When the US Department of Justice approved Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday, a DOJ press release said "a rigorous eight-month investigation led by the [Antitrust] Division's career staff" showed that the $111 billion deal would not harm competition or American consumers. read more
Sean Penn will direct a movie about a police officer who was at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021, Warner Bros. announced Tuesday. read more
Congress turned down President Donald Trump's request for funding for his modernization efforts at the White House -- mainly out of concern that he would tap taxpayer dollars for his proposed ballroom. read more
Trump-appointed bank regulators' crypto-friendly approach is likely to extend to World Liberty Financial, despite ethics concerns. read more
Fox News' Brian Kilmeade ripped the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran ... read more
Benjamin Netanyahu bet that his joint war alongside Donald Trump would topple Iran's clerical rulers and bolster himself ahead of elections at home, as the architect of a U.S.-Israeli alliance that would reshape the Middle East. read more
The Justice Department says courts must consider the White House's policy of encouraging AI infrastructure. read more
Florida will soon close Alligator Alcatraz, a highly publicized immigration detention center that opened in the Everglades less than a year ago, according to multiple news reports citing unidentified officials. read more
Iran's top diplomat said Tuesday that the tentative deal to end the war with the United States would require Israel to withdraw from Lebanon -- a condition Israel has already rejected and that could sink the agreement, leading to the resumption of all-out war. read more
US Senator John Fetterman, the US Senate failed to advance the Iran War Powers Resolution, a measure that would have directed Trump to withdraw US forces from hostilities against Iran ... read more
Construction of Donald Trump's White House ballroom is projected to cost $600 million, significantly more than the president has previously said ... read more
The National Park Service is deploying hydrogen peroxide in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to combat algae growth, according to a Department of the Interior (DOI) spokesperson. read more
CIA Director John Ratcliffe told President Trump and other senior officials that evidence gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies raises serious doubts about Iran's willingness to make the nuclear concessions the U.S. is seeking in any final deal, according to three sources familiar with those discussions. read more
The world has not reckoned with the violence visited on Iranians in 2026. read more
Two of the U.S. Department of Education's biggest responsibilities will shift to other federal agencies: safeguarding student civil rights and supervising programs for students with disabilities. read more
Al Arabiya English, an arm of the Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya network, published what it called "a copy of the 14-point agreement expected to be signed on Friday between Washington and Tehran" on Tuesday afternoon ... read more
