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Top Hollywood stars are speaking out against the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal. Loading audio narration… Over 1,000 Hollywood creatives published an open letter on Monday expressing “unequivocal opposition” to Paramount’s deal to buy WBD, which could close as soon as this fall if it gets regulatory approval.The Paramount-WBD tie-up “would…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta cleaned laundry rooms to support himself through college and still left Yale Law School with a mountain of debt. Loading audio narration… Bonta says he’d do it all again.”I get a lot of questions from young folks who ask me if law school’s worth it,”…
After over a month of war, US forces have hit thousands of targets in Iran — all while consuming millions of meals and energy drinks, hundreds of thousands of gallons of coffee, and a lot of nicotine, the top US general said. Loading audio narration… The US, Israel, and Iran…
David Ellison’s right-hand man is leaving Paramount Skydance. Loading audio narration… Jeff Shell has stepped down from Paramount, where he’d been president since August 2025, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. As president, Shell helped oversee the company’s day-to-day operations.The company said in a statement that it was…
Micro dramas are entering their Hollywood phase as new players aim to give the format the star treatment.The latest example is Tommy Harper, a prolific film producer whose credits include “Star Wars” and “Top Gun: Maverick.”Harper is going small for his next act. He’s launching VeYou, an app for the…
A top NATO commander has said Ukraine’s battlefield adaptation is impressive and that the alliance needs something like an “HOV lane” to fast-track new war tech. Loading audio narration… In its four years of fending off Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has demonstrated an “adaptation DNA,” Adm. Pierre Vandier, NATO’s Supreme…
America’s biggest shipbuilder wants to know whether artificial intelligence and robots can do some of the most labor-intensive parts of the shipbuilding process. Loading audio narration… A new partnership between Huntington Ingalls Industries and GrayMatter Robotics, announced Monday, aims to work AI and physical robotic systems into shipbuilding operations. Autonomous…
Are you using AI to think — or letting it think for you? Loading audio narration… Vivienne Ming, chief scientist at the Possibility Institute, a metascience research group, and founder of Socos Labs, an AI and education firm, says the tech is splitting people into two groups: a small minority…
Many California counties are still seeing more people move out than move in, unlike in Maine, new data showed. Loading audio narration… The Census Bureau’s population change estimates show how the country’s 3,143 counties and county equivalents grew or shrank between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025.Business Insider looked…
In Jeffrey Epstein’s last will and testament, he named two of his longtime associates — personal attorney Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn — as co-executors of his $630 million estate.He didn’t give them salaries for the job.Since Epstein’s death in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, Indyke and…
