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The Paramount-Warner Merger Pause Is the Deliberation We Skipped | Guest Column
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a temporary restraining order on Monday pausing Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery for 14 days. The deal, cleared by the Justice Department in June, could have closed as early as July 21. Instead, 12 state attorneys general, led by California’s Rob Bonta, persuaded a federal court…
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4 more Ford workers fired over alleged snack theft after $1.95 cookie fiasco with wrongfully canned electrician
At least four more Ford workers have reportedly been fired over alleged snack thefts from self-checkout kiosks inside the automaker’s factories, widening a controversy that first came to light after an electrician said he lost his job over a $1.95 package of cookies that he later proved he had paid for. Nick Nabozny, who had…
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Forget ‘The Odyssey,’ moviegoers can’t stop talking about the terrifying ‘Other Mommy’ trailer
Moviegoers hitting the theaters over the weekend to see “The Odyssey” were caught off guard when they were treated to the unexpected jumpscares in the “Other Mommy” trailer. The trailer for the horror film — which stars Jessica Chastain as a mother named Ursula and her sinister demon doppelganger — pre-empted the Matt Damon-led film…
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HHS withholds $867 million in Medicaid payments to California as part of ‘crackdown on fraud’
In the latest salvo in the war between the Trump administration and California, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy jr. said Tuesday his agency withheld $867.5 million in Medicaid payments to the state over concerns about fraud. Kennedy also said his agency defered $199 million in Medicaid payments to Minnesota over similar concerns.…
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Experts sound alarm: Trump’s tax bill has America barreling toward ‘hunger crisis’
Fiscal experts are raising red flags on Tuesday: President Donald Trump‘s “Big Beautiful Bill” is cutting food aid more drastically than estimates originally predicted. According to new data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), millions of people have already been thrown off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as…
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Tom Holland Details the Differences Between Christopher Nolan and Marvel Sets
Tom Holland compared the differences between working on a Christopher Nolan set and the set of a Marvel movie. Speaking Tuesday with the 100 Questions channel, Holland was asked by host Tom Simons what differences he noticed while working on Nolan’s set for “The Odyssey” compared with his experiences on the sets of Marvel’s “Spider-Man”…
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Trump says U.S. will bomb Pickaxe Mountain, a suspected hub of Iranian nuclear activity
After U.S. strikes on Iran’s largest nuclear facilities last year, both President Trump and the White House were adamant that the Middle East nation’s nuclear program had been destroyed. “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term!” Trump wrote on social media. “Iran’s…
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Republicans sweating as GOP lawmaker unleashes ultimatum for Mitch McConnell
A Republican lawmaker warned on Tuesday that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — who has been missing from Congress for six weeks amid a “secretive health crisis” — could jeopardize the narrow GOP majority in the Senate and issued an ultimatum, The Daily Beast reported. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) made it clear to McConnell that the…
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No ‘Barbenheimer’ Harmony: Is ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Picking a Fight With ‘Dune 3?’
After much anticipation, Marvel Studios released the first full trailer for “Avengers: Doomsday” on Monday, showing Earth’s (and the multiverse’s) mightiest heroes making a stand against Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.). The footage, which previously screened at CinemaCon, was joined by the release of a new poster, featuring a maskless Doom standing before a painting…
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How Vietnamese pop star Lynda stays in the banh mi game
Tim Bui scanned the sandwich shop menu, snapped a screenshot and FaceTimed his crew back at the graphic design shop. “Do you want the special or the shrimp cake?” he asked his buddies. The special refers to the “Lynda special,” named for the Vietnamese pop singer who owns this local banh mi institution in the…