Por Chris Isidore, CNN

La Corte Suprema de Delaware ha restaurado un enorme paquete salarial otorgado al CEO de Tesla, Elon Musk, en 2018, que había sido anulado dos veces por un juez de un tribunal inferior.

El paquete otorgó a Musk la opción de comprar 303 millones de acciones ajustadas por división, con un valor de US$ 139.000 millones al precio de cierre del viernes.

La rectora del Tribunal de Equidad de Delaware, Kathaleen McCormick, quien supervisó el tribunal, determinó que, si bien los accionistas de Tesla aprobaron el plan de compensación en dos ocasiones, el tamaño del paquete era injusto para los accionistas.

Ella escribió que la junta directiva de Tesla “tenía la carga de demostrar que el plan de compensación era justo y no cumplió con su tarea”.

Incluso después de que los accionistas votaran nuevamente a favor del paquete, McCormick rechazó el paquete por segunda vez por considerarlo injusto.

Pero la Corte Suprema de Delaware dictaminó este viernes que el tribunal inferior se equivocó en su opinión y que desechar el paquete salarial de 2018 era “inequitativo” y que hacerlo “deja a Musk sin compensación por su tiempo y esfuerzos durante un período de seis años”.

Musk ya es la persona más rica del mundo, con un patrimonio neto estimado de US$ 644.000 millones, según el rastreador de multimillonarios de Bloomberg.

Gran parte de esa riqueza proviene de los 413 millones de acciones de Tesla que posee en su totalidad, con un valor de US$ 199.000 millones al precio de cierre del viernes.

Las acciones de Tesla están cerca del máximo histórico alcanzado a principios de esta semana.

Recientemente Tesla le otorgó un nuevo paquete salarial que podría valer US$ un billón si el valor de las acciones de Tesla aumenta tanto como Musk y la compañía proyectan.

Tesla es solo una parte del patrimonio neto de Musk, quien también es el principal accionista de SpaceX, una empresa que planea sacar a bolsa el próximo año con una valoración que también incrementaría enormemente su patrimonio.

“Gracias por su apoyo inquebrantable”, respondió Musk en X el viernes por la noche en respuesta a alguien que había publicado sobre la decisión de la Corte Suprema de Delaware.

Esta historia ha sido actualizada con desarrollos y contexto adicionales.

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By Kevin Liptak, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump came to North Carolina on Friday to talk about the economy.

He ended up explaining how his wife organizes her lingerie drawer.

“I think she steams them,” he offered at one point, hoping to underscore the violation Melania Trump felt when, in his telling, FBI agents rummaged through the pristine undergarments — “sometimes referred to as panties” — during their 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago.

In the realm of Trump tangents, it wasn’t the wildest, or angriest, or most bizarre.

Yet as the president hopes to refocus the nation’s attention on his economic record ahead of next year’s critical midterm elections, it was another reminder that his own focus often remains somewhat adrift.

Trump did periodically discuss the economy in his 90-minute speech, which he called a “quick little stop” in Rocky Mount on the way to Mar-a-Lago for the holidays. He trumpeted a report this week that showed inflation unexpectedly cooling. He recounted an announcement he made earlier in the day on lowering some drug prices. He framed an uptick in the unemployment rate as a success since he’d fired so many government workers.

Supporters behind him held signs reading “Lower Prices” and “Bigger Paychecks.” But even the visual cues couldn’t keep the president from veering well off-piste — often to the delight of his crowd.

As he was explaining the negotiations that went into the drug pricing scheme, attendees listened politely, if quietly, as he assumed a French accent to mimic President Emmanuel Macron during their pharmaceutical negotiations.

The audience really came alive when he reminisced about his opponent from nearly a decade ago.

“I don’t know, beating Hillary was fun,” he said to roars. “Remember, she was a nasty person. I was going to use a B word. I said, ‘my wife would not be happy.’”

There are plenty of Trump advisers who would prefer the president focus more on the here-and-now, or — even better — the what’s-to-come. As he loses his political edge on the economy, many of his allies worry he’s lost touch with voter concerns and anxieties that propelled him into office in the first place.

