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David Allan Coe , the outlaw country music singer known for his unrepentant, confrontational image and songs such as “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” and “The Ride,” has died. He was 86. Coe’s widow, Kimberly, confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone . “One of the best singers, songwriters, and performers of our time [and] never to be forgotten,” Kimberly wrote to Rolling Stone. “My husband, my friend, my confidant and my life for many years. I’ll never forget him and I don’t want anyone else to ever forget him either.” A cause of death was not immediately available. Coe was one of country music’s most complex figures. A walking tall tale who boasted about past exploits in prison and on the road, he was the author of his own mythology. Coe wrote mainstream hits for Tanya Tucker and Johnny Paycheck — “Take This Job and Shove It” was entirely his creation — and recorded country songs that still appear on multiple playlists and in radio rotation (countless jukeboxes include “Yo...

  LOS ANGELES—Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stand Tuesday as the first witness in a high-stakes federal civil jury trial in Oakland, California, accusing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman of defrauding him and betraying the company’s founding mission: to operate as an open-source nonprofit dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. The lawsuit stems from a bitter feud between the two tech titans over the organization they co-founded in 2015, which has since become one of the world’s most valuable and powerful players in the global AI race “I think it’s not ok to steal a charity,” Musk told the court. A verdict in favor of the defendants, he ventured, would give license to “looting every charity in America.” Musk alleges Altman and others duped him into co-founding and funding OpenAI as an open-source nonprofit to counter the dangers of profit-driven AI advancement—then used its corporate conversion to illegally enrich themselves. Attorneys for OpenAI on Tuesday...

  The latest assassination attempt will likely force Secret Service to revamp operations, experts said.