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David Ellison’s Skydance deal was approved — but it may not be smooth sailing
With $80 billion in debt and a sprawling media empire to combine, David Ellison will have his hands full with the now court-approved combination of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery, known as Skydance.
Republican backlash brews over Trump’s diesel deal with Russia
President Donald Trump’s decision to allow Russia to supply diesel fuel to the United States and global markets triggered pushback from multiple Republican figures on Saturday. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) said he will introduce bipartisan legislation “to…
Is America Winning The AI Race?
Is America Winning The AI Race? Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times , The question of where the U.S.-China artificial intelligence arms race is heading weighs heavily on the future of both countries, as mastery of AI may determine the world's economic…
"Interplanetary Shockwave" Detected?
"Interplanetary Shockwave" Detected? Space weather website SolarHam reported that an " interplanetary shockwave " was detected Saturday morning as a coronal mass ejection (CME) struck Earth's geomagnetic field. ALERT: X-Ray Flux exceeded M5 Threshold Reache…
Paramount-Warner Reveals The Extent Of California's Control
Paramount-Warner Reveals The Extent Of California's Control Authored by Tom Campbell via RealClearMarkets , Twelve state Attorneys General have just settled their lawsuit that tried to block Paramount from acquiring Warner Brothers. The case was brought und…
Houthi Missile Attack On Busy Terminal At Riyadh Airport Kills 12, Injures 309
Houthi Missile Attack On Busy Terminal At Riyadh Airport Kills 12, Injures 309 Update1610ET) : The initial fatality and casualty count is horrific and unprecedented : at least 12 people have killed and 50 more were injured (NYT) in the Houthi missile attack…
High School Wrestler Asks Supreme Court To Allow Her To Avoid Competing With Boys
High School Wrestler Asks Supreme Court To Allow Her To Avoid Competing With Boys A Washington state high school wrestler, Kallie Keeler, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 5 for an emergency order letting her wrestle on the girls' team without facing mal…
Chinese Workers Return From Holiday To Find Factories Emptied, Owners Gone
Chinese Workers Return From Holiday To Find Factories Emptied, Owners Gone Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times , Workers in several parts of China say they returned from the National Day holiday to find their workplaces emptied of equipment, mana…
Ukraine's Drones Reach Russia's Arctic "Gas Capital"; Is Nornickel's Palladium Next?
Ukraine's Drones Reach Russia's Arctic "Gas Capital"; Is Nornickel's Palladium Next? For most of the war, Russia's Arctic was the part of the map nobody bothered to defend. That changed a month ago. On September 9, Ukraine's Special Operations Forces said t…
Trump Says "Time For Ukraine To Get A New Leader" After Zelensky Ignored Six Pleas To Stop Refinery Strikes
Trump Says "Time For Ukraine To Get A New Leader" After Zelensky Ignored Six Pleas To Stop Refinery Strikes Update (1200ET): As he was boarding Air Force One on the way to Tennessee this morning, President Trump made his feelings clear over how he feels abo…
Moraes Orders Eduardo Bolsonaro Jailed For Lobbying Washington On Sanctions As His Brother Heads Into Brazil Runoff
Moraes Orders Eduardo Bolsonaro Jailed For Lobbying Washington On Sanctions As His Brother Heads Into Brazil Runoff Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has issued an arrest warrant for Eduardo Bolsonaro and ordered the immediate start of his…
Some Safety Protections In ChatGPT For Teens Don't Work, Watchdog Finds
Some Safety Protections In ChatGPT For Teens Don't Work, Watchdog Finds Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times , A phone with the ChatGPT app in a file photograph. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times A number of new guardrails introduced by OpenAI…
Ramaswamy's Nuclear Startup Is Betting On A Reactor That Skips Enrichment
Ramaswamy's Nuclear Startup Is Betting On A Reactor That Skips Enrichment Vivek Ramaswamy may be busy running for governor of Ohio , but the nuclear startup he cofounded just became one of the most richly valued names in the sector without having shown the…
American Express Hit With $350 Million Fine For Anti-Money Laundering Lapses
American Express Hit With $350 Million Fine For Anti-Money Laundering Lapses Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times , American Express has been ordered to pay a $350 million penalty over what federal regulators described as "critical deficiencies" in its…
New minimum-wage hike threatens to hit California shoppers: ‘Couldn’t have come at a worse time’
Assembly Bill 2646 establishes a minimum hourly wage of $19.75 for covered agricultural workers.
UBS Sees Copper As "Highest-Conviction" Theme, Names Four Miners To Ride Supply Squeeze
UBS Sees Copper As "Highest-Conviction" Theme, Names Four Miners To Ride Supply Squeeze Copper futures in London closed near record highs to end the week, as desks at JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank have recently warned that dwindling global supplies of the indu…
Who Thought This Was OK?
Who Thought This Was OK? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news , A small city in upstate New York sponsored a "family friendly" arts festival, then stood by while grown men stripped down and took cash tips a few feet from toddlers. Rather than issuing…
Trump Threatens Billions In Federal Funds If NYC Doesn't Put 'Little Italy' Back On Map
Trump Threatens Billions In Federal Funds If NYC Doesn't Put 'Little Italy' Back On Map Authored by Nicholas Zifcak via The Epoch Times , President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to withhold billions in federal funding from New York City unless the city…
This Won't End Well... Seattle Becomes First City To Price-Fix Your Groceries
This Won't End Well... Seattle Becomes First City To Price-Fix Your Groceries Authored by Mark Harmsworth via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) This week the Seattle City Council passed Mayor Katie Wilson's " Fair Pricing and Transparency " ordina…
C-SPAN to host fourth annual National Civics Bee championship
C-SPAN is partnering with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to host the first-ever televised National Civics Bee championship, where, for its fourth year, 52 middle school students will compete for a national title and a $100,000 prize. Finalists from all 50 sta…
Christa Pike out of hospital and recovering in prison after botched Tennessee execution
Christa Pike has been released from the hospital and is back in prison after surviving an execution attempt in Tennessee that left her unconscious and on a ventilator. Pike is on death row for the premeditated torture and murder of a college classmate in 19…
J.D. Vance, The Accidental Socialist
Billy Binion, Reason Magazine At a press conference, the vice president offered a strange new definition of the word. But the full remarks revealed a deeper irony.
Indians Panic After Trump Sabotages Tech Firm Green Card Pipeline
Indians Panic After Trump Sabotages Tech Firm Green Card Pipeline On October 8, 2026, Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced that the Department of Labor will not accept any new PERM applications (Permanent Labor Certificatio…
Hair-Raising Case: White Baltimore Arts Executive Fired For Wearing Cornrows
Hair-Raising Case: White Baltimore Arts Executive Fired For Wearing Cornrows Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org , A White Baltimore arts executive was recently fired in September from the Baltimore Rock Opera Society. The reason was not that…
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