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Tycoon’s plan to hand control of businesses to eldest son Lachlan is challenged by other children

A unique court case is getting under way in Nevada this week. At stake is the future of the Murdoch empire. The case, which begins on September 17 local time, is scheduled to run (in secret) for two weeks, and sometime after that the Reno Nevada County Probate Commissioner will…

Conservative media titan Rupert Murdoch is making news again – this time, with a secretive effort to change an irrevocable trust. That trust has important ownership interests in both Fox Corp. and News Corp., so it affects broadcast news as well as The Wall Street Journal and other publications.

He gave them $2bn each, but they want more. Now Rupert Murdoch has taken on his ‘Leftie’ kids in a US court to save his empire’s Right-wing bias and lost. Chris Blackhurst reports on a family battle

The move by the billionaire news mogul, 93, could have a ‘real, significant impact’ on the global media landscape

Media mogul’s bid to extend rightwing influence beyond the grave must be resisted to the last

Murdoch bidding to secure right-leaning future of media empire

Court documents show Murdoch wants to give more voting rights to his conservative son, and CEO of Fox, Lachlan.

New analysis of 17th-century diarist’s French fashion engravings shows he was not only a shrewd political operator but had a keen eye for new trends