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A hostile takeover bid for media giant Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has ratcheted up with entertainment conglomerate Paramount taking legal action to force the release of financial data. Paramount Skydance, which owns film production company Paramount Pictures and TV network CBS, has filed a law suit seeking to compel WBD to disclose to shareholders how…
Record executive Antonio βL.A.β Reid has settled a sexual assault lawsuit from former employee Drew Dixon, avoiding a jury trial that was set to begin Monday. In 2023, Dixon filed a lawsuit under the New York Adult Survivors Act, alleging abuse from Reid including sexual harassment, assault and retaliation while she worked under him as…
Sir Keir Starmer has threatened to “control” X’s AI chatbot Grok if Elon Musk’s social media platform continues to create sexual images of women and children. The prime minister told his MPs the actions of Grok and X are “absolutely disgusting and shameful”. “If X cannot control Grok, we will – and we’ll do it…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ Andrea Paola HernΓ‘ndez has one sister in Ecuador and another in London. She has cousins in Colombia, Chile, Argentina and the United States. All fled poverty and political repression in Venezuela. HernΓ‘ndez, a human rights activist and outspoken critic of the countryβs authoritarian leader, NicolΓ‘s Maduro, eventually left, too. Since 2022 she has lived…
Facebook owner Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump administration adviser and longtime finance executive, as president and vice chairman of the tech giant. Powell McCormick previously served on Meta’s board of directors β where, the company notes, she was “deeply engaged” in accelerating its artificial intelligence push across platforms. In her new…
A.J. Brown had nothing to say β to reporters after the Philadelphia Eaglesβ playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers, that is. Philadelphiaβs star receiver did have plenty to say to Coach Nick Sirianni β and vice-versa β during a sideline spat late in the second quarter of the game that eventually marked an end…
The investment vehicle set up to house a string of prominent sports assets is launching a β¬2.7bn (Β£2.3bn) debt-raising process aimed at funding its ambitions to become a global powerhouse. Sky News has learnt that Global Sport Group (GSG), which is owned by CVC Capital Partners and counts a stake in Six Nations Rugby among…
David Ellisonβs Paramount has sued Warner Bros. Discovery β the smaller firmβs latest move to block Warnerβs $72-billion sale to Netflix. The lawsuit, filed Monday morning in Delaware court, asks Warner and its chief executive David Zaslav to produce more information about Warnerβs deliberations and decision to select Netflix, ending the hotly contested auction on…
Former Conservative chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has become the latest – and most senior – Tory to defect to Reform UK. The ex-MP and vaccines minister during the COVID pandemic said the UK was “drinking at the last chance saloon” and “really does need Nigel Farage as prime minister”. Having served under the four latest Conservative…
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced Sunday that he would not run for California governor, a decision he said was grounded in his belief that his legal efforts combating the Trump administration as the stateβs top prosecutor are paramount at this time in history. βIn this moment, my place is here, on the front lines,…