Friday’s rally was the latest in a roadshow of sorts that White House advisers have planned for Trump to hone his message on bringing down prices. He also delivered a primetime address to the nation this week meant to drive the message.

Much of his argument rests on having inherited what he says was an economic disaster from Joe Biden, though inflation was at 3% when he took office and is now only slightly lower. (And economists cautioned that last month’s inflation dip had a lot to do with shutdown-related distortions of economic data.)

Yet as is so often the case, the intended content of Trump’s speech was a target that didn’t always find an arrow.

As he hit the hour mark, his grievance list grew, encompassing the news media and Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the onetime loyalist who has dramatically broken with him and whom Trump now calls “Marjorie Traitor Brown.”

His aside about Melania’s unmentionables came amid a diatribe over the investigations that plagued him during his time out of office. He mused about awarding himself a massive sum in connection with Read more

By Mostafa Salem, Ibrahim Dahman

(CNN) — When Sheikh Mohammed Abu Mustafa stepped out of his mosque in southern Gaza after leading afternoon prayers in early November, a gunman on a motorcycle pulled up and shot him dead.

It was a targeted assassination that that an Islamist militant group said was carried out by local Israeli-backed militia.

A Hamas-linked group later claimed that the slain imam was a jihadist who had concealed Israeli hostages during the Gaza war, and accused the hitman of belonging to a new Israeli-supported militia led by Hussam Al-Astal – a former prisoner in Hamas-ruled Gaza who is now openly working to topple the militant group that has ruled the territory with an iron first for nearly two decades.

In a phone interview with CNN, Al-Astal denied that his men assassinated Sheikh Abu Mustafa but said he welcomed the death of any Hamas member.

His obscure group, the self-styled Counter-Terrorism Strike Force, has taken control of a village in the Israeli-occupied part of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. From there, it carries out raids against Hamas while trying to grow its small domestic following.

As the dust begins to settle after the brutal two-year war, Gaza has been split in two. Hamas is reconsolidating its control in the western half of the enclave that Israel withdrew from, and remains the dominant force where the vast majority of Gaza’s population lives. East of the so-called yellow line – an Israeli military boundary– however, relatively few civilians remain. It is there, in the Israel-controlled territory, that small armed groups are trying to assert their dominance and carve out influence.

Under Israel’s close watch, at least five factions are now operating within the yellow line. What began as scattered, opportunistic gangs exploiting the chaos of the conflict has coalesced into a coordinated network of armed militias that are openly positioning themselves for a postwar role in Gaza should Hamas be removed from power.

“There is coordination between our groups. We have the same goals and the same ideology…We have the same aim,” Al Astal told CNN, referring to Hamas’ defeat.

Armed with light weapons, a few dozen fighters, and a handful of vehicles, the militias operate from separate bases across Israeli-controlled areas of Gaza. On social media, their leaders regularly post propaganda videos showing masked men in makeshift black uniforms, clutching rifles, awkwardly chanting in unison and vowing to “liberate” Gaza from Hamas.

Though small and lacking in skill and support to fully replace Hamas, these militias have already plunged Gaza into more instability. Using hit-and-run attacks, they have tried to challenge Hamas as it has consolidated power in areas no longer controlled by Israel since the ceasefire. The militias have waged an insurgency within an insurgency, targeting Hamas at a critical moment in the process of establishing governance in post-war Gaza.

Hamas has not sat idly by.

Concerned about its status in the enclave, Hamas is now on a mission to hunt them down, while ordinary Palestinians grow increasingly anxious that the war-torn enclave could slide toward open civil conflict. Reports of violence have been shared widely on social media, with one particularly gruesome video that was shared by Hamas-affiliated channels in October showing a group of masked fighters, some of whom are wearing green Hamas headbands, killing eight blindfolded people in a square in Gaza City.

Hamas affiliated groups said those executed were collaborating with Israel or were involved in security and criminal offences, but it did not provide any evidence.

