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Earlier this week, Paramount CEO David Ellison threatened to move the studio out of state beginning on October 1 (about six weeks!) if California Attorney General Rob Bonta does not come to the table to settle his merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). On Tuesday, Xavier Becerra, the Democrat nominee to replace sitting Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), blinked and called for the attorney general to work out a settlement. Becerra likely knows Ellison is not bluffing, and that if Bonta continues to block the deal by refusing to talk, Ellison will move Paramount out of California. Then, if the merger…

Mexican actress Melissa Barrera is ripping Hollywood for supposedly blacklisting her over her support of the Palestinians and her refusal to condemn Hamas for its brutal murders of more than a thousand innocent Jews on Oct. 7, 2023. Speaking to the Latino USA podcast’s Maria Hinojosa, the Scream star insisted that she has become a target because of her support for the Islamic extremists in Palestine. Naturally she didn’t mention the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians that killed more than a thousand children, women, and elderly people. “There are a lot of people that got fired for basically saying Palestinians…

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Democratic primary for retiring Sen. Tina Smith’s seat on Tuesday, delivering progressives another major victory in the party’s ideological war. Flanagan, who had the backing of Smith and left-wing heavyweights like Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), defeated moderate Rep. Angie Craig in a bruising race that largely revolved around two lightning-rod local topics: the Trump administration’s deadly immigration crackdown and the state’s welfare fraud scandal. Flanagan excoriated her rival’s record on immigration enforcement throughout the campaign, calling Craig’s vote for the Laken Riley Act last year “disqualifying” and hammering her…

Washington was unhappy with Kiev launching drone attacks on vessels carrying oil to a terminal co-owned by US companies, the article says The US called Ukraine to heel for targeting oil tankers in the Black Sea after Kiev began launching drone attacks on vessels sailing to a partly US-owned Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal in Russia, the Financial Times reported.The CPC funnels Kazakh crude across southern Russia to a marine terminal near Novorossiysk, where tankers carry it onward to Europe and Asia. The route includes an unusual combination of Russian, Kazakh, and Western interests, with Chevron and ExxonMobil among the…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to equip its officers with specialized gloves capable of delivering an electric shock to help subdue violent or resisting suspects. According to a Department of Homeland Security notice reported by the Associated Press, ICE plans to spend up to $20 million purchasing thousands of the devices for deployment early next year. Known as the G.L.O.V.E. (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter) the technology is manufactured by Kentucky-based Compliant Technologies and has already been used by some police departments and correctional facilities. The equipment functions as an ordinary pair of patrol gloves until an officer…

President Donald Trump doubled down Tuesday on his assertion that the United States has “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz, warning Iran could either continue buckling under mounting economic pressure or risk getting “blown away” if it challenges American forces. “We have total control over the Hormuz Strait right now. They don’t have control. We have total control. We own it,” Trump told reporters Tuesday evening after returning from Ohio. “At some point, maybe they’ll do something, and then they get blown away, but we, right now, we’re in a very good position,” Trump said. The president’s remarks came…

A Joe Biden-appointed judge in D.C. has ordered the Kennedy Center to pay a jazz musician a $250,000 fee after the organization tried to sue him for cancelling his concert because he opposes President Donald Trump. Musician Chuck Redd cancelled his Christmas Eve concert at the Kennedy Center despite having performed there for years because he opposed the addition of Trump’s name to the center. Redd said in a statement that he was cancelling due to the “defiant and illegal name change happening to the Kennedy Center,” according to Variety. The Trump Kennedy Center, as it was then called, immediately…

State House Speaker Lisa Demuth won the GOP primary for Minnesota governor on Tuesday, knocking off President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate, former MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. It’s a major loss for Trump given his close relationship to Lindell, who has been one of the president’s staunchest defenders — especially regarding his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Demuth, a more moderate Republican than Lindell, will face Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who faced no serious primary opposition, in November. Republicans are bullish that a fraud scandal under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz gives them an opening in the blue-leaning state.…

AI-Generated image by Grok Who are these drones spying for, in the end? The Royal Navy is fighting a war with Britain, to have resources to modernize and expand the much-diminished forced, said to be the smallest-ever. But even when modernization efforts do come, they are not without issues, as we’ve learned this week. It’s been widely reported that the Royal Navy spy drones used by Britain’s elite special forces had cameras suspected to be secretly sending sent data to China, The Telegraph can reveal. 🇬🇧 The UK Ministry of Defence has launched an emergency security response after discovering that…

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares claimed on Tuesday all illegal migrants who invaded Ceuta will be “sent back” – if they haven’t already escaped to mainland Spain and then on into Europe. According to Spanish outlets, Albares did not present a timetable towards the deportation of all of the migrants and a return to normalcy for Ceuta. Minister Albares traveled to Ceuta on Tuesday — 12 days after tens of thousands of illegal migrants swarmed into the city. The visit, Albares and Spanish outlets pointed out, marked the first time that a Spanish Foreign Minister has travelled to Ceuta.…