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Pink-Slipped Exec Chris Aronson Sues Paramount For Millions Over “Broken Promise”
Chris Aronson, Paramount’s former president of Domestic Theatrical Distribution, is suing the studio for more than $4 million, alleging age discrimination and breach of contract after his exit in late 2025 following Skydance’s takeover led by David Ellison. The 69-year-old executive claims Paramount had signed him to a contract running through December 2028, only to…
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Mark Ruffalo Goes Scorched-Earth on Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, Calling Out the Ellison Family’s Complicity in Palestinian ‘Genocide’
Actor Mark Ruffalo has publicly denounced Paramount Skydance’s proposed $111 billion (£87 billion) takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, using his Instagram Story to accuse the Ellison family of complicity in what he called a “genocide” against Palestinians. The intervention comes as the merger faces legal challenges from a dozen state attorneys general and has raised…
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Tesla’s solar roof is dead. Here’s what went wrong
Tesla has quietly discontinued its Solar Roof product, removing all public-facing references from its website and redirecting the relevant URLs to its standard solar panel page. Launched nearly a decade ago, the Solar Roof was marketed as a premium alternative to conventional panels, disguising solar cells as high-end shingles, terracotta tiles or slate. Its demise…
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Labour holds Penistone East, Swalwell probed as Leavitt exits Trump team
Reform loses a Yorkshire by-election to Labour, federal agents raid ex-congressman Eric Swalwell’s home amid misconduct claims, and Karoline Leavitt announces her White House exit; also Pauline Hanson threat charge, Alaska plane crash and Villa’s title-winners broken up.
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First image shows Edward Bluemel as Hercule Poirot
The BBC and BritBox have released the first image of Edward Bluemel as Hercule Poirot, confirming further details of the previously announced adaptation “Hercule” as filming continues in Liverpool. The six-part series is billed as an intimate character study of the famous Agatha Christie detective set against a wider portrait of Britain between the wars,…
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‘I could have put a deposit on a house or do this crazy experiment’: the British musician playing 365 gigs this year
Isaac Neilson, a 26-year-old singer-songwriter from Derby, is attempting to perform a live gig every single day throughout 2026, a self-devised challenge intended to force his way into an industry he sees as blocked by nepotism and hidden barriers for independent, working-class artists. By the 231st day of the year, reached with a show in…
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Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants
Apollo Global Management, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, has confirmed it suffered a data breach in which hackers stole personal information from its cloud systems. The confirmation, made in a letter to California’s attorney general, comes amid a wider hacking campaign targeting private equity and financial giants, underscoring how the sector has…
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Victony on New Album ‘Starlife’ and How Breakout Hit ‘Soweto’ Encouraged Him ‘To Keep Experimenting’
Nigerian singer Victony has released his 15-track sophomore album *Starlife*, out 21 August, which grew organically from an initially planned four-song EP after the song “FRE$H” sparked a broader creative surge. Speaking to Billboard UK from London, where he is hosting a listening party following one in Lagos, Victony described the record as a more…
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Patreon is changing its algorithm to help smaller creators get discovered
Patreon has unveiled a broad roadmap of updates, including a revamped discovery algorithm designed to help smaller creators get noticed. CEO Jack Conte framed the changes as an attempt to build “a better internet” for creators, arguing that mainstream social media platforms have “enshittified” and made it harder for creators to reach audiences and build…
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Michaela tops GCSEs as US politics row grows and Premier League returns
Katharine Birbalsingh’s Michaela school again leads the GCSE tables amid a gentle-parenting row, US Senate and drone controversies rumble on, and the Premier League kicks off with Arsenal, Sunderland and Bradford in focus.