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Warner Bros. Discovery is preparing to launch a streaming service in partnership with ESPN / Disney and Fox Sports, as reported earlier by CNBC and Sports Business Journal. All three companies have agreed in principle to launch an as-yet-unnamed standalone app, of which they all share one-third ownership, this fall that streams a range of leagues and sports. It is poised to have sports networks including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNews, ABC, FOX, FS1, FS2, BTN, TNT, TBS, and truTV. The new service will air games from the National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball...

Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, announced Monday that standardized testing scores will once again be required for admission. An article from the university explained that class of 2029 applicants will be required to submit SAT or ACT scores to be granted admission, according to a campus-wide email from President Sian Leah Beilock. Dartmouth previously suspended the requirement for undergraduate applicants in June 2020, citing COVID-19. Other institutions, including Brown University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, also paused the requirement. MIT has since reinstated the admission policy. "It was a pragmatic pause...

A leaked video of IBM Chief Executive Arvind Krishna allegedly coercing his employees to hire based on racial quotas to improve diversity statistics was published in December by undercover investigative journalist James O’Keefe. “So we take underrepresented and gender. You’ve got to move both forward by a percentage. That leads to a plus on your bonus. By the way, if you lose, you lose part of your bonus,” Krishna said in the video, which was filmed by an IBM insider in 2021. “I’m not trying to finesse this. So for blacks, we should try to get towards 13-point-something percent. On...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” Mark 7:14–15What is within you? What is in your heart? Today’s Gospel concludes with a list of vices that sadly come from within: “evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.” Of course, none of these vices are desirable when looked at objectively. They are all quite repulsive. And yet too often they...

Tens of thousands of Americans are hospitalized with COVID-19 every week. Thousands die from it every month. And yet, an antiviral treatment proven to lessen the chances of severe outcomes is going underused. The drug, Paxlovid, is lauded by experts as a powerful tool that can prevent hospitalization and death from COVID-19. But the high price and doctors’ hesitation to prescribe the pills mean the five-day treatment isn’t getting to everyone who would benefit from it. “When you read in your local newspaper that in this hospital, they’ve got this many COVID patients, most of those are preventable hospitalizations,” said...

How many Republicans does it take to figure out someone’s God-given biological sex? Evidently, in Wyoming, 31-2 and 57-5 GOP majorities in the legislature are not enough. Recent allegations by the Kolstad family that Montana Child and Family Services took their daughter to Wyoming to obtain “gender transition” therapy exposes a terrible truth about what should be the most conservative state in America. While Montana passed Senate Bill 99 last session to prohibit chemical castration of minors, Wyoming failed to pass what’s become known as Chloe’s Law thanks to opposition from Governor Mark Gordon and House Speaker Albert Sommers. Lukewarm...

VIDEOKarma struck Nikki Haley in Nevada in a most embarrassing way by having her LOSE to NONE OF THE ABOVE on the state's primary ballot. Not only that she is doomed to lose bigly to President Donald Trump in her own state of South Carolina on that primary ballot. However, don't think these horrible humiliations will stop her from continuing to campaign. Why? Because she is being paid by wealthy Democrat donors to stay on the campaign trail in order to continue attacking Trump. Although Nikki likes to portray herself as on a higher moral plane, she has lowered herself...

Maria Manaura, who’s been arrested at least eight times in the six months since she arrived in New York City from Venezuela, is living at the Row NYC hotel, once hailed for its unbeatable Times Square location and front-row view of the theater district. Now it’s drug-infested and violent, but still costs taxpayers $500 a night for each of the 1,300 rooms given over to migrants. Manaura was busted again Jan. 30 for snatching a woman’s cellphone on the No. 6 train. She was charged with grand larceny and resisting arrest, but instead of getting locked up, Judge Jay Weiner...

The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into Indiana University over its alleged failure to respond to anti-Semitism on campus. ... The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into Indiana University over its alleged failure to respond to anti-Semitism on campus. The complaint, filed by Campus Reform Editor-in-Chief Dr. Zachary Marschall, alleges that the Bloomington, Indiana institution hasn’t properly responded to anti-Semitism on campus, leaving Jewish students “afraid to speak up.” After the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack carried out by Hamas, several pro-Palestinian protests were held at the Indiana...

Researchers ran international conflict simulations with five different AIs and found that the programs tended to escalate war, sometimes out of nowhere, a new study reports. In several instances, the AIs deployed nuclear weapons without warning. “A lot of countries have nuclear weapons. Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture,” GPT-4-Base—a base model of GPT-4 that is available to researchers and hasn’t been fine-tuned with human feedback—said after launching its nukes. “We have it! Let’s use it!”

