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Dan Lin, chairman for Netflix Films, said that company will avoid directors looking for theatrical releases for their films. Lin bluntly said that Netflix “just won’t work with” filmmakers holding on to theatrical releases in a recent interview with The New York Times. “There is a group of filmmakers who still want theatrical. Those are filmmakers that we’ve accepted we just won’t work with,” he said. Lin did clarify that the upcoming theatrical release of Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew will be a lone exception. “Because I have such a huge slate, my job is very different from other studio chairmen’s…

British Minister of Defence John Healey, one of Prime Minister’s most loyal allies, has resigned from government because Sir Keir Starmer and the treasury have been “unable… unwilling” to pay to fund the Armed Forces. A year of intense Westminster wrangling over how to pay for Britain’s armed forces to remain relevant in a time of surging global instability spectacularly exploded into the open on Thursday when John Healey announced his resignation from government. In his scorching broadside of a resignation letter to the Prime Minister, Healey noted the government was not only refusing to fund its own Strategic Defence…

ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment rights Wednesday during a congressional hearing on allegations the Democrat fundraising platform accepted foreign-linked donations. Wallace-Jones declined to answer a series of questions from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) regarding alleged foreign donations, fraud controls, and the departure of ActBlue’s legal team. “On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.” Jordan asked Wallace-Jones about reports that millions of contributions processed by ActBlue in 2024 showed signs of foreign origin. “Your board chairman said 38 million contributions in 2024…

A group of senior House Republicans gathered at the Pentagon on Thursday morning to discuss the military funding portion of another party-line reconciliation bill with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to four people granted anonymity to discuss the private meeting. House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington, Republican Study Committee Chair August Pfluger and others also attended the meeting. It’s a sign conversations around “Reconciliation 3.0” are heating up after President Donald Trump signed the GOP-only immigration enforcement funding measure earlier this week. It also comes after Trump on Wednesday night called for the GOP to approve $350 billion in Pentagon spending…

The war on Iran has pushed up fuel and grocery costs, squeezing household budgets across the US US inflation accelerated to a three-year high in May as soaring energy costs linked to the US-Israeli war on Iran pushed prices higher across the economy, according to government data. Food prices also rose sharply.Consumer prices rose 4.2% from a year earlier and increased 0.5% on a monthly basis, with higher gasoline costs adding pressure on household budgets across the country, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said on Wednesday. Energy prices accounted for more than 60% of the monthly rise in the…

The head of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, waded into the ongoing controversy surrounding Somali soccer referee Omar Artan on Wednesday, celebrating the sporting official after the U.S. government denied him entry due to alleged ties to terrorist organizations. Artan flew into Miami International Airport this week in preparation to become the first Somali national to officiate matches in the FIFA World Cup, the world’s most prestigious soccer tournament. He later told reporters that he was subject to 11 hours of interrogation and denied entry into the country. American officials later told journalists that Artan posed a…

“This is an important day for our nation and for the first lady,” Marc Beckman, executive senior adviser to first lady Melania Trump, said on Breitbart News Daily, previewing a new foster care initiative aimed at giving foster youth financial resources as they enter adulthood. Beckman said, telling host Mike Slater ahead of the 11 a.m. Eastern event at the Treasury Department, that the first lady is “producing measurable results for our country again” and describing her as “an action-oriented leader” focused on “protecting our American children.” Beckman said the first lady is moving “back on the foster care front”…

Regina Wallace-Jones, the CEO of the Democrat fundraising machine ActBlue, dodged questions from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during a hearing by the House Administration Committee regarding the organization receiving foreign donations. While testifying before the House Administration Committee, Wallace-Jones repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment rights when questioned by Jordan regarding  how many foreign contributions the organization accepted, and why the entire legal team for ActBlue had quit. “Your board chairman said ActBlue accepted up to 38 million contributions in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin,” Jordan said. “How much fraud is too much fraud?” “On the advice of…

John Healey has said the prime minister is failing to secure sufficient funding to meet NATO obligations British Secretary of Defense John Healey has tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in the latest blow to the embattled Labour government.Healey complained in an open letter that Starmer has been “unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources” required for sweeping reforms he sought to implement and to raise the spending level to 3% of GDP by 2030 to meet Britain’s obligation to NATO.The minister cited the US-Israeli attack on Iran in late February and the increasing…

DARPA is looking for input from the public and private sectors for its upcoming mass casualty simulation called Realistic Mass Casualty (MASCAL) Medical Simulation Capabilities. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking “input from industry, government support organizations, military training organizations, and civilian emergency preparedness entities regarding capabilities to plan, resource, execute, and assess high-fidelity, large-scale mass casualty (MASCAL) medical simulation events,” according to the special notice. “This Request for Information (RFI) is a preliminary step to assess current capabilities to conduct realistic MASCAL simulations involving greater than 50, 100, or 200 simulated patients within a single event…