than we are on selling the business” despite accelerating pay-TV declines and other challenges. In an appearance Monday at Deutsche Bank’s Media, Internet & Telecom Conference, Nallen was asked if the time may be…

Prolific British screenwriter and playwright James Graham has revealed he has been diagnosed as a workaholic and described the addiction as “no different really from drink, drugs or sex.” Graham appeared on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs yesterday and opened up about the problem, which he said led…