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British fashion retailer ME+EM reported a 24% rise in revenue for the 12 months through Sept. 26 to $284 million, with U.S. sales increasing 48% to $111 million, according to results seen by The Wall Street Journal. ME+EM said sales…
2026-10-20 · 3 MIN READNetflix replaced content chief Bela Bajaria and film chief Dan Lin within five days. Bajaria was removed hours after a layoff of roughly 1,000 employees she helped engineer, while Lin's departure was announced Monday.
2026-10-19 · 3 MIN READNetflix projects 2026 revenue of $51 billion to $51.4 billion — a 13% to 14% increase over the prior year — and an operating margin of 31.5%. Separately, a merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery is producing Skydance, which…
2026-10-14 · 3 MIN READShares in dating app company Bumble rose almost 50% on Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that technology holding company Ithaca is in advanced talks to buy the Texas-based firm for around $1bn (£757m). The rally pushed Bumble's…
2026-10-13 · 3 MIN READTom Cruise's latest film "Digger" is forecast to lose around $245m (£185m) after ticket sales dropped roughly 60% in the film's second weekend in theaters, according to Hollywood analysts cited by the BBC. The satirical black comedy, in…
2026-10-12 · 3 MIN READAmazon on Thursday unveiled a new lineup of Alexa-branded tablets with starting prices of about $230, $330 and $500, the company's first tablets capable of running Google apps such as Gmail, Docs and YouTube — a capability absent from its…
2026-10-08 · 3 MIN READDeveloper Tishman Speyer has taken over the ground lease for Manhattan's Chrysler Building from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a private college, according to BBC News. Tishman Speyer and its partners have committed…
2026-10-08 · 3 MIN READSpotify has renewed its multiyear partnership with podcaster Joe Rogan, securing licensing rights and ad sales for "The Joe Rogan Experience" on terms similar to the prior deal, which had an estimated earnout of $250 million, according to…
2026-10-08 · 4 MIN READSales of electric vehicles in the United States have fallen almost 50% from 2025, according to research firm Motor Intelligence, with the Biden-era $7,500 EV tax credit gone and prices up. Into that contracting market, Jaguar unveiled the…
2026-10-07 · 5 MIN READDisney said its streaming platform, Disney+, will livestream the 2027 Super Bowl, making the championship available to all U.S. subscribers in addition to its traditional airing on ESPN, ABC and ESPN Deportes. The company said Disney+ will…
2026-10-07 · 3 MIN READDavid Ellison's $81 billion deal to combine Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery officially closed Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported. To secure the merger, Ellison waged a months-long campaign that included pushing the antitrust…
2026-10-07 · 4 MIN READEva Marie Saint, the Academy Award-winning actress known for 'On the Waterfront' and 'North by Northwest,' died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles at age 102, according to United Press International. She won the Best Supporting Actress…
2026-10-06 · 3 MIN READStar Trek officially marked its 60th anniversary last week without a confirmed successor to its two remaining streaming-era series, both preparing to wrap up their runs, according to NPR. Actress Jeri Ryan said she has "a hard time…
2026-09-13 · 4 MIN READParamount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery completed their $111 billion merger on Tuesday, creating a combined media company named Skydance that will oversee CBS, CNN, Comedy Central, MTV, TBS, Paramount+ and HBO Max.
