The media mogul, who died May 6 at age 87, kickstarted a new era of news when he launched CNN in 1980.

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"The Mouth of the South" overcame an Ivy League expulsion, military service and his father's suicide to revolutionize cable ...

Ted Turner made television news a pervasive presence. Before he started the first 24-hour cable news channel, the Cable News Network, in 1980, Americans got their news from the three major networks’ 6 ...

What Narendra Modi asks of Indians, he usually gets. During the pandemic India’s prime minister exhorted them to stay inside and to bang pots and pans in support of health workers. The country obliged ...

CNN is shaking up its early mornings — tapping “CNN Headline Express” anchor Brad Smith to temporarily helm the network’s 5 a.m. ET hour as the cable giant leans harder into its streaming-first ...

Dozens of Gulf citizens have been accused of belonging to Iran-linked terrorism cells as the war accelerates a shift toward deeper authoritarianism in the region. By Vivian Nereim Reporting from ...

Being very much the all-American figure that he was, the passing of Ted Turner was bound to enliven the cliché machine with the usual, clotty descriptions: the philanthropist, the conservationist, the ...

The war in Iran has become a profound stress-test for the long-term economic futures of wealthy Gulf monarchies that have built reputations as global financial centers and, increasingly, tourism hubs ...

The 2026 Iran war and Strait of Hormuz disruption are forcing Gulf states to reconsider overseas spending. Gulf sovereign wealth funds had committed more than $16 billion to Central Asia before the ...

Ted Turner, media mogul, philanthropist and founder of CNN, died at his home near Tallahassee, Fla., on Wednesday. He was 87. CNN first reported Turner’s death, citing a news release from Turner ...