Skydance Media close to $8 billion deal to merge with Paramount Global

Skydance Media close to  billion deal to merge with Paramount Global

Skydance Media may finally win regulatory approval for its $8 billion deal to merge with Paramount Global — but the process could look like something out of “Mission: Impossible.” That’s the word from sources close to the megadeal, who tell me that under terms of a merger approval being discussed by the incoming Trump administration’s … Read more

Stephen & Evie Colbert’s red rice recipe, a dish both jammy and tangy

Stephen & Evie Colbert’s red rice recipe, a dish both jammy and tangy

STEPHEN COLBERT: My love of red rice started at Stiles Point Elementary School on James Island, South Carolina. The cafeteria served it just about every day, and that was fine with me. I’ve had a lot since then, but this comes closest to the deep savory sweetness that those lunch ladies somehow whipped up in … Read more

Keep an eye out on big-money donors with the 2024 election approaching

Keep an eye out on big-money donors with the 2024 election approaching

Donald Trump’s relationship to the GOP donor class has always been fraught, but lately it’s getting less so thanks to Sleepy Joe Biden’s endless idiocy on a range of policy issues — from Israel, the border, to the economy and crime — and how all this combined seems to be handing the 2024 election to … Read more