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NEW YORK (AP) — HBO Max, “Harry Potter” and CNN may soon find themselves under a new roof: Paramount. That’s because shareholders of Warner Bros. Discovery on Thursday voted to sell the entire business to the company that owns CBS, along with blockbusters like “Top Gun.” Based on a preliminary vote count, Warner shareholders agreed to the proposed $81 billion buyout — valued at nearly $111 billion including debt based on Warner’s current outstanding shares. While the deal still faces regulatory review, the megamerger would vastly reshape Hollywood and the wider media landscape, further consolidating power in an industry already…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said that he wants to continue the blockade of Iran and also would like to see President Donald Trump start hitting selected targets inside Iran intermittently to pressure them. Tuberville said, “The one thing that I’d love for him to do is take a big map and circle about 20 targets, don’t let them put people around the targets, just put 20 targets down and say, listen, we’re going to block you, we’re going to keep you from getting anything in or out, and then…
House Republican leaders want a floor vote next week on the Senate’s budget resolution, the first step in writing an immigration enforcement bill and passing it by President Donald Trump’s June 1 deadline. “It has to be clean because it has to be quick,” Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday, indicating that conservatives could not make major changes to the other chamber’s blueprint at this time. But Johnson and others still have to lock in support from conservatives who are threatening to vote against it if it doesn’t encompass more top GOP policy priorities, and it is proving to be a…
Political hit-jobs in Cyprus and Slovenia are just the tip of an election interference iceberg in Europe, involving a dark nexus of Israeli spies, defense chiefs, and tech companies. The threat is real, but the EU is staying silentTargeting the EU: Israeli spy firm’s open admissionA week after Cyprus assumed the EU’s rotating presidency in January, a video appeared on social media – from a relatively obscure account named ‘Emily Thompson – showing President Nikos Christodoulides’s brother-in-law, a former energy minister, and a major construction magnate discussing influence-peddling arrangements between Christodoulides and foreign investors. Across a series of surreptitious recordings, the…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has secured an agreement granting it the option to acquire Cursor, a rapidly growing AI coding start-up, for $60 billion as the rocket maker pushes deeper into AI ahead of its hotly anticipated IPO. The Financial Times reports that SpaceX announced that it is collaborating with Cursor to develop what it describes as the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI, with SpaceX holding an option to purchase Anysphere, Cursor’s parent company, for $60 billion during 2025. Should SpaceX choose not to complete the acquisition, it would owe a $10 billion payment for the partnership work, a figure…
The interior minister of Pakistan, Mohsin Naqvi, held a meeting on Thursday with American Ambassador Natalie Baker to discuss attempts to continue negotiations to settle the war in Iran, expressing hope upon leaving the meeting that the rogue Iranian terror regime would return to the negotiating table. The readout and accompanying video of the meeting from the Pakistani Foreign Ministry are notable in that Islamabad applauds President Donald Trump for taking steps toward an enduring peace between the two countries and omits any mention of doing the same, as well as pressuring Iran to pursue peace. The unspoken conclusion created…
Applications for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week, though they remain at historically low levels. Initial claims rose by 6,000 to 214,000 in the week ended April 18, the Labor Department data said Thursday. The mid-month report of claims is closely watched because it coincides with the survey period for the government’s monthly employment report. Jobless claims, which are a proxy for layoffs, fell near the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and have remained extremely low throughout the conflict. The four-week moving average of claims now stands at 210,750, lower than it has been 94 percent of the…
During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “11th Hour,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that there has been “bravado” due to how “incredibly lucky” we’ve been to not have any deaths of Americans in Venezuela and few in Iran so far. Paul said, “I think the president, also, a part of him, really wants the war to end. He sees the effect on the economy.” He continued, “I know the president pretty well, and I don’t think he likes to see loss of life. Now, we’ve been incredibly lucky, though, and I think that leads to more…
House GOP leaders on Thursday unveiled the text of a new three-year extension of a key spy law, as Speaker Mike Johnson tried to overcome ultra-conservative resistance and pass it next week. The proposed reauthorization of the so-called Section 702 law includes some new oversight and penalties for abuses of the spy authority but stops short of warrant requirements sought by GOP hard-liners. Conservatives have pushed back on extending Section 702, which allows warrantless surveillance of foreigners, because of concerns about U.S. citizens being caught up in the program. The faction that’s been opposing an extension has not yet signed…
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam says attacks on media workers have become an established pattern, not isolated incidents Lebanon has accused Israel of war crimes after a reporter for a Lebanese newspaper was killed on Wednesday in a strike on a house in the southern village of al-Tiri, where she had taken cover after an earlier attack targeted the vehicle she was traveling in.Amal Khalil, a reporter for Al-Akhbar, was killed in the strike and her colleague Zeinab Faraj seriously wounded. Rescuers were initially unable to recover Khalil’s body because Israeli fire forced them to halt their efforts for hours.Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam…