One of the world’s most popular streaming businesses, Netflix, will own one of the most iconic film studios: Warner Bros. Netflix announced Friday morning that it will buy Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. at a price of $27.75 per share, or around $82.7 billion. The deal merges Netflix with another popular streamer, HBO Max. Netflix’s acquisition […]
Costco nominated former President Joe Biden‘s commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, to its board of directors on Thursday, days after suing the Trump administration to seek a full refund of tariffs that the retail giant paid this year for its foreign products. “We are very pleased to nominate Secretary Raimondo for election to our Board,” Costco […]
Much attention has been paid recently to polls showing President Donald Trump having seriously low job approval ratings among Hispanics. One recent Pew Research poll of Latinos shows the news, while still potentially challenging for Trump and the GOP, might be better than one would think. Trump made news last year when he received 46% […]
The first round of December Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in five days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Dec. 10. The second round of payments will go out on Dec. 17 for retirees born […]
January 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in 26 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of a month, though January’s payment will go out on Dec. 31. When the first of a month falls on a weekend or holiday, the latter being the […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has had to contend with the rebellion of a handful of House Republican women in recent weeks, with several disagreements spilling into public view. Four Republican women have expressed a wide range of frustrations with the speaker over the last several weeks, including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Rep. Marjorie Taylor […]
A massive internet outage disabled major websites for the second time in about a month. The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare experienced an unexpected disruption on Friday morning, causing many of the world’s top internet sites to go down. Canva, Coinbase, LinkedIn, Shopify, Substack, and Zoom were among the sites reportedly affected. Users trying to access […]
House appropriators want to move forward with a smaller set of spending bills before the end of the year, fearing the larger package preferred by the Senate will create a last-minute fight for Congress in January. Appropriators in the lower chamber are eyeing a three-bill “minibus” that they could put on the floor in December, […]
Eleventh-hour negotiations are delaying the release of Congress’s annual defense bill, a sweeping policy blueprint for the Pentagon that leadership hopes to pass in the next two weeks. The National Defense Authorization Act was slated for release on Thursday, teeing up a final vote before the end of the year. But that timeline has slipped […]
The original conception of a Saudi Arabia–Israel rapprochement was roughly akin to a blockbuster three-way trade in professional sports, with the United States significantly involved, as well as the oil-rich de facto leader of the Arab world and the Jewish state. Think the epic Feb. 2 NBA deal, when the Utah Jazz got 2025 second-round […]