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Amazon Prime Video has secured exclusive global rights to stream the annual Emmy Awards under a six-year deal beginning in 2027, the BBC reported Monday, ending a decades-long rotation that has placed the ceremony on major US broadcast…
2026-10-06 · 4 MIN READLamb Weston on Tuesday reported fiscal first-quarter results that topped analyst expectations and raised its fiscal 2027 guidance, with North America sales climbing 5.2% while international sales fell 8%. The french-fry maker posted net…
2026-10-06 · 4 MIN READKaroline Leavitt, who stepped down as White House press secretary in August, is joining Fox News as an on-air contributor, according to the New York Times, citing a network announcement. Leavitt, 29, was the youngest press secretary in…
2026-10-05 · 3 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal published a video feature on Monday framing Warner Bros. as having moved from "the hottest studio in Hollywood" to "another victim of the streaming wars," hosted by entertainment industry reporter Ben Fritz. Warner…
2026-10-05 · 3 MIN READThe 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot embroidered cloth depicting the Norman conquest of England in 1066, is on display at the British Museum in London in its first return to England in about 1,000 years. The exhibition has drawn…
2026-10-04 · 4 MIN READParamount CEO David Ellison said Friday the newly combined company of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be named Skydance, with the $81 billion deal expected to close Tuesday. The combination brings together CBS, HBO, CNN, two…
2026-10-03 · 3 MIN READParamount Chief Executive David Ellison said Friday he will rename his combined company Skydance after completing the $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. A federal judge approved Paramount's settlement with 12 state…
2026-10-02 · 3 MIN READThe Kennedy Center's board has proposed a renovation plan whose facade inscription would read "The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump," according to United Press…
2026-10-02 · 5 MIN READParamount's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery could be finalized next week, CNN reported Wednesday, with the name of the new business announced as soon as Thursday. A federal judge approved a Paramount Skydance antitrust…
2026-09-30 · 4 MIN READMattel Chief Executive Ynon Kreiz has been tapped to serve as co-CEO of the combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery once the $81 billion deal closes, Paramount said Wednesday. David Ellison will remain chairman and CEO of the merged…
2026-09-30 · 6 MIN READBarry Diller said Wednesday that he is withdrawing his $12.4 billion bid for MGM Resorts, ending months of discussions with the company, according to The Wall Street Journal.
2026-09-23 · 3 MIN READDolly Parton's longtime business manager Danny Nozell filed a request for a restraining order Tuesday in a Tennessee court against Bryan Seaver, Parton's nephew and former head of security, alleging a 'campaign of threats, intimidation and…
2026-09-23 · 4 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal's "What's News" newsletter distributed Tuesday reported that Meta shares surged to their biggest one-day percentage gain in more than a year the prior trading session after rapid adoption of the Facebook parent's AI…
2026-09-22 · 5 MIN READPresley Gerber, the 27-year-old son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and entrepreneur Rande Gerber, died on Sunday at a rehabilitation facility. The Santa Monica police department is investigating his death as a suspected overdose, according…
2026-09-22 · 3 MIN READParamount and a coalition of 12 state attorneys general led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta reached a settlement Monday in the antitrust suit seeking to block Paramount's $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing…
2026-09-22 · 4 MIN READParamount Skydance has settled an antitrust lawsuit with dozens of US states, removing a major hurdle to its $110bn (£82.8bn) merger with Warner Bros Discovery. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the agreement at a news…
2026-09-21 · 4 MIN READParamount and California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office have discussed a $1.5 billion investment by Paramount in California production as part of advanced settlement negotiations over the company's $81 billion merger with Warner Bros.…
2026-09-21 · 5 MIN READParamount's owners have agreed to a series of concessions with a coalition of 12 Democratic state attorneys general to resolve a lawsuit that threatened the media company's $111 billion takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, according to…
2026-09-21 · 3 MIN READThe Kennedy Center closed to the public Tuesday afternoon, hours after US District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled the Trump administration cannot rename the venue without Congress's authorization. President Trump told reporters this week…
2026-09-19 · 3 MIN READPeter Max, the German-born artist whose art is said to have captured the colorful, psychedelic counterculture spirit of the 1960s, died Monday at a Manhattan hospital at the age of 88, his son confirmed Wednesday.
2026-09-17 · 3 MIN READBob Mackie, the American costume designer whose dazzling creations were worn by Cher, Elton John, Tina Turner and Dolly Parton, died Monday at age 87, a statement on his Instagram account announced. The BBC described him as the "Sultan of…
2026-09-14 · 3 MIN READMatt Floca, the executive director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts appointed by President Donald Trump, told the center's board of trustees that engineers estimate about one-third of the building's 278 soffit panels…
2026-09-14 · 5 MIN READLeaders of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts say the institution is on the brink of bankruptcy and could close as early as Tuesday, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. A report prepared by the center's trustees claimed…
2026-09-14 · 4 MIN READA Hong Kong court convicted Dow Jones Publishing, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, of deterring reporter Selina Cheng from exercising trade union rights but acquitted the company of dismissing or discriminating against her…
2026-09-10 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department has requested additional information and documentary material from Fox Corp. and Roku as the companies work to complete a roughly $25 billion acquisition. Fox and Roku said they would cooperate with the request and…
2026-09-09 · 3 MIN READGuy Campanile, the former managing editor of 60 Minutes who was fired in May with several other top correspondents, said in a private Facebook post obtained by The Guardian on Tuesday that he and his colleagues were dismissed because they…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READSmithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III said Tuesday he will retire and leave by year's end, concluding nearly eight years leading the world's largest museum and research complex amid tension with the Trump administration over how the…
2026-09-08 · 4 MIN READHundreds of thousands of people filled Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway on Monday for the West Indian Day Parade, one of the largest celebrations of Caribbean culture in the United States. The parade took place after Haitians lost Temporary…
2026-09-07 · 3 MIN READThe management team at the Paris venue hosting Celine Dion's comeback concerts is bracing to tell hundreds of fans that their tickets are fake, the Associated Press reported. The Grammy-winning singer begins a 26-show Paris run Saturday.
