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The last great wave of American bank consolidation happened before most of today's portfolio managers were trading. The era that followed - regulatory restraint, antitrust suspicion, and a political climate hostile to anything that smelled like "too big t

A boy band that long ago outgrew the summer camp that made it comes back to mine the place for its own replacement. That is the premise of Camp Rock 3, and it is also, almost without disguise, Disney's business plan. Connect 3 has lost the opening act for

The Justice Department secured a $400 million settlement from TikTok and ByteDance over years of collecting children's data without parental consent - one of th

For years, Jeanie Buss has been the Los Angeles Lakers - the face on the sideline, the name on the banner runs, the daughter who won the family throne when her brothers came for it. What this week revealed is how little of that was ever really hers to kee

A plague is loose in gay Paris, and its symptom is heterosexuality. That is the engine of Jim Queen, a raucous French animated comedy in which a fictional virus called Heterosis sweeps the city's clubs and saunas, quietly turning gay men straight. The pre

Drew Hancock's 'Companion' follow-up gives the studio a creepypasta-to-screen play, and hands Reynor a horror pivot after Lee Cronin's 'Mummy'

Miyamoto Musashi wields the Oni Gauntlet through shrine grounds overrun by Genma - creatures from an underworld that twists Japan's sacred sites into hunting grounds. His face belongs to Toshiro Mifune, the film actor Capcom calls the quintessential samur

When a famous person dies young, the machine that covered them does not pause; it pivots. Within hours of Hayden Panettiere's death, the search-driven corners of the internet had already found their next subject - not the actress, but her daughter. Who is

There is an immune organ inside your skull that nobody put in an anatomy textbook. It lives in the spongy bone marrow of the skull, contains structures resembling lymph nodes, and trains antibody-producing cells to recognize dangers coming from the brain

Prince Harry called the judgment that went against him in July a whitewash. The more useful word for what came next is a price. When a High Court judge ordered him and his fellow claimants to start paying the legal costs of the company they had accused of