Paramount has cleared a major hurdle in its push to close its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the largest merger in Hollywood history.The agreement with 12 state attorneys general arrives just before Paramount was set to begin accumulating a $7 million-a-day “ticking fee” startin…
Month: September 2026
Vice President JD Vance insisted President Donald Trump is “not banning media outlets,” three days after the president literally said that he was “banning” three of them.Vance took questions from reporters Monday morning at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, shortly before leaving for a campaign stop i…
President Donald Trump’s newly announced ban on multiple news outlets is headed for a major fall when a legal challenge is presented to a judge — and he will have only himself to blame.That is the opinion of Hofstra University Law Professor James Sample, who made a strong case on Monday morning tha…
President Donald Trump’s tough-guy act is looking more like a tell than a threat.The 80-year-old president has absorbed a cascade of defeats in the past week week as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates over his objections, the Supreme Court struck down his push to restrict mail-in voting, a fe…
President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House traces back to one ever-present aide egging him on, according to The Wall Street Journal.Trump has spent weeks privately complaining that he isn’t getting enough backup on cable news, the Journal reported. …
As fallout continues to grip Washington over President Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to ban three major media outlets from the White House, Zeteo’s Martin Pengelly and Asawin Suebsaeng floated an idea Monday that they argued could force the president to reverse course immediately.The Trump a…
America’s big money apartment landlords are staring down a looming debt, the Wall Street Journal warned on Monday.The alert lands days after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2023. Apartment owners owe more than $1.8 trillion over the next decade, with roughly $757 b…
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz’s office is furious over a weekend Politico Magazine report that he’s been quietly angling for Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s job — and had the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s ear before Graham died in July.According to the report, Waltz sought the late South Carolina Republica…
A conservative law firm with deep ties to Justice Clarence Thomas, President Donald Trump and a history of arguing more than a dozen cases on hot-button right-wing causes before the Supreme Court took in more than $33.5 million from nonprofit dark money networks, according to new watchdog research.C…
Officials within the Trump administration are growing increasingly worried that the president may soon launch a major attack in the Middle East, with one adviser warning that it’d be “political suicide,” Zeteo reported Monday.President Donald Trump sparked fears of a major Middle East escalation Sat…