Asserting a Personal Role in Warner Bros. Battle, Trump Seeks to Expand His Powers Again NYT | Top Stories By: Charlie Savage 10 December 2025 at 09:26 The move comes as the Supreme Court also appears poised to put antitrust enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission under his control. © Aleksey Kondratyev for The New York TimesThe Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, Calif.
Jared Kushner Is Part of Paramount’s Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery NYT | Top Stories By: Lauren Hirsch 9 December 2025 at 01:55 Mr. Kushner’s private equity fund is one of the many groups helping Paramount mount a hostile bid to buy the group, whose holdings include CNN. © Scott McIntyre for The New York TimesJared Kushner founded his private equity firm, Affinity Partners, after President Trump’s first term and faced scrutiny over its deep reliance on the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute NYT | Opinion By: Thomas L. Friedman 4 December 2025 at 18:05 Having “real estate deal guys” as America’s negotiators on the war in Ukraine is a liability, not an advantage. You want a statesman.