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Obama condemns ‘horrific’ Kirk shooting, but defends the right to criticize the founder of Turning Point USA  Politico After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’  The New York Times Obama says US faces ‘political crisis’ after killing of Charlie Kirk  BBC Obama says Trump deepened US divide in rush to ‘identify enemy’ after Charlie Kirk shooting  The Guardian Obama …

Robert Redford, the actor and director who sailed to Hollywood stardom with turns in classics such as “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men” and invigorated American independent cinema as one of the founders of the Sundance Film Festival, died Tuesday morning. He was 89. Cindi Berger, his publicist, said he died at his home “in the mountains …

Labubu dolls on display at a Pop Mart International Group Ltd. store in Shanghai, China. Raul Ariano/Bloomberg Wang Ning, the founder of Chinese toy maker Pop Mart International Group, has seen his net worth plummet by almost $6 billion in less than a month – as the latest edition of the company’s Labubu series of dolls seems to be losing …

Good morning. It’s Jeremy here, filling in for Andrew, who is now on paternity leave for a bit. So you’ll see a rotating cast of Fortune tech journalists writing this newsletter for a few weeks. Fortune Brainstorm Tech wrapped yesterday. Here were a few highlights from the final day of the conference: Tom Hale, the CEO of Oura, told the …

The founder of a California-based pornography empire that recruited women with false modeling offers was sentenced on Monday to 27 years in federal prison for sex trafficking. Michael James Pratt pleaded guilty in June in federal court in San Diego. Federal prosecutors said Pratt and his co-defendants used force, fraud and coercion to recruit hundreds of women, many of whom …

After nearly everyone working on the Nova Launcher, one of the most recognizable names in Android launchers, was laid off last year, founder Kevin Barry, Nova’s sole remaining developer, said this weekend that he has left Nova’s parent company after being asked to stop working on the launcher and an effort to open-source it. Nova Launcher’s website currently shows a …

Rick Davies, the founder, lead singer, and primary songwriter of Supertramp, died on Saturday, September 6, according to a post on the British rock band’s website. Davies had been living with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, for more than 10 years, the group said. He was 81 years old. Richard Davies was born in Swindon, England, in 1944, …

Trump family crypto project breaks with key founder  Axios Billionaire Crypto Investor Hits Out at Trump Family’s World Liberty Financial Firm  The New York Times Top Trump crypto backer Justin Sun says his World Liberty tokens ‘unreasonably’ frozen  Reuters Trump Crypto Project Sours as Billionaire Justin Sun Lashes Out  Bloomberg Billionaire Justin Sun begs Trump-backed World Liberty Financial to unfreeze $100 million crypto stash  Fortune …

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with George Arison, the 47-year-old CEO of Grindr. It’s been edited for length and clarity. If you had told me as a teenager in Soviet Georgia that one day I’d be running an American public tech company — let alone something like Grindr — I couldn’t have grasped it. The moment I …

World Liberty blacklists Justin Sun wallet after Tron founder moves $9 million in WLFI tokens  The Block Trump crypto backer Justin Sun says his World Liberty tokens frozen  Reuters Justin Sun urges Trump-linked WLFI to unlock ‘unreasonably’ frozen tokens  Cointelegraph Billionaire who spent $20M to attend Trump’s private dinner gets address blacklisted  Yahoo Finance Sun Calls for Transparent Governance as WLFI Faces Political and …