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The Scoop A successful media pressure campaign from the right torpedoed Jeff Zucker’s attempt to buy the Telegraph. Axel Springer’s Mathias Döpfner is making sure that doesn’t happen again by personally courting regulators and the country’s influential conservative political figures as he attempts to get his bid to buy the ...

Politico tapped a current executive vice president, Jonathan Greenberger, to be the publication’s new editor-in-chief. Greenberger, who garnered internal support from outgoing editor John Harris and CEO Goli Sheikholeslami, convinced Axel Springer’s Mathias Döpfner and others at the company that Politico needed to lean into its status as a dominant ...

The Scoop CBS News is expanding its investigative journalism efforts as editor-in-chief Bari Weiss continues to reshape the network. On Monday, the company plans to announce the growth of CBS News’ Investigative Unit, Semafor has learned, an attempt to grow the network’s original reporting and get more attention by publishing ...

Tehran stepped up its attacks on Gulf nations, hitting aluminum plants in Bahrain and the UAE this weekend. The strikes add to the pressures facing global commodities markets amid disruptions to both production and shipping. The Middle East accounts for 9% of the world’s production of aluminum, an abundant metal ...

​​European Union lawmakers advanced a plan to deport migrants to “return hubs” outside the bloc, as the continent adopts a more Donald Trump-like posture on immigration. Rejected asylum-seekers could be detained for up to two years or sent to “third countries” under the plan, which was backed by an alliance ...

A gathering of prominent American conservatives last week exposed deep divisions within the Republican Party over the Iran war. Some longtime Donald Trump loyalists questioned the escalation — one warned that “a ground invasion of Iran will make our country poorer and less safe” — while others praised the president’s ...

China launched two probes into US trade practices on Friday, mirroring Washington’s moves in an escalating trade standoff ahead of US President Donald Trump’s May visit to Beijing. Beijing said the investigations were reciprocal after the US opened trade inquiries into China and other countries this year. Both sides are ...

US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly inked a $2.75 billion deal with a Hong Kong-listed biotech firm to create new medicines using AI. Insilico Medicine, which develops drugs in China and went public in December, says it has produced at least 28 medicines using generative AI tools, with nearly half at ...

Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russ Vought huddled with House Financial Services Committee Republicans Friday morning, four lawmakers told Semafor. The lawmakers said they discussed opportunities to rein in that agency without shuttering it, including establishing greater congressional oversight. A federal judge recently ruled the CFPB must continue to ...

Reed’s view Social media had its “Big Tobacco” moment this week, when a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google liable for harming a teenage girl with addictive features. The verdict was a big deal, showing how plaintiffs’ attorneys can sidestep Section 230, which shields platforms from liability for what ...