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ExxonMobil shareholders approve moving company’s legal home from New Jersey to Texas
ExxonMobil’s board of directors said the legal and regulatory environment in Texas is more business friendly.
Gas and oil giant ExxonMobil will likely move its legal home from New Jersey to Texas after shareholders approved a proposal to do so, according to a preliminary count.
ExxonMobil’s board of directors unanimously recommended the legal relocation in March, saying Texas’ legal and regulatory environment was more business friendly.
“Aligning our legal home with our operating home, in a state that understands our business and has a stake in the company’s success, is important.” Darren Woods, ExxonMobil CEO, said at the time.
Two advisory firms, Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services, recommended against the relocation, arguing the move could allow Exxon to make it harder for shareholders to sue the company.
Shortly after, Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Institutional Shareholder Services for allegedly misleading investors. He cited the firm’s recommendation against Exxon’s relocation as a reason for the lawsuit.
Exxon is headquartered in a suburb of Houston but has been incorporated in New Jersey since 1882 when the company was still Standard Oil of New Jersey, according to the company. The company moved its headquarters to Irving in 1989 and says about 75% of the company’s U.S. employees are in Texas.
James Lee, CEO of the Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange, lauded the shareholder vote in a statement.
“Exxon’s move is also a watershed moment for America’s capital markets, and the direct result of Governor Abbott and the legislature transforming Texas into the top jurisdiction for business in the U.S,” Lee said. “Hundreds of companies representing trillions of dollars in market capitalization are poised to make similar moves. With today’s action, it is clear the faucet is about to unload.”
A state in which a company has its legal domicile in is important because it determines their taxes and what laws they have to follow.
Most of the country’s largest businesses have their legal domicile in Delaware due to its special business court system, according to the Harvard Business Center. Texas aims to offer a similar system with the Texas Business Court, which was created in 2023 to handle complex business disputes.
Tesla, SpaceX and Coinbase are among the large companies that have already incorporated in Texas.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/business/2026/05/28/553046/exxon-mobil-shareholders-move-companys-legal-home-from-new-jersey-to-texas/
Federal judge allows Trump to implement EO that restricts voting by mail
A federal judge has declined to temporarily block President Trump's executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail.
The ruling released Thursday by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump nominee based in Washington, D.C., leaves in place — at least for now — an order that tests the limits of the president's power under the Constitution. A separate, 2025 executive order on voting was halted by courts.
The latest executive order, issued March 31, calls for the Department of Homeland Security to work with the Social Security Administration to create lists of adult U.S. citizens in each state, and to send those lists to state election officials. It also calls for the U.S. Postal Service — a federal agency that's independent of a president's administration — to come up with lists of eligible voters and to only deliver mail-in ballots to people on those lists.
Nichols found that it's too early for a court to issue an emergency ruling that halts key parts of Trump's order because those directives have not been carried out yet.
"The Court recognizes that the Postal Service may ultimately issue a final rule that directly affects Plaintiffs or their members, or that the Government may develop State Citizenship Lists that omit specific individuals due to particularized flaws. Plaintiffs may, of course, renew their motions if and when those future actions occur. Until then, however, Plaintiffs cannot show that preliminary injunctive relief is warranted," Nichols wrote about the decision not to block the order.
Nichols' ruling comes as another federal judge is preparing to issue a decision, as soon as early June, for a similar set of lawsuits based in Boston.
The three D.C.-based lawsuits were filed by Democrats and voting rights groups, and it's not clear if they will file an appeal of Nichols' ruling before a 60-day deadline in late July.
"Mail-in voting is safe and secure, a hallmark of our free and fair elections. Trump's order is not about election integrity. It is voter suppression, plain and simple," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said in a statement. "Democrats will do everything in our power to ensure that every American can exercise their right to vote."
Danielle Lang, an attorney at Campaign Legal Center, said the challengers led by the League of United Latin American Citizens "look forward to the next stage of this litigation."
"Across the country, the administration is attempting to unlawfully shape the electorate to the will of the president and sow doubt in how our elections are run — but we will continue working to stop them at every turn," Lang added in a statement.
Since Trump signed the order, it's been unclear whether and how it would actually affect mail-in voting, which has been taking place for state primaries in this year's midterm election. In early May, the administration said in a court filing that federal agencies were still deliberating how to carry out the order. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche later told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that the Justice Department is working with other agencies to "make sure" the order's goals are implemented.
