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Elon Musk’s reversal on blue checkmarks shows his desperation to lure high-profile users back to X

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN New York (CNN) — Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. Elon Musk has given up, restoring the “lords and peasants” blue checkmark system he once admonished and assailed as elitism. After insisting that

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Opinion: Why the hush money trial judge was right

Opinion by David Orentlicher (CNN) — Even though the US Supreme Court will decide later this spring whether presidents possess absolute immunity from criminal charges, New York Judge Juan Merchan properly rejected former President Donald Trump’s claim of immunity to delay his impending hush money payments trial. According to the judge, Trump waited too long to raise his claim of immunity. Trump

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Opinion: Hamas’ bet on the world is paying off

CNN Opinion by Jason Greenblatt (CNN) — The Biden administration may not have meant to play into Hamas’s hands when it shifted its harsh rhetoric toward Israel last week – but it did. In a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday in the aftermath of Israel’s deadly strike on a World Central Kitchen aid convoy, President Joe

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Opinion: Investing in oil and gas doesn’t make sense anymore

Opinion by Tom Steyer (CNN) — Earlier this year, during the warmest February in recorded history, the investment giants JPMorgan Chase, State Street, BlackRock and Pimco walked away from some of their boldest climate pledges. The leaders of these firms, with a combined more than $15 trillion under management, did not deny that climate change exists, that humans are its cause or that

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How Bob Iger vanquished a corporate raider in Disney’s most consequential boardroom battle in decades

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN New York (CNN) — Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. Bob Iger handed Nelson Peltz a bruising defeat on Wednesday — and he did it, in part, by shoring up perceived weaknesses within Disney that the billionaire

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