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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: Warner Bros. will release the first of its new batch of “The Lord of the Rings” films in 2026, which will focus on Andy Serkis’s Gollum. Original “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy filmmaker Peter Jackson and his partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens are producing the movie and “will be involved every step of the way,” Warner …

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Cruise Ship Arrives In NYC With Dead Whale On Bow

ABC News reports: A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 44-foot (13-meter) dead whale across its bow, marine authorities said. The whale, identified as an endangered sei whale, was caught on the ship’s bow when it arrived at the Port of Brooklyn on Saturday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries spokesperson Andrea Gomez said. A …

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Amazon Prime To Show Ads When Viewers Hit Pause

Ars Technica reports: Amazon Prime Video subscribers will see new types of advertisements this broadcast year. Amazon announced today that it’s adding new ad formats to its video streaming service, hoping to encourage people to interact with the ads and shop on Amazon. Those who opted for Prime Video with commercials will soon see shoppable carousel ads, interactive pause ads, …

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Seven More States Sue Over LGBTQ Student Protections

NBC News reports: At least 22 Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration over its new rules to protect LGBTQ students from discrimination in federally funded schools. Attorneys general in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia who sued the administration in separate lawsuits last week argued that the …

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Republicans Demand Testimony From Federal Prisons Chief Over Refusal To Let Gaetz Interview Peter Navarro

The right wing Daily Caller reports: A group of Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter Thursday to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons demanding testimony for blocking a member of Congress from speaking to former Trump White House official Peter Navarro. The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the letter, which was signed by …

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Testimony Reveals Trump Aide Often Wrote His Tweets, Trump Would Then Edit Them And Add Capital Letters

The Meidas Touch reports: Madeline Westerhout was called next by the prosecution. She was Donald Trump’s Executive Assistant in the White House. She said that Trump’s former golf caddie Dan Scavino was also always around to help Trump with his twitter account. She said Scavino and Trump were the only people who had access to his twitter account. She said …

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Judge To Trump: You Still Can’t Talk About Stormy

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s hush money judge rejected the former president’s request to narrow his gag order so he can speak publicly about porn actor Stormy Daniels now that she has completed her testimony in Trump’s ongoing criminal trial. Trump’s gag order limits his attacks against witnesses, among others, forcing the former president to stop pummeling some of …

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Hunter Biden Loses Appeal To Dismiss Gun Charges

CBS News reports: A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a bid by Hunter Biden to dismiss federal gun charges brought against him by special counsel David Weiss last year. The three-judge panel said in an unsigned opinion that Hunter Biden failed to show that lower court orders denying his requests to toss out the indictment are appealable before final …

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