Author: Michael

FCC chairman Brendan Carr dodged questions about the Pentagon’s plans to livestream a public execution, instead deferring to Pete Hegseth during a Friday interview on CNBC. “My understanding is it’s not on broadcast TV, so I don’t think there’s a role for the FCC one way or the other there,” he told “Squawk on the Street.” “But I trust Secretary Hegseth. I mean, he’s implementing the laws and the regulations that are, you know, relevant to the Department of War, and I think he’s doing a great job. And I trust that he’s making the right call on these issues.”…

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“Animals,” Ben Affleck’s sixth feature film as a director, hits Netflix this weekend, but a very different version of the movie almost happened first. Initially, Affleck was set to direct but not star in the thriller about a Los Angeles mayoral candidate and his wife who must grapple with the kidnapping of their son. He had enlisted Matt Damon and Jennifer Garner for the starring roles, excited to bring out “some aspects of both of them that I know exist that they haven’t shown, frankly, in their work,” he told TheWrap in an interview days before the film’s release. But…

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