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Barry Diller offers to buy rest of MGM in nearly $19 billion deal
Barry Diller has made an offer for the remaining portion of MGM Resorts International he doesn’t already own, marking the latest pivot for the billionaire media mogul after overhauling IAC Inc. The proposal, which would be made through Diller’s business empire, People Inc., is for $48.30 a share for the 73.9% of MGM Resorts that…
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‘Pretty dead’: Trump insider compares his slush fund to iconic Monty Python death scene
A long-time GOP analyst compared President Donald Trump’s dying “anti-weaponization” fund to an iconic scene from the movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” during an interview on CNN. Trump’s fund was established as part of a settlement between the Trump Department of Justice and the IRS for a case involving Trump’s leaked tax returns.…
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Who watches the watch parties?
SUMMER OF HELL: The NYPD has quite a summer ahead, to hear Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch tell it. During a four-hour budget hearing this morning (and afternoon), the mayor’s top cop provided new insight into possible threats during the World Cup, hinted at the beef between the police department and the mayor’s office over the…
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Meta’s AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People’s Instagram Accounts Just by Asking
In March, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced a new Meta AI support assistant feature on both Facebook and Instagram, providing users with a way to “resolve account problems” and help in taking down any offending impersonator accounts or scams. Besides highlighting the tech industry’s seemingly insatiable appetite for automating customer service-level jobs with AI, the new…
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‘Euphoria’ has ended after three seasons. Why Sam Levinson wanted to honor Angus Cloud with the finale
This story contains some spoilers for the series finale of “Euphoria.” “Euphoria” is officially over. Sunday’s Season 3 finale of the turbulent drama starring Zendaya as troubled drug addict Rue Bennett also marked the conclusion of the series, creator Sam Levinson announced on “Popcast,” the New York Times’ pop culture podcast. HBO confirms the episode…
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Horror of botched red state execution revealed in lawyer’s harrowing NYT op-ed
Capital defense lawyer Maria DeLiberato met her client last March. Tony Carruthers was scheduled to face the death penalty last month for the kidnapping and killing of three people in Memphis. Upon meeting and evaluating Carruthers’ case, DeLiberato noticed the hallmarks of a wrongful conviction, as DeLiberato wrote for The New York Times. There was…
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Karen Bass pulls funds for iconic Valley July 4th parade leaving community devastated
Mayor Karen Bass is being slammed as un-American for a last-minute decision to pull funding for a Valley neighborhood group who wanted to close their main street for a 4th of July Parade marking America’s 250th birthday. Last year’s parade in Sunland-Tujunga Lydia Grant The Sunland-Tujunga Fourth of July Parade, the longest-running Independence Day parade…
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Buckingham Palace concealed evidence against ex-Prince Andrew for 6 years, Epstein accuser claims
Buckingham Palace was reportedly given evidence that ex-Prince Andrew was sharing confidential government information while he was a trade envoy six years ago. According to a BBC report published Saturday, in 2020, 30,000 emails with information about Andrew sharing protected information were given to the Lord Chamberlain — the most senior officer in the royal…
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Ronald LaPread, Commodores’ co-founder and bassist, dies at 75
Ronald LaPread, a co-founder and former bassist of the funk and soul group the Commodores, has died. He was 75. “It is with a very heavy heart that I must announce that my father Ronald LaPread has passed,” LaPread’s daughter Soraya LaPread shared on her Instagram story. “If you know me you know my dad.…
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‘Absolutely screwed’: DC insider delivers brutal verdict as Senate GOP stuck in ‘bad jam’
Republicans returned to Capitol Hill on Monday facing a cascade of crises of President Donald Trump’s making, and a prominent Beltway insider delivered a blunt diagnosis for the party’s predicament. Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman described Senate Republicans as “absolutely screwed” and stuck in a “very bad jam” over the anti-weaponization fund specifically, with the…