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Elon Musk has reached a settlement in a $128m (£100m) lawsuit filed by four former Twitter (now X) executives over unpaid severance following his acquisition of the company. The executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, claimed they were terminated "without reason" after Musk's 2022 takeover and subsequently denied severance payments. Attorneys for the plaintiffs disclosed the settlement in a court filing last week, noting that "certain conditions" must be met, but did not reveal specific terms.

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In a decisive move, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to consider Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her 2021 conviction, thereby allowing her 20-year prison sentence to stand. Maxwell had sought court intervention in her efforts to overturn the sex-trafficking verdict that implicated her as a key associate of financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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Israel and Hamas agreed Wednesday to pause fighting in Gaza so that the remaining hostages can be freed in the coming days in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, accepting elements of a plan put forward by U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration that would represent the biggest breakthrough in months in the devastating 2-year-old war.

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Elon Musk has sparked a new wave of controversy after urging the public to boycott Netflix, accusing the streaming platform of promoting what he calls a “woke agenda” through its inclusion of transgender and LGBTQ+ themes in its programming. The billionaire entrepreneur, who frequently voices strong opinions on social media, took to X (formerly Twitter) to call on his followers to cancel their Netflix subscriptions, claiming the platform’s content is inappropriate for children.