Paramount, Skydance merger deal ends Redstone era
Skydance Media and Paramount Global (PARA.O) have signed a new deal and agreed to merge, the companies announced late on Sunday, marking a new chapter for one of Hollywood’s oldest studios. The two companies agreed to a two-stage process in which Skydance and its deal partners would acquire National Amusements, the company in which the […]
Boeing accepts a plea deal to avoid a criminal trial over 737 Max crashes, Justice Department says
The Department of Justice announced Sunday night that Boeing Co. will plead guilty to fraud charges stemming from the two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jetliner, after the government determined the company violated an agreement that had given it immunity from prosecution for more than three years. Federal prosecutors this week gave Boeing the […]
Big deal to bring Ikea to empty Midtown lot raises bigger questions
The big news is that Sweden’s Ingka Investments, which owns most of the IKEA stores, has formed a “strategic partnership” with Extell on the 1 million-square-foot mixed-use tower it’s planning for 570 Fifth Avenue. Developer Gary Barnett has long been planning to build a new large skyscraper on the prized Midtown site. According to Bloomberg, […]
French Communist-Socialist Bloc Win After Deal With Macron: Exit Poll
The New Popular Front, a coalition of socialists and communists, won the final vote in hastily called legislative elections by French President Emmanuel Macron, who sided with the far-left in a bid to thwart Marine Le Pen’s populist party. 2040 Update: Far-Left Leader Mélenchon Makes Demands on Macron After winning more seats than any other […]
Kings land DeMar DeRozan in 3-year, $74 million sign-and-trade deal
DeMar DeRozan’s time with the Chicago Bulls is over. The Kings are acquiring the 34-year-old free agent guard in a three-year, $74 million sign-and-trade deal. According to a report from ESPN: Saturday. Sacramento is trading forward Harrison Barnes and an unprotected 2031 draft pick to the San Antonio Spurs and sending guard Chris Duarte, two […]
China Brokers a Surprising Mid-East Deal
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes We think a story of major importance has been buried by the news of bank runs in the US. While not disputing the importance of the bank run stories (we’ve written on this ourselves), the implications of China brokering a deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran are very important. The […]
Hamas Drops Key Demand for War’s End as Hostage Deal Advances
Media reports say the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has dropped a key demand as a condition for the release of the remaining hostages: that Israel agree never to fight the group again. Hamas’ demands have been a major sticking point for months in negotiating a deal to free Israeli hostages taken in the Oct. 7 […]
Israel-Gaza war live: hopes rise over hostages and ceasefire deal | Israel-Gaza war
Important Events Show only important events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Lorenzo Tondo Mossad spy agency chief David Barnea travelled alone to Doha to meet with Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani and consider a Hamas proposal to halt the nearly nine-month-old war, state broadcaster Kan reported, citing a senior Israeli official. […]
Israel, Hamas inch toward new deal
Defense andInternational Security Full text Britain’s new foreign secretary once called Trump a “sociopath with neo-Nazi sympathies.” In a 2018 op-ed for Time magazine, Britain’s new Labour foreign secretary called then-President Trump a “sociopath with neo-Nazi sympathies.” David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, was appointed Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Secretary on Friday following […]
REPORT: Lakers Re-Sign Superstar LeBron James To Massive Deal After Drafting His Son
The Los Angeles Lakers agreed to re-sign superstar LeBron James to a two-year, $105 million extension Wednesday, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The deal includes a player option and a no-trade clause, Wojnarowski reported. Free agent LeBron James has agreed to a two-year, $104 million maximum deal to return to the Los Angeles Lakers, sources […]