Blackstone Considers Small Investment in TikTok

The private equity giant is considering investing as the video app works to follow a law that requires it to separate from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, by next week.

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Trump Commutes Ozy Media Founder’s Sentence Just Before His Surrender

Carlos Watson, who started the now-defunct digital media company, had been sentenced to almost 10 years in prison for trying to defraud investors and lenders.

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Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. Start-Up xAI

The deal combined two of Mr. Musk’s companies, which have been on different trajectories. The transaction valued xAI at $80 billion and X at $30 billion, the billionaire said.

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Trump’s Deportation Efforts Hit Roadblock After Judge Issues Temporary Order

A temporary order will give some migrants a chance to convince the government that deporting them to “third countries” such as El Salvador would put them at risk.

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80,000 Pounds of Beef Stolen From a Tennessee Slaughterhouse, Sheriff Says

The sheriff’s office in Grainger County, Tenn., is investigating the theft after shipments from a meat processing facility were loaded onto trucks and never reached their destinations.

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Trump Takes Aim at California Six Times in 24 Hours

The Trump administration seemed to hold back immediately after the January wildfires. But its multipronged assault on California has now begun in earnest.

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Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Dismantling CFPB

The bureau has been in turmoil as the Trump administration moved to fire hundreds of employees, ordered the rest to stop working and closed offices.

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3 Killed and Hundreds Rescued From Flooding in South Texas, Officials Say

More than 20 inches of rain — about a half-year’s worth — fell in some areas near the border with Mexico on Thursday and Friday.

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In Wisconsin Supreme Court Race, Republicans Shrug at Democrats’ Focus on Elon Musk

Both Republicans and Democrats think Elon Musk will help them win a key race the Wisconsin Supreme Court next week.

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A Sewage-Fertilizer Giant Leaves Town Amid a Contamination Crisis

Ranchers in Texas claim livestock was sickened by ‘forever chemicals’ in fertilizer made from sewage sludge. Now Synagro, a Goldman Sachs-backed firm, has lost a deal to manufacture there.

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