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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN

New York (CNN) — Lululemon has settled its high-profile feud with founder Chip Wilson, and the deal includes a clause preventing him from badmouthing the company for a year and a half.

On Wednesday the struggling athleisure brand announced it had reached a “cooperation agreement” with Wilson, the company’s second largest shareholder. The agreement will add two of Wilson’s previously announced nominees to its board next month, and an additional “director with product and brand expertise in apparel” will join by October.

The agreement also includes a non-disparagement clause, in which Wilson must stop publicly bashing Lululemon for 18 months.

Wilson has been outspoken about his largely negative views regarding the company he founded in 1998. He said the brand has lost its “cool” factor, and he has criticized its diversity and inclusion efforts.

The announcement ends a five-month proxy fight that Wilson launched because, he said, Lululemon’s board had lacked the “visionary creative leadership to thrive.” In his view, new leaders were “needed to redefine Lululemon and begin this company’s next chapter of success.”

Wilson’s board picks, who include an ex-ESPN marketing executive and the former leader of rival athletic wear brand On, “reflect meaningful progress toward restoring the company’s product-first vision and unlocking tremendous value for shareholders,” he said.

Wednesday’s agreement clears a major obstacle for incoming CEO Heidi O’Neill, who begins at Lululemon (LULU) in September.

O’Neill is a former Nike executive, and she faces the Herculean task of turning around the Lululemon. Shares have dived more than 30% since the beginning of the year as the company struggles with tariffs, consumer pullback from discretionary spending and mounting competition.

Lululemon’s executive chair Marti Morfitt said in a statement the company is “pleased to reach this agreement” with Wilson, which “allows Lululemon to focus on continuing to strengthen its performance.”

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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN

(CNN) — Former President Joe Biden is suing to block the House Judiciary Committee from obtaining, and potentially releasing, audio recordings and transcripts of conversations in 2016 and 2017 with the ghostwriter of his memoir.

The court case is part of a simmering debate between the Trump administration and Biden regarding how much privacy the former president is due.

The Justice Department has said it plans to release the tapes regarding Biden’s book, “Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose,” to Congress on June 15.

But Biden argues that during his presidential administration, the Justice Department argued extensively for privacy around the recordings with Mark Zwonitzer, because they were personal and often touched upon the death of Biden’s son, Beau, and its impact on him deciding not to run for president in 2016.

Heavily redacted transcripts of the conversations have already been made public.

“Every American, including a sitting or former Vice President, has a right to privacy in the personal conversations he has within his own home,” Biden’s lawyers wrote in a federal court filing in Washington on Tuesday night. “And when the U.S. Department of Justice obtains that private information through a criminal investigation, the Department bears a particular responsibility to protect it from disclosure.”

The tapes are in the Justice Department’s possession because they were part of the criminal investigation in 2023 and 2024 into whether Biden mishandled classified documents after his terms as vice president, and discussed sensitive national security details with Zwonitzer. Special counsel Robert Hur did not bring any charges against Biden.

In a separate lawsuit, Biden is also opposing in court the Justice Department’s plan to release the same taped conversations with Zwonitzer to the conservative Heritage Foundation. A judge last week said Biden should be allowed to argue against Heritage getting the tapes, which the Justice Department has also agreed to in recent weeks.

The Heritage Foundation said it wants the tapes partly because they reportedly show how Biden was aging, having memory lapses, even before he became president.

GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, recently gave his own reasoning on wanting the tapes.

“I think it’s just important for the American people to know exactly where the President of the United States was… . (W)e’d like to see all that information, I think, to underscore what the Democrats were trying to hide just a few years ago,” Jordan said in May, Biden’s team pointed out in its court filing.

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By Paula Reid, CNN

(CNN) — Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was diagnosed with thyroid cancer after leaving the Justice Department in April, she told CNN.

Bondi said she is undergoing treatment, including having surgery a few weeks ago. Bondi tells CNN she is still recovering and “doing well, though.”

President Donald Trump fired Bondi as attorney general in early April and Todd Blanche is now serving as acting attorney general.

She is scheduled to testify Friday in the House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein probe.

Axios was first to report Bondi’s diagnosis.

“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” Trump wrote in a post on X when she left the role. “Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900.”

For months before her firing, Trump had been discussing his frustrations with Bondi over what he believed was a failure to aggressively bring cases against his political foes.

She was also criticized for her handling of the Epstein files, which proved to be a never-ending headache for the administration and for the president himself as he faced criticism for his own friendship with the convicted sex offender.

This story is developing and will be updated.

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By Joe Yogerst, CNN

(CNN) — Route 66 is just one of the highways that features in “On The Road,” the Jack Kerouac book that introduced so many people to white-line wanderlust.

More than anything written about the iconic highway, it’s a quote from that book that personifies the almost mystical allure of America’s most famous road: “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me.”

That’s exactly what Route 66 has meant to millions of travelers who have cruised all or part of the highway since its birth 100 years ago — freedom to make a fresh start, reinvent yourself, and leave your troubles in the rearview mirror.

“Route 66 came along when the idea of a road trip was just getting started,” says Sean FitzGibbons, executive director of the History Museum on the Square in Springfield, Missouri. “It encapsulated so much of 20th-century Americana and over time it just kind of gained this mythical resonance within the zeitgeist of the world.”

The highway’s roots stretch back to the early 1920s and it’s an early example of government-private sector cooperation.

When the federal government decided to number the main cross-country highways — an attempt to make it easier for motorists to navigate what was then a willy-nilly naming system — they created a route from Chicago to Los Angeles that became U.S. Highway No. 66.

Hoping to stimulate tourism along the new route, a pair of enterprising businessmen in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Springfield, Missouri, created maps, brochures, billboards and advertising campaigns to promote the road. Their goal was boosting tourism in their own cities, but they inadvertently made driving the entire route a bucket-list adventure.

Their efforts coincided with the advent of motoring vacations in the United States and iconic roadside services like diners, motor lodges, service stations and curio shops.

Route 66 took on a whole different meaning during the Dust Bowl environmental disaster of the 1930s, when tens of thousands of disenfranchised farmers and their families used the road as their pathway to the promised land of California.

The highway was soon immortalized in the novel “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck, who called Route 66 the “Mother Road,” and in the Woody Guthrie song “Talking Dust Bowl Blues.”

The biggest boost to its legendary status came in 1946 when Bobby Troup recorded “(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66,” a song that epitomized the spirit to break free and live a little after so many years of the Great Depression and World War II.

All these years later, the Mother Road continues to symbolize the wind-in-your-hair freedom of a cross-country road trip. Here are six essential stops on Route 66:

St. Louis, Missouri

Route 66 starts its westward run at the intersection of Adams Street and Michigan Avenue among the skyscrapers of downtown Chicago. Several signs mark the spot, but it’s a rather modest debut for such a famous road, which cuts across the Windy City’s sprawling suburbs onto the rolling prairie of central Illinois.

Most of the original roadway was replaced by Interstate 55. But many of the communities along the way offer reminders that the Mother Road once passed through their town. Like the Blues Brothers dancing beside the “Kicks on 66” sign atop the Rich & Creamy ice cream stand in Joliet, the Gemini Giant Muffler Man in Cicero, and the Route 66 Hall of Fame & Museum in