• Out for blood. Partner Fund Management LP, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, has filed suit against Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes for allegedly lying to attract its nearly $100 million investment. This is the first sign of trouble from the blood-testing startup's investors, who poured about $800 million into the company and have (until now) stayed largely silent. WSJ • A notorious take? In an interview with Yahoo global news anchor Katie Couric, Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the refusal of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other athletes to stand for the national anthem before games is "dumb and disrespectful." Kaepernick has previously explained that he is protesting police brutality against African Americans and other civil rights offenses. Fortune • Kind of a big deal. Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart, Australia's richest woman, is partnering with Chinese company Shanghai CRED to make a US$277 million bid for S. Kidman & Co.—a cattle company that owns more than 1% of Australia's land. If the deal happens, she will own a chunk of the country larger than all of Ireland. Fortune • Which locker room exactly? Some pro athletes took umbrage at Donald Trump's debate characterization of his comments about groping women as "locker room talk." Huffington Post • Love the skin you're in. It appears that there may be more Donald Trump hot mic moments—or perhaps I should say "hot type" moments—to come. HuffPo got its hands on a transcript of un-aired moments from an episode of The Apprentice, in which the presidential candidate repeatedly insults the skin of contestant and musician Emily West. Huffington Post • Berman does the time warp again. Gail Berman is known as a Hollywood hitmaker—and a supporter of female talent. Her new company, the Jackal Group, is behind the The Rocky Horror Picture Show remake scheduled to debut on Fox this month, with Laverne Cox in the starring role of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. New York Times |