Media companies Paramount and Skydance are in talks about a possible merger, according to a new report. The two companies have been holding discussion about a potential deal in recent weeks, The New York Times reported Tuesday, noting entertainment mogul David Ellison, founder of Skydance, has met with Paramount’s board committee to discuss his vision...
A Russian government spokesperson claimed NATO is in a “Cold War” mindset Wednesday, as the alliance marked its 75th anniversary, according to reporting from Reuters. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova added that NATO has no place in the "multipolar world" that Russia hopes to lead. "Today, in relations with Russia, the bloc has returned to...
Nearly 30 percent of Americans say they don't believe President Biden or former President Trump would be good in the White House if elected in November, according to a new Gallup poll published Wednesday. Slightly more respondents said they believe Trump would be effective than Biden — 35 percent to 30 percent. That’s a change...
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman said Tuesday that former President Trump could face a jail sentence if he is convicted of falsifying business records in his New York hush money trial, which starts later this month. Trump is facing 34 felony counts over claims that he falsified business records in attempts to cover up hush...
Former President Trump leads President Biden in six of seven of the closest swing states, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, published Wednesday. Leaning on dissatisfaction with the economy and swirling questions over Biden’s age, Trump has a multipoint lead in each battleground except for Wisconsin, where Biden leads by three in a...
Donald Trump, hardly known as a scholar of Christian scripture, is now hawking Bibles. It is a strange story that sums up an important reality in America today. Traditional religious practice is losing its grip on Americans overall. It apparently never had much of a grip on the former president, even if its influence has contributed mightily to the modern Republican Party. For decades, the U.S. was an outlier. Americans were more...
President Biden and his campaign team vow to try to flip the Sunshine State in November, lobbing a bold boast that challenges recent election history. Former President Obama (with Biden on the ticket in 2012) was the last Democrat to capture Florida. But the Biden campaign is developing a nimbler strategy, has money to spend,...
Every time Biden's administration adds another regulation making it harder or more expensive, to bring those goods and services to market, the more prices rise.
President Biden on Wednesday will tout Democrats' efforts to lower the cost of inhalers after drugmakers announced plans to cap prices. The president, alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), will give remarks at the White House to highlight the crackdown on the cost of inhalers. They will also be joined by health care advocates and experts,...
Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Tonya Oxendine, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for nine hard years before she began her path to recovery. Her pain reached a point where, one day after leaving her desk at the Pentagon, she was considering driving off a bridge. “I was at the...
Florida Democrats are seizing on the state’s Supreme Court’s decisions on abortion ahead of November’s Senate race in hopes the issue will galvanize voters in the red-leaning state. On Monday, the state’s high court issued two rulings on access to abortion, one of which upheld the state’s 15-week abortion ban but another that gave the green light...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) was admitted to a Colorado hospital Monday to undergo emergency surgery for a blood clot in her leg. Boebert was experiencing “severe swelling in her upper left leg” and went to UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colorado. “I want to thank Dr. Rebecca Bade and the entire team...