The media now opposes freedom of the press. We live in BizarroTucker Carlson announced on Twitter that he will be interviewing Vladimir Putin. It will be posted on Twitter. Carlson explained why: “Here’s why we’re doing it. First, because it is our job. We’re in journalism. Our duty is to inform people.” He went on for another four minutes but in 20 words, he gave the only explanation that matters. I wish he would drop the imperial first-person. Among the many replies, Ian Miles Cheong said, “Massive credit to Elon Musk for allowing the video to be posted uncensored. It'll...

Israel estimates that a fifth of Hamas's hostages remaining in Gaza have died, the New York Times reported Tuesday. At least 32 of the remaining 136 hostages are dead, the outlet reported, citing four anonymous Israeli military officials. The government has informed families of those whom the military has confirmed to be deceased. Most of the 32 dead were killed on Oct. 7, the military told the Times. It added that it was "deploying all available resources to locate and retrieve as much information as possible regarding the hostages currently held by Hamas." During their terror attacks on Oct. 7,...

As elected officials hotly debate new border security legislation, the FBI has arrested a Tennessee man they say was planning to join a militia border group, set off explosives, and act as a sniper at the Mexico/U.S. border. Paul Faye of Cunningham, Tennessee was arrested yesterday for possession of an unregistered firearm, however the charging documents outline a nearly year-long investigation into the defendant involving multiple undercover agents. Faye first came on law enforcement radar after the arrest of Brian Perry, another Tennessee man who was indicted last Spring in a plot to murder immigrants at the border. A review...

President Biden has extended Democrats’ sanctuary city policies to the southern border. It’s not complicated; the two are connected. Combined, Democrats have created a self-reinforcing crisis that is beyond their willingness to control. Instead, they are desperately trying to find someone else to solve what their leftist extremists won’t let them fix. Their hope now is that Sunday’s Senate bill will. America is in the throes of an undeniable illegal immigration crisis that continues to break records under Biden. Illegal crossings over the southern border in December hit 250,000, 31 percent higher than November’s number (119,112) and 13 percent over...

T Tucker Carlson's interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin could see the conservative pundit targeted by European Union lawmakers, current and former members of the European Parliament have told Newsweek.Carlson visited Russia this week, and on Tuesday revealed he would "soon" be releasing an interview with the Russian leader.

A country cannot survive, let alone thrive, when the voting process itself has been tainted, thereby driving a significant portion of the citizenry to no longer trust in the electoral system. In the United States, we have generally been immune from this nightmare scenario, at least for the most part. Yes, we have had our share of highly contested elections, most recently in 2000. But these situations have been much more the exception than the norm in the United States over the past two centuries. Unfortunately, it has become clear that the 2020 presidential election did not reach this historically...

Mark Esper, former President Trump’s one-time top Defense official, is joining CNN as a contributor. Esper, who served as Defense secretary from July 2019 to November 2020, has been hired as a full-time contributor, the network announced Wednesday. He will serve as a “global affairs analyst and political commentator.” After leaving government, Esper became a partner and board member at the venture capital firm Red Cell Partners and currently serves on several private capital and public policy boards and works as a corporate consultant. During a recent guest appearance on CNN, Esper said he agrees with concerns about Trump retaliating...

In most places around the country, the point of acquiring power is to do something with it. Your state’s legislators pass a corporate tax cut to attract new business. Or, your mayor deploys city funds to repair streets damaged by winter’s snow and ice, paving the way for a smooth commute. But D.C. is different. More than other places, in D.C., the best use of power is not to discharge it toward solving some real or concrete problem that exists in the world, but to use power to create even more power. Whether that’s a better committee assignment, a bigger...

On Sunday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson traveled to Los Angeles to attend the Grammy’s. He attended an gala with comedian Deray Davis, rappers “Twista” and “GLC” and fashion designer Jerry Lorenzo, according to Eventnoire.com. As usual, Johnson attended the event alone. He has been in office for almost a year, but Brandon Johnson has yet to appear at a public event with his wife, Stacie. City observers note her complete absence from the public eye is a departure from tradition-- and quite peculiar. "Normally the Mayor's spouse shows up at a few City Council meetings, press conferences or ribbon-cutting ceremonies,"...

While catching up over the holidays, my father and I began to talk politics, as we often do nowadays. We bemoaned recent government financial blunders such as the Green New Deal, two proxy wars, and welfare for the unprecedented number of illegal migrants pouring across the Southern border. My father concluded our talk by saying, “And our tax dollars are paying for it!” [SNIP] But, in reality, it’s questionable if much of our tax dollars are really being spent on political misadventures. Looking at historical metrics, it’s clear that taxes have been relatively static for almost two decades, which cuts...