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Comcast plans to split into two companies, will spinoff NBC and Sky
Comcast unveiled plans Monday to split its media and technology businesses into two separately traded public companies as the entertainment industry reels from consumers abandoning the traditional TV bundle in favor of streaming services. The tax-free spinoff will separate NBCUniversal and Sky into a standalone media company while the remaining Comcast business will concentrate on…
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Warner Discovery boss is again among highest-paid CEOs in America
Even before Warner Bros. Discovery’s sale to Paramount Skydance Corp. closes, David Zaslav has already made a big payday. His executive compensation package — which includes stock options, salary, bonuses and other perks — was valued at $165 million last year, placing him as the eighth-highest-paid CEO for a large U.S. publicly traded company, according…
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Some paid the ultimate price to enact voting rights. Their survivors see America turning backward
WASHINGTON — Holiday gatherings and major life events have come with an empty seat. Certain dates on the calendar meant time at a cemetery, standing before granite stones. They are a relatively small group of people, scattered across different states, but they share a common bond that stretches decades: Each had a family member die violently in…
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American playwrights are embracing the nation’s complexity. Will audiences answer the call?
The American democratic experiment stands on shaky ground. Not since the Civil War have these proverbially United States been so disunited. As the nation throws itself a grand old 250th birthday bash in Washington, the mood in much of the country is more funereal than festive. All-out partisan warfare has sown chaos. Republican legislators, taking…
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Dodgers fans didn’t buy a ticket for this
Last week, the Los Angeles Dodgers completed their $1.1 million donation to aid immigrant families affected by recent federal immigration enforcement actions in Southern California — fulfilling a pledge they made after activists and politicians successfully pressured the team to take a side. The Dodgers can spend their money however they want. That does not…
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How America’s 250th Birthday Party Split Into 2 Rival Events—and Only One With Trump
President Donald Trump appears on stage during a Freedom 250 event kicking off the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on, June 24, 2026. —Bonnie Cash—UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images This Saturday, on America’s 250th birthday, the U.S. government will host two marquee events on opposite coasts. One on the National…
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The Mischievous, Maddening Marcel Duchamp
Something about art disgusted Marcel Duchamp. Expression, taste, aesthetic intention—anything that gave off a whiff of the precious, he recoiled from. He was modern. He relished the impersonal operations of chance. He loved jokes and sex and the movements of modern machinery. “Painting is finished,” he said to the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși at an…
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10 must-watch movies that capture America in times of profound change
Can you tell the story of America in 10 movies? Maybe so — at least a version of it — if you stick to moments of serious national friction and those rare instances when a filmmaker meets the mood with a true vision. If you want tearjerkers about red, white and blue triumph, this is…
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This European Social Enterprise Is Giving Gen Z Jobs They Actually Want—And Protecting Our Oceans
Sea Rangers taking water samples in the North Sea for plastic pollution tracking. —Courtesy Sea Ranger Service For 17 generations, Wietse Van Der Werf’s forebears toiled as dockworkers, shipbuilders, and sea captains in the Netherlands and its colonies. By contrast, Van Der Werf dropped out of school at 15. After cycling through erratic gigs—bus driver,…
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Robin Byrd, the Sex Godmother of Millennials, Says the Internet Ruined Porn
If you lived in New York City during the 1980s or 1990s, and you happened to stumble on Channel 35 after 10 pm, you would have seen her: a busty woman with dyed-blond hair in a black mesh bikini, beaming broadly as she gyrated against an adult film star or simulated fellatio on a half-naked…