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Where the Media Business Is Going
Welcome back to the “Media Front.” For much of the past decade, Hollywood’s biggest media companies were chasing versions of the same goal: Build a streaming service, add subscribers and reach enough scale to compete with Netflix. This week’s earnings season offered perhaps the clearest evidence yet that the industry has moved on. Streaming isn’t…
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Smell that? Mold-A-Rama makes a comeback in L.A. thanks to one determined librarian
The waxy scent that drifts up the escalators at the Los Angeles Central Library is immediately familiar to anyone who remembers the Mold-A-Rama. The novelty vending machines mold souvenir sculptures — a train car, a gorilla, a bust of Abraham Lincoln — in under a minute, filling a two-sided mold with hot plastic, then hollowing…
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Torture alleged as detainees claim Trump’s ICE deploying ‘involuntary medical procedures’
Speaking with The Guardian, Kurdish asylum seeker Gabar Choli detailed Monday the torture he says he endured while held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas, the latest account of brutal conditions migrants face amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Choli, 40, began a hunger strike in March 2025 to protest the…
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How the Streamers Stack Up in Subscribers, Revenue and Profits | Analysis
The latest round of quarterly earnings disclosures marked the most significant progress for the streaming industry to date, as all five Hollywood studios’ direct-to-consumer businesses reported profits and gains in revenue. Streaming’s shift from burgeoning growth initiative to key profitability engine is a meaningful inflection point as visibility into subscriber growth becomes increasingly limited, the…
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Mom allegedly made blood-chilling threat to ex moments before slaughtering 2 children: ‘Say goodbye to your kids’
A North Dakota mother accused of stabbing two of her young children to death ghoulishly told their father, “Say goodbye to your kids” in a blood-chilling video shot moments before the slaughter, according to a new affidavit. Kailey Erhart, 22, is facing a slew of charges including two counts of murder, attempted murder, two counts…
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Brad Pitt confesses he’s no longer sober after seven years: I’m ‘back off the wagon’
Brad Pitt revealed he broke his sobriety after seven years. “I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon,” Pitt said with a laugh in an Esquire interview published on Monday. “In a more restrained manner. I got overconfident a couple times, went, Yep, nope, not good for me,” he…
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Tribal casinos left exposed as National Indian Gaming Commission vacancy drags on
On opening day at the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma’s new Harrah’s-branded casino, the tribe’s chairman watched customers pack the gambling floor while a queue of cars spilled out of the parking lot. “We couldn’t let them in because we were so full,” Chairman Jacob Keyes said. “That’s a direct impact from the Harrah’s name.” But…
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Scheme hatched to haul Trump out of office as top lawyers zero in on under-the-radar law
After two impeachments and 34 criminal convictions did not stop Donald Trump from becoming president for the second time, a new legal strategy could be used to remove him from office, according to a civil trial lawyer who’s successfully sued major corporations and the government. Kevin K. Johnson, a civil and appellate trial lawyer in…
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As AI reshapes tech, vintage computers become the new obsession
Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to life. He estimates he owns more than 200 vintage computers and devices in his Seattle home. “It’s always been fascinating to me to see the origins of things,” Dersch said. “It’s a fun…
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Right-wingers ‘terrified’ by MAGA defector’s vision after ‘Daddy cut them off’
There is a growing fear among some of President Donald Trump’s most avid supporters that the America First movement will undermine the GOP in November to teach the president a lesson. According to a report from Politico Playbook, while the White House is dismissing a conservative third-party challenge in 2028, there are legitimate concerns about…