Among other directives, Trump called for Postmaster General David Steiner to start a rulemaking process by late May. But as of Thursday, the Postal Service had yet to put out a public notice about such a process. Spokespeople for USPS did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment.
In total, the order's opponents — which also include almost two dozen states, plus Washington, D.C. — have filed five lawsuits challenging the order.
They argue that Article I of the Constitution gives state legislatures and Congress — not the president — the power to set rules for federal elections. Their lawsuits also contend that Trump's order directs USPS to make rules about election mail that would overstep the mailing agency's authority.
Trump, who himself voted by mail in Florida in March, has said he issued the order to stop illegal voting by noncitizens in federal elections, which reviews and research have found to be incredibly rare. While there are voters across the partisan divide who rely on mail-in voting, more registered Democrats than Republicans say they voted by mail in the last national election in 2024.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5797889/trump-mail-in-voting-order
Iran fires ballistic missiles at US airbase in Kuwait – CENTCOM calls it an ‘egregious ceasefire violation.’
US Central Command said on Thursday that Iran fired a ballistic missile toward Kuwait in an “egregious ceasefire violation.”
CENTCOM said Kuwaiti forces intercepted the missile, which it said was launched at 10:17 p.m. ET on May 27.
It said the missile launch came hours after Iranian forces launched five one-way attack drones that posed a threat in and near the Strait of Hormuz.
CENTCOM said US forces intercepted all five drones and prevented a sixth launch from an Iranian ground control site in Bandar Abbas.
The command said US forces and regional partners remained vigilant while defending US forces and interests from what it called Iranian aggression.
At 10:17 p.m. ET on May 27, Iran launched a ballistic missile toward Kuwait that was successfully intercepted by Kuwaiti forces. This egregious ceasefire violation by the Iranian regime occurred hours after Iranian forces launched five one-way attack drones that posed a clear…
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) May 28, 2026
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202605284008
Trump refiles $10 billion lawsuit over Wall Street Journal report on Epstein birthday letter
President Donald Trump has refiled his lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal’s publisher and two of its reporters over a July 2025 report on a lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s name.
Tuesday’s defamation lawsuit seeks $10 billion for damages and claims that the story had “glaring failures in journalistic ethics and standards of accurate reporting.”
“President Trump has refiled his powerhouse lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and all of the other Defendants. The President will continue to hold those who mislead the American People with Fake News and smears accountable for their actions,” a spokesperson for Trump’s legal team told CNN.
CNN has reached out to the Wall Street Journal for comment.
The president’s earlier lawsuit was dismissed last month, with a federal judge ruling that Trump failed to plausibly allege the newspaper acted with “actual malice” when it reported the story.
Since returning to office, Trump has gone after media companies through legal pressure and public threats. When the president first filed the lawsuit last summer, legal experts consulted by CNN said they could not recall any past instances of a sitting president suing a news outlet over a story.
He has since filed lawsuits against other outlets including a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times in September, that accuses the outlet of being a “virtual mouthpiece” for the Democratic Party.
In December, Trump sued the BBC for $10 billion, alleging that it defamed him by splicing together two different parts of his January 6, 2021, speech.
The Wall Street Journal story published in July 2025 was about a collection of letters gifted to Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003. One of the letters, the Wall Street Journal reported, bore Trump’s name and an outline of a naked woman.
Trump has denied writing the letter. In Tuesday’s filing, his legal team said the reporters “falsely pass off as fact that President Trump, in 2003, wrote, drew, and signed this letter” but “failed to show proof.”
A spokesperson for Dow Jones, the Journal’s parent company said in a statement when the first lawsuit was filed, “We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting, and will vigorously defend against any lawsuit.”
Trump has previously been under scrutiny for his ties to Epstein, with the administration facing continued backlash for how it handled the release of the Justice Department’s files related to the late sex offender.
https://lite.cnn.com/2026/05/28/politics/trump-refiles-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-epstein
"Vast fortune" belonging to legendary Mafia boss seized by police in Italy
Italy said Thursday it was seizing more than 200 million euros ($232 million) in assets belonging to late Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro derived from drug trafficking and reinvested in Europe and beyond.
The "vast fortune" of the ruthless Cosa Nostra boss — a legendary figure finally captured in 2023 in Palermo after three decades on the run — had been amassed since the 1980s, Italy's financial police said in a statement.
Messina Denaro, the head of Sicily's Castelvetrano clan, who had six life sentences to his name, died in prison a few months after his arrest at age 61.
