The state banquet is the spectacular showstopper of a state visit, a glittering feast with speeches, royal toasts, trumpet fanfares and fancy food and wine. It's diplomacy served up with fine dining. A cut-glass shock-and-awe approach to hospitality designed to make a visiting leader like President Trump feel special. The setting in St George's Hall inside Windsor Castle is a remarkable sight, a mix of medieval banquet and Harry Potter film. Elaborately uniformed staff around the hall are as drilled as the soldiers who have been on parade during the day.

"This suit is brought by news publishers who seek redress for Perplexity's brazen scheme to compete for readers while simultaneously freeriding on the valuable content the publishers produce," according to the lawsuit filed in the southern district of New York by the Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones and the New York Post. Perplexity did not immediately respond to emails from Reuters seeking comment. The AI company is among the leading startups attempting to uproot the search engine market dominated by Alphabet's Google. It assembles information from webpages it deems to be authoritative, then provides a summary directly within Perplexity's own tool. Perplexity uses a variety of large language models (LLMs) to generate its summaries, from OpenAI to Meta's open-source model Llama.

Lachlan Murdoch will become the sole chair of both companies in November. As Rupert Murdoch marked his final day as Executive Chairman of News Corp on Wednesday, the media icon saluted his son Lachlan as the right man to lead the company forward. "Lachlan is a principled leader, and a believer in the social purpose of journalism. I hope to continue an active role in the company," Rupert Murdoch said during the company's annual shareholders meeting. Rupert Murdoch, 92, will now be Chairman Emeritus of FOX Corporation and News Corp; he will mark his final day at the former on Friday.

After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again. Murdoch plan to reunite Fox with News Corp. finds few fans Several analysts said the potential recombination is unlikely to solve one of the key problems facing Fox and News Corp. -- low valuations relative to their peers. Norah O'Donnell will become anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News and Gayle King is getting two new morning show co-hosts as CBS News seeks to boost the programs' ratings and put a tumultuous, scandal-scarred period behind it. In February, the YourNewsWire page on Facebook was at its peak popularity, boosted by its salacious post claiming that Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, was Fidel Castro's love child. Brian Ross, the veteran ABC News investigative correspondent who embarrassed the network late last year with an on-air report suggesting former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had been told by President Donald Trump to make contact with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign for the Oval...