Skydance Media has made additional commitments to the FCC in an effort to get approval for its $8 billion merger with Paramount Global. In letters addressed to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, Skydance’s top lawyer said Skydance will install an ombudsman to review “complaints of bias or other concerns” involving CBS as part of ensuring “viewpoint diversity” and that Skydance has …
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Erik Menendez taken to hospital with ‘serious’ condition, lawyer tells US media
Erik Menendez has been diagnosed with a “serious medical condition”, his lawyer has told multiple US news outlets. The news comes weeks before he and his brother, Lyle, are set to appear at a parole hearing after spending decades in prison for the murders of their parents. The lawyer did not provide further details about the medical condition. The BBC …
Read More »OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI | Sam Altman
During his latest trip to Washington, OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, painted a sweeping vision of an AI-dominated future in which entire job categories disappear, presidents follow ChatGPT’s recommendations and hostile nations wield artificial intelligence as a weapon of mass destruction, all while positioning his company as the indispensable architect of humanity’s technological destiny. Speaking at the Capital Framework for …
Read More »Colbert Tells Trump ‘Go F— Yourself’ After President Exults Over ‘Late Show’ Cancellation
Stephen Colbert had a succinct message to President Trump, one that involved an anatomical impossibility. In his monologue opening Monday’s “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” Colbert referred to Trump’s celebrating CBS‘s sudden decision to axe the show. The U.S. president, in a post on Truth Social last Friday, wrote, “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was …
Read More »Stephen Colbert Tells Donald Trump To “Go F*ck Yourself”
In case anyone worried Stephen Colbert was going to go quietly into the night after CBS canceled The Late Show, it’s clear he won’t. In an early clip posted from tonight’s show, Colbert responded to President Trump’s gleeful social media post about his firing. “How dare you, sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? …
Read More »Sarepta tells FDA it won’t halt shipments of muscular dystrophy therapy despite patient deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics said late Friday it won’t comply with a request from the Food and Drug Administration to halt all shipments of its gene therapy following the death of a third patient receiving one of its treatments for muscular dystrophy. The highly unusual move is a latest in a string of events that have hammered the …
Read More »Live Updates: Trump Tells Bondi to Pursue Release of Epstein Material as Congress Claws Back Funding – The New York Times
Live Updates: Trump Tells Bondi to Pursue Release of Epstein Material as Congress Claws Back Funding The New York Times Trump tells Attorney General Bondi to seek release of Epstein grand jury records CNN Michael Wolff on MAGA’s Revolt Over Jeffrey Epstein The New Yorker Donald Trump orders US attorney general to ‘produce’ more Epstein documents BBC A Timeline of What We Know About …
Read More »Trump Tells Bondi to Seek Release of Epstein Grand Jury Testimony – The New York Times
Trump Tells Bondi to Seek Release of Epstein Grand Jury Testimony The New York Times Trump orders officials to ‘produce’ more Epstein documents after mounting pressure BBC Trump directs attorney general Pam Bondi to seek release of Epstein grand jury testimony – US politics live The Guardian A Timeline of What We Know About Trump and Epstein The New York Times Trump’s Growing Epstein …
Read More »Zohran Mamdani tells NYC business leaders he will discourage use of ‘globalize the Intifada’
Since the final days of the Democratic primary, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani had been dogged by criticism that he didn’t appreciate the implications of the pro-Palestinian slogan “globalize the Intifada.” But at a meeting with a room full of prominent city business leaders Tuesday afternoon, the Democratic nominee pledged to discourage use of the phrase — while …
Read More »Westinghouse plans to build 10 large nuclear reactors in U.S., interim CEO tells Trump
Plant Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant in Waynesboro, GA, August 15, 2024. Van Applegate | CNBC Westinghouse plans to build 10 large nuclear reactors in the U.S. with construction to begin by 2030, interim CEO Dan Sumner told President Donald Trump at a roundtable in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Westinghouse’s big AP1000 reactor generates enough electricity to power more than 750,000 homes, …
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