The Latest Breaking News from Delaware

Elon Musk Twitter saga could draw to end as deadline looms

Tesla chief executive has been given until 28 October to buy social network to avoid Delaware court case

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2022

Sun-Times/WBEZ Poll: Illinois voters don’t want Pritzker or Biden to run for president – but they’d take either over Trump

Illinois voters aren’t as sour on President Joe Biden as other voters across the nation, but they are just as unenthusiastic about another four years of the Delaware Democrat as they are about Gov. J.B. Pritzker making a run for the White House.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

DeSantis migrant flights may continue, records suggest, including to Delaware and Illinois

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration may keep flying migrants from the border to Democratic states using Florida taxpayer money, according to newly released public records.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Oct 15, 2022

Musk lawyers say Twitter refusing new $44B bid for company

Elon Musk’s lawyers say Twitter is refusing the Tesla billionaire’s renewed $44 billion bid for the social media company and have asked a Delaware court to halt an upcoming trial

The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2022

Court Rejects Avas Flowers' Libel Claims

"The allegedly defamatory nature of this statement is the implication that Plaintiff holds itself out as a local business when it is not. But truth is an affirmative defense to defamation under Delaware law, and the ... Declaration [submitted by Avas] does not deny that Plaintiff maintains call centers abroad…

Reason · Oct 6, 2022

Twitter v Elon Musk: what happens next in the takeover saga?

The Delaware trial that the social media firm brought is still due to proceed despite Musk’s latest U-turn

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2022

Musk Says He Wants Twitter Again and Will Pay $44B Price

Elon Musk wants Twitter again — and Twitter is game. The billionaire Tesla CEO has proposed to buy the company at the originally agreed-on price of $44 billion, bringing the tumultuous, monthslong saga another step closer to a conclusion. Musk made the surprising turnaround not on Twitter, as has been…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 5, 2022

Conservatives mock Biden for suggesting he was ‘raised’ in Puerto Rico community in Delaware

‘I can’t wait for his speech to NASA when he talks about his days as an astronaut,’ former GOP White House Secretary says

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2022

Judge: ITG is liable for Florida tobacco settlement payments

A Delaware judge says cigarette manufacturer ITG Brands assumed liability for tobacco settlement payments to the state of Florida when it acquired four brands from Reynolds American in 2015

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2022

Robe & Gavel: SCOTUS begins October Term 2022-2023

Welcome to the Oct. 3 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S.

Ballotpedia · Oct 3, 2022