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Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who traded his way to a $15-billion fortune and for a time was the richest person in Los Angeles, has died. He was 98. Kerkorian’s death was confirmed Tuesday by Anthony Mandekic, the CEO of Kerkorian’s company, Tracinda Corp. Kerkorian died Monday evening at his home in Beverly Hills.

That Bill Clinton is a serial adulterer is not news. That Clinton may have been involved with underage sex slaves is new. A new lawsuit has revealed the extent of former President Clinton's friendship with a fundraiser who was later jailed for having sex with an underage prostitute. Bill Clinton's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who served time in 2008 for his illegal sexual partners, included up multiple trips to the onetime billionaire's private island in the Caribbean where underage girls were allegedly kept as sex slaves. The National Enquirer has released new details about the two men's friendship, which seems...

NEW YORK - Retirement ill suits the legendary Lee Iacocca, but he finds himself unable to reclaim his former throne. So, like Shakespeare's King Lear, he rages at the people who inherited his kingdom, these upstarts who flatter him but spurn his advice and shunt him aside. It's an old story and it will end in the usual way, with the former chief executive roaring in vain as his successors go about their business without his input. Iacocca, the former Chrysler chairman, is now free to talk after the expiration of a five-year vow of silence that was part of...