The House passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent by a wide 308-117 margin. If enacted, Americans would never have to change their clocks again — though individual states could opt out.
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The legal assault on Paramount's mega-merger intensified this week. [1] — NPR Anchor "The Writers Guild of America filed a lawsuit to block Paramount's $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging the merger wo…" 03:58 The Writers Guild of America became the latest challenger, filing a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the $81 billion acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery on the grounds that it would harm movie and television writers across the US. The WGA suit follows a Monday filing by a coalition of 12 states, led by California's attorney general, that similarly seeks to halt the transaction. The convergence of labor and state-level opposition signals growing resistance to a deal that would reshape the Hollywood landscape, consolidating two of the world's largest entertainment conglomerates.
The Writers Guild of America filed a lawsuit to block Paramount's $81 billion acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery, alleging it would harm US writers.
The Writers Guild of America filed a lawsuit to block Paramount's $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging the merger would harm US film and TV writers. They joined a 12-state coalition led by California that filed suit the day before.
The US House voted 308 to 117 to pass a bill making daylight saving time permanent, sending it to the Senate.
A coalition of 12 states led by California's attorney general filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to halt the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery transaction.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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