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Paramount Skydance edges out Netflix for Warner Bros

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Paramount Skydance edges out Netflix for Warner Bros Paramount Skydance Wins $110 Billion Battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, Reshaping Global Media After a bruising bidding war with Netflix, David Ellison's media empire seals the most consequential entertainment merger in decades — raising urgent questions about streaming prices, antitrust exposure, and Hollywood's concentrated future.   Analysis & Reporting  |  March 7, 2026 BLUF — Bottom Line Up Front Paramount Skydance Corporation has signed a definitive $110.9 billion agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, besting Netflix in a months-long corporate war that ends with the largest entertainment merger in history. The deal unites Harry Potter, DC, HBO, CNN, and Game of Thrones under the same roof as Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, CBS, and the NFL. CEO David Ellison has confirmed that Paramount+ and HBO Max will be merged into a single streaming platform targeting 200 million subscribers. A...
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The Myth of the Permanent K9 Team:

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How a Widely Believed Misconception Masks the Structural Flaw at the Heart of Military Working Dog Failures Companion Report — Part III  |  March 7, 2026 Most Americans believe military working dogs and their handlers are permanent partners — bonded for life, inseparable in training and war. The reality is the opposite. And that gap between myth and doctrine may be the single most important factor the Pentagon's $142 million corrective action plan fails to address.   By The Epoch Times Investigative Staff  |  Washington, D.C.  |  March 7, 2026  |  Updated 8:00 a.m. ET 📄 Companion Coverage — Part III of III   This article is the third in a three-part series. The first report, "Pentagon Watchdog: Military Working Dogs Walked 10 Minutes a Week, Four Died in Decrepit Kennels Nationwide,"  detailed the findings of DoD IG Report DODIG-2026-057. Part II, "No One Is Responsible," examined the accountabi...
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No One Is Responsible: How the Pentagon's Military Working Dog Failures Expose a Broken Accountability System

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Companion Report - Accountability for MWD Care March 7, 2026 Four dogs are dead. Twenty-two suffered heat injuries. A 55-to-1 disease disparity persisted for years. The Pentagon's Inspector General documented all of it — and recommended consequences for no individual. Here's why, and what that means.   By The Epoch Times Investigative Staff  |  Washington, D.C.  |  March 7, 2026  |  Updated 8:00 a.m. ET 📄 Companion Coverage   This article is the second in a two-part series. The first report, "Pentagon Watchdog: Military Working Dogs Walked 10 Minutes a Week, Four Died in Decrepit Kennels Nationwide," detailed the findings of DoD Inspector General Report DODIG-2026-057 (February 17, 2026). This companion examines who bore command responsibility for the documented failures — and why none of them face personal consequences. ◼ Bottom Line Up Front The DoD Inspector General's February 2026 repo...
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Telehealth at the Crossroads

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Protecting a Lifeline for Chronic Disease Patients While Closing the Door on Fraud  Investigative Policy Analysis  ·  IPCSG Research Series  ·  February 21, 2026 Health Policy & Program Integrity February 21, 2026  ·  Medicare Policy Analysis Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Telehealth is not a luxury for the chronically ill — for cancer patients, dialysis patients, and those managing complex multi-drug regimens, it is a clinically validated, cost-effective necessity. The evidence shows that well-designed telehealth does not increase downstream hospitalizations or emergency visits. The fraud problem is real but traceable to a specific, identifiable set of bad actors — fly-by-night telehealth mills, fraudulent DME schemes, and unscrupulous genetic testing companies — not to the established patient-physician relationships that responsible telehealth protects. The policy solution is not restriction, but pre...
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