At the height of the toy domination of 1980s pop culture, Kenner introduced M.A.S.K., an action line featuring fast cars, powered masks, high-tech weapons and flashy spycraft. While not as ubiquitous as Transformers or G.I. Joe, the line nonetheless got a Saturday morning cartoon series, comics books and a video game. Now, after mostly surviving…
Universal Music Group and its Virgin Music Group subsidiary’s acquisition of Downtown Music has officially been completed, the companies announced Friday, about a week after EU competition authorities approved the deal last Friday. Downtown’s CEO Pieter van Rijn was appointed Chief Operating Officer following the deal, and he will report to Virgin’s co-CEOs Nat Pastor…
Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is known for hard-hitting, evocative dramas set in his native Chad, a country that was embroiled in sectarian conflict for decades. Movies like Dry Season, A Screaming Man (which won Cannes’ Jury Prize in 2011) and Grigris followed men in various states of turmoil, beset by violence and other hardships in the…
Feb 20, 2026, 12:00 PM ET Tristan Vukcevic is all the rage, Jarace Walker has been unleashed and Brandin Podziemski‘s value should rise with Stephen Curry on the shelf for the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile, Paolo Banchero‘s efficiency has slipped a bit, Alperen Sengun hasn’t been as dominant lately and Pascal Siakam carries some…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Paramount Skydance’s $108bn bid to gatecrash Netflix’s deal for Warner Bros Discovery has cleared a key US antitrust hurdle, in a signal of support from the Trump administration. The media group, whose bid…
WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court dealt a major blow to President Donald Trump’s trade agenda Friday, ruling the tariffs he issued under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act are illegal. Ina 6-3 decisionauthored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court said Congress alone holds the power to tax in almost all circumstances. The Trump…
