Here’s what Wall Street wants to see from Hollywood this year

Here’s what Wall Street wants to see from Hollywood this year

Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images It’s the third act of the streaming wars. That’s the time a hero, seemingly beaten and broken, rises up and saves the day. But Wall Street is worried that hero may never come for Hollywood. Legacy media companies including Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast and Paramount Global…

Anto Balian follows in father’s footsteps as an Armenian basketball star

Anto Balian follows in father’s footsteps as an Armenian basketball star

It’s almost 11:30 p.m., and the sound of a bouncing basketball near the garage of the Balian family home in Glendale is as common as a barking dog. Except none of the neighbors have called police to complain. “Not yet,” 6-foot-2 junior guard Anto Balian of Pilibos High said gratefully. Maybe it’s because the houses…

Gabriel Attal becomes France’s youngest prime minister in modern history

Gabriel Attal becomes France’s youngest prime minister in modern history

PARIS, FRANCE – DECEMBER 20: French Education Minister Gabriel Attal during the weekly cabinet meeting at the presidential Elysee Palace on December 20 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Christian Liewig – Corbis/Getty Images) Christian Liewig – Corbis | Corbis News | Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday named Gabriel Attal as the…

Column: Clarence Thomas and the bottomless self-pity of the upper classes

Column: Clarence Thomas and the bottomless self-pity of the upper classes

Articles asking us to feel sympathy for families barely scraping by on healthy six-figure incomes may be staples of the financial press, but it’s rare that they come packaged as real-world case studies attached to flesh-and-blood individuals. But that’s what happened just before Christmas, when law professor Steven Calabresi defended Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’…

China says experts

China says experts

Apple CEO Tim Cook on doing business in China Apple CEO Tim Cook on doing business in China 03:46 Beijing — Chinese state-backed experts have found a way to identify people who use Apple’s encrypted AirDrop messaging service, according to the Beijing municipal government. AirDrop allows users to send content to Apple devices in close proximity…