Forfeits by high school boysβ soccer teams in the City Section and Southern Section playoffs continued Friday as both sections try to deal with violations of CIF Bylaw 600, which prohibits players from participating in outside leagues during their sports season. Calabasas pulled out of the Southern Section Division 3 championship because of an ineligible…
Paramount has struck a $110bn deal to buy Warner Bros Discovery. The deal was struck after Netflix walked away from a bidding war for the company. Netflix had declined to match Paramount’s latest $31-per-share offer on Thursday – having offered a $27.75-per-share agreement for its studio and streaming assets. Paramount, which is led by billionaire…
The morning after Netflix clinched its deal to buy Warner Bros., Paramount Skydance Chairman David Ellison assembled a war room of trusted advisors, including his billionaire father, Larry Ellison. Furious at Warner Bros. Discovery Chief David Zaslav for ending the auction, the Ellisons and their team began plotting their comeback on that crisp December day….
At the wedding venue in Gorton and Denton the Green Party chose for the news conference to mark a seismic by-election victory on national television, it was clear that Zack Polanski and his team were new to all of this. There was a sea of empty chairs and but a smattering of supporters in a…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ For the first time in more than 40 years, a former president will appeal directly before Congress to fend off criminal allegations. Former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify before the House Oversight Committee this week in its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators. The couple…
Blame AI or the White House social media employee who put controversial, profane words in the mouth of U.S. Olympic menβs hockey star Brady Tkachuk. Either way, Tkachuk doesnβt appreciate the doctored video published Sunday on the official White House TikTok account that made it appear he was disparaging Canadians in the aftermath of the…
As the deadline looms for a leading AI lab to hand over its tech to the US military, a study has appeared suggesting AI models are more than willing to go nuclear in wargames. Only a couple of years ago, the phrase on everyone’s lips was “AI safety”. I’ll be honest, I never took the…
When Dalia Stasevska heard opera music for the first time, it was a moment of profound self-revelation. She was 13, growing up in the factory town of Tampere in the south of Finland, and her school librarian gave her a CD of Pucciniβs βMadama Butterflyβ along with a translation of its Italian libretto. βAs a…
π Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app π A huge win for the Greens and a massive loss for Labour and the government – Harriet thinks it’s a “bruising” defeat, so is Sir Keir Starmer now worried about the local elections in May? The Gorton and Denton by-election result on…
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