2026-09-06 · 3 MIN READOn Monday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) used his time on the House floor to publicly call billionaire Leon Black and illusionist David Copperfield co-conspirators of the late accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and to urge the Department…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READWendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author and agrarian who celebrated the farming communities of his native state and warned against the excesses of an industrial, commercialized society, died Monday at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky. He…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READDolly Parton has been buried next to her late husband Carl Dean at a Nashville mausoleum following a private family funeral on Friday, her great-niece said. The country music star, who died earlier in the week at age 80, was interred at…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READOlivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields festival raised $20 million for women's well-being at a Saturday benefit concert in Irvine, California, the Associated Press reported. Proceeds were directed to 10 nonprofit partners including Planned…
2026-08-30 · 3 MIN READDolly Parton, who died this week at 80, never publicly embraced the feminist label, according to AP reporter Jocelyn Noveck. Author Lynn Melnick's new book "I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton"…
2026-08-29 · 3 MIN READThe Kennedy Center's board voted to add President Trump's name to the building's plaza and is planning two inscriptions, according to The Wall Street Journal, days before a federal judge is set to hear arguments Thursday on whether to…
2026-08-27 · 5 MIN READDolly Parton, the country music legend and multimillionaire businesswoman, died Tuesday at age 80, the Associated Press reported. Fans told the AP her philanthropic giving would remain part of Parton's legacy.
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READA Chinese court sentenced artist Gao Zhen to three years in prison after convicting him of insulting Chinese heroes in artworks from the early 2000s that lampooned Mao Zedong and other leaders. Gao, 70, is a U.S. permanent resident, and…
2026-08-26 · 4 MIN READA Wall Street Journal investigation found that President Trump personally directed the Justice Department to settle its antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, an intervention that let the concert promoter keep Ticketmaster and retain…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READThe Boston Musicians' Association authorized a strike on Saturday, the first in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 145-year history, ahead of the expiration of the union's three-year contract at 11:59 p.m. Sunday. The union said the turmoil…
2026-08-23 · 3 MIN READParamount is preparing to meet Monday with California officials to begin talks aimed at resolving the antitrust lawsuit blocking its $81 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, according to people familiar with the matter.…
2026-08-22 · 3 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal on August 20 published a video interview with Sony Chief Executive Hiroki Totoki, conducted by Tokyo bureau chief Jason Douglas. The discussion covers PlayStation, Spider-Man, artificial intelligence and where the…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Army's 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart, Georgia, is offering soldiers four extra days off around the Nov. 19 release of Grand Theft Auto VI if they reenlist, an installation spokesperson said. A career counselor…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READLawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty asked U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper for an earlier ruling in the Kennedy Center facade case, according to a status report filed late Tuesday. In the same filing, the Kennedy Center told the court it…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal on August 18 published an explanatory timeline tracing the more-than-year-long dispute between Walt Disney and the Trump administration. The timeline covers an FCC review of Disney's diversity initiatives, Jimmy…
2026-08-18 · 3 MIN READFerrari's first all-electric car, the Luce, sold for $40 million at a Sotheby's auction in California, setting a record for the highest price paid for a new car at auction. All proceeds will be donated to the Ferrari Foundation's…
2026-08-17 · 3 MIN READMiami voters will decide Tuesday whether to allow the city to partner with a private company to return Miami Marine Stadium to its former glory. The 6,500-seat Brutalist venue on Virginia Key has been fenced off and covered in graffiti…
