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The National Security Agency has given Tucker Carlson a lesson in spycraft and fake news. One which looks certain to crank up the volume in the now war of words, real and imagined. In a rare social media rebuke, the agency shot down the Fox News Channel host's recent self-described "shocking claim" that he and his…

Johnny Depp's recent failure to secure an appeal in the "wife beater" verdict against him in Britain is causing legal ripples on this side of the Atlantic. Flying the flag of international law, Amber Heard's lawyers say the Pirates of the Caribbean star's Stateside $50 million defamation lawsuit against the Aquaman…

In a media deal with a healthy valuation, Investor’s Business Daily has been sold to Wall Street Journal parent News Corp. for $275 million. A daily newspaper from its founding in 1984, IBD shifted to weekly print frequency in 2016 but long before that had focused on offerings beyond newsprint. About 90% of its…

Rupert Murdoch has a message for Big Tech and that youngster Joe Biden: he's ready to rumble. "A lifetime achievement award does have an air of finality, almost of closure," the sly 89-year-old Fox News boss said this weekend while accepting the Australia Day Foundation's honor. "Well, I'm far from done," Murdoch…

James Murdoch, the renegade son of Murdoch family dynasty who broke with the empire last summer, has publicly denounced "media property owners" whose election denialism helped lead to the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol last week that resulted in five death. “The sacking of the Capitol is proof positive that what…

The Donald Trump era is passing like a dark cloud, but I'd offer a second headline of equal importance: The Rupert Murdoch era also is history. As the media lord nears 90, his ominous hold on the politics and pop culture of three nations is lifting as well. Hollywood, too, will be healthier in his absence. The Trump…

Attempting to turn the tide on his legal battles on both sides of the Atlantic, Johnny Depp has come up short again and it may end up costing the former Pirates of the Caribbean star up to $100 million. As Depp awaits word on whether his bid for new libel trial in the UK will be granted, a Virginia judge has refused…

Keith Poole, deputy editor-in-chief of News Corp.'s UK tabloid The Sun, has been named editor-in-chief of the New York Post Group. He starts in early March in what is a new position as former editor and senior advisor Col Allan retires. The Post’s editors-in-chief for print and digital, Stephen Lynch and Michelle…

Howard Rubenstein, the public relations expert who guided the paths of such high-profile clients as George Steinbrenner, Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump, has died at his home in Manhattan. He was 88, and no cause of death was given. "It is with great sadness that I share the news that my father, Howard J. Rubenstein…

Rupert Murdoch, the 89-year-old media patriarch, received an initial dose of Covid-19 vaccine this week at a doctor’s office near his residence west of London. The Guardian reported that Murdoch was vaccinated at his doctor’s office in Henley, Oxfordshire, on Wednesday. The chairman of Fox Corp. and executive chairman…

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., the owner of HarperCollins, Bertelsmann's Penguin Random House and French conglom Vivendi have emerged as top contenders for Simon & Schuster with bids for the storied ViacomCBS publisher due in before Thanksgiving, according to a person familiar with the situation. ViacomCBS put the…

Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch’s compensation totaled $29.15 million for the fiscal year ended in June, down sharply from $42.11 million the year before. His dad, chairman Rupert Murdoch, took home $33.98 million, also below the $42.16 million for Fox’s fiscal 2019, according to a proxy statement filed Wednesday with the…