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Netflix won the bidding war to buy Discovery/Warner Brothers and consolidate Hollywood, but a Netflix-Warner merger looks illegal. It’s likely to face meaningful political and antitrust hurdles. View Source Here

There were so many details in the women’s reports to law enforcement that were hard for me to read. That they were just little girls when it happened. That a man many knew as the “fun uncle” had touched them sexually under their skirts and tops. And that it happened in church or while swimming

Very early into the COVID-19 pandemic, ZeroHedge suggested that a little-known Chinese lab in Wuhan might know something about the novel coronavirus sweeping the globe. As a result, and as you know, we were subject to an intense demonetization / deplatforming campaign that included getting kicked off of Twitter, PayPal, Facebook and other platforms, dropped

One of Chicago’s newest police sergeants had been deemed “unfit to serve” after an investigation uncovered evidence that he created a fake Facebook account and spread a nude photo of a woman he was sexually involved with, then lied to investigators about it.  Another new sergeant had been found to have engaged in conduct that

Wednesday, December 3rd on the RealClearPolitics Podcast: OutKick’s Mary Katharine Ham joins Andy, Tom and Carl to discuss new polls that show Donald Trump Jr. in second place for the GOP nomination. View Source Here

Jimmie “Chris” Duncan walked out of the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center and into the arms of his parents last week after spending the last 27 years on death row.  Seven months ago, a Louisiana district court judge vacated his murder conviction for killing his former girlfriend’s toddler, citing doubts about the evidence used to convict

Two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with his team’s immigration crackdown or lose your federal homeland security funding.  Oregon and 19 other states including Illinois, New York and California fought back and won. A federal judge ruled in September that the Department of Homeland Security couldn’t

Ken Burns has set himself the impossible task of retelling a national origin story that all Americans will embrace as their own. View Source Here

Time is winding down for Howard Miller, the storied furniture company and clockmaker in western Michigan that said this summer it will close after 99 years. It identified the Trump administration’s tariffs as a main culprit.  Howard Miller’s closure will cost about 195 people their jobs, most in Michigan. “Our hopes for a market recovery

Rep. Jason Smith, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told FNC’s "Sunday Morning Futures, that if Republicans agree to extend Obamacare health insurance subsidies, it is a signal that they will never get the budget under control. View Source Here

In recent days, five U.S. senators and two representatives requested documents from the Department of Homeland Security and a formal investigation into how a firm closely tied to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ended up receiving money from a $220 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign. The demands came in response to a ProPublica story this month that

As artificial intelligence extends to every corner of contemporary life, it brings remarkable capabilities and opportunities – along with dangers that strike at the foundations of individual freedom, human dignity, and the common good. View Source Here

The Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles has fired a longtime employee nearly five years after investigators found he used his position to garner steep discounts on cars he bought from a towing company, according to a termination letter obtained last week. The Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica reported in March on the accusations against Dominik Stefanski

Did Elon Musk realize the amount of treachery and deception that would evolve when he bought Twitter and turned it into X? I don’t know Mr. Musk, but I drive one of his cars and like it, so I would like to think he didn’t. I prefer to believe, as I did at the time,

In the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of thousands of pregnant women were wheeled into hospitals where they fought for their lives and the lives of the babies they carried. It took the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention until August 2021, eight months after the first vaccine was administered, to formally

As Americans spend more time home alone, meeting neighbors in shared spaces could help address political polarization. View Source Here

Last week, the Federal Bureau of Prisons posted a video of Deputy Director Josh Smith vowing to “make the BOP great again.” The seven-minute clip echoes the promises of change agency leaders have repeated in video announcements for months as the BOP struggles with a staffing crisis and budget shortfalls. As a reporter covering the

The formula for victory is a Right that’s particularist, opposed to progressive liberalism, and fortified by Israel’s example. View Source Here

What Happened: The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced Monday that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets. At issue was algorithmic rent-setting software the tech company sold that prosecutors said enabled landlords to compete less and boost prices in apartment