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NEW YORK (AP) — Skydance and Paramount officially closed their $8 billion merger on Thursday — kicking off the reign of a new entertainment giant after a contentious, over year-long endeavor to get the transaction over the finish line. The new company — which will trade under the “PSKY” ticker on Wall Street — brings Paramount’s legacy Hollywood footprint, major TV networks like CBS and MTV, streaming services and more under the roof of a new power player: billionaire Skydance founder David Ellison. “Today marks an exciting and pivotal moment as we prepare to bring Paramount’s legacy as a Hollywood...

The Democratic Governor of the deep blue state of Connecticut got himself caught up in a major scandal after it was revealed that he had approved a $440,000 annual salary for a “good friend” that was fully funded by taxpayer dollars, going on to defend that friend despite accusations against him of using taxpayer money to cover “lavish meals,” which drew the ire of a Republican senator. For background, during a press conference in May 2025, State Sen. Stephen Harding (R-CT) called out his state’s Democratic Governor, Ned Lamont, for providing Terrence Cheng, chancellor of Connecticut State Colleges & Universities,...

The big Democratic guns are silent, so the NYC radical turns to a failed Massachusetts socialist.What happens when a political candidate attracts the support of his party’s most extreme officeholders but fails to secure the endorsements of the actual leaders of his own party, the ones who hold the most sway? That is the dilemma faced by New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. Though polling suggests the race is clearly his to lose, Mamdani has become a lightning rod for a party that has hit the skids. Looking for any port in a storm, he turned to Sen....

When it comes to its “Star Wars” franchise, The Walt Disney’s Company’s Death Star just exploded. On Thursday, in a decisive turn of events, Disney and conservative actress Gina Carano announced the settlement of a lawsuit Carano filed last year accusing the House of Mouse of wrongful termination. And while the exact terms weren’t disclosed, there’s no doubt who the winner was. Carano’s statements on Thursday make it clear. “[A]nd the truth shall set you free,” she wrote in a post on the social media platform X. She followed that up with a lengthier statement that thanked mega-billionaire and Renaissance...

Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson presided over the Wolfe case. Yes, the same Ketanji Brown-Jackson who was installed on the Supreme Court via a lengthy operation during the Biden administration {GO DEEP}. There is no statute of limitations against leaking Top Secret Compartmented Intelligence. Immunize James Wolfe. Immunize Ali Watkins. Question FBI Supervisory Special Agent Brian Dugan as a witness. Question former USAO Jessie Liu as a witness. Question former SSCI Chairman Richard Burr. Target SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner This one also nets the Robert Mueller special counsel because ultimately FBI SSA Dugan had to run the evidence through the Russiagate stakeholders,...

The president has ordered the Pentagon to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement.President Trump has secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed terrorist organizations, according to people familiar with the matter. The decision to bring the American military into the fight is the most aggressive step so far in the administration’s escalating campaign against the cartels. It signals Mr. Trump’s continued willingness to use military forces to carry out what has primarily been considered a...

The Mexican government thought it hard turned a corner in cooperating with the Trump administration on combating the cartels, having launched an aggressive crackdown of its own.President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico denied that the United States would use its military in Mexico on Friday, responding to news that President Trump had directed the Pentagon to target drug cartels that the United States considers terrorist organizations. “The United States is not going to come to Mexico with the military. We cooperate, we collaborate, but there is not going to be an invasion. That is ruled out, absolutely ruled out,” she said....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of an investigation into whether she violated President Donald Trump’s civil rights, according to people familiar with the matter.The subpoenas sought records related to a lawsuit James filed against Trump over alleged fraud in his personal business dealings and a lawsuit involving the National Rifle Association, according to one of the people. Another person confirmed that the subpoenas are related to a civil rights investigation. The people could not publicly discuss details of the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on Friday on...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have found chemical traces of betel nut chewing in 4,000-year-old teeth from a Bronze Age burial in Thailand -- the earliest direct evidence of psychoactive plant use in Southeast Asia.By analyzing hardened dental plaque, researchers uncovered compounds linked to betel nut, a stimulant that boosts alertness and euphoria...One common side effect of regular chewing is teeth stained a deep reddish-brown or black.However, the absence of these stains does not necessarily mean the habit was avoided. A recent investigation by an international team used a cutting-edge technique to study ancient dental plaque from Bronze Age Thailand,...

Charlie Kirk just lit up the internet after South Park dropped a jaw-dropping episode — and the libs are LOSING it! From savage political satire to brutal cultural takedowns, nothing was off-limits. We break down why the left can’t handle it, what South Park really meant, and how Charlie’s reaction sent the outrage machine into overdrive.

