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An Offer They Can’t Refuse: Theater Execs Split on Whether to Join Paramount-Warner’s Merger Movement
As its legal battle with 12 state attorneys general heats up, Paramount Skydance is stepping up its campaign to get entertainment executives to support its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, with everything from a David Ellison op-ed to glowing statements from execs to a written pledge to increase theatrical output. The company’s efforts to gain…
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Powerball edges closer to $1B — the biggest of the year — after no winners in latest draw
The Powerball jackpot edged closer to $1 billion, the largest prize of the year, after no one won Monday night’s lottery drawing. Wednesday’s jackpot is estimated at $975 million, with a cash value of $422.3 million — making it the largest Powerball jackpot this year, and the biggest since last December’s colossal $1.817 billion prize. The…
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Why Jamie Lee Curtis ‘hated’ shooting ‘New Girl’ despite being a ‘great show’
Jamie Lee Curtis admitted she “hated” filming “New Girl” because of the way the beloved comedy was shot. “I did a single-camera [comedy], which I hated,” Curtis said at NBCUniversal’s Summer Backlot Experience in Los Angeles on Monday. “I mean, it’s a great show, ‘New Girl,’ very funny,” the actress added. “It’s a good show.” Jamie…
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A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call
As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday, disclosing vulnerabilities in the video conferencing platform Zoom that could have been exploited to take over targets’ devices. Anyone on a call that involved…
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An accounting glitch caused nearly half of L.A.’s increase in the homeless count
Deep in the data sheets published last month with the 2026 homeless count was a surprising statistic about change in Skid Row. According to the records, the downtown Los Angeles district’s homeless population swelled last year by more than 800 people, an increase of 24%. Those numbers accounted for more than half of the city’s…
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Conservative giant who launched JD Vance’s political rise sticks fork in their friendship
Rod Dreher, the prominent conservative writer and blogger, says his once-close friendship with JD Vance has fallen apart — which he attributes to the vice president’s refusal to confront rising antisemitism and white nationalism on the online right. Vance, in his memoir, credits an early interview with Dreher for helping launch his political career, saying…
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Meet Will Scharf, Trump’s New White House Counsel Who Shares an Interesting History With the President
Will Scharf speaks with President Donald Trump outside the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 2, 2025. —Andrew Harnik—Getty Images Will Scharf, who currently oversees administrative work as the staff secretary, is set to be the new White House counsel, taking over the senior West Wing position from David Warrington. “Will is tough, strong,…
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Zuckerberg Under Fire After His Superyacht Declined to Help a Vessel in Distress
What’s the point of having a superyacht if you’re forced to share it with some unwashed poors? That’s the calculation the crew of a Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht, Launchpad, apparently made on the billionaire’s behalf, after a skiff near its location in southeast Alaska ran into trouble. According to the Alaska Beacon, a small…
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Why the facts of Anthony Bourdain’s life were less relevant to his biopic makers than emotional truth
In the second film of the summer that smooths the rough edges of a complicated man, we meet the future chef and global TV star Anthony Bourdain at age 19, blustering through a comically pretentious fellowship proposal for the dour-faced members of a Vassar College faculty committee. At first, this young Bourdain is easy to…
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Trump ‘makes clear’ Supreme Court won’t have ‘final word’ on his deepest ambitions: report
President Donald Trump is headed for more Supreme Court battles in his second term as he attempts to steamroll the judicial branch. According to a report from The Washington Post, Trump in recent weeks has been making it known that the Supreme Court should not get the final say-so during his administration. As the Post’s…