Texas Republicans bankrolled by Christian conservative donors are hoping to ride a wave of parental anger over the teaching of race and sexuality in schools to achieve what has long been an unattainable goal: state funding for private education. Groups committed to giving parents the option of sending their children to private schools using taxpayer …
The settlement Tom Girardi reached with a drug company in 2005 was characteristically large and righteous: some $66 million the famed Los Angeles trial attorney won on behalf of patients who said a diabetes medication caused liver failure and other maladies. At Girardi’s suggestion, a nationally renowned mediator was appointed to ensure proper distribution of …
Now that Elon Musk has closed on his acquisition of the social media platform Twitter, what happens to Twitter’s stock? The transaction to make Twitter a private company was completed late Thursday, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission document. By Friday morning, Twitter’s stock had already stopped trading on the New York Stock Exchange, …
Abdulla thought it was the opportunity of a lifetime. After struggling to find work in his home country of Bangladesh, he said a recruiter offered him a chance to work in a restaurant thousands of miles away in Kuwait City for the equivalent of $660 a month. There was a catch: He would have to …
ESPN is selling a majority interest in X Games, the event that helped bring extreme sports such as snowboarding and Moto X racing into the mainstream. The Walt Disney-owned sports media company announced Wednesday that MSP Sports Capital, a private equity firm, will become the majority stakeholder in the property founded in 1995. ESPN will …