Mass deportation of illegal immigrants is not enough to save America. We have to recover an insistence on assimilation. There’s a bit more to say about Democrat Illinois Rep. Delia Ramírez, who in her recent opening remarks at the second annual Panamerican Congress in Mexico City declared (in Spanish), “I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American.” You might think, as I initially did, that Ramírez is an immigrant from Guatemala. But she was actually born in Chicago. Her mother illegally entered the United States by crossing the Rio Grande while she was pregnant, which gave Ramírez birthright citizenship....

....The bills — Senate Bill 254, sponsored by Sen. Josh Becker, and Assembly Bill 825, sponsored by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, both Democrats — aim to lower electricity costs for Californians. Both include provisions that would force the big three utilities to accept public financing.... .

White collar conspiracy cases are mind-numbing. Murder mysteries with dead bodies and blood are riveting.The enormity of the Seth Rich case and the Cabal is unimaginable. Our government lied to the American People (See Bongino’s shocked statement). Our sheepdogs, the DOJ, FBI, and CIA, went full Stasi to protect the exposure of the Cabal. The Cabal is a RICO criminal enterprise — organized crime preying on the American people and their money (e.g., USAID — see Don Surber). Further, it was a coup to unseat a sitting president. See my body of work, which includes coverage of the Cabal’s likely...

No photo other than his mugshot is more representative of the unprecedented lawfare against Donald Trump than the photo of alleged classified documents discovered during the nine-hour armed raid of Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022. On one hand, Democrats, the news media, and even some NeverTrumpers (clears throat, side-eyes National Review) believed the iconic picture proved Trump had absconded with secret government records and carelessly left them around his Palm Beach mansion, endangering national security. Trump supporters, on the other hand, viewed the photo with disgust, a reminder of just how far the Biden regime and his FBI would go...

How Liberals Gaslighted Traditional Catholics 50 Years AgoSo many putative leaders of the Catholic Church have no problems with the Synod on Synodality, Fiducia Supplicans, or widespread cafeteria-Catholicism but are wholly supportive of Rome’s persecution of Traditional Catholics through Traditionis Custodes and other measures. This, of itself, tells us that many influential figures promoting the Vatican II revolution are gaslighting us.In his August 2, 1975 letter to Libre Belgique, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre sought to defend himself against certain criticisms related to his adherence to what the Catholic Church taught and practiced prior to Vatican II:“The repeated attacks in your columns...

Dr Georgia Ede is a Harvard trained psychiatrist specialising in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. She is the author of the book, ‘Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind: A powerful plan to improve mood, overcome anxiety and protect memory for a lifetime of optimal mental health’. This one is 1:30 long. Check the time stamps for the parts that might interest you the most. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7tnfSPySb0

President Trump is upping the ante against the terrorist drug cartels who have been poisoning America and endangering its citizens for decades in an unprecedented fashion. The New York Times reported Friday that Trump ‘secretly’ signed a directive ordering the Pentagon to start using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels. The order provides an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels. This means that US troops could find themselves in countries like Mexico battling the Sinaloa Cartel, for example. As TGP readers know, Trump has long floated the...

The Justice Department has launched a grand jury investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James. According to Fox News, Letitia James has been subpoenaed in an investigation focused on “possible deprivation of rights allegations” related to her civil fraud suit against President Trump. Fox News reported: The Department of Justice convened a grand jury to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James, marking an escalation in President Donald Trump’s fight with New York’s top prosecutor. The investigation is being run out of Albany, New York, and focused on possible deprivation of rights allegations, two well-placed sources familiar with the...

Spain has formally ruled out buying US-made F-35 fighter jets, opting instead to expand its fleet of Eurofighter Typhoons and invest in the Franco-German Future Combat Air System (FCAS). The move reflects both strategic and political divergence from Washington, especially amid renewed pressure from Donald Trump over NATO spending. .. Why the F-35 lost out Spain’s pivot is part of a wider rethink in Europe. The F-35 programme, long plagued by soaring costs, software delays, and mechanical issues, is losing ground. Recent operational mishaps, including a British F-35B grounded in India and a US Navy crash in California, haven’t helped....

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins has been indicted on federal extortion charges tied to the purchase of an equity stake in a Boston cannabis company. Tompkins, 67, was charged with two counts of Extortion Under Color of Official Right by a federal grand jury. He was arrested Thursday morning in the Southern District of Florida, the Department of Justice says. “Mr. Tompkins is a sitting Sheriff, responsible for over 1,000 employees, who was elected by the good people of Suffolk County. Today, he is alleged to have extorted an executive from a cannabis company, using his official position as...