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Daniel Arkin
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Former Rep. Barney Frank, champion of Wall Street reform and LGBTQ trailblazer, dies at 86
Barney Frank, the quick-witted Massachusetts congressman and liberal lion who helped overhaul Wall Street regulations after the 2008 financial crisis and made history as one…
Texas accuses Netflix of ‘spying’ on children and designing ‘addictive’ features in new suit
Texas’ attorney general filed a lawsuit against Netflix, accusing the streaming firm of “spying on” people in his state and collecting user data without consent.
Democratic FCC commissioner tells Disney it is the target of a ‘censorship’ campaign
Disney and ABC are the targets of a “campaign of censorship” orchestrated by the Trump administration’s FCC, the lone Democrat on the panel said.
ABC accuses Trump administration of violating free speech rights
The Trump administration is violating ABC’s free speech rights with a regulatory action focused on “The View,” the broadcast network argued in an FCC filing.
Ted Turner, billionaire media mogul and CNN founder, dies at 87
Ted Turner, the high-flying media tycoon, entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded CNN and revolutionized American cable television, died on Wednesday.
What unsealed court documents reveal about the Lively-Baldoni legal saga
Newly unsealed documents in the legal battle between “It Ends With Us” co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni pull back the curtain on a monthslong…
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni reach settlement in ‘It Ends With Us’ case
The legal battle between “It Ends With Us” co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni will no longer go to trial in May after they reached…
Republican state attorneys general join lawsuit to stop $6.2B local TV merger
Five more states are joining a federal antitrust lawsuit aimed at stopping the blockbuster merger of Nexstar and Tegna.
First Amendment advocates blast the FCC’s early review of ABC broadcast licenses
Free speech advocates sounded the alarm Tuesday over the Federal Communications Commission’s challenge to ABC’s broadcast licenses.
White House ramps up pressure on ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel over first lady remark
The White House on Tuesday intensified pressure on ABC to fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over a comment he made about first lady Melania Trump…