The investigation by the Guardia di Finanza uncovered "vast sums of money derived from drug trafficking reinvested in numerous European and non-European countries," police said.
Assets were being seized in Andorra, the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain and Switzerland, as well as Italy, police said.
Drug money was "reintroduced into the legal economy" through a wide range of assets, including luxury vacation resorts on Spain's Costa del Sol, bank accounts, securities portfolios and corporate holding companies, they said.
Three people have been arrested in the probe.
Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Melillo, hailed the operation as of "great strategic importance."
"It is not simply a matter of identifying and seizing a significant portion of the illicit wealth accumulated over decades of related trafficking and parasitic exploitation of the territory — Sicily in particular — from an organization as powerful as the Cosa Nostra," Melillo said Thursday during a press conference in Palermo.
But the operation also managed to "delay and hinder" Cosa Nostra's attempt to rebuild its structure after the death of the powerful Messina Denaro, he said.
Police used planes, drones and thermal scanners in the investigation. The scanners were used "to detect concealed spaces and hidden cavities," they said.
The eight foreign companies identified during the probe were primarily used for real estate investments and assets management.
Many of the 22 real estate properties found to be linked to Messina Denaro were "genuine luxury resorts located between Marbella, Benahavis and Puerto Banus, in some of the most exclusive areas of the Costa del Sol," police said.
Messina Denaro was considered "Mafia nobility" — the last of three top Mafia bosses, the others being the notorious Salvatore "Toto" Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, both of whom also eluded capture for decades, continuing to live clandestine lives in Sicily. Riina, the so-called "boss of bosses," was on the run for 23 years before his arrest in 1993. Provenzano spent 38 years as a fugitive and was finally captured in 2006.
One of the most notorious bosses of Cosa Nostra, the real-life Sicilian crime syndicate depicted in "The Godfather" movies, Messina Denaro had a long string of crimes to his name.
He was convicted of involvement in the 1992 high-profile murders of anti-Mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and for deadly bombings in Rome, Florence and Milan in 1993.
One of his life sentences was for ordering the kidnapping and subsequent strangulation of the 12-year-old son of a witness in the Falcone case, whose body was then dissolved in acid.
After disappearing in 1993, Messina Denaro managed to elude authorities for the next 30 years as the Italian state cracked down on the Sicilian mob.
But he remained the top name on Italy's most-wanted list and increasingly became a figure of legend.
It was his decision to seek treatment for cancer under a false name that led to his capture. He was arrested on Jan. 16, 2023, when he visited a clinic in Palermo.
Italian media reported Messina Denaro was being treated for colon cancer at the private hospital "La Maddalena" under the false name "Andrea Buonafede." Reports said he did not resist arrest and he was taken to an undisclosed location by police.
According to eyewitnesses, when passers-by realized security forces had apprehended the notorious crime figure, people cheered and applauded the police.
He was found to have been staying near his hometown of Castelvetrano in western Sicily, his fugitive lifestyle facilitated by his sister and close confidantes.
With their help, Messina Denaro also was able to continue to communicate with, and direct, his Mafia operatives.
Messina Denaro continued to receive cancer treatment while incarcerated at L'Aquila, but he was later moved to hospital in August that year, under heavy security.
He died on Sept. 25, 2023.
"You shouldn't deny prayers to anyone, but I can't say I am sorry," Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini wrote on Instagram at the time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mafia-matteo-messina-denaro-vast-fortune-seized-police-italy/
Bessent shows off new Trump $250 bill
For more than a century, federal law has stipulated that only deceased individuals may appear on U.S. currency, but that could change. As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, proposed legislation could amend the Federal Reserve Act and allow a portrait of President Donald J. Trump be printed on a $250 bill.
“I don’t think that there’s anything untoward about having the president of the United States, the person who was president of the United States on the 250th anniversary bill,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday during a White House press briefing.
In February 2025, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., introduced the Donald J. Trump $250 Bill Act in the House. The legislation would “amend the Federal Reserve Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to print $250 Federal reserve notes featuring a portrait of Donald J. Trump, and for other purposes.”
It states the bills with Trump’s portrait would be printed to commemorate the country’s semiquincentennial, but the legislation has been languishing with less than two months to go until the nation celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July Fourth.
