I had no choice. I had to do what I had to do. The directive raised concerns far beyond shelving decisions, reflecting a growing effort to transform libraries into arenas for ideological enforcement.
Jesse Armstrong's series about media mogul Logan Roy and his warring children, thought to be based on the Murdochs, was a gripping smash hit, and this documentary is soon excitedly matching the eldest Murdoch siblings—independent Prudence from Rupert's first marriage, dutiful favourite Lachlan, problem child James and brilliant but overlooked Elisabeth—to their Succession counterparts.
He is a GOAT when it comes to Republican primaries. He's a Tom Brady. He is a Babe Ruth. Trump-backed candidates winning 98% of GOP primaries in 2020, 95% in 2022 and 96% in 2024 across congressional and gubernatorial contests. Even when Trump backs challengers running against incumbents, the analyst added, typically a difficult path in party primaries, those candidates win a majority of the time.
Barron Trump is listed as a director of Sollos Yerba Mate Inc., a startup set to launch in April. Business filings show the company is registered to a $16 million, five-bedroom home near Mar-a-Lago owned by Jay Weitzman, a businessman who has donated to Trump and whose parking company has received federal contracts for years.
We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don't know how to do that. The memo comes a day after CBS News owner Paramount Skydance emerged as the likely victor in a takeover fight for Warner Bros Discovery, owner of CNN. CBS is now headed by Bari Weiss, a conservative commentator turned media entrepreneur, whose appointment was seen as a fillip to the Trump administration.
A terrifying moment. We appeal for your support. The need for truthful, grassroots reporting is urgent at this cataclysmic historical moment. Yet, Trump-aligned billionaires and other allies have taken over many legacy media outlets - the culmination of a decades-long campaign to place control of the narrative into the hands of the political right. We refuse to let Trump's blatant propaganda machine go unchecked.
Last year, the Super Bowl emanated from the eye of the vibe shift. Donald Trump had just scored his first popular-vote victory, remaking American consensus, and brands far and wide scrambled to meet the tastes of a newly MAGAfied polity. In practice, that mostly resulted in a revival of obnoxious early 2000s machismo-girls in bikinis, Shane Gillis, dewy-eyed tributes to the heartland, and so on. It was a bleak enterprise.
More than three-quarters of Germans reject the idea of buying an electric car from the US manufacturer Tesla, according to a recent survey by the German Economic Institute (IW). Some 60% of respondents said buying a Tesla was "completely out of the question," while another 16% said they would "probably not" purchase a car from US tech billionaire Elon Musk's company, which saw sales fall by 13% worldwide in the first quarter of 2025, by 45% in Europe, and by 62% in Germany.
The grants continue the Trump administration's funding of university programs labeled as civics, civil discourse, Western civilization, great books and other topics that many conservatives back. Earlier this month, the administration announced it awarded nearly $38 million in other grants to civil discourse efforts at universities. Now the NEH, which the Trump administration overhauled last year, says it's further fueling the spread of such initiatives.
Indeed, Meta says that various legal cases in this area have " selectively cited Meta's internal documents to construct a misleading narrative," which suggests that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have harmed teens, and that Meta has prioritized growth over their well-being.
The vote formalized plans announced last year to wind down operations [for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting] after lawmakers voted to strip more than $500 million in annual funding from the organization. Executives have been emptying the corporation's coffers in recent months by making grants to public media organizations. After the federal funding ended, executives at the corporation discussed putting the organization into hibernation, keeping it alive in case Congress eventually voted to restore its federal appropriation.
A Brooklyn power-broker threw another wrench into a multimillion-dollar court case now on its fifth judge - by personally phoning the latest jurist, the judge revealed Tuesday. Former borough Democratic Party Chair Frank Seddio - who has been ripped in a federal lawsuit tied to a state case involving more than $2 million in missing investor money - recently called the judge handling the state case, Francios Rivera, on his personal cell phone, the jurist said in court. An exasperated Rivera said Seddio called him to tell him a lawyer who used to work for the judge as a legal secretary was being made an acting supreme court judge.
La Repubblica and other media outlets belonging to the GEDI group, such as the Italian edition of the Huffington Post and three radio stations (M20, Deejay, and Capital), could end up in the hands of the Antenna group, headed by Greek businessman Theodore Kyriakou, a conservative and ally of U.S. President Donald Trump. Kyriakou is also a partner in Greece of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose PIF fund holds a 30% stake in Antenna Greece BV.
When we sat down with the organizers, one of my mentors asked them, "Who are the people that can pick up the phone, call the governor, and know that, nine times out of ten, he will do whatever they ask?" This may sound like a strange question to ask, but the reality-which too many don't know and too many in power don't want revealed-is that these people exist throughout our polity at the local, state, and national levels.
Trump administration insiders and well-connected Republican businesses have been jostling to dominate pending humanitarian aid and reconstruction logistics in the shattered Gaza Strip, according to sources and documents reviewed by the Guardian. With three-quarters of Gaza's structures damaged or destroyed by two years of Israeli strikes, the rebuilding effort to come estimated at $70bn by the United Nations could be a rich prize for companies that specialize in construction, demolition, transportation and logistics.
Since mid-May, when Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced Pete Rose would be eligible for Hall of Fame consideration and explained his specious reasonings behind it, last week's Hall of Fame vote by the 16-member Classic Era committee carried with it a certain air of inevitability for Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, the two greatest players currently not enshrined in Cooperstown.
Warren said the deals raise serious concerns about antitrust and would reduce competition for viewers and workers. Warner Brothers agreed to an $83 billion sale to Netflix, but that deal is not finalized. And now Paramount Skydance owned by Larry Ellison, one of the world's richest people, and his son David Ellison, founder of Skydance Media is pursuing the company through a hostile takeover.
Throughout the staffing changes, Weiss has been equipped with a reported $10k-per-day security detail as she " do[es] the fucking news ." She had a bit of a viral moment earlier this week when she said that she views her position as the opportunity to shut out voices like Hasan Piker and Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes in order to elevate "normal" voices like, uh, Alan Dershowitz to debate the NRA on guns.
President Trump's second term has brought a period of turmoil and controversy unlike any in the history of the Justice Department. Trump and his appointees have blasted through the walls designed to protect the nation's most powerful law enforcement agency from political influence; they have directed the course of criminal investigations, openly flouted ethics rules and caused a breakdown of institutional culture.
Social-media influencers and anti-ageing entrepreneurs mingled with top US government officials, including the head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), at an exclusive event steps from the White House this month. The meeting's purpose was to discuss the future of health in the United States. Organizers called it the MAHA Summit, referring to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's signature Make America Healthy Again' movement. Attendees included Kennedy, US vice-president JD Vance, NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya,
The 35-member volunteer board of directors now includes notable Republican political figures Kevin McCarthy, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, and Reince Priebus, who was Trump's chief of staff during his first term. Before his role in the White House, Priebus served as the longtime chair of the Republican National Committee. Diane Hendricks, a major GOP donor who has given millions to Trump's campaigns,