2026-08-16 · 3 MIN READA Pablo Picasso etching print stolen from a Milwaukee art gallery in 2018 has been recovered after a landlord found it while cleaning out a vacant apartment. Gallery owner Bill DeLind said he immediately recognized the stolen "Torero"…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READMarc Anthony, Luis Fonsi, Chayanne, Feid, Jay Wheeler and additional Latin music performers will take the stage at the "Unidos por Los Nuestros" benefit concert livestreamed from Miami on Aug. 16 to raise money for those impacted by…
2026-08-12 · 3 MIN READMari Group, the live-events company founded by Hollywood talent executive Ari Emanuel, said Tuesday it agreed to buy ATG Entertainment from private-equity firm Providence Equity Partners. The deal values the theater operator at about £4.5…
2026-08-11 · 3 MIN READFord Motor has told car dealers it intends to produce a four-door, gas-powered version of the Mustang for the first time, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that could broaden the model's appeal as sales have declined…
2026-08-07 · 3 MIN READThe Walt Disney Co.'s domestic theme parks reported a 27% increase in operating income during the third quarter, even as operating income declined 13% for international parks and Experiences, the company said. Disney also announced a…
2026-08-05 · 3 MIN READSpotify Technology added seven million premium subscribers in the second quarter, bringing its total to 300 million and beating its own guidance by one million, the company reported Tuesday. The Swedish audio streamer posted net income of…
2026-08-04 · 3 MIN READGilberto Cárdenas, a sociologist and photographer who documented the Chicano civil rights movement and assembled a major collection of its art, died Sunday at his home in Austin, Texas, after a long illness. He was 79. His family announced…
2026-08-01 · 3 MIN READCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom has expressed concerns to people close to the state's antitrust lawsuit seeking to block Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying the action would harm employment in Hollywood if successful.
2026-07-31 · 3 MIN READResidents of New York City's Flushing Chinatown are opposing an $8 billion casino development they describe as a predatory project that could displace thousands of renters and worsen gambling addiction in an immigrant community already at…
2026-07-24 · 4 MIN READParamount said Friday it will not proceed with its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery until legal challenges to the deal are resolved or June 1, 2027, pausing a Hollywood combination that has drawn antitrust lawsuits from 12…
2026-07-24 · 3 MIN READThe director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Anthea M. Hartig, told a House Oversight subcommittee on Tuesday that a recent White House report accusing the institution's leaders of being radical activists does not…
2026-07-21 · 3 MIN READKraft Heinz and The Walt Disney Co. struck a multiyear deal making the food company the exclusive provider of condiments, macaroni and cheese, and cream cheese at Disney's North American parks, resorts, and on the Disney Cruise Line, the…
2026-07-21 · 3 MIN READNetflix reported second-quarter earnings Thursday that beat analyst expectations on profit, with revenue growing 13% to $12.56 billion, but the streaming company's shares fell more than 7% in after-hours trading after it forecast…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READYouTube filed a notice of appeal Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, challenging a March jury verdict that found the company negligent in a case brought by a 20-year-old woman who said she became addicted to social media as a…
2026-07-15 · 4 MIN READThe U.S. Mint will begin producing a new $1 gold coin featuring President Donald Trump's likeness, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Wednesday, as part of commemorations marking the 250th anniversary of American independence.
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READPat Oliphant, whose blunt political cartoons ridiculed presidents from Lyndon B. Johnson to Donald Trump over five decades, died Monday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 90. His son, Grant Oliphant, confirmed the death and said…
2026-07-14 · 3 MIN READA coalition of twelve state attorneys general, led by California, filed suit Monday seeking to block the $110 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros., arguing the deal would concentrate Hollywood power and harm consumers through…
2026-07-13 · 3 MIN READA fire broke out on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Saturday night during the Macy's July 4th Fireworks Show, sending flames and smoke rising from the bridge before firefighters extinguished the blaze, officials said. No injuries…
2026-07-05 · 3 MIN READThe Great American State Fair, the centerpiece of the United States' 250th anniversary celebrations, opened on the National Mall this week to sparse crowds and temperatures forecast to exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8°C), with NBC…
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