Responding to a Washington Post report that two political appointees from the Treasury Department were pushing the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to expedite the process for the new currency note, Bessent said: “At Treasury, we prepare things in advance, so we have prepared in advance if the legislation is passed, but we will stick to the law.”
As treasury secretary, he said, he has two mandates for U.S. currency: No living person can be on U.S. currency, and currency must say "In God We Trust."
Legislation pending before Congress would change the first requirement so a living person — in this case Trump — could indeed appear on a $250 bill.
“In response to active legislation sponsored by Representative Joe Wilson, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) is conducting appropriate planning and due diligence,” an agency spokesperson said in a statement to The Associated Press. “Should this legislative mandate be signed into law, the BEP is moving proactively to produce a $250 commemorative note which will appropriately recognize the 250th Anniversary of our great nation.”
Democrats have criticized the proposal.
“As Americans struggle with the rising cost of gas, groceries, housing, and health care, President Trump’s priorities for taxpayer dollars are completely detached from the challenges families face every day: a gold-plated ballroom; a monument blocking Arlington National Cemetery; renaming buildings and airports after himself; rewards for allies who attacked the Capitol on January 6; a passport bearing his image; and now, apparently, even a proposal for a $250 bill with his face on it,” Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said in a statement released to various news outlets.
"If this White House put even half as much energy into working to lower costs as it does into stoking the president’s ego," he continued, "American families wouldn’t need that new $250 bill just to fill up their gas tanks."
Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote on X on Thursday: “By the end of Trump’s term, it’ll be just enough to buy one gallon of gas and a carton of eggs.”
Wilson wrote on X on Thursday: "Grateful to commemorate President Trump’s legacy of greatness and the 250 anniversary of America. I am looking forward to final passage of this bill."
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/politics/2026/05/28/250-bill-president-trump
Stanley Cup Champion Claude Lemieux Dies at 60
Stanley Cup champion Claude Lemieux has died. He was 60.
The NHL Alumni Association announced the news of Lemieux's death on Thursday, May 28.
"The NHL Alumni Association is devastated to share that Claude Lemieux has passed away at the age of 60," the association's statement said.
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office told The Athletic that deputies responded to a suicide attempt on Thursday at a furniture showroom. Records viewed by the outlet indicated the showroom was in Lake Park, Fla., and owned by Lemieux and his wife.
“Today is a dark day for the Canadiens family and the entire hockey community. I wish to express my most sincere and deepest condolences to Claude’s family and loved ones,” Geoff Molson, owner and CEO of Groupe CH, said in a statement.
“A fierce competitor who rose to the occasion in big moments, Claude was a relentless, courageous, and tenacious player who led the team to the highest honors," Molson continued. "He embodied the very essence of being a Montreal Canadiens player. Today we mourn the untimely passing of one of our champions. Our thoughts are with his family on this difficult day.”
Just days before his death, Lemieux made an appearance at the Canadiens Game 3 against the Hurricanes, carrying the torch and getting fans riled up for the match on Monday, May 25.
"Holy smokes! That game 3 entrance now has so much more meaning to it," one fan said after the news of Lemieux's death.
"Dude was an absolute gamer and beast in the playoffs to include 158 pts, 19 game-winning goals and 4 Stanley Cups. RIP Claude," said another.
A Buckingham, Quebec native, Lemieux was selected in the second round of the 1983 NHL Draft by the Montreal Canadiens. He scored his first NHL goal on Dec. 4, 1983 and went on to win four Stanley Cup championships.
He played for the Canadiens for an additional four seasons before joining the New Jersey Devils ahead of the 1990 season.
Beyond the NHL, Lemieux represented Canada multiple times, including a gold medal win at the 1985 World Junior Hockey Championships and the 1987 Canada Cup.
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According to The New York Times, he went on to become a player agent after his retirement in 2009.
He is survived by his wife Deborah and his four children, including professional hockey player Brendan Lemieux.
https://people.com/stanley-cup-champion-claude-lemieux-deies-at-60-11985762
To frame it on your wall and sell it for a premium later on.
Maybe a lot of those misc explosions we seen around the world are failed rocket launch attempts?
I'll give you a load of unvaxxed sperm or a pint of unvaxxed blood for a Ferrari 458.
Injecting straight into bloodstream is way worse than any other method of contact.
I take other shit for the spike proteins. Not injecting the heavy metals and other random shit is half the battle.
>Protocol should be followed persistently for at least a year
Yeah that's the key. It takes 2 years to bring soil back to life, so it's the same with your supplements and your body.