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Paramount Skydance received approval – with limitations – from UK regulators Thursday as it pursues its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, marking one more step towards completing the deal. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority cleared the pending acquisition, ruling a Paramount-Warner tie up does not pose a “substantial lessening of competition” in the country, AP reports. UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy previously said she was “minded to intervene” in the merger. Then on on Thursday her office flagged Paramount agreed to “provide a set of protections” to safeguard the “continued availability of a diverse range of broadcasting and…
Rapper A$AP Rocky clearly feels confident he has conquered the world of entertainment so now there is a new challenge looming on the horizon – politics. Specifically, the Harlem-born performer says he want to run for high office in Congress and feels New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a model worth applauding and emulating for his “rent control” and helping “urban communities.” The tease came in an interview on the Jason Lee Show: Lest anyone think the rapper is ill prepared for the exigencies of politics, he revealed in the interview he is already preparing, saying he’s getting used to the…
The Senate’s plan to get out of town is coming together. Majority Leader John Thune teed up a final vote on the Russia sanctions legislation for this morning, as well as a confirmation vote for dozens of nominees and a procedural step on a stopgap funding bill. But there’s still a number of questions that need to be answered if Thune wants to adjourn for recess by the end of the day: — BLANCHE’S FATE: President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general needs to secure at least one more vote to be confirmed before the break. It looks like it’s…
The US president reportedly told Republican donors “We need to elect JD [Vance],” despite publicly maintaining ambiguity US President Donald Trump has privately indicated that he wants Vice President JD Vance to succeed him in the White House, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.During a closed-door Republican donor meeting in the Oval Office roughly two weeks ago, Trump reportedly said, “at the end of the day, we need to elect JD.”The remark contrasts with Trump’s public refusal to endorse a 2028 successor. He has praised both Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, suggesting…
Screengrab Social Media/X The blue Danube is showing its secrets. We have been reporting on Europe’s summer from hell, where they are battling high temperatures, wildfires, and droughts. One of the most dramatic cases if the mythical Danube river that is so low that the Nuclear Power Plants in Hungary and Romania had to be shut. Now the situation has worsened even more to the point where remnants of the past are arising from the bottom of the river: dozens of WW2 ships and boats – and a mystery from a 1,000 years ago. Record-low water levels on the Danube…
President Donald Trump reportedly conveyed to donors during a private conversation in the Oval Office his desire that Vice President JD Vance win the 2028 presidential election. The reported conversation, according to the Washington Post (WP), happened two weeks ago and the outlet on Thursday cited two individuals who had knowledge of the conversation but spoke on the condition of anonymity. “At the end of the day, we need to elect JD,” the president reportedly stated. The news came after Trump said in June that a Republican presidential ticket featuring Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio would be “very…
Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination is on the brink after Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced Friday that she would oppose confirming him. The Alaska Republican said in a statement that she did not believe Blanche, who has been serving as acting attorney general since April, would act to rein in President Donald Trump and reverse the “politicization—even weaponization” of the Justice Department that has “accelerated” under Trump. “The country needs an Attorney General who will check the worst impulses of this administration,” she said. “I hope Mr. Blanche is able to achieve that, if confirmed, but I simply do not have…
The renewed hostilities raise fears of wider bloodshed in the Middle East amid the ongoing US war with Iran and escalating attacks on regional shipping Yemen’s Houthi rebels have announced that they launched coordinated drone and ballistic missile attacks on several camps belonging to forces of the Saudi-backed, internationally recognized government on Thursday. The flare-up follows four years of relative calm in the small Arab nation, which has been plagued by civil war since 2014 and sits at a strategic shipping chokepoint on the Red Sea.The Houthis struck troops, depots, and camps in three provinces across central and eastern Yemen…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday formally dismissed the felony criminal case against former three-time Olympian David Hearn over alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. D.C. Superior Court Judge Todd E. Edelman, an Obama appointee, granted the government’s motion and dismissed the indictment against Hearn. The order comes after U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office moved last week to drop the charges, citing newly produced Interior Department documents that prosecutors said pointed to a “botched installation” by the contractor rather than deliberate vandalism. However, Edelman postponed deciding whether the dismissal should be with prejudice, which would prevent…
Fantasize that you were one of the investors who put up the $12.5 million needed to get Hamilton onto the stage in 2015. The musical has hauled in $1.2 billion in ticket sales so far, and is still selling out with ticket prices almost double the Broadway average, meaning that an abnormally large fraction of the gross is falling to the bottom line. It’s likely that the investors have already collected at least ten times the money they put in and will collect a lot more before this gusher dries up. Feeding such fantasies is the job of impresarios like…