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Financial magazine Barron’s says the Netflix deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery is all but dead and that the streaming giant should look for a “graceful exit” to get out from under the eight-figure effort. The magazine now speculates that Paramount Skydance is now the front runner in the bid to buy Warners. As the sale drama continues, Warners board said on Thursday that the latest $31 per share offer from Paramount “could reasonably be expected to lead” the Netflix agreement with its $27.75 per share offer, Barron’s reported. Should Warners announce that the Paramount offer is officially the current…

An Iranian opposition group took credit for a coordinated assault on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Tehran headquarters this week, reporting “heavy clashes” with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that allegedly left more than 100 of its fighters killed, wounded, or arrested. The Command Headquarters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) said the operation began at dawn Monday, February 23, during the call to morning prayer, and continued into the afternoon around the Motahari Complex in central Tehran — one of the Islamic Republic’s most heavily fortified seats of power. According to the group, more than 250 fighters…

Rapper Cardi B, who previously said she was “starting not to like America,” called the United States “ghetto” and “dusty,” and declared “this is why some of y’all states be getting hurricanes” after Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, is now urging voters in Texas — a Gulf Coast state that has been struck by major hurricanes — to back Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democrat U.S. Senate primary as early voting enters its final days. On Wednesday, Cardi B posted a video to her Instagram Story saying: “Listen up y’all. Early primary voting is happening right now in Texas, and…

Democratic lawmakers involved in deposing Hillary Clinton as part of a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein want the Republican majority to release a full, unedited transcript of the interview within 24 hours, citing the limited transparency of the closed-door proceeding. Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, made the demand during a news conference Thursday afternoon outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, where the former secretary of State has been testifying for hours. Former President Bill Clinton will testify Friday. He was joined at the microphones by Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari…

Israeli courts have repeatedly refused entry to the boy on the grounds he was born in Gaza RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij has met Mohammed ‘Dodi’ Assad, a five-year-old boy from the West Bank city of Ramallah, who has been battling acute blood and bone marrow cancer.The boy’s family has repeatedly requested his transfer to Israel for treatment, but their pleas have been repeatedly shot down by the country’s authorities.  “Most of the time he is weak and exhausted from the chemotherapy doses he takes. Sometimes he stays asleep, and he remains asleep for hours,” his mother Maali says.Dodi has spent most of…

Raising a statue to honour one of the most significant victories in the history of Christendom would fuel “hatred” and “anti-Islamic” sentiment, a leftist Vienna councillor has argued. Following a gruelling two month siege over the summer, the Ottoman forces of Kara Mustafa Pasha had nearly breached the walls of Vienna. Remarkably, in the nick of time, a relief force of around 80,000 soldiers riding under the banner of Polish King John III Sobieski swept down from Kahlenberg Mountain on September 12, 1683, in one of the largest cavalry charges ever, with Sobieski’s Winged Hussars leading the charge, vanquishing and routing the Islamic army, which…

Federal regulators have recalled about 55,000 pounds of frozen blueberries over potential contamination of Listeria. Oregon Potato Company, which specializes in frozen potatoes, vegetables, and fruits, has flagged 55,689 pounds of quick-frozen blueberries, according to the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA). Authorities made the notice on February 12; however, the risk was upgraded to a Class 1 recall with officials warning that the exposure risk to Listeria “could cause serious averse health consequences or death.” The product was distributed throughout Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, and Canada. The frozen blueberries were moved between businesses within the supply chain and not directly…

The Cuban Communist Party identified seven individuals of the ten that it claims were onboard a Florida-registered speedboat intercepted in a fatal shootout on Wednesday. Among those named are two individuals the Castro regime had previously identified as “terrorists.” Friends and family identified the one man the Castro regime identified as killed by Cuban Coast Guard agents – Michel Ortega Casanova – as a Tampa-based “patriot” who was “obsessed” with ending the 67-year-old communist regime in his home country. The Cuban embassy in Washington published a statement from the Interior Ministry on Wednesday announcing that it had used violence to intercept…

Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee emphasized the bipartisan demand for Hillary Clinton to share what she knows about Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, ahead of the former secretary of State’s closed-door deposition Thursday morning. Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky — flanked by Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Michael Cloud of Texas, John McGuire of Virginia and Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, alongside South Carolina Reps. Nancy Mace and William Timmons — told reporters in Chappaqua, New York, that they are focused on better understanding Epstein’s accumulation…

Tehran is reportedly weighing oil, gas, and mining incentives as part of nuclear talks to avert escalation Iran is weighing economic incentives to entice US President Donald Trump as nuclear negotiations with Washington continue, the Financial Times has reported.Talks in Geneva on Thursday mark a third round of indirect US-Iran contacts using Omani mediation, at a time when Washington is simultaneously amassing military assets in the Middle East to increase pressure on Tehran.People familiar with the matter told the FT on Thursday that Tehran is considering pitching a potential “commercial bonanza” to Washington – involving oil, gas, and mining projects…