Ambitions to govern

The most disruptive among the anti-Hamas groups, and the one most openly backed by Israel, is the so-called Popular Forces, formerly led by Yasser Abu Shabab, an Israel-allied gang

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Por MJ Lee y Devan Cole, CNN

La publicación parcial de los archivos del Departamento de Justicia relacionados con Jeffrey Epstein este viernes marcó un momento de reivindicación para la sobreviviente de Epstein Maria Farmer y su hermana Annie, quienes durante años han sostenido que Maria presentó una de las primeras denuncias contra Epstein en la década de 1990.

Un documento del FBI divulgado este viernes incluye una descripción de 1996 de una denuncia penal contra Epstein relacionada con pornografía infantil.

Aunque el nombre de la denunciante aparece editado por protección en el documento, la abogada de Maria Farmer, Jennifer Freeman, confirmó a CNN que la denuncia fue presentada por su clienta.

La parte del documento dedicada a los “hechos de la denuncia” dice que la mujer, que se describe a sí misma como artista profesional, había tomado fotografías de sus hermanas menores de edad para su propio trabajo artístico.

“Epstein robó las fotos y los negativos y se cree que vendió las imágenes a posibles compradores”, se lee en el documento. “En una ocasión, Epstein solicitó a (censurado) tomar fotografías de niñas en piscinas”. El texto añade: “Epstein ahora está amenazando a (censurado) con quemar su casa si le cuenta a alguien sobre las fotos”.

Horas después de la publicación parcial de los archivos de Epstein por parte del Departamento de Justicia, no estaba claro si la reivindicación de Farmer terminaría siendo una excepción en el amplio mundo de las supervivientes de Epstein.

Múltiples fuentes cercanas a las sobrevivientes dijeron a CNN que existe frustración mientras intentan navegar la “Biblioteca Epstein” pública del Departamento de Justicia en busca de información sobre sus propios abusos y casos. Para un grupo que había esperado con ansiedad durante 30 días desde la aprobación de la Ley de Transparencia de los Archivos de Epstein, la experiencia resultó decepcionante.

Con un sistema de búsqueda en línea difícil de usar, las fuentes señalaron que las sobrevivientes no han tenido mucho éxito en encontrar información que valide experiencias ocurridas hace años.

La sobreviviente de Epstein Jess Michaels pasó horas intentando localizar su declaración como víctima y las comunicaciones que mantuvo después de llamar a la línea de denuncias del FBI.

“No puedo encontrar nada de eso”, dijo a CNN. “¿Esto es lo mejor que puede hacer el Gobierno? Ni siquiera una ley aprobada por el Congreso nos está dando justicia”.

Freeman había dicho previamente a CNN que la denuncia original de Maria Farmer era uno de los documentos clave que buscaría cuando se publicaran los archivos Epstein del Departamento de Justicia.

El viernes por la noche dijo que está buscando más información en los archivos, incluyendo qué hicieron las autoridades en respuesta a la denuncia de Farmer, cuándo y por qué.

“¿Por qué no hicieron nada para detener esto?”, escribió Freeman en un correo electrónico a CNN.

Lo que hicieron las autoridades tras recibir la denuncia no está claro. CNN se puso en contacto con el FBI para solicitar comentarios.

La denuncia, fechada el 3 de septiembre de 1996, subraya que Epstein ya estaba en el radar de las fuerzas del orden años antes de que se presentaran cargos federales y estatales en su contra en Nueva York y Florida.

En un comunicado proporcionado por el bufete de abogados que representa a Maria Farmer, la denunciante de Epstein afirmó que el FBI la “falló” a ella y a otras víctimas durante años.

La hermana de Farmer, Annie, ha dicho anteriormente que tenía 16 años cuando Epstein y su cómplice Ghislaine Maxwell abusaron de ella.

En una entrevista con Jake Tapper, de CNN, Annie Farmer visiblemente conmocionada dijo: “Solo verlo por escrito y saber que tuvieron este documento todo este tiempo… ¿y cuántas personas resultaron dañadas después de esa fecha? Lo hemos dicho