Economy

Extremely common term in this industry. "Killing" a story means shelving it. You'd be very familiar with the term if you followed some of trump's many criminal trials. He famously colluded with the person that ran a prominent supermarket tabloid paper in America to "catch and kill" any story about him that was embarrassing and potentially harmful.

Was an important part of the trial where he defrauded a porn star, who he had to bribe with $130,000 for her to have unprotected sex with him while his third wife was at home after just giving birth to his 5th child with 3 different women (at least one divorce prior in some part due to trump violently beating his wife). After not paying her for a long time and sensing the liability he committed multiple frauds with his market to get her a check to try to secure her silence close to the first election.