Netflix announced Friday it's reached a deal to buy pieces of Warner Bros. Discovery, bringing a swift end to a dramatic bidding process that saw Paramount Skydance and Comcast also vying for the legacy assets.
The Signalgate scandal that enveloped US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in March appears to be symptomatic of a wider lax attitude towards the use of non-approved messaging apps by officials and employees, a Senate Committee has concluded.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Friday publicly called for the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reject a vaccine advisory panel's recommendation to no longer administer doses of the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns. Cassidy's plea came soon after the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 8-3 in favor of a new recommendation that hepatitis B vaccination for newborns be left to "individual-based decision-making" among parents and their health care providers, something which members of panel noted already occurs. The vote states "it is suggested" that a hepatitis B vaccine dose be administered "no earlier than 2 months of age." Cassidy spoke out forcefully against changes to hepatitis B guidance, the preventable liver disease being a close issue for the longtime physician. Read more
Okava Pharmaceuticals in San Francisco CA launched MEOW-1, a clinical study that will utilize tiny, under-the skin implants to release a GLP-1 medication drug into 50 cats for a period of six months or so.
An innocent woman in medical scrubs was forcibly yanked from her car by ICE thugs in Key Largo Florida, while obeying their commands and screaming that she was a US citizen. After her brutal false arrest (which can be seen on YouTube below), the ICE thugs lied about their assault on the innocent American citizen.
WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) -- The United States will reassert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere, build military strength in the Indo-Pacific, and possibly reassess its relationship with Europe, President Donald Trump said on Friday in a sweeping strategy document that seeks to reframe the country's role in the world. The National Security Strategy, released overnight, described Trump's vision as one of "flexible realism" and argued that the U.S. should revive the 19th century Monroe Doctrine, which declared the Western Hemisphere to be Washington's zone of influence. It also warned that Europe faces "civilizational erasure" and must change course.
Fresh deadly border clashes have broken out between Pakistan and Afghanistan's Taliban forces, with both sides accusing each other of breaking a fragile ceasefire. Residents fled the Afghan city of Spin Boldak overnight, which lies along the 1,600-mile (2,574 km) border the two countries share. Read more
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether some children born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship. On his first day in office in January, President Donald Trump signed an order to end birthright citizenship for those born to parents who are in the country illegally, but the move was blocked by multiple lower courts. Read more
Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona congressperson, said she was "sprayed in the face" during a protest against a federal immigration raid at a Mexican restaurant in Tucson on Friday. Read more
Rubio: Here's the problem with vetting people. You can't have a perfect vet no matter who that person is, for a couple reasons. The first is we don't -- you can only vet information that exists, right? So it is possible that in many cases there are things about these people you just don't know. No matter how much you vet them, you just don't have certain information. And in some parts of the world where there's very limited documentation, very limited, you can't just go out and interview people in many cases because of the presence of the Taliban, et cetera. It becomes very difficult. Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Frank Gehry, who designed some of the most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness, said Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP. Gehry's fascination with modern pop art led to the creation of distinctive, striking buildings. Among his many masterpieces are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Berlin's DZ Bank Building. Read more
President Trump has made increasingly sweeping claims about new investments flowing into the United States, citing figures as high as $21 trillion since taking office. "Twenty-one trillion dollars will be the amount invested in the United States " or committed to invest " in one year," the president said in a November meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In an Oval Office event this Wednesday, President Trump said, "In 10 months, we have $18 trillion being invested." But a CBS News review found no evidence that total commitments or new investments approach the scale the president has cited. While companies and foreign governments have announced large-scale projects since Mr. Trump's inauguration, the White House has not provided documentation showing total investments approaching $21 trillion " an amount roughly two-thirds of the annual GDP.
Kash Patel's girlfriend issues are not going away with MS NOW reporting that the embattled FBI director has ordered agents to act as Uber drivers and deliver one his girlfriend's "inebriated" pals home. According to the report from Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonning, on more than one occasion the friend needed a ride home but could not drive and the FBI SWAT team assigned to Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, objected, only to be overruled. The report notes Wilkins asked "FBI agents on her security team at least two times, including once this spring, to drive her friend home, and agents objected to diverting from their assignment, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss nonpublic matters. But Patel insisted they do as Wilkins requested and in one case called the leader of Wilkins' security detail and yelled at him to do so."
A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol returned to Washington in recent days and has been wandering the neighborhood of Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin " alarming police and prosecutors, who urged a judge to immediately jail him. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who convicted Taylor Taranto at a bench trial this year for a threat to federal buildings and for bringing weapons to President Barack Obama's D.C. neighborhood, did not immediately order him back to prison, but said he would weigh the request over the next few weeks. Read more
the little horror gets a fake peace prize, too
