2025-12-06
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Our Top Stories Warner Brothers Discovery will sell its streaming platform HBO Max and film studios to Netflix for $83 billion.
The tie-up between an old Hollywood studio and a streaming platform promises to create a media behemoth.
Netflix Outbid Paramount, a studio owned by David Ellison,
the son of Larry Ellison, a tech billionaire, and Comcast, another media company.
Warner's cable television channels will be hived off into a separate company.
The Trump administration lambasted European allies in its new national security strategy.
The document, which sets out the administration's foreign policy priorities,
said European officials quote,
Trump or on basic principles of democracy and are obstructing peace in Ukraine.
It stated America should be quote, cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory.
It also suggested America would expand its military presence in the Americas.
American officials reacted angrily to a decision by the European Commission to fine X,
Elon Musk's social media platform, €120 million, $140 million.